Category Archives: Behind The Curtain
Turkey: clashes continue to Taksim Square. ‘Chemicals in the hydrants’
Clashes between police and protesters are underway in some districts of Istanbul, Taksim Square which is besieged by a massive policing arrangements. The governor of Istanbul has not authorized the event organized for today Taksim Square.
Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria
By: ROBERT FISK
Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region.
Syrian government dismiss US claims on chemical weapons as ‘lies’
President Barack Obama has decided to authorise lethal aid to Syrian rebels but US officials are still grappling with what type and how much weaponry to send the opposition forces and how to ensure it stays out of the hands of extremists battling for control of Syria.
Pedophilia: Aja, no investigations on Ratzinger
The International Criminal Court in The Hague rejected the request to investigate Pope Benedict XVI emeritus for the alleged complicity of “Vatican hierarchy” on “sex scandals” in the U.S. church.
Police Agencies Are Assembling Records of DNA
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
Slowly, and largely under the radar, a growing number of local law enforcement agencies across the country have moved into what had previously been the domain of the F.B.I. and state crime labs — amassing their own DNA databases of potential suspects, some collected with the donors’ knowledge, and some without it.
U.S. has determined Syria used chemical weapon
By: Aamer Madhani and Jim Michael
The Obama administration announced on Thursday that it has determined that the Syrian government has deployed chemical weapons against opposition groups, crossing what President Obama had called a “red line” and prompting him to provide direct support the Syrian groups for the first time.
Russia Warns Obama: Monsanto
The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee apocalypse” that the Kremlin warns “will most certainly” lead to world war.
FBI agent who led Boston Marathon bombing investigation retiring
The FBI agent who led the investigation into April’s Boston Marathon bombings will retire next month, the bureau announced on Tuesday.
Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers, 53, had been with the Boston field office since 2010 and had served in various roles in the FBI, including deputy assistant director in Washing D.C., for over 26 years.
Egypt eyes Nile deal with Ethiopia
By Samer Al-Atrush
There has been tough rhetoric from Morsi and other Egyptian officials in recent weeks about Ethiopia’s diversion of a section of the Blue Nile for a dam project.
Drone builders prepare to create immigration reform’s lucrative border panopticon
By Tim Fernholz
The immigration bill that aims to solve America’s unauthorized immigration problem and clogged visa system is almost through the Senate. The only thing left to do is hand out jobs and cash to the contractors who will secure the US-Mexican border with round-the-clock high-tech surveillance.
Pope Confirms ‘Gay Lobby’ at Work at Vatican
By NICOLE WINFIELD
Pope Francis lamented that a “gay lobby” was at work at the Vatican in private remarks to the leadership of a key Latin American church group — a stunning acknowledgment that appears to confirm earlier reports about corruption and dysfunction in the Holy See.
150 million child workers in the world
One hundred and fifty children between the ages of 5 and 14 years in the world, are engaged in child labor. The estimate UNICEF on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour on June 12 which is celebrated tomorrow.
Bill Gates buys into British security firm G4S
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has increased his stake in G4S , the world’s biggest security firm, which is looking to bounce back from a blunder over its staffing of the London 2012 Olympics.
Julian Assange praises Edward Snowden as a hero
By; Esther Addley
Edward Snowden is a “hero” who has exposed “one of the most serious events of the decade – the creeping formulation of a mass surveillancestate”, Julian Assange said on Monday
True American Hero: I exposed U.S. spy scheme to protect ‘basic liberties’
An ex-CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency said he leaked documents and details of a top secret U.S. surveillance program in order to protect the “basic liberties for people around the world.”
UK: Prime Minister Facing Criticism Over Bilderberg Meeting
British Prime Minister David Cameron is facing criticism for breaking his promise to lead a transparent government, after he refused to reveal what had been discussed at the secretive Bilderberg meeting, media report.
Euro Crisis: EU Tyranny Will Collapse, and Soon
By: Byron Sanford
The economic depression that has engulfed Europe has resulted in a snowball affect that has in turn further weakened the European Union beyond most people’s imagination.
NSA PRISM program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others
By: Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill
The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.
Bilderberg Group 2013: guest list and agenda
The Bilderberg, the secretive annual gathering of businessmen, politicians and defence officials, today meets at The Grove hotel in Watford. This is the guest list and agenda in full.
By Matthew Holehouse
The meeting will take place from 6 to 9 June at the Grove Hotel, Hertfordshire, with 140 delegates from 21 countries. The topics for discussion are:
Verizon court order: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily
By: Glenn Greenwald
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largesttelecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales’ guilty pleas accepted in Afghanistan massacre
The American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, many of them women and children who were asleep in their villages, pleaded guilty to murder Wednesday and acknowledged to a judge that there was “not a good reason in this world” for his actions.
