Month: October 2020

The National Security Agency won’t deny that it may be spying on members of Congress, informing Sen. Bernie Sanders that the agency can’t tell him whether it snooped on his metadata because searching to find out would be illegal. The Vermont Independent sent a letter earlier this month to NSA head Gen. Keith Alexander asking,…

Iran’s pushback against statements by Secretary of State John Kerry and the White House that Tehran must “dismantle” some of its nuclear programme, and the resulting political uproar over it, indicates that tough U.S. rhetoric may be adding new obstacles to the search for a comprehensive nuclear agreement. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said…

Israel’s Jerusalem municipality gave the green-light on Wednesday to 558 new settlement properties in the occupied West Bank, despite being in the midst of the so-called peace process brokered by the United States. “This is further proof that more of the same by the United States through this so called peace process and negotiations is…

As the crisis in Ukraine continues, some U.S. legislators have pushed for exporting the nation’s natural gas to be used as a “weapon” or leverage point to weaken Russia and President Vladimir Putin’s influence on the region. Yet others charge that this is an idea “untethered from reality.” Ukraine is heavily dependent for natural gas…

Lewis Hamilton says he is surprised by the FIA’s decision to enroll former F1 driver Vitaly Petrov as its driver steward for this weekend’s Portuguese GP. Hamilton questioned the Russian driver’s nomination because of Petrov’s criticism earlier this year of the Mercedes driver’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ activism and F1’s anti-racism stance. “For me, a Black…

An American law firm was monitored by the National Security Agency’s Australian counterpart while it supplied legal advice to a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States, according to a document provided by N.S.A. whistleblower Edward Snowden, and reported in The New York Times Saturday. As The New York Times reports: SCROLL TO…

A little more than two weeks after reporting by the Associated Press revealed that the Obama administration was “considering” the extrajudicial targeted killing of a U.S. citizen it accuses of “terrorist activity” abroad, new and similar reporting on Friday by the New York Times is extending the president’s case for assassinating a man now known…

As the final public comment period wrapped up on Tuesday for the approval of Dow Agrosciences’ new genetically engineered and herbicide-resistant seeds,hundreds of thousands of people are demanding that the U.S. Department of Agriculture halt the “chemical arms race” that is poisoning our people and planet. Dubbed “Enlist,” the corn and soybean seeds are resistant…

Though numerous media surveys and studies have shown that mainstream news outlets have consistently ignored or underreported the crisis of climate change over the last two decades, a new analysis released Monday shows that even when the top cable news channels do cover the issue, they consistently misinform their viewers on the facts. According to…

Israel’s budget for the year 2014 includes at least $2.9 billion for a possible attack on Iran, Haaretz revealed Wednesday. Reporter Barak Ravid explains: SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT According to Ravid’s sources, representatives of the Israeli Army said they had received orders from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon to…