The United States is on track to spend more than $600 billion on the military this year — more, that is, than was spent at the height of President Ronald Reagan’s Cold War military buildup, and more than the military budgets of at least the next seven nations in the world combined. And keep in mind that that’s just a partial total. As an analysis by the Straus Military Reform Project has shown, if we count related activities like homeland security, veterans’ affairs, nuclear warhead production at the Department of Energy, military aid to other countries, and interest on the military-related national debt, that figure reaches a cool $1 trillion.

(5.2.2016) Gegenüber heise online gestand Stephan J. Kramer ein, eine „Hintertür wäre die einzige Möglichkeit“, um solch einen Zugriff zu ermöglichen.

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Syria’s Ambassador to UN Bashar Jaafari said earlier that Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham are responsible for escalation of violence in Syria.

Clinton has apologized for other parts of her husband’s crime bill, but has not commented directly on the expansion of the death penalty.

Schon bevor der Spiegel über die massenhafte Weitergabe von Metadaten an die NSA berichtete, hatten BND-Verantwortliche damit begonnen, in einem Kurzgutachten die „Datenweitergabe-Theorie“ zu entwickeln. Darin argumentierte man folgendermaßen: „Die Erhebung findet […] an ausländischen Satelliten statt, also ebenfalls außerhalb des Geltungsbereichs des BNDG.“ Das Bundeskanzleramt entgegnete, dass die „Auswertung, Speicherung, Übermittlung im Sinne datenschutzrechtlicher Verarbeitung“ in Bad Aibling, also im Inland geschehe. Zudem sei die Auffassung, Metadaten seien keine personenbezogenen Daten, „rechtlich nicht vertretbar“.

(4.5.2016) Wird seit dem 4. November 2011 wirklich gründlich ermittelt? Gerade ein halbes Dutzend Mal hat der Untersuchungsausschuss des Bundestages bisher getagt – und immer lückenhafter erscheinen die Ermittlungen nach dem Ende des NSU-Trios. Gleichzeitig wird immer offensichtlicher, wie Behörden auch aktuell gegenüber dem Parlamentsgremium mauern. Jüngst ist ein Verdacht aufgekommen: Wird Ralf Wohlleben von Amtswegen geschützt?

Waffen für den NSU? V-Männer wollten organisierte Kriminalität fest in deutscher Hand wissen

In his newlypublished book Hayden calls Snowden naive and narcissistic and says he wanted to put him on a “kill list”.

On the next page he said Snowden “highlighted the need for a broad cultural shift” in terms of transparency and what constitutes consent. On Sunday he said there was no contradiction between the two assertions.

Leader of lethal Haqqani network now in box seat

Maulana Haibatulla Akhunzada, the new Taliban chief, has already declared: „I swear on Allah that those who call themselves Afghans, call themselves Muslims, call themselves Mujahid (holy warriors) or call themselves Afghan refugees, they would continue the fight.“

The story did not gain much traction in Peru after audio experts commissioned by other media outlets confirmed that the recording was clearly doctored. On Friday Las Cosas Como Son reporter Mayra Alban told El Comercio that Fujimori’s vice presidential candidate Jose Chlimper was the source of the audio, which was confirmed by Panamericana president Pedro Arbulu.

While the new U.S. boots on the ground have officially been dispatched for the purpose of fighting Daesh (an Arabic acronym for the organization known in the West as ISIS or ISIL), they will most likely be working to achieve one of the Pentagon’s longstanding foreign policy goals: violently overthrowing the Syrian government.

Russian experts will make flights over the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the inspectors from the United Kingdom and Romania will fly over Russia under the Open Skies Treaty, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry‘s Nuclear Risk Reduction Center said on Sunday.

Just like in the Czech Republic, many in Montenegro are equally angered by NATO’s grandstanding with thousands taking to the streets in Podgorica to vent their anger over the country’s leader’s desire to join the alliance.