Author Archives: Wayne Madsen

The UN General Assembly meeting has become a magnet for maggots

(WMR)—The annual UN General Assembly plenary session, held at the end of September, once featured world luminaries discussing real issues that affect real people. That is no longer the case. Now, amid the comings and goings of the limousines carrying vapid world leaders to and from the UN headquarters in Turtle Bay, are a series of star-studded dinners and seminars that have turned New York’s annual summit into an East Coast version of the Oscar Award ceremony complete with red carpets, stretch limos, and paparazzi. Continue reading

Obama and Al Qaeda: United in Kenya and Syria

(WMR)—President Obama and his “Responsibility to Protect” policy crew of UN Ambassador Samantha Power, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes have not only made common cause with Al Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al Nusra and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria but, by pressuring Kenya’s government internationally, have weakened Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice President William Ruto. The Kenyan government has been battling against Al Shabab Islamist terrorists from Somalia who killed scores of shoppers at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall and may have been behind a costly fire that destroyed the international terminal at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Continue reading

Rwanda’s Kagame cozies up to extremist Israel expansionists

Rwanda’s dictator Paul Kagame, who came to power after ordering a 1994 aerial assassination of the Hutu Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, an event that triggered off a massacre of ethnic Tutsis and a holocaust of 5 million people in the neighboring Congo (Kinshasa), has warmed up to a group of extremists who favor Israeli expansionism. Continue reading

Misconstruing a UN report: The latest neocon tactic of misinformation

The UN in Geneva has released its long-awaited report on the use of chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21. Continue reading

Chemical weapons propaganda: an old CIA trick

(WMR)—In 1979, during the CIA’s covert war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, the CIA’s propaganda operatives placed stories in U.S. newspapers and wire services that the Soviets were using poison gas in their war with the U.S.-supported mujaheddin guerrillas. The CIA charged that the Soviets used soman, a nerve gas possessed but never used by Nazi Germany in World War II, against rebels near Faizabad and Jalalabad, as well as in the provinces of Bamiyan and Takhar. Continue reading

A long-forgotten Rolling Stone interview about Syria

(WMR)—Buried in the recesses of the CIA’s archives is a long-forgotten interview by Rolling Stone of Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and CIA veteran Miles Copeland. Copeland, who was once in charge of the CIA’s “dirty tricks” department as the chief of the agency’s Political Action Staff, came to the attention of Rolling Stone because his three sons were active in rock music: Miles Copeland III, was manager of the Police, Ian Copeland founded the music booking agency called FBI, and Stewart Copeland was drummer for Curved Air and later for the Police. Continue reading

Getting to the bottom of the rebels’ chemical weapons use in Syria

There is little doubt that Syrian rebels, including the Al Qaeda affiliate, the Jabhat Al Nusra, have been in possession of chemical weapons in Syria and have used these weapons against civilians and Syrian government forces. Continue reading

Obama’s “Rosh Hashana War” against Syria

(WMR)—President Obama’s war against Syria is being marketed at the same time Jews around the world celebrated the Rosh Hashana New Year holiday. A close examination of the three Rosh Hashana blessings of Malchuyot, Zichronot, and Shofarot find the central theme of score-settling prevalent, especially against the enemies of the Jewish people and nation. Today, the “score settler” is Israel and its Lobby in America, which are both pushing for a U.S. military attack on an old “enemy” of the Jewish people and nation, Syria. Continue reading

Obama caved under last-minute pressure from Dempsey

(WMR)—WMR’s White House sources report that on the evening of Friday, August 29, President Obama was on track to launch a sustained 72-hour cruise missile and drone attack on pre-selected air defense and other strategic military targets in Syria. Continue reading

Obama’s Syrian chemical attack “proof” relies solely on Israeli intelligence

(WMR)—WMR’s sources inside the Washington Beltway report that President Obama relied solely on signals intelligence (SIGINT) provided by Israel’s version of the U.S. National Security Agency, Unit 8200, to conclude that Syria’s government ordered the August 21 chemical attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Continue reading

Lebanon’s angst as war against Syria looms

(WMR)—WMR’s sources in Lebanon report that three deadly car bombings, one on August 15 in a Hezbollah-controlled area south of Beirut and two outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on August 23 during Friday prayers were intended to import into fragile Lebanon the Sunni-Shi’a/Alawite/Christian violence that is currently raging in neighboring Syria. Continue reading

Sunstein, cognitive dissonance, and the Naval War College

(WMR)—President Obama has played a cruel joke on critics of National Security Agency surveillance by naming to his Review Committee on NSA Programs his former chief of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Cass Sunstein. Also known as Obama’s “information czar,” Sunstein, who is married to UN Ambassador Samantha Power, left the administration to return to Harvard Law School. Sunstein also works out of the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. Continue reading

Al Jazeera’s American debut: Hyping a dubious chem-war attack in Syria

(WMR)—Just as Americans were led astray by the cable news media about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction prior to the disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, once again, viewers of cable news channels are being subjected to another information warfare campaign. This time it is an alleged Syrian government chemical attack on “thousands” of civilians in the Ghouta region outside of Damascus. Continue reading

Number 10 and Buckingham Palace trying to kill Diana assassination story

(WMR)—The word from our sources in London is that Prime Minister David Cameron and Buckingham Palace are in full crisis mode over new revelations about MI-6 assassinating the late Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. Continue reading

The Big Lie works as well today in Syria as it once did in Afghanistan

Poorly-armed Islamist forces fighting against military forces armed with superior Russian weaponry. Government forces purposely killing its own citizens. Russia unwilling to back down from supporting its secular ally. Continue reading

R2P’s casualties in Middle East mount

If President Barack Obama’s ill-conceived policy of “Responsibility to Protect” or R2P, sold to him by George Soros’s groupies Samantha Power, Susan Rice, and other advisers with their feet not completely planted on terra firma, was intended to bring stability to the Middle East, it has had the opposite effect. The recent military crackdown in Egypt by that nation’s military-led government is a case in point . . . Continue reading

The Al Qaeda takeover of Yemen story was faked

(WMR)—WMR’s sources in Europe and Yemen have confirmed that the Obama administration and the government of Yemeni President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi faked a recent terrorism warning that Yemen was about to be besieged by Al Qaeda forces who planned to attack U.S. and other Western targets in the country. Continue reading

Obama’s Russia policy after canceling Moscow summit

U.S. President Barack Obama signaled through his press secretary Jay Carney that he would be discussing the recent cancellation by the United States of Obama’s Moscow summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Obama’s press conference, meant to clear the air on U.S.-Russian relations and U.S. intelligence mass surveillance of private communications, left more questions than answers. Obama’s answers to press questions were all over the map, confusing, and at times, deceptive . . . Continue reading

U.S. intervention for the sake of interventionism

The Obama Doctrine will eventually go down in the history books as a period during which the Obama administration honed the brute force military interventionism of his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, into one that combined overt and covert U.S. military and intelligence intervention with election interference, trade sanctions, financial manipulation, and propaganda operations. This multi-faceted interventionism is known by the Pentagon as strategic influence operations. Continue reading

Obama’s “Asia Pivot”: The Himalayan angle

The Obama administration’s “Asia Pivot” is playing out in earnest in joint U.S.-Indian-Israeli intelligence operations in the Himalayan region. The actions by the three cooperative nations’ intelligence agencies are aimed at limiting Chinese influence here. The strategy in the mountainous area of the Sino-Indian border complements other U.S. strategies now being played out in the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, the South China Sea, the South Pacific, and the Indian Ocean to box in China and prevent it from challenging America’s military presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Continue reading

State Department “foreign affairs”

(WMR)—Recent revelations about former New York Democratic Congressman and New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner’s texting of lewd digital messages with attached photographs of his genitals, coupled with his wife’s admission that some of Weiner’s problems are her fault, were not enough to maintain the Washington rumor mill during the normally driest month for news—August. Continue reading

CFR intelligence list links NSA surveillance to media manipulation

(WMR)—Groucho Marx is famously quoted as once saying, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member!” If one is able to judge others by the company they keep, Groucho’s sentiments could apply to the nefarious Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), founded in 1921 by the world’s wealthiest and most influential tycoons on the four pillars of unbridled capitalism, imperialism, Zionism, and elitism. Continue reading

NSA’s “Big Board”—you won’t believe what’s on it

Just like the “Big Boards” at the North American Air Defense command center and in the Pentagon’s “War Room,” the National Security Agency also maintains a “big board” inside its National Security Operations Center at Fort Meade, Maryland. These boards are also found inside each of NSA’s regional security operations centers at NSA Georgia in Fort Gordon, NSA Texas in San Antonio, and NSA Hawaii, in Kunia on Oahu. Continue reading

Seized North Korean vessel an attempt to boost NSA’s image in Latin America

The Obama administration and the National Security Agency (NSA) are conveniently using the Panamanian seizure in the Caribbean of the North Korean merchant vessel Chong Chon Gang after a routine search for drugs yielded two green containers under a shipment of sugar. The ship was due to transit the Panama Canal. Continue reading

The pursuit of Edward Snowden

In many ways, National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is more wanted by the U.S. government than was Osama Bin Laden just six months after the 9/11 attack on the United States. Continue reading

Case study: Sudan; the CIA’s early links with Islamists

A formerly secret CIA “Current Intelligence Weekly Summary,” dated March 19, 1959, provides evidence of the agency’s early cooperation with Islamist sects that were influenced by Saudi-inspired Wahhabists. As early as 1959 and the Dwight Eisenhower administration, CIA analysts were praising Sudan’s Ansar sect, made up of followers of Imam Sayid Abdul Rahman al-Mahdi, who “formed the principal support of the more pro-Western officers” of the Supreme Army Council and the cabinet. Continue reading

Morsi’s fall and the ‘Arab Summer’ spells doom for the Obama Doctrine

President Barack Obama’s policy toward the Arab and Muslim world was born in Cairo and it died there. Continue reading

Obama as a Third World strongman

(WMR)—President Barack Obama entered office as a “hope and change” candidate who promised to be far different from his predecessor George W. Bush. However, in his fifth year in office, Obama has taken on the trappings of a “strongman”, a leader found more often in Africa, the land of Obama’s paternal lineage, and in Asia, from where his step-father hailed. Continue reading

Two charged with developing a radiation weapon to kill Obama, Muslims

(WMR)—Glendon Crawford and Eric Feight, an employee of GE in Schenectady, New York, and a GE contractor, respectively, have been charged by federal prosecutors with attempting to develop a remotely-activated X-ray weapon and sell it the Israelis in order to kill President Obama and kill “Israel’s enemies while they slept.” Continue reading

The National Security Agency: A global superpower

Recent revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency is conducting massive meta-data vacuuming of the phone calls and Internet transactions of tens of millions of Americans and, perhaps, billions of people around the world, with little or no effective oversight by President Obama, the U.S. Congress, or the federal court system means that the intelligence agency has become, in its own right, a global superpower. Continue reading

CIA number two resigns hours before Obama announces decision to arm Syrian rebels

America's first ‘war based on Twitter’

(WMR)—CIA deputy director Michael Morrell resigned from his post just hours before the Obama White House, through deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, announced that the Obama administration had decided to provide weapons to the Syrian Free Army and its allied groups. Continue reading

NSA employees use data mining systems to spy on wives, ex-spouses

(WMR) — WMR has learned from a knowlegable National Security Agency (NSA) source that agency employees are using various NSA data mining and surveillance systems, including PRISM meta-data and phone call transcripts, to snoop on their wives and ex-spouses. In addition, some NSA employees have offered to sell such information to individuals outside of NSA who want the goods on their wives and ex-spouses. Continue reading