Loose Lips Can Still Sink Ships by Michael Reagan In days past, other nations needed a sophisticated and highly trained espionage operation to know the details of America’s military might. Now, they only need a subscription to The New York Times. This week, the Obama administration released information regarding the number of nuclear weapons we have stockpiled: 5,113 precisely. This is a mere 16 percent of...

Kent State and the Frisbee Revolution by Michael Winship I was a freshman at Georgetown University when it happened, 40 years ago on May 4. Most of us didn’t know what had taken place until late in the day. We were in class or studying for finals, so hours went by until my friends and I heard the news. On that warm spring Monday, the Ohio National Guard had opened fire on an anti-war demonstration...

Who is responsible for the appearance of Pakistani-Americans who train in Pakistan to attack America? Continuing our coverage of the Pakistani reaction to the arrest of Faisal Shahzad, these two editorials reflect Pakistan’s internal debate on the subject. The first editorial from Pakistan’s Frontier Post argues that the fault is squarely that of the United States, for creating the terrorist menace...

British physicist Dr Stephen Hawking warned on his new TV show that Extraterrestrials (ETs), if they ever arrive, might be looking for conquest and plunder. He believes aliens could be more interested in exploiting our natural resources than sharing their technology with us. Is Planet Earth prepared to take them on? Or, will the might of the rich/developing nations exhausted fighting their own wars? Long before...

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We attack al Qaeda and the Taliban with Predator drones. They send us a hapless Shoe Bomber, a Christmas plane passenger with underwear that doesn’t explode and now the Times Square terrorist who parks a used car full of jerry-rigged junk and leaves a trail of bread crumbs that results in his capture 53 hour later. Yet, lopsided as this War on and of Terror may be technologically, the score has to be reckoned...

This blurb by Dave Neiwert at Crooks and Liars is fascinating. It is so blithely ignorant of its own irony that it could easily be construed as a child sticking its tongue out at a playmate and sneering, “So there, nyeah.” The next time you hear some right-winger (most notably Dick Cheney) sneer at the Obama administration’s “law enforcement approach to terrorism,” remember this. Remember...

Is the U.S. still in “the crosshairs of terror?” A former CIA officer thinks so: >

John McCain is saying we shouldn’t mirandize an American citizen who has been arrested for his participation in the Times Square bomb plot: It would have been a serious mistake to have read the suspect in the attempted Times Square car bombing his Miranda rights, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday. McCain, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a longtime leading Republican...

Federal agents and police detectives have arrested a naturalized citizen from Pakistan in the botched unexploded car bomb in Times Square. They identified the man as Faisal Shahzad of Connecticut who they said bought the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder several weeks ago through a website ad but did not register it. The unattended SUV was loaded with gasoline, propane, fireworks, two timers and 100 pounds of fertilizer....

The Obama administration has a penchant for laying most of its cards on the table, a poker technique many experts would avoid, and they continued this strange game by telling the world we have a nuclear arsenal of 5,113 weapons. The heretofore stunning announcement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at an arms proliferation meeting before the United Nations General Assembly shattered a taboo dating back to...

NBC: Suspect arrested in NYC bomb attempt Man is a Connecticut resident who bought the SUV at center of probe NEW YORK – Authorities arrested a suspect in the attempted weekend car bombing in Times Square, NBC News’ justice correspondent Pete Williams reported early Tuesday morning. A U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, Shahzad Faisal, was arrested Monday night on Long Island, Williams reported. Earlier,...

With the opening of the five-yearly U.N. conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the world is once again poised to argue about Iran’s nuclear program. These two articles – one from Kuwait and another from Algeria – highlight the split within the Muslim world about what to do – and whether perceived U.S. nuclear double standards in regard to Israel and other states like India...

Intensive investigations into the attempted bombing of New Yorks’s Times Square continue — and the latest is that the administration is eying a possible international plot. In fact, the “person of interest” reportedly traveled to Pakistan — an American ally that has in recent years become a hotbed of terrorist activity. Fox News reports: The investigation into the Times Square car...

Does a video showing footage from an alley show the New York Times Square bomber wannabe? ABC News reports on the video and shows part of it. According to ABC, police want to find a question a 40ish year old white male. Here’s the ABC report:

Two recent reports — the United Nations’ Benazir Bhutto murder probe, and the STRATFOR Intelligence analysis — puts the global spotlight back on Pakistan. If the UN Bhutto murder investigation turned the needle of suspicion on Pakistan’s ruling coterie, the STRATFOR report highlights the US exit strategy in Afghanistan and America’s growing reliance on Pakistan. First the STRATFOR...

Some streets in New York City’s heavily-populated Times Square — one of America’s busiest intersections — were closed and evacuated due to the discovery of what New York Police say was a car bomb. Media reports are now just coming in, but MSNBC turned to live coverage as soon as the story broke. According to the latest, police have found what appears to be a timer. Tidbits on this story...

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Thirty five years ago yesterday, Saigon, the capital of what was then known as South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese forces. The event marked the defeat of America and its allies and a victory for the forces of Ho Chi Minh. According to this article from Vietnam’s state-controlled Voice of Vietnam, the pain and sorrow of the war brought out the best of the Vietnamese people, many of whom sacrificed...

Is it reasonable for the United States and Russia to ask China and other nuclear weapons states to disarm, when Washington and Moscow retain the capacity to destroy the earth ’49 times over’? According to this editorial from China’s state-controlled Global Times, before asking Beijing to disarm, the U.S. and Russia had better cut their nuclear stockpiles to match China’s. The Global...