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The US Is Leaving Behind An Unbelievably Corrupt State In Afghanistan
Corruption is still king in Afghanistan, according to a new United Nations report released Thursday, which found over half of all Afghan citizens had paid a bribe to a public official in 2012, paying...
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Satellite Images Show Israeli Airstrike At Syrian Military Research Facility
The military research facility that Syria said had been hit by an Israeli airstrike last week appears to be largely unscathed while the road next to it appears scorched, according to satellite images...
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Obama's Nominee For CIA Director Is Going To Get Grilled From Both Sides
The release Monday of a secret Justice Department memo outlining the legal case for drone strikes against American citizens is likely to raise some big questions at today's confirmation hearing for...
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CHINA: HEY, Overseas Hackers Are Attacking Us Too
The allegations that hackers in China had attacked American news organizations has already resulted in recriminations from China's state media, angry that their government is being portrayed as an...
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It Looks Like The Pentagon's Sequestration Cuts Won't Hurt Military Towns...
WASHINGTON -- Military services have outlined a series of spending cuts that will reduce planned raises for military personnel, curtail aircraft maintenance, delay new equipment for soldiers and the...
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A Photographic Tour Of Russian Corruption
Russia's corruption is the stuff of legend, and, despite the country leaving the "Wild East"-tag of the 1990s behind, still endemic.Just last year Transparency International ranked it 33rd-most corrupt...
View ArticleLawyer Sums Up The Enormous Stakes Of The NDAA Indefinite Detention Lawsuit
Hedges v. Obama, the lawsuit challenging the indefinite detention provision of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), continued Wednesday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second...
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14 Things You Should Know About Enlisting In The US Marines
When I first walked into my recruiting office in Bristol, CT, I didn't have a clue what to expect.I had seen military recruiters sometimes at my high school, but hadn't approached them or asked...
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This Drone War Leads Back To A Single Legal Paragraph
In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama declared that “a decade of war is now ending.”White House press secretary Jay Carney later said there was “no question” that the U.S. conflict...
View ArticleBizarre Video Shows Syrian Soldiers Dancing To Usher's 'Yeah!' After Battle
A video posted online apparently shows Syrian soldiers Usher’s song “Yeah!” after a battle, according to the Associated Press.In full gear they dance and form a conga line—as smoke billows from a...
View ArticleNew Bionic Exoskeleton Offers Hope To Thousands Of Paralyzed Veterans
It's not quite Iron Man, not yet anyway.Advancements in medicine for hurt military veterans bodes well for all of us in the future. Alison Morrow of ABCrecently reported about an exoskeleton designed...
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An Onslaught Of Protesters Just Forced John Brennan's Confirmation Hearing To...
John Brennan's confirmation hearing to be the next CIA director had to be stopped temporarily because of a flurry of protesters targeting his oversight of the Obama administration's controversial drone...
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5 Tricks To Designing A Drone-Proof City
On Wednesday, we covered one student's project to build a "drone-proof" city.Asher J. Kohn describes passive defense techniques that possibly could neutralize the most effective method for...
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Have You Been In The Military? We Want To Tell YOUR Story
What are those little nuggets of info that you wished you could have known before you went in — the ones your recruiter forget to mention?What advice would you give your younger self, if you could go...
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Here's Why The Sequester — 'The Bomb That No One Wanted To Drop' — Is Now On...
Pressure is starting to build on both sides of the political aisle to avert the massive, $1.2 trillion across-the-board cuts set to kick in starting March 1 as a result of the looming sequester. But...
View ArticleWe Tried To Fly A Drone But Failed Miserably
When we saw the AR Drone in action at CES last month, we thought it was the coolest thing ever.Equipped with a high-def camera, the AR Drone lets you shoot and record videos from above.You can buy one...
View ArticleNon-Radical Syrian Rebels Recently Received A Ton Of Foreign Weapons
Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters attempting to overthrow Bashar al-Assad have recently received a big boost in the form of heavy weapons, James Miller of EA WorldView reports.For months foreign...
View ArticleThere's A Good Reason Military Medics Train On Live Animals And NOT Dummies
At some point it came out near certain military bases that the military used live animals to train their Medics and Corpsmen. The resulting response was immediate and visceral. Animal cruelty, was...
View ArticleDaily Show Segment Rails On Absolute Absurdity Of Buying More Tanks
"Sequester" has become the boogie man of the American political body.As a result, Americans in the military, retirees, and Medicare recipients will probably see cuts in their wages or...
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Bing Maps Appear To Show The 'Secret' US Drone Base In Saudi Arabia
Last night Wired's Noah Shachtman published satellite images of a remote airstrip deep in the desert of Saudi Arabia that appears to be an American drone outpost built two years ago to target suspect...
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