Gaza Relief Boat Damaged in Encounter with Israeli Naval Vessel

An Israeli navel vessel rammed a boat carrying medical volunteers, relief supplies and journalists to Gaza early Tuesday as it attempted to intercept the vessel in the Mediterranean Sea.  Israel denies...

9/11: Extreme NSA, CIA, FBI Incompetence- or Policy Maker Intent?

What's the difference between incompetence and intent? Do the 9/11 victims families and the people of the USA and the world have a right to answers? Kevin Fenton of HistoryCommons.org breaks down 7 points related to James Bamford's interview with Amy Goodman and new...

Computer security consultant charged with infecting a quarter million computers

I came across this story which was published on the US Department of Justice website today and after reading the story, I had to share this with the NowPublic community.This 26 year old has been controlling OUR computers without our knowledge for sometime now.  The thing...

US Navy Fighters Intercept Two Russian Planes

Well, this is rather 'Cold War'-esque, isn't it: US and Russian plane interceptions during classified top secret flights. Are we in 2008 or 1988?"U.S. fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers, including one that buzzed an American aircraft carrier in the western Pacific...

Phones tapped at the rate of 1,000 a day

"Britain is in danger of becoming a "surveillance state" as authorities including councils launch bugging operations against 1,000 people a day.Councils, police and intelligence services are tapping and...

Police: We've got nothing on McCanns

"COPS have got NOTHING on Kate and Gerry McCann and they will NOT be quizzed again, it emerged last night. Portuguese prosecutors announced there was insufficient evidence to warrant any further questioning of the couple over their lost daughter Madeleine. The declaration was...

RAF jets intercept Russian planes

"RAF Tornado jets were scrambled to intercept eight Russian military aircraft which were approaching British airspace.It was the latest in a series of incidents this summer in which British fighters have been used...

British Jets Intercept Russian Bomber

This incident took place last Friday but details are only just begining to be reported in the British media." It has emerged that two RAF jets have intercepted a Russian bomber over the north...

Here Come the Russian Bombers! Break Out the Duct Tape.

"President Vladimir Putin of Russia announced today that his air force would resume the old Soviet practice, discontinued in 1992, of sending its strategic bombers on long-range patrols all over the world,...

RAF scrambles to intercept Russian bombers

"RAF fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian strategic bombers heading for British airspace yesterday, as the spirit of the Cold War returned to the North Atlantic once again. The incident,...

how the hell could conservatives ever support this? isn't this the very gover...

"The NSA program is apparently the biggest fishing expedition ever devised, scanning millions of ordinary Americans' phone calls and emails for 'suspicious' patterns, and it's the collaboration of US telecom companies like AT&T that makes it possible," said EFF Staff...

Another successful test for missile defense shield

"The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency shot down a dummy target missile over the southern Pacific Ocean during a test of the U.S. missile defense shield early Saturday, according to an agency spokeswoman. First, a dummy ballistic missile was fired from a U.S. mobile launch...

Now U.S. troops need to be transferred out of South Korea

I recollect that a 'plan' is in place for reducing the presence of U.S. troops near the demilitarized zone between South Korea and the north, moving them out of what would, after all, be the most contested territory if Pyongyang should decide to invade or otherwise attack the...

U.S.-led Gulf War Game Aims a Message at Tehran

" With sanctions unlikely to deter Iran's nuclear program, Washington draws Arab allies into a dress rehearsal for intercepting suspect ships. Frigates, patrol boats and intelligence and law enforcement officers from 23 nations are massing in Bahrain over the weekend, poised...

Missile Launched From Vandenberg

"Vandenberg Air Force Base successfully launched a missile Friday. An interceptor missile was launched today on a near-collision course with a mock warhead from Alaska in a key test of the nation's missile defense system. Military officials say the goal of the test is to see...

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