The revelations by the Bild newspaper are highly explosive. They show that the German ruling class is involved at the highest level in the illegal war and torture practices conducted by the United States. Kneip is currently head of the department “Strategy and Deployment” at the Ministry of Defence and is one of the closest associates of Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU). He is regarded as a candidate for the post of Inspector General of the Bundeswehr.

IN 2011, already fighting three wars in the Middle East, America decided to open military operations in Moammar Qaddafi’s Libya. The move was opposed by the leaders of the professional military, the secretary of defense, and the director of central intelligence. But other leaders of the national security team, led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, UN ambassador Susan Rice, and presidential adviser Samantha Power, supported the concept.

We are joined by a guest who has closely followed the debate over national security and secrecy: Scott Horton, a human rights attorney and contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine, whose new book is „Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Foreign Policy.“

The trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, set to begin in mid-January, is shaping up as a major battle in the U.S. government’s siege against whistleblowing. With its use of the Espionage Act to intimidate and prosecute people for leaks in “national security” realms, the Obama administration is determined to keep hiding important facts that the public has a vital right to know.

After fleeting coverage of Sterling’s indictment four years ago, news media have done little to illuminate his case — while occasionally reporting on the refusal of New York Times reporter James Risen to testify about whether Sterling was a source for his 2006 book State of War.

Jetzt ist es offiziell: Die Bundesagentur plant das Auswerten von Daten aus den sozialen Netzwerken. Welche Daten die Bundesagentur genau analysieren möchte und wie diese verwertet werden ist uns noch nicht bekannt.

Wie gefährlich Gesetze sein können, die zur Überwachung von Technologien entworfen wurden, zeigt ein Artikel von Cory Doctorow im Wired Magazine. Computer sind nicht nur allgegenwärtig und leiten uns langsam aber sicher in eine Science-Fiction-artige Welt, sondern sie sind auch unfähig zu unterscheiden, welche der von ihnen auszuführende Aktion positive oder negativen Konsequenzen haben könnte. Deswegen versuchen Institutionen und Regierungen Software einbauen zu lassen, welche Computer von der Ausführung bestimmter Programme abhält.

Die Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) ist der Verband der sechs großen amerikanischen Filmproduktionsgesellschaften, namentlich Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Entertainment, Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, Universal Studios und 20th Century Fox. Sie sieht sich als Interessenvertretung der gesamten amerikanischen und weltweiten Film- und Fernsehindustrie und betreibt in deren Namen Lobbyismus.

When SOPA died its inglorious death, the MPAA‘s best shot at ISP-level site blocking died with it. But the MPAA is nothing if not stubborn and is still willing to wreak havoc on the internet in exchange for a slight dip in infringement.

The Minister of Defence of Georgia Mindia Janelidze met with the commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) under the auspices of NATO and US troops in Afghanistan, General John F. Campbell during an official visit to this country, the ministry of defence of Georgia told Trend Jan.5.

Three people were publicly executed the morning of Jan.5 in the center of Torqabeh and Shandiz cities in Razavi Khorasan province of Iran, the Iranian news website YJC (Young Journalists Club) reported.

The name of the terrorist group, as well as the names of those arrested are not specified, according to Iran’s tasnimnews website.

(16. Oktober 2014) Recently I criticised Guardian columnist George Monbiot for lavishing the term “genocide denier” on anyone who disagrees with him about the events in Rwanda 20 years ago. I described Monbiot as a “McCarthy of the left”, after he waged a campaign of vilification of prominent dissident intellectuals Ed Herman and David Peterson for seeking to critically re-examine the west’s official narrative about Rwanda – that the Hutu majority alone committed a genocide against the Tutsi minority – and questioning whether Rwanda’s current Tutsi president, Paul Kagame, and his RPF forces were not also deeply complicit in the slaughter.

Monbiot’s witch-hunt has also targeted others on the left, such as Noam Chomsky, who supported Herman and Peterson’s right to engage in the critical study of what they call the “politics of genocide”.

Twenty years on from the Rwandan genocide, This World reveals evidence that challenges the accepted story of one of the most horrifying events of the late 20th century. The current president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, has long been portrayed as the man who brought an end to the killing and rescued his country from oblivion. Now there are increasing questions about the role of Kagame‘s Rwandan Patriotic Front forces in the dark days of 1994 and in the 20 years since.

A Libyan warplane from forces loyal to the internationally recognized government bombed a Greek-operated oil tanker anchored offshore, killing two crewmen in an escalation of a battle between the country‘s rival factions.

Indian and Pakistani troops intensified cross-border firing on Monday, killing an Indian border guard and forcing hundreds of villagers to flee, escalating tensions before visits by top U.S. officials.

Turkish media reported on Feb. 25, 2014 that in 2011 telephone conversations of about 7,000 people associated with the representatives of both the ruling and opposition parties, including family members of the prime minister were wiretapped, as part of the anti-terrorist operation carried out by the Istanbul prosecutor‘s office against ‘Salam’ terrorist organization.