The White House says the controversial intelligence gathering procedures that have attracted international scrutiny in recent months may require "€œadditional constraints." Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, made the remark during a scheduled Monday afternoon briefing on the heels of the latest revelations made possible through the unauthorized [...]

Condemnation by Latin American panel comes as US fields worsening outrage from Spain and Germany over surveillance. The international surveillance crisis deepened as representatives from a Latin American human rights panel told US diplomats that oversight of the programs was "illusory". [...]

Despite the departure of all his neighbors and the unexplained deaths of some of his stock, Tokue Hosokawa refuses to budge. Until March 2011, Tokue Hosokawa had only to peer through the window of his home in Iitate village to confirm that all was well with his 100-year-old family business. [...]

Twenty-one countries, including US allies France and Mexico, have now joined talks to hammer out a UN resolution that would condemn "€œindiscriminate" and "€œextra-territorial" surveillance, and ensure "€œindependent oversight"€ of electronic monitoring. [...]

The German Chancellor'€™s mobile phone has been on an NSA target list since 2002 and was code-named "€œGE Chancellor Merkel"€, according to Der Spiegel. The paper also reports that President Obama assured Merkel that he did not know her phone was tapped. The monitoring operation was still in force even a few weeks before Obama's visit to Berlin in June 2013. [...]

"What a disgrace. The U.S. government, cheered on by much of the media, launches an international manhunt to capture a young American whose crime is that he dared challenge the excess of state power. Read the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and tell me that Edward Snowden is not a hero in the mold of those who founded this republic. Check out the Nuremberg war crime trials and ponder our [...]

Michael Ruppert let's fly with both barrels as he speaks on Peak Oil, who the media are serving, and the truth behind Pat Tilman and Christopher Dorner. Ruppert's candor is so strong that it is clear to see why he has been persecuted for his journalism, and he also shows why he is resilient enough to keep on speaking his truth. Part 1 of 2 >>>Click Here for Part 2<& [...]

President JFK (R.I.P.) revealed the presence of a certain "ruthless monolithic secret society" with a worldwide presence. Unfortunately, for this truth, he paid with his life, and until today is still widely considered by the mass public as a "conspiracy theory." Thanks to mainstream media manipulation and predictive programming.  SOLDIERS Expose Martial Law Agenda Plans 2013 JFK Related [...]

Abby Martin takes with a look at the 50 year long practice of water fluoridation in America, outlining adverse health effects and breaking the myth that it helps prevent tooth decay. [...]

The White House is at a loss as it not only depended on espionage in formulating its policies, but also nobody can trust its word anymore, former US Senate foreign policy analyst James Petras told RT. The latest news on monitoring of phone calls in France, and probably German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own cellphone, brought anger from the French and German governments this week. [...]

Abby Martin takes a look at the real reason why hemp is illegal in the US, the truth might surprise you. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin [...]

Germany told Israel to expect "€œsevere diplomatic damage"€ should it fail to attend a periodic human rights review Tuesday, Haaretz reports. Israel severed ties with the UNHRC in March 2012 after it expressed concern over Israeli settlements. “On Friday, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle sent a personal letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning that Israel's failure t [...]

Twelve years after Americans were stripped of their rights in the name of fighting terrorism, thousands have gathered in Washington DC to protest unconstitutional NSA spying programs revealed by Edward Snowden, and call for repeal of the Patriot Act. [...]

President Obama was aware of NSA spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel since 2010, German media have revealed. That contradicts earlier reports that Obama personally assured Merkel didn’t know – and that he would have stopped it if he had. [...]

Abby Martin Breaks the Set on Respect's George Galloway, Immigration Reform, and the Watergate scandal. On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks to George Galloway of UK's Respect Party about Iraq, Palestine, US drone wars, and the Parliament's Respect Party. Abby then talks to RT correspondent, Ramon Galindo, about the recent political shift toward immigration reform in the US. [...]

Move comes as Der Spiegel reports that Angela Merkel's phone might have been monitored for more than 10 years. New claims emerged last night over the extent that US intelligence agencies have been monitoring the mobile phone of Angela Merkel. [...]

Abby Martin calls out Bill Maher, host of HBO's 'Real Time', for his evolution from being a controversial commentator to being an arrogant lackey for the democratic party, citing his rampant Islamophobia, support for drones, and defense of the NSA's wiretapping program. [...]

An interview with Susan Lindauer, former CIA asset in Washington. Press TV has conducted an interview with Susan Lindauer, a former CIA asset from Washington, about the United States spying on its people as well as its European allies. [...]

Brazil, China and Venezuela sharply critical of 'illegal' programme but US says it has taken steps to introduce new guidelines. The US government has defended its use of drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and other countries in front of the UN, telling a chamber full of largely critical nations that in President Obama's view the deployment of unmanned aerial attacks [...]

Glenn Greenwald: With General Alexander calling for NSA reporting to be halted, US and UK credibility as guardians of press freedom is crushed. The most under-discussed aspect of the NSA story has long been its international scope. That all changed this week as both Germany and France exploded with anger over new revelations about pervasive NSA surveillance on their population and democratically e [...]

GOP now known for "pettiness and bigotry." A Republican Judge from San Antonio, Texas, has announced he is quitting the GOP and will seek re-election as a Democrat, saying that he can no longer be part of political party whose identity is based on hate, bigotry and destroying people’s lives. [...]

In a year that has brought us national conversations about working women, leaning in and whether or not the patriarchy is in fact "dead," you might expect that all this talk signaled a real improvement for gender equality in the United States. According to the 2013 Global Gender Gap report released on Oct. 24 by the World Economic Forum [...]