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Last Updated: Dec 31st, 2009 - 01:49:28 |
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
Special Reports
An interview with Eva Golinger about Ch�vez�s Venezuela
By Mike Whitney
Eva Golinger is a Venezuelan-American attorney
from New York living in Caracas, Venezuela since 2005 and author of �The Ch�vez
Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela� (2006 Olive Branch Press), �Bush
vs. Ch�vez: Washington�s War on Venezuela� (2007, Monthly Review Press), �The
Empire�s Web: Encyclopedia of Interventionism and Subversion,� �La Mirada del
Imperio sobre el 4F: Los Documentos Desclasificados de Washington sobre la
rebeli�n militar del 4 de febrero de 1992� and �La Agresi�n Permanente: USAID,
NED y CIA.�
Dec 21, 2009, 11:20
Special Reports
The mice that roared
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
The South Pacific�s tiny island states may not have any military strength to
wield power but they are using their diplomatic status to poke fingers in the
eyes of the big powers which they fear are trading away their interests at the
Copenhagen climate change summit to enrich the coffers of the international
banking elites.
Dec 18, 2009, 00:21
Special Reports
Warrantless electronic surveillance continues at Bush levels under Obama
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
Warrantless wiretapping of communications and other illegal electronic
surveillance operations are continuing under the Obama administration at
levels commensurate with those seen during the George W. Bush administration.
WMR has learned from informed sources that the Eric Holder Justice Department is
also pursuing a criminal indictment against at least one intelligence agency
official for leaking details of the National Security Agency�s warrantless
wiretapping program with the previous Top Secret code name of �STELLAR WIND.�
Dec 16, 2009, 00:19
Special Reports
The world government global database
By Ken Craggs
The EU document �Internet of Things�
(IoT) states that � . . . communication potentially concerns 50-70 billion
�machines,� of which only 1 percent are connected today. . . . connections can
be established in restricted areas (�Intranet of things�) or made publicly
accessible (�Internet of things�).�
Dec 10, 2009, 00:25
Special Reports
Belgian professor and Africa expert speaks on situation in DRC and Rwanda
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
Noted Belgian expert on the history and politics of central Africa�s Great
Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Dr. Filip Reyntjens of
the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB) in Antwerp, spoke at
the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University
in Washington on December 3 and leveled a broadside on the policies of Rwanda�s
President Paul Kagame in his nation�s looting of the DRC�s natural resources.
Dec 9, 2009, 00:18
Special Reports
Admission of Rwanda to Commonwealth caps off assassination, genocide, and civil war
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
The admission of Rwanda to the Commonwealth of Nations, headed up by Queen
Elizabeth II, caps off a campaign engineered by the intelligence services of
Britain, the United States, and Israel to transform Rwanda from a Francophone
country with close ties to France into an English-speaking country with close
links to Washington, London, and Jerusalem.
Dec 4, 2009, 00:18
Special Reports
Two F-16s on alert to counter attacks on Washington ordered to stand down on 9/11
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
WMR has learned from informed U.S. military intelligence sources that after a
single-engine Cessna was stolen from an airfield north of Baltimore by student
pilot Frank Corder on September 12, 1994, and flown onto the South Lawn of the
White House, slamming into the west side of the presidential mansion, the
Department of Defense took measures to counter any future incident involving
suicide aircraft missions. In the 1994 incident, Corder was killed in the crash
of the Cessna on the White House lawn.
Dec 1, 2009, 00:20
Special Reports
Building blocks towards an Asia-Pacific Union
By Dana Gabriel
Although some may have viewed President Barack
Obama�s recent Asian trip as uneventful and perhaps unsuccessful, he appears to
have recommitted to the principles of globalization as the answer to the world�s
economic woes.
Nov 30, 2009, 00:24
Special Reports
NSA eavesdropping more widespread than reported
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
National Security Agency (NSA) sources have reported to WMR that the signals intelligence
agency�s warrantless wiretapping program was more widespread than originally
reported and that it began shortly after the 2001 inauguration of George W.
Bush and Dick Cheney, some six months prior to the 9/11 attacks.
Nov 23, 2009, 00:17
Special Reports
NSA�s public relations spinmeisters
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
M. E. �Betsy� Harrigan penned an op-ed
in the November 6, 2009, Washington Times, in which she bemoaned the
fact that so many uninformed Americans believe the National Security Agency
(NSA) is out to monitor their every phone call and email.
Nov 20, 2009, 00:14
Special Reports
Buyer beware: Climate change and the Ventura case study
By Nikki Alexander
A seemingly wholesome local event recently led
to some disturbing discoveries about a global GHG matrix that will affect
people everywhere in all countries.
Nov 12, 2009, 00:24
Special Reports
Hillary Clinton�s multi-million dollar rip-off of the US taxpayers
By Wayne Madsen
TRIPOLI, Libya (WMR) --
In a gesture aimed to improve
re-established diplomatic relations between Libya and the United States, the
Libyan government of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi offered to the Obama
administration the seaside royal palace of the former King, Idris al-Senussi,
as the site for the new U.S. embassy in Tripoli.
Nov 10, 2009, 00:14
Special Reports
Dirty coal czar confirmed by Senate
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Friday confirmed
controversial nominee Joseph Pizarchik to be director of the Office of Surface
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, the federal agency charged with protecting
communities and natural systems from the impacts of coal mining. The Center for
Biological Diversity and numerous organizations and communities affected by
coal mining had opposed the nomination.
Nov 10, 2009, 00:08
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 Darfur genocide myth
By Thomas C. Mountain
As one of the first Western journalists to write
about the problems in West Sudan/Darfur, in mid 2003, and living side-by-side
here in Asmara for years with representatives of the Darfur, 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 Darfur.
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
clich�.
Nov 2, 2009, 00:20
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