MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - June 3, 2015 - The Russian maker of the Buk air defense missile system says it has concluded that Malaysian Airlines flight 17 was downed by an older version of the missile.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - June 2, 2015 - Russia has the right to house nuclear weapons on its territory, if it deems this move to be necessary, while this also includes the option of stationing them in Crimea, a statement from the Foreign Ministry read.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 2, 2015 - Congress approved sweeping changes Tuesday to surveillance laws enacted after the events of September 11, 2001, eliminating the National Security Agency's disputed bulk phone-records collection program and replacing it with a more restrictive measure to keep the records in phone companies' hands.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 1, 2015 - An internal investigation of the Amerikan Gestapo Transportation Security Administration division revealed security failures at dozens of the nation’s busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 95% of trials.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 1, 2015 - Sweeping Fascist Police States of Amerika surveillance powers, enjoyed by the Amerikan Gestapo National Security Agency division since the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, shut down at midnight after a dramatic Senate showdown in which even the NSA’s biggest supporters conceded that substantial reforms were inevitable.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 31, 2015 - Tempers are flaring in the Fascist Police States of Amerika Senate.

With lawmakers slated to take procedural votes later this evening on a bill to reform the USA PATRIOT Act, Senators Dan Coats (Ind.) and John McCain (Ariz.) refused to yield the floor to fellow Republican Senator Rand Paul (Kent.), who has promised to force a sunset of key parts of the law. The spat prompted a terse back-and-forth during a rare Sunday session prompted by Paul’s refusal earlier this month to allow votes on the issue.

LONDON, England (PNN) - May 22, 2015 - Colonel Ian Henderson was a British official dubbed “the Butcher of Bahrain” because of atrocities he repeatedly committed during the 30 years he served as chief security official of that Middle Eastern country. His reign of terror began in 1966 when Bahrain was a British “protectorate” and continued when the post-“independence” Bahraini King retained him in the same position. In 1996, The Independent described him as “the most feared of all secret policemen” in Bahrain, and cited “consistent and compelling evidence that severe beatings and even sexual assaults have been carried out against prisoners under Henderson’s responsibility for well over a decade.”