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Last Updated: Nov 20th, 2009 - 00:50:44 |
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
Special Reports
More contract abuses and perversion highlighted by ex-security contractors in Kabul
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
At a September 10 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington,
two former managers for ArmorGroup North America (AGNA), headquartered in
McLean, Virginia and a subsidiary of ArmorGroup International (AGI), revealed a
litany of contract fraud and abuse charges against AGNA and AGI and provided
further details of sexual deviancy among AGNA security guards in Kabul tasked
with protecting the U.S. embassy.
Sep 14, 2009, 00:20
Special Reports
Able Danger and DIA had advanced knowledge of 9/11
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
A source with close ties to the highest echelons of the Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA) told WMR that personnel who worked for the DIA on the classified
counter-terrorism data mining operation known as Able Danger were aware of the
planned attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and other major
facilities in Washington, DC, on 9/11 but their information was permitted, on
purpose, to languish in the intelligence and law enforcement bureaucracies
without any proactive measures being taken.
Sep 11, 2009, 00:21
Special Reports
Hanford’s B Reactor: A tour of the world’s most toxic nuclear site
By Joshua Frank
Sitting inside an old nuclear reactor, gazing up
at a wall that holds over 2,000 cylinder rods that once produced plutonium for
our nation’s atom bombs. That’s how I spent my Labor Day weekend.
Sep 11, 2009, 00:15
Special Reports
Israel and U.S. jointly target Sweden in propaganda blitzkrieg
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
After the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published an expose of the Israeli
Defense Forces harvesting the organs from young Palestinians killed by its
forces in the West Bank, Israel’s propaganda machine, which has its tentacles
in the world’s largest media companies and the Pentagon, went to work on
demonizing Sweden.
Sep 10, 2009, 00:20
Special Reports
Zinni condemns use of ‘special envoys’
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
Retired Marine Corps General Anthony Zinni, who served as commander of the US
Central Command, warned in Washington last week that U.S. military trainers may
have to remain in Iraq until 2020. The trainers serve under the aegis of the
Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq (MNSTC-I). Zinni made
his comments at a speech at the New America Foundation.
Sep 9, 2009, 00:17
Special Reports
Neoliberalism needs death squads in Colombia
By Hans Bennett
In her new book, Blood &
Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, author Jasmin Hristov
writes: “For roughly forty years, the Colombian state has been playing a double
game: prohibiting the formation of paramilitary groups with one law and
facilitating their existence with another; condemning their barbarities and at
the same time assisting their operations; promising to bring perpetrators of
crime to justice, while opening the door to perpetual immunity; convicting them
of narco-trafficking, yet profiting from their drug deals; announcing to the
world the government’s persecution of paramilitary organizations, even though
in reality these ‘illegal armed groups’ have been carrying out the dirty work
unseemly for a state that claims to be democratic and worthy of billions of
dollars in US military aid.”
Sep 8, 2009, 00:22
Special Reports
Blackwater suspected of being in Pakistan
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
The mercenary private security contractor once known as Blackwater and now
called Xe Services LLC is being reported in the Pakistani press as being
seen with “other suspicious foreigners” in Peshawar and other parts of
Pakistan.
Sep 8, 2009, 00:20
Special Reports
CIA used Blackwater-linked mercenaries as journalists
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
The CIA used credentialed journalists to engage in counter-intelligence
and counter-terrorism operations from 2003 to 2005.
Sep 4, 2009, 00:21
Special Reports
NSA Q Group employs more Soviet-style security measures
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
WMR’s National Security Agency (NSA) sources report that the agency’s Q Group
personnel security department, acting in concert with the dubious NSA medical
unit, has adopted a new approach to dealing with NSA employees who express
opposition to illegal surveillance policies and draconian internal security
procedures.
Aug 31, 2009, 00:12
Special Reports
How Israel wages game theory warfare
By Jeff Gates
In 2005, the Nobel Prize in Economic Science was
awarded to Israeli mathematician and game theory specialist Robert J. Aumann,
co-founder of the Center for Rationality at Hebrew University. This Jerusalem
resident explains: “the entire school of thought that we have developed here in
Israel” has turned “Israel into the leading authority in this field.”
Aug 28, 2009, 00:25
Special Reports
Speaking at Jackson Hole
By Andrew McKillop
“Strains persist” in the world banking system
and finance markets across the globe, Ben Bernanke said on August 21 at the
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, annual Federal Reserve meeting of banking and finance
deciders. He of course cautioned, like other leading bankers that the economic
recovery “... is likely to be relatively slow at first, with unemployment
declining only gradually from high levels.”
Aug 28, 2009, 00:23
Special Reports
The secret deal behind Megrahi’s release
By Wayne Madsen
British intelligence sources report to WMR that
a series of high-level financial deals between Libya, British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling,
Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, former Speaker of the House of Commons
Michael Martin, and Scottish First Minister Alexander Salmond resulted in the
release from a Scottish prison of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan
Arab Airlines officials convicted of planting the bomb on board Pan Am 103 that
killed 281 people on the plane and in the village of Lockerbie in 1988. Megrahi’s
colleague, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, was acquitted of charges in the terrorist
attack.
Aug 27, 2009, 00:18
Special Reports
CIA collusion with “Al Qaeda” financiers and attack planners
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
WMR has learned from an intelligence source from a NATO country that elements
of the CIA have coordinated their activities with top Gulf state officials who
have been connected to “Al Qaeda” networks that have planned and financed
various terrorist attacks.
Aug 26, 2009, 00:19
Special Reports
The first congressional junket to Israel
By Grant F. Smith
Large congressional junkets to Israel have
become such fixtures in Washington, DC, that few Americans now question their
curious origins.
Aug 21, 2009, 00:23
Special Reports
Khalid Bin Mahfouz dies of heart attack
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
The Saudi newspaper, Asharq Alawsat,
is reporting from Jeddah that Saudi billionaire banker Khalid Bin Mahfouz, the
controversial former director of the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia
and someone who was often accused of being linked to financial support to
groups associated with “Al Qaeda” -- with Mahfouz’s legal team carrying
out rapid lawsuit action mainly in London against transgressing journalists
-- died this past Saturday from a sudden heart attack at his home in
Jeddah.
Aug 21, 2009, 00:21
Special Reports
The Latin American policies of Richard Milhous Obama
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
The Obama administration is not only maintaining the Bush administration’s
policies, which seek to promote confrontation with the progressive bloc of
Latin American nations, but is actually hearkening back to the past
imperialistic policies of the administration of Richard Nixon.
Aug 19, 2009, 00:23
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