Verizon Allegedly Built A Fiber Optic Cable To Give The Feds Access To...
For years Americans' right to privacy, as granted by the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, has come under threat as the country's surveillance systems have grown.After intelligence leaks by...
View ArticleHundreds Of Turkish Police Stormed Istanbul's Protest Square
Riot police stormed Istanbul's protest square Tuesday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at firework-hurling demonstrators in a fresh escalation of unrest after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...
View ArticleSnowden Orchestrated Leak With Cryptic Instructions Involving A Hong Kong...
Charlie Savage and Mark Mazzetti of The New York Times have published a story detailing how and why National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden pulled off what is being considered as...
View ArticleRussia Says It Would Consider An Asylum Request From NSA Whistleblower Edward...
Russia has offered to consider an asylum request from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, in the Kremlin's latest move to woo critics of the west.Snowden fled the United States before leaking the...
View ArticleWhy Edward Snowden's Leaks Won't Change Anything About How The NSA Does...
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden says he orchestrated what may be the most significant leak in U.S. history to resist the "massive surveillance machine [the U.S. government is]...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Powerful Militaries In The World
As a Marine Corps veteran, I would like to point out that there’s more to military prowess than firepower. There’s no statistic for leadership, no metric for the stuff they pump into you at Parris...
View ArticleThe Italian Mafia Used Remote Killer Aircraft A Decade Before The US Drone...
A mafia turncoat has revealed for the first time that Sicily's Cosa Nostra was a pioneer in the use of killer drones, testing bomb-loaded remote controlled aircraft in the early 1990s.Two decades...
View ArticleIs This China’s New Long Range Strike Stealth Aircraft?
The following image, found by Chinese military aviation expert Andreas Rupprecht, shows the shape of what could be a future Chinese stealth bomber plane.True or false? A model plane or just the base of...
View ArticleAll US Officers Should Listen To The Australian Army Chief's Brutal Sexual...
Male members of the Australian army also have a problem with sexual misbehavior, it seems.A report by Elizabeth Broderick in the Sydney Morning Herald outlines how male members of the Australian army...
View ArticleTop General Fires Back On Benghazi Claims
Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has offered a different set of events about the U.S. military response to a terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11 of last year. A prominent U.S....
View ArticleHow The US May Use Military Force In Syria
For the last two years, the bloody conflict in Syria has careened toward a tipping point.Ladies and Gentlemen, we may be there.The timing of this is a little bit crazy:A deputy national security...
View ArticleRussian Bombers Reportedly Violate Finnish Airspace
Finland’s Ministry of Defence has recently revealed that two Russian military aircraft violated the airspace of the northern European country earlier this week. The official statement was published on...
View ArticleA Commander In A Nazi SS-Led Unit Has Been Living In Minnesota Since 1949
BERLIN (AP) — A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living...
View ArticlePentagon Project Wants To Decrease Human Control Of Drones
The U.S. Defense Department has launched a research initiative aimed at potentially building autonomous robots in a few years — machines increasingly able to perform a greater range of tasks without...
View ArticleLawsuit Over CIA 'War Crimes' Probe Points To The Underbelly Of Secret Ops
On Friday an active CIA officer is bringing a lawsuit to pressure the agency to finish a war crimes investigation regarding a secret overseas paramilitary operation, John Hudson of Foreign Policy...
View ArticleMicrosoft Alienates Troops With The Always-Online Xbox One
Microsoft Chief Of Interactive Entertainment Don Mattrick dismissed complaints about the Xbox One requiring online access with a joke about nuclear submarines:"When I read the blogs and thought about...
View ArticleThere's A War On Wikipedia Over The Egyptian Military 'Coup'
There's been plenty of debate over whether what happened in Egypt should be considered a coup d'état — especially with $1.2 billion in U.S. aid hinging on the word — but perhaps the most interesting...
View ArticleNew Book Details The Disturbing Militarization Of America's Police
Radley Balko, a senior writer and investigative reporter for the Huffington Post, has published an excerpt of his new book "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces" in...
View ArticlePakistani Government Report Says Bin Laden Loved Wearing Cowboy Hats, And Was...
Following the military raid on the Bin Laden compound in 2011, the Pakistani government set up a commission of inquiry to find out exactly what happened, if there were any lapses in leadership, and...
View ArticleHip Hop Star Mos Def Gets Force Fed, Guantánamo-Style [VIDEO]
On Monday the Guardian published video of hip hop star and actor Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) being force fed according to the standard operating procedure (SOP) used by the U.S. military at the Guantanamo...
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