(WMR)—Attorney General Eric Holder announced that in June 2012 he recused himself from the Justice Department investigation of the alleged leak of classified information on a CIA counter-terrorism operation in Yemen after he was interviewed by the FBI as part of their investigation of the leak. The Associated Press published report in May 2012 about a classified CIA counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that intercepted an advanced underwear bomb destined for a passenger plane. Continue reading
BARTOW, FL—Florida State Attorneys have announced that they will not file felony charges against Kiera Wilmot, the 16-year-old Florida student arrested and escorted off school property after she conducted a science experiment that caused a water bottle to “pop” and “smoke.” The announcement by the Florida State Attorney’s office comes after a petition on Change.org calling for the charges to be dropped was signed by more than 195,000 people from across the country. Continue reading
(WMR)—Former neighbors of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, paint a picture of a confrontational individual who was always spoiling for a fight, whether as the Sully region representative on the Advisory Committee for the Fairfax County Public Schools Social Studies curriculum or as the self-designated gauleiter of his North Riding community in Fairfax County in suburban Washington, DC. Continue reading
(WMR)—Twenty years ago it would have been unthinkable for a U.S. Navy museum dedicated to naval undersea warfare to all but totally ignore the late Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the Russian-born “father of the U.S. nuclear Navy.” Continue reading
(WMR)—Chabad Lubavitch Jews from Israel and the United States are moving in to the Jewish Autonomous Republic of Birobidzhan to build up the numbers, as well as economic and political power of the region’s current Jewish population of 4,000, which is only 2 percent of the republic’s overall population. Continue reading
As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run down room, which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as his 12-year-old daughter sat close to him. Continue reading
MAKAH RESERVATION, Wash. (WMR)—Corporations, in league with federal and state governments, have established a new protocol to deal with major environmental disasters. Using the twin weapons of secretive clean-ups and public relations media blitzes, corporations have a new weapon to add to their other programs of austerity and privatization to seize control of the planet from the people who inhabit it. Continue reading
As the Cold War between the USSR and the USA drew down in the early 1990s, organizations/institutions used to fund proxy wars—and destabilization efforts—between the two Empires became exposed. With the Cold War ostensibly over, the corrupt and illegal actions of such groups could no longer be ignored, or covered up, as the larger purpose of them was to fund the fight against the Red Menace of Communism. Continue reading
The world is taking note of the ruling Conservatives’ shameful betrayal of Canada’s once admirable reputation as a fair country, sincerely working on the world stage to improve the lot of the disadvantaged and suffering. In the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review, Canada was criticized to such an extent that the Council decided to send the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and representatives of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, to investigate. Continue reading
In March, the Canadian government introduced a bill that would bring about sweeping changes to its copyright and trademark laws. This includes giving more power to customs and border protection agents without any judicial oversight. The move is intended to prevent counterfeit goods from entering the country, but has been criticized for being less about protecting Canadians and more about caving to American demands. With the U.S. dictating global intellectual property standards, the new legislation represents the return of ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) and would pave the way for Canada to ratify the controversial international treaty. Continue reading
(WMR)—The Chechen origin and reported military training of the two suspect brothers in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsaraev, raises some pointed questions about past U.S. support for the Chechen insurgency and who sponsored the brothers to live in the United States, paid for their college tuition, receive military training abroad, and paid for Tamerlan’s Wai Kru mixed martial arts training in Boston. Continue reading
(WMR)—The Qatari- and Saudi-backed Salafists, Muslim radicals who follow the extreme radical Wahhabi sect of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the rest of the Gulf, have now moved into a governing position in the Central African Republic (CAR). Continue reading
In the midst of warmongering and a worsening of tensions between North and South Korea, a group of peace activists is continuing its non-violent struggle against the construction of a naval base on the island of Jeju, South Korea. Continue reading
Below are excerpts from an interview with Nao Rozi, an Afghan National Army veteran, and now a member of the Afghan Peace Volunteers. Continue reading
Dr. Avigdor Shafferman, Director of the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) since 1995, resigned on April 4, 2013. He sent a letter to the institute workers in which he explained: “In the last two years, the institute development tendencies changed. In 2013, I was forced to reduce the budget by over 4%, including the firing of workers. Two weeks ago, we were asked to prepare ourselves for another reduction in the budget, which will have deep repercussions. I cannot be part of this.” The real reason for the unprecedented step was different. Continue reading
DALARNA, Sweden—The catastrophe of Global Warming is rapidly bringing accessibility to the Far-North, an often discussed ‘rush’ to claim land and resources ongoing as I write this. Continue reading
(WMR)—A former high-level U.S. government official who has just returned from Iran reports to WMR that Western sanctions are having the opposite effect on Iran than what was expected. Instead of grounding Iran’s economy to a halt, Western sanctions have provided an impetus for Iran to grow an indigenous and self-sustaining economy. Continue reading
Writing recently in Consortium News Robert Parry said, “To think that the criminal Ronald Reagan is still being talked up as a candidate for Mt. Rushmore, besides scores of other ludicrous honors already in place, is a testament to the rewriting of history by the powerful.” The editors added, “The miracle is that Abolhassan Bani-Sadr is still alive after defying such powerful Mafiosi.” Continue reading
The U.S. and EU have agreed to launch negotiations on what would be the world’s largest free trade deal. Such an agreement would be the basis for the creation of an economic NATO and would include trade in goods, services and investment, as well as cover intellectual property rights. Continue reading
(WMR) — Apparently, the neocons never left the halls of power when Barack Obama became president. Just after mandatory budget sequestration kicked in, with White House tours for school kids being canceled and other government functions being pared back, the United States gave $60 million to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) battling the government of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. Continue reading
The U.S. and Canada have made significant progress in advancing the Beyond the Border deal and continue to implement various perimeter security initiatives. Continue reading
While budgets are being slashed by governments around the world, national intelligence agencies are not only flush with money but they are increasingly networking their resources against the “threat.” What is the threat? It is whatever national leaders and their governments deem it to be. One day it is “Al Qaeda,” the next day it is Iran, then North Korea, then global narco-terrorists, and so on and so on . . . Continue reading
(WMR)—During the Cold War, the CIA was so incensed at the role played by Mossad in coups and attempted coups against U.S. allies, it began leaking information to the media concerning the role played by Israeli Mossad agents and “dual loyalists” within the CIA’s own ranks about Israeli interference in the politics of America’s NATO allies. Continue reading
(WMR)—When William Casey took over as CIA director in 1981, he brought with him into Langley a team of fellow Wall Street businessmen whose first priority was to milk the intelligence agency for every drop of usable information they could gather in order to game the stock market while armed with top secret intelligence findings. Continue reading
“Soon come” as Jamaica’s Rastafarians say. In this case it applies to the end of the Ethiopian regime which is now in its terminal stage, in intensive care on life support and being kept alive only by an intravenous infusion of over $20 million a day in Western “aid.” Continue reading
Australia was founded as a British penal colony, a fact that most Australians have found to be a defining aspect in how they treat their own convicts and detainees. Continue reading
(WMR)—Only the Mossad would be so arrogant to believe that a 47-year old Israeli national found floating in the open waters of the South Pacific with water proof bags containing two mobile phones, a laptop computer, papers, but no passport would not engender any suspicion. But that is exactly what happened in the self-governing New Zealand territory of the Cook Islands on October 14 last year when boaters coaxed Israeli national Binjamin Nachshon from waters about a mile off Avarua, the capital of the Cook Islands. Continue reading
James Bond portrayer Sean Connery may be a strong supporter of Scottish independence and the fictional Bond may be a native Scot hailing from Skyfall Estate in Scotland, but 007′s employer, MI-6, is, in real life, covertly working to ensure that the 2014 referendum on Scotland’s independence goes down to defeat. WMR has learned that because a majority of MI-6′s top officials and agents are Scottish, Britain’s foreign spy agency would effectively wind up as an intelligence agency without a country if Scotland votes to go its own way. Continue reading
Below is a transcript of an interview of Raz Mohammad, an Afghan Peace Volunteer, with questions prepared by Maya Evans of Voices for Creative Non Nonviolence UK. Continue reading
In one of the final acts of the 112th Congress, the U.S. Senate dealt a fatal blow to the U.S. Constitution by passing President Obama’s National Defense Authorization Act for 2013, which contains the same illegal detention of U.S. citizens as its 2012 predecessor, and defeating amendments to and enacting Texas Republican Representative Lamar Smith’s House Resolution 5949, the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2012. Continue reading
The Arctic has become an important part of North American perimeter security. Recently, the U.S. and Canada signed two new agreements that will expand bilateral military training, security and defense operations in the region. Both countries are working together to prepare for any real or perceived threats and are moving towards merging their Arctic foreign policies. Continue reading
Reading the text of a bill that was recently signed into law by US President Barack Obama should instill fear in the hearts of ordinary Americans. Apparently, barbarians coming from distant lands are at work. They are gathering at the US-Mexico border, cutting fences and ready to wreak havoc on an otherwise serene American landscape. Continue reading
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