Translators Who Risked Their Lives For American Troops Are Getting Screwed By...
Afghan interpreter Janis Shinwari onced saved an American soldier's life in a firefight and faces death threats from the Taliban due to his service to the U.S. military.Shinwari, like most Iraqi and...
View ArticleSyria Rebel Chief: Extremists, Some Created By Assad, Are 'Stealing Revolution'
The head of the key Syrian opposition National Coalition, Ahmad Jarba, has denounced extremists he said were trying to "steal our revolution", and blamed the regime for supporting them.He made the...
View ArticleASSAD: Forget Chemicals, We Have Other Weapons That Could 'Blindside' Israel
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad claimed Syria has weapons more sophisticated than chemical weapons that could "blindside Israel,"The Times of Israel reports.“Originally, we produced chemical weapons...
View ArticleThe Marine Corps' Corpse Urination Case Just Got Much Weirder
The court case concerning the video of six Marines urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan has taken a bizarre turn toward the truly weird.First, the Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos...
View ArticleDestroying Syria's Chemicals May Be Easier Than Previously Thought
Two weeks after describing the process of destroying Syria's chemical weapons as a nightmare, experts and officials are saying that the task may be easier than expected.U.S. and Russian officials now...
View ArticleThere's A Remarkable Story Behind This Striking Photo From The Westgate Mall...
On Saturday 21 September, as a number of gunmen from Somalia's al-Shabaab Islamist militant group began their assault on the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic snapped a...
View ArticleDesigner Creates New Anti-Snooping Font That Google Can't Read
A designer who previously worked with the NSA has created legible fonts that he claims cannot be detected by optical character recognition software,Kyle VanHemert of Wired reports.It's like those boxes...
View ArticleJournalist Spends 'Seven Strange Days' With Syrian Rebels, Perfectly Captures...
In March freelance journalist Danny Gold spent a week with Free Syrian Army rebels in the northeastern Syrian city of Ras Al Ayn, which lies right on the border with Turkey.The dispatch, published in...
View ArticleThere Is No Justification For Edward Snowden's Latest Leaks
Renegade National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden has been praised as a heroic whistleblower who exposed illegal and immoral actions by the United States government.Perhaps this was true at the...
View ArticleOBAMA: I Spoke On The Phone To The Iranian President — First Communication...
President Barack Obama said that he spoke on the phone Friday with Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, the first such communication between U.S. and Iranian presidents since the 1979 Iranian...
View ArticleHere's How The Historic Phone Call Between Obama And Hassan Rouhani Happened...
At 3:35 p.m. ET, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sent out a tweet that marked the most significant progress in U.S.-Iranian relations in more than three decades:The tweet was quickly deleted — perhaps...
View ArticleSnowden Took As Many As 200,000 NSA Documents, And That's Very Troubling
National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander recently told the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs that Edward Snowden took as many as 200,000 classified documents with him when the NSA systems...
View ArticleCrazy Slow-Motion Video Shows What Happens When A 3D-Printed Gun Misfires
The 3D-printed firearms controversy is an important one. How do you effectively keep people safe when it's possible to manufacture an untraceable plastic gun that can effortlessly get through metal...
View ArticleHere's The Video In Which Mark Wahlberg Goes Off On Tom Cruise Comparing...
It all started when Tom Cruise compared acting and being away from his daughter while shooting on film sets to “serving in Afghanistan.”Mark Wahlberg, who plays a Navy SEAL in the upcoming film "Lone...
View ArticleApparently Mark Wahlberg Didn't Know His Buddy Tom Cruise Made Those Military...
Mark Wahlberg, who stars in the upcoming Navy SEAL film "Lone Survivor," gave an expletive-ridden, impassioned speech after being asked about recent remarks made by Tom Cruise comparing acting to...
View ArticleTHE SNOWDEN SAGA: Here's Everything We Know About The Leak Of The Century
It will take years to determine the true scope of the leak of the century, when former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden took up to 200,000 documents and fled to Hong Kong.Since June...
View ArticleA Chinese Protester Explains Why Jimmy Kimmel Needs To Be Fired
Offense is cultural. Millions of Americans saw Jimmy Kimmel ask a child what they should do about the U.S. debt to China on his ABC show, and when the child suggested "killing everyone in China," they...
View ArticleNaval Officials Investigated In Alleged Plot To Charge Government $1.6...
Three senior Naval intelligence officials are being investigated by federal authorities for their alleged role in a plot to charge the government $1.6 million for $8,000 in homemade weapons silencers,...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Sweden Is Planning To Track Terrorists Through The Sewers
Researchers in Sweden have developed an intriguing method for tracking down terrorists and bomb-makers —using sensors placed in city sewage systems to detect bomb-making chemicals.The technology,...
View ArticleThe CIA Collects Bulk Data On International Money Transfers Under Same Law...
(Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is collecting records of international money transfers under the same law that the National Security Agency uses to collect Americans' phone and...
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