Palestine Thinks Israel Assassinated Arafat And Is Now Testing His Corpse To...
Eight years after the death of iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, his remains were exhumed on Tuesday, with experts set to test for signs that he was poisoned.The process was carried out in...
View ArticleJon Stewart Shreds Media's 'Winners And Losers' Coverage Of The Israel-Gaza...
Jon Stewart ripped apart media coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict on Monday night's Daily Show, lambasting the press for failing to move past the U.S. election by focusing its coverage on the...
View ArticleThis British Reporter Lived Life On A Female Chain Gang In The Blazing...
Up at 5am and dressed in prison stripes, they march to order and labour in temperatures of 40°C. Nigel Farndale meets members of the world’s only female chain gang – the pride of 'America’s toughest...
View ArticleObama Gets Horrible Marks For Handling Of Benghazi
President Barack Obama and his administration earn poor marks for handling the fallout of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, according to a new CNN/ORC poll released...
View ArticleWhat's Happening Right Now In Congo Exposes The Folly Of Western Aid
Africa is covered in epithets, like graffiti. It has been labeled dark, lost, hopeless. But generalizations about Africa are dangerous. The only certainty is its size: it could contain the United...
View ArticleREPORT: North Korea's Planning A Huge Missile Test For The South Korean...
North Korea could carry out a long-range missile test in the next three weeks, with new satellite images showing increased launch site activity, according to satellite operator DigitalGlobe Inc.The...
View ArticleFrance (And Possibly The UK) To Back Palestinian United Nations Bid
France will back the resolution to recognize Palestinian statehood at the United Nations on Thursday, Al Jazeera reports.Ian Black of The Guardian reports that the UK agreed to vote for Palestine's...
View ArticleThe Navy's Modified X-47B Drone Makes China's 'Carrier-Killing' Missile Obsolete
The X-47B, unmanned carrier drone, is loaded aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and being prepped for its at sea trials.One of two X-47B prototypes took its first recorded flight in...
View ArticleAUDIT: The Largest Afghan Bank Was A 'Ponzi Scheme' From The Beginning
Kabul Bank—Afghanistan's largest financial institution—functioned as a "well-concealed Ponzi scheme" from its very beginning, according to a confidential forensic audit and reported by Matthew...
View ArticleGOP Senators Just Met With Susan Rice About Benghazi, And It Did Not Go Well
A Capitol Hill meeting Tuesday between United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice and U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) did little to quell the Republicans'...
View ArticleHow To Keep Your Emails And Texts Secret
Maybe you're a private person. Maybe you're into shady dealings. Maybe you're having an affair with a spy.Whatever the reason, sometimes you need to send an email without any chance of other people...
View ArticleIsraeli Embassy In DC Posts Video Portraying Palestinian President Abbas...
The Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C. posted a video on its YouTube channel that portrays Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas driving a bus full of Palestinians toward the UN despite warnings from...
View ArticleThis May Be The First Hybrid-Electric Combat Vehicle The World Has Ever Seen
In an effort to shed some of its lurching dependence on gasoline, the Army is hosting the Ground Combat Vehicle Competition and this is BAE's official entry.Matt Cox at Military.com reports:BAE’s...
View ArticleLeaked Graph Suggests Iran Is Developing A Nuclear Weapon
The graph below, obtained by AP from "a country critical of Iran's atomic program to bolster", appears shows that Iran has been trying to create a weapon more powerful than the bomb dropped on...
View ArticleA $110K State-Of-The-Art Bionic Arm Goes A Long Way To Building A New Life
Cpl. Sebastian Galagos is one of those Marines who's seen the difference between war in Hollywood and war in the field. He did, after all, wake up one day next to his detached right arm, blown off by...
View ArticleThe Spat Between Fox News And The Reporter Who Criticized Them Is Getting Nasty
A spat between Fox News and a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter whose interview was cut off after he criticized the network has lingered into a second day. The two sides — the network and the reporter,...
View ArticleSouth Koreans Are Afraid To Put Up Christmas Lights And Make Themselves...
A South Korean church group has scrapped plans to display Christmas lights near the border with North Korea after residents voiced fears Pyongyang might shell the illuminations, officials said...
View ArticleA Glimpse At The California Highway Patrol Of 2025
The year 2000 came and went without flying cars and robots in the kitchen for everybody, but the dream lives on in law enforcement.At least at the LA Design Challenge this year, where auto companies...
View ArticleThe Incredible Story of The Bolivian Drug Lord Who Built The 'General Motors...
BUENOS AIRES - Among the many tales, there is one in particular that stands out in the drug kingpin's biography, sounding much more like urban legend than harsh reality:It was in early 1982, and his...
View ArticleThere's A Virtual CyberCity Where Government Hackers Train For Real World...
The U.S. Air Force has paid a security firm to build a virtual town to prepare government hackers for battles in cyberspace, Robert O'Harrow Jr. of the Washington Post reports."CyberCity" has a...
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