Category Archives: Special Reports

Beginning on Monday, May 7, 2012, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal held an historic proceeding against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and five of their legal advisers: Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo, to try them on charges of torture and other war crimes. After four full days of legal argument and presentation of evidence, including the live testimony of three witnesses, the tribunal found all eight defendants guilty in a 21-page opinion they issued on the afternoon of Friday, May 12, 2012, local time. Continue reading →

Through the Beyond the Border agreement released in December 2011, the U.S. and Canada are implementing initiatives that are working towards establishing a North American security perimeter. This includes expanding trusted traveler programs, as well as enhancing integrated law enforcement and information sharing cooperation which has raised many privacy concerns that have yet to be properly addressed. Continue reading →

Dr. William Sammons, an expert on the health and environmental effects of biomass combustion, has traveled to southern Indiana from the East Coast numerous times to testify at public hearings against burning biomass for energy. Continue reading →

(WMR)—Virginia Air National Guard F-22 Raptor pilots Major Jeremy Gordon and Captain Joshua Wilson are facing the loss of their wings and punitive administrative reprisals for appearing on CBS 60 Minutes to discuss pilot safety issues with regard to the F-22’s oxygen system. The pilots revealed problems with pilot sickness, including hypoxia, or the loss of oxygen to the brain, as a result of “unknown” problems with the F-22’s oxygen system. Continue reading →

May 1 began with rain and heavy clouds in the Berkshire Mountains in Western Massachusetts. Since it has been an unusually dry and cool spring in New England, I worried that the May Day demonstration planned by Occupy Wall Street would not draw the crowds so essential to keep the momentum of the movement going. Continue reading →

(WMR)—WMR’s Lebanese sources report that Lebanon’s president, Michel Sleiman, has instructed Public Works and Transportation Minister Ghazi al-Aridi to ready the northern Qleiat airport for possible use by NATO and UN forces for operations inside Syria. Qleiat is located near the Lebanese border with Syria. Continue reading →

South Sudan’s leaders have stolen at least $10 billion in oil revenues shared with them by Sudan in the past 7 years. With somewhere between $12 to $17 billion turned over to South Sudan, Africa’s newest “nation,” during this period, some say estimates of only $10 billion stolen is too conservative. Continue reading →

According to an April 15 article in the European Union Times, a new report circulating in the Kremlin, “prepared by the Foreign Ministry on the planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands during the next fortnight” states that Russian diplomats were ‘stunned’ after being told by their Japanese counterparts that upwards of 40 million of their peoples were in ‘extreme danger’ of life threatening radiation poisoning and could very well likely be faced with forced evacuations away from their countries eastern most located cities . . . including the world’s largest one, Tokyo.” Continue reading →

An examination of the current 2013 budget for the U.S. government’s Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) that oversees the International Broadcasting Board (IBB) and which determines the slant taken by the U.S. government’s propaganda efforts on radio, television, and, increasingly on the Internet, illustrates the head-lock that George Soros and neoconservative “soft power projection” interests have on the official state-sponsored information disseminated by the U.S. government to a global audience. Continue reading →

The follow-on to the first US Army Human Terrain System program is loosely referred to as HTS: A Phase Zero Intelligence Program. Unfortunately, leadership seems to be reinforcing the caricatures on display in the movie Doctor Strangelove (more below). The responsibility for that is not solely the HTS director’s, Colonel Sharon Hamilton. It goes up the chain of command within the US Army and, perhaps, the Office of Secretary of Defense/Intelligence. Throwing $227 million dollars (US) at a damaged program at time when budgets are being squeezed makes little surface sense. Continue reading →

(WMR)—Sources in the U.S. intelligence community report that the National Security Agency (NSA) is establishing a major Internet surveillance at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee that is dedicated to decrypting encoded communications, including file transfers, over the Internet and within private private networks such as those used by banks, foreign governments, and multinational corporations. Continue reading →

(WMR)—National Security Agency (NSA) sources have reported the following to WMR: The NSA has conducted a targeted but massive surveillance operation against certain journalists who have routinely exposed NSA’s illegal domestic communication surveillance program, code named STELLAR WIND. Continue reading →

NATO is attempting to force the Lebanese government to turn over to it base rights at the strategic airfield at Kleiat (Qolaiat) in northern Lebanon for the use of the UN observer force being deployed to Syria. Kleiat is located close to Lebanon’s northern border with Syria. Continue reading →

(WMR)—British Prime Minister David Cameron, visiting Indonesia, now feels there are enough questions concerning last November’s suspicious death in Chongqing of British businessman Neil Heywood, a chief adviser to purged Chinese Communist Party Chongqing leader Bo Xilai, that he wants a full explanation by the Chinese government. China’s government, which has arrested Bo’s wife Gu Kailai, has announced it is reopening its investigation of Heywood’s murder, which was attributed to a heart attack or alcohol poisoning. Continue reading →

Kabul was cast into chaos Sunday as the Taliban began their spring offensive with attacks on US, British, German and Russian embassies, NATO headquarters, Camp Eggers, a hotel, President Karzai’s palace compound and parliament. Continue reading →

While southern Ethiopia and the Ogaden continues to suffer from the worst drought and famine in 60 years, the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) has been turning over all its food aid for the region to the Ethiopian military which uses it to feed the paramilitary death squads conducting a counterinsurgency in the region. Continue reading →

(WMR)—The White House and the U.S. Intelligence Community are not treating as benign infractions the events surrounding the calling back from the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia of at least eleven, and possibly up to twenty Secret Service agents with the White House’s advance security team for cavorting with prostitutes in Cartagena just prior to President Obama’s visit to the city. In addition, at least five members of the U.S. Special Operations forces—who are reportedly assigned to the U.S. Southern Command headquartered in Miami—are being confined to their quarters as a result of their involvement in parties with prostitutes. Continue reading →

FALUN, Sweden—This winter, the temperatures here were sometimes below minus twenty (Celsius), but that’s relatively warm compared to some aspects of what everyday life has become. With the accompanying photo shouting forcefully against what indeed seems to exist for many, accepting its message means that illusions about Swedish justice and integrity fade, uneasily being replaced by haunting questions. Of these, by far the biggest question revolves ever more unsettlingly around the security of one’s life and property, not to mention concerns regarding what Sweden’s future may hold for those of foreign origins. Continue reading →

The intentional misreading of UN security council resolution 1973 resulted in NATO’s predictably violent Operation Odyssey in Libya last year. Continue reading →

While bilateral initiatives have dominated North American issues over the last couple of years, the trilateral relationship has suffered. With a series of high-level meetings, the U.S., Canada and Mexico are taking steps to boost the NAFTA partnership. First, the defense ministers met to discuss shared continental security threats. This was followed by a leaders’ summit which pledged to deepen trade, regulatory, energy and security cooperation. The recent meetings have caused some to once again take notice of the incremental efforts to merge all three countries into a North American Union. Continue reading →

I have a confession to make, I am a feminist. Nine months traveling through India has made me a feminist and this is me coming out of the closet. Continue reading →

There’s nothing to suggest that in his 51 years Kevin June should be a leader. Continue reading →

Last week Marwan Barghouti, the prominent Palestinian political prisoner and Fatah leader, called on Palestinians to launch a “large-scale popular resistance” which would “serve the cause of our people.” Continue reading →

Google Bahrain and you will see how inexcusably the popular uprising in the Persian Gulf sheikhdom is being blacked out by the mainstream media and how discriminatingly the Western leaders ignore the vociferous demands of a nation for democracy and social justice. Continue reading →

The Army Center for Substance Abuse Programs (ACSAP/ASAP) is located under US Army G-1, Human Resources, Deputy Chief of Staff. It consists of two elements according to the G-1 website. “The ASAP is split into two major components: the clinical and non-clinical ASAP or Command ASAP. The Command ASAP works under the installation/garrison commander and is responsible for drug and alcohol prevention and training programs, urinalysis specimen collection, shipping and handling, risk reduction and all other non-clinical functions within the ASAP. The proponent for the Command ASAP is the Army Center for Substance Abuse Programs (ACSAP) which falls under the Human Resources Directorate of the G1. The clinical ASAP handles the treatment and rehabilitation of soldiers that are identified as having substance abuse problems. USA Medical Command has oversight responsibility for the clinical ASAP. Continue reading →

The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes into an area, leases land in rural and agricultural areas for mineral rights, increases employment, usually in a depressed economy, strips the land of its resources, creates health problems for its workers and those in the immediate area, and then leaves. Continue reading →

The natural gas industry defends hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, as safe and efficient. Continue reading →

A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking. Continue reading →

A readout of Attorney General Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano’s visit to Ottawa explained that talks with their Canadian counterparts centered largely around promoting the perimeter security agreement. It highlighted, “efforts to develop the next-generation of integrated cross-border law enforcement operations, and improve information sharing practices.” Continue reading →

(WMR)—The National Security Agency (NSA) continues to conduct warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens at a frenetic pace, according to informed NSA sources. Continue reading →

SAN FRANCISCO—Widely known Dr Paolo Scampa, the publisher of the EU AIPRI Blog and an eminent chemical physicist, announced Saturday his latest calculations of deadly radioactivity in Tokyo itself. Continue reading →

(WMR)—Additional evidence pointing to Israel’s involvement in the “sticky bomb” false flag terrorist operations in Bangkok, New Delhi, and Tbilisi has investigators looking at Israeli involvement in another false flag attack, the nightclub bombings in Bali almost 10 years ago. The renewed interest in Bali comes at the same time new networks are in the early stages of preparing their tenth anniversary specials on the October 12, 2002, bombings that killed at least 202 people, including 88 Australians. Continue reading →