The most well-known dark web marketplace was the Silk Road, which launched in 2011 and essentially functioned as an Amazon-like market for illegal drugs. In 2013, the FBI shut down the Silk Road, and its founder
was one of the first to contemplate the intricacies of enmity, called misos. Aristotle defined hate as a dislike for someone based on our negative perception of that person's nature, so intense that whoever feels it wants to cause real harm to another. Aristotle also noted that a person ...
Eventually, detachments -- or units -- of as little as 12 men were formed, and bases of operations were set up in the United Sates and throughout the world. In 1953, the first deployment of Green Berets took place. Half of the force was sent to Bad Tolz, West Germany, which served...
I passed the FBI's entrance exams and became a special agent in 1969. Because of my background and training, it became clear that my specialty was undercover." Pistone was so effective that even when the operation put dozens of mobsters behind bars, his Mafia friends still thought he was...
security. NATO wasformed April 4, 1949, with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty by 12 founding member countries. The goal was to create a "pact of mutual assistance" to challenge any possibility thatJoseph Stalinand the Soviet Union would try to further extend control of Eastern Europe...
◆The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is an outgrowth of the National Captive Nations Committee founded by the Ukrainian nationalist Lev Dobriansky. Its co-chairman, Yaroslav Stetsko, was a senior leader of the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), a fasc...
James "Jimmy" "Bah-Bah" "The Sheep" Battista was a stressed-out, overweight, Oxy-addicted 41-year-old, in the hole to some underground gamblers for sums he'd sort of lost track of, when he settled in to watch an NBA game for which he believed he'd just put in the fix. It was...
Notably, a day after Burke was arrested, the Suffolk County police deputy commissioner at the time announced the FBI would join the investigation into the Gilgo Beach murders. RELATED: Questions arise about key tip that may have been overlooked in Gilgo Beach Murders case ...
So, by 1924 Hoover had made a name for himself. He was appointed the Director of the FBI. Post WWII, Hoover was deeply entrenched in the American bureaucracy. For example, Hoover approved of illegally infiltrating and spying on theAmerican Civil Liberties Union, which was ...
Some in the caucus have openly criticized the president since the pardon was issued and said it could tarnish his legacy and open a lane for Donald Trump to issue similar sweeping pardons. Asked if pardoning Hunter Biden was the right thing to do, Jeffries said “the statement speaks for ...