Putin Commits To A Massive Russian Arms Buildup

Russian president Vladimir Putin inspects a weapon during a visit to an army base in Dagestan in 2008. Photograph: Ria Novosti/Reuters Is Th...

President Obama Visits Fort Bliss To Mark The Second Year Since The End Of The Iraq War

President Barack Obama addresses service members and their families during a visit to Fort Bliss, Texas, Aug. 31, 2012. DOD photo by U.S. Na...

Picture Of The Day

Personnel in the National Guard Command Center in Arlington, Va., monitor the progress of Tropical Storm Isaac as it makes its way through t...

North Korea's Mineral Wealth

North Korea’s Six Trillion Dollar Question -- Scott Thomas Bruce, The Diplomat North Korea holds trillions of dollars in mineral resources....

Will Israel Launch An EMP Attack Against Iran?

Report: Possible EMP Strike On Iran? -- Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon U.S. sees signs Israel could use nuclear EMP attack against Iran....

Is Syria Becoming A Breeding Ground For Future Terrorism In Europe?

Photo from Views of the Occident As Syrian Conflict Rages, France Examines Potential Terror Risks -- Bruce Crumley, Time French security off...

Navy SEAL Author On The Bin laden Raid Will Ignore Legal Threats From The Pentagon

Navy SEAL Author Rejects The Pentagon's Legal Threat -- Atlantic Wire Former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette is going to tell his version of ...

Anti-American Afghan Radio Is Chinese Funded

China Funding Anti-American Afghan Radio -- Washington Free Beacon China government funding anti-U.S., anti-NATO radio broadcasts in Afghani...

Will China's Communist Party Continue To Survive?

China's Long History Of Defying The Doomsayers -- Stephen Platt & Jeffrey Wasserstrom, The Atlantic Losing legitimacy might not mean...

After The NAMSummit, Is Iran Still Isolated?

NAM Summit: Iran Attempts To Prove Western Efforts To Isolate It Have Failed -- Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor Though Iran pulled...

Wikileaks Founder Assange Pledges To Hide In Ecuador's Embassy For As Long As It Takes For Sweden To Drop Case Against Him

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaking from a balcony at The Ecuador Embassy in London, Aug. 19, 2012. Thomas Campean / London News Pictu...

Is The Haqqani Network A Terrorist Group

Jalaluddin Haqqani, right, the Taliban's minister for tribal affairs, points to a map of Afghanistan during a visit to Islamabad, Pakist...

Is The White House Choosing To Ignore The IAEA's Report On Iran's Nuclear Program?

Image: Veterans Today Obama Doesn’t Care He’s Been Proven Wrong About Iran -- Jonathan Tobin, Commentary The release yesterday of a new rep...

IAEA: Iran's Nuclear Program Continues To Expand (Updated)

Inspectors Confirm New Work by Iran at Secure Nuclear Site -- New York Times WASHINGTON — Iran has installed three-quarters of the nuclear c...

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

Syrian men walk through damaged shops in the old souk of Homs in the northern city of Syria August 30, 2012. (photo by REUTERS/Yazan Homsy) ...

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

Rebels transport explosives in Aleppo today Photo: REUTERS Syrian Rebels Still Hold Key Strategic Neighbourhoods In Aleppo -- The Telegraph...

Is Syria's President Assad "Disconnected From Reality"?

U.S.: Assad "Disconnected From Reality" -- CNN Bashar al-Assad is "increasingly disconnected from reality," according to...

BLM declares Burning Man Second Amendment-free zone

Second, where does this guy get off, dictating away the right to keep and bear arms? Who first decided there was a “need” to do this? Who ...

We're the Only Ones Crotchety Enough

A South Los Angeles woman who had dropped her two children off at a police station later died after an encounter with officers in which one...

Syria's Refugess And Civilians Are Now Being Targeted By Syria's Air Force

Threat To Syrian Civilians Is Growing, Officials Say -- New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — Human rights workers and diplomats said Thursday th...

Civil War In Syria -- News Updates August 31, 2012

Free Syrian Army fighters run for cover after Syrian forces fired a mortar in the El Amreeyeh neighbourhood of Syria's northwestern city...

Odds Of War With Iran Increasing

Odds Of War With Iran Increase To 40% -- Dominic Tierney, The Atlantic Our expert panel gauges the odds that the United States or Israel wil...

Another U.S. Drone Strike In Yemen

U.S. Drone Strike Kills 8 Suspected Militants: Yemeni Officials -- Reuters (Reuters) - Eight Islamist militants were killed by a U.S. drone ...

Apple Rejects An App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes

Information about drone strikes was used both in an article in the Guardian’s app, left, and in an app created by a graduate student at New ...

What Is The Connection Between The New York Times And The CIA?

Photo from The Free Republic Correspondence And Collusion Between The New York Times And The CIA -- Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian Mark Mazze...

Easily Offended

Good grief.  If anyone takes offense at this, maybe the problem isn't the group they belong to--maybe it's just them. [ Read ] And s...

Tense Confrontation Between Netanyahu And U.S. Ambassador Over Obama’s Iran Policy Results In A 'Shouting Match'

Yediot Ahronot's Friday Headline: "The Confrontation" Israeli Paper Details Alleged Tense Confrontation Between Netanyahu And ...

The Growing Economic Crisis In China

China’s Growing Economic Crisis -- William Pesek, Bloomberg Policy makers around the world have long envied China’s ability to get big thing...

Uzbekistan To Ban Foreign Military Bases

Uzbekistan, Key To Afghan War Draw-Down, To Ban Foreign Military Bases -- Christian Science Monitor Uzbekistan, which is seeking closer ties...

A Nun, a Minister and a Rabbi Walk into a Panel...

...and show just how dangerous perceived moral authority without knowledge and wisdom can be. [ Read ]

Afghanistan War News Updates -- August 31, 2012

U.S. paratroopers fire at insurgent forces during a firefight on the outskirts of Spedar village in southern Afghanistan's Ghazni provin...

We're the Only Ones Strapped Enough

After they were arraigned, mother and son returned home to find "dildos" placed around the house by police [ More ]   Hey, maybe t...

Seduction of the Innocents

I wish I could find a clip from one of the "Airplane" movies, where they were parodying the old coffee commercial where you could...

Always Think Forfeiture Redux*

Y et another agency gets authority to seize cash that might have something to do with drugs. [ More ] Quibble: I would replace "gets...

We're the Only Ones Overwhelming Enough

With a helicopter gunship overhead and drug-sniffing dogs on the ground, about 100 law enforcement officers swarmed a Wilmington neighborh...

No Firearm Owner is Safe

Jeff and Chris Knox tell WND readers about the case of John Shipley . [ Read ]

World News Briefs -- August 31, 2012

UN Crisis Meeting On Syria: No Safe Havens, No Agreement To Act -- Christian Science Monitor A Turkish appeal for the establishment of safe ...

This Day in History: August 31

I have this Day received from General Gates Despatches, containing the disagreeable Intelligence of the total Defeat of the Army under his ...

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 31, 2012

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Praxitelis Vamvakias, right, discusses combined operations with Lt. Abdul Roulf, Qara Bagh district police chief, lower l...