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Reasons to Doubt the Official Osama Raid Story – Five Years Later

June 5, 2016

WhoWhatWhy exists in good part to serve as a kind of reality check. Its goal is to step outside the echo chamber, in which, no matter how improbable the “official” story, the media and the public refl…

Five of six F-35 fighter jets were unable to take off during testing because of software glitches but the Air Force still plans to declare the aircraft combat-ready this year

June 5, 2016

Military

Only one F-35 fighter jet was able to successfully take off during exercise J Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon's chief weapons tester, said the other five planes weren't able to take off because of softw…

IDF Guns Down Pregnant Woman as U.S. Readies Largest Military Aid Package in History for Israel

June 5, 2016

Opinion

As the Obama administration is preparing to offer Israel the largest military aid package in U.S. history, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) reportedly gunned down a pregnant Palestinian woman in broad day…

‘Stay Away from Russian Borders or Keep Transponders On’: Russian MoD on US Spy Planes in Baltics

June 5, 2016

Military

Russian Defense Ministry suggests US surveillance planes should either keep their distance from Russian borders while performing flights over the Baltic Sea, or at least keep aerial transponders switc…

An Introduction to Methodology for Study of the Qur’an

June 5, 2016

Religion

Methodology for the Study of Dajjāl in the Qur’ān was meant to be included as a chapter of my book on Dajjāl. However I realized that it was too long to function as a chapter, and hence I had to remov…

Snowden’s Surveillance Leaks Made People Less Likely to Read About Surveillance

June 5, 2016

Opinion

A new Oxford University study has published empirical evidence showing that government mass surveillance programs like those exposed by Edward Snowden make us significantly less likely to read about s…

Where Are the Other 10 Million Panama Papers?

June 5, 2016

Opinion

When I posted my scepticism that we would be given the full truth about the content of the Panama Papers by the mainstream media outlets who were controlling them, it went viral and became the first i…