Sandy Hook Shooter's Mother Collected Guns In Preparation For Economic Collapse
The mother of the gunman who killed 20 children and seven adults in America’s worst school massacre, was a gun-proud “survivalist” preparing for economic collapse, it has emerged.Nancy Lanza, whose gun...
View ArticleSenate Torture Report Could Hurt Case Against Alleged 9/11 Plotters
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report Thursday concluding that 'torture,' or 'enhanced interrogation,' is a flawed method that yields little actionable information.The 6,000 page report,...
View ArticleREPORT: Details Of Turkey's Proposed Endgame Plan In Syria Revealed
Turkey has made a new proposal to Russia for an orderly peaceful transition in war-ravaged Syria in the post-regime era, a Turkish newspaper reported on Monday.The proposal calls for President Bashar...
View ArticleThe UN Atomic Agency Expects An Iran Deal That 'Will Take Years' To Put In Place
The UN atomic agency, after a year of false starts, finally expects to sign a long-elusive deal with Iran on January 16, but that will be the easy part, experts say.Implementing the accord will be a...
View Article'Did We Just Kill A Kid?' — The Six Words That Ended A US Drone Pilot's Career
The New Mexico desert gets blistering hot, but inside the small windowless container where Brandon Bryant worked as a drone operator in the U.S. Air Force it stays a cool 63 degrees all year...
View ArticleIranian Oil Revenues Have Been Halved By International Sanctions
Iran is losing half of its oil revenues because of international sanctions imposed over its disputed nuclear programme, Economy Minister Shamseddin Hosseini said in remarks quoted by media on...
View ArticleKim Jong-Un's Wife Appears 'Heavily Pregnant' On State TV
In October there was speculation that the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had become pregnant after she disappeared from public view for six weeks.Ri Sol-ju's latest appearance on state TV...
View ArticleIt's Time We Saw The Idea That Everyone Should Carry An Assault Weapon For...
No sooner had the bullets stopped flying at Sandy Hook last week than those who favor unlimited access to military-grade assault weapons began advancing one of their favorite theories:If only folks at...
View ArticleNassim Taleb's Super-Simple Argument For Banning Semi-Automatic Weapons
From Nassim Taleb's Facebook:I cannot possibly buy the argument that people need weapons in case the government fails them and democracy breaks down. If the narrative were true, someone over the past 5...
View ArticleWhy Syria's Chemical Weapons Are So Terrifying [INFOGRAPHIC]
The U.S. has said it would intervene if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad uses chemical weapons in the country's ongoing conflict.Craig Whitlock and Carol Morello of The Washington Post report U.S....
View ArticleIt's Incredible How Much Guns Have Advanced Since The Second Amendment
Last week's Connecticut shooting has once again focused the national spotlight on assault weapons and their place in America.Everyone has heard of these guns. They've been available to the U.S. public...
View ArticleNine Young Afghan Girls Killed By A Taliban Bomb
Nine young girls were killed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday when they stumbled across a buried Taliban bomb as they collected firewood, according to local officials.The blast happened in the eastern...
View ArticleHere's What Barack Obama Can Actually Do About Gun Control
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary school murders — the seventeenth mass shooting of 2012 — there is renewed public pressure on Washington to address gun violence in an effort to prevent similar...
View Article18 Terms You Need To Know If You Want To Be Part Of The Gun Control Debate
In light of recent calls for stricter gun control, an inevitability following the grisly acts of a troubled gunman in Connecticut, knowing a glossary of important weapons terms is integral to...
View ArticleThis Chart Proves There Is Something Profoundly Wrong With How The US Handles...
The United States has the highest gun ownership rates in the world and the second highest rate of gun deaths among industrialized nations. That's not a coincidence. Looking at developed nations, the...
View ArticleSmith & Wesson's New Presentation Shows Amazing Investment Growth Opportunity...
Following Friday's horrific Connecticut elementary school shooting, the debate over control has come to the forefront of Washington politics.California Senator Dianne Feinstein said that she intended...
View ArticleVeteran Journalist Says The Media Is Totally Misreporting What's Happening In...
Veteran war correspondent Patrick Cockburn of The Independent has been in Damascus for 10 days and says he is "struck by the fact that the situation in areas of Syria I have visited is wholly different...
View ArticleA Newly-Discovered Computer Virus Is Wiping Data From Iranian Hard Drives
Iranian computers are being targeted by a new malicious virus that clears large portions of hard drives, according to Iran’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT). Cybersecurity researchers don't...
View ArticleRussian Military Experts Say The US Patriot Missiles On The Syrian Border Are...
Russia is categorically opposed to the Turkey’s installation of Patriot anti-aircraft missiles along its border with Syria.Most have assumed that the Moscow's opposition was driven by its friendship...
View ArticleThe Relationship Between A Battlefield Bomb-Tech And His Dog Is Unlike...
Army Specialist John Nolan’s heart pounded as he stared into the wadi in central Afghanistan. He wasn’t sure what lay beneath the loose, granular dirt.Was there a 500-pound bomb buried beneath him? If...
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