Monthly Archives: April 2007 »

Sellafield organ removal inquiry launched

CW April 18, 2007 0

An official inquiry has been launched to investigate claims that body parts were removed from 65 deceased Sellafield workers, Alistair Darling, the Trade and Industry Secretary, announced. The Prospect union claims vital organs of

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Italy Tries US Soldier For Iraq Murder

CW April 17, 2007 0

A US soldier is being tried in absentia by an Italian court for the murder of Nicola Calipari, the intelligence agent who died on the road to Baghdad Airport shortly after securing the release

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Egypt charges man with spying

CW April 17, 2007 0

Egypt has charged a nuclear engineer at the state’s Atomic Energy Agency with spying for Israel, two months after his arrest.Two foreigners – an Irishman and a Japanese – were also charged in absentia,

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Report: France warned CIA of 9-11 plot

CW April 17, 2007 1

France’s foreign intelligence service learned as early as January 2001 that al-Qaida was preparing a hijacking plot likely to involve a U.S. airplane, former intelligence officials said Monday, confirming a report that also said

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Photos of ‘tortured’ Iraqi’s corpse released

CW April 17, 2007 0

Photographs showing the severe beating suffered by an Iraqi civilian who died in British custody were released today as the House of Lords begins a hearing into whether human rights law should apply to

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US university shooting kills 33

CW April 17, 2007 0

BBC   A US shooting rampage at the Virginia Tech university A US shooting rampage at the Virginia Tech university has left 33 people, including a suspected gunman, dead. There were two incidents two

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Robotic PsyOps

CW April 17, 2007 0

Peter La Franchi Aerovironment has confirmed that the US Special Operations Command-sponsored Global Observer joint capability technology demonstration (JCTD) programme using the company’s Global Observer hydrogen-powered UAV will include assessment of psychological operations roles for

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Look who’s talking: Britain’s ‘Big Brother’

CW April 17, 2007 0

Britain is turning to talking cameras to curb anti-social behavior. But more police and better street lighting may do more to stop crime. Ronan Thomas London – In “1984,” British writer George Orwell envisaged

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Britain must stop acting like an emperor

CW April 17, 2007 0

George Monbiot The disease that afflicts all British governments is an inability to let go. Unable to accept the end of empire, they cling to past glories. However much they speak of modernity and

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Bush administration pushes for expansion and deepening of police state

CW April 17, 2007 0

Larry Chin The George W. Bush administration seized the White House in 2000 by way of an openly stolen election, then cemented its criminal power into place with the unprecedented 9/11 mass murder, and

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Ecuador Votes For Revolutionary Change

CW April 17, 2007 0

Stephen Lendman Ecuadorean President Raphael Correa took office January 15 promising his people progressive, revolutionary social and economic change unlike anything this country of mostly impoverished people ever had before under its right wing

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MI5 to track “extremists” like sex offenders

CW April 16, 2007 0

Michael Evans MI5 is adopting tactics used by the police to keep tabs on paedophiles and other sex offenders to monitor the activities of known or suspected Islamic extremists, The Times has learnt. The

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A 9/11 “Smoking Gun” Hidden In Plain Sight

CW April 16, 2007 0

Joseph Smith Let’s face it, if the 9/11 attacks were “legitimate”, they would have been accompanied by “legitimate” statements and claims of responsibility. You don’t pull off the most spectacular “terrorist” attack in history,

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Divided Iraq has two spy agencies

CW April 16, 2007 0

Shiite officials wary of the CIA-funded, Sunni-led official intelligence service have set up a parallel organization. Ned Parker Suspicious of Iraq’s CIA-funded national intelligence agency, members of the Iraqi government have erected a “shadow”

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U.S. Government Contractor Injects Malicious Software into Critical Military Computers

CW April 15, 2007 0

Via Bruce Schneier This is just a frightening story. Basically, a contractor with a top secret security clearance was able to inject malicious code and sabotage computers used to track Navy submarines. Yeah, it

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Britain’s fight against drugs ‘a total failure’

CW April 15, 2007 0

Devastating report reveals soaring use among the young Denis Campbell and Anushka Asthana The Observer Government attempts to persuade thousands of young people to stay away from drugs have failed and done nothing to

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EV-1 : Who Killed The Electric Car ? OPEC ? US Govt ?

CW April 15, 2007 0

The question that is playing on all our minds, who killed the electric car in the US ? A proven technology that weens us off fossil fuels and in some ways performs better than

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Chavez calls 9/11 gift for Bush

CW April 15, 2007 1

Venezuelan President has labeled 9/11 attacks on US as “a gift for Bush,” saying it enabled the US government to wage wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hugo Chavez made the statement during a news

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Bush asks Congress to alter 1978 eavesdropping law

CW April 15, 2007 0

David Morgan The Bush administration asked Congress on Friday to expand the number of people it can subject to electronic surveillance in the United States. The request was contained in a proposed bill authored

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Brain Chips for You and Your Entire Family

CW April 15, 2007 0

[By the year 2025:] “The civilian populace will likely accept an implanted microscopic chips that allow military members to defend vital national interests.” –from Chapter 4 of “Information Operations: A New War-Fighting Capability,” contained

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U.S. Holds 18,000 Detainees in Iraq

CW April 15, 2007 0

Recent Security Crackdown in Baghdad Nets Another 1,000 Walter Pincus In the past month, as a new security crackdown in Baghdad began, U.S. forces arrested another 1,000 Iraqis, bringing to 18,000 the number of

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April 2007: The deadliest month of the Iraq occupation

CW April 13, 2007 1

We’re more than a third of the way through April now, and I haven’t seen this actually reported in the media anywhere, but unfortunately this has been the deadliest month for the U.S.-led coalition

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Tyranny in the USA

CW April 13, 2007 1

The true history of FDA raids on healers, vitamin shops and supplement companies Mike Adams Here’s a brief overview of some of the campaigns of terror the FDA has initiated against natural healers, nutritional

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Wolfowitz fights for job after memo

CW April 13, 2007 0

Gary Duncan Paul Wolfowitz, the President of the World Bank, was fighting for his job yesterday after being forced to make an humiliating apology for ordering a huge pay rise and a promotion for

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US soldiers to stay longer in Iraq

CW April 13, 2007 0

The Pentagon has said that US soldiers will serve up to 15 months in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of one year, showing more signs of the strain the wars have taken on the military.

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