While the United States is busy plotting the downfall of various anti-hegemonic regimes in the global south, it has also been pursuing another strategy to stave off crisis and possible loss of global supremacy: fusion…
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If you think that 24/7 tracking of citizens by biometric recognition systems is paranoid fantasy, just read the industry newsletters A software engineer in my Facebook community wrote recently about his outrage that when he…
The Science of Genocide On this day in 1945 the United States demonstrated that it was as morally bankrupt as the Nazi machine it had recently vanquished and the Soviet regime with which it was…
The Office of Naval Research – the same entity which runs the Naval Research Laboratory, developers of the unbelievable Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (SAFFiR) – apparently was not satisfied with their already astounding Electromagnetic Rail Gun. A 5,600 mph…
The search for the political truth will always be a difficult task even in our times, when science has placed in our hands a huge amount of knowledge. One of the most important was the…
According to the German magazine Der Spiegel, the European Union is the most important weapons exporter to Saudi Arabia. Of all EU member states, France comes first with Euro2168.6 million of exports in 2010. Italy…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/space-mars-moon-roscosmos-477/ic9452e1386623358977f6072bd0d8549_space.flv] Russian probes will visit Mars, Jupiter and Venus, while Russian cosmonauts will set foot on the surface of the Moon – all by 2030. At least according to the plans of the country’s space…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/weapon-us-microwave-cannon-363/icd477f71101a6a5ce47a69c2740a8823_cannon.dv.flv] The American military have presented the world with a new weapon, informally named the heat ray or microwave cannon. The “Active Denial System” is a non-lethal weapon primarily designed for crowd control. A video…