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Snowden Leaks Reveal NSA Role In Destabilizing Latin America

Documents leaked by whistle-blower Edward Snowden show the United States was training spies to influence events in the Americas.

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A guest instructor debriefs students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School after a field training exercise. (U.S. Navy photo)

The latest batch of National Security Agency documents revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden on Monday show that the NSA offered tailored training to staff on national security issues in Latin America in an effort to steer the region toward U.S. interests. A June 2003 edition of the SIDtoday newsletter, an internal publication run by the

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Whoops! UK Police Forget Fake Bomb At Manchester United Stadium

Tens of thousands of fans were ordered to leave the Sir Alex Ferguson and the Stretford End stands shortly before kick off.

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A group of London's Metropolitan Police force in uniform. (Flickr / Ramon Rosati)

The Premier League match between Manchester United and Bournemouth was abandoned and half the Old Trafford stadium evacuated after a suspicious package was found in one of the stands. However, hours later local police confirmed that the package was a terror training device that was left behjind the stadium after a training exercise and not a real

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Monsanto May Be Eaten By Another Beast

The agricultural giant, once an instigator of mergers and acquisitions, is now a takeover target itself.

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A year after Monsanto sparked a massive consolidation race in the agrochemical industry by bidding for a rival, the world's largest seed company now finds itself in the uncomfortable role of takeover target, Reuters reported on Thursday. Monsanto shares rallied as much as 12 percent on Thursday on new reports that Bayer AG, a German

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US Cop Faces Life In Prison for Killing Innocent Black Man

Only 1.7 percent of U.S. police officers arrested between 2005 and 2011 for alleged crimes were charged.

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Screenshot from the by-stander's video footage which shows Officer Michael Scott in the process of shooting a fleeing Walter Scott in the back.

A white former police officer, caught on video as he shot dead a Black man fleeing a traffic stop in South Carolina, has been charged with a federal civil rights offense that could send him to prison for life, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday. Ex-North Charleston patrolman Michael Slager, 34, used excessive force and had no legal justification

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Trump Campaign Picks Nazi As Delegate, Drops Him After Backlash

In an exclusive interview with teleSUR last December, white supremacist William Johnson described Donald Trump as “the real deal.”

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William D. Johnson

One of the United States' most prominent white nationalists, William Daniel Johnson, was selected by the Donald Trump campaign to be one of its delegates to the Republican National Convention on Monday—before being unceremoniously dumped by a day later. Johnson, who leads the neo-Nazi American Freedom Party, was selected as a delegate for

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Chelsea Manning Receives Cash Prize For Exposing War Crimes

The imprisoned whistleblower was one of three selected to share a cash prize worth more than US$21,000.

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Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. soldier imprisoned for leaking U.S. diplomatic cables and copious evidence of war crimes, has been awarded a cash prize in recognition of her “sacrifice and bravery,” it was announced Monday. “The award recognizes the exceptional importance of the disclosures by Manning in revealing the illegal practice of

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Tobacco Farms Exploit Child Labor In North Carolina

The report did not include the children who were working with their families in tobacco fields.

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A 16-year-old worker harvests tobacco on a farm in Kentucky. Marcus Beasdale | Human Rights Watch

Various North Carolina farmers partnered with R.J. Reynolds tobacco company illegally hires children under 13 years old to harvest their tobacco crops, report released Wednesday stated. A recent audit commissioned by the tobacco company found that 40 percent of its contractor farms employed under age workers, therefore violating the Federal law

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