Italy’s F-35 Stealth Fighter Purchase Review Signals More Cuts Ahead
Even if the Italian Air Force considers it “essential” for the future of the service in the next 20 years, the F-35 program will be reviewed for 6 months, as a consequence of the lower-house motion...
View ArticleThe US Is Giving Afghans $553 Million In Russian Helicopters They Can't Even Use
The U.S. government is giving hundreds of millions of dollars to a Russian arms company to buy helicopters that the Afghan military cannot maintain or operate, according to a scathing new report from...
View ArticleDoes This Map Reveal One Of Russia's Secret Stealth Fighter Jets?
Satellite mapping services, like those powered by Google and the search engine Bing, can be somewhat non-discriminatory in what they post online, showing in the past potential military secrets and even...
View ArticleSenators Press Intelligence Chief To Release More Data On NSA Spying Programs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than a quarter of the Senate's members asked the top intelligence official on Friday to release more information on the government's bulk collection of data on Americans'...
View ArticleFour US Special Operators From The Benghazi Security Team Are Writing A Book...
Four members of the elite security team stationed at the CIA annex in Benghazi are being paid $3 million to write a book about the tragic night of September 11, 2012, Keith Kelly of The New York Post...
View ArticleEdward Snowden's Father: My Son Has Betrayed His Government, Not The American...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The father of NSA leaker Edward Snowden acknowledged Friday that his son broke the law but said he doesn't think he committed treason, as the Obama administration renewed its calls to...
View ArticleUS Marines Put On Alert To Move Into Egypt Amid Violent Protests
Amid anti-government demonstrations planned for this weekend, roughly 200 combat-capable U.S. Marines in southern Europe have been put on an alert status should they need to protect the U.S. Embassy or...
View Article21-Year-Old American Killed During Violent Clashes In Egypt
An American citizen has been killed after being caught in violent protests in Alexandria, Egypt, McClatchy reports.There were conflicting reports over how the man was killed. One report said he was...
View ArticleVice President Biden Called Ecuador's President To Stop Him From Taking...
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called the President of Ecuador on Friday to convince him to reject Edward Snowden's bid for asylum, the Wall Street Journal reports.Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa...
View ArticleAmerican Student Killed In Egypt Was A Teacher Who 'Cared Profoundly' About...
An American university student killed during a protest in Egypt was in the country teaching English to children and improving his Arabic because he "cared profoundly" about the region, his family has...
View ArticleGLENN GREENWALD: The NSA Can Store 'One Billion Cell Phone Calls Every Single...
Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald hasn’t published the story yet, but he gave the Socialism Conference in Chicago a big taste of his next reveal:The National Security Agency can store one billion...
View ArticleThe Guardian Revealed An NSA 'Scoop' Then Deleted It From The Website
The Guardian released another shocking NSA scoop on Saturday, revealing collusion and mass harvesting of personal communications among the United States and at least six European Union countries — only...
View Article4 New Slides Of The NSA's PRISM Spying Program Have Been Published
Four new slides detailing more of the top-secret NSA program known as PRISM were released Saturday by The Washington Post.The slides — given to the Post by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden — show...
View ArticleReport: US Bugged Offices And Spied On Internal Networks Of European Union
BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States has bugged European Union offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks, according to secret documents cited in a German magazine on Saturday, the...
View ArticleRussian Lawmaker: 'Morally Impermissible' To Hand Over Snowden
A top Russian lawmaker on Sunday declared it was "morally impermissible" to hand over to the United States fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, who remains in a political limbo at a Moscow...
View ArticleKey US-EU Trade Pact Threatened After Latest Leaks About NSA Spying On Europe
The prospects for a new trade pact between the US and the European Union worth hundreds of billions have suffered a severe setback following allegations that Washington bugged key EU offices and...
View ArticleJulian Assange: There's No Stopping More NSA Leaks From Being Published
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Sunday that Edward Snowden made sure that the information he took about U.S. surveillance programs will continue to be published...
View ArticleSunday Saw 'The Biggest Protest In Egypt's History'
The people of Egypt are out in full force today to protest against President Mohamed Morsi, whom many believe has lost his legitimacy after becoming the country's first democratically elected...
View ArticleThese Photos Show Just How Massive The Protests In Egypt Have Become
Massive protests have swept across Egypt once more, and this time they are even larger than the Arab Spring protests that ousted Hosni Mubarak in 2011.A military source told AFP that "millions" of...
View ArticleThe Bloody Battle In Homs Is The Most Important Fight In Syria's Civil War
President Bashar al-Assad's forces pounded Sunni Muslim rebels in the city of Homs with artillery and from the air on Sunday, the second day of an offensive to expand loyalist control over Syria's...
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