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From Trucks To Tanks: Pentagon Looks To Automakers To Rebuild America's Arsenal With two active conflict areas in Eurasia - the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Eastern Europe and the U.S.-Iran theater in the Gulf - the world is moving deeper into a war cycle. The latest indicator is not only that militaries around the world are beginning to stockpile one-way attack drones, but also the early-stage push to convert underused civilian industrial capacity, including struggling auto production lines, into wartime manufacturing hubs. The Wall Street Journal is out with a new report...

Trump Urges Extending Foreign Surveillance Program As Some Lawmakers Push For US Privacy Protections Via Headline USA, Congress is set to take up the reauthorization of a divisive program that lets U.S. spy agencies pore over foreigners’ calls, texts and emails, with supporters like President Donald Trump saying it has saved lives while critics point to longstanding concerns about warrantless surveillance of Americans. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin) A key provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act permits the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI and other agencies to collect and analyze vast amounts of overseas...

After Four Years Of War, Zelensky Wants All Land Back Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Tuesday marks four years since Russia first launched its invasion of Ukraine, and, despite President Trump promising to end the war quickly, there's no end in sight to the conflict as Russian and Ukrainian leadership haven't budged on their core demands for a peace deal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reaffirmed in an interview with the BBC over the weekend that he wouldn’t cede the territory Ukraine still controls in the eastern Donbas region and defined "victory" as Ukraine regaining...