A federal judge ruled Thursday that the NYPD’s secret spying on Muslims in schools, restaurants, and mosques with no evidence of wrongdoing is perfectly legal, and it was the media’s exposure of this surveillance that was the real cause of harm. The decision prompted outcry from civil rights and racial justice advocates. Continue reading
(WMR)—The neoconservatives who continue to permeate the Obama administration in the persons of the foul-mouthed and ill-tempered Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, along with second- and third-tier functionaries, have decided on all-out covert warfare with the nations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). This information has been passed to WMR by intelligence assets in the field in some of the most remote parts of the Asian land mass. Continue reading
(WMR)—The Obama administration, like its predecessor, is doing everything possible to maintain the secrecy of the 28 pages of the 800-page congressional report on the intelligence failures surrounding the 9/11 attack. The report, titled, “Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001,” detailed the results of a congressional investigation of the events surrounding 9/11. But entirely redacted from the report are 28 pages dealing with specific sources of foreign support for the alleged 9/11 hijackers, fifteen of whom were Saudi nationals. Continue reading
The F-16 jets of the Iowa Air National Guard that formerly buzzed the city of Des Moines have disappeared and we are told that their base at the Des Moines International Airport is in the process of refitting into a command center for unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, commonly called drones. Continue reading
(WMR)—Following President Obama’s January 28 State of the Union address, New York Republican congressman Michael Grimm not only threatened to throw Michael Scotto, a reporter for NY1 news, over a balcony in the Cannon House Office building but threatened to “break him in half . . . like a boy.” Grimm was upset over Scotto asking Grimm about allegations of campaign malfeasance. Grimm told Scotto, “Let me be clear to you, you ever do that to me again I’ll throw you off this fucking balcony.” Continue reading
In preparation for the upcoming North American Leaders Summit, which will be held in Toluca, Mexico, on February 19, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently held a meeting with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts. Continue reading
A five-minute audio message by al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri went viral on the internet in which he enjoins the rebels in Syria to end their infighting and focus their energies on battling against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Continue reading
The derailment of a 101-car CSX freight train on a bridge in a densely-populated part of Philadelphia this past week should be yet another warning to politicians who have become cheerleaders for oil and gas fracking. Continue reading
Far more insidious, more corrosive and dangerous than the Governor of New Jersey playing traffic warden is the story of Gov. Chris Christie’s secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires––and the legality of the spending by the front organization set up following these hidden hugger-muggers. Continue reading
In typical fashion for a member of the CIA’s Bush-Clinton-Obama network of U.S. political leaders who would have never reached their respective pinnacles of power, save for the fact that they were all groomed by the powers who run Langley, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is supposedly “telling all” in his book, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.” Continue reading
Canadian rock legend Neil Young has taken to the road with a mission. Sunday night, January 12, he laid down the gauntlet on national TV, calling the Canadian government “completely out of control” as he began his “Honour the Treaties” tour in Toronto. His goal is to help First Nations in their fight against the expanding tarsands projects in Alberta. To the government, “Money is number one. Integrity isn’t even on the map.” Continue reading
Borrowing a leaf from the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, an event that brings together American presidents, federal judges, Cabinet members, congressmen, intelligence and military chiefs, and corporate executives, Rwanda’s dictatorial president Paul Kagame held his own Rwanda Leaders’ Fellowship Prayer Breakfast on January 12 in Kigali, the Rwandan capital. Kagame has been a frequent guest at the Washington prayer breakfast. Continue reading
Ethiopia has been active in destabilizing South Sudan and has been repeatedly caught providing arms to “rebels” in the Jonglei and Unity States in the north of the country during the past year. Continue reading
(WMR)—U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice and her colleague, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, who can best be described as the “twin harpies” of U.S. interventionist foreign policy, have managed to turn back the clock to the Cold War in Europe, plunged a breakaway region of an African country after a long civil war into its own civil war, and forced the U.S. to deal with an Al Qaeda-led rebel faction which wants to turn Syria into an Islamic state. Continue reading
(WMR)—WMR’s sources in India report that Indian and Nepalese authorities are growing increasingly concerned over the massive influx of Muslim immigrants, along with Wahhabist and Salafist clerics, into the Indo-Nepalese border region. Many of the recent Muslim immigrants are from Bangladesh. Continue reading
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Red light cameras are supposed to make dangerous intersections safer. But at what cost? Continue reading
The neocons are still alive and active as ever inside Secretary of State John Kerry’s State Department. Kerry’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, who previously served as Hillary Clinton’s State Department mouthpiece, has threatened sanctions against Ukraine. Continue reading
(WMR)—WMR’s sources on Wall Street have cited the mega-producer and pusher of genetically-modified food products, Monsanto, as a key player, along with hedge fund national economy pillager George Soros, as the key players behind the current political turmoil in Ukraine and Thailand. Continue reading
Creating a humanitarian crisis in Syria, whether real or fabricated, and holding the Syrian government responsible for it as a casus belli for foreign military intervention under the UN 2005 so-called “responsibility to protect” initiative was from the very eruption of the Syrian conflict the goal of the US-led “Friends of Syria’ coalition. Continue reading
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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
Have you ever heard of ractopamine? Neither have most US food consumers though it is used in 80 percent of US pig and cattle operations. The asthma drug-like growth additive, called a beta-agonist, has enjoyed stealth use in the US food supply for a decade despite being widely banned overseas. It is marketed as Paylean for pigs, Optaflexx for cattle and Topmax for turkeys. Continue reading
Monday morning, Oct. 21, 2013. Vera Scroggins, a retired real estate agent and nurse’s aide, was in Common Pleas Court for Susquehanna County, Pa., to explain why a temporary injunction should not be issued against her. 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
Last week’s anti-fracking protest has put Canada’s First Nations at the forefront of Canada’s political life, injecting spirit back into our moribund political scene. Canadians watching the evening news were shocked by scenes of burning police cars, and riot squad of 100 police wielding tear gas and tasers on horseback. 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
Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, through quasi investigative reports, leaks, whistleblowers and numerous court documents, several key 9/11 operatives have been identified and confirmed as assets and or informants of the United States government. Further, all details of these operatives’ positions, functions and employment records have been sealed and protected as beyond top secret classified. Continue reading
Some of the corporate interests that are steering the U.S.-Canada Beyond the Border integration agenda are not quite satisfied with its progress so far and they would like the implementation process to be accelerated. Continue reading
More than two and a half years on, Israel’s purported neutrality in the Syrian conflict and the United State’s fanfare rhetoric urging a “regime change” in Damascus were abruptly cut short to unveil that the Israeli factor has been all throughout the conflict the main concern of both countries. 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
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