Their grandiose goal: an American imperium in the Greater Middle East (and later assumedly a global Pax Americana). They were, in other words, geopolitical dreamers of the first order.

Boston cops have already bent the rules in order to unfairly target Boston’s immigrant communities and communities of color, and harass political activists.

(2.Januar) The OSC provides independent oversight of public bodies that have powers to conduct covert surveillance and place staff undercover as “human intelligence sources,” through the RIPA and RIPSA laws.
Although the reports are heavily redacted in places, they nevertheless reveal several previously undisclosed failings at the national police force.

„We certainly will continue to have our conversations with Turkey and make that point clear,“ he said. „It‘s a valuable and important part of our operations and we certainly hope and expect that it will continue.“

The Russian Federation Mission to the United Nations will hold a meeting to discuss accomplishments of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the eve of the first anniversary of the nuclear deal implementation.

„NATO believes that diplomatic channels should be used for settlement of current Afghanistan problems, because war is not a solution.“

Demonstrators in Pristina held a protest against France‘s detention of former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj. A French court on January 5 ordered him to remain in custody pending an extradition request from Serbia on alleged war crimes.

(TAP) – Spokesperson for the counter-terrorism judicial division Sofiene Selliti said nearly 2,200 cases have been transferred to the division since the start of its activities and many of them are not related to terrorism.
Speaking to reporters, on the sidelines of a study day organised by the Higher Institute of the Judiciary on Friday in Tunis, he noted a certain eagerness on the transfer of cases to the judicial division, many of which turned to be ordinary criminal cases after investigation.

I asked my followers on Twitter to suggest Secret Service code names for incoming president Donald Trump. (Bill Clinton was “Eagle.” Barack Obama is “Renegade.”) Here are some of my favourites (put your own suggestions in the comments):(..)

Under the five-year contract, the company will develop, deploy and maintain cross-domain solutions for protecting sensitive information shared over government networks.

The top official explained that Russia did not consider the alliance as an anachronism and realized that many countries benefitted from being NATO members because it allowed them to reduce defense expenditure.
Indeed, a look at the history of Russia-NATO relationship shows it has not been all doom and gloom since the beginning more than a quarter of century ago. There have been convincing examples of fruitful cooperation and achievements-something almost completely forgotten or seldom mentioned nowadays.