Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
U.S.-Built Bridge is Windfall for Illegal Afghan Drug Trade
July 5th, 2009Via: McClatchy: In August 2007, the presidents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan walked side by side with the U.S. commerce secretary across a new $37 million concrete bridge that the Army Corps of Engineers designed to link two of Central Asia’s poorest countries. Dressed in a gray suit with an American flag pin in his lapel, […]
Russia Opens Route for U.S. to Fly Arms to Afghanistan
July 4th, 2009There could be several factors at work here. Maybe the mobsters who run Russia were offered a cut of the drug money from the American mobsters. If might be that Russian strategists like the idea of giving the U.S. more rope to hang itself. Of course, there’s potential to make billions of dollars from arms […]
Afghanistan: Thousands of U.S. Marines Move Into the World’s Largest Opium Production Area
July 2nd, 2009Via: AP / USA Today: Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first major operation under President Obama’s strategy to stabilize the country. The offensive was launched shortly after 4:30 p.m. ET Thursday in Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold and the world’s […]
SEC Lawyer Raised Alarm About Madoff
July 2nd, 2009Via: Reuters: A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer warned about irregularities at Bernard Madoff’s financial management firm as far back as 2004, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing agency documents and sources familiar with the investigation. Genevievette Walker-Lightfoot, a lawyer in the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, sent emails to a […]
Fisk: In Tehran, Fantasy and Reality Make Uneasy Bedfellows
July 1st, 2009I’m not coming down on any side here. While my gut feeling is that CIA/Mossad/MI6 are throwing gasoline on the fire, I can’t point to any evidence of that. The past doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the present, but being familiar with how the U.S. has screwed with Iran in the past, it’s […]
Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine
July 1st, 2009I know what you’ll be thinking as you read this: That my last job in the U.S. (Wall Street Chop Shop and “We Americans Were Very Clever”) was with Goldman Sachs. Good guess, but no. The firm that I worked for is dead now. Via: Rolling Stone: THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE From tech stocks […]
Key Leaders of Honduras Military Coup Trained in U.S.
June 30th, 2009Via: Institute for Southern Studies: At least two leaders of the coup launched in Honduras on June 28 were apparently trained at a controversial Department of Defense school based at Fort Benning, Georgia infamous for producing graduates linked to torture, death squads and other human rights abuses. Leftist President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped and transported […]
Confidential Memo Reveals U.S. Plan to Provoke an Invasion of Iraq
June 30th, 2009Via: Guardian: A confidential record of a meeting between President Bush and Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq, outlining their intention to go to war without a second United Nations resolution, will be an explosive issue for the official inquiry into the UK’s role in toppling Saddam Hussein. The memo, written on 31 January […]
Bernard Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years in Prison
June 29th, 2009We still don’t know who his accomplices were, or where the money went. Via: Bloomberg: Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years for masterminding the largest Ponzi scheme in history, six times longer than the penalties meted out to the chief executives of WorldCom Inc. and Enron Corp. Madoff appeared in court today before U.S. […]
U.S. Confirms U-Turn in Afghan Counter-Narcotics Policy
June 28th, 2009My previous guess was that the USUK drug cartel was going to try to drive prices back up and then unload the tons of stuff that have been stockpiling. According to the information below, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Perhaps the new goal is to get as many acres as possible going with […]
