New Light Shed on CIA’s Rendition Program

A groundbreaking research project has mapped the US government's global kidnap and secret detention programme, shedding unprecedented light on one of the most controversial secret operations of recent years

Armed ‘Homeland Security’ Guards IRS From Protesters [Video]

The DHS appears to have finally found a use for all those bullets it’s been buying. At a Tea Party protest outside an IRS building in St. Louis yesterday there were no regular police – only armed Homeland Security...

Gitmo Guards Told Prisoners Are Not Human [Video]

One of the methods used to extract information from Muslim inmates in Guantanamo was to apply sexual interrogation techniques, Terry Holdbrooks, former guard at the camp has told RT

Topless Tunisian Protester Arrested at Islamic Conference

A Tunisian feminist who scandalized her country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested after allegedly sneaking into Tunisia's holiest city disguised in a veil, then trying to get undressed during a protest

Pussy Rioter Declares Hunger Strike

Maria Alekhina, an imprisoned member of punk band Pussy Riot, has declared a hunger strike in protest against a court’s decision not to allow her to personally attend a hearing on her possible parole release

Poverty Strikes Italy

As a severe recession and unprecedented unemployment sweeps Italy, millions of people are struggling to make ends meet. The number of those receiving food assistance has doubled in the past two years, according to a government report

Tornadoes Tear Through Oklahoma

Leaving a massive path of destruction in its wake, a half-mile wide tornado with winds up to 200 mph swept through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday, destroying an elementary school, entire neighborhoods and killing at least 51...

Government Intrusion Into Journalism ‘Unconstitutional’

The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government’s secret seizure of two months of reporters’ phone records “unconstitutional” and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice...

Justice Department Spied on Journalist

The Obama administration has pursued more such cases than all previous administrations combined, including one against a former CIA official charged with leaking U.S. intelligence on Iran and another against a former FBI contract linguist who pleaded guilty to...

The Obama Administration’s History of Targeting The Press

The White House had just been freshly stung by news that the Department of Justice had secretly raided the phone records of up to 100 Associated Press reporters, looking to identify the news organization’s private sources

Scandals Far Greater Than Watergate Grip The Capital

The most recent scandal to grip the Obama administration came Monday evening, when The Associated Press disclosed that the Justice Department sought its reporters’ phone records — including those of correspondents who sit in the Capitol

U.S. Government Spies on Journalists

The president of the Associated Press has sent a letter of protest to US Attorney General Eric Holder over the Department of Justice’s broad surveillance of individual reporters' phone conversations

The Blatant Benghazi Cover-Up

t’s a cliché, of course, but it really is true: in Washington, every scandal has a crime and a coverup. The ongoing debate about the attack on the United States facility in Benghazi where four Americans were killed, and...

IRS Targeted Groups Opposing Obama Administration

The Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups is outrageous. Those who did this should be fired immediately. That’s obvious.

Orwellian Database Hidden in Immigration Reform…

The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system

Search Warrants? Facebook, Emails Not Safe From FBI Surveillance

According to new documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, government officials may not always obtain warrants when they snoop through our emails, Facebook messages, and other electronic communications -- and the FBI apparently doesn’t even believe it’s...

ABC, CBS Heads Have Siblings Working at White House With Ties to Benghazi

CBS News President David Rhodes and ABC News President Ben Sherwood, both of them have siblings that not only work at the White House, that not only work for President Obama, but they work at the NSC on foreign...

Adventure Shapes The Individual

The act of exploring helps shape the brain and adventuring is what makes each individual different, according to a study out Thursday by researchers in Germany

Protests Against Monsanto Scheduled Globally

An international protest planned for later this month against biotechnology company Monsanto is slated to span six continents and include demonstrations in dozens of countries around the globe

White House Backs FBI Plan for Surveillance State

The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the...