Recently reported in “Brookings Announces Next Move in Syria: War,” it was stated that “by the US policy think-tank Brookings Institution’s own admission, the Kofi Annan six-point peace plan in Syria was merely a ploy to buy time to reorganize NATO’s ineffective terrorist proxies and provide them the pretext necessary for establishing NATO protected safe havens from which to carry out their terrorism from.” It was also examined in detail,   Read More ...

In a bombshell revelation of the depth of the food police state that now exists in LA County, California, NaturalNews has learned that the LA County health department has unleashed door-to-door raw milk confiscation teams to threaten and intimidate raw dairy customers into surrendering raw milk products they legally purchased and own. According to Mark McAfee (see quotes below), both LA County and San Diego county have attempted to acquire   Read More ...

Nancy Pelosi, quizzed by a Catholic reporter at a press conference, has made the bizarre claim that her Catholic faith “compels” her to promote gay marriage. The former Speaker of the House has taken it upon herself to re-interpret the Roman Catholic Magisterium. She’s a theological innovator who would make Joseph Smith and Michael Servetus feel all warm and fuzzy. Or maybe charred and crispy. According to Bishop Pelosi, the   Read More ...

Two U.S. defense contractors have lost their appeal in federal court and must continue to fight multiple lawsuits accusing their employees of helping torture Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison and at other locations during the war. The two companies, CACI International and L-3 Communications Holdings (formerly known as Titan Corporation), were hired by the Department of Defense after the military invasion of Iraq in 2003. CACI and L-3 provided translators   Read More ...

A small but increasingly vocal number of Lebanon’s Sunni Muslims are backing Islamist leaders’ calls for regime change in neighboring Syria and voicing their fierce discontent with their own government, a sign that the sectarianism splitting Syria may be deepening Lebanon’s longstanding divides. Rallying in the central square of this northern city, hundreds of men, many of them followers of the Salafi branch of Sunni Islam, have spent more than   Read More ...

Wondering why anyone would confront NATO’s summit in Chicago this month? A look at some of its more well-known crimes might spark some indignation. Desecration of corpses, indiscriminate attacks, bombing of allied troops, torture of prisoners and unaccountable drone war are a few of NATO’s outrages in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere. On March 20, 2012 Pakistani lawmakers demanded an end to all NATO/CIA drone strikes against their territory.   Read More ...

Regular patrol officers in Florida are to be provided with bullet-proof ballistic shields in another sign of how police departments are preparing for violence and civil unrest in America. “Saxon Security and its partner LCOA Defense have been named suppliers to the St. Petersburg (Florida) police department for new ballistic shields for general patrol officers,” reports BusinessWire. 45 ballistic shields will be provided to routine beat cops. The video above   Read More ...

A federal judge Wednesday issued an injunction against a National Defense Authorization Act provision that grants the military the right to detain anyone it suspects of involvement in terrorism. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest ruled in favor of a group of plaintiffs, including Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, who filed a lawsuit against the legislation within weeks of President Obama signing it. Hedges was joined in the suit by linguist, author   Read More ...

CBS News reports: An illegal immigrant worked undetected at Newark Liberty International Airport for 20 years, and used a dead man’s identity to acquire a top position in airport security, officials said. The man was known to co-workers as Jerry Thomas, and for nearly 20 years he has guarded some of the most secure areas of one of the nation’s busiest airports. He was arrested Monday after authorities discovered he   Read More ...

Security precautions were becoming more visible, in the form of fencing and plywood, in the days leading up to the NATO Summit in Chicago. The sidewalks surrounding McCormick Place, where much of the official business will be taking place, began looking like a fortress overnight into Wednesday, as crews started assembling the anti-scale fencing, mandated by the Secret Service. Palettes of fencing also turned up near Grant Park. “Just as   Read More ...