The UK has been instrumental in consolidating relations between the disparate and isolationist opposition groups in Syria—not because the British elite want genuine democracy, of course, but because Syria’s President Assad would not acquiesce to the neo-liberal economic policies of the Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative (BMENAI).[1] Unlike Iraq and Libya, Syria does not have significant quantities of strategic resources to make worthwhile a NATO-led invasion.[2] As a result, Assad’s country must be destroyed via UK-trained militias so that it can be rebuilt along Euro-American-approved lines. According to an Economist Intelligence Unit report cited in the UK House of Commons Library in 2009, Continue reading →
(WMR)—WMR has learned from U.S. defense intelligence community sources that America’s signals and human intelligence collection activities aimed at Israel have yielded important intelligence on how the Israelis plan to ratchet up a war with Iran between a planned “window of opportunity” from April to June. The window was revealed publicly by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in a recent interview with The Washington Post’s David Ignatius but new details of Israel’s plans were conveyed by senior Pentagon sources to WMR. Continue reading →
In a move that went largely unnoticed, the U.S. government unveiled a new counter-narcotics strategy for the northern border, which will work towards closer cooperation with Canada in the war on drugs. This includes both countries strengthening integrated cross-border intelligence sharing and law enforcement operations. Canada has also released a comprehensive counter-terrorism plan aimed at combating the threats of domestic and international violent extremism. The separate U.S.-Canada undertakings are both tied to the Beyond the Border deal and efforts to establish a North American security perimeter. Continue reading →
The United States, Australia, and New Zealand and their ally in Tbilisi, Mikheil Saakashvili, are upset that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently visited Fiji. The fear from Washington, Canberra, Wellington, and Tbilisi was that Lavrov was going to offer Fiji lucrative financial assistance in return for the South Pacific nation’s recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The two countries broke away from Georgia, triggering a war between Georgia and Russia in 2008. Continue reading →
(WMR)—As the old saying goes, “when you’re trapped in a hole, stop digging.” The more Israel “reveals” about a four-nation terrorist plot allegedly aimed at Israel by Iran and Hezbollah, the more it becomes an obvious blatant propaganda ploy by Tel Aviv to pin blame on Iran and its allies. Continue reading →
(WMR) — An Israeli Chabad sect couple, Rabbi Sheneor Zalman and his wife Yaffa Shenoi, have been told by Kerala police to leave India in fifteen days. The two are suspected by the Indian intelligence, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of being involved in a covert operation in India linked to the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack in which six Chabad members were killed in a shootout between Dawood Ibrahim’s Pakistan-based gangsters and the residents of Mumbai’s Chabad House. Continue reading →
(WMR)—In September 2005, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, penned a letter to his friend Judy Miller, the New York Times reporter who was jailed for refusing to testify in the investigation of the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s CIA identity to the media and Bush White House officials. Libby wrote: “Out west, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work—to life.” Continue reading →
Welcome to the new INTERPOL—the International Criminal Police Organization—a carbon copy of the INTERPOL that was briefly headquartered in Berlin under the Nazi regime. Today, INTERPOL, an international law enforcement agency composed of 190 members nations, INTERPOL, headquartered in Lyon, France, is under the control of Secretary General Ron K. Noble, a former Undersecretary for Enforcement of the U.S. Treasury Department. Under Noble, INTERPOL is tracking political dissidents while leaving gangsters and other criminals, especially those wanted by Russia, remain at large. Continue reading →
(WMR)—According to sources in Washington and London, the George Soros global network of non-governmental organizations is trying to co-opt the nascent Occupy Uganda movement, which hopes to oust long-serving Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni from power. Continue reading →
(WMR) — Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords, severely wounded in a shooting by Jared Lee Loughner on January 8, 2011, had one final item of business before resigning her seat to continue her recovery therapy. Giffords introduced to the House of Representatives H.R. 3801, titled the Ultralight Aircraft Smuggling Prevention Act. The bill would increase criminal penalties for those smuggling drugs from Mexico into the United States. Continue reading →
(WMR)—As WMR has reported in past articles, the National Security Agency (NSA) has maintained a series of “mug shots” of journalists it suspects have sources inside the NSA. Often, NSA personnel throught to have been speaking to journalists are called into NSA’s “Q” security group and questioned on whether they have spoken to various journalists. Along with the names of the journalists, are photographs, described by NSA insiders, as “mug shots,” likely culled from the Internet. Continue reading →
(WMR) — WMR’s sources in Bangkok, the Thai capital, report that the recent U.S. and Israeli alert that a Lebanese man, said to have links with Hezbollah, was planning a terrorist attack in Thailand, is the result of Israel and its diamond business attempting to shut out Lebanese Shi’ite competitors who are in Thailand and are competing with the Israelis for access to Southeast Asian gems. Israeli diamond merchants also compete with Lebanese Shi’ites for access to diamonds and other precious gems in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Continue reading →
Amir Hekmati is currently on death row in Iran for allegedly spying for the United States of America. In addition to being a former member of the US Army’s Human Terrain System—and trained as a cultural intelligence collector—he was most recently a former employee of Six3 Systems located in McLean, Virginia. Continue reading →
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Chinese oil workers once again seem to be at the center of a nasty counterinsurgency in the Horn of Africa, in the Ogaden, located in south east Ethiopia. Continue reading →
(WMR)—Sailors aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS John Stennis may be surprised to know that the person for whom their ship is named, Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John Stennis of Mississippi, ordered his committee to conduct a full review of the CIA’s 1947 charter to prevent the agency from ever again engaging in secret wars, illegal surveillance as it did during Watergate, and political assassinations. Stennis apparently agreed with his Senate colleagues who believed that the 1947 National Security Act, which created the CIA, was too vague. Continue reading →
(WMR)—As the Obama administration prepares to unleash another crippling round of economic sanctions on Iran, including applying congressional legislation blacklisting the Iranian central bank, Bank Markazi, top congressional sources have reported to WMR that in May 2010, the Obama White House approved the lifting of sanctions for the state-owned Russian arms exporting firm, Rosoboronexport. The Russian firm was on a 2008 blacklist imposed by the Bush administration for selling nuclear and military technology to Iran. However, the Bush administration had conducted business—buying 22 Mi-17s in a ruish order for the reconstituted Iraqi air force—with the Russian firm as late as December 2007. Continue reading →
(WMR)—WMR has learned from an eastern European intelligence source that the CIA, Britain’s MI-6, and George Soros, who actually fronts for the Rothschild family, has been funneling money to Russian protest movements through the Republic of Georgia. Continue reading →
“Woodrow Wilson, the 28th American president, is looking down in horror at what the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWC) is doing in his name.” Continue reading →
Just in case there was an iota of doubt left in your mind, Israel was officially declared an apartheid state during a session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in Cape Town on 7 November. Continue reading →
Essam Al-Batsh and his nephew, Sobhi Al-Batsh, are the latest in a long line of reported Palestinian ‘militants’ killed by Israel. The civilians were both targeted while driving in a car in downtown Gaza on December 8. According to an Israeli army statement, “(They) were affiliated with a terrorist squad that intended to attack Israeli civilians and soldiers via the western border” (Reuters, December 8). Continue reading →
(WMR)—After decades of a global consensus that sought the decolonization of the remaining European colonies around the world, the European Union has reversed course and in a new decision on the member states’ overseas countries and territories—the term “colony” no longer being in vogue—expected for final adoption in March 2012, the EU now maintains that the smattering of EU member states’ overseas dependencies must be less “dependent” on Europe but must be maintained as “strategically important outposts spread all over the world.” The EU also wants European colonies to reflect the EU’s values and to get on board with globalization and international trade policies. Continue reading →
In the bizarre world of the UN inSecurity Council, the Monday, Dec. 5, passage of further “sanctions” against Africa’s fastest growing economy, targeting Eritrea in the Horn of Africa with its projected 5 years’ double-digit growth rate, should come as no surprise. Continue reading →
After months of negotiations, the U.S. and Canada have unveiled new trade, regulatory and security initiatives to speed up the flow of goods and people across the border. The joint action plans provide a framework that goes beyond NAFTA and continues where the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) left off. This will take U.S.-Canada integration to the next level and is the pretext for a North American Homeland Security perimeter. Continue reading →
A tale of reoccupation
After being evicted from the two city parks held for nearly six weeks back in early November, Occupy Portland set out last Saturday with a goal of reoccupying another city park. And in the process, Portland showcased once again why it remains one of the more dynamic Occupy sites in the country. Continue reading →
In the wake of the much-heralded FBI sting that supposedly foiled a dastardly plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard elite Qods Force—involving a bumbling, failed used-car salesman’s botched attempt to hire a reportedly Mossad-trained Mexican drug cartel—to blow up the Saudi ambassador in a crowded but fictitious Washington, D.C., restaurant, a duly alarmed U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security convened an urgent hearing on “Iranian Terror Operations on American Soil.” Continue reading →
(WMR)—The word from WMR’s sources in Chicago is that the financial collapse of the commodities trading firm MF Global is merely the tip of the iceberg in commodities trading fraud, especially in gold, and that a major cover-up of the extent of the fraud by the Obama administration, including by Attorney General Eric Holder, is currently underway. Continue reading →
At the recent APEC meetings, Canada and Mexico announced their interest in joining the U.S., along with other countries already engaged in negotiations to establish what has been referred to as the NAFTA of the Pacific. Continue reading →
Morocco, with its 35 million people, where 1 in 3 are unemployed and poverty is widespread, has had multi-party elections since independence in 1956 without anyone taking much notice. Even Western Saharans get a taste of democracy from Rabat, however bitter. Continue reading →
When Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Turkey’s prime minister in 2003, he seemed to be certain of the new direction his country would take. It would maintain cordial ties with Turkey’s old friends, Israel included, but also reach out to its Arab and Muslim neighbors, Syria in particular. The friendly relations between Ankara and Damascus soon morphed from rhetorical emphasis on cultural ties into trade deals and economic exchanges worth billions of dollars. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s vision of a ‘zero-problems’ foreign policy seemed like a truly achievable feat, even in a region marred by conflict, foreign occupations and ‘great game’ rivalry. Continue reading →
The ongoing Freedom Waves campaign to break the siege of Gaza hit the world headlines last week with the attempt by the Canadian Tahrir and the Irish Saoirse—Arab and Irish for freedom—to bring aid to Gazans directly. This time the boats left from Turkey, not Greece, where last June authorities refused to let the Freedom Flotilla depart. Continue reading →
Pro-Israel groups outline U.S. options to assist Syrian opposition
On November 8, the Foreign Policy Initiative and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies jointly issued a discussion paper that outlines “policy options for the United States and like-minded nations to further assist the anti-regime Syrian opposition.” Entitled “Towards a Post-Assad Syria,” the paper advocates imposing “crippling sanctions” on the Assad government, providing assistance to Syrian opposition groups, and imposing no-fly/no-go zones in Syria. Continue reading →
