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...

This is What Happens When You Report Truth and Work for the Mainstream

The biggest Benghazi-related story that took place outside of the House Oversight Committee's hearing room today is this item in Politico, regarding CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson

Eritrea Has Over 10,000 Political Prisoners

Eritrea's hardline regime has jailed at least 10,000 political prisoners, many in "unimaginably atrocious conditions", rights group Amnesty International said in a report Thursday criticising the situation in the Red Sea state

Global Youth Jobless Crisis Worsens

Elevated and lasting unemployment is an awful thing, anywhere, and for anyone. But it is awful in a special way for young people, cutting them off from networks and starting salaries at the moment they need to forge connections...

Most College-Age Students Want a Limited, Smaller Government

A recent poll on young people's views of limited government, free markets, and economic liberty suggests some may be waking up to the conclusion that government, over-regulation, and more spending will not turn our futures around

Benghazi Witness Gagged by Red Tape

Obama administration officials are finally letting the attorney for a Benghazi whistle-blower get a security clearance — but the clearance is at such a low level that it will probably slow the congressional probe of how the administration handled...

North Korean Prison Camp Investigation Underway

U.N. investigators will seek the cooperation of North Korea as part of an inquiry into allegations of widespread human rights abuses in the country but won't be deterred if Pyongyang refuses, the head of the investigating panel said on...

Watchdog Says Government is Trying to Silence Him

The watchdog who tracks the billions of taxpayer dollars spent to rebuild Afghanistan says government officials have tried to silence him because they think he's embarrassing the White House and Afghan President Hamid Karzai by pointing out the waste...

Russia Continues Making Money Off of Syrian Genocide

Israel has warned the United States that Russia plans to sell sophisticated missile systems to Syria that would complicate any foreign intervention there, the Wall Street Journal reported

Cyberthieves Stole $45 Million From ATM’s in a Few Hours

Two highly-sophisticated cyber-thefts made off with $45 million, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn allege, comparing the robbery to the theft at the center of "Ocean’s 11.”

30 Slaves Rescued in India

After decades living and working in an abusive, inhumane catfish farm, more than 30 people were set free this week, including children and two pregnant women

Former FBI Agent: ‘Surveillance State Is Real’

A former FBI counterterrorism agent acknowledged this week on CNN that every telephone conversation that takes place on American soil “is being captured as we speak."

Benghazi Whistleblowers Revealed

Their identities have been a well-guarded secret, known only to their high-powered lawyers and a handful of House lawmakers and staff

Is Facebook Deteriorating the Psyche?

It declared that Facebook and its ilk can move the vulnerable (which might mean anyone) in the direction of psychosis and delusion

1/3 of Americans Think an Armed Revolution Might be Necessary Soon

Almost a third of registered voters believe their gun rights have been so threatened that an armed revolution could be necessary in the next few years, a poll has found

Children Burned and Butchered in Syria

Graphic photographs have emerged of the victims of an massacre allegedly committed by gangs of Syrian militia loyal to President Bashar Assad

US Gov’t Fears Kim Dotcom Has Won

The U.S. Government has just submitted its objections to Megaupload’s motion to dismiss the case against the company. Megaupload’s lawyers have pointed out that the Department of Justice is trying to change the law to legitimize the destruction of...

State Dept Changed Benghazi Talking Points to Obscure Truth

Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the...

Obama Says Gov’t Can Be Trusted, Reject Those Who Warn of Tyranny

U.S. President Barack Obama gives the commencement address to the graduating class of The Ohio State University at Ohio Stadium on May 5, 2013 in Columbus, Ohio

Armed March on D.C. Planned for July 4

Libertarian activist and radio host, Adam Kokesh plans to lead an armed march on Washington, D.C. this Independence Day