China Is Experimenting With A New Form Of Internet Censorship
China is experimenting with more subtle methods to censor Internet search results ahead of the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, according to a group that monitors blocked websites in...
View ArticleGoogle Is Ordered To Give Private Customer Data To The FBI
A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with FBI secret demands for customer data, despite earlier ruling the warrantless orders unconstitutional.District court judge Susan Illston this week rejected...
View ArticleToday I Learned: The Third Reich Kept Its Soldiers Alert With Crystal Meth
In 1972, Heinrich Böll won the Nobel Prize for literature. But before he became a writer of novels, short stories, and essays, Böll was a writer of letters.During his early 20s, which also happened to...
View ArticleRussia Is Upping The Ante By Sending Its Only Aircraft Carrier To The...
The Kremlin has upped the geopolitical ante by pledging to send a heavy aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean, as reported by Russian news agency Interfax.The carrier — named the "Admiral Kuznetsov"—...
View ArticleGreece's Neo Nazi Party Now Has Thousands Of Members Who Believe They Are At War
It wasn't just that their symbols looked like swastikas. Or that thousands of Greek flags filled the marble square beneath the Acropolis. Or that they were marking the 560th anniversary of the fall of...
View ArticleHawaiian Documents His Incredible Transformation From Civilian Surfer, To...
This is possibly one of the most compelling picture stories we've seen on Imgur.It's about a surfer who got tired of "lazing" around, and decided to do something about it. What followed was a journey...
View ArticleBreathtaking Cockpit Photo Of A Marine's F-18 Firing A Live Missile
The following image is going viral on social networks.The reason is obvious: is an absolutely stunning photograph, just released by the U.S. Marine Corps, showing Capt. Christopher Prout with Marine...
View Article'Spiked Ammo' Is One Of Assad's Dirtier Tricks In Syria's Civil War
The New York Times C.J. Chivers is in Syria and he's stumbled upon an age-old tactic that's having a devastating effect on Syrian rebel forces.It's called "spiked ammunition," and features a concoction...
View ArticleIsrael Punishes Female Soldiers For Posting Racy Pictures To Facebook
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has disciplined a group of female soldiers who posed for photos in underwear and combat gear and posted the images on Facebook.In a statement, the military...
View ArticleIran Claims To Have Stopped A Mossad 'Terror Network'
Iran has dismantled a "terror network" backed by Israel's Mossad intelligence services which planned to disrupt the upcoming presidential election in the Islamic republic, the state broadcaster said on...
View ArticleThe Turkish Government Is Massively Underestimating Ongoing Nationwide Protests
On Sunday tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Turkey, clashing with riot police in the fiercest anti-government protests since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan assumed office in...
View ArticleFuzzy Picture Circulating On The Web Allegedly Shows Chinese Copy Of US Drone
The following image, grabbed by Chinese forums, is circulating on the Internet.It allegedly shows a series of brand new UAVs (unamanned aerial vehicles) one of those resembles the famous Lockheed...
View ArticleIraq Warns Israel: Do Not Use Our Airspace To Strike Iran
Baghdad has warned Israel that it would respond to any attempts by the Jewish state to use Iraqi airspace for a strike against Iran's controversial nuclear programme, a top Iraqi minister told AFP.The...
View ArticleEXPERT: Looming Defense Cuts Mean The US Can No Longer Fight And Win A...
Imagine a military force that, for the first time since World War II, cannot fight and win a two-front war. This version of the U.S. military would also fall behind on maintaining its nuclear...
View Article20-Year-Old Turkish Man Becomes First Confirmed Death In Istanbul Protests
Following a week that saw demonstrations in Istanbul spread to other cities and an increasingly brutal police response, the first death in Turkey's anti-government protests has been confirmed.According...
View ArticleBradley Manning's Trial Begins, And The Government Is Out For Blood
Bradley Manning faces the first day of his military court-martial today after being accused of perpetrating the largest leak of classified information in American history.And the government’s going for...
View ArticleEverybody Should Read General John Kelly's Speech About Two Marines In The...
Five years ago, two Marines from two different walks of life who had literally just met were told to stand guard in front of their outpost's entry control point.Minutes later, they were staring down a...
View ArticleHezbollah Is Launching An Offensive That Will Profoundly Change The Syrian War
Thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah militants are amassing around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in preparation for an assault on the city, Loveday Morris of The Washington Post reports.The deployment...
View ArticleKim Jong-il's Favorite Type Of Sushi Was Fatty Tuna
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson interviewed the personal sushi chef and sidekick of the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il for GQ.The story details how Japanese sushi chef Kenji...
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