UN To Investigate Crimes Against Humanity In North Korea
The United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously approved a resolution to investigate possible crimes against humanity happening inside North Korea, reports the Washington Post.The measure, signed...
View ArticleIsrael And Turkey End Three-Year Rift After Obama Sets Up Call
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for a 2010 incident that badly damaged relations between the two countries, Reuters reports.In 2010...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Wants To Build A New Prison At Guantanamo Bay
If the shutdown of the office tasked with closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility didn't convince everyone the infamous prison will remain for years to come, then plans for constructing a new...
View Article23 Examples Of Sleep In A Combat Zone
I'd be lying if I said I never snuggled with a dude.When Marines initially invaded Iraq in 2003, there were no bases or bunks or nice places to sleep. It was the ground, with stars for a blanket.The...
View ArticleUS Company Sells Fashionable Bulletproof Clothing
It's now possible to buy a bulletproof Italian leather jacket.It's more expensive, but the "high fashion" clothing can reportedly resist rounds from a .357 magnum soft point, reports Steve Raabe of the...
View ArticleThis Young Woman Escaped From North Korea And Gave An Incredible TED Talk...
Growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee believed her life — witnessing public executions, studying the history of Kim Il-Sung with vigor — was totally normal.Lee had no idea that people were suffering,...
View ArticleNew North Korean War Propaganda Is A Step Up From Previous Endeavors
North Korea (DPRK) has released a new propaganda video which shows their army bombarding and then invading South Korea.Unlike the previous war propaganda — one which even ripped footage from a popular...
View ArticleWho Won The Iraq War? China
On March 20th, 2003, one day after the United States and a "Coalition of the Willing" began its military assault of Iraq, China's Foreign Ministry released a statement condemning the war."The Chinese...
View ArticleMarine Recruiter Allegedly Used Recruit's Facebook Account To Solicit Nude...
A Milwaukee, Wis.-area Marine Corps recruiter is being charged with using a recruit's Facebook account to solicit nude photos from more than 40 young women, police say.Andrew Curran, a 27-year-old...
View ArticleFighter Pilot's 'Selfie' Video Gives A Killer View Of What It's Like To Take...
The following video is part of a series filmed from the backseat of an F-15D with 44th Fighter Squadron from Kadena airbase, Japan.The footage was shot during Ex. Cope Tiger 13, the annual multilateral...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg: Security Drones Over New York City Are 'Scary' But Inevitable
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg considers the domestic use of military-style drones "scary" but says that there is no way to stop it.“Everybody wants their privacy, but I don’t know how you’re...
View ArticleBadass Video Shows Kuwait's Female Cops Showing Off Their Crisis Skills
Al Arabiya has published this video showing Kuwaiti female police officers showing off their skills at a police academy’s graduation ceremony on Wednesday.The demonstrations included how they would...
View ArticleCIA Feeding Intel To Free Syrian Army To Counter Supremacy Of Jihadists
The CIA is doing more to bolster non-radical Syrian rebels to counter the increasing dominance of jihadist groups, Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman, and Nour Malas The Wall Street Journal report.The Agency...
View ArticleThe Best US Military Pictures Of 2012
For most every success, failure, or accomplishment, loss or impromptu change of plan, in most every clime and place, there are photos ... and photographers, right there in the grit with the grunts,...
View ArticleNBC Correspondent Richard Engel Tells Terrifying Story Of Being Kidnapped In...
In December NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and five others were kidnapped in Syria and held for five days by loyalists of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.In the newest issue of Vanity...
View ArticleProposed Site For New FBI HQ Turns Out To Be A Classified CIA Warehouse
In January 2012 officials from Fairfax County, Va., proposed that the FBI move it's headquarters to "a half-empty warehouse" in the area.The government-owned site, which lies just outside of Washington...
View ArticleREPORT: Esquire's Osama Bin Laden 'Shooter' Didn't Really Pull The Trigger
The guy who says he shot Osama Bin Laden may be more known in the community for shooting off at the mouth.Last month Esquire published an in-depth look at the miserable life of the the supposed hero...
View ArticleHow CIA-Aided Arms Shipments To Syria Keep Ending Up In Radical Hands
In a new report detailing how the CIA helps Arab states buy and transfer arms for Syrian rebels, C. J. Chivers and Eric Schmitt of The New York Times reveal a major flaw in the West's strategy to arm...
View ArticleVideo Of Boy Holding Gun To Hafez Assad Statue Exemplifies The New Syria
Syrian video extraordinaire Eliot Higgins aka Brown Moses— the man who first noticed Croatian weapons in Syria — tweeted this video of a young Syrian boy holding a gun to a statue of former Syrian...
View ArticleHow The American Military Dwarfs China's In One Infographic
Just last week, China finally admitted to locking their targeting radar on a Japanese boat. When it initially happened last month, there was much speculation about a possible war breaking out.It's easy...
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