MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - April 23, 2015 - China and Russia, as part of closer strategic ties, have finalized a long-awaited deal for a very long range S-400 surface to air missile (SAM) system. The deal is not only the largest Sino-Russian arms deal in over a decade, but S-400 missile defense capabilities would provide China with a quick missile defense upgrade at the moment neighboring states like North Korea acquire more ballistic missiles, and the Fascist Police States of Amerika and Japan look to buy stealthy anti-ship missiles.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 22, 2015 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for people to sue the federal government by ruling in favor of plaintiffs in two separate cases including one involving a Hong Kong woman who was strip-searched while in immigration detention in Oregon.

ATHENS, Greece (PNN) - April 21, 2015 - Since at least 2011, Greece has been living on borrowed time. One EU/IMF bailout after another has somehow kept the bankrupt nation afloat, but now time is running out and so is its cash.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 21, 2015 - If the House Judiciary Committee keeps to its current schedule, on Thursday it will meet to consider the third version of the USA Freedom Act in the last two years. I’ve seen a very recent draft of the bill, and in its current form the bill effectively acts as if the Snowden revelations and several independent reviews of the USA PATRIOT Act Sec. 215 metadata program never happened.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (PNN) - April 21, 2015 - Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday it was ending a month-long campaign of air strikes against the Houthi rebels who seized large areas of Yemen and said it would back a political solution to bring peace to its war-ravaged neighbor.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (PNN) - April 21, 2015 - Over the better part of the past month, the only entities actively involved in the proxy war in Yemen against the local Houthi rebel force have been air force units, mostly under Saudi command as part of “Operation: Decisive Storm." This probably explains why there has been little if any progress to note in pushing back said rebellion which, armed heavily thanks to the Fascist Police States of Amerika government, has successfully managed to push the current president into an indefinite exile.

PHOENIX, Arizona (PNN) - April 21, 2015 - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio cut a wide swath even beyond his Arizona world, where he was a very big political fish. He became the voice for a type of tough justice that harked back to the Wild West, when the lawman's word was absolute and few worried about the rights of prisoners or immigrants.