US forces detained Taliban commander Latif Mehsud, the US State Department said Friday, an announcement that has reportedly infuriated Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who hoped to use Mehsud as interlocutor for peace talks. During a military operation in the Logar province in eastern Afghanistan, US troops seized Mehsud, identified as a senior commander in the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, a group that... 

A large group of protesters, mostly Australian-Syrian youths, have staged a rally in Sydney to voice their solidarity with the Syrian government, nation and army, Press TV reports. The protesters took to the streets at Sydney’s Martin Place Amphitheatre, calling for an end to foreign intervention in the violence-stricken country. Reme Sakr, an organizer of the event, dubbed Hands off Syria, told... 

The aftermath of mass riots near the Biryulyovo-Tovarnaya train station Moscow authorities have closed a vegetable warehouse and detained 1,200 people after a violent Sunday protest in Moscow’s residential area of Biryulyovo. A car with money and weapons has been found as Moscow police raided a warehouse which locals call the main attraction for migrants. On Sunday it turned into the scene of a mass... 

Facing a shortage of supplies for lethal injections, US law enforcement officials have begun executing prisoners with an animal anesthetic that has not been approved at the federal level, with the first such execution coming this week. European pharmacies, citing a moral issue with capital punishment, have stopped sending certain drugs to regions of the US that still carry out the death penalty, areas... 

Dozens of big-rig drivers and long-haul truckers took to the highways around Washington, D.C., Friday to protest what they describe as extra-constitutional actions of Congress and the president, launching a weekend of similar demonstrations. CBS reported that at one point truckers were side-by-side across four lanes of Interstate 95 and were blocking traffic until a Virginia State Police officer pulled... 

This is how the military will be respond to the economic collapse, and how they will put down armed uprisings, riots and domestic revolts. As promised, these are some of the classified documents given to me by my good friend in the Department of Defense, a very highly ranked official I have known for many years. The program is called “Nano Domestic Quell”. As the documents clearly demonstrate,... 

The British capital city of London has topped a list of 50 worst places to live in the UK. The British capital city of London has topped a list of 50 worst places to live in the UK. London was rated as the UK’s most hated area in a book identifying the country’s least desirable locations, which is entitled “Crap Towns Returns.” The book was based on online contributions from British people... 

Moscow police detained some 380 people during the mass rioting in a southern district of the city. A mixed crowd of nationalists and locals attacked a warehouse run by natives of the Caucasus, blaming a migrant for the fatal stabbing of a local. Authorities lifted the emergency plan codenamed “Volcano” after midnight, several hours after public order had been restored. The plan, put into effect... 

A shocking new Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Barack Obama, while in a rage, ousted four of the United States top ranking military officers after they refused to detonate a nuclear device “in/near” Charleston, South Carolina this past week and, instead, exploded it off the Atlantic Coast. According to this report, Strategic Missile... 

African heads of state have taken part in a summit meeting on relations with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa. The summit kicked off on Saturday, with the African leaders urging the international body not to prosecute the continent’s incumbent heads of state. They also called on the ICC to defer the trials of presidents of Kenya and Sudan. Kenyan... 

The first videos of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have surfaced since he received asylum in Russia. The footage, provided by WikiLeaks, was taken during the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence awards ceremony. The video fragments of a meeting, attended by the former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, former NSA executive Thomas Andrews Drake and former FBI agent Coleen Rowley, Jesselyn Radack... 

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in the US has ruled that the National Security Agency can continue its secret collection of phone records of all American citizens. The secret court ruling was announced late Friday by the Office of James Clapper who is the Director of National Intelligence. “DNI Clapper has decided to declassify and disclose publicly that the government filed an application... 

As one of the largest cyclones in India’s history reaches its eastern coast, prompting a national red alert and sending some 440,000 people scurrying for shelter, the first deaths have been reported. Three people were killed in Odisha when trees uprooted by wind gusts fell on them, local media cited police officials as saying. Cyclone Phailin is likely to be the strongest to hit India since 1999,... 

Joining six continents, 52 countries and over 500 cities, ‘March against Monsanto’ is planning its second mass rally Saturday against the biotech giant and genetically modified food. A number of Agent Orange victims are expected to join the protest. “Saturday is a big day of action against Monsanto. We took our lights out to a local cornfield. Monsanto is bad for our food and bad for our planet,”... 

On August 7, 2013 Golden Dawn published an article called analysis of the positions of the Golden Dawn for the use of Greek energy wealth and our negative attitude towards the prospect of Israeli involvement in this huge national issue. A few days later, we responded officially to this lobby in response to the words of the President of the American-Jewish committee David Harris. The visit of Samaras...