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Special Reports Last Updated: Nov 24th, 2010 - 00:58:40


Special Reports
Jack Abramoff�s old friend now South African envoy to Argentina
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR�s South African intelligence sources report that last year�s posting of former opposition Democratic Party/Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon as South African ambassador to Buenos Aires is part of an effort to coordinate the Zionist and right-wing campaign to destabilize populist and progressive governments in Latin America.

Feb 10, 2010, 00:28

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Congress must impeach Siegelman�s judge, Mark Fuller
By John Burt Caylor

(WMR) -- The Obama Justice Department lost any credibility in November by opposing Supreme Court review of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman�s 2006 conviction on the bogus corruption charges that authorities filed against him during the Bush era.

Feb 5, 2010, 00:31

Special Reports
Another deadly fight in Somalia�s capital, Mogadishu
By Nur Hirsi Abdi

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Mogadishu, Somalia�s capital, Friday witnessed a deadly overnight war in many places in the city between Al-shabab Islamists and Hizbul Islam on one side and government forces and AMISOM force on the other side.

Feb 2, 2010, 00:19

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Welcoming the Taliban with open arms: Defectors and deception in Afghanistan
By Douglas Valentine

Last week the U.S. Government began floating the idea of welcoming low and mid-level Taliban defectors into its war on terror against Al Qaeda. After waging an eight-year �dirty war� against the Taliban, U.S. military commanders and politicians are publicly acknowledging their �insurgent� enemy is actually part of the �fabric� of Afghan society.

Feb 1, 2010, 00:33

Special Reports
Haiti after 5 centuries of genocide, slavery, isolation, colonization and globalization
By Nick Egnatz

With the devastation of the Haitian earthquake of January 12, many Americans are literally learning of Haiti for the first time. The following is an attempt to present a very brief outline of Haiti�s history: first being dominated by Spain, then France and certainly for the last two centuries the United States.

Feb 1, 2010, 00:31

Special Reports
Toxic wastes and Haiti
By Mitchel Cohen

Two decades ago, the garbage barge, the Khian Sea, with no place in the U.S. willing to accept its garbage, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 tons of toxic incinerator ash. First it went to the Bahamas, then to the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Bermuda, Guinea Bissau and the Netherlands Antilles. Wherever it went, people gathered to protest its arrival. No one wanted the millions of pounds of Philadelphia municipal incinerator ash dumped in their country.

Jan 26, 2010, 00:48

Special Reports
Obama authorizes covert economic war against Venezuela
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR�s intelligence sources have reported that the Obama administration has authorized an economic war against Venezuela in order to destabilize the government of President Hugo Chavez.

Jan 21, 2010, 00:19

Special Reports
Yanukovich, a man for all seasons
By Eric Walberg

Ukraine�s presidential elections Sunday were remarkable in more ways than one. The winner of the first round and favourite to lead Ukraine at a crucial moment in its history is the one politician observers long ago dismissed as a has-been. Viktor Yanukovich is mocked by his opponents as an illiterate bumpkin, a puppet of Ukrainian business magnates, a former criminal and communist, a conspirer against the brave democrats of the legendary Orange Revolution of 2004. Have I left anything out? Does he kick dogs or beat his mother?

Jan 20, 2010, 00:25

Special Reports
U.S. troops in Haiti to prevent Aristide�s return
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR
) -- President Obama, in keeping with his CIA lineage, has permitted the Pentagon under Robert Gates to take charge of the humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti.

Jan 19, 2010, 00:20

Special Reports
Blackwater/XE behind terrorist bombings in Asia and Africa?
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR�s intelligence sources in Asia and Europe are reporting that the CIA contractor firm XE Services, formerly Blackwater, has been carrying out �false flag� terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, the Sinkiang region of China, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq, in some cases with the assistance of Israeli Mossad and Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) personnel.

Jan 18, 2010, 00:25

Special Reports
An Orwellian world for Big Brother
By Ken Craggs

The Council of Europe document �Internet Governance and critical Internet resources� states (p.7) that � . . . the Internet of Things refers to the seamless connection of devices, sensors, objects, rooms, machines, vehicles, etc, through fixed and wireless networks. Connected sensors, devices and tags can interact with the environment and send the information to other objects through machine-to-machine communication . . . The Semantic Web promotes this synergy: even agents that where not expressly designed to work together can transfer data among themselves when the data come with semantics.�

Jan 15, 2010, 00:22

Special Reports
Obama's screwing of American workers and his and Hillary's links to India
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- There is a reason why the corporate media focused on White House state dinner crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi at last year's gala honoring Indian Prime Minister Monmohan Singh. The media, which acts in lockstep with major corporate owners like Microsoft and General Electric in pushing for the import of low-wage Indian information technology and other high-technology workers into the United States on H1-B visas, did not want anyone focused on the deal worked out between President Obama and Singh.

Jan 15, 2010, 00:16

Special Reports
Major rift between George Mitchell and Israel over loan guarantees
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- America�s special envoy to the Middle East, former Senator George Mitchell, is facing the wrath of Israeli government ministers and the Israel Lobby�s most strident supporters in Congress over his threat of withholding U.S. loan guarantees to Israel if the Israelis continue to build illegal settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Jan 13, 2010, 00:24

Special Reports
A North American security perimeter on the horizon
By Dana Gabriel

NAFTA has extended from economic integration into a political and regional security pact which has been achieved through the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America, Plan Mexico, as well as other initiatives. Various pieces of legislation and reports, along with influential individuals have called for closer trilateral cooperation regarding common rules for immigration and security enforcement around the perimeter of the continent. A major part of the U.S. security agenda already includes the defense of North America, but a full blown security zone would bring Canada and Mexico further under U.S. control. A Fortress North America poses a serious threat to our sovereignty and would mean the loss of more civil liberties.

Jan 11, 2010, 00:22

Special Reports
UBS whistleblower enters prison
MINERSVILLE, Pa. -- At 2 pm Friday, UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld surrendered to U.S. authorities and commenced serving a three-year and four-month sentence at the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pennsylvania.
Jan 11, 2010, 00:18

Special Reports
Danish neocons stage phony terrorist plot
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- The psychological warfare operations by neo-conservatives, who have Denmark under a virtual occupation government reminiscent of the pro-Nazi government during World War II, to stoke anti-Muslim feelings in Denmark, reached another zenith in the "axe attack" on Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

Jan 8, 2010, 00:18

Special Reports
Judge�s order to seize COSMIC documents sends Turkey�s �Deep State� into crisis
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- Turkey�s �Deep State� of military, intelligence, and law enforcement officers, linked to the CIA and Israel�s Mossad through the Ergenekon network of spies and �false flag� operatives, has been shaken over the decision of Ankara Judge Kadir Kayan to order NATO COSMIC Top Secret rooms at the Turkish Special Forces Command�s Tactical Mobilization Group in Ankara to be searched by civilian prosecutors and police.

Jan 7, 2010, 00:17

Special Reports
Obama�s White House Press Corps warned about asking certain questions
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR has learned from a veteran member of the White House Press Corps that the Obama administration has made it known through White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and other White House Communications officials that certain questions posed by the reporters who cover the White House are definitely off-limits.

Jan 5, 2010, 00:21

Special Reports
Intelligence sources: Plane incident a false flag involving trinity of CIA, Mossad, and RAW
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- The Christmas Day attempt by the son of a prominent Nigerian banker and business tycoon connected closely to top Nigerian leaders to detonate a chemical improvised explosive device aboard Delta Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam Schiphol to Detroit was a false flag operation carried out by the intelligence tripartite grouping of the CIA, Mossad, and India�s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), according to WMR�s Asian intelligence sources who closely monitor the activities of the three agencies in India and Southeast Asia.

Jan 4, 2010, 00:18

Special Reports
Gaza Freedom March: December 29, 2009, update
By Kathy Kelly

In a phone conversation with Josh Brollier (Voices for Creative Nonviolence) and Michael Hearington (Veterans for Peace), we learned that about 500 people, including several hundred Gaza Freedom Marchers and scores of Egyptian citizens, are holding a rally outside the offices of an Egyptian Union of Journalists. Josh said that Egyptian speakers are urging support for the Gaza Freedom March.

Dec 30, 2009, 00:11


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