Ein aus Somaliland – das sich unabhängig von Somalia erklärte – stammender und in Minneapolis ausgebildeter und wohnender Jurist fordert merkwürdigerweise den Ausnahmezustand für ein Jahr in Mogadischu um freie und faire Regierungswahlen in 2016 zu garantieren. Sorge dafür tragen sollen in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ausgebildete Sondereinsatzkräfte, ausgestattet mit Kriegsrechts-Vollmacht.

Of all of the SFG’s security units, its US-trained Special Forces are the most professional, disciplined, and effectual. The international peace keeping force, AMISOM, has done a good job fighting Al Shabaab, but the Special Forces are the SFG’s only organic Somali security unit that has proven capable of defeating Al Shabaab battle after battle. The SFG should give the Special Forces full policing authority over Mogadishu and allow them to control Mogadishu’s security policy.

Nicht zuletzt erhält der BND den BigBrotherAward für seine Informationsblockade und dreisten Vertuschungen geheimdienstlicher Praktiken gegenüber dem NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss des Bundestags, der sich mit aufklärungsunwilligen BND-Zeugen und überwiegend geschwärzten, lückenhaften oder anderweitig manipulierten Akten des BND herumschlagen muss – frei nach der Zeugenaussage des Nachrichtendienste-Beauftragten im Bundeskanzleramt, Klaus-Dieter Fritsche (CSU), das “Staatswohl“ sei nun mal weit wichtiger als parlamentarische Aufklärung und Kontrolle.

When Bruce E. Ivins, an Army microbiologist, took a fatal overdose of Tylenol in 2008, the government declared that he had been responsible for the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, which killed five people and set off a nationwide panic, and closed the case.

Now, a former senior F.B.I. agent who ran the anthrax investigation for four years says that the bureau gathered “a staggering amount of exculpatory evidence” regarding Dr. Ivins that remains secret.

Now a group of whistleblowers has written a letter calling on the United Nations to recognize that role (pdf), and to improve protections within the organization

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Gibt es eigentlich irgendeinen Aspekt an dieser Mautgeschichte, der sich noch nicht als dreiste Lüge entpuppt hat?

This is a joint investigation with the German news magazine Der Spiegel.

A TOP-SECRET U.S. intelligence document obtained by The Intercept confirms that the sprawling U.S. military base in Ramstein, Germany serves as the high-tech heart of America’s drone program. Ramstein is the site of a satellite relay station that enables drone operators in the American Southwest to communicate with their remote aircraft in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and other targeted countries. The top-secret slide deck, dated July 2012, provides the most detailed blueprint seen to date of the technical architecture used to conduct strikes with Predator and Reaper drones.

Sale of Canadian Uranium to India Denounced by International Experts at the World Uranium Symposium

Quebec, 15 April 1015 – About 200 international experts and delegates of the World Uranium Symposium this morning denounced the sale of Canadian uranium to India, a country that maintains an arsenal of nuclear weapons and has never signed the United Nations’ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). By signing such a deal on the eve of the NPT review conference to be held in New York City in two week’s time Canada is undermining and discrediting the key international treaty prohibiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

There were two other people, they were, I think Pakistanis, then going to an American trade show but couldn’t name the trade show and didn’t know what city it was going to be held in and I refused them. I quickly got a call from Paul Arvid Tveit, demanding I issue the visas. Tveit is listed on namebase.org as a CIA official and is now living as a retired person in Virginia; he went to Justice Stevens after arguing with me about it and again got these guys visas and this is, you know, the kind of microcosm that went on for the 18 months I was there. It was a daily battle.(…)

LS: To make a long story short, you ultimately lost your job.
JMS: That’s right.

Newly declassified documents from President Bill Clinton’s administration, released to bne IntelliNews, show how Putin‘s candidacy was a compromise after a fierce battle for power in Russia between pro-US oligarchs and pro-state conservatives. At stake was not just power in Russia, but the crucial question of Russia‘s relationship with the West.

Documents obtained by CNN reveal that the Missouri National Guard referred to Americans in Ferguson as ‘enemy forces’ and adversaries’ in briefings as they prepared to quell protests.(…)
While referring to use of social media and public information by protesters, the documents state “Adversaries are most likely to possess human intelligence (HUMINT), open source intelligence (OSINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT), technical intelligence (TECHINT), and counterintelligence capabilities,”

In August 2013, when the U.S. government almost went to war in Syria over a Sarin attack, suspicions that it was a rebel “false-flag” were ridiculed. But new disclosures about a rebel role in kidnapping NBC’s Richard Engel several months earlier show the rebels knew such propaganda tricks, says Robert Parry.