
PlayStation-Controlled DIY Tank May Be the Wildest Weapon Yet in the Syria War
• http://www.wired.com, By Robert BeckhusenSyria’s rebels may have taken the concept of a videogame a tad too far.
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Syria’s rebels may have taken the concept of a videogame a tad too far.
The Air Force’s multi-billion-dollar drone fleets may have helped against the insurgents of Iraq and Afghanistan.
3-D printed organs. Brain chips providing superhuman abilities. Megacities, built from scratch.
Today marks 71 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor that catapulted the United States into World War II.
After decades of American protection, our friends can form their own alliances to confront any adversary.
The Navy has positioned two more warships in the Pacific to monitor North Korea’s upcoming long-range missile launch.
European Union apparatchiks convened in Brussels on Monday to plot moves against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and to plan for a “humanitarian” intervention in Mali.
China will be the world’s largest economy by 2030 but the US will still remain “first among equals” in the international system, according to a new US government intelligence assessment of global trends.
.. if my country says to butcher, then butchery were no crime, but a source of honor. To kill for pure enjoyment, as Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, is most contemptible, but to do it because Bush II, Tojo, Bin Laden, or Netanyahu commands it—this is vi
Entered By: Leon FelkinsA U.S. citizen who was abducted by Taliban insurgents was rescued by U.S. forces in an operation in eastern Afghanistan early on Sunday, NATO-led forces said. The American, Dr. Dilip Joseph, had been abducted in Kabul province. It gave few details.
The Bashir Assad regime in Syria is loading of some of its weapons with deadly nerve agents, and mixing together the chemical precursors needed to carry out a sarin-laced attack.
Hypocrisy writ large by a now erstwhile, all so powerful man. As Noam Chomsky put it, "For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit."
Government claims rocket will launch satellite by Dec. 22
U.S. military planners have begun to help organize a multinational proxy force to intervene next year in Mali, the famine-stricken, coup-wracked African country that has become a magnet for Islamist extremists, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Will send up a satellite mothballed during the Bush Administration
The lawyer representing Bradley Manning, the US Army private accused of leaking classified information to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has issued a damning indictment of his client’s “criminal” treatment in solitary confinement.
What this tour seeks to accomplish is to provide a clear picture to our troops of what their oath to defend the constitution really means, and to empower them to do so through peaceful means.
Americans need transparency of conventional warfare
It is amazing to watch politicians trying to weasel their way around their promises. President Obama is providing us with a good illustration of the art.
Over the past two and a half years, all of which he has spent in a military prison, much has been said about Bradley Manning, but nothing has been heard from him.
One Senate Republican likes Gitmo so much she wants to build a new offshore detention center—or at least force President Obama to allow Guantanamo to accept new detainees, which it hasn't done since he first took office and issued an executive order
"In 2010, I said in a speech that there had been a CIA coup in this country.
Wow time flies! A little over 5 years ago my then wife sat me down to watch a Ron Paul video, and I couldn't just tune out what I had heard and seen and continue the life path I was on then.
Four years ago, iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner stepped down from the company she helped turn into an all-important supplier of the military’s growing arsenal of ground robots.
The Navy talks about its drone helicopter the way Apple geeks gushed over the first-generation iPhone in 2007.
A West Point cadet slated to graduate this year will instead be heading home without a degree after resigning to make a point about religious proselytizing at the acclaimed military academy.
"Constitutional Rights are not awarded to those who ask for them politely or quietly await their arrival, rather to those who passionately demand them en masse."
Mikey Weinstein (Military Religious Freedom Foundation) provides an update on MRFF and their quest to ensure that all members of the United States Armed Forces fully receive the Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom.
West Point Cadet, MRFF Client sacrifices career in noble stance defending U.S. Constitution from religious zealots
Engineers working for the Assad regime in Syria have begun combining the two chemical precursors needed to weaponize sarin gas, an American official with knowledge of the situation tells Danger Room.