TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior Iranian prosecutor accused three Americans detained on the border with Iraq of espionage on Monday, the first signal that Tehran intends to put them on trial.
The action could set up the Americans — who relatives say were hiking and strayed across the border from Iraq — as potential bargaining chips in Iran’s standoff with the West. The announcement came as Washington and Tehran were maneuvering over a deadlock in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alleged the three crossed Iran’s border illegally, …

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez ordered Venezuela’s military on Sunday to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying the country’s soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South American neighbors.
“The best way to avoid war is preparing for it,” Chavez told military officers standing at attention during his weekly television and radio program.
Repeating an often-used military adage, he added, “If you want peace, prepare for war.”
Chavez told his supporters that President Barack Obama holds sway over Colombia’s …

CIA director Leon Panetta got into hot water with Congress, after he revealed an agency program to hunt down and kill terrorists. A recent report from the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations University argues that the CIA didn’t go far enough (.pdf). Instead, it suggests the American government should set up something like a “National Manhunting Agency” to go after jihadists, drug dealers, pirates and other enemies of the state.
America’s military, intelligence and law-enforcement agencies already devote thousands of people and billions of dollars to tracking down top terrorists and insurgents. …

MILAN — An Italian court on Wednesday convicted 22 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force colonel of orchestrating the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric here in 2003 and flying him to Egypt, where he said he was tortured.
In rendering the verdict, the judge in the case, Oscar Magi, acquitted three other Americans, including the former Rome station chief for the CIA, saying they were covered by diplomatic immunity.
The Americans were all tried in absentia but were represented throughout the trial by defense attorneys, most of them court-appointed. The U.S. …

For those that know about the true, often dark and nefarious, inner-workings of our government,  the below article will come as no surprise to you. For those that are naive to what goes on, this article unintentionally is exposing the black contract portion of our government. The “non-existing”, unconstitutional, covert, and completely opaque deals, contracts, and missions that go on behind closed doors allow our government to conduct despicable operations while having plausible deniability.
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Two Rivers Detention Center was promoted as the largest economic development project in …

THERE WERE NO RIOTS, JUST POLICE ATTACKING INNOCENT PEOPLE!
The included slide show displays the widespread tyranny that is being allowed to happen in America today. In the images you will see military LRAD’s (Long Range Acoustic Device) that are capable of shattering ear drums and causing aneurysms (which can kill you). You will see innocent by standers being attacked, children, and kids being attacked. You will see neighborhood patrols and widespread police corruption and abuse. The first amendment did not exist at G20 Pittsburgh this year and Posse Comitatus was …