On the sparsely populated Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Circle, there is a giant "doomsday" seed vault, which houses samples of the seeds of crops from gene banks around the world. The theory behind this plan was that some huge cataclysm might wipe out some...
It could be ISIS. Maybe. US spy chief James Clapper, best known for lying to Congress about NSA surveillance, is now riled up about refugees "descending on Europe," saying that even though there's no evidence of it, he's super, super worried that those refugees might...
Reuters is releasing huge numbers of articles about Russia's military today, mostly centering on the idea that Russia's military advisers in Syria, despite having been there for years, are a new and major issue. But they also announced an "exclusive" story about...
If there was ever any doubt that the US doesn't have a good handle on who the ISIS leadership is, it should be exemplified by the new reports of US officials openly talking about, in their effort to "destroy ISIS," assassinating people whose Twitter accounts are seen...
The Ukrainian city of Uman, in the Cherkasy Province, is an historical site of pilgrimage for Hasidic Jews, which often draws tens of thousands of pilgrims during Rosh Hashana. The pilgrimage centers around the burial site of an important religious leader of the late...
In mid-July, the Obama Administration publicly announced that they weren't going to "publicly blame" China for the OPM hack, despite saying, publicly, that they believe China did it. This was because there was no good evidence for China having done it. Indeed, the FBI...
ISIS has released a new video over the weekend which discusses the self-proclaimed "caliphate's" long-standing plans to release their own currency, including both gold and silver coins. The video is a combination of the usual military bellicosity of ISIS videos, a...
A flurry of reports are coming out hyping former US soldier Ryan O'Leary, who participated in the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and, hearing about the ISIS war, just unilaterally went over there to help the Kurds fight ISIS. Instead, O'Leary got a little...
Adding to his severe criticism of the Associated Press document purported to be from the IAEA's side deal with Iran, former IAEA official Tariq Rauf appeared on the Scott Horton Show this afternoon to offer further details on the many, many problems with the document,...
When it comes to Iraq, Jeb Bush was for it before he was against it, and is now for it again. Speaking at a National Security Forum in Iowa, Bush sought to distance himself from his previous attempts to distance himself from his brother's invasion of Iraq, saying he...
