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Assange Episode 3: Torture & double standards of the West
The world’s most famous secret-spiller Julian Assange is on RT again, speaking with Tunisia’s first post-revolution leader about the West’s double standards in protecting human rights. Continue reading
US political theater: ‘Global oligarchic elite robs middle class’
America sees the’ looting’ of the US Treasury, and the money given to a Wall Street ‘criminal class’, journalist Chris Hedges told RT. He adds that ordinary people are caught in the vice of unregulated corporate capitalism – with no escape.
RT: We have seen a lot of violence and instability over the last couple of years: the Arab Spring, foreign intervention in Libya, uncontrolled debt problems and riots in the US and throughout Europe, threats of global recession. How do you think these political and economic crises feed off of one another and keep the momentum going? Continue reading
Bahraini tyrant accepts UK Queen’s invitation
The tyrant ruler of Bahrain has accepted the British Queen’s invitation to attend a lunch at Windsor Castle in May as part of celebrations marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Continue reading
Britain bans Olympics photography
The UK government has drawn up bizarre rules for the London Olympics 2012 Games, under which it will be against rules to tweet, share on Facebook and in any way share photos of the event. Continue reading
White House official defends terror drone strikes
US President Barack Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor has defended the non-UN-sanctioned CIA assassination drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions, calling them legal and ethical. Continue reading
View from the top of the world: One World Trade Center becomes New York’s tallest skyscraper
One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the September 11 attacks, today laid claim to the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper.
At 2pm, workers erected steel columns that made its unfinished skeleton 1,251 feet high, just enough to peak a foot over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building.
The New York Port Authority and building owners also held a press conference in which they officially celebrated the landmark moment.
Scroll down to see a timelapse video of construction of One World Trade Center
Life at the top: Bill Baroni (C), deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, speaks to members of the media on the 71st floor of One World Trade Center Continue reading
Mountain rescuer dies trying to save climber who had plunged 150ft into crevasse
… was it because colleagues in helicopter had to cut rope in high wind?
A mountain rescue expert died when he asked to dropped from a rope as he dangled beneath a helicopter – only to fall on to a jagged crevasse below.
The rescue chopper had been scrambled to save a 40-year-old climber who had plunged nearly 150ft down the the precipice on the Grossvenediger mountain range in Austria’s East Tyrol.
Alpine policeman Franz Franzeskon, 52, and two colleagues were being lowered on a harness when freak high winds set in and they asked the pilot to release them instantly.
A member of the Praegraten Mountain rescue team on a rope in a crevasse on the Grossvenediger glacier in an attempt to extract a climber from Slovakia after he fell into the crevasse on his descent. Continue reading
David Cameron is the man with his finger on the trigger as SIX Olympics missile sites are revealed around London
- Sites across London could be used as surface-to-air missile posts to protect Games
- David Cameron to have final say on missile use – and would be the man to approve a launch if they are installed
- Defence Secretary Philip Hammond had announced last year missiles could be used
David Cameron will have the grim task of ordering the Armed Forces to shoot down a passenger airliner over Britain to prevent a suicide attack on the Olympic Games.
The Prime Minister will have his finger on the trigger as an unprecedented defensive ‘ring of steel’ is thrown up to protect London 2012.
The public will witness a show of military strength not seen at home since the Second World War.
The staggering scale of security in place to prevent a September 11-style atrocity or Mumbai-style terror attack as the eyes of the world are on London includes: Continue reading
Armenians march in Cyprus
Two Kurds set themselves on fire
TWO Kurdish men aged 24 and 29, set themselves on fire outside the Interior Ministry yesterday morning and were taken to hospital with minor burns.
The Turkish men of Kurdish origin arrived at the Interior Ministry at around 8am.
Around half an hour later, they set fire to dry leaves just across the gated entrance to the ministry, then jumped into the blaze, burning parts of their bodies. Continue reading
