More fodder for the conspiranoia mill is supplied by yesterday’s front-page New York Times story (online at TruthOut) providing further confirmation that at least some of the 9-11 hijackers were under surveillance by the government. Washington – More than a… Read moreGovernment spied on 9-11 hijackers: more evidence
An interesting development in the extremely contentious Valerie Plame affair: Deputy Attorney General James Comey, the only Justice Department official overseeing special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation into the leak scandal, is leaving to take a job in the private sector…. Read moreSkull & Bonesman to oversee Valerie Plame case?
The annual Hiroshima Peace Declaration, delivered this year by the city’s Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, explicitly calls the nuclear powers to task for not living up to their committments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The historic 60th anniversary of the dawn of… Read moreHiroshima Peace Declaration: nuclear powers “jeopardize human survival”
TruthOut offers the following tidbit from Newsweek on a National Intelligence Council finding that, contrary to Bush’s dearest dreams, Iran “is not in a prerevolutionary state.” We wonder if this document was drawn up before several cities in western Iran… Read moreNational Intelligence Council: Iran stable
AP reported Aug. 2 that federal investigators used provisions of the USA Patriot Act to search and bug a 360-foot tunnel under the US-Canadian border, and eavesdrop as hundreds of pounds of British Columbia-grown marijuana was brought through it. Agents… Read morePatriot Act protects Americans from hydroponic marijuana
At least three are dead in a land dispute between Tzeltal Maya ejidos (collective farming communities) in Mexico’s conflicted southern state of Chiapas. More than 20 families have been displaced following the violence between the ejidos of El Chamizal and… Read moreLand, resource conflicts in Chiapas
Both houses of Congress have now voted to extend the most onerous measures of the PATRIOT Act, which is due to expire in December. (IHT, Aug. 1) But these measures still may not survive judicial review. From Immigration News Briefs,… Read moreJudge: Patriot Act provisions unconstitutional
UPDATE: 17 readers have donated so far for a total of 500 USD. Please consider a donation today! http://ww3report.com/donations.html Dear WW4 REPORT Readers: Our fund-raising drive has been forced to go into extra innings due to considerably underwhelming results. We… Read moreWW4 REPORT fund drive extended
Saudi religious leaders, tribal chiefs and government officials gathered in Riyadh to formally declare their loyalty to the new monarch King Abdullah, on the heels of foreign dignitaries including French President Jacques Chirac, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and Britain’s… Read moreKing Abdullah: family tie to Iraq
From AP, Aug. 3: 2 NY Officials Back Terror Check Profiling Middle Easterners should be targeted for searches on city subways, two elected officials said, contending that police have been wasting time with random checks in efforts to prevent terrorism… Read moreDov Hikind: freedom hater
The UN is pledging to lead an investigation into the helicopter crash that claimed the life of Sudan’s newly-installed vice president John Garang, longtime leader of the southern guerillas. (UPI, Aug. 3) Violence since his death has already left at… Read moreViolence and fear in Sudan
Wow, the more things change the more they stay the same. This is exactly the issue which led to Saddam Hussein’s world-changing invasion of Kuwait in 1990 (see WW4 REPORT #70). Is it ever going to be embarrassing for the… Read moreIraq: Kuwait stealing our oil —again!
