Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua have offered asylum to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is believed to have spent the past two weeks at a Moscow airport while he seeks asylum. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Nicaraguan counterpart, Daneil Ortega, made the asylum offers on Friday, shortly after they and other Latin American […]
The famed Russian news site “Pravda,” which ironically was formed as the official Communist publication of the former Soviet Union, released a scathing opinion column entitled, “Obama’s Soviet Mistake,” in which the author unabashedly labels the U.S. president a “Communist without question promoting the Communist Manifesto without calling it so.” The author, Xavier Lerma, goes on […]
The issue was raised this morning by MP and former Minister of the Interior Ögmundur Jónasson, which could be decided before the weekend, all the pieces are in play, all they need to do is complete the formal approval process. Some are worried that this bill could be delayed by a piece of fisheries legislation […]
Syrian Christians are asking why Obama supports extremists who want to turn Syria into an Islamic state. That testimony came during a congressional hearing on Syria’s religious minorities Tuesday. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who chairs the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights, called on President Barack Obama to defend the rights of […]
Guardian/Glenn Greenwald/Laura Poitras/EPA/Newscom Last Sunday, a Russian consular official confirmed that former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden asked for political asylum in Russia. Snowden’s defection, announced after a week in Moscow, may be not an impulsive act but a thoroughly pre-planned operation. The Interfax news agency cited Kim Shevchenko, duty officer at the […]
(CNSNews.com) – The president of Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday signed a bill finalizing the closure next July of a U.S. airbase that has been a key hub for troops and supplies moving to and from Afghanistan since shortly after 9/11. One day earlier, visiting Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu assured President Almazbek Atambayev that plans to […]
The release of the State Department’s latest Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) revealed that Asia is home to some of the worst perpetrators of illegal human trafficking. China has now joined the ranks of Russia, North Korea, Iran, and a handful of other countries as Tier 3 violators of human trafficking laws. Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, […]
There is a turning point in every presidency that people point back to and say, you know, nothing was ever the same after that. Sometimes it is the point where presidents go on to greatness. Sometimes, it is when a presidency unravels. For Jimmy Carter, it was when a group of students seized the American […]
The US authorities must not prosecute anyone for disclosing information about the government’s human rights violations, Amnesty International said after Edward Snowden was charged under the Espionage Act. The organization also believes that the National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower could be at risk of ill-treatment if extradited to the USA. “No one should be charged […]
World leaders are thumbing their noses at the corrupt Obama administration this weekend. Countries typically bend over backward to please the mighty USA and remain on good terms. This week they have thumbed their noses at Obama., unlike Switzerland who changed their own banking laws to please the USA and help the USA track down […]
