Russia vows to respond to NATO presence near border

Andalou Agency | 10 March 2015 ‘The expanding military presence near the Russian border is not contributing to the restoration of trust with NATO,’ says FM Lavrov. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has pledged to give the “required response” to NATO’s increasing military buildup near Russia’s borders. Amid concerns over the implementation of the fragile Minsk truce concerning Ukraine, the U.S. sent…

New Zealand Targets Trade Partners, Hacks Computers in Spy Operations

The Intercept | 10 March 2015 New Zealand is conducting covert surveillance operations against some of its strongest trading partners and has obtained sophisticated malware to infect targeted computers and steal data, newly released documents reveal. The country’s eavesdropping agency, Government Communications Security Bureau, or GCSB, is carrying out the surveillance across the Asia-Pacific region…

German Intel: Breedlove is Bonkers!

Ron Paul Institute | 8 March 2015 What happens when a close friend starts acting so bizarrely that you need to gently extract yourself from his ravings lest you be tarred with the same brush — or worse? That is the position in which Germany is increasingly finding itself, as the US government’s strange pronouncements…