The ACLU described Edmonds as: The most gagged person in the history of the United States of America. And famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says that Edmonds possesses information “far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers”. Edmonds translated terror-related communications for the FBI right after 9/11. In that capacity, she read communications between terrorists and other radicals. Edmonds said last week that Bin Laden – and his number 2 Al Qaeda lieutenant – Ayman al-Zawahiri – worked with the U.S. government for 3 months after 9/11 to coordinate destablizaton in the Caucus region. If this sounds crazy, please remember that the U.S. National Security Adviser admitted that the U.S. created, organized and armed the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan – including Bin Laden – to fight the Soviets. The Mujahadeen eventually morphed into Al Qaeda.

Syrian media say foreign-backed militants have used an unknown liquid to kill a number of civilians in the country’s northwest. - According to a report by the official SANA news agency on Wednesday, several people have been killed due to exposure to poisonous fumes from the liquid in Idlib. Meanwhile, Turkish officials said they were testing blood samples taken from Syrian casualties to determine whether they were victims of a chemical weapons attack. Earlier in the day, Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari said the foreign-backed militants in the Arab country used chemical material against civilians during an attack on a town near Idlib. He added that some of the victims had been transferred to Turkey in a pre-arranged scenario.

Tony Cartalucci: EU Lifts Oil Embargo on Syria - Buys Directly from Al Qaeda - Western media hails EU oil deal as potential game changer, despite admitting Al Qaeda holds oil fields. - Clearly then, it is no accident that Al Qaeda has the weapons and cash to dominate the so-called "opposition," nor a mystery as to how they've managed to seize much of Syria's oil fields. It is also no accident that these very terrorists now stand to gain immensely by selling stolen oil to the European Union, in a bid to further increase their strength, capabilities, and reach, in an otherwise so-far unsuccessful bid to overthrow the Syrian government.

Pepe Escobar: The Syria-Iran red line show
PressTV: US training anti-Syria militants, al-Qaeda terrorists in Jordan: Report

An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide. - Andy P. Hart, 38, a federal public defender in Toledo, Ohio, apparently died of a "self-inflicted" gunshot wound. Hart left behind a suicide note and a thumb drive, believed to contain his case files. It is unknown where Hart died, what the suicide note said or whether an autopsy was performed. Hart’s death comes amid escalating chaos that has engulfed Guantanamo over the past three months—from a mass hunger strike to military commissions and renewed pressure on the White House to shut down the prison facility. Hart was one of three-dozen Guantanamo attorneys who signed a letter in March urging Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to take immediate action and bring about an end to the hunger strike.

The UN human rights office has condemned force-feeding hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay, calling it ‘torture’ and a breach of international law. At least 21 inmates out of the 100 officially on strike are being force-fed through nasal tubes. - The UN bases its position on that of the World Medical Association, which consists of 102 nations including the United States, Coville explained. The international organization, a watchdog for ethics in healthcare, said back in 1991 that forcible feeding is "a form of inhuman treatment" and “never ethnically acceptable.” "Even if intended to benefit, feeding accompanied with threats, coercion, force or use of physical restraints is a form of inhuman and degrading treatment. Equally unacceptable is the force feeding of some detainees in order to intimidate or coerce other hunger strikers to stop fasting," it said.

PressTV: Cuba calls on US to close Guantanamo prison
John Glaser: UN: Force Feeding Gitmo Hunger Strikers Violates International Law

The world's most widely used insecticide is devastating dragonflies, snails and other water-based species, a groundbreaking Dutch study has revealed. - On Monday, the insecticide and two others were banned for two years from use on some crops across the European Union, due to the risk posed to bees and other pollinators, on which many food crops rely. However, much tougher action in the form of a total worldwide ban is needed, according to the scientist who led the new study. "We are risking far too much to combat a few insect pests that might threaten agriculture," said Dr Jeroen van der Sluijs at Utrecht University. "This substance should be phased out internationally as soon as possible." The pollution was so bad in some places that the ditch water in fields could have been used as an effective pesticide, he said. Van der Sluijs added that half the 20,000 tonnes of the imidacloprid produced each year is not affected by the EU ban. It is used not to treat crops, but to combat fleas and other pests in cattle, dogs and cats. "All this imidacloprid ends up in surface water."

A breakthrough in the search for a cure for HIV will come ''within months'', researchers believe. - Danish scientists are expecting results showing that it will be possible to find a cure that is both affordable and can be provided to a large number of people. They are running clinical trials to test a ''novel strategy'' in which the HIV virus, which causes AIDS, is stripped from human DNA and destroyed by the immune system. It has already been found to work in laboratory tests and the scientists are now running human trials.

A seminal piece by Visible, leading to the obvious conclusion that, 9/11 is the litmus test without equal. 9/11 is the Litmus Test

There is one thing that defines everyone over the course of these early years of this new century. That thing is the 9/11 attack. Everyone in government and every field of endeavor the world over is defined by their position on this event. It is not necessary to know the truth. It is only necessary to know the extent of the lies in order to define any leader in any position anywhere in the world. By what they have said and by what they have not said, one can accurately judge who is an enemy of the peoples of the world. One can accurately determine who is a tool of the psychopaths or one of them. Think about what you allow yourself to know. Think about what you pass by; ignore, deny and defend ...that defines you. It defines the degree of your personal courage, your relationship to the truth, your values, your principles and what you will pass on to your children and everyone you meet. It tells you in that place where your conscience must once have lived whether you are a hypocrite and a fool or whether something greater still lives within you.

Further investigation into the Boston Bombers ties to the CIA reveal a shell company used to funnel funds to overseas terrorists was set up by Uncle Ruslan at the home of a top CIA official. - As details continue to emerge about the connection of the Boston Bombers to the CIA documents surfaced over the weekend which directly tie the Uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev to operations to fund overseas terrorists on behalf of the CIA. To fund the terrorists Uncle Ruslan set up a company called the Congress of Chechen International Organizations at the home of CIA official Graham Fuller. One of the document’s shows correspondence with organiation classified by the UN as terrorist organization. The doument shows the company confirming aid and soliciting further aid for an international terrorist cell lead by a well-known international terrorist that is said to have later trainded and funded on of the 9/11 hijackers.

Neo-Cons Trolling for Terrorist Recruits in Caucasus: Did CIA Fund and FBI Lend Tamerlan as a Spotter?

In his new book, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism, investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson analyzes 10 years of terrorism cases that were prosecuted in the United States after Sept. 11. - By assembling a database of the cases and going through court records, he concluded that the FBI, which receives $3 billion per year for counterterrorism, is "the organization responsible for more terrorist plots over the last decade than any other." Rather than stopping actual terrorist attacks, like the Boston bombing, the FBI focuses significant resources on using informants and sting operations to entrap would-be Islamic terrorists who "never could have obtained the capability to carry out their planned violent acts were it not for the FBI's assistance," he writes in his book.

The mainstream media is not telling you this, but the truth is that most Americans are steadily getting poorer. The middle class is being absolutely eviscerated, and poverty is soaring to unprecedented heights. The fact that 90 percent of the population is constantly sliding downhill is not good for our society. The United States is supposed to be a land of opportunity with a vibrant free market system that enables average people to make better lives for themselves. Unfortunately, free enterprise is being strangled to death in the United States today.