Ex-Wall Streeter Created A New Way To Help Military Veterans
Like many working on Wall Street, Sidney Goodfriend has an impressive resume.After graduating from Johns Hopkins and getting an MBA from Columbia, he started trading stocks and began a long and...
View ArticleSome Of The Worst Things That Military Members Have Said To Their Senior...
I once told a Marine Corps colonel that I was going to knife his donkey.I had been living in the dangerous parts of town in Iraq for about three months and when I came back, saw that my Marines were...
View ArticleFour Cybersecurity Breaches That Could Rattle The World
The cyber-ruffians who briefly tanked the stock market recently by faking a news tweet about an attack at the White House showed how much damage can be done with a few well-placed keystrokes. Those who...
View ArticleIsrael's Huge Airstrike On Damascus Is As Much About Iran As It Is Syria
Early Sunday Israeli jets targeted the Syrian military's fortress on Qasioun Mountain, Damascus, causing the most powerful explosions near the capital in more than two years of fighting.The strike on...
View ArticleActivist Is Trying To Get 10,000 People To March On DC With Loaded Rifles
Independence Day in Washington, D.C. may see bigger fireworks if the "Open Carry March" put forth by a Marine veteran turned libertarian activist actually goes forward.Adam Kokesh, 31, is planning a...
View ArticleThe Military's X-51 Waverider Finally Traveled Five Times The Speed Of Sound
An unmanned X-51A Waverider test plane achieved an incredible speed of more than 3800 mph on May 1, reaching Mach 5.1 over the Pacific Ocean.The X-51A traveled more than 230 nautical miles in roughly...
View ArticlePENTAGON: Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Data From 'Almost Every Major US...
For the first time the Obama administration has explicitly accused China’s military of hacking into computer systems of the U.S. government and its defense contractors."The accusations relayed in the...
View ArticlePulitzer Winner Writes Sharp Takedown Of Failed US Civilian Efforts In Iraq...
Reuters investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner David Rohde covered Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq for eight years.Now he's written a book, titled "Beyond War: Reimagining American...
View ArticleEXPERT: The Pentagon Is Creating A Chinese Bogeyman
There's an easy way to justify throwing money at cyber weapons and allowing government surveillance over the entire Internet: China.The Pentagon pointed the finger at the Chinese in terms of cyber...
View ArticleAir Force Strips 17 Officers Of Authority To Control And Launch Nuclear Missiles
AP Exclusive: Air Force sidelines 17 ICBM launch officers; commander cites 'rot' within systemWASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force stripped an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control — and,...
View ArticleAssad's Latest Recruits Are Literally Trying To Bring On The Apocalypse
There's a small group of Shia "Twelvers" who think that if they fight on the side of Bashar Al Assad in Syria, their messiah will appear and Armageddon will begin.Hassan Hassan, a Middle East scholar...
View ArticleWhat Kind Of Target Did The Israeli Air Force Really Hit In Syria?
Twice between May 3 and 5, the Israeli Air Force conducted air strikes in Syria using Precision Guided Munitions.The first raid hit a convoy believed to be moving Fateh-110 missiles destined for...
View ArticleAmerica's New Way Of Dealing With 'Terrorists' Is Even More Ruthless Than...
Last week John Bellinger, the lawyer who drafted the legal framework for drone strikes under George W. Bush, accused the Obama administration of overusing drone strikes because of a reluctance to...
View ArticleVirginia Man Caught Posing As CIA Agent, Recruiting People To Attempt Bank...
A Virginia man is accused of orchestrating at least three attempted bank robberies while posing as a federal agent named "Theo,"Tom Schoenberg of Bloomberg reports.Prosecutors say that Joshua Brady,...
View ArticleREPORT: US Told Syrian Rebels To Kill Islamic Radicals Before Fighting Assad
About six months ago, U.S. intelligence officers in Jordan told Syrian rebel commanders that the opposition should fight radical rebel group Jabhat al Nusra before fighting Syria's army, a commander...
View ArticleUS Government Suspects 3D Gunmaker Of Being An International Arms Dealer
When Defense Distributed put its blueprints for a 3D-printable plastic gun on the internet (see above), the Texas non-profit put an internet freedom spin on the gun control debate.It also led the US...
View ArticleUS Special Ops Have Become Much, Much Scarier Since 9/11
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...
View ArticleFormer Defense Secretary Blasts Benghazi Critics For 'Cartoonish' View Of...
On CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates knocked critics of the Obama administration's response to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, saying many have a...
View ArticleEverything You Need To Know About The Nuclear Carrier That's Scaring The...
The U.S.S. Nimitz was deployed May 12 to the waters off the Korean peninsula to conduct bilateral training with the South Korean Navy over the next two days.The goals of the operation are to enhance...
View ArticleRussia Says It Caught A CIA Agent Recruiting In Moscow
Russia says it briefly detained a CIA agent who was recruiting Russian intelligence officers in Moscow, BBC News reports. "At the moment of detention, special technical equipment was discovered,...
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