The founder of the U.S.-based Blackwater security firm has been meeting with powerbrokers in Afghanistan to rally support for his plan to privatize the Afghan war. Erik Prince heads the private military company known as Academi, renamed in 2011. According to a report in The New York Times, Prince sent a letter to Afghan President […]
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Hurricane Cost May Skyrocket As Billions in Stealth Fighter Jets Unaccounted for; Tyndall AFB “Complete Loss”…
After Hurricane Michael rendered Tyndall Air Force Base a “complete loss” from “widespread, catastrophic damage” – questions remain over nearly two-dozen F-22 Stealth Fighters which are unaccounted for. According to the New York Times, Tyndall is home to 55 stealth fighters, “which cost a dizzying $339 million each.” Before Michael hit, the Air Force evacuated […]
FBI Steals Treasure Hunters’ Civil War Gold Worth Up to $250 Million…
Dennis and Kem Parada have spent years prospecting for a legendary stash of Civil War gold in Dents Run, Pennsylvania. They aren’t the first to search for the cache. Generations of treasure hunters have tried to find the gold, which is believed to have been lost or stolen around the time of the 1863 Battle […]
Parkland Documentary Includes Graphic, Unblurred Cellphone Footage…
The first full length documentary on the Florida school shooting that left 17 dead shows graphic cellphone footage from inside the school and much of it is not blurred. Charlie Minn is the director of “Parkland: Inside Building 12”, a graphic, two-hour retelling of the Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The […]
Alleged Russian Spy Presses Feds for Arrest Docs, Other Records…
Accused Russian spy Maria Butina on Sunday filed a letter requesting the government turn over criminal records, arrest reports and details on witnesses prosecutors might use to build their case against her. The eight-page discovery letter Butina’s attorneys filed on Sunday is a common request for documents in a criminal case and seeks information the […]
‘Terminator’ Tanks with ‘Invisibility’ Cloaking Will Fight Future Wars…
Imagine if the United States military could send combat vehicles like tanks into battle with enemies – but without a single American on the battlefield – instead, the vehicles drive and fight autonomously. And what if these heavily armed and armored smart vehicles were also invisible to the enemy? Now factor in this – these […]
“Nearly All” the Pentagon’s Expensive New Toys Are Embarrassingly Easy to Hack, GAO Audit Finds…
The Pentagon’s next-gen weapons systems currently under development by the Department of Defense (DoD) are woefully vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to a Tuesday report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). GAO testers “playing the role of adversary” discovered “mission critical cyber vulnerabilities in nearly all weapon systems that were under development.” “Using relatively simple […]
Thousands More Cases To Be Dismissed In Amherst Drug Lab Scandal…
Thousands of additional Massachusetts drug cases will be dismissed, and the state’s attorney general’s office will bear the costs the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday. The decision is the result of the court’s finding that prosecutors withheld evidence about a state chemist’s wrongdoing. Already, 7,500 cases have been ordered dismissed by the SJC since […]
Pentagon Grounds All F-35 Fighter Jets…
The Pentagon’s entire fleet of F-35 joint strike fighters is grounded after the jets’ fuel tubes were suspected to be the cause of a crash last month, the Defense Department announced Thursday. “The U.S. Services and international partners have temporarily suspended F-35 flight operations while the enterprise conducts a fleet-wide inspection of a fuel tube […]
Washington State Supreme Court Strikes Down Death Penalty…
A panel of judges on Thursday unanimously struck down the death penalty in Washington state, ruling that it violates the state constitution. The ruling makes Washington the latest state to do away with capital punishment, leaving 30 states in the United States that maintain the measure. The court ordered that the eight people currently on […]
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123 Missing Children Found in Michigan During Sex Trafficking Operation…
Over 100 children were found safe during a one-day sweep by multiple Michigan law enforcement agencies, the US Marshals Service said Wednesday. The agency said Operation MISafeKid recovered 123 missing children Sept. 26 throughout Wayne County in a sweep aimed to identify and recover missing children and locate victims of sex trafficking. The operation had […]
Chinese Spy Lured to Belgium by FBI, Extradited to U.S. to Face Trial…
In a clandestine operation that marks a ramping up of American actions against economic espionage ordered by Beijing, FBI agents lured a Chinese spy to Belgium before spiriting him to the U.S. Yanjun Xu, a senior officer with the Ministry of State Security, or MSS, now faces up to 25 years in jail. He was […]
U.S. Student Detained in Israel Over Support of Palestinian-Led Boycott…
An American student has been detained at an Israeli airport for more than a week due to her past support for a boycott against the country. Lara Alqasem arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport on Oct. 2, but was blocked from entering the country, The Washington Post reported Monday. The 22-year-old, who is from […]
Syria Sitrep – The Turkish-Russian Agreement Holds – S-300 Air Defense Arrives…
The situation in Syria is relatively calm. The government (red) has consolidated the areas it retook during the year. The Syrian army received new air defense (see below) and other materials and is busy integrating it. Some Syrian army units are currently moving east to Al Bukamal on the border with Iraq. Others have been […]
Omidyar’s Intercept Teams Up with War-Propaganda Firm Bellingcat…
The Intercept, along with its parent company First Look Media, recently hosted a workshop for pro-war, Google-funded organization Bellingcat in New York. The workshop, which cost $2,500 per person to attend and lasted five days, aimed to instruct participants in how to perform investigations using “open source” tools — with Bellingcat’s past, controversial investigations for […]
Top Civilian Leader Says the Army Needs a Complete Makeover…
The Army is at a crossroads. It can either radically change the way it recruits and trains soldiers, develops and buys new weapons, and adapts its doctrine and tactics to modern warfare, or risk being as irrelevant as horse-mounted cavalry. That was the message Army Secretary Mark Esper, the service’s civilian leader, delivered Monday to […]
Unhappy 17th Birthday, Afghanistan War…
Seventeen years ago today, the U.S. and Britain went to war to remove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. It was morally and politically justified by the Taliban’s failure to surrender al Qaeda terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. The Western alliance drove the Islamic totalitarians from power swiftly, within weeks. Yet, we’re still […]
U.S. Allocates $38 Billion Military Aid Package to Israel to Boost “Security”…
The deal for the aid was signed in 2016 during the Obama administration and will provide $38 billion in US military financing between 2019 and 2028. “As we enter the new fiscal year, the 10-year period of the $38 billion Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the United States and Israel in 2016 begins,” State […]
U.S. General Considered Nuclear Response in Vietnam War, Cables Show…
In one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam War, the top American military commander in Saigon activated a plan in 1968 to move nuclear weapons to South Vietnam until he was overruled by President Lyndon B. Johnson, according to recently declassified documents cited in a new history of wartime presidential decisions. The documents reveal […]
The CIA Forgot About a Bunch of Classified Documents Stashed in Rockefeller’s Barn…
In late 1989, the Rockefeller family faced an unusual dilemma: they wanted to give a barn away. For most people with their money and resources, this would be a relatively minor headache, but for the Rockefellers, the problem was a bit more complicated – inside the barn was a vault, which contained locked file cabinets […]
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