DARPA aims for fiber-optic link between warfighters’ minds, bodies
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is famed for its prowess at delivering increasingly effective ways for warfighters to deliver mayhem to their enemies, and it seems that DARPA also…
Bill Clinton secures record pledges for the Clinton Global Initiative
Former President Bill Clinton secured a record 291 pledges worth more than $6 billion to tackle global woes at his sixth annual philanthropic summit, which wound up on Thursday.
US official confirms CIA has 3,000-man ‘covert army’ in Afghanistan
Members of President Barack Obama’s national security team have waged an internal battle over Afghan policy that has been marked by bitter infighting, according to a new book by journalist…
Bring the Drug War’s Troops Home
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Bring the Drug War’s Troops Home
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Economic Collapse Leading to Privatized Police and Corporate Mercenaries
But Who Will Protect Average Citizens?
Grand Theft Economics: Veterans Agency Made Secret Deal With Prudential
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs failed to inform 6 million soldiers and their families of an agreement enabling Prudential Financial Inc. to withhold lump-sum payments of life insurance benefits…
Gulf seafood poses long-term health risks, experts say
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are cancer-causing chemicals found in crude oil that can accumulate in the food chain, absorbed by fish and shellfish. Crude oil also contains heavy metals such…
Price Spikes Raise Spectre of Another Food Crisis
While global food prices declined for the first half of this year, they have spiked in recent months, according to a new World Bank publication, and this volatility could in…
The PRC versus the United States: States of Disunion?
Reports on censorship by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Government of Google, coupled with internet hacking, finally highlighted, in January 2010, the worsening of relations between the two so-called…
Here’s Why We Must Care About Shadow Banking
money market mutual funds (MMMFs), securitization, and the repo market
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller: Homegrown terrorists represent a new and changing facet of the terrorist threat
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told a congressional hearing today that a spike in recent terrorism cases is direct evidence of the evolving threat.
Israel again refuses to join nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
It is against Israel's interests to join a global anti-nuclear arms treaty and the UN atomic watchdog is overstepping its mandate in demanding it to do so, its nuclear chief…
Feds: Privacy Does Not Exist in ‘Public Places’
The Obama administration has urged a federal appeals court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move.
Economic Collapse Leading to Privatized Police and Corporate Mercenaries
But Who Will Protect Average Citizens?
Grand Theft Economics: Veterans Agency Made Secret Deal With Prudential
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs failed to inform 6 million soldiers and their families of an agreement enabling Prudential Financial Inc. to withhold lump-sum payments of life insurance benefits…
Gulf seafood poses long-term health risks, experts say
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are cancer-causing chemicals found in crude oil that can accumulate in the food chain, absorbed by fish and shellfish. Crude oil also contains heavy metals such…
Price Spikes Raise Spectre of Another Food Crisis
While global food prices declined for the first half of this year, they have spiked in recent months, according to a new World Bank publication, and this volatility could in…