Nika Knight

Saudi Arabia Bombs Another School In Yemen, Killing Five

At least five people, including two children, were killed when the Saudi-led coalition bombed a primary school.

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By Nika Knight
The aftermath of Tuesday's bombing. (Photo: ARWA RIGHTS/Twitter)

(REPORT) --- A primary school in Yemen was bombed by the Saudi-led coalition on Tuesday, and five people, including two children, were killed, medics told the Middle East Eye. A rebel group puts the death toll at eight, with 15 wounded, according to AFP. A military official told AFP that the strike was a "mistake." A video posted to social

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Snowden: House Intel Report Is ‘Accidentally Exonerating’

‘After three years of investigation and millions of dollars, they can present no evidence of harmful intent, foreign influence, or harm. Wow.’

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By Nika Knight
Unlike the Green Party’s Jill Stein, not one Republican or Democratic nominee has voiced any support for the NSA whistleblower or shown any willingness to allow him to return to the U.S. as a free man. (Photo: Tony Webster/CC)

(REPORT) — The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released a heavily redacted, declassified version of its report on National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Snowden charges that the "parade of falsity" contained in the report is "accidentally exonerating." The report was several years in the making. A summary of it

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Top EU Court Issues Ruling Delivering “Major Blow” To Mass Surveillance

“Today’s judgment is a major blow against mass surveillance and an important day for privacy”

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By Nika Knight
Surveillance

(REPORT) — The European Union's highest court on Wednesday issued a landmark ruling against mass surveillance in a judgment that challenges key portions of the U.K.'s so-called "Snooper's charter," a sweeping surveillance bill that was set to become law by the end of the year. The decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU),

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Pipeline 150 Miles From Standing Rock Spills Over 170,000 Gallons Of Crude

Monitoring equipment failed to detect the breakage, and it is unknown how long the pipeline was leaking before a landowner discovered it.

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By Nika Knight
The spill discovered Monday, Dec. 5, is located approximately 16 miles northwest of Belfield. (Photo: North Dakota Department of Health)

A pipeline just two and half hours' drive from the Indigenous water protectors' ongoing stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline has leaked over 170,000 gallons of crude oil into a tributary of the Little Missouri River and into a hillside, it was reported late Monday. Monitoring equipment failed to detect the leak, and it is unknown how long

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John Bolton Suggests DNC Hack Was Obama ‘False Flag’

The former UN ambassador appears to accuse the Obama administration of a vast conspiracy to undermine the presidential election results.

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By Nika Knight
In this April 13, 2012 file photo, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton speaks at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

John Bolton, the hawkish former Bush administration official now reportedly under serious consideration for deputy secretary of state, suggested during a Fox News interview on Sunday that the reports of Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election might be a "false flag" by the Obama administration, an accusation characterized as "insane" by

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Groups Demand Arrest Of ‘War Mastermind’ Kissinger At Nobel Peace Prize Forum

Nobel Peace Prize committee honors Kissinger a second time with speaking engagement at new forum on world peace.

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By Nika Knight
Henry Kissinger

The Nobel Peace Prize committee last month stunned many observers by choosing Henry Kissinger—the former secretary of state behind the secret American bombing of Cambodia and who supported Argentina's "dirty wars," among other things—to  speak at a forum on "The United States and World Peace after the Presidential Election." In response, on

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Veterans Arrive At Standing Rock To Act As ‘Human Shields’ For Water Protectors

“I signed up to serve my country and my people.”

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By Nika Knight
Military veterans stand on a closed bridge to protest across from police protecting the Dakota Access oil pipeline site in Cannon Ball, N.D., Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

As tensions grow in North Dakota, with multiple eviction orders facing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline, U.S. military veterans on Friday began arriving at the Oceti Sakowin protest camp. The 2,000 veterans, which include Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), plan to act as an unarmed militia and peaceful

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