San Diego Mayor Allegedly Harassed Female Military Sexual Assault Victims
Two new women have joined the growing ranks of people who say that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner sexually harassed them, according to a new report from Kyung Lah with CNN. But this time, the women are...
View ArticleShells Hit Rich Damascus Neighborhood As Assad Attends Prayers
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said on Thursday they targeted President Bashar al-Assad's motorcade heading to a Damascus mosque to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, but state television showed...
View ArticleSatellite Images Suggest North Korea Has Doubled Its Uranium Enrichment Capacity
Satellite images suggest North Korea may have doubled uranium enrichment capacity at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, a US think-tank which tracks the North's nuclear weapons programme said...
View ArticlePentagon May Allow Official Leave For Same-Sex Marriage In Gay Friendly States
WASHINGTON (AP) — Same-sex spouses of military members could get health care, housing and other benefits by the end of August under a proposal being considered by the Pentagon. But earlier plans to...
View ArticleIt Turns Out The Reported 'Legion Of Doom' Conference Call Wasn't Over The Phone
Yesterday Eli Lake and Josh Rogin of The Daily Beast reported, citing three intelligence officials, that the "crucial intercept that prompted the U.S. government to close embassies in 22 countries was...
View ArticleEgypt Cannot Possibly Use All Of Its US-Made Tanks 'Short Of An Alien Invasion'
The real reason why America sends so much military equipment to Egypt may have more to do with American industry than geopolitical demand.Julia Simon of NPR reports that experts see no need for many of...
View ArticleThe 7 Deadliest Computer Hacks Known To Mankind
As long as companies and governments continue investing in cyber militarization, there will be bigger, more catastrophic computer hacks.There is no bottom to the rabbit hole when it comes to potential...
View ArticleThe NSA Intends To Fire 90% Of Their System Administrators To Eliminate...
(Reuters) - The National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent of its system administrators...
View ArticleSnowden Lies Low In Russia As Mystery Surrounding His Stay Endures
Somewhere on Russia's vast territory, reading books and awaiting the arrival of his father, lurks the US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, one of the most wanted individuals on the planet.But over a...
View ArticleHot Topic Pulls Marine-Style Jacket After Military Outcry
Hot Topic pulled a marine-style blue coat from its website after an outcry from the military community. We first learned of the jacket on Reddit, where poster drewdinger shared an image of the jacket...
View ArticleThe NYSE Has An Awesome Career Program For America's Veterans
High unemployment among veterans is exactly what Duncan L. Niederauer, CEO of the NYSE Euronext, wants to end.Last year, Niederauer launched the NYSE Veteran Associate Program, a 10-week paid...
View ArticleWhy A US-bound Airbus 330 Was Diverted Amid US Embassy Threats
On Aug. 7, 2013, a Delta Airlines A.330-300, flying as DAL099 from Paris Charles De Gaulle to Detroit diverted to Amsterdam after experiencing an inflight problem.The civil plane, N814NW had problems...
View ArticleThe Best Hope Left For Americans' Privacy Is This 2012 Supreme Court Opinion
The best hope for what remains of Americans' privacy may lie in Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's concurring opinion in a huge 2012 privacy case.InUnited States v. Jones, the nation's highest...
View ArticleShelling Heats Up Skirmishes Between India And Pakistan
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan accused Indian troops of firing shells across the disputed border in Kashmir on Monday after last week's killing of Indian soldiers set off a wave of...
View ArticleIndia's New Carrier Joins The Big Asian Arms Race
India launched a new indigenous carrier today, marking the steady increase in Asia's burgeoning arms race, reports the Associated Press.The INS Vikrant displaces 40,000 tons of water, has a length of...
View ArticleTake An Inside Look At The Italian Military's Fleet Of Harriers
On Jul. 8 the Italian Navy I GrupAer based at Grottaglie, started a new air-to-air training campaign at the AWTI (Air Weapons Training Installation) of Decimomannu airbase, Italy.During their stay in...
View ArticleA Disturbing Amount of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Have Contemplated Suicide
A new survey shows that even as America looks to transition to peacetime, the veterans of the last 12 years of war are hardly out of the woods. The 2013 annual survey by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans...
View ArticleRON PAUL: 'The US Government Is Clearly At War In Yemen'
In a blog piece entitled "Why is the US at war with Yemen?" former Texas Congressman Ron Paul posits that the U.S. is conducting illegal conflict with the Middle Eastern country, and that it won't be...
View ArticleRussia Holds 'Tank Biathlon' And Supposedly Challenged The US To One
I've argued that we should stop paying for tanks, basically because the only time we'd use them in a concerted land war against another super power would be during biblical Armageddon.Well ... I was...
View ArticleA Documentary Filmmaker Was The 'Mastermind' Behind The Snowden Disclosures
Peter Maass of The New York Times has published a long article detailing how documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras helped Edward Snowden leak thousands of classified documents detailing the National...
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