Singer and philanthropist Alicia Keys stopped by pop artist Mr. Brainwash’s art exhibit in Los Angeles over the holiday break with her husband Swizz Beatz. STORY: Alicia Keys Takes Baby Egypt to the Playground Alicia, whose house is probably filled with tons of interesting works of art collected and or made by her husband, posed in […]
Robots are awesome and terrifying! Sensing the potential for saving lives and limbs, the U.S. government has made an unprecedented move: enlisting robots in the war in Afghanistan. According to CNN, the robots fighting with flesh and soldiers outside Kabul, “requires almost no human interaction. It can take off and land by itself… It will […]
Imam M. Shamsi Ali, head of New York City’s 96th Street Mosque, shares his thoughts on the recent horrific killings of U.N. workers and Afghanis: As Imam at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, Director of the Jamaica Muslim Center and Chairman of Masjid Al-Hikmah, as well as on a personal level, I unequivocally […]
We’re inundated by news stories every day and with a 24/7 news cycle, it’s nearly impossible to keep up. But thanks to GlobalGrind’s Think Tank, you’ll be quickly in the know, and then good to go. From what’s going on in the Capitol to what’s happening oversees, we have it all. Today we see in […]
Rolling Stone has uncovered more gruesome photos of the U.S. Army’s self-proclaimed “Kill Team,” whose members are currently on trial for murdering Afghan civilians. More than 150 photographs have been obtained by the magazine. Many of the photos depict explicit images of violent deaths that have yet to be identified by the Pentagon. The U.S. soldiers in […]
We’re inundated by news stories every day and with a 24/7 news cycle, it’s nearly impossible to keep up. But thanks to GlobalGrind’s Think Tank, you’ll be quickly in the know, and then good to go. From what’s going on in the Capitol to what’s happening oversees, we have it all. Today we see the […]
VIA AP Despite the array of prescription drugs he was taking, an Army soldier’s videotaped statement describing how he and his colleagues randomly killed three Afghan civilians appeared to be a reliable account, an investigator testified Monday at a hearing into one of the most serious war-crimes cases to emerge from the Afghan war. Cpl. […]
Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret ‘kill team’ that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies. Andrew Holmes, Michael Wagnon, Jeremy Morlock and Adam Winfield are four of the five Stryker soldiers who face murder charges. Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three […]
Get up and close with the Taliban in a new documentary made by a Norwegian journalist embedded with Taliban fighters has provided a rare glimpse of the other side of the Afghanistan conflict. Paul Refsdal captured the footage and shows the Afghan militants attacking U.S. convoys on a road below their mountainous hide-out and celebrating hits […]
Via Associated Press Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures. The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks posted the documents on its website Sunday. The New York Times, London’s […]
Barack Obama channels Donald Trump, ‘You’re Fired’, the Prez didn’t say it in those exact words but he did accept the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s resignation as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and is replacing him with Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command. The resignation is a direct result of a […]
Is this a game show? Are we still in it to win it? How long can we stay at war in Afghanistan? The war in Afghanistan has just surpassed the Vietnam War in longevity. The Vietnam War ran for 103 months and now June 7th marked the 104th month of the War in Afghanistan. We […]
