Creepy Blackwater Video Game
That’s right, Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater family of private military companies, has entered the video game market...
Tag: homeland insecurity
The .45 Liberator Replica: A Pricey Piece of Budget History
In the 1940s, the United States military developed an ultra-cheap, ultra-simple single-shot .45 handgun stamped out of sheet metal....
Brazil Building Nuclear Subs to Defend Oil Reserves
Here’s a turn of South American politics that seems like reality straight-up shoplifting from a cyberpunk novel….or one of...
The Face of a Norwegian Killer
The photo above was published, unconfirmed, on the conservative blog Politicons.net. The blogger claims it’s a photo of the...
Indian Officials Deploy Hovercraft Against Rebels
There are well over a billion people in India, but whenever I read contemporary Indian media I find I...
More Fun With Drugs and Submarines
As if the U.S. submarine fleet didn’t have enough to handle what with all their nuclear missiles and nicotine...
U.S. Submariners Cope With a Smoke-Free Life
On January 1, the U.S. Navy’s entire fleet of 71 submarines went smoke-free, because, hey, how could taxpayers NOT...
More Fun With Counter-Insurgency Aircraft
Note — See corrections at the end. A much-lauded warplane deal between the Brazilian aviation firm of Embraer and...
Afghan Opium Addicts and the Drug Trade
CNN has a disturbing top-of-page article and photo gallery on opium addicts in rural Afghanistan, including quotes from a...
The Night They Burgled the Spy Store
Personally, I consider it in mildly bad taste to laugh at “stupid criminals,” unless they’re Woody Allen in Take...