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. …

by Brian Dykeman, The War Horse  The funny thing about memories is that your brain will let most of them drift off into a place where they only make an appearance if you see a picture, smell a smell, or if a certain song comes on the radio. Then there …

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. …

If there’s a lesson to be learned from merc work, it’s this: you are on your own. When you put your trust in others, or rely on outside forces for salvation, you’re buying yourself a one·way ticket to the oblivion of a mercs’ limbo: jail if you’re lucky, a bullet …

by Hooligan I wasn’t sure the man was real. Was he a hunter? The hunted? Out there in the woods, I was starving and on the brink of hallucination, so it could have been Bigfoot himself, for all I knew. When a man gets desperate, the thought of a good …

After the Soviets discovered huge reserves of natural gas in Uzbekistan, this part of the USSR became the main gas producing region in the country. But things went wrong, and one of its key gas fields turned into a man-made disaster of unimaginable magnitude. Hellish fire The unprecedented emergency at …

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 Bruce Pannier “Well guys, are we going, or are we going to sit here taking a piss?” It has been many years since the culmination of the so-called Russian constitutional crisis, when the country’s president, Boris Yeltsin, sought to dissolve the parliament and then ordered the military to crush …

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 …

When a guerrilla missile brought down a Rhodesian airliner in 1978, the crash was only the beginning. by Gatimu Juma It should have been a routine flight. The Bush War was well underway in Rhodesia, but on that day in 1978, civilian air travel was safe. Or so it seemed. …