Mass protests continued throughout Brazil on Monday, with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators converging in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brasilia and other cities. Protests initially began last week following a government announcement of an increase in public transportation costs, which brought out students and young workers... 

The 2013 meeting of the Bilderberg Group is currently underway, with the usual clampdown on media coverage, but it appears that “big data” is one of the main topics on the agenda. Big data refers to the massive amounts of information that are currently being gathered through the use of modern technology. The Bilderberg Group mostly uses big data to analyze... 

In the new school year, a new subject, mandatory sex education, will be introduced in all French schools. Children will be educated from the age of six. Sex education is intended to completely shift the perception of the traditional biological roles of males and females in the children’s minds, replacing them with the ideas about the so-called social... 

The scandal over illegal data interception by US security services questions the correlation between the US and international law, and senior Russian officials are calling for an urgent update in Russian legislation in response. Russia will not ignore the actions of the US authorities who had admitted leaks of personal data of Russian citizens to which the... 

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for “immediate” airstrikes on Syria following the White House’s claim that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against foreign-backed militant groups. At a White House meeting last Wednesday, Kerry “vociferously” pushed for air strikes on Syrian airfields,... 

The threat of imprisonment or murder will not stop the truth from coming out, Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who blew the lid on the massive National Security Agency surveillance program, told the Guardian in a live Q&A. The 29-year-old former NSA contractor in conjunction with Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian journalist who broke the story on the NSA’s... 

Sex for sale: Around a million men are paying for sex every day in Germany according to a new television documentary. Hamburg’s Reeperbahn red light district is pictured. Documentary-makers in Germany have claimed that legalising prostitution has turned the country’s capital Berlin into ‘Europe’s biggest brothel.’ Sex trade laws... 

Microsoft, the company which created abusive monopoly in the PC desktop space and did not leave any room for a single player to breath and survive for almost three decades is now crying wolf when competitors are doing better. Microsoft and it’s pizza delivery boy Nokia filed complaints with the EU, via is proxy body FairSearch, against Google’s... 

Officers are preparing to bust the biggest paedophile network ever seen in the country, with police set to swoop within days. At least 54 evil child ­grooming gangs are being investigated by police. It comes as officers in the North of England are preparing to bust the biggest paedophile network ever seen in the country, with police set to swoop within days. Our... 

There’s a video making the rounds in the ‘Liberty,’ ‘Libertarian,’ and ‘Freedom’ circles that asks ‘what if’ Superman was a member of a union? Would the ‘Man of Steel’ ever be able to save people if he were tied down by the socialist conspiracy of unions? The message of the video is, ‘No.’ ‘Man of Steel’ is a good place to start... 

Early releases of security notes circulating in the Kremlin today, provided to the Office of the President by diplomats accompanying President Putin during his G-8 meetings with Western leaders, are confirming that US President Barack Obama, along with British Prime Minister David Cameron, are preparing for “all-out Holy War” in the Middle East and are... 

Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum The Mayor of Montreal Michael Applebaum has been arrested by the Canadian province’s anti-corruption police as part of its investigation in a corruption case, reports say. Applebaum was arrested at his home on Monday morning and is to be questioned by Quebec’s anti-corruption unit, UPAC, later in the day, UPAC spokeswoman... 

Activists returning to Taksim Square will be considered “supporters or members of a terror group,” Turkey’s EU minister told local media. This comes after police bulldozed the tent camp in Gezi Park in one of the worst nights of violence in Istanbul. “From now on the state will unfortunately have to consider everyone who remains there a supporter or... 

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich Russia will not permit the enforcement of a no-fly zone over Syria as the consequences of such step can be seen in Libya, Foreign Ministry spokesman says following reports that US and its allies are planning such a move. “We have seen the Libyan example of how such a zone is implemented and how such... 

Iran will deploy 4,000 Revolutionary Guards to Syria to bolster Damascus against a mostly Sunni-led insurgency, media reported. Meanwhile, US F-16s and Patriots will stay in Jordan – speculatively, to help establish a no-fly zone to aid Syrian rebels. The deployment of the first several-thousand strong military contingent was reported by The Independent on...