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12 September 2013 | 
Why is Syria under attack? - Part 4
‘Syria’ is about power, money, influence and energy
When you peek below the surface, it becomes clear that Syria is under attack due to the interests of the parties involved. ‘Syria’ is about power, money, influence and energy.
10 September 2013 |
Why is Syria under attack? - 3
Syria and Iran are like pieces on a geopolitical chessboard
8 September 2013 |
Why is Syria under attack? - Part 2
On the interests of the parties involved in the Syrian conflict and the role of the media
In the event of major military conflicts that risk considerable humanitarian and economic consequences, it is useful to examine the interests of all parties involved as well as the role that the media plays in reporting the events.
7 September 2013 |
Why is Syria under attack? - Part 1
Who is behind the chemical weapons attack in Syria?
On the surface it’s straightforward: the U.S. wants to liberate Syria from a brutal dictator who is attacking his own people with poison gas. But beneath the surface there is something very different going on.
26 January 2013
Julian Assange on new Hollywood attack on Iran and WikiLeaks: The Fifth Estate
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In the movie by DreamWorks Iran is made out as a country that is preparing a nuclear weapon. Assange explains why he thinks this is propaganda against Iran and against WikiLeaks.
22 January 2013
Insight: Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot
"The big question is was it worth it? And retrospectively I have to say it was not," he told Reuters in an interview.
12 January 2013
Inside the Terror Factory
But how many of these would-be terrorists would have acted were it not for an FBI agent provocateur helping them? Is it possible that the FBI is creating the very enemy we fear?
10 January 2013
Big Oil, Big Ketchup and The Assassination of Hugo Chavez
Reverend Pat Robertson said, "Hugo Chavez thinks we're trying to assassinate him. I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it."
17 December 2012
Finucane, Sami al-Saadi and Khaled el-Musri: will we once again just 'move on' from the murky conduct of MI6 and the CIA?
This, of course, is a rather dodgy situation for America’s Protectors. After all, Bashar al-Assad of Syria is now supposed to be the devil incarnate, the latest Middle East Hitler, the man whom Obama and La Clinton would like to have liquidated. So why did the Protectors send Mr Arar to him? Well, of course, a decade ago, Assad was our mate, wasn’t he?
11 December 2012
11 Secret Documents Americans Deserve to See
I’ve been collecting the stories of unreleased documents for several years. Now I have chosen 11 examples that were created—and buried—by both Democratic and Republican administrations and which cover assassinations, spying, torture, 50-year-old historical events, presidential directives with classified titles and…trade negotiations.
10 December 2012
Israel suspected over Iran nuclear programme inquiry leaks
The latest leak, published by the Associated Press (AP), purported to be an Iranian diagram showing the physics of a nuclear blast, but scientists quickly pointed out an elementary mistake that cast doubt on its significance and authenticity.
7 December 2012
NATO chief urges readiness for military intervention in Syria
Everybody at the table understood what he was referring to: NATO had to prepare to intervene militarily in Syria if need be. Politically that would mean a radical change from its present course [...].
21 November 2012
Newly released emails say no sailors watched bin Laden’s burial at sea after Navy SEAL raid
The Defense Department said in March that it could not locate any photographs or video taken during the raid or showing bin Laden’s body. It also said it could not find any images of bin Laden’s body on the Vinson. The Pentagon also said it could not find any death certificate, autopsy report or results of DNA identification tests for bin Laden, or any pre-raid materials discussing how the government planned to dispose of bin Laden’s body if he were killed.
19 November 2012
Shadow Banking System Larger than at the Start of the Financial Crisis
At the same time, authorities have relaxed rules against fraud, excessive leverage and moral hazard … three of the other main causes of the financial crisis.
16 November 2012
War In Gaza: Why Now?
Israel is holding its own elections in January. Many commentators say that the attacks on Gaza are a cynical ploy by the Israeli Prime Minister to win re-election:
16 November 2012
Report FAS: Putting a price on war with Iran
Note that all costs are median estimates for the first three months of any action. Costs projected longer than that involved too many variables, according to the group, and would be inaccurate to report.
16 November 2012
For Netanyahu, Gaza escalation could pave the way to Iran strike
But the dark cloud in the Gaza skies might serve as an alternative, or preface to, an Iran operation. It all depends on circumstances and what happens further down what may be a long road.
8 November 2012
Money Party Wins US Election
Most Americans afforded Obama nothing. Most votes for him were likely against Romney. Money power in America chooses candidates and winners. Corporate manipulated and controlled electronic voting machines have final say.
2 November 2012
UK torture history exposed
Book review
In just over 300 pages Cobain charts a tangle of cases that together produce a damning picture of the UK’s interaction with torture.
27 October 2012
In Saudi Arabia and Israel, Signals That Iran Has Retaliation in Works
The Saudi and Qatari governments would understand the message clearly; Iran can attack your economy. In effect: we don’t need to shut the Strait of Hormuz, we will shut down your computer instead. [...] But the virus and the drone together sent a signal, don’t underestimate Iran.
26 October 2012
Journalism in the Obama age shows the real media bias
Ample ink is spilled over debating whether the US media is biased in favor of Republicans or Democrats. It is neither. The overwhelming, driving bias of the US media is subservience to power, whoever happens to be wielding it.
25 October 2012
Can We Trust Voting Machines?
Trade-secret law makes it impossible to independently verify that the devices are working properly.
25 October 2012
Greg Palast: Get Ready for Massive Voter Fraud
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Palast: '1.4 million votes were lost, 'spoiled' as they call them in the biz, through these so called glitches, in the last election.'
22 October 2012
Obama and Romney: War No Matter Who Wins Election
Establishment fount Forbes predicts that if Obama gets re-elected, Israel will attack Iran in January, a move that will undoubtedly be supported by the United States.
21 October 2012
Special Report: Food, beverage industry pays for seat at health-policy table
The office, the Pan American Health Organization, not only is relying on the food and beverage industry for advice on how to fight obesity. For the first time in its 110-year history, it has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in money from the industry.
18 October 2012
Martin Sheen and Woody Harrelson set for 9/11 'truther' film September Morn
Asner, who has won seven Emmys, has several times urged a new investigation into 9/11. In 2010, he told an interviewer: "This country – which is the greatest, strongest country that ever existed in the world, in terms of power – supposedly had a defence that could not be penetrated all these years. But all of that was eradicated by 19 Saudi Arabians, supposedly. Some of whom didn't even know how to fly.
5 October 2012
New study suggests humans are not naturally violent
The conclusion is that the automatic reaction is to be friendly, generous and cooperative, and only upon further consideration do humans become greedy or violent.
4 October 2012
Assault On Syria Matches Brookings Institution Regime Change Strategy
Both of these factors, Israel’s posturing on the Golan Heights and Turkey’s hostile border actions, are now in full swing.
3 October 2012
Joseph Stiglitz: The American Dream Has Become a Myth
America has created a marvelous economic machine, but most of the benefits have gone to the top.
30 September 2012
The Economist reviews Bad Pharma - How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients
Dr Goldacre describes the routine corruption of what is supposed to be an objective scientific process designed to assess whether new drugs work, whether they are better than drugs already on the market and whether their side effects are a price worth paying for any benefits they might convey. The result is that doctors, and the patients they treat, are hobbled by needless ignorance.
27 September 2012
Russia halts imports of GMO corn after cancer study
France has announced it will uphold a ban on GMO crops, while activists and farmers in California and elsewhere in the U.S. are pushing for GMO foods to be labeled in stores and for the government to further investigate the health impact of Monsanto’s products.
26 September 2012
Lobbyist: Launch Staged Provocation To Start War With Iran
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Speaking at a Washington Institute for Near East Policy policy forum luncheon on “How to Build US-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout,” WINEP director of research Patrick Clawson listed a raft of historical examples of where governments have either staged or exploited attacks in order to become embroiled in war.
21 September 2012
How American Democracy Became the Property of a Commercial Oligarchy
In other words, the 1% (or less) are using money vacuumed out of our world to invest in “democratic” politics -- and as with any other investment, they naturally expect a return, whichever party ends up in the White House. Isn’t it time, under the circumstances, to bring back a few of those choice words like “plutocrat” and “monied interests” from the late nineteenth century, that previous moment when a Gilded Age fused with a round of recessions and depressions
16 September 2012
Defence Minister: Clegg axed me because I won't support attack on Iran
The row broke as sources confirmed that British intelligence agents are already deeply involved in attempts to discover Iran’s nuclear secrets.
6 September 2012
CIA faces new accusations of torture
Mohammed Shoroeiya told Human Rights Watch he was waterboarded numerous times during CIA interrogation in Afghanistan. [...] And there were more.
5 September 2012
Noam Chomsky: War Drums Beat Ever More Loudly Over Iran
All unimaginable, of course, though it is actually happening, with the cast of characters reversed. True, analogies are never exact, and this one is unfair - to Iran.
5 September 2012
Pulitzer Prize Journalist Chris Hedges on the threat posed by Obama and the corporate oligarchy to the basic liberties
Alex talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and war correspondent Chris Hedges. "Revolt is all we have left. It is our only hope," Hedges recently wrote.
4 September 2012
US considering previously rejected covert action against Iran
The Times adds that the US is also reluctantly considering previously rejected covert action against Iran, including air strikes on power plants and other sites that could impact Iranian civilian populations, as well as a "clandestine" strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, much like the strike Israel launched against Syria in 2007.
3 September 2012
Indirect message US saying it will not back Israeli strike on Iran
According to the report, Washington used covert back-channels in Europe to clarify that the US does not intend to back Israel in a strike that may spark a regional conflict.
30 August 2012
Khamenei: Iran will not develop nuclear weapons
Reuters reports that Khamenei told the gathering, "Our motto is nuclear energy for all and nuclear weapons for none. Iran will never pursue nuclear weapons but it will not give up its national right to peaceful nuclear energy."
30 August 2012
More Crazyhorse 'collateral murders' in Iraq
But the footage leaked to Wikileaks is just one incident of several involving a unit relating to the call sign ‘Crazyhorse’.
28 August 2012
Daan de Wit (DeepJournal) interviewt Webster Tarpley op het Magneetfestival
Het Magneetfestival gaat de diepte in met vier interviews. Daan de Wit interviewt Webster Tarpley, Albert Spits, en Mike Donkers.
28 August 2012
Iran will never stop uranium enrichment: envoy
“Our enrichment activities will never stop and we are justified in carrying them out, and we will continue to do so under IAEA supervision,” Ali Asghar Soltanieh told reporters.
24 August 2012
Barack Obama asks eurozone to keep Greece in until after election day
European leaders are thought to be sympathetic to the lobbying fearing that, under pressure from his party lin Congress, Mitt Romney would be a more isolationist president than Mr Obama.
21 August 2012
Report: FBI informant armed and trained Black Panthers
Aoki [...] was the subject of the biography Samurai Among Panthers: On Race, Resistance And A Pardoxical Life, which traced his ascent within the organization, where he became the highest-ranking non-black member of the party.
21 August 2012
Senator Suggested False Flag Attack To Kennedy 2 Years Prior To Operation Northwoods Proposal
Kennedy: “George, I’d love to have you over … but I want you to do me a favour. I’d like to visit with you, I want to discuss things with you but I don’t want you to talk to me anymore about Cuba.”
20 August 2012
Western spies helping Syria rebels
“We can be proud of the significant contribution we are making to the fall of the [Al] Assad regime,” an official from Germany’s BND foreign intelligence service told Bild am Sonntag. [...] Britain’s Sunday Times newsaper also said British intelligence was helping rebels launch successful attacks on government forces with information gathered from their listening posts in nearby Cyprus.
16 August 2012
The new totalitarianism of surveillance technology
No, the "targets" here are me and you: everyone, all of the time. In the name of "national security", the capacity is being built to identify, track and document any citizen constantly and continuously.
23 July 2012
UK Training Syrian Rebels In Iraq
A British Army source revealed last night that former SAS soldiers are training Syrian rebels in Iraq in military tactics, weapons handling and communications systems.
22 July 2012
Stymied at U.N., U.S. Refines Plan to Remove Assad
Administration officials insist they will not provide arms to the rebel forces. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are already financing those efforts. But American officials said that the United States would provide more communications training and equipment to help improve the combat effectiveness of disparate opposition forces in their widening, sustained fight against Syrian Army troops.
20 July 2012
Journalism v. propaganda in reporting on the attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria
By “identified,” “confirmed” and “corroborated” Iranian and Hezbollah responsibility, what The New York Times means is this: American officials asserted that this was so, even as they “declined to provide additional details” and even though “the investigation was still under way.”
19 July 2012
Wag the Dog Arrives at Last
It is clear that Mitt Romney will do Israel’s bidding and it is also true that President Barack Obama has painted himself into a corner on Iran in particular and might well agree to an attack on [Syria and Iran] due to political pressure from the Israel Lobby.
17 July 2012
HSBC Slammed By US As 'Pervasively Polluted'
A scathing US Senate report has said a "pervasively polluted" culture at HSBC allowed it to act as financier for clients seeking to launder suspected terror and drug money.
14 July 2012
The Syrian opposition: who's doing the talking?
So what we see, in 2008, at the same meeting, are the leaders of precisely those organisations identified in the WikiLeaks cables as the conduit (the Democracy Council) and recipient (the MJD) of large amounts of state department money.
13 July 2012
MI6 chief Sir John Sawers: 'We foiled Iranian nuclear weapons bid'
“I take great pride in the fact that, in the last ten years, over a number of jobs, I’ve been involved in an issue of global concern, and I feel that I as an individual [have made] an impact in the outcome of events.”
11 July 2012
House of Bankers: 16% of Lords are paid by City firms
Swiss bank UBS is among the best-connected City institutions with three Conservative peers on its payroll: Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, who is its vice-chairman; Lord Garel-Jones, who is managing director; and Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, who is registered as an adviser.
10 July 2012
Revealed: The £93m City lobby machine
The Bureau’s four-month study also gained previously undisclosed documents that show how finance lobbyists won a host of important policy changes in Whitehall and Westminster. These include:
9 July 2012
The Big Banks are Amateurs When It Comes to Manipulating Interest Rates
Indeed, the big banks are rank amateurs when it comes to manipulating interest rates. Central banks have been manipulating rates in very substantial ways for a hundred years or more.
27 June 2012
Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith: How the Wall Street Mafia Holds America -- and the World -- Hostage
They are the mafia because of their vast criminality in Wall Street now is that it's bribery, theft, fraud, bid rigging, price fixing, gambling, loan sharking. All of these things, it's all organized.
26 June 2012
Senior FSA regulator: 'Can you say no to four or five times your salary?'
'Banks are fundamentally amoral places. They are not immoral; morality simply has no part in the decision-making process.'
26 June 2012
"Netanyahu has decided to attack Iran before the U.S. Elections in November."
Military experts have long agreed that the "sweet spot" for an Israeli attack on Iran will be this coming September or October precisely because of the timing of the US presidential election cycle.
25 June 2012
Gulf of Tonkin Redux?
Events on the ground keep escalating dangerously. Anything may erupt anytime. Provocations are easy to stage.
22 June 2012
The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
In fact, stripped of all the camouflaging financial verbiage, the crimes the defendants and their co-conspirators committed were virtually indistinguishable from the kind of thuggery practiced for decades by the Mafia, which has long made manipulation of public bids for things like garbage collection and construction contracts a cornerstone of its business.
22 June 2012
Pilger: History is the enemy as “brilliant” psy-ops become the news
Jon Williams, the BBC World News editor, in effect dishes his own “coverage”, citing a western official who described the “psy-ops” operation against Syria as “brilliant”. As brilliant as the destruction of Libya, and Iraq, and Afghanistan.
21 June 2012
Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?
This four-part geopolitical blueprint, relentlessly pursued by Cheney while vice president, is now being implemented in every respect by President Obama.
19 June 2012
Robert Fisk: Mubarak's 300,000-strong army of thugs remains in business despite elections
Today's military played an equally shrewd but different game: they insisted Mubarak go on trial – bread and circuses for the masses, dramatic sentences to keep their minds off the future – while realigning the old Mubarakites to preserve their own privileges.
18 June 2012
Top UK Award Goes to Journalist Gareth Porter Who Exposed Secrets of Afghanistan War
The judges said: ‘In a series of extraordinary articles, Gareth Porter has torn away the facades of the Obama administration and disclosed a military strategy that amounts to a war against civilians.’
18 June 2012
Leaked documents show a real threat to the international flow of information
The U.N. process is mind-numbing, but as Vincent Cerf, one of the founders of the Web, recently told Congress, this U.N. involvement means "the open Internet has never been at a higher risk than it is now."
14 June 2012
Ex-Mossad Chief: Israeli Attack Will Push Iran To Develop Nuclear Weapons
“In case of an attack, political pressure on the regime will disappear. If Israel will attack, there is no doubt in my mind that this will also provide them with the justification to go ahead and move quickly to nuclear weapons.”
11 June 2012
War Study: Troops Had Bad Intel, Worse Spin
“We were slow to recognize the importance of information and the battle for the narrative in achieving objectives at all levels”
10 June 2012
How the Obama administration is making the US media its mouthpiece
In sum, these anonymous leaks are classic political propaganda: devoted to glorifying the leader and his policies for political gain.
10 June 2012
What is US game plan?
Even more worrying is Obama’s apparently wilful sabotage of two diplomatic initiatives, one by Europe’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, the other by Kofi Annan. Ashton has been leading an attempt by the P5+1 to negotiate a ‘win-win’ deal with Iran over its nuclear programme, while Annan has been struggling to find a negotiated way out of the murderous Syrian crisis. Obama seems intent on compromising both initiatives.
10 June 2012
Report: Rebels Responsible for Houla Massacre
But according to a new report in Germany’s leading daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the Houla massacre was in fact committed by anti-Assad Sunni militants [...].
7 June 2012
Objective of US and Israeli Policy is Economic Warfare Against Iran
[...] the reason for that is that the IAEA's function in the politics surrounding the Iranian nuclear issue is to keep Iran in the dock of international opinion while the negotiations between the Iranians and the P5+1 continue.
5 June 2012
CIA ‘revives attacks on rescuers’ in Pakistan
The deliberate targeting of rescuers and mourners by CIA drones was first exposed by the Bureau in February 2012, in a major joint investigation with the Sunday Times. On more than a dozen occasions between 2009 and June 2011, the CIA attacked rescuers as they tried to retrieve the dead and injured.
31 May 2012
New Big Brother Cyber Weapon Can Turn on Your Computer’s Microphone, Take Screen Shots, Copy Data, Record Communications
However, a new virus identified by leading digital security firm Kaspersky Lab, is reportedly capable of not only embedding itself onto computer systems without being identified by traditional anti-virus applications, but able to execute total surveillance [...].
22 May 2012
Debka: Obama secretly approves top-of-the-line anti-tank arms for Syrian rebels
They are supplied by Saudi and Qatari intelligence agencies following a secret message from President Barack Obama advising them to up the military stake in the effort to oust Assad.
17 May 2012
New US battle strategy against Iran in US movements and Israeli drill
The Israeli exercise, which ended May 13, practiced the new American ABS doctrine of simultaneously massing large-scale sea and air strength against Iran on two seas, in this case, the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf. It also drilled operating in unison with their American counterparts under the same doctrine.
16 May 2012
How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook
The guy who convinced the plotters to blow up a big bridge, led them to the arms merchant, and drove the team to the bomb site was an FBI informant. The merchant was an FBI agent.
11 May 2012
U.S. Treasury Claim of Iran-Al-Qaeda "Secret Deal" Is Discredited
That claim was presented in a way that suggested it was supported by intelligence. It now appears, however, to have been merely a propaganda line designed to support the Barack Obama administration's strategy of diplomatic coercion on Iran.
10 May 2012
Situation in Europe a ‘Slow Motion Train Wreck’: Roubini
Roubini, who warned last year that a perfect storm was coming for the global economy in 2013, said the euro zone will “eventually break up,” and expects two or three euro zone members to exit the bloc over the next few years. “Europe will be lucky if it ends up in stagnation like Japan for the next 10 years,” he added.
9 May 2012
New Documents Shine Light on Euro Birth Defects
Operation "self-deception" began in December 1991, in an office building in the Dutch city of Maastricht, the capital of the southeastern province of Limburg. The European heads of state and government had come together to reach the decision of the century, namely to introduce the euro by 1999.
9 May 2012
Would-be suicide bomber was planted, or turned informant
The New York Times reported the would-be suicide bomber was an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who volunteered for the mission to detonate the bomb aboard a U.S.-bound airliner.
6 May 2012
Jim Swire, father of Lockerbie victim, on the murderers: 'They have been framed'
I went into the Zeist trial court convinced that I would see two of the murderers of my daughter convicted. I was but a layman. Having heard the evidence, I emerged believing they had been framed.
12 April 2012
The Crackdown
In the past five years, the U.S. has sent close to $100 million in military aide to Bahrain—a hefty amount for such a small country—much of it earmarked for “stabilization operations” that include training and equipping police and paramilitary forces. And Bahrain’s leadership is intimately linked to that of Saudi Arabia, America’s greatest ally in the region.
9 April 2012
Israel 'would not be able to destroy Iran's nuclear programme with pre-emptive air strike'
Israel would not be able to destroy Iran's nuclear programme in a pre-emptive air strike with its current airforce, forcing its leadership to look for alternative means of attack, an influential defence report has concluded.
9 April 2012
Report: U.S. operated inside Iran to collect information on nuclear program
According to U.S. officials, the drones, that have been scouring dozens of sites throughout Iran, have given the Obama administration confidence that the U.S. will see any activity that would indicate Tehran decided to assemble a nuclear bomb.
8 April 2012
Study: children 13 times more likely to develop narcolepsy after Swine Flu vaccination
They found that in those who were vaccinated the rate of narcolepsy was nine per 100,000 compared to 0.7 per 100,000 unvaccinated children, or 13 times lower. [...] Pandemrix was the main vaccine used in Britain against the swine flu epidemic in which six million people were vaccinated. It was formulated specifically for the swine flu pandemic virus and is no longer in use.
7 April 2012
Our men in Iran?
An adviser to the special-operations community told me that the links between the United States and M.E.K. activities inside Iran had been long-standing. “Everything being done inside Iran now is being done with surrogates,” he said.
7 April 2012
How the US uses sexual humiliation as a political tool to control the masses
These recent laws criminalizing protest, and giving local police [...] powers to terrify and traumatise people who have not gone through due process or trial, are being set up to work in concert with a see-all-all-the-time surveillance state. [...] James Bamford wrote in Wired magazine that the new facility in Bluffdale, Utah, is being built, where the NSA will look at billions of emails, texts and phone calls. Similar legislation is being pushed forward in the UK.
29 March 2012
Israel’s Secret Staging Ground: Azerbaijan
"The Israelis have bought an airfield," a senior administration official told me in early February, "and the airfield is called Azerbaijan."
23 March 2012
Iran Watch: Bunker-buster buildup
If the United States concludes that sanctions have failed to blunt the Iranian nuclear threat and that an Israeli strike is too dangerous, we could be hearing a lot more about that Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
20 March 2012
Syrian activists targeted by fake YouTube
Syrian activists are being targeted by a fake version of Google's YouTube video site which plants malware on the PCs of people who leave comments on videos shown there, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has warned.
20 March 2012
Pentagon war game forecasts U.S. would be pulled into a new war if Israel strikes Iran
The war games' results have "raised fears among top American planners that it may be impossible to preclude American involvement in any escalating confrontation with Iran," the Times Mark Mazzetti and Thom Shanker wrote
16 March 2012
Netanyahu is preparing Israeli public opinion for a war on Iran
Since his return from Washington, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has mainly been preoccupied with one thing: Preparing public opinion for war against Iran.
15 March 2012
Wall Street whistleblower writes open letter
JPMorgan Chase employee explains
I have decided to play the role of whistleblower b/c I no longer have faith and belief that what we are doing for society is bringing value to people. I am now under the opinion that we are actually putting hard working Americans unaware of what lays ahead at extreme market risk.
12 March 2012
Top ten media failures in the Iran war debate
I'm sorry to say that most mainstream news organizations have let us down again. [...] Here are my Top Ten Media Failures in the 2012 Iran War Scare.
9 March 2012
Pentagon prepares war plans for Syria
Behind all of Washington’s posturing about defending civilians in Syria, the real methods and aims of US imperialism begin to emerge clearly. [...] It seeks Assad’s overthrow not out of any interest in human rights or democracy, but rather to advance US strategic interests by weakening Iran, Syria’s ally, which Washington views as the principal obstacle to its bid to assert hegemony over the oil-rich regions of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia.
5 March 2012
Top Ten Dangers for Obama of Iran Sanctions on behalf of Israel
The United States has been down this squalid road before, in regard to Iraq, and it doesn’t end well for America.
2 March 2012
The incomplete media debate on Iran
What is missing from the debate are the views held not only by Iranian leaders but also large populations in numerous capitals and nations around the world: that Iran has the right to pursue its nuclear program; that it is Israel and the U.S. — not Iran — that poses the greatest threat to world peace; that American and Israeli aggression against non-nuclear states (along with their massive stockpile of nuclear weapons) is what makes it rational for a nation to want to proliferate, etc.
1 March 2012
US, Britain gear up for war on Iran
The new war preparations, the Journal states, show “the extent to which war planners are taking tangible steps to prepare for a possible conflict with Iran, even as top White House and defense leaders try to tamp down talk of war and emphasize other options."
29 February 2012
Bahraini ‘Reformers’ in Washington, Courtesy of American Spinmeisters
But these weren't leaders of the protest movement that has challenged the country's ruling Sunni monarchy. They were members of a "youth delegation" put together by a top American public relations firm, Qorvis, which has been working with Bahrain to shore up the country's image in the United States.
23 February 2012
Iran Holds Up Access to Parchin for Better IAEA Deal
But access to Parchin was discussed as part of broader negotiations on what the IAEA statement called a "document facilitating the clarification of unresolved issues" in regard to "possible military dimensions" of Iran's nuclear program. The negotiations were focused on what cooperation the IAEA is demanding and what the agency is ready to offer in return for that cooperation.
20 February 2012
U.S. Super-Sizing Afghan Jail It Promised to Abandon
But the expansion is only going to increase the caseload the Afghans will eventually deal with. This is no minor refurbishment. The Detention Facility at Parwan held 1,000 inmates in August 2010. The $35 million expansion will prepare it to double the detainee population.
16 February 2012
Rick Santorum: North Dakota is in the cross-hairs of an Iranian attack
I saw the CNN coverage of the fueling of the nuclear isotopes reactor and was astonished that they kept saying this development was “dangerous” or “ominous.” Actually, it is good news that Iran can make fuel for the research reactor, since it produces isotopes for treating cancer victims.
15 February 2012
Diane Sawyer and Brian Ross belong in a fear-mongering museum
In other words, the American media is doing what it always does in these cases, which is precisely why Diane Sawyer and Brian Ross should have a museum exhibit devoted to their behavior here. The only surprising part of any of this is that they do not seem to believe that they even need to pretend to be doing anything different than what they did in 2002 and 2003. They seem perfectly comfortable making it as clear as can be that they are reading from the exact same script.
15 February 2012
Bahrain receives military equipment from UK despite violent crackdown
Britain sold over £1m worth of weapons including rifles and artillery to Gulf kingdom during last year's unrest
The latest figures, published on the Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills website, also show that during the third quarter of last year Britain exported arms valued at more than £1m to Saudi Arabia, including components for military combat vehicles and turrets. During last year's uprising, Saudi Arabia sent forces to Bahrain in British military trucks.
14 February 2012
The caging of America
Why do we lock up so many people?
Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags.
11 February 2012
NATO's Secret War on Syria
Syria's target one, then Iran. Whether full-scale war's planned isn't clear.
7 February 2012 |
Fight against Damascus and Tehran a threat to Russian and Chinese interests
Not the entire world is wishing for a different Iran, although it does seem like that at times. Superpowers China and Russia are charting their own course, and in spite of their modern relationships with the West, there are still a lot of differences.
3 February 2012
Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran
On Iran, Obama has come to a crossroads. He will soon be called on to refute accusations of weakness by an explosive demonstration of "strength." If things get to that point, there is no doubt that he will do what the war party expects him to do
2 February 2012
FBI: Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist
In fact, the flyer recommends that anyone “overly concerned about privacy” or attempting to “shield the screen from view of others” should be considered suspicious and potentially engaged in terrorist activities.
1 February 2012 |
Preparations for a war against Iran in full gear
News reports on Iran are now following each other in rapid succession, and together they form a new step towards a military conflict. [...] What follows is an analysis of these fast-moving developments
29 January 2012
US sets May as tentative date for clash with Iran. Floating SEALs base for Gulf
The target date for deploying the commando platform in the Persian Gulf in four or five months indicates Washington is preparing for military clashes to blow up with Iran in the late spring or early summer.
26 January 2012
Bush’s CIA director: We determined attacking Iran was a bad idea
"When we talked about this in the government, the consensus was that [attacking Iran] would guarantee that which we are trying to prevent -- an Iran that will spare nothing to build a nuclear weapon and that would build it in secret."
25 January 2012 |
NATO and CIA covertly arming Syrian rebels in order to weaken Iran
It is clear that all the pieces are being put into place for a war against Iran. It is a long-term project demanding many years worth of preparation, and the ultimate goal is getting closer all the time. One component of this preparation is the covert arming of Syrian rebels.
21 January 2012 |
Israel and the U.S.: Iran not working on a nuclear weapon
While the world is getting the impression that a war with Iran has drawn a few steps closer, representatives of Israel and the U.S. are making some remarkable statements about the Islamic Republic. These statements are remarkable in part because, at the same time, the build-up to a military confrontation would seem to be continuing apace.
19 January 2012
Danger Room Exclusive: New U.S. Commando Team Operating Near Iran
Danger Room has confirmed with the U.S. Special Operations Command that a new elite commando team is operating in the region. The primary, day-to-day mission of the team, known as Joint Special Operations Task Force-Gulf Cooperation Council, is to mentor military units belonging to the U.S.’ oil-rich Arab allies, who collectively are known as the Gulf Cooperation Council. Those Arab states consider Iran to be their primary foreign threat.
19 January 2012
Giraldi: 'NATO and CIA secretly arming Syrian rebels with Libyan weapons'
Unmarked NATO warplanes are arriving at Turkish military bases close to Iskenderum on the Syrian border, delivering weapons from the late Muammar Gaddafi’s arsenals as well as volunteers from the Libyan Transitional National Council who are experienced in pitting local volunteers against trained soldiers, a skill they acquired confronting Gaddafi’s army.
18 January 2012
Why Russia is planning Iran war games
Russia has reportedly ordered the military to plan war games to deal with potential spillover from a US-Iran conflict.
18 January 2012
Frmr CIA officer Phil Giraldi: Worst-case Iran scenario is WW3
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Tehran is backed by Russia which says military action would bring disastrous results. Iran agreed to resume six-party talks over its atomic programme. But there are fears the country is already under attack, after the latest murder of one of its nuclear scientists, which Tehran blames on Israel.
15 January 2012
Whose hands are behind those dramatic YouTube pictures?
But simply because the opposition to the Syrian and Iranian governments have taken over the news agenda does not mean that what they say is true.
14 January 2012
False Flag
A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran.
4 January 2012
Avoiding Another Long War
We are currently winding down what you labeled a “dumb war;” we should not undertake another dumb war against a country almost three times larger than Iraq, that would set off a major regional war and create generations of jihadis. Such a war, contrary to what some argue, would not make Israel or the U.S. safer
2 January 2012
Scientifically calculated Iraqi death count much higher than cited in media
The number is shocking and sobering. It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.
1 January 2012
President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law
“President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,” said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director.
28 December 2011
Time to Attack Iran
Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option
The truth is that a military strike intended to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, if managed carefully, could spare the region and the world a very real threat and dramatically improve the long-term national security of the United States.
28 December 2011
UK prepares emergency measures for euro collapse to prevent an influx of people and money
Elsewhere in Whitehall there are fears that a collapse of the euro could lead to widespread civil unrest – and even spark a flood of economic refugees.
15 December 2011
Undercover at Fukushima: corruption, fraud and the mafia
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Undercover journalist Suzuki worked at Fukushima. He wrote a book about what he exposed: workers who ignore the radiation levels, workers who have to work there to pay off their debt to te mafia, corruption, fraud and no progress. Watch the press conference where Susuki alos shows pictures he took with his special wrist watch.
14 December 2011 |
Economist Albert Spits: the euro is gone by the summer of 2012
De Wit: No, but it’s going to cost an awful lot of money to reprint all of those currencies and make the switch.
Spits: Sure, but it’s going to cost a lot more money to try and save the euro, which cannot be saved.
12 December 2011 |
Government has to be more open, transparent and accountable: Marietje Schaake (D66)
[...] proactive thinking on the part of those operating inside the ruling establishment can nevertheless be a positive thing. This is exactly what Marietje Schaake, European Member of Parliament for the Dutch political party D66, contributes in her article [...]. I ask het what she means by going from being the governed to being the governors'.
10 December 2011
Obama steps up covert war with Iran
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Obama’s newly signed “findings,” authorizing covert operations to destabilize the Iranian and Syrian governments; how the US and Israel use the Baluch Jundallah, Kurdish PJAK and MEK groups to commit terrorism-by-proxy.
9 December 2011
Larry Wilkerson: New Military Powers The Road To Tyranny
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Larry Wilkerson in a conversation with Paul Jay on the National Defense Authorization Act that passed the Senate, giving the military power for indefinite detention without trial is a draconian violation of our rights.
8 December 2011
War drums are beating for Iran. But who's playing them?
Just like the taxpayers of medieval Italian cities, we're having our money siphoned off to pay for a a greedy military machine.
8 December 2011
Saudi Prince Calls for Kingdom to Acquire WMDs
'Why shouldn't we at least study seriously all available options, including acquiring WMDs, so that our future generations will not blame us for neglecting any courses of action that will keep looming dangers away from us.'
8 December 2011
AP Exclusive: Inside Romania's secret CIA prison
The existence of a CIA prison in Romania has been widely reported, but its location has never been made public. The Associated Press and German public television ARD located the former prison and learned details of the facility where harsh interrogation tactics were used. ARD's program on the CIA prison is set to air Thursday.
8 December 2011
U.S. envoy: Washington closely coordinating with Israel on Iran
Ambassador Dan Shapiro rebuffs previous claims by U.S. officials that Israel would not alert Washington ahead of a strike on Iran.
5 December 2011
US, Israel covert war against Iran suspected: report
"We definitely are doing that," the report quotes Art Keller, a former CIA case officer who worked on Iran, as saying. "It's pretty much the stated mission of the (CIA's) counter-proliferation division to do what it takes to slow Iran's weapons of mass destruction program."
3 December 2011 |
Albert Spits: A crisis of 2 years instead of 10 through reorganizing fiancial sector
Advisor to pension funds Albert Spits reads between the lines, takes account of the various economic schools of thought (more to come on this soon in this interview series) and examines past developments to see what they might have to teach us about the future. With the facts in tow, Spits sorts through the fluctuations and takes note of where things are headed, though he also points out how things could turn out should we choose to deal with these problems differently.
1 December 2011
6 Shocking Revelations About Wall Street's "Secret Government"
These documents show how top government officials willfully concealed from Congress and the public the true extent of the 2008-'09 bailouts that enriched the few and enhanced the interests of giant Wall Streets firms. Here’s what we now know:
28 November 2011
Neoconservatives Planned Regime Change Throughout the Middle East and North Africa 20 Years Ago
Glenn Greenwald provides further documentation that the various Middle Eastern and North African wars were planned before 9/11:
26 November 2011
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's venality
Sadly, Americans this week have come one step closer to being true brothers and sisters of the protesters in Tahrir Square. Like them, our own national leaders, who likely see their own personal wealth under threat from transparency and reform, are now making war upon us.
22 November 2011
Seymour Hersh: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused over Iran’s Nuke Program
There's not much you can do in Iran right now without us finding out something about it. They found nothing. Nothing. No evidence of any weaponization. In other words, no evidence of a facility to build the bomb. They have facilities to enrich, but not separate facilities for building a bomb. This is simply a fact. We haven’t found it, if it does exist. It’s still a fantasy. We still want to think—many people do think—it does. [...] it’s some sort of a fantasy land being built up here, as it was with Iraq, the same sort of—no lessons learned, obviously.
20 November 2011
Lobbying Firm's Memo Spells Out Plan to Undermine Occupy Wall Street (VIDEO)
According to the memo, if Democrats embrace OWS, “This would mean more than just short-term political discomfort for Wall Street. … It has the potential to have very long-lasting political, policy and financial impacts on the companies in the center of the bullseye.” The memo also suggests that Democratic victories in 2012 should not be the ABA’s biggest concern. “… (T)he bigger concern,” the memo says, “should be that Republicans will no longer defend Wall Street companies.”
20 November 2011
Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamber Claim: 'Highly misleading'
"We've been led by the nose to believe that this container is important, when in fact it's not important at all," Kelley said.
10 November 2011 |
Iran and the West + Israel are like two trains on the same track heading straight for each other
The issue of Iran is immersed in a fog of propaganda, deception, fear and interests. Once you step out of the fog and rise above the news coverage about Iran you see that a battle is being waged on multiple fronts. It is a war about power.
9 November 2011 |
Politicians and the media disregard facts in Iran report
In an article responding to the report released by the IAEA CNN headlines: 'Iran developing nuclear bombs'. Media and politics worldwide make bold statements as to what to do about the Iranian 'situation'. But what are the facts?
8 November 2011 |
IAEA report is a new step on the road to the next war: against Iran
Iran is once again finding itself at the top of the agenda. Pressure is being stepped up on all of the parties involved. This is a new step on the road to the next war - this one against Iran.
7 November 2011 |
New steps on the road to a military conflict with Iran
The information war that is currently raging around Iran is part of the ongoing conflict with the country. It is one component of the preparations for war against Iran that have been underway for years, and which follow the template used to conquer Iraq.
7 November 2011
Fears Of Iran Nuclear Weaponizing Lead To Brent Break Out
Below is some must read commentary from Emad Mostaque of Religare Capital Markets on what this IAEA finding will mean for the region, for the world and for what really matters: capital markets.
5 November 2011
Debunking the Iran ‘Terror Plot’
A close analysis of the FBI deposition reveals, however, that independent evidence for the charge that Arbabsiar was sent by the Qods Force on a mission to arrange for the assassination of Jubeir is lacking. The FBI account is full of holes and contradictions, moreover.
3 November 2011
UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears
The Ministry of Defence believes the US may decide to fast-forward plans for targeted missile strikes at some key Iranian facilities. British officials say that if Washington presses ahead it will seek, and receive, UK military help for any mission, despite some deep reservations within the coalition government.
2 November 2011
In Israel, speculation over strike on Iran grows
Haaretz said that Netanyahu and Barak had already scored a significant win by convincing Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to throw his support behind a strike. But the newspaper cited the senior Israeli official as saying there was still "a small advantage" in the cabinet for those opposed to an attack.
31 October 2011
US Plans 2012 Surge In Persian Gulf Region
Once Military Is Out of Iraq, US Keen to Escalate Buildup in Kuwait
the fallback is now to try to dramatically increase military ties with the GCC nations (fresh off their brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Bahrain) and to deploy massive numbers of troops in the region through them, as a way to spite Iran.
24 October 2011
The Shocking, Graphic Data That Shows Exactly What Motivates the Occupy Movement
Here’s a brief list of why we should be angry and the charts to back it up.
20 October 2011
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable.
19 October 2011
Egypt’s Top ‘Facebook Revolutionary’ Now Advising Occupy Wall Street
So maybe it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that Ahmed Maher, one of the leading figures in those Egyptian protests, has been corresponding for weeks with the Occupy Wall Streeters, whom he calls “our brothers.” [...] The denizens of the downtown park flock to an excited Maher when they learn an Egyptian revolutionary is there to support them.
13 October 2011
Sources: US Gives Israel Green Light For Iran Strike
Back in July, 21-year CIA veteran Robert Baer told KPFK Los Angeles that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was planning an attack on Iran in September to coincide with the Palestine bid for UN membership. Speaking with the Alex Jones Show today, former State Department official Steve Pieczenik, who has numerous inside intelligence sources having worked in several sensitive positions during the course of his career, also indicated that the terror plot was completely fabricated and that it would be used a pretext to justify a military strike against Iran.
13 October 2011
Study: Unvaccinated children far less prone to allergies and disease than vaccinated children
In every single health category evaluated as part of both studies, the overall health of unvaccinated children was leaps and bounds ahead of the vaccinated children.
13 October 2011
Matt Taibbi: My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters
Hit bankers where it hurts
[...] for me this is a deeply personal thing, because this issue of how to combat Wall Street corruption has consumed my life for years now, and it's hard for me not to see where Occupy Wall Street could be better and more dangerous.
12 October 2011
Is an Iranian Drug Cartel Behind the Assassination Plot against the Saudi Ambassador?
As many observers have pointed out, the story given us by Attorney General Eric Holder about the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, D.C., makes no sense. Veteran CIA operative Bob Baer, now retired, notes that Iranian intelligence is highly professional and works through proxies, and this sloppy operation simply is not their modus operandi.
11 October 2011
Analysis: Afghan torture rife, UN report reveals
The report details how torture methods included suspending people by their wrists, beatings to the soles of their feet, electric shocks, twisting detainees’ genitals, removing toe nails and being put in stress positions.
6 October 2011
Finland vows care for narcolepsy kids who had swine flu shot
Finnish and international researchers recently found a conclusive link between the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine and new cases of narcolepsy, a chronic nervous system disorder which causes people to often uncontrollably fall asleep. The Finnish Pharmaceutical Insurance Pool (LVP), which represents insurance companies, said Wednesday it would honour all insurance claims in this category.
6 October 2011
CIA: Zubaydah's Torture Drawings, Writings, "Should They Exist," to Remain Top Secret
One of the drawings Zubaydah had sketched captured in incredible detail the waterboarding sessions he underwent. Another drawing showed him being chained by his wrists to the ceiling of a CIA black site prison where he was held and another showed him strapped to a chair and being doused with water as part of a sleep deprivation program [...].
1 October 2011
The Informants
FBI agents and informants target not just active jihadists, but tens of thousands of law-abiding people, seeking to identify those disgruntled few who might participate in a plot given the means and the opportunity. And then, in case after case, the government provides the plot, the means, and the opportunity.
28 September 2011
Forged Passport In Underwear Bomber Case?
Umar was escorted through security without a passport and with an intentionally defective bomb in order to stage a false flag terrorist attack.
28 September 2011
France: Iran faces high risk of military strike. Russia practices Iranian reprisal
"Some countries won't accept the prospect of Tehran reaching the threshold of nuclear armament," he said. "Personally I am convinced that it would be a very complicated operation …with disastrous consequences in the region."
28 September 2011
CIA, Pentagon fight to keep Osama bin Laden death photos secret
Bennett did not break down the tally further, but said all the imagery is classified "TOP SECRET," meaning that disclosure of the material could lead to "exceptionally grave damage" to U.S. national security.
27 September 2011
Chomsky supports Occupy Wall Street Campaign
'The courageous and honorable protests underway in Wall Street should serve to bring this calamity to public attention, and to lead to dedicated efforts to overcome it and set the society on a more healthy course.'
26 September 2011
‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest slowly spreads across the United States
"The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99 Percent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the one percent," said a statement on the Occupy Wall Street website.
25 September 2011
Tony Blair's six secret visits to Col Gaddafi
Tony Blair’s close relationship to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has come under fresh scrutiny after it emerged he had six private meetings with the dictator in the three years after he left Downing Street.
12 September 2011
Cheney: Israel would strike Iran to prevent it from achieving nuclear weapons
Cheney told Newsmax TV that "Iran represents an existential threat, and [the Israelis] will do whatever they have to do to guarantee their survival and their security.”
6 September 2011
Libyan rebel leader says MI6 knew he was tortured
The Independent revealed, after discovering secret files in Tripoli, how Britain played a key role in the rendition of Mr Belhaj, which delivered him into hands of the Gaddafi regime for seven years of incarceration, six of them in solitary confinement.
1 September 2011
Secret files: US officials aided Gaddafi
During that meeting Welch advised Gaddafi's team on how to win the propaganda war, suggesting several "confidence-building measures", according to the documents. The documents appear to indicate that an influential US political personality was advising Gaddafi on how to beat the US and NATO.
31 August 2011 |
Secret report: Megrahi is not the Lockerbie bomber
The verdict in the Lockerbie case is based on lies and deception, and the man convicted of the crime, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, cannot be the perpetrator. This appears from revelations contained in a secret section of an official report.
31 August 2011
Scottish censors to edit Megrahi report
After enquiries in the UK, Malta, Libya and Italy, the commission identified six grounds where it believed a miscarriage of justice may have occurred.
30 August 2011
The Masters Of The Media
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Six companies. Six truths. The countdown starts...
29 August 2011
Market crash 'could hit within weeks', warn bankers
"I think we are heading for a market shock in September or October that will match anything we have ever seen before," said a senior credit banker at a major European bank.
26 August 2011
Why Political Coverage is Broken
Things are out of alignment. Journalists are identifying with the wrong people. Therefore the kind of work they are doing is not as useful as we need it to be.
25 August 2011
SAS troops dressed in Arab clothes join hunt for Gaddafi as £1m reward is offered for dictator's head
Soldier from 22 SAS Regiment were first sent into the north African country several weeks ago by David Cameron and they have remained there to find Gaddafi, according to the Daily Telegraph.
23 August 2011
Libya: secret role played by Britain creating path to the fall of Tripoli
For weeks, military and intelligence officers have been helping the rebels plan their co-ordinated attack on the capital, and Whitehall sources have disclosed that the RAF stepped up raids on Tripoli on Saturday morning in a pre-arranged plan to pave the way for the rebel advance.
22 August 2011
US and NATO were crucial, covert partners in spurring Libyan rebels out of military stalemate
The operation was kept separate from the NATO command structure to avoid compromising its mandate from the United Nations — to protect civilians. [...] Diplomats acknowledge that covert teams from France, Britain and some East European states provided critical assistance. The assistance included logisticians, security advisers and forward air controllers for the rebel army, as well as intelligence operatives, damage assessment analysts and other experts, according to a diplomat based at NATO's headquarters in Brussels.
17 August 2011
Jon Stewart slams corporate media, GOP establishment for ignoring Ron Paul
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Jon Stewart, appropriately, let 'em all have it for that last night, asking incredulously: "How did libertarian Ron Paul become the 13th floor in a hotel?!"...
16 August 2011
CIA shot own planes, used napalm in Bay of Pigs, documents show
The documents also reveal that at least one CIA paramilitary officer opened fire on the Agency’s B-26 planes, which had been disguised to resemble those used by the Cuban Revolutionary Air Defense Force. According to the officer, Grayston Lynch, who is quoted in the documents, CIA support vessels could not distinguish friendly from enemy planes, while the CIA’s B-26 bombers, which were piloted by Cuban exiles, failed to heed warnings to “stay away” from American ships.
11 August 2011
Drone War Exposed – the complete picture of CIA strikes in Pakistan
The Bureau’s fundamental reassessment of the covert US campaign involved a complete re-examination of all that is known about each US drone strike.
22 July 2011
Fed audit: 'Clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged'
An amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Wall Street reform law passed one year ago this week directed the Government Accountability Office to conduct the study. "As a result of this audit, we now know that the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in total financial assistance to some of the largest financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout the world," said Sanders.
22 July 2011
Exclusive: Financial Sector Helps Barack Obama Score Big Money
Individuals who work in the finance, insurance and real estate sector are responsible for raising at least $11.8 million for Obama's campaign and the Democratic National Committee, according to the Center's research. All of Obama's bundlers have raised a minimum of $35 million so far this year.
21 July 2011
New court filing reveals how the 2004 Ohio presidential election was hacked
The architectural maps, contracts, and Spoonamore emails, along with the history of Connell's partisan activities, shed new light on how easy it was to hack the 2004 Ohio presidential election.
19 July 2011
In Video: Obama’s drone war
Our analysis of 116 drone strikes that took place between August 2010 and Brennan’s speech on June 29 reveals:
16 July 2011
Former CIA Official Bob Baer: Israel Will Bomb Iran In September
There is almost "near certainty" that Netanyahu is "planning an attack [on Iran] ... and it will probably be in September before the vote on a Palestinian state. And he's also hoping to draw the United States into the conflict," Baer explained.
13 July 2011
Police Intelligence Analyst Fired For Blowing Whistle On False Flag Terror
Strategic Threat Assessment Matrix concluded that 7/7 was an inside job
Tony Farrell, who has a university degree in statistics, was employed for 12 years as a ‘Police Intelligence Analyst’ with South Yorkshire Police. His job was to provide a yearly ‘Strategic Threat Assessment Matrix’ to enable police to prioritize resources and activities. Fully expecting Farrell to regurgitate the contention that Muslim extremists posed the biggest threat, his bosses were stunned when Farrell instead reported that the 2005 London bombings were staged by British intelligence and that the official story was a “monstrous lie”.
13 July 2011
The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia
At the facility, the CIA runs a counterterrorism training program for Somali intelligence agents and operatives aimed at building an indigenous strike force capable of snatch operations and targeted “combat” operations against members of Al Shabab, an Islamic militant group with close ties to Al Qaeda.
11 July 2011
Exclusive: David House on Bradley Manning, Secret WikiLeaks Grand Jury, and U.S. Surveillance
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“Richard Nixon’s [Department of Justice] 40 years ago attempted to curtail the freedoms of the press and politically regulate the press through the use of policy created around the espionage investigation of the New York Times. I feel that the WikiLeaks case we have going on now provides Obama’s DOJ ample opportunity to continue this attempt to politically regulate the U.S. media.”
11 July 2011
How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History
[...] dozens of computer security researchers around the world would spend months deconstructing what would come to be known as the most complex malware ever written — a piece of software that would ultimately make history as the world’s first real cyberweapon.
7 July 2011
The Ideological Crisis of Western Capitalism
The remedies to the US deficit follow immediately from this diagnosis: put America back to work by stimulating the economy; end the mindless wars; rein in military and drug costs; and raise taxes, at least on the very rich.
5 July 2011
The motives of Bradley Manning
What Fishman's article actually does is bolster the previous view of Manning's alleged leaks as motivated by noble and understandable horror at what the U.S. was doing in Iraq specifically and that region generally, and a resulting desire to take action to shed light on what he was seeing and to do what he could to stop it.
3 July 2011
Paul Flynn MP: WHO report on Swine Flu is a 'disgrace'
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In the interview with DeepJournal Flynn reviews that WHO report. Flynn is dissapounted by the conclusions of the report, basically claiming that the WHO made no mistakes in handling the H1N1 pandemic, whilst in fact an experimental vaccin was used on millions of people for a flu that was very mild.
2 July 2011
Global 'train wreck' coming
''Greece, Portugal and Ireland don't just need to have their debts written off, they need to have a 30 per cent to 40 per cent depreciation of their real exchange rate,'' he told the conference. ''There are two ways to do that, either pull out of the euro and depreciate by 40 per cent, or have deflation of 40 per cent over the next 12 months.
2 July 2011
‘Some Will Call Me a Torturer’: CIA Man Reveals Secret Jail
Eight years later, the CIA unceremoniously released CAPTUS. (The agency declined to comment for this story.) Whether that means CAPTUS was innocent or merely no longer useful as a source of information, we may never know. Carle spoke to Danger Room about what it’s like to interrogate a man in a place too dark for the law to find.
1 July 2011
Revealed: British government's plan to play down Fukushima
Internal emails seen by the Guardian show how the business and energy departments worked closely behind the scenes with the multinational companies EDF Energy, Areva and Westinghouse to try to ensure the accident did not derail their plans for a new generation of nuclear stations in the UK.
30 June 2011
CIA Exhales: 99 Out of 101 Torture Cases Dropped
During his confirmation hearing last Thursday, Petraeus issued a public plea to take the “rear view mirrors off the bus” and drop any inquiries into CIA torture. He also suggested that the CIA might return to abusive interrogations in “special cases” of imminent danger, prompting criticism from Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.). The Senate confirmed Petraeus as the next CIA director on Thursday, 94-0, practically simultaneously with Holder’s announcement. Udall did not object.
30 June 2011
U.S. Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets Suppress Peaceful Uprisings Around the World
Given the extent of U.S. military support around the world, the suppression of global uprisings using U.S.-made munitions is likely to be far greater than is represented by these stories and has continued despite controversy over the practice. In fact, recent protests in Egypt indicate that government forces are still using the same U.S. made tear gas projectiles.
29 June 2011
4 Trillion Dollars? New Report Shows the Hidden Costs of War
A new report just published by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies measures the categories of cost to make the point that the pay out is miniscule, if there's any at all.
29 June 2011
How 'hot money' is causing a food prices commodity boom
As rising food prices force up inflation and compound poverty and hunger for billions of people, today it is the likes of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, as well as the giant, publicity shy trading houses such as Bunge, Cargill, Dreyfuss and Glencore, who are profiting.
27 June 2011
Shock Doctrine: 'Emergency Finance Managers' and the Right-Wing's Power Grab
But one of the nastiest moves has been the institution, by Michigan governor Rick Snyder, of an “emergency manager” over several cities in his state, as well as the Detroit public school system. This manager has the unilateral authority to fire officials, close schools, void union contracts, and assume total control over areas declared to be in a financial state of emergency by the state. And it looks like the idea is spreading.
22 June 2011
Bureau Recommends: Greek debt default is ‘almost inevitable’
While Ministers have claimed British banks have ‘only £2.5bn’ of exposure to Greek government debt, the Bank of England says potential losses would amount to just £8bn.But according to the channel’s research, a complex web of derivatives and insurance deals means Britain’s financial institutions could be hit with losses of up to £366bn from the collapse of the Greek economy, equal to 24% of Britain’s GDP.
20 June 2011
Scott Horton Interviews Seymour Hersh on Iran and the Bomb
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Je hebt De Volgende Oorlog - De Aanval op Iran - Een Voorbeschouwing gelezen. Wat nu? Blijf up to date:
16 June 2011
Ex-Spy Alleges Bush White House Sought to Discredit Critic
Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President George W. Bush, said the White House at least twice asked intelligence officials to gather sensitive information on Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor who writes an influential blog that criticized the war.
15 June 2011
US Housing Crisis Is Now Worse Than Great Depression
"The sharp fall in house prices in the first quarter provided further confirmation that this housing crash has been larger and faster than the one during the Great Depression," Paul Dales, senior economist at Capital Economics in Toronto, wrote in research for clients.
14 June 2011
Yet another illegal war -- now in Yemen
Contrary to false denials, the U.S., under the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been bombing Yemen for the last two years, including one attack using cluster bombs that killed dozens of civilians. But what's new is that this will be a CIA drone attack program that is a massive escalation over prior bombing campaigns; as the Post put it:
13 June 2011
Ninety Percent of Petraeus's Captured "Taliban" Were Civilians
The timing of Petraeus's claim of Taliban fighters captured or killed, moreover, indicates that he knew that four out of five of those he was claiming as "captured Taliban rank and file" were not Taliban fighters at all.
13 June 2011
High-Level American Officials Admit that the United States Uses False Flag Terror ... And Warn of Future Attacks
FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law expert professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, Keith Olbermann and the Washington Post have all said that U.S. government officials "were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which the American people would give them more power".
12 June 2011
Bilderberg 2011: The opposition steps up
Charlie Skelton witnesses an uninvited Swiss MP attempting to gain access
The size and seriousness of the 'outside' is finally starting to befit the size and seriousness of the conference itself. The image and understanding of Bilderberg is changing, and people are changing around it. Every year it gets better.
12 June 2011
US defence chief blasts Europe over Nato
Nato had degenerated into a "two-tiered" alliance of those willing to wage war and those only interested in "talking" and peacekeeping, he fumed in his bluntest warning to the Europeans in nearly five years as the Pentagon hea
9 June 2011
Report: US steps up covert strikes in Yemen
The recent operations come after a nearly yearlong pause in American airstrikes, which were halted amid concerns that poor intelligence had led to bungled missions and civilian deaths that were undercutting the goals of the secret campaign
8 June 2011
Army Seeks Social Media Gurus to Save the Afghan War
Guess the Army thinks the Taliban’s recent English-language tweeting and SMS terror campaign is having an impact. Or that Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s 2009 plea to revamp the war’s communications apparatus didn’t have the desired effect.
8 June 2011
Los Angeles, fighting blight, goes after Deutsche Bank
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“We must fight blight by holding banks accountable when they create vacant nuisance properties that pose threats to our residents and destroy the quality of life in our neighborhoods,” City Attorney Carmen Trutanich said in a statement.
2 June 2011
Strategist: World On The Verge Of Great, Great Depression And The Fed Knows It
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“What we’ve got right now is almost near panic going on with money managers and people who are responsible for money,” he said.
1 June 2011
'Navy prepared to board flotilla ships if they don't stop'
“We will order the ships to stop, but if they don’t, we are prepared to intercept and board the ships,” the senior officer told reporters.
30 May 2011
Report: Military coup possible in Greece
According to he CIA report, ongoing street protests in crisis-hit Greece could turn into escalated violence and a rebellion and the Greek government could lose control, said Bild. The newspaper said the CIA report talks of a possible military coup if the situation becomes more serious and uncontrolled.
29 May 2011
Ratko Mladic capture: Was it all an elaborate set-up?
The remarkable answer, according to Western intelligence sources who have spoken to The Sunday Telegraph, is that far from being a bin Laden-style lightning raid, Mladic’s arrest was an entirely staged event - the result not of police work but of negotiations by diplomats, who spent a whole year hammering out a deal to get him to surrender.
27 May 2011
Obama, in Europe, signs Patriot Act extension
Still, coming just a month after intelligence and military forces tracked down and killed Osama bin Laden, there was little appetite for tampering with the terrorism-fighting tools. These tools, said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, "have kept us safe for nearly a decade and Americans today should be relieved and reassured to know that these programs will continue."
23 May 2011
Bradley Manning caught on video with hacker friends around first WikiLeaks release
The documentary, “WikiSecrets,” will air on May 24 on PBS. Video embedded via PBS.
19 May 2011
The illegal war in Libya
The same is true of Obama here. There is little doubt that Congress would subserviently comply -- as it always does -- with presidential demands for war authorization. The Obama White House is simply choosing not to seek it because Obama officials want to bolster the unrestrained power of the imperial presidency entrenched by Dick Cheney, David Addington and John Yoo, and because that route avoids a messy debate about purpose, cost and exit strategy.
18 May 2011
Africa's new breed of 'dogs of war'
Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution said some of the PMSCs are operating at the "tip of the spear" in Africa and are directly descended from their mercenary forebears. One catalyst for the mercenaries' re-emergence in their latest incarnation appears to be the U.S. Africa Command.
16 May 2011
Ban mobile phones and wireless networks in schools, say European leaders
Mobile phones and computers with wireless internet connections pose a risk to human health and should be banned from schools, a powerful European body has ruled.
13 May 2011
David Ray Griffin on Bin Laden
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9 May 2011
Osama Bin Laden: Pakistan's scepticism over videos
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In the video a man is interviewed who lives next door to the house, raided by the US. He says the man watching the Bin Laden video's is not Bin Laden, but the owner of the house, his neigbor: 'His name is [fonetical] Akber Han. He owns the house they says was Osama's house. I know him very well', says [fonetical] Shavir.
8 May 2011
Fmr Pakistani Intel Chief Hamid Gul On CNN: Bin Ladin Died Years Ago
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8 May 2011
How Much Money Do Groups Receive From Industry?
In December 2009, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, asked 33 professional associations and health advocacy groups for a listing of their payments from the pharmaceutical, medical device and insurance industries.
7 May 2011
Beyond Foreclosuregate - It Gets Uglier
While citizens suffer in financial distress, often due to illness, at the behest of influential bankers and investors, the Department of Justice crafts a settlement with lenders and their representatives to relieve them of the stern justice due for their specific crimes and the larger horrors they visit upon citizens, all in the name of short term profit.
6 May 2011
US Government Contractor Claims “Al-Qaeda” Has Confirmed Bin Laden Fairytale
SITE claimed it obtained the Pearlman video from As-Sahab, Al-Qaeda’s supposed media arm. As we previously documented, SITE’s sister organization IntelCenter was caught adding its logo to a supposed Al-Qaeda tape at the same time as the As-Sahab logo was added, indicating the two organizations were one and the same.
5 May 2011
Osama bin Laden dead: Blackout during raid on bin Laden compound
The head of the CIA admitted yesterday that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound as further doubts emerged about the US version of events.
4 May 2011
Top US Government Insider: Bin Laden Died In 2001, 9/11 A False Flag
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Pieczenik said that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001, “Not because special forces had killed him, but because as a physician I had known that the CIA physicians had treated him and it was on the intelligence roster that he had marfan syndrome,” adding that the US government knew Bin Laden was dead before they invaded Afghanistan
26 April 2011
Guantánamo Bay files: Al-Qaida assassin 'worked for MI6'
But according to Hamlili's Guantánamo "assessment" file, one of 759 individual dossiers obtained by the Guardian, US interrogators were convinced that he was simultaneously acting as an informer for British and Canadian intelligence. After his capture in June 2003 Hamlili was transferred to Bagram detention centre, north of Kabul, where he underwent numerous "custodial interviews" with CIA personnel.
25 April 2011
Inside the GOP's Fact-Free Nation
From Nixon's plumbers to James O'Keefe's video smears: How political lying became normal
For the past 15 years, I've spent much of my time deeply researching three historic periods—the birth of the modern conservative movement around the Barry Goldwater campaign, the Nixon era, and the Reagan years—that together have shaped the modern political lie. Here's how we got to where we are.
19 April 2011
ACLU: Michigan cops stealing drivers' phone data
The devices, sold by a company called Cellebrite, can download text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various interfaces to work with different models and can even bypass security passwords and access some information.
18 April 2011
Cables reveal covert US support for Syria's opposition
The Post reported that much of the money – as much as $6 million since 2006 – has been funneled through a group of Syrian exiles in London, known as the Movement for Justice and Development. The group is connected to a London-based satellite television station that is broadcast in Syria, known as Barada TV, which has recently expanded its coverage to include the mass protests.
10 April 2011
The Washington Post's dependence on the government it covers
Put another way, the company that owns The Washington Post is almost entirely at the mercy of the Federal Government and the Obama administration -- the entities which its newspaper ostensibly checks and hold accountable.
8 April 2011
Joe Stiglitz: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.
2 April 2011
More Black Men Now in Prison System than Were Enslaved
Growing crime rates over the past 30 years don’t explain the skyrocketing numbers of black — and increasingly brown — men caught in America’s prison system, according to Alexander, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun after attending Stanford Law. “In fact, crime rates have fluctuated over the years and are now at historical lows.”
30 March 2011
Why I called Bradley Manning's treatment 'stupid'
The US should uphold the highest standards towards its citizens, including the WikiLeaks accused. I stand by what I said
Actions can be legal and still not smart. With the Manning case unfolding in a fishbowl-like environment, going strictly by the book is not good enough. Private Manning's overly restrictive and even petty treatment undermines what is otherwise a strong legal and ethical position.
30 March 2011
FACT CHECK: How Obama's Libya claims fit the facts
OBAMA: "Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action." THE FACTS: Mass violence against civilians has also been escalating elsewhere, without any U.S. military intervention anticipated. [...] THE FACTS: Obama did not wait to make that case to Congress, despite his past statements that presidents should get congressional authorization before taking the country to war, absent a threat to the nation that cannot wait.
29 March 2011
Cost of Libya Intervention $600 Million for First Week, Pentagon Says
U.S. ships and submarines in the Mediterranean have unleashed at least 191 Tomahawk cruise missiles from their arsenals to the tune of $268.8 million, the Pentagon said.
28 March 2011
Greg Palast - BP In Deep Water: The Making Of
From the Gulf, Palast flies to the Alaskan Arctic and discovers that BP has spilled over 200,000 gallons of oil. The problem: BP had not tested the integrity of pipeline for eight years. The reason? A prosecuting attorney said: 'BP cut corners with disastrous consequences.'
23 March 2011
Jeremy Scahill: As Mass Uprising Threatens the Saleh Regime, a Look at the Covert U.S. War in Yemen
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The Obama administration has really escalated the covert war inside of Yemen and has dramatically increased the funding to Yemen’s military, particularly to its elite counterterrorism unit, which is trained by U.S. Special Operations Forces. So, what I think is important to recognize as we watch Yemeni security forces shooting dead their own citizens in the streets of Sana’a and other cities is that it could get much worse if Ali Abdullah Saleh decides to unleash the U.S.-trained counterterrorist units on his own population.
22 March 2011
The manipulative pro-war argument in Libya
But my real question for Judis (and those who voice the same accusations against Libya intervention opponents) is this: do you support military intervention to protect protesters in Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and other U.S. allies from suppression, or to stop the still-horrendous suffering in the Sudan, or to prevent the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Ivory Coast? Did you advocate military intervention to protect protesters in Iran and Egypt, or to stop the Israeli slaughter of hundreds of trapped innocent civilians in Gaza and Lebanon or its brutal and growing occupation of the West Bank?
22 March 2011
Dealing with dictators: Why the West sanctions some and rewards others
According to Kimberly Ann Elliott, an expert on economic sanctions, the West has been reluctant to isolate authoritarian regimes in the Mideast because they often further important national interests regarding energy, immigration, terrorism and Israel. [...] "When we look at the example of Iran, sanctions don't do anything," Meister told Deutsche Welle. "It's not a policy that will bring about regime change. In fact, it may strengthen the regime domestically."
21 March 2011
Libya and the suspicious rush to war
One can't help but be struck by the rush to military involvement by politicians of all countries and all persuasions. The contrast with the western treatment of the rest of the region could not be more s
21 March 2011
Pentagon Papers source arrested at protest
"I identify with him more than anyone else I’ve seen in the last 40 years,” Ellsberg said on Sunday, the Post reported. Solitary confinement is “a form of torture, and as such, it’s illegal internationally and domestically,’’ Ellsberg said. “It’s giving lie to President Obama’s promise to end torture. It’s happening right here to an American soldier in an American brig."
19 March 2011
Robert Fisk: First it was Saddam. Then Gaddafi. Now there's a vacancy for the West's favourite crackpot tyrant
Gaddafi is completely bonkers, a crackpot on the level of Ahmadinejad and Lieberman
We loved Gaddafi when he took over in 1969 and then, after he showed he was a chicken-head, we hated him and then we loved him again – I am referring to Lord Blair's laying on of hands – and now we hate him again. Didn't Arafat have a back-to-front but similar track record for the Israelis and Americans? First he was a super-terrorist longing to destroy Israel, then he was a super-statesman shaking hands with Yitzhak Rabin, then he became a super-terrorist again when he realised he'd been tricked over the future of "Palestine".
19 March 2011
Pentagon Papers leaker: 'I was Bradley Manning'
Interview with Daniel Ellsberg
Responsibility for Manning's [torture] "is very clearly on [Obama's] shoulders," Ellsberg told CNN.com "and not some subordinates' shoulders."
18 March 2011
U.N. Reported Only a Fraction of Civilian Deaths from U.S. Raids
The number of civilians killed in U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids last year was probably several times higher than the figure of 80 people cited in the U.N. report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan published last week, an IPS investigation has revealed.
18 March 2011
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda
Once developed, the software could allow US service personnel, working around the clock in one location, to respond to emerging online conversations with any number of co-ordinated Facebook messages, blogposts, tweets, retweets, chatroom posts and other interventions. Details of the contract suggest this location would be MacDill air force base near Tampa, Florida, home of US Special Operations Command.
17 March 2011
Bungling, cover-ups define Japanese nuclear power
Japanese nuclear power: A litany of accidents, bungling, and cover-up
The legacy of scandals and cover-ups over Japan's half-century reliance on nuclear power has strained its credibility with the public. [...] "Everything is a secret," said Kei Sugaoka, a former nuclear power plant engineer in Japan who now lives in California. "There's not enough transparency in the industry."
15 March 2011
Political unrest in oil-rich region threatens to double-dip the worldwide recession
Global stakes of Mideast turmoi
The stakes are high. Unstable political transitions could lead to high levels of social disorder, organized violence, and/or civil war, fueling further economic and political turmoil. Given the current risk-sensitivity of oil prices, the pain would not be confined to the Middle East.
14 March 2011
The no-BS info on Japan’s disastrous nuclear operators
Tokyo Electric to build US nuclear plants
Back in the day, when we checked the emergency back-up diesels in America, a mind-blowing number flunked. At the New York nuke, for example, the builders swore under oath that their three diesel engines were ready for an emergency. They'd been tested. The tests were faked, the diesels run for just a short time at low speed. When the diesels were put through a real test under emergency-like conditions, the crankshaft on the first one snapped in about an hour, then the second and third. We nicknamed the diesels, "Snap, Crackle and Pop."
11 March 2011
Former Goldmanite Charles Nenner: A "Major War" Is Coming At The End Of 2012
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"Well, I don't want to depress you, but I should tell you that I also do war and peace cycles and it shows that were going to have a major war at the end of 2012, beginning of 2013. And I think that's going to do it."
5 March 2011
Elite troops and MI6 spies poised to help Libyan rebels
MI6 operatives backed by the SAS are to land in the east around the key rebel stronghold of Benghazi 'within days'. In addition, 600 soldiers of the Black Watch are on 24-hour standby to fly in and avert a humanitarian catastrophe as Libya erupted into a new wave of bloodshed.
5 March 2011 |
The Western influence on the Arab Spring - 2
Revolutions - be they spontaneous or not - are more appealing than wars. They cost less in terms of blood and money. This explains the great interest taken by the West in the development of programs designed to bring about revolutions. These programs make use of a template, a pattern. This can be seen in the color revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Green Revolution in Iran. Now we have the Arab wave, and again the same elements are back.
This is part 2 of The Western influence on the Arab Spring. Read part 1.
4 March 2011
The Real U.S. National Security Budget: $1.2 Trillion for National Security
The Figure No One Wants You to See
The simplest way to grasp just how Americans could pay such a staggering amount annually for “security” is to go through what we know about the U.S. national security budget, step by step, and add it all up. So, here we go. Buckle your seat belt: it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
3 March 2011 |
The Western influence on the Arab Spring - 1
Revolutions - be they spontaneous or not - are more appealing than wars. They cost less in terms of blood and money. This explains the great interest taken by the West in the development of programs designed to bring about revolutions. These programs make use of a template, a pattern. This can be seen in the color revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Green Revolution in Iran. Now we have the Arab wave, and again the same elements are back.
1 March 2011
Revisiting the "The Lockerbie Deal" and Libya...
It should come as no surprise that Gaddafi's assets were frozen by Swiss banks only recently. It seems a despot's money is good so long as the US and UK can prop him up.
28 February 2011
Pulitzer Prize Winner Seymour Hersh And The Men Who Want Him Committed
Yet, given the Foreign Policy staff’s derisive commentary on Seymour’s January 17th talk, you would think he was some credulous rube midway through his first Dan Brown novel.
28 February 2011
U.S. shields foreign mercenaries in Libya to protect Bush officials
This is the sort of gross, credibility-destroying hypocrisy that escapes notice by America's media but not by anyone else's.
28 February 2011
How The Banksters Got Away With The Biggest Rip-Off Ever
There is much more to this story. It’s also more about institutions than individuals, more about a captured system that enables and covers up crime and, then, deflects attention away from the deeper problem.
Ten problems
27 February 2011
Marc Faber: "I Think We Are All Doomed"
"I think we are all doomed. I think what will happen is that we are in the midst of a kind of a crack-up boom that is not sustainable, that eventually the economy will deteriorate, that there will be more money-printing, and then you have inflation, and a poor economy, an extreme form of stagflation, and, eventually, in that situation, countries go to war, and, as a whole, derivatives, the market, and everything will collapse, and like a computer when it crashes, you will have to reboot it."
25 February 2011
John Pilger: Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak
The revolt in the Arab world is not merely against a resident dictator, but against a worldwide economic tyranny designed by the US Treasury and imposed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, which have ensured that rich countries like Egypt are reduced to vast sweatshops, with half the population earning less than $2 a day. The people's triumph in Cairo was the first blow against what Benito Mussolini called corporatism, a word that appears in his definition of fascism.
24 February 2011
Robert Fisk with the first dispatch from Tripoli - a city in the shadow of death
Petrol and food prices have trebled; entire towns outside Tripoli have been torn apart by fighting between pro- and anti-Gaddafi forces. In the suburbs of the city, especially in the Noufreen district, militias fought for 24 hours on Sunday with machine guns and pistols, a battle the Gadaffi forces won. In the end, the exodus of expatriates will do far more than street warfare to bring down the regime.
24 February 2011
Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
"My job in psy-ops is to play with people’s heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave," says Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes, the leader of the IO unit, who received an official reprimand after bucking orders. "I’m prohibited from doing that to our own people. When you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressman, you’re crossing a line."
23 February 2011
Bezorgdheid over optreden ordetroepen Bahrein 'krokodillentranen'
Ordetroepen gebruiken daar pantservoertuigen die door Nederland zijn geleverd. Volgens Broek moet het niet gek gevonden worden dat Nederlands materiaal daadwerkelijk wordt ingezet tegen de burgerbevolking. ‘Bahrein is altijd al een politiestaat geweest met een stevig regime dus je zou kunnen verwachten dat het een keer zou gebeuren,’ aldus Broek.
20 February 2011
British government approved sale of crowd control equipment to Libya
The FCO said on Sunday night it had since revoked eight licences for riot control equipment. However, equipment listed as cleared for export to Libya last year include "teargas/irritant ammunition" and "training teargas/irritant ammunition", "military cameras" and components for "surveillance equipment and targeting equipment".
17 February 2011
Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
Nobody goes to jail. This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth — and nobody went to jail. Nobody, that is, except Bernie Madoff, a flamboyant and pathological celebrity con artist, whose victims happened to be other rich and famous people.
16 February 2011
Egypt: Revolution or Coup?
But most independent analysts are not so certain where the five commanders who make up the Council want to take the country. "I agree the military is sending the right signals, but the proof of the pudding will be in the eating," said James Zogby, a veteran Middle East expert who heads the Arab American Institute (AAI). "This was an uprising that toppled the president; it didn't topple the state, and the military is still the state." Many analysts believe the military is prepared to make some concessions but will try to retain as much control as it can.
15 February 2011
Curveball: How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam
Everything he had said about the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons programme was a flight of fantasy - one that, he now claims was aimed at ousting the Iraqi dictator. Janabi, a chemical engineering graduate who had worked in the Iraqi industry, says he looked on in shock as Powell's presentation revealed that the Bush administration's hawkish decisionmakers had swallowed the lot. Something else left him even more amazed; until that point he had not met a US official, let alone been interviewed by one.
14 February 2011
House Votes To Extend Key Patriot Act Provisions
At issue are two provisions of the post-Sept. 11 law that give counterterrorism offices roving wiretap authority to monitor multiple electronic devices and court-approved access to business records relating to a terrorist investigation.
9 February 2011
Data intelligence firms proposed a systematic attack against WikiLeaks
On page two you will find an overview of the proposal developed by the three data intelligence firms.
9 February 2011
Stiglitz Expects 2 Million U.S. Foreclosures This Year
“Americans today are worse off than they were 10 to 12 years ago,” Stiglitz said. At the same time, the U.S. faces “increasing inequality”, with the “upper 1 percent controlling 40 percent of wealth. Instead of trickle down, it has trickled up.”
8 February 2011
WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices
"Al-Husseini disagrees with this analysis, believing Aramco's reserves are overstated by as much as 300bn barrels. In his view once 50% of original proven reserves has been reached … a steady output in decline will ensue and no amount of effort will be able to stop it. He believes that what will result is a plateau in total output that will last approximately 15 years followed by decreasing output.
7 February 2011
Robert Fisk om US envoy's business link to Egypt
So why on earth was he sent to talk to Mubarak, who is in effect a client of Mr Wisner's current employers?
5 February 2011
Lack of Contract Oversight Puts Billions At Risk
The report highlights a multibillion-dollar, nuclear construction project in which the Department of Energy relied entirely on the DCAA, which performs contract oversight for other government agencies as well. The Department performed little to no review of contractor invoices, which amounted to $40 million to $60 million per month.
3 February 2011
Chomsky on Egypt: This Is The Most Remarkable Regional Uprising That I Can Remember
Part 2 of the interview
In the interview, Professor Chomsky links the U.S. military industrial complex to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and its support of the Mubarak government. He then discusses the decades-long "campaign of hatred" in the Middle East against the United States for blocking democracy and progressive developments, along with the impact of revelations from WikiLeaks on the uprising in Egypt and the consequences of U.S. support for radical Islamism. Next, Chomsky makes the point that U.S. fear of the Muslim Brotherhood is really a fear of democracy in the Middle East, and examines the role of U.S. corporations in a "stable" Egypt in the Middle East. The interview wraps up with an analysis of what the Egyptian protests mean for people in the United States.
2 February 2011
Bradley Manning is UK citizen and needs protection, government told
He was recently put on suicide watch for two days, in which he was stripped to his underpants, against the advice of prison psychiatrists. He remains on a regulation that keeps him alone in his cell 23 hours a day and requires him to be checked every five minutes, and he is shackled hand and foot when he has visitors. In December the UN began an investigation into his treatment to see if it amounted to torture. The Foreign Office said that it was unable to release any information on an individual's nationality without that person's consent.
1 February 2011
Iraq operating 'secret prison': Human Rights Watch
HRW said that in late November, Iraqi authorities moved nearly 300 detainees to a secret site within a military base known as Camp Justice in the Kadhimiyah neighbourhood of north Baghdad, citing interviews it had conducted and classified government documents it obtained.
22 January 2011
Seymour Hersh: High-ranking members of US military part of ‘Knights of Malta,’ ‘Opus Dei’
Speaking at a campus operated by Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Hersh said he was working on a new book that details "how eight or nine neoconservative, radicals if you will, overthrew the American government." "It's not only that the neocons took it over but how easily they did it -- how Congress disappeared, how the press became part of it, how the public acquiesced," he continued, according to the published quotes.
22 January 2011
Former Spy With Agenda Operates a Private C.I.A.
The document, provided to The Times, speculates that Mr. Karzai’s ties to the C.I.A. — which has paid him an undetermined amount of money since 2001 — may be the reason the agency “is the only member of the country team in Kabul not to advocate taking a more active stance against AWK.”
22 January 2011
Tony Blair calls for Britain and US to launch new attack on Iran
“They will carry on doing it unless they are met by the requisite determination and, if necessary, force.”
21 January 2011
A special report on global leaders - Where the influential people meet and talk
The world's water-coolers
One or two journalists are invited each year, on condition that they abstain from writing about it. (Full disclosure: the editor of The Economist sometimes attends.)
17 January 2011
Israel's Shadowy War on Iran
Mossad Zeros in on Tehran's Nuclear Program
The alleged perpetrator's dubious confession is simultaneously an admission on the part of the regime that a shadowy war over its nuclear program has begun. [...] Has political pressure from the international community combined with clandestine activities on the part of Israel and the US managed to delay such a strike? Have Mossad's attacks damaged the theocracy's nuclear program to such a degree that it would now be impossible for Iran to build a nuclear bomb earlier than 2015?
17 January 2011
Robert Fisk on The brutal truth about Tunisia
But the "unity" government is to be formed by Mohamed Ghannouchi, a satrap of Mr Ben Ali's for almost 20 years, a safe pair of hands who will have our interests – rather than his people's interests – at heart. For I fear this is going to be the same old story. Yes, we would like a democracy in Tunisia – but not too much democracy. Remember how we wanted Algeria to have a democracy back in the early Nineties?
16 January 2011
WikiLeaks: Iran developing nuclear bomb with help of more than 30 countries
"Iran's limited domestic supply of uranium makes it practically impossible to supply the nation's current and future nuclear power plant capacity," said a U.S. State Department note from February 2009. "Consequently, the Iranians are likely to be forced into dealing with foreign suppliers to get uranium for their domestic nuclear industry," it added.
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13 January 2011
John Pilger interviews Julian Assange on Murdoch, Manning and the threat from China
"Cracking Bradley Manning is the first step," says the Australian hacker. "The aim clearly is to break him and force a confession that he somehow conspired with me to harm the national security of the United States."
12 January 2011
America has ‘reached the point of no return,’ Reagan budget director warns
"It amounts to a failed opportunity to recognize that we are now at a historical inflection point at which the time has arrived for a classic post-war demobilization of the entire military establishment," David Stockman said in an exclusive interview.
12 January 2011
Netanyahu: Only 'credible' military threat led by U.S. can stop nuclear Iran
"You have to ratchet up the pressure and ... I don't think that this pressure will be sufficient to have this regime change course without a credible military option that is put before them by the international community led by the United States," he said.
11 January 2011
Government-created climate of fear
A government can guarantee all the political liberties in the world on paper (free speech, free assembly, freedom of association), but if it succeeds in frightening the citizenry out of exercising those rights, they become meaningless. So much of what the U.S. Government has done over the last decade has been devoted to creating and strengthening this climate of fear.
11 January 2011
Bradley Manning and the Rule of Law
Manning has been sitting in solitary confinement for seven months awaiting trial. He is suffering this fate for the betterment of the nation.
10 January 2011
Gonggrijp: Geen privéberichten op Twitter
"Ik heb nog nooit een privébericht op Twitter verstuurd of ontvangen. Met andere woorden: wat Twitter van mij heeft is niet spannend." Daarnaast plaatst Gonggrijp zijn tweets meestal via een plugin op zijn blog en gebruikt hij een VPN-verbinding.
9 January 2011
Economists foretell of U.S. decline, China's ascension
On the other hand, there is the race with China and the dynamic Asian economies, including India. Most estimates put the size of the Chinese economy on par with the United States by the early 2020s, said Dale Jorgenson, also of Harvard.
8 January 2011
Ex-C.I.A. Officer Named in Disclosure Indictment
While the indictment does not identify the journalist or the intelligence operation, its details make clear that prosecutors believe Mr. Sterling was talking to James Risen, a reporter for The New York Times. Mr. Risen wrote about a C.I.A. attempt to disrupt Iranian nuclear research in his 2006 book, “State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration.”
6 January 2011
The Tyranny of Defense Inc.
“Every gun that is made,” Eisenhower told his listeners, “every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” [...] In Washington, military metaphysics remains sacrosanct. No wonder we continue to get our pockets picked.
5 January 2011
White House’s ‘insider threat’ program targets federal employees for surveillance
The document (PDF), which was leaked to NBC less than 48 hours after it was written, urges agencies to develop an "insider threat program" that would monitor employees for "behavioral changes" indicating they may be leaking classified documents or be willing to do so.
5 January 2011
New center for growing US covert ops
The creation of the center comes as part of the administration's increasing reliance on clandestine and covert action to hunt terror suspects as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have tested the country's patience and pocketbook. The White House has more than doubled the numbers of special operations forces in Afghanistan alone, as well as doubling the CIA's use of missile strikes from unmanned drones in Pakistan and expanding counterterror operations in Yemen.
4 January 2011
New world order will see farmers and miners in charge
All these people who got MBAs made a mistake,” according to Jim Rogers, the commodities investor, at the Reuters Investment Outlook Summit last month. “The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It’s going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.”
4 January 2011
How the media inflated a minor moment in a long war
The Toppling
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30 December 2010
China preparing for armed conflict 'in every direction'
"The modernisation of the Chinese military cannot depend on others, and cannot be bought," Mr Liang added, "In the next five years, our economy and society will develop faster, boosting comprehensive national power. We will take the opportunity and speed up modernisation of the military."
27 December 2010
From the Pentagon to the private sector
In large numbers, and with few rules, retiring generals are taking lucrative defense-firm jobs
In almost any other realm it would seem a clear conflict of interest — pitting his duty to the US military against the interests of his employer — not to mention a revolving-door sprint from uniformed responsibilities to private paid advocacy. But this is the Pentagon where, a Globe review has found, such apparent conflicts are a routine fact of life at the lucrative nexus between the defense procurement system, which spends hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and the industry that feasts on those riches. And almost nothing is ever done about it.
26 December 2010
WikiLeaks: How U.S. tried to stop Spain's torture probe
Don't indict former President George W. Bush's legal brain trust for alleged torture in the treatment of war on terror detainees, warned Mel Martinez on one of his frequent trips to Madrid. Doing so would chill U.S.-Spanish relations.
3 December 2010
CNN Reporter Put On Watch List After Criticizing TSA
Shortly after he began a series of investigative reports that were critical of the TSA in May 2008, CNN journalist Drew Griffin was placed on a watch list that at the time had swelled to over a million names. TSA claimed that he was unfortunate enough to share the name with another Drew Griffin who had been legitimately placed on the list, but then denied that he was on the list altogether and blamed the airlines. The airlines responded by saying they were merely following a list provided to them by the TSA. “Coincidentally, this all began in May, shortly after I began a series of investigative reports critical of the TSA,” said Griffin.
1 December 2010
Robert Fisk: Now we know. America really doesn't care about injustice in the Middle East
Vast amounts of diplomatic literature prove that the mainstay of Washington's Middle East policy is alignment with Israel, that its principal aim is to encourage the Arabs to join the American-Israeli alliance against Iran, that the compass point of US policy over years and years is the need to tame/bully/crush/oppress/ ultimately destroy the power of Iran.
30 November 2010
Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership"
Commenting on the revelations that several Arab leaders are urging the United States to attack Iran, Chomsky says, "latest polls show] Arab opinion holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that’s 80 percent; the second threat is the United States, that’s 77 percent. Iran is listed as a threat by 10 percent," Chomsky says. "This may not be reported in the newspapers, but it’s certainly familiar to the Israeli and U.S. governments and the ambassadors. What this reveals is the profound hatred for democracy on the part of our political leadership."
30 November 2010
U.S. fears Iran has long-range missile, but Russia calls it a 'myth'
The United States believes that Iran wanted the missiles for the propulsion technology. But in an exchange described in the cable, U.S. and Russian officials debated whether North Korea even had the BM-25 missile at all, and the Russians asked whether the United States had any images of the missile. "The U.S. did not, but noted that North Korea had paraded the missile through the streets of Pyongyang. Russia disagreed," the cable noted. The Russians countered that a review of the video of that parade showed a different video and "the missile appears to be a myth."
29 November 2010
Exclusive: Leaked cable reveals US-Israeli strategy for regime change in Iran
When asked what he thought forced regime change meant in this context with respect to support for the Azeris, Kurds, and Baluchs, Baer told Raw Story, "it means give them money so they can set off bombs - the Mad Max approach."
16 November 2010
U.S. Envoy Secretly Offered Troops in Iraq after 2011
Talwar suggested that the combat troops could be placed under the cover of the State Department's security force, the Iraqi intelligence official told IPS.
14 November 2010
Europe stumbles blindly towards its 1931 moment
The eurozone’s fiscal fund (European Financial Stability Facility) is fatally flawed. Like Alpinistas roped together, an ever-reduced core of solvent states are supposed to carry the weight on an ever-widening group of insolvent states dangling beneath them. This lacks political credibility and may be tested to destruction if – as seems likely – Ireland is forced to ask for help. At which moment the chain-reaction begins in earnest, starting with Iberia
2 November 2010
Israel knew of Yemeni bomb threat one day ahead
"Since Thursday, Israeli representatives have been on location in sensitive airports around the world, securing shipments to Israel," Yisrael Katz told Ynetnews.com Monday.
31 October 2010
WashPost: War with Iran would rescue economy
"I am not suggesting, of course, that the president incite a war to get reelected," Broder qualifies. "But the nation will rally around Obama because Iran is the greatest threat to the world in the young century."
26 October 2010
Humiliate, strip, threaten: UK military interrogation manuals discovered
Methods devised in secret in recent years may breach international law
The revelations come after the Guardian published US military documents leaked to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks revealing details of torture, summary executions and war crimes in Iraq.
26 October 2010
Contrived Propaganda Tapes Reveal War On Terror Fraud
Everything about SITE indicates that it is nothing more than a dummy organization being used by the military-industrial complex to release staged Al-Qaeda videotapes as part of the ongoing propaganda offensive to justify the brutal, pointless and manufactured war on terror.
15 October 2010
Clinton aide's idea: Let Iraq shoot down U.S. plane
Back in the late 1990s, Shelton says a member of Clinton's cabinet asked him to allow Saddam Hussein to shoot down an American plane over Iraq as a pretext for starting a war. The way Shelton tells the story, this was a serious request.
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14 October 2010
WikiLeaks accuses US of ‘financial warfare’
"I need to express the seriousness of the attack against this media organization," he told an audience in London. "The Pentagon has demanded ... that we destroy, totally destroy, our previous publications, including that Afghan publication. ... The Pentagon is trying to get up an espionage case and destroy our organization," the Australian former computer hacker added.
11 October 2010
Researcher: Suicide terrorism linked to military occupation
"We have lots of evidence now that when you put the foreign military presence in, it triggers suicide terrorism campaigns, ... and that when the foreign forces leave, it takes away almost 100% of the terrorist campaign," Pape said in an interview last week on his findings.
1 October 2010
U.S. and British Documents Give No Indication Alternatives to Iraq War Were Seriously Considered
Perhaps most revealing about today’s posting on the National Security Archive’s Web site is what is missing—any indication whatsoever from the declassified record to date that top Bush administration officials seriously considered an alternative to war. In contrast there is an extensive record of efforts to energize military planning, revise existing contingency plans, and create a new, streamlined war plan.
30 September 2010
Obama Imposes New Iran Sanctions as War Chorus Rises
The sanctions are the first imposed by Washington against Iranian officials for rights-related reasons. They come amid growing speculation over the resumption of negotiations between the U.S., as well as other major powers, and Tehran over the latter's nuclear programme, and amid increasing calls by Israel-centred neo-conservatives, among others, for the Obama administration to take military action if such negotiations do not soon bear fruit.
28 September 2010
The Obama administration's war on privacy
The tyrannical mentality of the UAE, Saudi and Bush DHS authorities are far from aberrational. They are perfectly representative of how the current U.S. administration thinks as well: every communication and all other human transactions must be subject to government surveillance.
27 September 2010
U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet
Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” messaging like Skype — to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order. The mandate would include being able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages.
26 September 2010
It's Obama vs infinite war
What Woodward's book - and the corporate media orchestrated narrative - will never tell is "why" infinite war. Because of the New Great Game in Eurasia. Because of the need of military bases to spy on strategic competitors Russia and China. Because of the US's obsession with Pipelineistan in Central Asia bypassing both Russia and Iran. Because of the Pentagon's full spectrum dominance doctrine - which justifies infinitely ballooning military budgets.
25 September 2010
Obama argues his assassination program is a "state secret"
[...] in other words, not only does the President have the right to sentence Americans to death with no due process or charges of any kind, but his decisions as to who will be killed and why he wants them dead are "state secrets," and thus no court may adjudicate its legality.
25 September 2010
Stux net Worm is a US Cyber Weapon Against Iran’s Nuclear Project
“This is cyber sabotage,” said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior researcher for the security firm Kaspersky Labs. “Stuxnet is designed to basically bring down a plant or take down operations.”
24 September 2010
“Garden Plot:” The Army’s Emergency Plan to Restore “Law and Order” to America
TheTimes also reported that Governor Ronald Reagan once addressed 500 soldiers drilling for Garden Plot; he joked that if his political enemies saw him they would accuse him of “planning a military takeover.” Globalsecurity.org reports that Garden Plot deployments “were commonplace” in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
13 September 2010
The Warped Mission of the American Military: "Out-Terrorize the Terrorists"
The ironic thing is that top conservative and liberal terrorism experts say that torture and other war crimes increase terrorism and reduce national security. And terrorism is bad for the economy as well.
12 September 2010
The General Gunning for WikiLeaks
Although outsiders have not been allowed to inspect the “war room” in suburban Virginia and see its staff at work, national-security officials offered details of the operation to The Daily Beast, including the identity of the counterintelligence expert who has been put in charge: Brig. General Robert A. Carr of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
11 September 2010
Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque
But add to this array of unexpected connections the work of Imam Rauf on behalf of the U.S. government—which includes serving as an FBI "consultant" and being recruited as a spokesperson by longtime George W. Bush confidante Karen Hughes, who headed up the administration's propaganda efforts in the Muslim world—and a compelling picture begins to emerge. Bush's favorite Imam, with backing from a funder with connections to the CIA, the Pentagon and the currency trading company that now sponsors rightwing firebrand Glenn Beck, proposes to build a mosque around the corner from the site of the most devastating terrorist attack ever visited on America.
6 September 2010
Krugman: This Is 1938 All Over Again, And We Need Something Like WWII To Save Us
The latest Paul Krugman op-ed may be his most complete and clear summation of his views on politics and the economy, smartly drawing a comparison between the current state of things, and the state of play in 1938.
5 September 2010
Analysts: Iraq war ‘partly to blame’ for financial crisis
Stiglitz and Bilmes estimate that about a quarter of the debt increase the US saw during the first five years of the war are attributable to the war -- about $900 billion of a $3.6 trillion rise in the debt. They also estimate that the war added about $10 to the cost of a barrel of oil, amounting to a cost of $250 billion to the US economy.
4 September 2010
Israeli spies wooing U.S. Muslims, sources say
But a retired senior FBI counterintelligence official told SpyTalk, "They have always been extremely aggressive, and seem to feel they can operate whenever and wherever they want, in spite of being called on the carpet more than any other country by probably a factor of three times as often."
3 September 2010
30 Statistics That Prove The Elite Are Getting Richer, The Poor Are Getting Poorer And The Middle Class Is Being Destroyed
[...] So in the final analysis, is it any wonder why the income inequality gap is growing? Without small businesses having a legitimate chance to compete and without good jobs for American workers, the middle class in America is going to continue to get chewed up and spit out. The following are 30 statistics that prove that the elite are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and the middle class is being destroyed in 2010....
2 September 2010
A Speech for Endless War
One day in March 1969, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Our government has become preoccupied with death," George Wald said, "with the business of killing and being killed." More than four decades later, how much has really changed?
2 September 2010
Flying the flag, faking the news
Bernays was no rabid right-winger. He was an elitist liberal who believed that "engineering public consent" was for the greater good. This could be achieved by the creation of "false realities" which then became "news events". Here are examples of how it is done these days.
31 August 2010
Media Manipulates the "End" of the War in Iraq
In their reporting, however, the US corporate media - in near monolithic fashion - has failed to mention the drawdown would not include the more than 100,000 private military contractors that are already serving in Iraq, in addition to the 144,000 troops.
27 August 2010
10 Practical Steps That You Can Take To Insulate Yourself (At Least Somewhat) From The Coming Economic Collapse
Many readers have started to complain that all I do is "scare" people and that I don't provide any practical solutions. Well, not everyone can move to Montana and start a llama farm, but hopefully this article will give people some practical steps that they can take to insulate themselves (at least to an extent) from the coming economic collapse.
25 August 2010
Twin Threats: Coordinating Regime Change in Iran and Venezuela
IT IS OUR BEST ESTIMATE THAT SUCH A MILITARY STRIKE WOULD SET A CHAIN OF EVENTS IN MOTION THAT WOULD CUMULATE IN A CHANGE OF REGIME IN IRAN TO ONE THAT WOULD NOT BE A THREAT TO ISRAEL, THE UNITED STATES, OR TO US INTERESTS:
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21 August 2010
John Pilgers' un-spins the story of the US leaving Iraq
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John Pilger is working on a new documentary called The War You Don't See. Riz Khan talks about spin, wars and the war in Iraq in particular with veteran documentary maker, investivative reporter John Pilger.
20 August 2010
U.S. Global Strategy: Defeating Potential Challengers In Eurasia
While commenting favorably on China's increased "contributions to international peacekeeping efforts, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and counter-piracy operations," it focuses extensively on what was noted above: That the nation's military capacity may keep pace with its economic growth and pose a challenge to the domination of the western Pacific Ocean region [...].
19 August 2010
Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373
The Secret Killers
The 9/11 killers were mass assassins who gave up their own lives to murder thousands. It’s now clear that, in response, the U.S. went into the global assassination business. The first of its “targeted killings” in the Global War on Terror launched by the Bush administration and expanded by the Obama administration seems to have taken place in Yemen in 2002.
19 August 2010
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
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The subpoenaed documents reveal Israel's clandestine programs for "cultivation of editors," the "stimulation and placement of suitable articles in the major consumer magazines" as well as U.S. reporting about sensitive subjects such as the Dimona nuclear weapons facility.
19 August 2010
Who's blowing up Iran's gas pipelines?
But the high number of attacks on Iran’s gas pipelines within the space of less than a month will inevitably raised suspicions that this is the work of professional saboteurs. The CIA, for example, is known to have a clandestine operation underway to destabilise the Iranian regime.
19 August 2010
Sweden probes swine flu vaccine for narcolepsy
"The MPA has received six reports from health care professionals regarding narcolepsy as suspected adverse drug reaction following Pandemrix fluvaccination," it said in a statement.
17 August 2010
Gulf States Endorse "Military Option" Against Iran
The article also reflected "the Gulf states' growing tension and concern regarding Iran's nuclear program, and mentioned their proximity to the Bushehr reactor." What is scary is that the straw man of military intervention is pretty much presented as a fait accompli, and alternatives to military intervention are not even considered as an option.
14 August 2010
Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Attack on Iran
Netanyahu administration officials used Goldberg to convey the message to the Americans that they didn’t believe Obama would launch an attack on Iran, and therefore Israel would have to do so. [...] The knowledge that Israel could not attack Iran without U.S. consent makes Israeli officials extremely sensitive about the possibility that Obama would explicitly reject an Israeli strike.
13 August 2010
A campaign for war with Iran begins
Judging by Israel’s rhetoric, it is easy to conclude that these beliefs are genuinely held as undisputable truths by the Israeli security apparatus. But if judged by its actions rather than its rhetoric, a very different image emerges -- one that shows an astute Israeli appreciation for the complexity of Iran's security calculations and decision-making processes, and a recognition that conventional arguments are insufficient to convince Washington to view Iran from an Israeli lens.
12 August 2010
Judge dismisses lawsuit over Geronimo’s remains
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by descendants of the Apache warrior Geronimo, who claimed some of his remains were stolen in 1918 by a student society at Yale University.
11 August 2010
US Arms ‘Bonanza’ in Middle East
Israel and Saudis to buy advanced war planes
[...] a move designed to ratchet up the pressure on Iran, according to defense analysts. [...] "This is a pattern we’ve seen before. The US offers Arab states expensive modern armaments, and then turns around to Israel and tells it it needs to have even better weapons to stay ahead in the race. Then the pressure again mounts on the Arab states. It’s a racket that has been a bonanza for US arms manufacturers," he said.
11 August 2010
The point of no return
I am not engaging in a thought exercise, or a one-man war game, when I discuss the plausibility and potential consequences of an Israeli strike on Iran. Israel has twice before successfully attacked and destroyed an enemy’s nuclear program. [...] But, based on my conversations with Israeli decision-makers, this period of forbearance, in which Netanyahu waits to see if the West’s nonmilitary methods can stop Iran, will come to an end this December.
8 August 2010
Murder, Spies and Voting Lies: Rigged elections exposed
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Friedman pokes at the seamy side of democracy, uncovering the story of computer programmer Clint Curtis, who recounts being asked before the 2000 election by a prominent Florida legislator to create vote-rigging software for electronic voting machines. The vote-rigging scandal devolves into a murder mystery, with Friedman shaking down the facts.
5 August 2010
Iran claims to have smuggled anti aircraft missile systems into country
If the news is confirmed, the threat posed by the system would be a serious deterent to military planners contemplating a strike on Iran's nuclear programme. The S-300 is capable of shooting down aircraft, cruise missiles and ballistic missile warheads at ranges of more than 90 miles and at altitudes of about 90,000 feet.
4 August 2010
Intel Experts Warn Obama Israel May Bomb Iran This Month [august 2010]
The intelligence experts explain that Israel’s tactic is to launch the war suddenly and then make it politically untenable for Obama to do anything other than offer the United States’ full military support for the campaign.
3 August 2010
Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran
They are probably telling you that, since you have privately counseled Prime Minister Netanyahu against attacking Iran, he will not do it. This could simply be the familiar syndrome of telling the President what they believe he wants to hear. Quiz them; tell them others believe them to be dead wrong on Netanyahu. The only positive here is that you — only you — can prevent an Israeli attack on Iran.
3 August 2010
Bombers, missiles could end Iran nukes
Pentagon has plan for attack
"It will be primarily an air attack with covert work to start a 'velvet' revolution so [the] Iranian people can take back their country," said retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former fighter pilot.
2 August 2010
The Real Aim of Israel’s Bomb Iran Campaign
What is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to support an attack by Israel so that the United States can be drawn into direct, full-scale war with Iran.
1 August 2010
The Chilcot inquiry has already exposed the folly of the invasion
The public has now heard the disastrous consequences of the invasion. They have witnessed political protagonists try to disassociate themselves from the decision to invade. And they have seen public servants criticise the manner in which Britain was propelled into war.
1 August 2010
US military chief admits to Iran attack plan
Mullen said allowing Iran to develop a nuclear weapon was also unacceptable. "Quite frankly, I am extremely concerned about both of those outcomes," he said.
30 July 2010
The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets
Ms. Hayes-Beaty is being monitored by Lotame Solutions Inc., a New York company that uses sophisticated software called a "beacon" to capture what people are typing on a website—their comments on movies, say, or their interest in parenting and pregnancy. Lotame packages that data into profiles about individuals, without determining a person's name, and sells the profiles to companies seeking customers
29 July 2010
Senior EPA Analyst: Feds think public can’t HANDLE THE TRUTH about toxic dispersants
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EPA Senior Policy Analyst Hugh Kaufman, MSNBC, July 28, 2010.
27 July 2010
Leaked files indicate U.S. pays Afghan media to run friendly stories
Several reports from Army psychological operations units and provincial reconstruction teams (also known as PRTs, civilian-military hybrids tasked with rebuilding Afghanistan) show that local Afghan radio stations were under contract to air content produced by the United States. Other reports show U.S. military personnel apparently referring to Afghan reporters as "our journalists" and directing them in how to do their jobs.
27 July 2010
Ahmadinejad: US plans to attack two countries in Middle East
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the United States and Israel plan to attack two countries in the Middle East as part of a conspiracy to apply pressure on the Islamic Republic.
26 July 2010
U.S., Israel sign deal to tackle Iran long-range missiles
Israel's defense forces have been planning to eventually operate three anti-missile systems: Iron Dome to tackle rockets with a shorter range of up to 60 kilometers; David's Sling - known also as Magic Wand - which has a range of hundreds of kilometers; while the Arrow 3 is designed to shoot down missiles outside the earth's atmosphere. [...] A day before that, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said that the United States would continue to maintain Israel's military advantage as well as protect it in the diplomatic arena, adding that the American commitment to Israel's security was "not negotiable."
26 July 2010
Iran blijkt doelwit van Windows shortcut-worm
De malware is vorige maand ontdekt door antivirusbedrijf VirusBlokAda uit het Oost-Europese Wit-Rusland. Dat bedrijf trof de worm aan op een systeem van een Iraanse klant. De worm is al langere tijd in omloop, mogelijk al sinds januari , vertelt technisch directeur Elias Levy aan Computerworld.
25 July 2010
U.S., South Korea Begin Large-Scale War Games
The US said the exercises are designed to send a potent message to North Korea that it must renounce its "aggressive behaviour". Ahead of the drills, North Korea said it was ready to launch a "retaliatory sacred war" and vowed to use its "nuclear deterrent". [...] In terms of the number of military assets involved in the drill, this week's exercise is the largest since 1976, [...].
20 July 2010
The Iranian Scientist Who Would Not Play Curveball
The next war hangs largely on whether U.S. intelligence analysts with integrity are allowed to ply their trade without fear or favor; or, failing that, whether they will decide to give priority to the supervening value of preventing another unnecessary war, as opposed to keeping a promise not to divulge classified information. Most of them are well aware that all too often such information is stamped “SECRET” simply to keep the truth from the American people.
19 July 2010
Search Top Secret America’s Database of Private Spooks
The Post — whose editorial page has been notably receptive to the growth of the security state over the years — explains in an editorial comment that it ran its constellation of websites by security officials to ensure that it wasn’t jeopardizing national security. In one instance, the editors deleted certain unspecified specific “data points” the project initially disclosed.
15 July 2010
An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table
Other intelligence sources say that the U.S. Army's Central Command, which is in charge of organizing military operations in the Middle East, has made some real progress in planning targeted air strikes — aided, in large part, by the vastly improved human-intelligence operations in the region.
14 July 2010
New Declassified Records Showing the Path Down the Vietnam Road of Doubt and Deception
President Lyndon cited the attacks to persuade Congress to authorize broad military action in Vietnam, but historians in recent years have concluded that the Aug. 4 attack never happened. Still, the transcripts show the outrage the senators were expressing behind closed doors.
13 July 2010
ACLU: The Torture Report
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The Torture Report, an initiative of the ACLU’s National Security Project, aims to give the full account of the Bush administration’s torture program. It will bring together everything we know from government documents, investigations, press reports, witness statements and other publications into a single narrative – one that is updated regularly and subject to critical review and improvement as it unfolds.
13 July 2010
Al-Qaeda Magazine is Cupcake Recipe Book
The magazine’s general tone and use of the English language is either clumsy or purposely intending self-parody. For example, the “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom” article and the usage of the word “terrorist” as a form of self reference.
12 July 2010
‘A real free press for the first time in history’: Wikileaks editor speaks out in London
He said journalism needed to work towards making more primary source material available online, arguing that this was the standard process for scientific investigations and it should be the same for journalism.
12 July 2010
Medvedev: Iran Is On The Brink Of Building A Nuclear Weapon
Hours before this announcement, Iran admitted to having 20 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
10 July 2010
Academics, Politicians: Pending Global Treaty Threatens Free Internet, Fundamental Rights
With specific reference to internet governance, the group says ACTA would: Encourage internet service providers to police the activities of internet users by holding internet providers responsible for the actions of subscribers, conditioning safe harbors on adopting policing policies, and by requiring parties to encourage cooperation between service providers and rights holders;
9 July 2010
The White House has pulled a 180 with regard to Netanyahu
Did Netanyahu promise that Israel will not launch a preemptive strike if it receives American guarantees for the maintenance of its deterrence? Or does Obama's receptiveness indicate that the Americans have already reconciled themselves to the Iranian bomb and are now putting in place regional security arrangements for once they pass the fail-safe point?
8 July 2010
America's Deadliest Sweetener Betrays Millions, Then Hoodwinks You with Name Change
Aspartame has been wreaking silent havoc with people's health for the past 30 years
They want you to believe aspartame delivers all the benefits of sugar and none of its drawbacks. But nothing could be further from the truth.
8 July 2010
Secret document confirms US-Israel nuclear partnership
Cooke writes, “When the UN refused to agree to the severe sanctions that the U.S. wanted, Obama responded with typical Bush flair and went solo. The new U.S. sanctions against Iran — signed into law by Obama on July 1st — are an unmistakable act of war.”
3 July 2010
Bill Keller's self-defense on "torture"
What was a matter of central concern for Orwell as an instrument of enabling evil ("language can also corrupt thought") has become, to "journalist" Bill Keller, nothing more than irritating and tendentious political correctness. That's how far and how quickly we've devolved
1 July 2010
Iran Arms Syria With Radar
System Could Help Tehran Dodge Israeli Strike; a Blow to U.S. Strategy on Damascus
Iran and Syria both denied that a radar transfer took place. [...] Though officials say the transaction took place about a year ago, Israel and the U.S. haven't publicized it, a departure from years past when Israeli officials were often eager to trumpet Iranian arms transfers to Syria and Hezbollah as violations of Security Council resolutions.
1 July 2010
Study: Newspapers stopped describing waterboarding as 'torture' during Bush years
“From the early 1930s until the modern story broke in 2004, the newspapers that covered waterboarding almost uniformly called the practice torture or implied it was torture,” the study noted. But the study found that things changed in the years when “war on terror” became part of the American lexicon.
1 July 2010
G20 Black Block cops - Judge the evidence - Media loves rioting Block
The media loves the Black Block rioters in Toronto at the G20 2010. The question is whether or not these people are actually demonstrators or members of the police. Judge the video's for yourself.
The video's of the riots are eaten up like candy by Reuters and Associated Press and broadcast all over the world. The voice over in the tv news tells the public that what they see are left wing agitators. But are they? Or are they, in Gladio fashion and in true false flag manner, yet another incarnation of devide an conquer?
30 June 2010
MSNBC’s Ratigan: Stock market an ‘obviously corrupt’ fraud
Imagine if eBay had a rule where you could cancel your bid within 1 second. I put up some stuff on ebay, and you place a bid for it. Then I place a bid that is higher than the current bid to see if that becomes the new highest bid. If it is, I cancel it within milliseconds. Remember, I don't want to buy the product -- I just want to drive the price higher!
30 June 2010
25 Signs That Almost Everyone Is Expecting An Economic Collapse In 2010
The following are 25 signs that almost everyone in the financial world is expecting an economic downturn during the second half of 2010....
25 June 2010
Across From White House, Coffee With Lobbyists
But because the discussions are not taking place at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they are not subject to disclosure on the visitors’ log that the White House releases as part of its pledge to be the “most transparent presidential administration in history.”
24 June 2010
Iran on war alert over "US and Israeli concentrations" in Azerbaijan
He said: "The mobilization is due to the presence of American and Israeli forces on the western border," adding, "Reinforcements are being dispatched to West Azerbaijan Province because some western countries are fueling ethnic conflicts to destabilize the situation in the region."
24 June 2010
Israels patron is becoming weaker
Things have never been worse. The superpower under whose patronage we shelter is becoming increasingly weak and increasingly distant. As a result of these two mutually amplifying processes the Middle East is becoming unstable. There is no one to stop Iran's rise or Turkey's growing extremism, or to provide security for the moderates in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Palestine.
24 June 2010
CIA gives Blackwater firm new $100 million contract
In December a federal judge threw out charges against five of the alleged Blackwater shooters on procedural grounds, but the Justice Department is appealing the ruling. Early this year German prosecutors launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA sent Blackwater operatives on an assassination mission against a suspected terrorist in Hamburg, Germany, in 2001. In April, meanwhile, a federal grand jury indicted four of Prince's former top deputies, including his legal counsel, and a fifth employee, on 15 counts of conspiracy, weapons and obstruction-of-justice charges.
23 June 2010
Reports: IAF Landed at Saudi Base, US Troops near Iran Border
The Israeli Air Force recently unloaded military equipment at a Saudi Arabia base, a semi-official Iranian news agency claimed Wednesday, while a large American force has massed in Azerbaijan, which is on the northwest border of Iran. Both reports follow by less than a week the Pentagon’s confirmation that an unusually large American fleet sailed through the Suez Canal Saturday. Several reports stated that an Israeli ship joined the armada.
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21 June 2010
Not All Environmentalists Pleased with Climate Legislation
"This is nuclear energy- promoting, oil drilling-championing, coal mining-boosting legislation with a weak carbon pricing mechanism thrown in."
21 June 2010
US Internet Monitoring Needed to Fight Homegrown Terrorism
Ms Napolitano said it was wrong to believe liberty was sacrificed if security was embraced, and pointed to restrictions on full-body scanners at airports to protect privacy.
21 June 2010
Gates rules out ‘containing’ nuclear-armed Iran
"I don't think we're prepared to even talk about containing a nuclear Iran. I think... our view still is we do not accept the idea of Iran having nuclear weapons," he said in an interview with Fox News Sunday. "And our policies and our efforts are all aimed at preventing that from happening," he said.
20 June 2010
Pentagon revives Rumsfeld-era domestic spying unit
But while the unit's name refers to "foreign intelligence," civil liberties advocates and the Pentagon's own description of the program suggest that Americans will likely be included in the new database.
20 June 2010
CIA opens up about disastrous 1952 mission inside China
Downey and Fecteau were assigned to a covert program called "Third Force," intended to create a resistance network. Small teams of noncommunist Chinese exiles were airdropped into the Manchuria area of China to link up with disaffected communist generals. The goal was to destabilize Mao Zedong's new government and distract it from the Korean War, which Chinese forces had entered two years earlier.
19 June 2010
Israeli Blockade 'Eased' Only in English, but U.S. Media Eat It Up
The prime minister's office issued a press release in English following the meeting, which was also sent to foreign diplomats, was substantially different than the Hebrew announcement--according to the English text, a decision was made to ease the blockade, but in the Hebrew text there was no mention of any such decision.
19 June 2010
12 American Warships, Including One Aircraft Carrier, And One Israeli Corvette, Cross Suez Canal On Way To Red Sea And Beyond
It is unclear at first read what the third carrier group may be, but if this news, which was also confirmed by the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz, is correct, then the Debka report about a surge in aircraft activity in the Persian Gulf is well on its way to being confirmed. There has been no update on the three Israeli nuclear-armed subs that are believed to be operating off the coast of Iran currently.
18 June 2010
Rowley, McGovern and Ellsberg -- Statement on Wikileaks
The following statement was released today by Coleen Rowley, an FBI whistleblower who was one of Time Magazine's people of the year in 2002; Ray McGovern, CIA analyst for 27 years; and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers (top-secret government documents that showed a pattern of governmental deceit about the Vietnam War):
18 June 2010
The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks
In other words, exactly what the U.S. Government wanted to happen in order to destroy WikiLeaks has happened here: news reports that a key WikiLeaks source has been identified and arrested, followed by announcements from anonymous government officials that there is now a worldwide "manhunt" for its Editor-in-Chief.
16 June 2010
Jon Stewart on Obama's executive power record
When ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero last week addressed the progressive conference America's Future Now, he began by saying: "I'm going to start provocatively . . . I'm disgusted with this president." Last night, after Obama's Oval Office speech, Jon Stewart began his show with an 8-minute monologue on Obama's executive power and civil liberties record which, in essence, provided just some of the reasons why Romero's strong condemnation is so justified.
16 June 2010
Something Smells Funny and Its Not Wikileaks
Adding everything up, one can clearly cast doubt on the legitimacy of this story. It looks more like an attempt to flush out Wikileak members, while trying to get the public to form a general dislike for whistle blowers.
15 June 2010
Bilderberg 2010: What we have learned
I'm baffled to the point of punching tree trunks to witness the determination of some folk to throw themselves in front of these heads of corporations and presidents of banks and to wave their arms protectively, yelping: "Leave them alone! Let them strategise for the good of the world in peace! How could they possibly have a frank discussion with our politicians if we were privy to it? Stop this unseemly prying!" I mean, seriously.
15 June 2010
Afghanistan Mineral Riches Story Is War Propaganda
The conclusion remains clear. The idea that Afghanistan’s mineral riches were not part of the invasion and occupation agenda, drawn up before 9/11, and have suddenly been discovered, is provably false. The New York Times is once again engaged in the dissemination of propaganda in an attempt to sell the empire building of the new world order.
15 June 2010
Food prices to rise by up to 40% over next decade, UN report warns
Another factor driving up food prices is the controversial biofuels industry. The report predicts that continued expansion of biofuel output – often to meet government targets – will create additional demand for wheat, coarse grains, vegetable oils and sugar
15 June 2010
Supreme Court: Torture and Rendition Victim Maher Arar Cannot Sue in US Courts
In a major setback for holding US officials accountable for rendition and torture, the Supreme Court has rejected Arar’s lawsuit against the US government.
12 June 2010
$34 Billion Asset Manager Says Market Prices Are Manipulated
2) The markets are not "fair and honest", 3) Securities prices are presently "susceptible to manipulation and control, and the dissemination of such prices gives rise to excessive speculation, resulting in sudden and unreasonable fluctuations in the prices of securities
12 June 2010
Obama Takes a Hard Line Against Leaks to Press
In 17 months in office, President Obama has already outdone every previous president in pursuing leak prosecutions. His administration has taken actions that might have provoked sharp political criticism for his predecessor, George W. Bush, who was often in public fights with the press.
12 June 2010
Former US Senator: US 'inciting conflict to trigger war'
So, now, back to the point I am making, why would we back away twice from what would be a reasonable position. And I cannot think of any motivational position than to continue to turn up the pressure on Iran hoping they will do something stupid that then could trigger us to act in a warlike fashion.
12 June 2010
The Spill, the Scandal and the president
The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world's most dangerous oil company get away with murder. [...] By the time Obama spoke, it was increasingly evident that this was not merely an ecological disaster. It was the most devastating assault on American soil since 9/11.
11 June 2010
From Afghanistan the news is bad
The two men reportedly objected strongly to Karzai's order to release all accused Taliban prisoners who are being held without enough evidence for trials. The order was seen as the latest in a series of moves designed to reconcile with the Taliban leadership, a step that Washington has strongly opposed until now.
11 June 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hunted by Pentagon over massive leak
American officials said Pentagon investigators are convinced that Assange is in possession of at least some classified State Department cables leaked by a 22-year-old Army intelligence specialist, Bradley Manning of Potomac, Maryland, who is now in custody in Kuwait. And given the contents of the cables, the feds have good reason to be concerned.
10 June 2010
US, France, UK practice aerial strikes in time with feeble sanctions against Iran
US and French bombers took off from each other's aircraft carriers, the USS Harry S. Truman and the Charles de Gaulle, while the British planes flew in from their bases in England. Together, they practiced their strike capabilities in a real war. The Caniuers training facility near Toulon stood in for an Iranian target.
9 June 2010
Israel asked U.S. to increase weapons supply, Haaretz learns
Israel is also seeking to increase the amount of gear held by the American army in their emergency stores in Israel by 50% - from $800 million to $1.2 billion. The Obama administration placed the stores in Israel in December, as part of a number of steps to improve U.S. assistance to Israeli security. To date, $600 million worth of American emergency equipment has been placed in Israel.The American stores hold rockets, bombs, aircraft ammunition and armored vehicles, along with other weapons.
8 June 2010
Who Bankrolls Congress?
The Big Money Behind Top Lawmakers
Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center, told the Center for Public Integrity that “on some level the correlation between the interests of donors and the actions of Members of Congress is as old as the Republic. The explanation of that correlation has its roots in two camps: first, donors prefer to give to politicians they agree with. Second, politicians like to please their donors to ensure they keep their coffers open for future needs.”
8 June 2010
Afghan war overtakes Vietnam to become the longest conflict in U.S. history
Public support for the war has also fallen as the number of dead has increased - just as it did with Vietnam. More than half of Americans now believe that the fighting in Afghanistan has not been worth the cost.
6 June 2010
BP Buys 'Oil' Search Terms to Redirect Users to Official Company Website
BP Spokesman Acknowledges Purchase 'To Make It Easier for People to Find Out More About Our Efforts in the Gulf' and Other Ways to Help
But several search engine marketing experts are questioning BP's intentions, suggesting that controlling what the public finds when they look online for oil spill information is just another way for the company to try and rebuild the company's suffering public image.
4 June 2010
Secret Detention Practised in All Corners of the World
"This is an important document because it brings together in one place the information that has been known and has been in the public awareness for a long while, but in a scattered fashion, "Amnesty International's representative at the U.N. in Geneva, Peter Splinter, told IPS. [...] The study's recommendations included an explicit prohibition of secret detention, and the keeping of clear detention records, even at times of armed conflict, as stipulated by the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war.
4 June 2010
Report condemns swine flu experts' ties to big pharma
Trio of scientists who urged stockpiling had previously been paid, says report
An investigation by the British Medical Journal and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the not-for-profit reporting unit, shows that WHO guidance issued in 2004 was authored by three scientists who had previously received payment for other work from Roche, which makes Tamiflu, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), manufacturer of Relenza.
2 June 2010
Bilderberg 2010: Globalists Panic Over Euro Collapse
Elite to seek reassurances from Spanish leaders that ultimate agenda for global currency will not be derailed
If the euro were to go under, it would expose the inherent weakness of continental monetary unions and all but derail the wider agenda for a one world currency.
2 June 2010
Iran To Dump 45 Billion Euros For Gold Bullion & Dollars
Gulf states also begin to flee from collapsing single currency
The report also claims that Gulf states are also beginning to switch their euro reserves into dollars and gold as some forecast the single currency could sink to parity with the U.S. dollar by next year.
29 May 2010
Bilderberg 2010 Agenda Leaked
This year's conference marks a new level of exposure and opposition to the Bilderberg group itself. Daniel Estulin will be making an historic speech to the European parliament on June 1along with Mario Borghezio, Nigel Farage, and other key MEPs. Then Charlie Skelton, reporting once again for the UK's Guardian newspaper, will be taking part in a mass counter-conference where those opposed to the Bilderbergers and their secret proceedings will gather to draw attention to the group.
29 May 2010
Obama gets OK on boosting Israel against rockets
A congressional staff member said the request for the funding "seems to have come directly from the commander in chief," Obama. It was not entirely clear what prompted it. [...] In addition, the Obama administration is working toward a Middle East missile defense that envisions adding an advanced radar site in a Gulf state to one already in Israel to thwart any Iranian attack, U.S. officials have told Reuters.
29 May 2010
Turkey, Brazil Lash US Over Iran Hypocrisy
US Reiterates Opposition to Deal it Once Touted
The deal negotiated by Brazil and Turkey was materially identical to the one the Obama Administration had been demanding Iran sign since October. Now that Iran has signed it, the US has expressed vigorous opposition to the deal. In fact, not only is the US now fighting the deal, they seem to be angrily fighting Turkey and Brazil, two nations whose only crime is trying to convince Iran to agree to the deal the Obama Administration claimed to have wanted all along.
28 May 2010
The Black Hole of Bagram
If this ruling is allowed to stand, the Supreme Court will have abdicated its responsibility to ensure that no one can be kidnapped anywhere in the world and held indefinitely, without charge or trial, and with no way of challenging the basis of their detention in a satisfactory manner, either in Bagram, or, for that matter, in any other U.S. facility in a foreign land.
28 May 2010
Is the U.S. Government Planning War to Quell the Tide of Economic Unrest?
These are but a very few of the recent headlines about more U.S. war, but the Iranian and Korean situations are the most dangerous, and the threats against Iran I think the most real. [...] War is the obvious answer, as war solidifies the putrid and false nationalistic worship of the peasants more than any other ploy.
26 May 2010
Worst Fears May be Realized In Iraq
How many average Americans are aware that while troop numbers come down, contractor numbers go up? The number of troops in Iraq is supposed to go down by this August to 50,000 but with contractors the number would be 125,000. Can you imagine that candidate Obama would have campaigned on the promise of having 125,000 personnel in Iraq by the end of summer 2010?
26 May 2010
Liquidity Forecast for the World Economies
We Are now closing in on the next planned world war as a result. When and where we can only guess, but it surely is on the way, the same way it was in the late 1930s. War is a distraction and it succeeds in culling the population. It is also a cover-up for massive financial and economic problems that have resulted from the financial elite looting the system. The system is not being fixed and deliberately so. The elitists do not want it fixed. They want a collapse. This is the only way they can force people to accept world government.
26 May 2010
Top Construction Firm: Twin Towers Destroyed By Controlled Demolition
"The twin towers were brought down by a controlled ground explosion, not the planes,” said Hart, adding that this view was based on his close friendship with consultants who work with the world’s leading civil engineering and construction firm. Hart asked the company to study the collapse of the twin towers, after which they told him directly, “There’s absolutely no doubt whatsoever that the towers were brought down by a controlled ground explosion."
25 May 2010
War on whistle-blowers intensifies
The Obama administration's war on whistleblowers -- whose disclosures are one of the very few remaining avenues for learning what our government actually does -- continues to intensify.
25 May 2010
Former CIA Officials Admit To Faking Bin Laden Video
This latest revelation bolsters evidence that the intelligence agencies, and perhaps more significantly, the military have been engaged in creating fake Bin Laden videos in the past.
24 May 2010
U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Actions in Mideast
The secret directive [is] to “prepare the environment” for future attacks by American or local military forces, the document said. The order, however, does not appear to authorize offensive strikes in any specific countries. [It] authorizes the sending of American Special Operations troops to both friendly and hostile nations in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa to gather intelligence and build ties with local forces. Officials said the order also permits reconnaissance that could pave the way for possible military strikes in Iran if tensions over its nuclear ambitions escalate.
23 May 2010
'Secret Ops' cause of US deaths in Iraq
"These are deaths occurred quite literally off-base and that is interesting. One assumes at any given time that the military is up to something that is not revealed… dark or secret operations," he said. "Such operations are obviously continued in Iraq. This is my guess, because there is a complete lack of other information. But I think an informed and educated guess would suggest that it [the deaths] has something to do with oil," Sanders added.
20 May 2010
US Begins Massive Military Build Up Around Iran, Sending Up To 4 New Carrier Groups In Region
With just one aircraft carrier in proximity to Iran, the Nobel peace prize winner has decided to send a clear message that peace will no longer be tolerated, and has decided to increase the US aircraft carrier presence in the region by a 400-500% CAGR.
19 May 2010
Not Another War, Mr. President!
Iran nuke deal: US not taking yes for an answer
The crude rejection of the Brazilian-Turkish-Iranian peace initiative is a clear signal that we are well along on the road to war. Soon we’ll reach the point of no return, but there’s still a chance to stop the War Party. We must appeal to the President directly. [...] Peace seemed to be breaking out all over – but not if the US government and its allies on the UN Security Council could help it. [...] The tripartite pact put the hellbent-on-war Americans, and their British and French compatriots, in a panic.
18 May 2010
US military’s private spy and murder ring continues to operate in Afghanistan, Pakistan
In the first place, every indication suggests that Furlong’s intelligence and murder outfit was authorized at the highest levels of the Defense Department.It certainly corresponds to the escalation of US military operations, both in Afghanistan itself, with mass arrests, torture and Special Operations death squads, and in Pakistan, where US Predator drones are striking targets at triple the rate of last year. As the Times now reveals, the program continues, and it includes information used directly for the purposes of targeting US air and missile strikes.
18 May 2010
Unique ID for every Indian above 5 years of age
Every Indian above the age of five will now have a unique ID. What it will take -- 10 fingerprints and an Iris scan, besides the name, date of birth and residence proof.
17 May 2010
French teacher accused of spying did work for French MI6
"She was our representative's contact," said Mr Siramy. In this capacity she provided reports on domestic politics in the run up to last July's presidential elections and on a nuclear site under construction next to the central town of Isfahan where she was an assistant university teacher, said Mr Siramy. "She deserves to be recognised as someone who worked very well (for France)," he said.
17 May 2010
Bill for Afghan War Could Run into the Trillions
"Why are we putting money into Afghanistan to fight a losing war and following the Soviet example rather than putting money into [our] local communities?" he asked.
14 May 2010
Who Runs The Secret 'Black Jail' at Bagram?
President Obama, upon taking office, issued an executive order requiring the CIA and military to adhere to the Army Field Manual's guidelines for interrogations. "However, under secret authorization, the DIA interrogators use methods detailed in an appendix to the Field Manual, Appendix M, which spells out "restricted" interrogation techniques," reports Ambinder:
13 May 2010
Spanish prosecutors want 13 CIA agents arrested
Spanish prosecutors are asking a judge to issue arrest warrants for 13 CIA agents who they believe were involved in the spy agency’s 2004 “extraordinary rendition” of a German citizen, according to Spain's El Pais newspaper.
12 May 2010
US troops executing prisoners in Afghanistan, journalist says
"What it means is, and I've been told this anecdotally by five or six different people, battlefield executions are taking place," he continued. "Well, if they can't prove they're Taliban, bam. If we don't do it ourselves, we turn them over to the nearby Afghan troops and by the time we walk three feet the bullets are flying. And that's going on now."
12 May 2010
Does Obama Have a Clear Plan for Afghanistan?
In non-policy-wonk terms, the administration is winging it when it comes to figuring out how to achieve long-term stability in Afghanistan, which is supposedly a goal of U.S. policy.
12 May 2010
Ex-CIA Official Reveals New Details About Torture, Plame Leak
Last week, during a wide-ranging interview with Truthout, Kiriakou, who recently published a book, "The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror, was confronted with these facts and he acknowledged that the intelligence that asserted Zubaydah was Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, that he had played a role in the planning of 9/11 and that he was a major figure in al-Qaeda was "obviously flawed."
11 May 2010
Pentagon Details Cold War Mind Control Tests
Still, there are some tantalizing new details. Take the origins of MK-ULTRA, the notorious CIA program that dosed thousands of unwitting participants with hallucinogenic drugs. Initially funded by the Navy, the project set out to [...]
10 May 2010
Pentagon Doubts Grow on McChrystal War Plan
McChrystal’s staff has made no secret of their hope to convince the U.S. public that his strategy is making such progress in Helmand and Kandahar that it should be extended past mid-2011, when President Obama has said he would begin a U.S. military withdrawal and transition to Afghan responsibility for security.
8 May 2010
Look Out, Obama Seems to Be Planning for a Lot More War - 2
America's nuclear intentions
Above all, the Obama administration seeks to convey the impression to the people of the US and the world that it is diligently trying to reduce weapons, ease world tensions, and diminish the danger of more war. In reality, the US government is widening the wars, hiking military spending, introducing an entirely new and disruptive weapon, while erecting obstacles to the swift attainment of nuclear disarmament. [...] President Obama has cautioned that his vision of a nuclear free world might not happen in our lifetime and the NPR shows why he might be right.
8 May 2010
Look Out, Obama Seems to Be Planning for a Lot More War - 1
The Pentagon's game plan
In addition this document, published in April, retains "hair-trigger" nuclear launch readiness, refuses to declare its nuclear force is for deterrence only (suggesting offensive use) and for the first time authorizes a nuclear attack, if necessary, on a non-nuclear state (Iran).
8 May 2010
Chalmers Johnson on The Downward Slope of Empire
We would have rethought more seriously our role in the world, brought home troops in places like Okinawa. Instead, we did every thing in our power to shore up the Cold War structures in East Asia, in Latin America. The search for new enemies began. That’s the neoconservatives. I was shocked, actually, by this. Did this mean that the Cold War was a cover for something deeper, for an American imperial project that had been in the works since World War II? I began to believe that this is the case.
6 May 2010
A Timetable For War [on Iran]
And that is precisely the reason why I think a new war in the Middle East is inevitable and will take place this year, probably by August.
30 April 2010
For Corn Syrup, the Sweet Talk Gets Harder
Early this year, she got her wish when ConAgra decided to reformulate one of its biggest brands, replacing the high-fructose corn syrup in Hunt’s ketchup with old-fashioned sugar. This month, new bottles featuring a banner proclaiming “No high fructose corn syrup” arrive in stores.
30 April 2010
Did Osama bin Laden Confess to the 9/11 Attacks, and Did He Die, in 2001?
Although I agree with Osseiran’s second criticism, I disagree with the other three. I will discuss his four criticisms in the above order (which is the order in which he introduced them).
30 April 2010
20 Things You Will Need To Survive When The Economy Collapses And The Next Great Depression Begins
You don't want to end up like the folks in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. You don't want to have to rely on the government to take care of you if something really bad happens. Right now the U.S. strategic grain reserve contains only enough wheat to make half a loaf of bread for each of the approximately 300 million people in the United States.
30 April 2010
Chomsky: What's At Stake in the Issue of Iran
Why has the U.S. has not occupied North Korea? Because there is a deterrent. I repeat: nobody wants Iran to have nuclear weapons, but the likelihood that Iran would use nuclear weapons is minimal. This can be proved in the testing of U.S. intelligence. If Iran wanted to equip themselves with a single nuclear warhead, probably the country would be devastated. Such a fate is not to the liking of Islamic clerics in the government: until now they have not shown any suicidal impulse.
29 April 2010
US soldier in WikiLeaks massacre video: “I relive this every day”
I am hopeful that the video and our speaking out will help. There’s the old adage that war is hell, but I don’t think people really understand just what a hell war is. Until you see it first-hand, you don’t really know what’s going on. Like I said, this video shows you an every-day occurrence in Iraq, and I can only assume, in Afghanistan. So I hope people wake up and see the actual hells of war.
29 April 2010
The Progress Report - Isolating Iran
The last few weeks have seen a flurry of activity regarding Iran.
29 April 2010
After torture claims, Iraqi PM says prisoners ‘burned themselves’ with matches to fake abuse
“America is the symbol of democracy, but then you have the abuses at Abu Ghraib,” Maliki remarked, according to Dagher's report. “The American government took tough measures, and we are doing the same, so where is the problem and why this raucousness?”
28 April 2010
Hacking India's Voting Machines
Our research proved something which we really never doubted: with some preparation anyone with even momentary access to paperless voting machines can own the country. If it wasn’t fun to do it would be depressing that something that obvious needs proving over and over again. Maybe some day we’ll skip the film and just own the country instead. (Just kidding…).
28 April 2010
The Real War Reporters
The lack of attention paid recently to Iraq and Afghanistan by the "mainstream" media, and by independent journalists like myself, has been disgraceful and must change. [...] The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan affect every living American well beyond the impact of the flesh-and-blood conflicts we occasionally see on TV. The issue of who is still getting rich off those wars, how our society has been wired to blindly support a permanent state of war, and why we hear so little about these all-consuming matters, remain deeply pressing and of deadly importance.
27 April 2010
Iran a Threat? I Mean, Really?
Not that NIEs – or U.S. officials – matter much in terms of a potential military showdown with Iran. The "decider" here is Netanyahu, unless Obama stands up and tells him, publicly, "If you attack Iran, you’re on your own."
Don’t hold your breath
27 April 2010
Bringing the war home
Killer Cocktail: PTSD and Your Local Police
Experts who spoke with Antiwar.com said the relentless urban war zone through which these citizen soldiers have rotated for one, two, even three tours can warp their perspective of the policing environment back home. Their "area of operation" today may be a gritty public housing project or a sleepy middle-American burg, but it may all seem like Baghdad again in a troubled vet’s mind.
27 April 2010
Larry Wilkerson on Tyranny & Politics of Fear, Loyalty to Israel vs. US
Watch the video
Boiling Frogs Post presents an exclusive interview with Colonel Larry Wilkerson on the tyrannical presidency and politics of fear, Israel’s interests versus US interests and the question of loyalties, and more:
26 April 2010
The slippery slope to strikes on Iran
there is a serious risk that President Barack Obama may eventually be maneuvered into ordering military strikes against Iranian nuclear targets.
26 April 2010
Psychologists Notes May Indicate Zubaydah Torture Experimentation
In a "top secret" paper (undated) entitled "The CIA Interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, March 2001 - January 2003," in a section that, though heavily redacted, describes the review of the tapes by a CIA attorney from the Office of General Counsel, "interrogation materials" are described as consisting of "videotapes, logbook, notebook, and psychologist's notes."
24 April 2010
Obama Revives Rumsfeld’s Missile Scheme, Risks Nuke War
There’s just one teeny-tiny problem: the launches could very well start World War III. Over and over again, the Bush administration tried to push the idea of these conventional ICBMs. Over and over again, Congress refused to provide the funds for it. The reason was pretty simple: those anti-terror missiles look and fly exactly like the nuclear missiles we’d launch at Russia or China, in the event of Armageddon.
24 April 2010
Judge Rules Yemeni’s Detention at Guantánamo Based Solely on Torture
This is indeed the case, but what is missing from Judge Kennedy’s conclusion, but is glaringly obvious from his opinion as a whole, is that the shadows which never quite coalesce around the barely fleshed-out figure of Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman are populated not by reliable witnesses, but by a procession of torture victims or other prisoners worn out by endless interrogation, who, when shown photographs, invented stories to get the torture to stop, or to get the interrogators off their back.
24 April 2010
US Nuclear Option on Iran Linked to Israeli Attack Threat
The Nuclear Posture Review broadens the range of contingencies in which nuclear weapons might play a role so as to include an Iranian military response to an Israeli attack.
23 April 2010
Rising in Opposition to Iran Sanctions
I object to this entire push for war on Iran, however it is disguised. [...] We hear war advocates on the floor today arguing that we cannot afford to sit around and wait for Iran to detonate a nuclear weapon. Where have we heard this before? Anyone remember then-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice's oft-repeated quip about Iraq: that we cannot wait for the smoking gun to appear as a mushroom cloud. We need to see all this for what it is: Propaganda to speed us to war against Iran for the benefit of special interests.
23 April 2010
The Financial Crisis as Crime Story
"The white-collar criminal has no legal constraints. You subpoena documents, we destroy documents; you subpoena witnesses, we lie. So you are at a disadvantage when it comes to the white-collar criminal. In effect, we're economic predators. We're serial economic predators. We impose a collective harm on society."
23 April 2010
Why soldiers get a kick out of killing
But studies of World War II veterans suggest that very few men are innately bellicose. The psychiatrists Roy Swank and Walter Marchand found that 98 percent of soldiers who endured 60 days of continuous combat suffered psychiatric symptoms, either temporary or permanent.
22 April 2010
Roubini: Attack on Iran causes global tsunami
Why tsunami? If oil reaches even $120 a barrel, let alone a higher level, the global economy would tip again into a catastrophic global recession. While oil-exporting Arab states and Russia would initially benefit from surging oil prices, the benefit would be very short-lived. Just as it did in 2008, a global recession would eventually cause oil prices to collapse. Oil receded to $30 a barrel after the global economy faltered and Russia experienced a sharply negative growth in 2009. That boom-bust cycle would repeat itself following an Israeli attack.
22 April 2010
Israel First: More on Dr. Lani Kass
But at the same time one must challenge the judgment of those who enabled her rise to a position of great responsibility and power and there should be serious questions about whether her bellicose and racially tinged viewpoint comes from objective and honest analysis of the genuine challenges confronting the United States or from her loyalty to her country of birth.
21 April 2010
Groups ask DHS to suspend full-body imagers
"At this point, there is no question that the body scanner program should be shut down," Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said in a prepared statement. "This is the worst type of government boondoggle -- expensive, ineffective and offensive to Constitutional rights and deeply held religious beliefs."
19 April 2010
Obama Gladly Embraces Bush’s Anti-Terrorism Powers
“When it comes to the legal framework for confronting terrorism, President Obama is acting in no meaningful sense any different than President Bush after 2006, when the Supreme Court overturned the view that the president’s war time powers were effectively unlimited,” writes Lake.
19 April 2010
US strike could delay Iran nuclear program-Mullen
"Military options would go a long way to delaying it," Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters after speaking at a forum at Columbia University in New York.
18 April 2010
Release of Iran Memo Sparks Debate Over Military Options
The Times of London reports that Mr. Gates raised concerns about what the US would do if Iran obtained all the necessary components to build a nuclear weapon but did not actually put together a nuclear missile. In this case, Iran would become a “ ‘virtual’ nuclear weapons state” and keep its status as a signatory of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
18 April 2010
The "New Hizballah" built by Syria sparks ME summer war fear
The new Hizballah is being trained to carry out such offensive operations as capturing parts of Israel's Galilee and equipped with the hardware for knocking out warplanes, warships and armored strength.
17 April 2010
U.S. Indicts 5 Blackwater Ex-Officials
The executives were some of the closest advisers to Blackwater’s founder, Erik Prince, and helped him steer the company during its swift rise to become the leading contractor providing security for American diplomats in Iraq and Afghanistan, working for the State Department, the and the Pentagon.
17 April 2010
Al Qaeda’s Top Gun - Hani Hanjour
An examination of the documentary record reveals a clear pattern of willful deception on the part of the 9/11 Commission with regard to alleged hijacker Hani Hanjour in an apparent effort to manipulate the facts to suit the official theory.
16 April 2010
Seeking the truth about the OKC bombing, group holds press conference at State Capitol
These speakers, including American Free Press reporter Pat Shannan, who has reported extensively on the case, to former federal grand jury member Hoppy Heidelberg, the common thread was that the bombing was not accomplished by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols alone, that others were involved, including agents of the federal government.
16 April 2010
NATO strikes killing more Afghan civilians
NATO troops accidentally killed 72 civilians in the first three months of 2010, up from 29 in the same period in 2009, according to figures the International Security Assistance Force gave USA TODAY.
16 April 2010
No Place to Fight a War
That's five years and 42 lives for three miles of terrain. On Wednesday, the Pentagon announced that U.S. forces are withdrawing from the Korengal, leaving only a small outpost at the mouth of the valley. [...] How many more will die before we leave the country? And what will we have accomplished?
16 April 2010
WikiLeaks Video – The Greater Horror
There they are, the people who brought you every bit of the action in the WikiLeaks video and all of the other horrors flowing from invasion of Iraq. Madeleine Albright (far right, above), former Clinton Secretary of State, is a good place to start. From 60 Minutes [...] :
15 April 2010
C.I.A. Document Details Destruction of Tapes
Shortly after the tapes were destroyed at the order of Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., then the head of the C.I.A.’s clandestine service, Mr. Goss told Mr. Rodriguez that he “agreed” with the decision, according to the document. He even joked after Mr. Rodriguez offered to “take the heat” for destroying the tapes. “PG laughed and said that actually, it would be he, PG, who would take the heat,” according to one document, an internal C.I.A. e-mail message.
14 April 2010
The Entertainment Industry's Dystopia of the Future
Of course, these comments are just an entertainment industry wishlist, an exercise in asking for the moon. But they reveal a great deal about the entertainment industry's vision of the 21st century: less privacy (with citizens actively participating in their own surveillance), a less-neutral Internet, and federal agents acting as paid muscle to protect profits of summer blockbusters.
10 April 2010
33 states out of money to fund jobless benefits
A total of 33 states and the Virgin Islands have depleted their funds and borrowed more than $38.7 billion to provide a safety net, according to a report released Thursday by the National Employment Law Project. Four others are at the brink of insolvency.
9 April 2010
Global Markets Giving Three More Warning Signals for the Euro
Technically, the euro has three critical levels ahead: A long-term trendline support just above 1.30, the 2008 low of 1.233, and the 61.8 percent Fibonacci retracement of the euro’s historical high to the historical low — which lies just above 1.12 to the dollar.
9 April 2010
Israel viewed as world's sixth nuclear power: analysts
Analysts at British defence specialists Jane's believe the Jewish state has between 100 and 300 nuclear warheads, putting them among the more advanced nuclear weapons states and roughly on a par with Britain.
9 April 2010
Iraq anti-US cleric Sadr urges unity vs Americans
Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, likely to be a key player in forming a new Iraqi government following elections last month, urged Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims on Friday to unite to oust American troops.
9 April 2010
George W. Bush 'knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent'
He alleged that for Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld “innocent people languishing in Guantánamo for years was justified by the broader War on Terror and the small number of terrorists who were responsible for the September 11 attacks”.
8 April 2010
'De stekker gaat uit het monetaire system'
Als de Federal Reserve en de centrale banken niet door zullen gaan met het injecteren van het systeem met nieuw geld, dan zal het hele systeem volledig in elkaar storten. Dat zegt Bob Chapman van The International Forecaster tegen Alex Jones.
8 April 2010
One Day After 2007 Attack, Witnesses Describe US Killings of Iraqi Civilians
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We begin today with a Democracy Now! exclusive. As the U.S. Central Command says it has no plans to re-open an investigation into the July 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff, we’ll play never-before-seen eyewitness interviews filmed the day after the attack.
7 April 2010
U.S. War-Fighting Numbers to Knock Your Socks Off
When it comes to that slo-mo drawdown, all the numbers turn out to be staggering. They are also a reminder of just how the Pentagon has been fighting its wars in these last years -- like a compulsive shopper without a 12-step recovery program in sight. [...] Those sorts of figures define the U.S. military in the Bush era -- and now Obama's -- as the most materiel-profligate war-making machine ever.
7 April 2010
The Focus Falls on WikiLeaks
What is WikiLeaks, exactly? How did they get this video, what did they hope to accomplish, and what role are they playing in the global conversation into which they've just injected themselves?
6 April 2010
Iraq slaughter not an aberration
The discussions many people are having today -- about the brutal reality of what the U.S. does when it engages in war, invasions and occupation -- is exactly the discussion which they most want to avoid.
5 April 2010
Collateral Murder - WikiLeaks April 5, 2010 video
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I’m in Washington DC right now where I just assisted WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange put on a press conference. [... ] At least I can now tell you all what I have been helping WikiLeaks with. Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted previously unreleased video footage from the onboard camera of a US Apache helicopter over Baghdad in 2007. The audio has the radio communication going on at the time. We released that video today. In it we see Reuters journalists Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh and others getting shot by the Apache on a square in Eastern Baghdad [...].
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3 April 2010
Intelligence Agencies Allegedly Going to Extremes to Suppress Video Confirming Pentagon Massacre Cover-up
"We've become used to the level of security service interest in us and have established procedures to ignore that interest," Assange wrote in the editorial. "But the increase in surveillance activities this last month, in a time when we are barely publishing due to fundraising, are excessive."
3 April 2010
Genadeloze klappen voor pensioenen, huizenmarkt en afboekingen
Uit een interview met Kees de Kort, Macro econoom bij AFS Capital Management, blijkt dat de klappen in het financiële systeem ook in Nederland binnenkort goed zullen aankomen. De Kort vergelijkt Nederland met Ierland.
1 April 2010
CFTC: Obey your plaque
Voor de weinigen die de ontwikkelingen volgen rondom de inspanningen van GATA, de te hopen veranderingen binnen het CFTC en de recente hoorzittingen over de manipulatie van de goud- en zilverprijzen door Goldman Sachs en consorten op de Comex, zijn spannende tijden aangebroken. Nu zelfs ingewijden als klokkenluiders opstaan, zullen de gevolgen niet lang op zich laten wachten.
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12 September 2013 |
Why is Syria under attack? - Part 4
When you peek below the surface, it becomes clear that Syria is under attack due to the interests of the parties involved. ‘Syria’ is about power, money, influence and energy.
8 September 2013 |
Why is Syria under attack? - Part 2
In the event of major military conflicts that risk considerable humanitarian and economic consequences, it is useful to examine the interests of all parties involved as well as the role that the media plays in reporting the events.
7 September 2013 |
Why is Syria under attack? - Part 1
On the surface it’s straightforward: the U.S. wants to liberate Syria from a brutal dictator who is attacking his own people with poison gas. But beneath the surface there is something very different going on.
28 August 2012
Daan de Wit (DeepJournal) interviewt Webster Tarpley op het Magneetfestival
Het Magneetfestival gaat de diepte in met vier interviews. Daan de Wit interviewt Webster Tarpley, Albert Spits, en Mike Donkers.
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