13 December 2011 Last updated at 03:36 GMT Hassan Nasrallah has referred to the US embassy in Beirut as a den of spies The Shia Islamist group Hezbollah has exposed purported CIA officers working undercover in Lebanon. Hezbollah broadcast what it said were the names of the American spies on a Lebanese television station, al-Manar, [...]
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December 13, 2011
December 12, 2011
Obama appeals to Iran to return downed US spy drone
The US has asked Iran to return a surveillance drone downed earlier this month, Barack Obama disclosed on Monday. Obama was asked about the missing drone during a joint press conference with the Iraqi president Nouri al-Maliki to mark the withdrawal of troops from Iraq by the end of the month. “We have asked for [...]
December 11, 2011
Indiana unearths $320 million in unknown tax revenue
(CNN) — Indiana’s state government has discovered $320 million in funds it didn’t know it had, money that officials stumbled across while enacting statewide belt-tightening measures. “Christmas came early,” Gov. Mitch Daniels said. During a press conference Tuesday, Daniels cited a “programming omission” and modernized tax collection processes for unearthing the $320 million in corporate [...]
December 10, 2011
Pulitzer prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas thrown out of Romney campaign event
A journalist who gained fame earlier this year after publicly declaring he is an illegal immigrant was ejected today from a Mitt Romney rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Jose Antonio Vargas, a former Washington Post reporter, had been holding up a sign saying “I am an American w/o papers”. Vargas, who was part of a [...]
December 8, 2011
54 Afghans killed in Ashura bomb blasts
December 7, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis 54 Afghans killed in Ashura bomb blasts 06 Dec 2011 At least 54 Afghans have lost their lives in two separate explosions in Afghanistan’s Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif as Shia Muslims were commemorating the martyrdom of the third Shia Imam, Imam Hussein (PBUH), Press TV reports. On Tuesday, a bomb [...]
December 4, 2011
Gibbs: Romney is like the weather
December 4, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Gibbs: Romney is like the weather – he’ll change 04 Dec 2011 Robert Gibbs, former White House Press Secretary and a top campaign adviser to President Obama, argued Sunday that Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney hasn’t “caught fire” with GOP voters because “he will say virtually anything to get [...]
December 2, 2011
Iranian TV station accused of faking reports of Somalia drone strikes
An Iranian TV station appears to have faked dozens of accounts of US drone strikes in Somalia which it says have killed hundreds of civilians. Press TV, which was fined £100,000 by Ofcom on Thursday after the station hid the fact that a 2009 “interviewee” was being forcibly detained in Iran, has reported the deaths [...]
November 28, 2011
November 28, 2011
NATO copter attack kills 28 Pakistani soldiers
November 26, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis NATO copter attack kills 28 Pakistani soldiers –Pakistan military slams attack as ‘unprovoked and indiscriminate’ 26 Nov 2011 At least 28 Pakistani soldiers have been killed and 15 others injured in an attack by a NATO helicopter on the Mohmand Agency in northwestern Pakistan, Press TV reports. The incident [...]
November 27, 2011
Occupy L.A.: Mayor, LAPD won’t discuss tactics for removal
November 26, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Occupy L.A.: Mayor, LAPD won’t discuss tactics for removal 26 Nov 2011 L.A. officials have not revealed details — or tactics — of their plan to push out the Occupy campers on the City Hall lawn beginning Monday morning. At a press conference Friday, neither Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa nor [...]
November 26, 2011
Israel steals Press TV equipment
November 26, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Israel steals Press TV equipment 23 Nov 2011 Israel has stolen equipment belonging to Iran’s Press TV when Israeli forces attacked a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in international waters, Press TV reports. Press TV correspondent Hassan Ghani explained the takeover of the equipment when he was in Israeli custody earlier [...]
November 25, 2011
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf
US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police [...]
November 23, 2011
Bush, Blair Found Guilty of War Crimes
November 23, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Bush, Blair Found Guilty of War Crimes 23 Nov 2011 A War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia has found former US President [sic] George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of war crimes for their roles in the Iraq war, Press TV reports. The five-panel Kuala [...]
November 21, 2011
NYC Mayor Says Would-be Bomber Arrested
New York City police announced Sunday that they have arrested a man for allegedly plotting to bomb city facilities and U.S. military personnel. At a press conference, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the arrest of 27-year-old Jose Pimentel, who is accused of planning to bomb police cars, post offices and members of [...]