Syria Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem says the US, Britain and France have blocked the naming of the real perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks in the Arab country. ● In his address to the 68th UN General Assembly on Monday, Muallem also warned that "terrorists" fighting against President Bashar al-Assad government are being supplied with chemical weapons. The minister also stated that the al-Qaeda-linked militants eat human hearts and dismember people while they are still alive, then send their limbs to family members. Washington had threatened to take military action against Syria over an unsubstantiated claim that the Syrian government had been behind a deadly chemical attack near Damascus on August 21. Syria strongly rejected the allegation, saying the attack had been carried out by the foreign-backed militants to draw in military intervention.

Stephen Lendman: Lavrov: Insurgents Have Chemical Weapons

Soon after the very earliest reporting on Ed Snowden's leaked documents about PRISM, the folks from Datacoup put together the very amusing GETPRSM website, which looks very much like the announcement of a new social network, but (the joke is) it's really the NSA scooping up all our data and making the connections. It's pretty funny. Except, of course, when you find out that it's real. And, yes, that seems to be the latest revelation out of Ed Snowden's leaks. The NY Times has an article by James Risen and Laura Poitras (what a combo reporting team there!) detailing how the NSA has basically built its own "shadow" social network in which it tries to create a "social graph" of pretty much everyone that everyone knows, foreign or American, and it all happens (of course) without a warrant.

San Jose Mercury News: John McAfee reveals details on gadget to thwart NSA
The Guardian: To reform the NSA, fire officials who lie
Common Dreams: NSA Metadata Collection Puts Journalists' Sources at Risk
Russia Today: NSA uses metadata 'to create sophisticated graphs' of US citizens’ social connections
Thomas Gaist: NSA using metadata to compile “social network diagrams” on Americans

A bankrupt France tears itself apart into several regions, and one of them marches over the border to Switzerland to get back its stolen money. The Swiss army has this imaginary scenario covered, according to military simulations revealed over the weekend. ● Switzerland's army simulated a French attack against their country in training exercises in August, the newspaper Matin Dimanche revealed on Sunday. The army imagined a scenario in which France was in financial turmoil and had split up into several regional entities. One of these, "Saônia," was preparing attacks on Switzerland to retrieve money it had apparently stolen from it. Operation "Duplex-Barbara" was practiced at the end of August, according to the Swiss daily, and essentially involves the (existing) Jura region of eastern France breaking away from the rest of the country. "Saônia" then launches the invasion across the Swiss border, with a pro-Saônian government paramilitary group, the BLD (Brigade Libre de Dijon) going "in search of the money Switzerland stole from Saônia," according to Matin Dimanche. "The exercise has strictly nothing to do with France," said Daniel Berger, captain of the Swiss armoured brigade. "It was prepared in 2012 when fiscal relations between both countries were less tense."

Matin Dimanche: L’armée suisse simule l’attaque d’une France surendettée

The al-Qaeda-linked terror organization the al-Nusra front, which fights against the Syria administration, has published a threatening notice announcing it will carry out attacks in Ýstanbul and Ankara in Turkey. ● The notice, issued under the name of “Northern Province, Aleppo Region, al-Nusra Front,” calls directly to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan. The notice written in Arabic includes such statements as:

“The allies of Jews in Turkish lands must understand that the provisions of Allah are getting closer to their country. To Recep Tayyip Erdoðan, who chose to be an ally of Jews instead of provisions of God:

1 – If Bab al-Salam (Kilis) and Bab-al-Hawa (Cilvegözü) border gates are not opened by Monday, martyrdom (suicide) attacks will be made in Istanbul and Ankara.
2 – If Erdoðan does not stop aiding his allies the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the traitors who left from the al-Nusra front, martyrdom (suicide) attacks will be made in Istanbul and Ankara, which will burn the friends of the Jews.”

(Via Aydinlik Daily, an nsnbc international partner media)

At least three people have been killed in a US assassination drone strike in the Boya area of Pakistan’s North Waziristan. ● The attack was carried out during the early hours of Monday, when a killer drone targeted the tribal area near the Afghan border. A senior Pakistani security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the three were killed by two missiles. The incident took place hours after another drone killed at least six people in the northwestern tribal area of Dargamandi in North Waziristan. The attacks come days after the Pakistani government confirmed that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would seek an immediate halt to the US drone strikes during his speech at the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. On September 22, seven people died in a US killer drone strike in the same area.

Two American journalists are working together to expose the role of the US National Security Agency in what they described as a “US assassination program.” ● Contributor to The Nation magazine Jeremy Scahill and Rio-based journalist Glenn Greenwald are working on the project. "The connections between war and surveillance are clear. I don't want to give too much away but Glenn and I are working on a project right now that has at its center how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the US assassination program," Scahill said on Saturday. "There are so many stories that are yet to be published that we hope will produce 'actionable intelligence,' or information that ordinary citizens across the world can use to try to fight for change, to try to confront those in power," he added. Greenwald was the first journalist who broke the revelations about US spying programs based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Yahoo: Glenn Greenwald working on new NSA revelations
Russia Today: Greenwald, Scahill vow to unmask NSA’s ‘US assassination program’

An amazing speech by Rainn Wilson on the coming global revolution that must happen in order for us to move forward as a human race. ● "I think that there is another revolution coming. I'm not sure what it's going to look like, but I think it's going to be very interesting and it's going to unfold over the next 10 years." Footage used is a combination of purchased footage and various Youtube videos of protests from around the world.