Security

by Mitchell “Taco” Bell A pilot flying a 737 meets a coordinated laser attack inside Mexican airspace. Guadalajara, MX? Yeah, the law there is optional. That is the best comment about having a seemingly coordinated attack on a civilian airliner on approach into Guadalajara, Mexico.  Those green lasers that can point …

by Nikolay Shevchenko It was late evening when a cash truck pulled up in front of a fancy department store on Mozhayskoye Highway in Moscow. Leaving two partners behind in the truck, the third guard stepped over the store’s threshold to collect the cash that had piled up there throughout …

by Susan Katz Keating The promise of Red Mercury infiltrated the underworld of gullible would-be tyrants, despots, and autocrats, sparking imaginations and a frenzy of deal-making. But what was this mysterious substance? It was the ultimate black market sensation. A substance so powerful it could transform even a lone terrorist …

The warning arrived amid the most intense security operation Britain had faced in decades. by A.R. Fomenko VIENNA BUREAU – In the lead-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics, London was bracing for a global spotlight, and a threat environment to match. So when Michael Shrimpton claimed that the games would be …

For nearly a decade, Aldrich Ames operated inside the CIA’s counterintelligence core while feeding Moscow the identities of American human sources. His death in federal custody closes the final chapter on a betrayal that reshaped U.S. intelligence. by Jose Campos He didn’t die in a firefight or under interrogation lights. …

The far-left Vulkangruppe‘s latest attack left tens of thousands without electricity in freezing winter temperatures. by A.R. Fomenko VIENNA BUREAU – The Volcano has erupted again in Germany – wreaking havoc without shaking the Earth. This is not a geologic event, but a militant one, attacking the power grid in Berlin. …

ANALYSIS by Austin Lee Editor’s note: This analysis originally was published on November 9. As Austin asked then: “Could we actually invade? Of course we could.” As it turns out, we did. Stand on any hill in Caracas at night and you can see the glow of the flares from Lake …

It started as a small-time street gang in 1950’s Los Angeles, and took its name from where it was based: 18th Street, in the city’s Rampart District. It evolved over the years, until the 18th Street Gang – also known as “Barrio 18” – became one of the largest youth gangs …

by Martin Kufus The Pentagon is adamant that no flying saucer crashed in July 1947 near Roswell, N.M., and that no aliens nor advanced technology were recovered and secreted away. It’s an odd coincidence, nonetheless, that the world’s most famous UFO-related incident occurred near the world’s only nuclear weapons.   By …

by Boris Egorov At the end of 1980, on the outskirts of Moscow, Soviet policemen beat to death a KGB major, and staged it as a robbery. They had no idea what dire consequences the encounter would have for them and the entire Soviet police force.  On the morning of …