CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Australian authorities said Friday they have not found WikiLeaks to have broken any Australian law by revealing U.S. diplomatic cables. Attorney General Robert McClelland said the Australian Federal Police has "not identified any criminal offenses where Austral...

independent.co.uk | Germany has owned up to one of the most disturbing examples of mass child and youth abuse in its post-war history, some 60 years after the first teenagers started being locked away and mistreated by supposedly "caring" foster homes.   The country agreed yesterday to provid...

rawstory | If Amazon.com won't host leaked diplomatic cables posted by the website WikiLeaks, Michael Moore will. The liberal filmmaker and author announced in a web posting Tuesday that he had donated $20,000 to the cause of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' embattled chief who is being held in the Unite...

bbc.co.uk | US space agency Nasa has been left red-faced after selling off computers without ensuring that highly sensitive data had been removed. An internal investigation found 10 cases where PCs were sold despite failing data removal procedures. Another four PCs - which were about to be sold - ...

yahoonews | LONDON – A British judge sent Julian Assange to jail on Tuesday, denying bail to the WikiLeaks founder after Assange vowed to fight efforts to be extradited to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation. Despite Assange's legal troubles, a WikiLeaks spokesman insisted the flow of secret U.S. ...

rawstory | US State Dept. called ownership of Afghan 'dancing boys' a 'culturally sanctioned form of male rape' The Afghanistan interior minister was so concerned about an incident where DynCorp, a US contractor charged with training Afghan police, bought drugs and paid for young "dancing boys" tha...

businessinsider.com | Chinese inflation -- including up to 20% food-price inflation in a month -- is reaching levels that threaten social stability, according to RBS. To get a sense of life in the Chinese asset bubble, check out this chart from Huang Zhen at Caixin. It describes the monthly budget...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Top US diplomat Hillary Clinton on Monday accused WikiLeaks of an "attack" on the world, as key American allies were left red-faced by embarrassing revelations in a vast trove of leaked memos. In a lengthy statement, the US secretary of state was apologetic to US allies as she to...

theaustralian.com.au | SWEDISH police have issued an international arrest warrant for the Australian founder of WikiLeaks. Julian Assange is wanted on suspicion of rape and sexual molestation. "The prosecutor had already decided to issue an international arrest warrant - we made sure that all the...

chinadaily.com.cn | St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday.     Chinese exper...

dailymail.co.uk | The full extent of the police and criminal prosecution powers that the European Union has over British citizens can be revealed today.   A Mail on Sunday investigation has uncovered an alarming array of new EU controls over justice and home affairs for which no one has vote...

telegraph.co.uk | George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister has said that there may need to be new Europe-wide forms of taxation to help pay for the bail-outs that will be needed by the growing number of crashing economies in the euro-zone. His suggestions include “carbon dioxide taxes” which...

dailymailuk | Police have been urged to start a murder inquiry into Dr David Kelly’s death following further allegations that he did not commit suicide.   Officers have been told the government scientist could not have taken an overdose of painkillers.   This overdose was found by the ...

presstv | Tens of thousands demonstrate in cities across Germany against government policies and social inequalities ahead of the ruling party's national meeting. A day before Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats party (CDU) meeting, nearly 100,000 Germans marched across the country i...

the tonka report | As usual, the MSM dropped the ball on this one with vertical flying planes and ‘optical illusions’ dominating their spin! - SJH China flexed its military muscle Monday evening in the skies west of Los Angeles when a Chinese Navy Jin class ballistic missile nuclear ...

rt.com | There is no possibility of agreement at the upcoming G20 summit because the U.S. is declaring financial war on other countries, believes American economist Michael Hudson. The U.S. has been pushing China to revalue its currency – at a time when Washington has been pumping billions o...

(InfowarsIreland) – Alexander Goncharov, a Russian activist who has been exposing the globalists eugenics program and in particular a vaccination program set to begin in 2011 has disappeared after recently receiving a serious threat to his life. He has been missing since the night of October 30th, ...

wsws.org | The Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition is pushing ahead with plans to allow Britain’s security services and police to spy on the activities of every citizen who uses a phone or the Internet. The secret services and police will have unlimited powers to track every single phone call, e...

presstv | Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said US private security firms, including Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater, are being behind terrorism in the country. At a press conference in Kabul, Karzai said that US security companies have been behind explosions that have claimed the l...

telegraph.co.uk | The company has admitted it downloaded personal data from wireless networks when its fleet of vehicles drove down residential roads taking photographs for its controversial Street View project. Millions of internet users have potentially been affected. One privacy campaig...