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Last Updated: Nov 6th, 2009 - 00:55:09 |
Special Reports
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
Special Reports
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
Special Reports
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
Special Reports
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
Special Reports
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
Special Reports
Senators introduce PATRIOT Act fixes to safeguard Americans’ rights
WASHINGTON - September 17 -- U.S. Senators Russ
Feingold (D-WI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jon Tester (D-MT), Tom
Udall (D-NM), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Daniel
Akaka (D-HI) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) have introduced legislation to fix
problems with surveillance laws that threaten the rights and liberties of
American citizens. The Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools In Counterterrorism
Efforts (JUSTICE) Act would reform the USA PATRIOT Act, the FISA Amendments Act
and other surveillance authorities to protect Americans’ constitutional rights,
while preserving the powers of our government to fight terrorism.
Sep 18, 2009, 00:16
Special Reports
The World Seed Conference: Good for farmers?
By Robin Willoughby
Last week marked a little-known and
under-reported symposium held in Rome under the auspices of the UN Food and
Agriculture Organisation -- the World Seed Conference. Although the subject may appear
obscure, the conference theme and the issues discussed, including plant
variety protection and seed improvement techniques, could not be more
important to millions of farmers in the developing world.
Sep 17, 2009, 00:25
Special Reports
A/H1N1 was reassorted in a lab
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
A virologist who has been researching the A/H1N1 virus has concluded after
months of research that the ”novel” influenza was re-assorted in a
laboratory from eight genes consisting of avian, swine and human type
influenza A virus.
Sep 16, 2009, 00:20
Special Reports
Afghanistan -- like Iraq -- another magnet for corporate malfeasance
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
WMR has discovered from a private security company source who worked in
Afghanistan additional details about RA International, the Dubai-based
contractor for whom Terry Pearson, the British contractor who blew the whistle
on lewd and homosexual-oriented drunken orgies engaged in
by security guards at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, worked
until he was forced to resign or face being fired.
Sep 15, 2009, 00:17
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