Defense Minister Ehud Barak confirmed on Thursday Haaretz’s report that President Barack Obama recently received a new National Intelligence Estimate report on the Iranian nuclear program, which shares Israel’s view that Iran has made significant progress toward military nuclear capability, and said that the report has raised the urgency of the issue.
Speaking on Israel Radio on Thursday morning, Barak said that there is a U.S. intelligence report being passed around [...]
Internet activists who killed an antipiracy campaign on Capitol Hill in January are back on the virtual warpath against efforts to improve America’s cyber defenses. As then, the ferocity of the ire is disconnected from the modesty of the legislation.
Concern over the vulnerability of America’s digital networks has grown with dependence on them. The government devotes tremendous resources to protect its systems from hackers, terrorists and states like China or [...]
The European Union is grappling with a right-wing government in Hungary in a test of its will to prevent former Communist states from sliding into authoritarianism.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is under attack for ramming through laws and a new constitution that critics say strengthen his party’s grip on the economy, pack the judiciary with yes-men and gag the media.
Following mass protests in Hungary, the EU’s executive commission is on [...]
by Ben Tanosborn
America’s Iraq Experience: Invasi-Eradicavi-Turbavi
Julius Caesar undoubtedly was showing off with his Veni-Vidi-Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered) when referencing to his short war outside Zela (Zile) in Turkey over two millennia ago. Similarly, if we were to use a short catchy-comment for the almost nine years America has invested in its “Iraq Mission,” we would be on target by condensing the US experience in also three Latin words, [...]
Bank of America continues slouching toward destruction, with its stock price tanking (down nearly 50% since the start o the year), credit default swaps (basically, wagers on its default) up, layoffs coming, and theoretically under the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, no bailout in sight.
Buried yesterday in a Bloomberg piece was the seeming throwaway line that “Bank of America’s bond-insurance prices last week surged to a [...]
Here is MarketWatch’s Paul Farrell summarizing the 10 ways in which the very system is destroying America, to lift your spirits up. To wit: “Doomsday Capitalism? Capitalism is killing America? Yes, that’s the message in my tenth book. “Doomsday Capitalism, 10 Self-Destructive Trends.” But you’ll never see it in print. No one, even book publishers want to read this truth: Capitalism is destroying America. Why? [...]
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