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Afghanistan May Soon Become A Narco-Criminal State
Opium production is booming like never before in Afghanistan, threatening to turn the country into a "narco-criminal" state, a senior US official warned Wednesday.Despite more than a decade of costly...
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Japanese Scientists Have An Ingenious Plan To Clean Up Space
Japanese space scientists are set to trial a tether they hope will help pull junk out of orbit around Earth, clearing up tonnes of planetary clutter, they said Thursday.Researchers at The Japan...
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Here's The Intense 'War On Terror' Reporting That Just Got A Surprise Oscar Nod
After Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration began waging a global war on terrorism both openly and on the "dark side."The full scale of the shadow war is just coming out now, as detailed in "Dirty...
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Famous Whistleblower Has Some Good Advice For Edward Snowden
Daniel Ellsberg— the leaker of the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers — did a Reddit Ask-Me-Anything (AmA) this week, during which he talked about the NSA surveillance state and explained why Edward Snowden...
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Recent US Missile Tests On Speed Boats Are Clearly Meant To Send Iran A Message
For the first time, the US Army has successfully launched AGM-114L Longbow missiles vertically against maritime targets — making the weapon a likely candidate for use aboard ships.Developed by Lockheed...
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How A 50-Year-Old Mother-Of-Five Became One Of Afghanistan's Top Cops
Women in Afghanistan don't have easy lives. They may have gained greater educational and democratic opportunities since the Taliban's overthrow, but they still face one of the highest rates of violence...
View ArticleChilling New Footage Shows Volgograd Bomber Trying To Get Through Metal...
Sixteen people died in a suicide bombing at a train station in Volgograd, Russia, Dec. 29, and now recently released video shows just how easy it is to engage in this type of terrorism.In the video,...
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Here's The Argument For Sending The Teletubbies To North Korea
Can the Teletubbies save the world?It's a ridiculous question — The "Teletubbies" show, featuring group of multi-colored toddler aliens made for pre-school children by the BBC, has been mostly...
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Some US Spies Are Saying They Would Love To Kill Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden has picked up plenty of friends in journalists, privacy advocates, and citizens since he fled his NSA contracting job with upwards of a million top-secret files detailing the inner...
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Obama Gives A Strong Defense Of The NSA While Announcing Big Changes To...
President Barack Obama outlined Friday morning at the Department of Justice reforms and changes to signals intelligence programs, the result of a months-long review of National Security Agency policies...
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Here's The Biggest Change Obama Is Making To The NSA
President Barack Obama on Friday is outlining reforms and changes to the U.S.'s signals intelligence programs, after a months-long review of National Security Agency processes that was spurred by leaks...
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A Military Hospital Can't Find An HIV-Positive Patient Accidentally Given A...
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is frantically searching for a patient who was mistakenly identified as HIV-negative, The New York Times reports.The Maryland hospital wrongly labeled the...
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A Radical Idea For Arab-Israeli Population Transfers Is Gaining Ground
HARISH might have been Israel’s first city purpose-built for both Arabs and Jews. On the hilltops dividing the Mediterranean coast from the West Bank, bulldozers have been clearing the way to...
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We Are Losing The Global War On Crime
SOME lawmen chase villains down mean streets. Others chase fraudsters across balance-sheets. In the stomach-churning stench of the Vetport at John F. Kennedy International Airport, yet others don...
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'Mark Zuckerberg Runs A Giant Spy Machine'
Mark Zuckerberg runs a giant spy machine in Palo Alto*, California. He wasn’t the first to build one, but his was the best, and every day hundreds of thousands of people upload the most intimate...
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Radar Stops Aircraft Colliding With Each Other — It Should Stop Them...
ONE of the scarier videos on YouTube (ow.ly/sBIOq) was recorded by the nose-cone camera of a fighter jet as it was taking off. Just after the plane leaves the runway a large bird comes hurtling towards...
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Somali Pirates Are Back
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Pirates have seized a merchant ship in the Red Sea and have taken it south towards Somali waters in the first successful hijacking in the region since 2012, maritime officials said...
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Stunning Photos Show Chaos And Violence At Ukraine Protests
Following the announcement of laws that some said were designed to make protests illegal, many in Ukraine returned to the streets again Sunday to make their anger known.The Associated Press reported...
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Haunting Photographs Of Mexico's Bloody Drug War
On December 11, 2006, newly-elected Mexican president Felipe Calderon ordered 6,500 soldiers to the state of Michoacàn to attack the increasingly powerful cartels that had cropped up there. It was the...
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Syrian Government 'Systematically' Killed 11,000 Detainees, According To New...
Leaked evidence out of Syria reportedly shows that the Assad government was responsible for the "systematic killing" of around 11,000 detainees from March 2011 to this past August. Many of these...
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