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Special Reports Last Updated: Dec 31st, 2009 - 01:49:28


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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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


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