The New York Times is hosting a "Room for Debate" forum on the question of whether al Shabab poses a direct threat to the U.S. Seth G. Jones of the RAND Corp is one of the commentators and employs some funny reasoning. Citing a University of Maryland database, Jones...
UPDATE: More grist: "law enforcement sources" now telling NBC News that Carey, "may have thought that President Barack Obama was stalking her." Old boss tells NBC affiliate that she was fired from old job for being "too rough" with dental patients. UPDATE 10/6: Little...
The Russian Space Forces, an actual real branch of the Russian military (with on-again, off-again independence historically) is not in very good shape if war breaks out with some other planet. "We are unfortunately not ready to fight extraterrestrial civilizations,"...
The U.S. has just announced a deal with Japan that will allow basing rights for surveillance drones. Oh and the Pentagon swears their purpose is to surveil North Korea. Really, they promise. China? What's a China? "The primary mission for the Global Hawks will be...
The Iranian commander of the Cyber War Headquarters has been assassinated by two unidentified assailants on motorbikes, in a mysterious killing that bears the hallmarks of previous assassinations of Iranian officials that most experts suspect Israel of carrying out....
The NSA admitted in Congressional testimony this week that they were deliberately "collect[ing] data about ordinary Americans’ cellphone locations," in a test program that lasted from 2010 to 2011. Collecting data about the cellphone locations of ordinary Americans....
The U.S. has been declaring victory in Colombia for several years now, citing successes in clamping down on the drug trade. But it's clear the international drug war has failed miserably. The Clinton administration launched a foreign policy initiative to choke off the...
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's words were entered as testimony at the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee in Brussels on Monday.Jesselyn Radack of the US Government Accountability Project (GAP) and a former whistleblower and ethics adviser to...
World attention has moved to the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons, but the evidence on the Aug. 21 attack near Damascus remains hidden and in dispute, causing a group of former U.S. intelligence professionals to ask Moscow and Washington to present what they...
Egypt’s new ruler, General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, may not realize that the bond between Egypt, Palestine and especially Gaza is beyond historic, and simply cannot be severed with border restrictions, albeit they have caused immense suffering for many Palestinians.Gaza...
