US talks military intervention in Syria

US marines (AFP Photo / Don Emmert) Washington has allegedly opened discussions with allies on possible military intervention in Syria, as foreign ministers from the UN Security Council nations meet to discuss the Syrian conflict….

VIDEO: New Form Of Crowd Control: ‘Heat Ray’ Crowd-Dispersal Cannon Unveiled

[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/weapon-us-microwave-cannon-363/icd477f71101a6a5ce47a69c2740a8823_cannon.dv.flv] The American military have presented the world with a new weapon, informally named the heat ray or microwave cannon. The “Active Denial System” is a non-lethal weapon primarily designed for crowd control. A video…

VIDEO: TSA Nude Scanner Exposed – ‘You Can Sneak Anything Past Them!’

[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/tsa-naked-scanner-exposed-075/i48e28d4c6bab4f002ccdaaa059f2e678_00a77891.dv.flv] A blogger has shown that all the Transport Safety Association’s controversial nude body scanners and much-too-personal pat downs are not effective in the least, as more and more people in the US speak out…

US Congress passes authoritarian anti-protest law

A bill passed Monday in the US Congress and Thursday in the Senate would make it a felony—a serious criminal offense punishable by lengthy terms of incarceration—to participate in many forms of protest associated with…

VIDEO: Burning of Koran is ‘America’s worst PR disaster in Afghanistan’

[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/burning-koran-worst-afghanistan-001/ifc3d52976c5cee2f298167341429f9dc_guest-hamid.flv] Seven people have been killed and dozens injured in protests over the burning of the Koran by US troops at an airbase in Afghanistan. An officer has apologized for the inadvertent burning. Yet some…

VIDEO: UN passes symbolic condemnation of Syrian government

[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/un-assembly-vote-syrian-resolution-521/i94d716f80cac1e4cb0772f4bfd108a67_portnaya-live-0200.flv] The UN General Assembly has called on Syrian President Assad to step down. The resolution passed Thursday is worded similarly to a document vetoed in the UN Security Council by Russia and China. The…