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GEORGE SOROS: 'Wake Up, Europe!'
Multibillionaire investor George Soros has issued a warning to Europe's democracies over the threat that a resurgent Russia poses to the continent.In an essay published Thursday in the New York Review...
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Senior US Officials Describe The 'Big Disconnect' In Obama's ISIS Strategy
Senior US officials have provided new details of President Barack Obama's plan to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State in Syria, along with ideas as to why the strategy is fundamentally...
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ISIS Is Making An Absurd Amount Of Money On Ransom Payments And Black-Market...
According to the US Treasury Department, the extremist group calling itself the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) is garnering wealth at an alarmingly quick pace, with large chunks coming from...
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Afghan Who Helped US Describes Sheer Terror Of Being A Taliban Target
A former Afghan interpreter who now lives in the US started a Reddit AMA with the goal of shedding light on the nightmarish process that Afghans who worked for coalition forces must go through in order...
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US Military Responds To New Allegations Of Civilian Deaths From Airstrikes In...
Air strikes by the US-led coalition in Syria have killed 553 people since their launch a month ago, the vast majority of them jihadists, a monitoring group said on Thursday. However, a military...
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Here's China's Latest Tactic To Take A Disputed Island Chain From Japan
China has seemingly shifted gears in a bid to bring the disputed Senkaku Islands under its control, Hiroyuki Akita reports for the Nikkei Asian Review. The Senkaku Islands are an uninhabited island...
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THE EUROPEAN CHESSBOARD: Here's A Map Of The Confrontation Between Russia And...
The war in eastern Ukraine is in a state of cease-fire, but if the past seven months are any indication, this halt in hostilities won't spell the end of the most severe geopolitical crisis between...
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BREMMER: Obama's ISIS Strategy Has Huge Flaws — But It May Be The Best Option...
Anonymous senior US officials began to criticize elements of President Barack Obama's strategy to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the extremist group calling itself the Islamic State (also known as...
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MSNBC Says GOP Candidate Is Helping 'Disseminate ISIS Propaganda'
MSNBC is running a hard-hitting story on Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), a leading Republican Senate candidate, after he released a campaign ad that seemed to use footage from a propaganda video made by...
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Researchers Are Building Drones You Can Control With Your Mind
Researchers are now using US Department of Defense funding to explore what could be the next big step in drone technology: mind control.Daniel Pack, who manages the Unmanned Systems Laboratory at the...
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A Newly Declassified CIA Paper Details A Tense Subplot In The Cold War Arms...
It's one of the great paradoxes of nuclear power politics.Strategic missile defense was meant to make inter-continental nuclear warfare obsolete, creating a protective shield that negates an enemy's...
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The 10 Most Important Things In The World Right Now
Good morning! Here's what you need to know for Friday.1. The US military said Thursday that forces in Iraq were "months away from being able to start waging any kind of sustained ground offensive...
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The New Snowden Documentary Is Utterly Fascinating — And Critically Flawed
"Citizenfour" premiered at The New York Film Festival on October 10 and opens in theaters October 24.Documentarian Laura Poitras spent a lot of time with Edward Snowden in his Hong Kong hotel room from...
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Mexico's Drug War Is Entering A Dark Phase
The Mexican Drug War, which is approaching its eighth anniversary in December, has spanned two Mexican presidential administrations and resulted in the arrest or death of several high-ranking drug...
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Putin: Europe Can't Stop Buying Russian Gas
As the crisis in Ukraine continues to grind along and casualties continue to mount, despite the existence of a ceasefire, Russia holds a trump card.Winter is coming and Europe will have little option...
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Putin Just Gave One Of The Most Anti-American Speeches Of His Career
Russian President Vladimir Putin just gave one of the most stridently anti-Western speeches of his career, a 40-minute "diatribe ... that was reminiscent of the Cold War,"according to Reuters.Putin was...
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US General: North Korea May Be Able To Build Nuclear Warheads Small Enough To...
A top US general has told reporters that North Korea has likely achieved the capability of being able to miniaturize nuclear weapons that could be placed on top of a rocket, Felicia Schwartz reports...
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Meet The X-18, The Groundbreaking 1950s Ancestor Of One Of The US Military's...
The V-22 Osprey, a heavy aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically, is a mainstay in 21st century US troop transportation.But its tiltrotor technology, which allows the Osprey to take off...
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These 2 Charts Show America's Failure To End Afghanistan's Opium Trade
Opium poppy cultivation sprawled to more than a half-million acres in Afghanistan last year, a record according to a report by the Inspector General responsible for overseeing Afghanistan's...
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This Is What A US Airstrike On ISIS Looks Like
US Military Central Command released declassified footage of a US airstrike against the jihadist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS and ISIL).In a statement sent to reporters along with the clip,...
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