U.S. Defense Contractors Told To Not Send Lay-Off Notices Before The November Elections

White House To Defense Contractors: Don’t Warn Employees Before Election They May Get Laid Off -- Washington Examiner Obama’s Labor Departme...

Picture Of The Day

U.S. Navy Capt. Daniel Cave, commander of Carrier Air Wing 5, approaches the flight deck during his last arrested landing on the USS George ...

The Syrian Regime Is Running Out Of Money To Fight

Source: Assad Could Fund 6 More Months Of War -- CBS News (CBS News) LONDON - The U.S. government says President Bashar Assad's grip on ...

UN General Asembly To Meet Thursday On Syria's Civil War

United Nations (UN) observers travel in an UN vehicle from the UN office in Damascus to Douma, where protests against the regime of Syrian P...

Two Disturbing Video Reports On The Battle In Aleppo

Syrian Christians Fear For Their Future

A church in Homs was damaged during fighting between security forces and rebels Syrian Christians Fear Future As Violence Worsens -- BBC Th...

Syrian Rebels Overrun An Army Base Outside Of Aleppo (Video)

CNN Inside Syria: Firefight For Control Of Army Base -- CNN CNN's Ivan Watson has been traveling through northern Syria near Aleppo, whe...

The Battle For Aleppo Continues

Syria Government's Aleppo Assault Stalls -- The Telegraph The Syrian government's assault on Aleppo appeared to have stalled on Tues...

Syrian Rebels Are Becoming Proficient At The Use Of IEDs

Syria's Rebels Add Explosives Expertise To Guerrilla Tactics -- The Guardian Commanders use insurgency methods but rage at being compare...

Syria's Rebels Now Have Anti-Aircraft Missiles

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Turning Point? Syrian Rebels Obtain Missiles -- NBC Nightly Ne...

Putin Cracks Down On Dissent In Russia

Prominent anti-corruption blogger and opposition figure Alexei Navalny leaves the Investigative Committee in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday. Reu...

A Euro Collapse Will Mean A Global Recession

Eurozone Break-Up Would Trigger £1 Trillion Of QE, See Banks Nationalised And Deep Recession, Warns Fathom -- Philip Aldrick, The Telegraph...

Israel's Red Line In The Syrian Civil War

Israel's Red Line Fate of Syrian Chemical Weapons May Trigger War -- Ronen Bergman, Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Matthias Schepp and Holger...

New Ideas To Curb The Drug Wars Are Being Floated

How Latin America Is Reinventing The War On Drugs -- Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Frustrated with US dictates, countries across the...

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- July 31, 2012

India's Power Outage: Why Coal Hasn't Been A Savior -- Rebecca Byerly, Christian Science Monitor Some 600 million people lost power ...

World News Briefs -- July 31, 2012 (Evening Edition)

2nd Day Of Power Failures Cripples Wide Swath Of India -- New York Times NEW DELHI — The world’s largest blackout ever crippled roughly half...

Colombia Is No Longer The World's Top Cocaine Producer

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime "World Drug Report 2011". The Washington Post. Published on April 10, 2012, 11:42 a.m. US...

Pentagon Chief Panetta Voices Confidence That Morsi Is ‘President Of All’ Egyptians

Panetta, In Cairo, Voices Confidence That Morsi Is ‘President Of All’ Egyptians -- Washington Post CAIRO — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta...

Fisk of Fury

Take that , Katherine Eban ! [ Read ]

Russia's Navy Ready To Evacuate It's Citizens In Syria

Russian Navy To Evacuate Syrian Base In Emergency -- RT If the lives of the personnel at the Russian naval base in the Syrian port of Tartus...

Frontline Pictures Reveal Terror On The Streets Of Aleppo

Onslaught: Smoke rises between buildings after shelling by forces loyal to Assad in the busy Salaheddin district Chilling Shots From A City ...

Syria's Assad Is Losing Control Of The Countryside

Syrian Rebels Seize Rural Territory While Assad Forces Focus On Major Cities -- Washington Post AL-BAB, Syria — War came late to this little...

World News Briefs -- July 31, 2012

World's Biggest Blackout: 620 Million People Without Power In India -- Christian Science Monitor World's biggest blackout: More than...

The Collapse Of India's Electrical Grid Will Have Worldwide Implications

India's Power Grid Collapses Again -- Wall Street Journal NEW DELHI--Much of India's electricity supply network collapsed Tuesday in...

Zara Kessler's Indirect Donation to NAMBLA

Using the same "logic" and dot-connecting this regressive twit does, we can demonstrate that if stupidly obnoxious Zara and her F...

Iran Will Keep Open The Strait Of Hormuz Unless More Sanctions Or Military Action Occurs

(Click on Image to Enlarge) Strait Of Hormuz Will Stay Open Unless Iran’s Interests Are Harmed: Military Commander -- National Post/Reuters ...

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

UK police arrest man over Twitter insult [ More ]  Why did Americans die defending these people again?

Undocumented Berserkers

Report: Illegals released by feds committed 19 murders, 142 sex crimes [ More ] And it doesn't look like the screening system for the on...

US Defense Secretary: Denies Iran 'Attack Plans' in Works With Israel

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta gives an in-flight press briefing while flying to Tunis, Tunisia, July 29, 2012. Panetta is on a five...

U.S. - Pakistan Agree To Allow Supply Routes To Afghansitan Until 2015

Paramilitary soldiers escort a convoy of trucks carrying supplies for NATO troops before crossing into Afghanistan from the Pakistan border ...

Reese Family Update

From the family spokesperson, via email: Yesterday was another day of hard hitting tactics from the government ! Rick finished up on the sta...

We're the Only Ones All Choked Up Enough

A Port Orange police officer asked a woman to show him how her husband tried to strangle her and when the woman put two fingers on the pol...

Resistance is Futile

When They Come For Your Guns . . . You Will Turn Them Over [ More ] Jim Karger said it, I believe it, that settles it. That's because h...

When 'Friends' Attack, Who Can You Trust?

A linguist, left, shares a smartphone device with a Afghan Army command sergeant major during a security meeting at the Qara Bagh district...

The Main Advantage

The main advantage of forcing into the black market men who wish to build arsenals is that police get a chance of coming into contact with ...

Down But Not Out

If promoters have their way, the Arms Trade Treaty will be back for a rematch. [ Read ]

Congressional Fast and Furious report released in advance to chosen few

Those reports are out there already influencing public perception, while “unauthorized journalists” not so favored are playing catch-up j...

This Day in History: July 31

On July 31st, the opening of communications with Rochembeau begins, at the same time as the duties of the Westchester front. The communicat...

Afghanistan War News Updates -- July 31, 2012

U.S. Army paratroopers scan for the insurgent triggerman who initiated an improvised explosive device, striking a route-clearance vehicle al...

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- July 31, 2012

Sea Ghost concept. Image: Lockheed Martin Killer-Drone Showdown Set As Lockheed Unveils Jet-Powered ‘Bot -- Danger Room Sometime in the next...