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4 News: It’s not a dramatic shift in terms of geography – but protesters say it’s a big ideological moment. The RAF has begun piloting drones used in Afghanistan from UK soil for the first time. This is by no means the UK’s first foray into the world of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in [...]

Refreshing News: A Sacramento family was torn apart after a 5-month-old baby boy was taken from his parents following a visit to the doctor. The young couple thought their problems were behind them after their son had a scare at the hospital, but once they got home their problems got even worse. It all began [...]

By Vijay Prashed Counter Punch: Delhi. On Wednesday, April 24, a day after Bangladeshi authorities asked the owners to evacuate their garment factory that employed almost three thousand workers, the building collapsed. The building, Rana Plaza, located in the Dhaka suburb of Savar, produced garments for the commodity chain that stretches from the cotton fields [...]

By Timothy Alexander Guzman Silent Crow News: The United States agreed to sell Israel $10 Billion worth of American military equipment for a future war with Iran. Israel’s newspaper ‘Haaretz’ reported that Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, the former director of Military Intelligence said “We are headed toward a collision course by the end of [...]

Andy Worthington UR UK NET: I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities [...]

The Tap Blog: He fought and defeated SOPA, a law similar to CISPA which Congress just passed while we were all paying attention to the goings on in Boston. Swartz was also a Harvard-recognized expert on institutional corruption. The Feds took over a minor case he was involved with and turned it into potential multi-decade [...]

Strat Risks: Angered by the British media’s coverage of Brussels, the European Commission says it wants to be a “moral compass” against press misconduct, seeking new national and Europe-wide regulatory powers over journalists. The EU has spent £2.3?million on the previously unpublicised “Mediadem” project to “reclaim a free and independent media”. In a “policy brief” [...]

By Greg Guma Global Research: Maverick Media Idaho took the lead in protecting people from drone surveillance last week when Gov. Butch Otter became the first state leader to sign legislation. Known as the “Preserving Freedom from Unwanted Surveillance Act,” the law restricts the use of drones by government or law enforcement, particularly when it [...]

The EU’s crime intelligence agency would be allowed access to private files Europol could insist chief constables disclose evidence from criminal cases This could include witness statements, DNA samples and fingerprints By Ian Dury Mail Online: British police forces will be forced to hand sensitive details of criminal investigations to Brussels or risk a massive [...]

By Nikolaj Nielsen EU Observer: Hungarian authorities will pass on the cost of EU fines through a tax on its own citizens whenever it breaches EU law. Giving details of the new Hungarian initiative, EU justice commissioner for justice Vivian Reding told euro-deputies at the Strasbourg plenary session on Wednesday (17 April) that: “in practice [...]

By BAR & Margaret Kimberley: “You know, I suspect that on Social Security we’ve got a somewhat similar position.” – Barack Obama in debate with Mitt Romney “When a Democrat gets away with austerity and wars of aggression it is truly time to admit that a new paradigm is needed.” Yes Virginia, there is a [...]

Prison Planet: Unlike Oklahoma City, the FBI cannot confiscate all of the surveillance, cell phone, and thousands of cameras that were at the finish line of Boston Marathon. 4Chan posted dozens of photos showing Navy Seal or Private Security personnel carrying the same black back packs which are the same style backpacks showed in FBI [...]

AOL: The Government wants to start securing people’s homes against their tax bill. And that’s a bad thing. Tucked away in the Budget was a proposal that could leave some people fearing house repossession. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) plan to increase the use of charging orders on people with outstanding tax bills. This’ll mean [...]

By Prof. James Tracy Global Research The Sandy Hook School massacre of December 14 has no doubt been seized upon by the present police state as a raison d’être for heightened gun control measures. Yet a more subtle element of the event is the promotion of a political worldview under the cloak of psychiatry and [...]

By Margaret Griffis Anti War: At least 75 Iraqis were killed and 356 more were wounded in a series of attacks across the country. Only the far south and Iraqi Kurdistan were spared. Many of the attacks were apparently coordinated and occurred at about the same time this morning. They also came a few days [...]

by Faisal Moghul Anti War: Almost thirty years ago, cultural critic Neil Postman argued in Amusing Ourselves to Death that television’s gradual replacement of the printing press has created a dumbed-down culture driven by mindless entertainment. In this context, Postman claimed that Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World correctly foresaw our dystopian future, as opposed to [...]
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