As the Justice Department prepares to file charges against Booz Allen Hamilton employee Edward Snowden for leaking classified documents about the National Security Agency, the role of private intelligence firms has entered the national spotlight.
Read MoreFormer CIA employee Edward Snowden has come forward as the whistleblower behind the explosive revelations about the National Security Agency and the U.S. surveillance state. Three weeks ago the 29-year-old left his job inside the NSA’s office in Hawaii where he worked for the private intelligence firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Today he is in Hong Kong — not sure if he will ever see his home again.
Read MoreFollowing a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Elias Jaua, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced this week that the United States and Venezuela have agreed to take steps towards establishing a “constructive” relationship between the two countries that will “soon” allow for the normalization of diplomatic relations, DPA reported.
Read MoreWelcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for June 1st to the 7th 2013. A Palestinian academic assigned to form a new Palestinian cabinet, meanwhile, 70 Israeli military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has been reported this week, these stories and more read on.
Read MoreThe Obama administration is facing increasing scrutiny for the extreme secrecy surrounding negotiations around a sweeping new trade deal that could rewrite the nation’s laws on everything from healthcare and Internet freedom to food safety and the financial markets.
Read MoreThe theme of the meeting between Cuban VP Diaz-Canel and the Syrian envoy, was the state of the conflict in Syria, where the UN has accused government forces of murder, torture, rape, forced displacement, forced disappearances and other acts, many of which are carried out systematically against civilians.
Read MoreTurkey is seeing its biggest wave of protests against the ruling government in many years. Tens of thousands of people rallied across the country Sunday for a third consecutive day of mass demonstrations. The unrest erupted last week when thousands of people converged at Istanbul’s Taksim Square.
Read MoreEarlier this month, former Black Panther Assata Shakur was added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, becoming the first woman ever to make the list. In 1979, she managed to escape from jail. Shakur fled to Cuba, where she received political asylum.
Read MoreThe remains of Jesús Cejas Arias, a Cuban diplomat in Argentina, who was kidnapped and later killed during the dictatorship in 1976, were found in that country. The remains were hidden in a 200 liter metal drum and filled with cement, said the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team.
Read MoreFor yet another consecutive year, the United States has decided to keep Cuba on the State Department’s annual State Sponsors of Terrorism list, in spite of ever more frequent calls to remove the country from this black list, where it has figured since 1982, DPA reported.
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