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Special Reports Last Updated: Jul 1st, 2009 - 00:38:58


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Israeli gunboats seize Gaza aid ship
Press release, Free Gaza Movement

30 June 2009 -- Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the Spirit of Humanity, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a complete list of passengers). The passengers and crew are being forcibly dragged toward Israel.

Jul 1, 2009, 00:17

Special Reports
$2.775 billion in US aid supports Israeli nuclear weapons program
By Grant F. Smith

President Barak Obama’s fiscal year 2010 budget request for $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel is proceeding smoothly through the Congress.

Jun 29, 2009, 00:20

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U.S. supplied Afghan insurgents for ‘Al Qaeda’ in Iraq
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR has learned from an intelligence source who served in 2007 at the Tallil Air Base in Iraq, also known as Camp Adder by the U.S. Army and Ali Air Base by the U.S. Air Force, that United States intelligence services imported Afghan mercenaries into Iraq in order to attack Iraqi civilians and military personnel, as well as coalition forces, including U.S. service personnel. The Afghans were recruited from Taliban ranks and were paid for their services in Iraq.

Jun 29, 2009, 00:18

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NSA’s cyber-security grab is a major expansion of web surveillance
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- With Time magazine reporting that President Obama has narrowed his top choice for the White House “cyber security czar” position to former Virginia Republican Representative Tom Davis, a leading backer of the Bush administration’s surveillance powers over the Internet, comes word from WMR’s sources that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been given a green light by the Obama White House to embark on a major effort to establish total surveillance over the Internet.

Jun 26, 2009, 00:24

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Politicization of FBI continuing under Obama
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- Seasoned FBI agents on the trail of foreign spies and U.S. election fraudsters were routinely transferred off their investigations and out of their jurisdictions as political “payback” by the Bush administration.

Jun 25, 2009, 00:18

Special Reports
BRIC & SCO summits: Reinventing the wheel
By Eric Walberg

Yekaterinburg, famous tragically as the spot Lenin chose to have the Tsar and his family executed in 1918, and ironically as the fiefdom of Boris Yeltsin, who finished off the Russian revolution itself in 1991, witnessed something no less remarkable last week when leaders of the so-called BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) held their first summit, following the yearly meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

Jun 25, 2009, 00:14

Special Reports
Twelve angry white people: Jury nullification in a Pennsylvania coal town
By Walter Brasch

The Schuylkill County, Pa., justice system managed to do something that insurance actuaries do with mixed results -- it has determined not only the penalty for threats to a human life, but also the value of a human life.

Jun 22, 2009, 00:13

Special Reports
Mossad still stalking malls near U.S. military bases
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- Cells of young Israeli intelligence operatives continue to openly solicit relationships with U.S. military personnel from shopping mall kiosks, according to an informed source.

Jun 19, 2009, 00:18

Special Reports
Bush political appointees serving in Obama administration appoint GOP cronies to senior civil service jobs
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR previously reported on GOP political appointees receiving appointments in senior civil service jobs during the waning days of the Bush administration to ensure a “stay behind” network would continue to protect the interests of Bush administration officials, particularly former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Jun 18, 2009, 00:19

Special Reports
Cheney tied to cash theft and possible murder in Iraq
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- According to an informed source, Dick Cheney, while vice president, amassed a fortune in cash stolen by U.S. occupation forces in Iraq from Saddam Hussein and some of his leading officials and advisers.

Jun 16, 2009, 00:22

Special Reports
The past, present and future of commercial aviation
By William John Cox

As commercial aviation becomes increasingly dependent upon computerized digital technology and less reliant upon hands-on human control, we have to consider the crash of Air France Flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean, with the loss of all aboard, and other similar disasters in the light of our collective experience and expectations.

Jun 15, 2009, 00:17

Special Reports
Down and out in Shah Mansoor
By Kathy Kelly and Dan Pearson

In Pakistan’s Swabi district, a bumpy road leads to Shah Mansoor, a small village surrounded by farmland. Just outside the village, uniform size tents are set up in hundreds of rows. The sun bores down on the Shah Mansoor camp which has become a temporary home to thousands of displaced Pakistanis from the Swat area. In the stifling heat, the camp’s residents sit idly, day after day, uncertain about their future. They spoke with heated certainty, though, about their grievances.

Jun 12, 2009, 00:18

Special Reports
North Korean missiles missing in Africa’s Horn
By Thomas C. Mountain

ASMARA, Eritrea -- With all the recent news about North Korean missile and even nuclear tests it would seem like a good time to revisit the story about the mystery of the missing North Korean scud missiles in the Horn of Africa.

Jun 10, 2009, 00:20

Special Reports
Israel rejects Obama’s call for freeze on settlements
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- The Israeli government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has rejected two of President Obama’s policy planks delivered to an Arab and wider Muslim audience on June 4 in Cairo. Israel will continue to expand its settlements in the West Bank and it will continue to reject independence for Palestine. In fact, Israel’s government has referred to the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria,” an indication that Israel views the illegally occupied territory as annexed to Israel.

Jun 9, 2009, 00:22

Special Reports
DOJ moves to reverse AIPAC espionage case guilty plea and jail time
By Grant F. Smith

On May 1, government prosecutors dropped their espionage prosecution of former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) employees Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman.

Jun 8, 2009, 00:21

Special Reports
Bilderberger treason goes unpunished!
By Jerry Mazza

It is ironic, as Daniel Estulin points out, that America’s fledgling democracy established the Logan act in 1799 to protect itself from Americans fostering foreign associations to intrude in our affairs. Named after Dr. George Logan, a pro Republican and prescient Quaker from Pennsylvania, it has remained almost unchanged and unfortunately unused since its passage, though it reads with great relevance in the shadows of the New World Order’s operatives . . .

Jun 5, 2009, 00:26

Special Reports
Now showing: The EDL Security Show
By Christopher Parsons

We’re paying for a high-tech Broadway show that’s themed around ’security,’ but we’re actually watching the equivalent of a catastrophic performance in a low budget community theatre. The price of admission? Only millions of dollars and your privacy.

Jun 5, 2009, 00:24

Special Reports
Abu Zubaydah, alleged 'Al Qaeda' mastermind, is a CIA veteran
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR has learned from an informed source knowledgeable about the detention and torture of U.S. detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that imprisoned “Al Qaeda” leader Abu Zubaydah, born in Saudi Arabia and raised until he was a teen on the West Bank where he was also active in demonstrations against the illegal Israeli occupation, was a paid agent of the CIA while in Afghanistan from 1991 to 1992 fighting with the mujaheddin against the Afghan communist government and its Soviet military allies. Zubaydah, who speaks Arabic and English, was injured by a mortar in 1992 and left him without an eye and memory loss. Zubaydah was so badly injured, he forgot how to use a rifle and was not allowed back on the front lines to fight the Afghan Communist forces under President Najibullah.

Jun 4, 2009, 00:19

Special Reports
Super-secret organization remains elusive as ever
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- A super-secret entity, known as ISTO, or International Strategic and Tactical Organization, which this editor previously reported was involved in coups and assassinations primarily in Africa, including the April 6, 1994, double assassinations of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, remains as secretive and elusive as ever. However, WMR has been informed by a well-placed source that ISTO has been active as late as 2006.

May 29, 2009, 00:20

Special Reports
Active and retired top military brass met to discuss what really happened on 9/11
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR has learned from a well-informed source that in the months after the 9/11 attacks, a group of retired and active duty military officers, with ranks as high as general, met in an informal and hush-hush working group to discuss what actually occurred on September 11, 2001.

May 28, 2009, 00:18


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