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Evidence of potential construction of a Chinese military site has been observed by American spy services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Washington Post obtained top-secret intelligence that the construction activity had been identified around Abu Dhabi in December 2022. Those documents were leaked by National Guardsman Jack Teixeira on a Discord server, who faces 15 years in prison. The activity in question occurred around a year after the UAE, a US ally, had announced that they would stop the construction after US officials suggested that the area would end up being used by Beijing for military purposes, per...

WASHINGTON (AP) — NBA player Steph Curry and musical artists H.E.R. and Jennifer Lopez are among celebrities who have joined a national nonpartisan voting initiative launched by Michelle Obama as the effort gears up for the November congressional elections. “Are you ready for the midterm elections?” the former first lady asks in a video announcement Monday. H.E.R., Curry, Lopez, Becky G and Bretman Rock are the newest co-chairs of Obama’s When We All Vote initiative. They join Selena Gomez, Tom Hanks, Liza Koshy, Janelle Monae, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chris Paul, Megan Rapino, Shonda Rhimes, Kerry Washington and Rita Wilson. The volunteer...

Haas'GuidetoSmallArmsAmmunition An activist's views on Silveira v. Lockyer Occasionally I see internet email from the people promoting the Silveira v. Lockyer case - they ask for money to help move this case forward, reminding me that they are "down to the bottom of the barrel". Accordingly, I've tried to formulate an opinion of my own on this effort vying for USSC cert. The result? I could not. I quickly realized that I am not qualified to determine the merits (or lack thereof) of this case which may affect the firearms rights of all gun-owners now and in the future....

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today set out to reject a plan by France, Germany and Russia to fend off the threat of war in Iraq through more weapons inspections. He was due to say that even a "thousand-fold" increase in the number of inspectors could not guarantee disarmament by Saddam Hussein. Mr Straw was making his London address as a row splitting Nato raged on over the decision by France, Belgium and Germany to veto plans to protect Turkey from military fallout from a Gulf conflict. As ambassadors met in Brussels today in a desperate bid to find a way...

Following the success of Colin Powell's address to the United Nations last week, the opponents of the American coalition against Saddam Hussein now propose to flood Iraq with weapons inspectors and UN peacekeepers. To speak of the aptly named "Project Mirage" as a "Franco-German plan" would be to dignify what is no more than a back-of-an-envelope wheeze, floated by the German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, with a nod and a wink from his French counterpart, Dominique de Villepin. Its main purpose is prophylactic: not to prevent Saddam from deploying his weapons, but to sabotage Anglo-American preparations to disarm him. Had...

Franco-German scheming that makes war more likely No two governments have been more insistent than those of Germany and France that Saddam Hussein can be made to bow before the will of the international institutions he has for 12 years treated with contempt. No two countries have done more, in recent weeks, to undermine the credibility of these institutions. Europe’s delinquent duo has declared opposition to “the logic of war”. Nothing could be less logical, in terms of their proclaimed objective of peaceably disarming Iraq, than to throw spanners in the works at the UN and now also at Nato....