BBC | 17 Dec 2015 IMF chief Christine Lagarde is to stand trial in France for alleged negligence over a €404m ($438m; £294m); payment to a businessman in 2008. She was finance minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government at the time of the compensation award to Bernard Tapie for the sale of a firm. Mr…
RNZ | 18 Dec 2015 The search of a journalist’s house was a gamble by police who had no evidence they would find anything relevant to their investigation, says Nicky Hager’s lawyer. The High Court in Wellington has found police failed to disclose relevant information to the judge who issued the search warrant for Nicky…
RT | 17 Dec 2015 The US has urged Turkey to withdraw its “unauthorized” military forces from northern Iraq, calling on Ankara to respect the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. US Vice President Joe Biden has spoken to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi regarding Turkey’s troop deployments. “The Vice President reaffirmed the United States’ commitment…
Scoop | 16 Dec 2015 The US Government’s National Toxicology Program (NTP) is set to conduct new studies looking at fluoride’s adverse effects on the developing brain. The NTP is expected to ratify these studies within the coming months. Results could mean the end to fluoridation world-wide, and definitely should put a halt to any…
Truthout | 14 December 2015 This article was first published by Truthout For almost a decade and a half, the people behind the Bush administration’s shameful treatment of terrorism suspects have avoided punishment for their crimes, but that may be about to change. The courts have had their say and have ruled that former Bush…
Eric Zuesse | 14 Dec 2015 The following text is a translation by Eric Zuesse of an article in deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de The EU is in the surprising situation of needing to deal, at its upcoming summit meeting at the end of this week, with the question of whether to extend sanctions against Russia. It had been expected…
Kurt Nimmo | 15 Dec 2015 National security state specializes in vacuuming up social media The claim Homeland Security failed to share with Immigration the social media posts of Tashfeen Malik prior to approving her visa does not hold up under scrutiny. The official excuse is the government feared a civil liberties backlash and “bad public relations”…
Mises | 14 Dec 2015 Jason Brennan, a remarkably prolific libertarian political philosopher, has a good eye for the essence of an argument. He puts this ability to effective use in Why Not Capitalism? In the book he challenges the defense of socialism in Why Not Socialism? by G.A. Cohen, whom Brennan rightly considers “the…
The Mirror | 14 Dec 2015 Teenage computer experts unveil astonishing web of unpublicised interactions linking extremist social media mouthpieces to the British government Hackers have claimed that a number of Islamic State supporters’ social media accounts are being run from internet addresses linked to the Department of Work and Pensions. A group of four…
Jon Rappaport | 14 Dec 2015 Dear WaPo: I’ve got some ‘fringe’ for you right here It’s a terrible thing. Really. The pure and sanctified blood of mainstream news is now infected. Where is the protective vaccine? Quick, call the CDC. Washington Post, December 11, Paul Farhi, “Thanks to Trump, fringe news enters the mainstream”:…