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The U.S. military is quietly expanding capabilities to attack terrorist computer networks, including websites that glorify insurgent attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, military officials and experts say.
Midway through the Senate debate yesterday over the "emergency" spending bill for Iraq, Barbara Boxer rose to speak in favor -- of strawberries. "There's a song called 'Strawberry Fields Forever,' " the California D
President George W. Bush attacked the Senate's $122 billion Iraq war-spending bill, which would set a timetable for troop withdrawals, and said voters will blame Democrats for any delay in funding military operations.
It was basically a bill to make the Democrats look good without terminating the war. The Democrats could satisfy their real constituencies, AIPAC and other pro-war forces, while posturing for peace. Look good to the people, bash Bush and satisfy the
At least 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers of TJX Cos. customers were stolen from the discount retailer's computer system over several years, according to a regulatory filing by the company Wednesday.
NASA is preparing to test an inflatable structure that might one day be used to establish an outpost on the Moon. Created by NASA contractor ILC Dover LP, the pumped-up structure sits poised for tests at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Vir
Researchers directing a special type of light at metal poked with holes in irregular patterns recently discovered that all the light behaved like a liquid and fell across the metal to find its way through the escape holes.
Government Accountability Office investigators are meeting with Army Corps of Engineers officials to ask questions about drainage pumps that were installed before last year's hurricane season even though they apparently were defective.
The Justice Department misled a congressional investigation into the firings of eight federal prosecutors last month by saying it was "not aware" that White House political strategist Karl Rove played any role in the dismissals, newly relea
For the most part, the people that I know are generally decent, kind and moral people. Most of us “common folk” operate our lives based on the notion of “doing the right thing.”
The Bush administration and congressional racist wars against defenseless immigrants.
Bob Barr, who as a Georgia congressman authored a successful amendment that blocked DC from implementing a medical marijuana initiative, has switched sides and become a lobbyist for the Marijuana Policy Project.
Russian news agency, RIA, reports a significant buildup of US air and ground forces on the Iran border. Of course, you won't learn this from any U.S. news outlet.
Congress publicly registered its impatience with the managment of the NSA yesterday as lawmakers criticized the agency's new multibillion-dollar effort to ID, track and analyze emerging threats in cyberspace. Dubbed "Turbulence,"
The Bush Adminstration has released it "National Counterintelligence Strategy." And there are a number of surprises in the spook-fighting game plan -- surprises, at least to me.
This is just to funny. I'm just speechless.
Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by US Armed Forces near Iran's borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday. "The latest military intelligence data point to heightened US military preparatio
Kiev Ukraine News Blog reports that the Stalin billboards exhorting people to pay their utility bills have been pulled after protests from rights groups and nationalists. An ad campaign featuring billboards and commercials with images of the Soviet
Private businesses such as rental and mortgage companies and car dealers are checking the names of customers against a list of suspected terrorists and drug traffickers made publicly available by the Treasury Dept, sometimes denying services
An FBI agent was warned to keep quiet about the dismissal of a US attorney after he told a newspaper her firing would hurt the agency's ongoing investigations and speculated politics was involved, a US Senate panel heard on Tuesday.
Despite the hype surrounding the first public appearance by Valerie Plame Wilson last week, the testimoney that was most indicting of the Bush adminstration's handling of the CIA lead controversy came not from the former CIA agent but
Insurgent leaders and Sunni Arab politicians say divisions between insurgent groups and Al Qaeda in Iraq have widened and have led to combat in some areas of the country, a schism that US officials hope to exploit. The Sunni Arab insurgent leaders
The United Arab Emirates, a key US ally, said on Tuesday it would not be involved in any military strike on Iran, but urged the Islamic Republic to avoid regional tensions. "The UAE is an independent and sovereign state that rejects the use of
A Chinese satellite is expected to orbit Mars in 2009, thanks to an agreement the country signed with Russia on Monday. During President Hu Jintao's current visit to Moscow, the two countries agreed to stage a joint unmanned mission to the red p
The Pentagon resumed its controverisal mandatory anthrax vaccinations program for selected troops last week despite the fact that its own doctors are quietly conducting research into adverse effects of the vaccine.
Some neocons who are "linked to Turkey" - Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Marc Grossman, Eric Edelman, and Stephen Solarz - and he suggests that they "enrich themselves" via drug trafficking and arms dealing.
Laws regulating the grease doughnuts and other foods are fried in, requiring the use of helmets while riding a bike (motor or otherwise), preventing the use of cell phones while driving, dictating what one can listen to while crossing the street, req
The United States and France [so Syria gets hit too] have three aircraft carrier battle groups in the Gulf region, U.S. and French naval sources said.
;-D The District of Columbia is trying to fix its image, so it is spending $150,000 to choose a new motto for the city. A Washington Post article on the search for a catchy slogan made the mistake of permitting reader suggestions. Some of the in
Tony Lagouranis is a 37-year-old bouncer at a bar in Chicago's Humboldt Park. He is also a former torturer. That was how he was described in an email promoting a panel discussion, "24: Torture Televised," hosted by the NYU School of La
