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Will Snowden`s Trip to Ecuador be Thwarted by a Secret US Deal?

The whistleblower is seeking political asylum in Ecuador.

(SACRAMENTO / YORK) - Will Edward Snowden be sent back to the US through deceptive tactics and back room international relations?

That is the word according to our Human Rights Ambassador, William Nicholas Gomes in the UK. His Tweet is circulating widely, explaining that Snowden may be returned to the US sooner than expected.

Michael Hastings Said He Was Being Investigated by FBI Hours Before His Fiery Death

Hastings is best-known for his Rolling Stone cover story called "The Runaway General" that led to the resignation of the commander of the entire Afghanistan War, General Stanley McChrystal. He also wrote about the Petraeus scandal and media's cozy relationship with military elites.

(LOS ANGELES) - About 15 hours before dying in a fiery car crash at about 4:30 a.m. in L.A. on June 17, journalist Michael Hastings sent an email to several colleagues that said the FBI was investigating him and he was "onto a big story."

The 33-year-old had been working as a BuzzFeed writer and Rolling Stone contributing editor at the time of his death.

Why do People Lie? And Why do other People Believe them?

The purpose of fear is to suppress awareness of the truth.

(TASMANIA, Aust.) - People always lie for the same reason: fear. But the precise fear that makes a person lie in one circumstance might be different from the fear that makes them lie in another.

When a child is young, it will naturally tell the truth...

Nightmare for Muslims in Bangladesh Continues

"I highly condemn the abuse and torture by the law enforcement agencies demand a judicial investigation of the incident" - William Nicholas Gomes, Salem-News.com Human Rights Ambassador

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - "So many people killed at large, the streets were flooded with blood." This was the 5^th May, as the narrator in the video below explains, just a month and a half ago.

The Bangladesh government has been murdering Muslims for speaking out and assembling in public. Is this the effort of a government trying to be secular, trying to avoid Sharia law, or genocide?

OR Lawmakers to Congress: Corporate Political Spending Shouldn`t be Free Speech

Advocates for campaign finance reform argue allowing an unlimited amount of corporate money for campaigns creates an unfair system and hampers the ability of others to be heard.

(SALEM) - The Oregon Legislature is considering a proposal that urges Congress to amend the constitution to say that corporations do not have the same rights as people.

House Joint Memorial 6 tries to send a message that big money is taking over politics and that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong in its Citizens United ruling...

Clinton and Netanyahu Not Good for Obama

In a rare act of disloyalty as a member of the club of former presidents, Clinton joined the chorus of war drum-beaters to persuade Obama to supply small arms to the rebel side of the Syrian civil war.

(CHICAGO) - With friends like former President Bill Clinton and current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, what is a fellow like President Obama to do?

As a start, he could get a few second opinions. President Obama is struggling to help resolve an ugly civil war in Syria, and also working to relieve U.S. tensions with Iran...

Post Office Buildings for Sale

A powerful United States Senator's husband is standing by, all ready to make millions from a U.S. taxpayer funded enterprise.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - The US has entered into a contract with a real estate firm to sell 56 buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices.

The government has decided it no longer needs these buildings, many of which are located on prime land in towns and cities across the country.

Jews, God and the NSA

"As Jews, the concept of being watched is not new to us. We read in Ethics of our Fathers, "Know what is above you: an eye that sees, an ear that hears, and all your deeds are recorded..."

(HOUSTON) - A friend sent an email they received from a Chabad in Illinois.

The friend was horrified that a Rabbi in Illinois had put out a message to his congregation and newsletter recipients, directly equating God's loving, all-seeing knowledge of everyone and everything, with the NSA's massive illegal surveillance of every person in the country.

Marines` Deaths Linked to CIA Narcotrafficking

Marines who tried to expose drug running corruption relating to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro have been murdered or "suicided" under suspicious circumstances.

(IRVINE, CA) - The murder of Marine Colonel James E. Sabow and other Marines whose deaths (officially ruled ‘suicides’) are linked to the use of El Toro assets during the 1980s and 1990s to import South American cocaine into the U.S and to export weapons to the Contra Rebel faction of Nicaragua.

CIA proprietary aircraft and civilian crews were used in the covert activity, including the illegal narcotrafficking of cocaine in the country.

Computer Espionage: Our Spies are Spying on Your Spies

We don't want your spies to spy on our spies.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Snowden, Manning and Ellsberg are possibly the best known recent figures who have been seduced into this kind of intelligence dirty work in which they all considered it abhorrent and said so.

Spying as an instrument of government and war strategy has been going on even before we had written words.