Operation CHAOS was intended to monitor domestic dissent for US foreign policy, but it ended up spying on just about anybody the government didn’t like. Source: TommyJapan1 / CC BY 2.0.

Operation CHAOS and the CIA Plan to Spy on Americans

The United States has, for much of its existence, presented itself as a country who prioritize the rights of its citizens. The founding document of the country, the United States Constitution, starts with “We the people” and much of what differentiates this country from many others is this recognition of the rights of the individual.

The Gyrojet, one of the great what-if moments in firearm innovation. Source: Joe Loong / CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Gyrojet: A Science Fiction Fantasy from the 1960s

The history of firearms is, to an extent, one of hard-won incremental improvements with the occasional quantum leap in technology. While there have been such moments of brilliance in design conception, they are generally few and far between. Such ideas, when they take hold, can be revolutionary. The invention of the bullet containing payload and

Both sides in the Vietnam War became convinced that they had found something unknown in the depths of the jungle (Poisondoll / Public Domain)

Something Hiding in the Jungle? The Rock Apes of Vietnam

Generally speaking, cryptids are easily disproven. Such fantasy creatures belong entirely in the imagination of the more creative sections of humanity, but such secret, unknown species do not exist. There is no giant forgotten ape hiding in the forests of north America, nor is there something similar in the Himalayas. There is no relic population