Jason Ditz

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Software Caught Classified NSA Malware

Kaspersky’s anti-virus software automatically scraped powerful NSA digital surveillance tools off a computer in the United States.

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作者 Jason Ditz
A sign above the headquarters of Kaspersky Lab in Moscow. On Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, Kaspersky Lab said it will open up its anti-virus software to outside review as it deals with security concerns. The company is making the move a month after the U.S. government barred agencies from using its software. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab has been increasingly vilified in the US for acquiring classified US government programs. This has led to a full ban on Kaspersky software on federal PCs, and several retails dropping the wildly popular program. Kaspersky Lab’s own internal investigation into the matter revealed that was indeed the case,

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Senators ‘Stunned’ To Learn US Has 1,000 Ground Troops In Niger

Senate Armed Services Committee members confirmed they had no idea that the U.S. had upwards of 1,000 ground troops operating inside Niger.

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作者 Jason Ditz
In this image provided by the U.S. Army, a carry team of soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), carry the transfer case during a casualty return for Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, of Lyons, Ga., at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Oct. 5, 2017. U.S. and Niger forces were ambushed on Oct. 4 and Wright and three other soldiers were killed. (Pfc. Lane Hiser/U.S. Army via AP)

With Pentagon officials offering the first details on the Niger ambush incident, they also revealed details about the ongoing U.S. war in Niger, including the revelation that there is an ongoing U.S. war in Niger. Nobody seems to have known about it. Especially not those whose job it is to know. Senate Armed Services Committee members

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Pentagon Uses Niger Ambush To Bolster AFRICOM Military Budget

Few questions have been asked about why the US is in Niger in the first place, instead, officials are focusing on a “solution” that will end in more military spending.

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作者 Jason Ditz
Chadian troops and Nigerian special forces participate in the Flintlock exercises with the U.S. military and its Western partners in Mao, Chad. (AP/Jerome Delay)

The October 4 ambush in Niger that killed four US Special Forces members forced the Pentagon to admit that they had been routinely carrying out ground patrols inside Niger, but African command (AFRICOM) may be cashing in on the incident. With the revelation that there are US military operations ongoing in Niger and countless other countries,

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Saudi Airstrike Kills Entire Family In Yemen, Including Children

The airstrike hit a civilian home in Rohoob area of Barat Alanan district, killing a husband, wife and their four little girls, and destroying their house

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People search under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. The airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeted Yemen's capital early on Friday, hitting at least three houses in Sanaa and killing at least 14 civilians, including women and children, residents and eyewitnesses said. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

The latest in a long line of disastrous airstrikes by Saudi warplanes across Yemen, officials reported an airstrike on Tuesday night in the northern Jawf Province, destroying a single civilian home, killing six civilians and critically wounded another. The civilians killed were an entire family. The slain included the parents and four of their

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UN: Afghan Civilian Casualties From US Airstrikes Up Over 50 Percent

The US has been massively escalating the number of bombs dropped on Afghanistan, reaching the highest level in nearly a decade.

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作者 Jason Ditz
Photo of Hellfire missiles being loaded onto a US military Reaper drone in Afghanistan by Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson/U.S. Air Force

The latest quarterly report on Afghanistan civilian casualties from the United Nations once again is bad news, unsurprising since all other reports on the Afghan War for months have been worse and worse. The UN report says civilian casualties from US and Afghan airstrikes in Afghanistan are up over 50 percent from last year, with increasing

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As Mattis Presents North Korea War Plan, Britain Prepares Military For Action

General Mattis’ talk of keeping the Army ready to carry out an attack on North Korea adds to concern that the US could start a massive war at any moment, sparking Britain to prepare its own military for battle.

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作者 Jason Ditz
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, right, speak with Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, as they arrive to testify on Afghanistan before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington,, Oct. 3, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Defense Secretary James Mattis warned Monday that the US Army needs to “stand ready” for putting into action its various options for attacking North Korea, saying “neither you nor I can say” what the future holds, and that it’s purely up to President Trump. Mattis presented the preparations to attack North Korea as necessary because of

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US Troop Deaths In Niger Reflect Growing Africa Mission Creep

Just as the establishment of CENTCOM in 1983 gave way to decades of US wars in the Middle East, the AFRICOM creation in 2007 has sewn the seeds for American wars across Africa.

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AFRICOM

That the United States had special forces deployed in Niger wasn’t exactly a secret before the announcement that four US troops were killed in an ambush near the Malian border. It wasn’t exactly public knowledge, either. The report that the US was sending troops to Niger for “training” back in 2015 was scarcely reported. The first indication

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