Former Israeli leader Ehud Olmert sentenced to 6 years in prison

● Ehud Olmert, the right-wing Likud politician, was in New York on September 10, 2001, the day before 9-11, meeting with supporters of the Israeli terrorist gang of the Irgun (Betar). Olmert was in New York City on the very eve of 9-11 but has concealed this secret visit. Why?

● What is most odd about Olmert's meeting in New York is that it was not reported at all and that Prime Minister Olmert has done everything to conceal the fact that he was in New York on the day before 9-11. Why would Ehud Olmert, the Irgunist mayor of occupied Jerusalem, seek to conceal the fact that he was in New York on September 10, 2001?

● And why would Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of New York, conspire to conceal Olmert's presence in New York on September 10 and 11, 2001? Did the right-wing mayor of Jerusalem and close associate with the murderous Yitzhak Shamir stay in New York that night? Did he have a "front-row" seat for the Zionist terror spectacle that occurred the next day? The evidence strongly suggests that he did.

Nick Barrickman ■ A federal judge last week ordered a temporary halt to US authorities’ practice of force-feeding a detainee at the Guantanamo military base in Cuba. The order comes on the heels of a large-scale hunger strike by the base’s detainees in 2013, protesting the conditions of their ongoing detainment. According to an injunction ordered by judge Gladys Kessler of the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia, the “force-feedings and forcible cell extractions” of Guantanamo prisoner Mohammed Abu Wa’el Dhiab, a Syrian, must stop until the US government meets with the court on Wednesday for a status conference on the treatment of the detainee. The judge also called for the preservation of all video evidence of Dhiab’s forced feeding from April 2013 until February 2014, which authorities will be asked to present to the court at a later date.

Now Russia-China cooperation is advancing to a new stage of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction. It would not be wrong to say that it has reached the highest level in all its centuries-long history. ● Russia-China cooperation has reached its highest level ever, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in an interview with Chinese media on the eve of his visit to Shanghai, where a record package of documents is expected to be signed by the two nations. (Full transcript)

In 1954, the most powerful men in the world met for the first time under the auspices of the Dutch royal crown and the Rockefeller family at the luxurious Hotel Bilderberg in the small Dutch town of Oosterbeek. For an entire weekend, they debated the future of the world. 'When it was over, they decided to meet once every year to exchange ideas and analyze international affairs. They named themselves the Bilderberg Group. Since then, they have gathered yearly in a luxurious hotel somewhere in the world to try to decide the future of humanity.

The death toll from clashes in Benghazi has risen to 43 with more than 100 people wounded, a Health Ministry official said on Saturday, as a renegade retired general vowed to continue to fight Islamist militants in the eastern Libyan port. ● Friday's violence prompted Libya's prime minister to order the regular military to control any armed groups in the city where militants often clash with the army, and assassinations and bombings are common. The latest fighting broke out between irregular Islamist militants and the military forces of the self-declared Libyan National Army, led by retired General Khalifa Haftar. Residents said Haftar's forces had attacked Ansar al-Sharia and another Islamist militant group which roam unchallenged in Benghazi. They said the city was quiet on Saturday.

The US Central Intelligence Agency has ranked Israel as the third most aggressive “intelligence service” working against the United Sates, a leaked document shows. ● The National Security Agency document, obtained by NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden, was revealed by American journalist Glenn Greenwald in line with the publication of his book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U.S. Surveillance State, Newsweek reported on Friday. In one paragraph of the book, Greenwald explains the complex spying relationship between Tel Aviv and Washington. “The Israelis are extraordinarily good [Signals Intelligence] partners for us,” the NSA observed, referring to joint electronic spying programs against foreign targets, “but on the other [hand], they target us to learn our positions on Middle East problems.” It added that a CIA-led National Intelligence Estimate on cyberthreats in 2013 “ranked Israel the third most aggressive intelligence service against the US,” behind only China and Russia.