ONLINE JOURNAL– A private jet that crashed last year in eastern Mexico and was found to be carrying more than 3 tons of cocaine was also used by the Central Intelligence Agency for clandestine operations, the Mexican daily El Universal reported September 3. The newspaper cited documents from the United States and the European Parliament which “show that that plane flew several times to Guantanamo, Cuba, … Read More
ALTERNET– Editor’s note: This is adapted from Wolf’s forthcoming book “The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.” Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, … Read More
FOX NEWS– As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically increasing the money it spends to win what it calls “the human terrain” of world public opinion. In the process, it is raising concerns of spreading propaganda at home in violation of federal law. An Associated Press investigation found that over the past five years, the money … Read More
WASHINGTON POST– Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon’s initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the … Read More
THE AUSTRALIAN– Former US vice-president Dick Cheney has accused the Obama administration of being “dead wrong” to assume a repeat of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, is unlikely.Stepping up claims that the White House has been soft on national security, Mr Cheney said yesterday that a nuclear or biological attack by al-Qa’ida remained the biggest threat to the US. … Read More
