Stolen Air Force drone manuals available for $200 on the dark web
"The hacker told Recorded Future that he frequently 'entertains' himself by watching live streams of sensitive footage from airplanes and border surveillance cameras."
New Zealand: U.S. can extradite Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
"The six-year legal saga is widely seen as a test for how far the United States can reach globally to apply U.S. firms' intellectual property rights."
The Senate Just Gave the Pentagon More Money Than Russia’s Entire Military Budget.
"There are few bipartisan projects in Congress these days, but Republicans and Democrats have no trouble joining together to feed more money into the Pentagon's gaping maw."
End the Wars to Halt the Refugee Crisis
"Politicians should honestly confront the question: what are the reasons that lead millions of people to leave their homes? And fashion equally honest and humane solutions."
Why Doesn’t Outrage At U.S. Imprisoning Children Extend To U.S. Killing Children?
While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries."
Oil Spikes Higher After Trump Threatens Allies With Sanctions For Buying Iranian Oil
"The U.S. government is calling on its allies to zero out imports of oil from Iran by November 4, or else face sanctions, and Washington is leaning towards granting no waivers at all. An official from the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that it had plans to follow up on the matter with Turkey, India and China, even as the U.S. is trying not to 'adversely impact' these countries, Bloomberg reports."
Retaliatory Tariffs Push Harley Offshore; Enraged Trump Threatens Punitive Taxes
"A day earlier, Harley-Davidson announced that it would shift some of its production overseas in response to the European Union’s new 31 percent tariff on its imported bikes, which was imposed in retaliation for Mr. Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs."
The Military Industrial Complex’s Assault on Liberty
"Emotion, not genuine geopolitical insight, drives popular support for inflated defense spending."
The World Transformed and No One in America Noticed
"The accession of both India and Pakistan to the SCO is also a stunning repudiation of the United States."
Bill Bonner: Trump’s Trade Deals Are a Futile Conceit
"At the end of the Korean War, both North and South Korea were poverty-ridden hellholes. But they took different routes. And got very different results."