China's Newest And Deadly Warship Has Entered The South China Sea
As five other countries claim ownership of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and its supposed billions in oil and gas deposits, China's backing its claim by sending the newest warship it has...
View ArticleREPORT: The West Confirms Chemical Weapons Are Being Used Against Syrian Rebels
Early last week we reported that Syrian rebels were claiming exposure to chemical attacks from the Assad regime and new reports back up their disputed claim.Ynetnews, a widely read Israel newspaper,...
View ArticleThere's A Secret War In Thailand No One's Talking About
Dispatch: not far from Thailand's tourist beaches, Muslims and Buddhists are locked in a struggle in which thousands have died. David Eimer reports.The young father walked slowly down the road, his...
View Article10 Devastating Sequestration Cuts That People Are Afraid Will Happen
There's a lot of uncertainty over what the sequestration may actually entail. Last year's Budget Control Act provided specific percentages agencies have to cut in order to achieve $1.2 trillion in...
View ArticleNorth Korea Wants To End Its Problems With The South And Just Get Back Together
Just weeks after launching a long-distance missile that surprised the world, North Korea now wants to make amends with the South.The launch came after the U.S. delivered advanced weapons to the South,...
View ArticleThe US Economy Really Dodged A Bullet With This Fiscal Cliff Deal
A deal worked out by U.S. Senate leaders to avoid the "fiscal cliff," was far from any "grand bargain" of deficit reduction measures.But if approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, it could help...
View ArticleIraq Is Officially Fighting In A 'Low-Level War' A Year After US Withdrawal
Violence in Iraq dropped in 2012, data released Tuesday showed, but insurgents proved they were still capable of mounting waves of attacks and a watchdog warned the country was still in a "low-level...
View ArticleBritain Blasts Claim That Prince Harry Hunts Afghans While 'Drunk'
The Ministry of Defence has dismissed claims by an Afghan warlord that Prince Harry kills insurgents while "drunk" as simply absurd.Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former Afghan prime minister, told the Daily...
View ArticleThis Air-To-Air Missile For Sale On Ebay Was Once Britain's Most Prized Weapon
The great thing about eBay is that it has a little bit of everything, but this De Haviland Firestreak missile may be a first.The De Haviland was employed for 31 years by the UK, Kuwait, and Saudi...
View ArticleEvery Jet Fighter In The US Today Is A Result Of The Navy's FJ Fury [PHOTOS]
Aircraft consume a huge portion of the money spent every year on defense by Washington, everything from hand launched drones to immense transport planes, but nothing costs more than a new fighter...
View ArticleThe US Military's 'Bath Salts' Prevention Video Is Completely Terrifying
Bath Salts have been making headlines the last couple years. From face eating zombies (later blamed on marijuana) to completely hallucinated police raids, the designer drug has prompted reactions on...
View ArticleThe US And New Zealand Secretly Tested The First Tsunami Bomb
It's not often that news of a massive military breakthrough comes out of New Zealand, but local author Ray Waru has changed that for good.Waru wrote in his new book "Secrets and Treasures" that the...
View ArticleOne Chart Shows How The 'Gun Control' Debate Vanished From National Attention
We all know American media is a fickle beast, but a few charts out of Politico today show that fickleness bordering on the worst of attention deficit disorder — it may even cross into a total lack of...
View ArticleMissteps By CIA's Shadowy Military Wing Highlight The Agency's Troubling...
In the years since the Afghanistan invasion, the CIA, long a covert intelligence gathering body, entered a phase of growing militancy that has rendered headline after headline in U.S. mainstream media...
View Article2012's Last Military Death Shows Pitfall Of Long Term Conflict
Army PFC. Markie T. Sims wasn't even 10 years old when agents from the CIA and Army special operators touched down in Northern Afghanistan.The year was 2001.Ostensibly the American units were there to...
View ArticleThe World's Largest Naval Station Is Packed Tight For Christmas
The Navy does its best to get troops home for the holidays when it can, but this display at Norfolk Naval base is still more the exception than the rule.Nine "Flattops," five aircraft carriers, and...
View ArticleA Message From The Warrior Class To Senator Feinstein On Her Gun Control Bill
The U.S. is awash in well-trained warriors, fresh from comba,t while it also faces off on gun control issues.That includes more than 5 million Post 9/11 vets who may not take lightly any new...
View ArticleThis Combat Vet's Story Will Make You Feel So Good You Almost Have To Read It
Washington Stationed for 13 months along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in 2007 and 2008, Brian Thompson had a lot of time to wonder what could come next for him.In charge of a mortar squad with the...
View ArticleVenezuelans Are Really Freaked Out About Cancer-Stricken Chávez's Prognosis
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Minerva Nuñez watches Venezuela's state television hours each day, waiting for the latest news about cancer-stricken President Hugo Chávez.The updates are often delivered by Vice...
View Article‘Alice in Wonderland’ Ruling Allows Obama Administration To Keep Drone...
In the latest sign that President Obama's targeted killing program may be forever shrouded in secrecy, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon has denied a Freedom of Information Request from the American...
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