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


Special Reports
About those Israel mall vendors: kiosks providing cover for IDF training of militant Jews in United States
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR has learned from a knowledgeable source with close ties to senior Department of Justice officials that the suspicious activities of young Israeli men and women who aggressively push Israeli cosmetic products at mall kiosks around the United States is not only tied to gathering intelligence from nearby military and government facilities but also to recruit American Jews for specialized �counter-terrorism� training at a militant Jewish training camp in the Catskills in upstate New York.

Aug 4, 2009, 00:36

Special Reports
Ethiopia-gate: The aid-to-arms diversion scandal in the Horn of Africa
By Thomas C. Mountain

ASMARA, Eritrea -- Ethiopia, one of the world�s poorest countries has Africa�s largest, best-equipped army. Ethiopia is the largest recipient of aid in sub-Saharan Africa, receiving up to 90 percent some years. Ethiopia, with millions starving and tens of millions more just surviving, has spent at least $20 billion on its military since 1999.

Jul 31, 2009, 00:21

Special Reports
The moneyman behind the Jewish expansion in East Jerusalem
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- The take down by the FBI of a group of Syrian-Jewish rabbis who have held fund raisers for the Binyamin Netanyahu coalition partner, the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, has highlighted the financing of the expansion of Jewish building in East Jerusalem, which is not recognized as part of Israel by the United Nations.

Jul 31, 2009, 00:19

Special Reports
Conspiracies involve lower officials
By Karin Friedemann

Many blame Ashcroft, Cheney, and Bush for ongoing campaigns against activists, politicians and organizations that try to help Arabs and Muslims.

Jul 30, 2009, 00:24

Special Reports
North Jersey: epicenter of 'Kosher Nostra' and Mossad activity
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- The recent rolling up of a Syrian Jewish criminal syndicate that was involved in buying off local elected and appointed government officials in north Jersey is but one in a long series of law enforcement operations directed, sometimes unsuccessfully due to the immense power of the Israel Lobby in the United States, against Jewish criminal networks in the New Jersey-New York region. These criminal networks also have one important thing in common: close connections to Israeli politicians and businessmen.

Jul 30, 2009, 00:22

Special Reports
Taking over post-Arnold California -- an interview with Richard Oxman
By Mickey Z.

What do you think of Obama�s reaction to the Gates incident? Who killed Michael Jackson? Why did Palin resign? Why are 90% of the large fish in the ocean gone? Which question doesn�t belong?

Jul 30, 2009, 00:16

Special Reports
Bribery and fraud at heart of defense contracting work in Iraq and Afghanistan
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR has learned from a knowledgeable contractor who served in Iraq and Afghanistan that a number of large U.S. defense contractors have been involved in questionable deals to land major contracts in countries that made up the �Coalition of the Willing� that invaded and occupied Iraq.

Jul 28, 2009, 00:17

Special Reports
�Union Now, the U.N. and World Government�
By Ken Craggs

In my previous article �Brave new world for reticent fools,� I mentioned that the book �Union Now� by Clarence K. Streit, was published in 1939, as a proposal to unite the world�s leading democratic nations into a federal union. A concise edition of �Union Now� was published in 1940. And in 1961, the book Freedom�s Frontier -- Atlantic Union Now by Clarence K. Streit was published, in the light of the world changes since 1939 - Chapter 10 is entitled, �Union Now, the U.N. and World Government.�

Jul 24, 2009, 00:18

Special Reports
Cheney secret team involved saboteurs as well as assassins
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that Dick Cheney�s super-secret clandestine operations team, primarily made up of Department of Defense Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) personnel, in some cases worked closely with their Israeli commando counterparts to carry out sabotage against Iranian and Pakistani nuclear facilities, as well as assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists, other individuals who were knowledgeable about the role of Israelis in supplying nuclear materials to Pakistan and Iran, and commit terrorist attacks on civilian aircraft.

Jul 24, 2009, 00:14

Special Reports
Did the real �cyber 9/11� happen on 9/11?
By James Corbett

Government sources immediately began blaming North Korea for the recent cyber terror attacks on South Korea and the U.S., despite having no evidence to back up those claims. Now, an examination of the evidence by independent computer experts show that the attack seems to have been coordinated from the UK.

Jul 20, 2009, 00:24

Special Reports
Israeli art students show up at interesting times
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- The way the corporate media would have it believed is that Israeli �art students� who aggressively sell cheap art door-to-door, usually at federal office buildings and the houses of government employees, are merely traveling abroad after their military service in Israel to �see the world.� In fact, these �art students� are classic intelligence operatives who have appeared before and after major terrorist events and covert operations conducted by the Mossad.

Jul 17, 2009, 00:14

Special Reports
Cheney�s assassination squad run out of Pentagon; allegedly targeted Benazir Bhutto
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR has learned from U.S. intelligence veterans that the secret intelligence operation run by Vice President Dick Cheney was not under the aegis of the Central Intelligence Agency but was a component of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Department of Defense.

Jul 16, 2009, 00:24

Special Reports
The Christian Mafia, Ensign, and Coburn
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- The extramarital sex scandal surrounding Senator John Ensign (R-NV) is increasingly involving the Fellowship Foundation, also known as �The Family,� and, as previously reported by WMR, �the Christian Mafia.�

Jul 15, 2009, 00:20

Special Reports
Sanford�s second love after cheating on Wife? Killing doves!
By Martha Rosenberg

Good news, poets! Now there is a second association between dove and romance besides the overworked rhyme. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford ,when not �saying goodbye� to his Buenos Aires consort over Father�s Day, last year was dispatching mourning doves in Cordoba, Argentina.

Jul 15, 2009, 00:14

Special Reports
Was Dr. David Kelly killed because he knew too much?
By Ken Craggs

According to the UK�s Sunday Express, British weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly was writing an expose which would include his work with anthrax. Dr. David Kelly was an expert in biological warfare agents, as well as a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq.

Jul 14, 2009, 00:19

Special Reports
Jewish Defense League attacks Arab-owned store in France
By Saed Bannoura

Four French Jews, members of the Jewish Defense League, attacked and vandalized a book store in France owned by a pro-Palestinian Arab couple.

Jul 10, 2009, 00:15

Special Reports
America�s �disappeared�: The homeless of the big cities
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- They were always seen by all who passed by, broke and idle in a number of Washington, DC, parks and grassy nooks. After 9/11, however, they began to disappear and in large numbers. �They� were the familiar faces of Washington�s homeless.

Jul 8, 2009, 00:18

Special Reports
NSA Security running amok to plug leaks about 9/11
By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR has learned that the National Security �Q� Group, responsible for security, has grown to an immense security and counter-intelligence force, with an estimated one thousand government employees, contractors, and paid informants. NSA�s Security force is reportedly primarily tasked with plugging any leaks of classified or other information that points to U.S. government�s involvement with the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Jul 7, 2009, 00:17

Special Reports
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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