Biological Warfare

Let’s Invade Canada The US has always maintained a dream of annexing Canada and expanding the American homeland empire to include the entire length and breadth of the North American continent. The ambition to take territorial control of Canada has existed si…

Come for the one-liners and razor-sharp cheekbones, then stay and hope they show up again. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, the second chapter in Disneys revisionist Sleeping Beauty saga, returns star Angelina Jolie to a world where Maleficent is the misunderst…

By Jon Rappoport Imagine this. A big-time doctor from the US Biological Warfare Group waddles into a meeting room, where a collection of Army, CIA, NSA, and DHS representatives sit quietly in their chairs. He says: So I understand you boys want to put on a l…

Citation: Dheilly NM, Martínez Martínez J, Rosario K, Brindley PJ, Fichorova RN, Kaye JZ, et al. (2019) Parasite microbiome project: Grand challenges. PLoS Pathog 15(10): e1008028. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008028 Editor: June L. Round, Univer…

Key point: Floating bombs on jet streams across the Pacific to attempt and burn up West Coast forests wasn't a very good idea. It crossed silently on a chilly winter evening over the southern Oregon coast, descending slowly, its ballast spent. The Japanese b…

Advertising Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into the U.S. Asia policy.  This conversation with Dr. Jamie Metzl  technology f…

In a stunningly oblivious moment earlier this week, former secretary of state and retired four-star U.S. Army General Colin Powell criticized Republicans for assisting the president and covering up his mistakes, and contrasted their behavior with how official…

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, is funding research into the use of insects as vectors for viral dispersal. The program, dubbed Insect Allies, has received $27 million in funding…

Slayer's first two full albums, 1983s Show No Mercy and 1985s Hell Awaits, were landmarks in thrash metal. They were more brutal, sinister and explosive than albums released around the same time by Metallica or Anthrax and they pushed the envelope with bloodc…

Jeremy O. Harris’ “Slave Play,” which opened Sunday at Broadway’s Golden Theatre, is a giant trigger warning in three acts. This is an ambitious, at times uneven satire about race and sex and power and politics that seems designed to provoke. The two-hour dr…