ZeroHedge.com

Visit ZeroHedge.com

TSA Defends Orwellian Secretive Domestic Surveillance Program

Just like Edward Snowden and the NSA, the pushback against indiscriminate profiling is rising as “dozens of air marshals have raised concerns about the Quiet Skies program.”

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
People wait in line to check in at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. John Locher | AP

The TSA has broken its silence to defend its alarming domestic surveillance program called "Quiet Skies" which allows the agency to use teams of armed Air Marshals to follow, track and surveil virtually anyone. TSA administrator David Pekoske told CBS news in a recent interview that the program "...makes an awful lot of sense, to be able to look at

Read Full Article

Watch: Reporters Slam US For Refusing to Condemn Saudi-US Airstrike On Yemen School Bus

Just as expected, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert refused to condemn Thursday’s coalition airstrike on a school bus in Yemen, which left as many as 50 people dead and 63 injured — the vast majority of which were children.

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
school bus yemen

Just as expected, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert refused to condemn Thursday's coalition airstrike on a school bus in Yemen, which left as many as 50 people dead and 63 injured — the vast majority of which were children.  As we reported previously, Saudi-US/UK coalition jets scored a direct hit on the school bus packed with

Read Full Article

A NATO-Funded Team is Advising Facebook On Flagging “Propaganda”

While the initiative was initially revealed last May through an official Facebook media release, more details of the controversial think tank’s role have been revealed.

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
alex jones facebook

This is not at all comforting: during a week that's witnessed Alex Jones' social media accounts taken down by Facebook, Apple, Spotify and Google, and what appears to be a growing crackdown against alternative media figures including several prominent Libertarians, notably the Ron Paul Institute director, and the Scott Horton Show, who found their

Read Full Article

US Senate Calls On Julian Assange To Testify in Russia Investigation

Wikileaks’ says their legal team is “considering the offer but testimony must conform to a high ethical standard.”

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appears via teleconference at the Digital Culture Forum, organized by Argentina's Ministry of Culture, October 15, 2015. (Photo: Romina Santarelli/Flickr)

Julian Assange has been asked to testify before the US Senate Intelligence Committee as part of their Russia investigation, according to a letter posted by the official WikiLeaks Twitter account. The letter, delivered to Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, reads in part: "As part of the inquiry, the Committee requests that you make

Read Full Article

Here Are 410 Movies Made Under the Direct Influence and Supervision of the Pentagon

The average movie watcher might be in for a shock at what films are actually included, garnering the military industrial complex’s propaganda touch, like Earnest Saves Christmas, Karate Kid 2, The Silence of the Lambs, Twister, the Iron Man movies, and more recently Pitch Perfect 3.

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
hollywood propaganda

A year ago we featured a detailed report by authors Tom Secker and Matthew Alford exposing just how vast the Pentagon and CIA programs for partnering with Hollywood actually are, based on some 4,000 new pages of formerly classified archived documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The report noted at the time that "These

Read Full Article

Bank of America Froze US-Born Family’s Bank Account After Demanding Citizenship

Josh was born in Wichita, Kansas, while his wife Jessica Salazar Collins was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri.

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
Bank of America

An American-born Kansas family had their bank account frozen after Bank of America demanded to know their citizenship status, reports the Kansas City Star. Josh Collins of Roeland Park, Kansas ignored a letter from the bank asking a variety of personal questions, including whether he was an American citizen or holds dual citizenship with another

Read Full Article

The US is Preparing to Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities

A new bombshell report says the White House is drawing up plans to strike Iran’s alleged nuclear facilities as early as next month.

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
Iran's Nuclear Facilities

As the White House convenes a policy meeting on Iran Thursday involving senior Pentagon officials and cabinet advisers under national security adviser John Bolton, and after a week of intense saber-rattling by President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, a new bombshell report by Australia's ABC says the White House is drawing

Read Full Article