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Special Reports Last Updated: Nov 20th, 2009 - 00:43:05


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NSA’s public relations spinmeisters
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- M. E. “Betsy” Harrigan penned an op-ed in the November 6, 2009, Washington Times, in which she bemoaned the fact that so many uninformed Americans believe the National Security Agency (NSA) is out to monitor their every phone call and email.

Nov 20, 2009, 00:14

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Buyer beware: Climate change and the Ventura case study
By Nikki Alexander

A seemingly wholesome local event recently led to some disturbing discoveries about a global GHG matrix that will affect people everywhere in all countries.

Nov 12, 2009, 00:24

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Hillary Clinton’s multi-million dollar rip-off of the US taxpayers
By Wayne Madsen

TRIPOLI, Libya (WMR) --  In a gesture aimed to improve re-established diplomatic relations between Libya and the United States, the Libyan government of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi offered to the Obama administration the seaside royal palace of the former King, Idris al-Senussi, as the site for the new U.S. embassy in Tripoli.

Nov 10, 2009, 00:14

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Dirty coal czar confirmed by Senate
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Friday confirmed controversial nominee Joseph Pizarchik to be director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, the federal agency charged with protecting communities and natural systems from the impacts of coal mining. The Center for Biological Diversity and numerous organizations and communities affected by coal mining had opposed the nomination.
Nov 10, 2009, 00:08

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Passing on the mantle of deep North American integration
By Dana Gabriel

With the demise of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America and the restructuring of many of its key priorities under the banner of the North American Leaders Summit, other trilateral initiatives are also passing on the mantle of deep continental integration.

Nov 6, 2009, 00:22

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Coal company destroys last intact mountain in Coal River Valley
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A subsidiary of Massey Energy has begun mountaintop-removal coal-mining operations on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, the only peak in Coal River Valley that hasn’t been blasted away for mining. Blasting for the mine is taking place 200 yards from the Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment, which holds 8 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge above the Coal River community. Local and national conservation organizations including the Center for Biological Diversity are asking the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House to halt the mining operation.
Nov 6, 2009, 00:10

Special Reports
Busting the Dafur genocide myth
By Thomas C. Mountain

As one of the first Western journalists to write about the problems in West Sudan/Dafur, in mid 2003, and living side-by-side here in Asmara for years with representatives of the Dafur, and other Sudanese resistance, my investigation has found no evidence of genocide. Of course, genocide has and is being committed by Ethiopia against the Somalis in Ethiopia, but there has been no genocide in Dafur.

Nov 5, 2009, 00:28

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Her Majesty’s Big Brother: Britain’s protesters rebranded ‘domestic extremists’
By Tom Burghardt

In “Mind Your Tweets: CIA and European Union Building Social Networking Surveillance System,” Antifascist Calling explored the trend by security agencies in Europe and the United States to build political dossiers on dissidents by data mining their electronic communications.

Nov 5, 2009, 00:26

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House to vote on resolution to reject Goldstone report findings and recommendations
By Jeremy R. Hammond

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote today on a resolution calling on President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the ‘Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ in multilateral fora.”

Nov 3, 2009, 00:24

Special Reports
Mind your Tweets: The CIA social networking surveillance system
By Tom Burghardt

That social networking sites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and their competitors can facilitate communication and information sharing amongst diverse groups and individuals is by now a cliché.

Nov 2, 2009, 00:20

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Document shows rejected Mosaddeq’s outreach to United States and America’s collusion with Britain
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- With the United States and United Kingdom stating they are committed to diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear power program, but also refusing to rule out military action even as Israel pushed for such action, WMR has obtained a formerly Top Secret Supplement to a CIA Current Intelligence Digest that shows past US-UK collusion to overthrow Iran’s government.

Oct 2, 2009, 00:18

Special Reports
Robocops come to Pittsburgh and bring the latest weaponry with them
By Mike Ferner

No longer the stuff of disturbing futuristic fantasies, an arsenal of “crowd control munitions,” including one that reportedly made its debut in the U.S., was deployed with a massive, overpowering police presence in Pittsburgh during last week’s G-20 protests.

Sep 30, 2009, 00:22

Special Reports
Bilderbergers want global currency now
By James P. Tucker, Jr.

Bilderberg has had front men call anew for creating a global currency and establishing major European Union-style regions for the administrative convenience of a planned world government. Both steps were taken in September, one by the new Bilderberg-crowned prime minister of Japan and one separately by the UN.

Sep 30, 2009, 00:14

Special Reports
The UK is now a surveillance society
By Ken Craggs

Since 1996, the United Kingdom Audit Commission has run the National Fraud Initiative (NFI), an exercise that matches electronic data within and between audited bodies, apparently to prevent and detect fraud.

Sep 29, 2009, 00:20

Special Reports
Miami Herald makes up story on Zelaya, Washington Post and New York Times spread it
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR usually does not comment on propaganda masked as news emitted daily by the corporate media, but the September 24 report in the Miami Herald deserves to be panned for its flagrant attempt to portray ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya as a foolish “conspiracy theorist.”

Sep 29, 2009, 00:18

Special Reports
Netanyahu equates Iranian government and Hamas with Nazis
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- In a speech before the UN General Assembly on September 24, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu invoked the Nazi holocaust to launch a blistering attack on Iran and Hamas. Netanyahu said that 62 years ago, the UN recognized the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own in Israel, which he emphasized is a “Jewish state.”

Sep 28, 2009, 00:21

Special Reports
World Food Program; Angel of Mercy or Angel of Death?
By Thomas C. Mountain

The World Food Program, or WFP, is one of the largest of the United Nations “aid” programs.

Sep 24, 2009, 00:19

Special Reports
New details on Obama’s CIA front employer
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR has obtained additional details on Business International Corporation (BIC), the CIA front company where President Obama spent a year working after graduating from Columbia University in 1983.

Sep 24, 2009, 00:17

Special Reports
Siegelman blasts DoJ and judge in ‘final’ reply seeking hearing
By Andrew Kreig

Facing a sentence of 20 additional years in prison recommended by Bush Justice Department holdovers, former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman finally took off the gloves Sept. 21 against his prosecutors and the judge -- and, for once, skipped any mention of Karl Rove.

Sep 23, 2009, 00:22

Special Reports
9/11 Commission ‘played with fire’
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- Lebanese student pilot Ziad Jarrah, according to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the “911 Commission,” was said to have been the pilot of the United Airlines Boeing 757-200 that crashed into the ground near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on the morning of September 11, 2001.

Sep 18, 2009, 00:26


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