News posts aggregated from alternative news sources.
‘UK military personnel have arrived in Ukraine and are beginning their training mission there, Britain’s Ministry of Defence has announced. Meanwhile the US will send nearly 300 paratroopers to start training the country’s national guard […]
‘Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) pushed some wild conspiracy theories Wednesday to argue that the U.S. must attack Iran to destroy its nuclear program. “We need to make clear to Iran: You can play these silly […]
‘Evidence about the presence of U.S. special forces in the Syrian town Ayn al-Arab a.k.a. Kobani emerged. Troops are guiding U.S. airstrikes as part of U.S support for the Kurdish separatist group PYD and the […]
‘Leaders of various militant groups operating against the Syrian government have sent congratulatory messages to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his victory in the Israeli elections, urging Tel Aviv to continue its support. The […]
‘On the same day the Tsipras government passed a “humanitarian bill” in the Greek parliament, at a cost of just €200 million. The bill provides free electricity and food stamps to some families in dire […]
”Cash-strapped Greece has maybe given up hope that the EU will solve its financial woes, and is seeking direct handouts from benevolent donors via its central bank website. The bank set up an account called […]
‘The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an earlier decision that allowed participants in the so-called “Occupy Wall Street” movement to sue New York City police following a mass arrest on the Brooklyn […]
‘Taxpayers who file late returns face draconian fines of up to £2,000 in a shake-up buried in government documents. Officials want to ditch the automatic £100 penalty for missing the deadline in favour of a […]
‘The World Health Organisation’s cancer agency has declared that one of the UK’s most widely used weedkillers is “probably carcinogenic to humans”. Amateur gardeners and professional farmers have been urged to “think very carefully” about […]
‘More than two thirds of Britain’s aid budget is being given to organisations such as the EU and the World Bank to help meet official targets, despite billions of it going unspent for years, an […]
‘The Liberal Democrats have been embroiled in a new fundraising scandal after accepting a second potentially illegal donation that allegedly “bought” a donor access to Nick Clegg. Lord Strasburger, a senior Lib Dem peer, resigned […]
‘The city of Sacramento is in the fourth year of a record drought – yet the Nestlé Corporation continues to bottle city water to sell back to the public at a big profit, local activists […]
‘The most accurate simulation of the human brain to date has been carried out in a Japanese supercomputer, with a single second’s worth of activity from just one per cent of the complex organ taking […]