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NSA to Expand Surveillance of Elections Over Russian Hacker Fears

While U.S. authorities are pushing for greater participation by the NSA in supervising elections both at home and abroad, a closer look at recent elections suggests that concerns about hacking or other interference only emerge when the U.S. establishment’s preferred candidate fails to win.

بواسطة Whitney Webb
The Top brass of US intelligence agencies prepare to testify in Washington, May 11, 2017, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on major threats facing the U.S. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Last Tuesday, during his testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, National Security Agency director Admiral Mike Rogers echoed the previous testimonies given by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials, who have sought to use the “Russian hacking” narrative as leverage

Jewish Life In Iran Was ‘Always Better Than In Europe’

DW’s Theresa Tropper spoke with Siamak Morsadegh, the director of Tehran’s Jewish Committee.

بواسطة Theresa Tropper
In this Nov, 2014 combo image made up of 8 photos, Iranian Jews pose for photographs holding a painting of Moses with "The Ten Commandments," after prayers at the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue, in the city of Yazd 420 miles (676 kilometers) south of capital Tehran. Iran has been home to Jews for more than 3,000 years, and has the Middle East’s largest Jewish population outside of Israel, a perennial foe of the country. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran is frequently at odds with Israel, despite having the second biggest Jewish community in the Middle East. DW's Theresa Tropper spoke with the director of Tehran's Jewish Committee, about why that is the case. DW: How is life as a Jew in the Islamic Republic? Siamak Morsadegh: It's a lot better than many people think. Jews are a recognized

New US Airstrikes Kill 30 Civilians Near Iraq, Syria Border

This is the latest in a growing number of US strikes around Syria which have killed civilians, with reports of at least 87 civilians killed in the last five days from US and coalition strikes.

بواسطة Jason Ditz
Smoke rises from the Syrian city of Kobani, following US airstrikes outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border Monday, Nov. 17, 2014.

Adding to the growing civilian death toll caused by US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, the US overnight attacked the Syrian border town of Abu Kamal, along the key Iraqi border crossing, killing at least 30 civilians in the process. The US carried out the strikes at 3:00 am, targeting a series of apartment buildings in the town’s residential area.

El Daily Stormer: Neo-Nazi Website Rolls Out Spanish Edition

Hate sites have realized that the U.S. has no monopoly on white nationalists and other far-right extremists.

بواسطة Associated Press
National Socialist Movement

How does a leading neo-Nazi website that has railed against Hispanic immigrants expand its audience beyond a loyal base of U.S. white supremacists? By publishing a Spanish-language edition, of course. The Daily Stormer — infamous for orchestrating internet harassment campaigns by its "Troll Army" of readers — recently launched El Daily Stormer

Trump Taps Conservative Talk Show Host As USDA Chief Scientist

Sam Clovis has no science background and characterized climate change as “junk science”.

بواسطة Nika Knight
Sam Clovis speaks in Johnston, Iowa after quitting former Texas Gov. Rick Perry's struggling campaign. (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

President Donald Trump is expected to pick Sam Clovis, a conservative talk show host who campaigned for Trump in Iowa, for the position of "chief scientist" at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), reported ProPublica and the Washington Post this weekend. The 2008 Farm Bill dictates that the USDA's chief scientist be selected "from among

Documents Reveal How Shell Is Influencing University Curricula

Shell is strategically targeting young people, academics, and business leaders, as part of a PR push designed to position itself as a low carbon leader.

بواسطة Emma Howard
A demonstrator stands besides a banner with a Shell logo dripping oil, outside the Royal Dutch Shell PLC headquarters, rear, in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP/Peter Dejong)

Shell has a contractual agreement with a major Dutch university, which allows the oil giant to influence its curriculum, according to documents seen by Energydesk. Shell also paid Erasmus university hundreds of thousands of euros for conducting research into the business climate for multinationals in the Netherlands, invoices paid in 2008 and