On July 23, 2010, the body of Gareth Williams, a cryptographic whiz for the National Security Agency’s British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), was found badly decomposed inside a North Face gym bag in his London flat. Continue reading
Secret courts and trials, star chambers, and illegal detention may be the stuff of a Franz Kafka trial but in Alabama the court proceedings against an investigative journalist have reached and surpassed Kafkaesque dimensions. Continue reading
Once upon a time, before the age of Twitter and the rise of faux journalists on 24-hour cable television news networks, the National Security Agency would respond to exposés of its oftentimes-illegal surveillance operations with no response. The Public Affairs Office at NSA headquarters had a boilerplate reply to all press inquiries: “No comment,” which, on a rare day, might change to “we cannot either confirm or deny the story.” Continue reading
In the movie classic “On the Beach,” the end scene shows a banner flapping in the breeze over a radioactive and dead Melbourne, Australia, proclaiming, “THERE IS STILL TIME . . BROTHER.” Continue reading
Thanks to the documents provided by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, the activities of a little-known branch of the U.S. intelligence community, the Special Collection Service (SCS), are becoming more well-known. Continue reading
(WMR)—Being disingenuous, like the storied cat who ate the canary, comes natural to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, especially in light of his current propaganda blitz designed to convince the world that Iranian centrist President Hasan Rouhani is not to be believed. Netanyahu and his global propaganda network of sayanim collaborators are working overtime to paint Rouhani as a fabulist when it comes to Iran’s willingness to scale back uranium enrichment, open up Iran’s nuclear facilities to unannounced inspections by teams from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and other moves designed to ease crippling Western economic sanctions on Iran. Continue reading
(WMR)—Ever since National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden first began releasing information and documents and PowerPoint slides amassed on thumb drives by him before he fled the United States for Hong Kong and Moscow, the information flow about NSA’s super-secret surveillance programs directed against U.S. citizens and foreigners alike has been plagued with redactions. These redactions have been engineered by agreements between newspaper, magazine, and TV network editors, publishers, and managers, on one hand, and NSA, British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron administration officials on the other. Continue reading
(WMR)—The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to hear the appeal of the decision of the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ordering New York Times reporter James Risen to testify before a grand jury and reveal his CIA source, believed by the Justice Department to be former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling. Federal prosecutors believe that Sterling was Risen’s source for whom the Department of Justice believes revealed information to Risen that he published in his book State of War. Continue reading
(WMR)—WMR has been reporting on political and judicial malfeasance in Alabama for a number of years. Overall, Alabama Republican politicians and judges evoke memories of Al Capp’s Jubilation T. Cornpone, Hee Haw’s Junior Samples, and Green Acres’s Eustace Charleston Haney, otherwise known as “Mr. Haney.” Bumbling, goofball, ignorant, and corrupt vestiges of a bygone plantation-era South don’t even come close to describing what passes for judges and political leaders in the state that refers to itself as the “Heart of Dixie.” Continue reading
(WMR)—A one-time economics adviser to the Obama White House let WMR in on some of the conversations percolating at last week’s annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington, DC. The news about the foreseeable future of the U.S. economy is bleak. Continue reading
(WMR)—WMR has learned from the executor of the estate of a woman defrauded by jailed New York securities dealer Bernard Madoff that much of Madoff’s money never disappeared as alleged by some but was invested in businesses in Israel, transferred to offshore bank accounts, and pumped in small amounts to the political campaigns of Democratic women candidates, particularly U.S. Senate candidates, endorsed by the group EMILY’s List. Continue reading
The attack by a cadre of Islamist Al Shabaab gunmen on the Israeli-owned Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi has focused attention, once again, on American and British links to Muslim terrorist groups, from Al Nusra Front and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists fighting the Bashar al Assad government in Syria to the Somali government of Hussein Sheik Mohamed, a Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer in a country where Al Shabaab has its political and religious roots . . . Continue reading
(WMR)—National Security Agency (NSA) director General Keith Alexander who, as commander of the US Army Intelligence Security Command, wowed visitors to his Information Dominance Center at Fort Belvoir with a Captain Kirk chair, bridge of the starship “Enterprise,” and doors that made “whooshing” sounds, is now trying to claim credit for preventing terrorist attacks in the United States. Alexander is under intense congressional pressure that may scale back NSA’s current “collect it all” signals intelligence capture policy. Continue reading
(WMR)—The annual UN General Assembly plenary session, held at the end of September, once featured world luminaries discussing real issues that affect real people. That is no longer the case. Now, amid the comings and goings of the limousines carrying vapid world leaders to and from the UN headquarters in Turtle Bay, are a series of star-studded dinners and seminars that have turned New York’s annual summit into an East Coast version of the Oscar Award ceremony complete with red carpets, stretch limos, and paparazzi. Continue reading
(WMR)—President Obama and his “Responsibility to Protect” policy crew of UN Ambassador Samantha Power, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes have not only made common cause with Al Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al Nusra and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria but, by pressuring Kenya’s government internationally, have weakened Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice President William Ruto. The Kenyan government has been battling against Al Shabab Islamist terrorists from Somalia who killed scores of shoppers at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall and may have been behind a costly fire that destroyed the international terminal at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Continue reading
Rwanda’s dictator Paul Kagame, who came to power after ordering a 1994 aerial assassination of the Hutu Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, an event that triggered off a massacre of ethnic Tutsis and a holocaust of 5 million people in the neighboring Congo (Kinshasa), has warmed up to a group of extremists who favor Israeli expansionism. Continue reading
The UN in Geneva has released its long-awaited report on the use of chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21. Continue reading
(WMR)—In 1979, during the CIA’s covert war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, the CIA’s propaganda operatives placed stories in U.S. newspapers and wire services that the Soviets were using poison gas in their war with the U.S.-supported mujaheddin guerrillas. The CIA charged that the Soviets used soman, a nerve gas possessed but never used by Nazi Germany in World War II, against rebels near Faizabad and Jalalabad, as well as in the provinces of Bamiyan and Takhar. Continue reading
(WMR)—Buried in the recesses of the CIA’s archives is a long-forgotten interview by Rolling Stone of Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and CIA veteran Miles Copeland. Copeland, who was once in charge of the CIA’s “dirty tricks” department as the chief of the agency’s Political Action Staff, came to the attention of Rolling Stone because his three sons were active in rock music: Miles Copeland III, was manager of the Police, Ian Copeland founded the music booking agency called FBI, and Stewart Copeland was drummer for Curved Air and later for the Police. Continue reading
There is little doubt that Syrian rebels, including the Al Qaeda affiliate, the Jabhat Al Nusra, have been in possession of chemical weapons in Syria and have used these weapons against civilians and Syrian government forces. Continue reading
(WMR)—President Obama’s war against Syria is being marketed at the same time Jews around the world celebrated the Rosh Hashana New Year holiday. A close examination of the three Rosh Hashana blessings of Malchuyot, Zichronot, and Shofarot find the central theme of score-settling prevalent, especially against the enemies of the Jewish people and nation. Today, the “score settler” is Israel and its Lobby in America, which are both pushing for a U.S. military attack on an old “enemy” of the Jewish people and nation, Syria. Continue reading
(WMR)—WMR’s White House sources report that on the evening of Friday, August 29, President Obama was on track to launch a sustained 72-hour cruise missile and drone attack on pre-selected air defense and other strategic military targets in Syria. Continue reading
(WMR)—WMR’s sources inside the Washington Beltway report that President Obama relied solely on signals intelligence (SIGINT) provided by Israel’s version of the U.S. National Security Agency, Unit 8200, to conclude that Syria’s government ordered the August 21 chemical attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Continue reading
(WMR)—WMR’s sources in Lebanon report that three deadly car bombings, one on August 15 in a Hezbollah-controlled area south of Beirut and two outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on August 23 during Friday prayers were intended to import into fragile Lebanon the Sunni-Shi’a/Alawite/Christian violence that is currently raging in neighboring Syria. Continue reading
(WMR)—President Obama has played a cruel joke on critics of National Security Agency surveillance by naming to his Review Committee on NSA Programs his former chief of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Cass Sunstein. Also known as Obama’s “information czar,” Sunstein, who is married to UN Ambassador Samantha Power, left the administration to return to Harvard Law School. Sunstein also works out of the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. Continue reading
(WMR)—Just as Americans were led astray by the cable news media about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction prior to the disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, once again, viewers of cable news channels are being subjected to another information warfare campaign. This time it is an alleged Syrian government chemical attack on “thousands” of civilians in the Ghouta region outside of Damascus. Continue reading
(WMR)—The word from our sources in London is that Prime Minister David Cameron and Buckingham Palace are in full crisis mode over new revelations about MI-6 assassinating the late Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. Continue reading
Poorly-armed Islamist forces fighting against military forces armed with superior Russian weaponry. Government forces purposely killing its own citizens. Russia unwilling to back down from supporting its secular ally. Continue reading
If President Barack Obama’s ill-conceived policy of “Responsibility to Protect” or R2P, sold to him by George Soros’s groupies Samantha Power, Susan Rice, and other advisers with their feet not completely planted on terra firma, was intended to bring stability to the Middle East, it has had the opposite effect. The recent military crackdown in Egypt by that nation’s military-led government is a case in point . . . Continue reading
(WMR)—WMR’s sources in Europe and Yemen have confirmed that the Obama administration and the government of Yemeni President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi faked a recent terrorism warning that Yemen was about to be besieged by Al Qaeda forces who planned to attack U.S. and other Western targets in the country. Continue reading
U.S. President Barack Obama signaled through his press secretary Jay Carney that he would be discussing the recent cancellation by the United States of Obama’s Moscow summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Obama’s press conference, meant to clear the air on U.S.-Russian relations and U.S. intelligence mass surveillance of private communications, left more questions than answers. Obama’s answers to press questions were all over the map, confusing, and at times, deceptive . . . Continue reading
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CBBs stand tall against the sarcastic GENXers and Yers
Posted on December 3, 2013 by Wayne Madsen
Scanning the crowds of those in attendance at various John F. Kennedy assassination commemoration venues in Dallas it became apparent that those who continue to question the conclusions of the Warren Commission that a lone deranged gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald shot to death the President of the United States in broad daylight on a crowded Dallas street can rightfully be called “Cynical Baby Boomers” or CBBs. Continue reading →