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U.S. authorities are turning to explain a possible missile launch on the coast of Los Angeles, but one day after the smoke trail have been filmed, the incident remains a mystery, said a spokesman for the Pentagon said Tuesday. The apparent release of a missile was spotted by a camera in a helicopter station KCBS on Monday night. The video shows a rising [...]

Even with all the money spent by the U.S. government on technologies to detect explosives, the Pentagon assumes that its best weapon (and cheapest) is still smelling of dog. To the consternation of dogs. According to the Danger Room blog at Wired magazine, American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are only about 50% of bombs and explosives hidden when [...]

Project Censored whose mission is to “teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society” comes up with its Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009/2010. For reasons exclusively known to them, mainstream media censored or downplayed these significant pieces of news. Here are some of them. You are free to form your own opinion [...]

In a game of survival, US military contractors are ‘forced to pay suspected insurgents to protect American supply routes.’ An Afghan private security official reveals, “Most escorting is done by the Taliban.” A new report reveals that the United States of America actually funds the Taliban. The US government is ‘financing the very same insurgent [...]

The debate over whether to close down the US detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba involves two basic questions. What happens to terrorist suspects after they leave the detention center at Guantanamo Bay? Can Gitmo’s terrorists be rehabilitated? There have been reports that answer the first question. Many of the former so-called terror [...]

The longest an airplane has remained in the air is 9 days and that was accomplished by Burt and Dick Ruton’s Voyager back in 1986. The plane had flown around the world without refueling for nearly 25,000 miles. Records are made to be broken and the Odysseus hopes to break this record over 20 years later. Pentagon’s advanced-research organization, [...]

After the two successful missile tests by North Korea, U.S. Department of Defense has stated that, North Korea would have the ability to launch ballistic missile strikes at major metropolitan cities in the United States in less than three years. The Pentagon while issuing this statement focused on Pyongyang’s recent long range missile and weapons [...]

They are mysterious, financially well-off, adrenaline-pumped, difficult to catch, and very powerful. With cybercrime on the upswing worldwide, Russian professional hackers are at their career best. It goes without saying, of course, that hackers thrive on the fact that everything in the world today is virtually run by computers. The worldwide financial [...]

It was recently discovered from slain Taliban insurgents that their ammunition included cartridges or rounds that came from the supply issued by the US to Afghan government forces. The markings have been confirmed by American officers and arms dealers. This has given rise to the speculation that US arms in Afghanistan have been ending up in Taliban [...]

The Obama administration is finalizing the creation within the Pentagon of a new unit called Cyber Command, dedicated to ensuring the security of computer networks of the United States military that have been, of late, threatened by the intrusion of hackers linked especially to countries such as China and Russia. Most likely to be at the helm of the [...]