Germany pledges to build Europe’s strongest army as NATO allies answer Trump pressure
This is part six of a series examining the challenges confronting the NATO alliance.Germany is pledging to become a more...
Department of Defense
UK spy powers draw US scrutiny over alleged Apple encryption backdoor demand
U.K. surveillance laws drew scrutiny from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio June 5 amid warnings they could expose...
Congress Is Trying to Permanently Integrate U.S. and Israeli Defense Tech
A controversial insertion in the National Defense Authorization Act currently winding its way through the House would permanently intertwine U.S....
Another Assassination Attempt, More Fertilizer for Conspiracy Theories
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner last weekend became the site of the third failed attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump....
These Middle Eastern News Sites Are Actually U.S. Government Propaganda Operations
Al-Fassel and Pishtaz News look like typical news websites. They have neatly designed homepages and active social media accounts, where...
Democrats Are Split Over What It Means to Block Israel Weapons Deals
Ending U.S. military aid to Israel is now the mainstream position among Democratic leaders. In a historic Senate vote on...
Trump Administration Wants to Make It More Difficult to Evade a Military Draft
The Selective Service System, the government agency that keeps a list of draft-eligible American men, will begin automatically registering names...
Trump’s Secret Wars on the World Keep Expanding
President Donald Trump talks endlessly of “peace.” He ran for office promising to keep the United States out of conflicts, claims to...
Protesting the Smash-and-Grab Presidency With Nikhil Pal Singh
Donald Trump’s second term has been broadly defined by an overwhelming sense of chaos. Every week the U.S. finds itself...
Hegseth Makes Troops Prove “Sincerely Held” Faith in Latest Beard Crackdown
The latest edict from beard-obsessed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth adds strict new regulations to his crusade on facial hair,...
Pentagon Implores Civilian Workers to Join ICE “Volunteer Force”
The Pentagon has put out a call to its civilian employees to volunteer with the Department of Homeland Security as...
Data Centers Are Military Targets Now
In retaliation for the ongoing U.S.–Israeli war, Iran responded with a novel form of counterattack. For the first time in...
Chinese fishing ‘militia’ formations signal rising gray-zone pressure on Taiwan
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan: Last Christmas Eve, satellite tracking and ship-transponder data revealed an unusual maritime event in the East China Sea:...
Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars
In the last few days, President Donald Trump has said that the U.S-Israel war on Iran will end soon, after...
OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us
OpenAI claims it has accomplished what Anthropic couldn’t: securing a Pentagon contract that won’t cross professed red lines against dragnet...
