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A plan that will change the world
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then...
James Casbolt and Project Mannequin: Examining the Claims of a Controversial Whistleblower
Background: Who Was James Casbolt? James Casbolt emerged in the alternative research community around 2007, claiming to be a former participant in a classified NSA-connected program he called Project Mannequin. According to his accounts, the program operated from...
The Last Prophet – The Legacy of William Cooper
According to Cooper, he served in the US Air Force and the US Navy and was discharged in 1975. He caused a sensation in UFOlogy circles when in 1988 he claimed to have seen secret documents while in the US Navy that referred to government knowledge and involvement...
Bradley Manning: Solitary Confinement, Whistleblowing, and the Court-Martial
Solitary Confinement Without Conviction Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, was held for months under conditions that drew widespread condemnation from human rights organizations, legal experts, and...
Sean Hoare: The Phone Hacking Whistleblower Found Dead at 45
On July 18, 2011, Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbusiness reporter who became the first named journalist to publicly allege that editor Andy Coulson knew about phone hacking at the tabloid, was found dead at his home in Watford, England. He was in his...
Mordechai Vanunu: The Nuclear Whistleblower Israel Tried to Silence
Who Is Mordechai Vanunu? Mordechai Vanunu, born October 14, 1954, in Marrakech, Morocco, is a former Israeli nuclear technician who became one of the most significant nuclear whistleblowers in history. In 1986, he revealed details of Israel's clandestine nuclear...
Kenneth O’Keefe: Humanist, Activist, Hero
Kenneth Nichols "Ken" O'Keefe (born July 21, 1969) is an Irish-American activist and former United States Marine and Gulf War veteran. He led the human shield action to Iraq and was a passenger on the MV Mavi Marmara during the Gaza flotilla raid. He said that he...
Minnesota Jury Orders Blogger To Pay $60,000 for Truthful Statements
A Blogger Found Liable Despite Telling the Truth In 2011, a Minnesota jury delivered a verdict that sent shockwaves through the world of online publishing. Blogger John Hoff, known online as Johnny Northside, was ordered to pay $60,000 in damages for statements he...
Anonymous CIA Source Describes Underground Bases, Non-Human Contact, and Black Budget Operations
Anonymous Intelligence Source Describes Underground Military Facilities An anonymous individual claiming former CIA involvement provided testimony to Project Camelot describing a network of deep underground military bases (DUMBs) across the United States. According to...
He Served the Empire Abroad; The Regime Killed Him in His Home
Posted by William Grigg on May 11, 2011 01:16 PM Jose Guerena survived two combat tours of Iraq, only to become a casualty of the Regime's longest war -- the one waged against its domestic subjects in the name of drug prohibition. The former Marine was slaughtered by...
EXCLUSIVE: Fired Army Whistleblower Receives $970K for Exposing Halliburton No-Bid Contract in Iraq
Bunnatine "Bunny" Greenhouse, the former chief oversight official of contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers, has reached a $970,000 settlement six years after she was demoted for publicly criticizing a multi-billion-dollar, no-bid contract to Halliburton—the company...
Secrets, As Described by John Young of Cryptome.org
To: "Whalen, Jeanne" <Jeanne.Whalen[at]wsj.com> From: John Young <jya[at]pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:45 +0600 Subject: RE: from the WSJ Jeanne, Following up our telephone exchange on Friday: 1. You said the WSJ editor turned down the use of...
UPDATE: Wiretapping Fundraiser – One Week Mark
To Serve or Not to Serve. I’m submitting my story because I feel it’s one a lot of people need to hear. I have been getting some negative feedback on CopBlock’s Facebook page from the cops that visit it, so here we go. I was a member of the united states marine corps...
Christopher Soghoian: Online Privacy Ninja
Christopher Soghoian [email protected] PGP keyblog twitter biography publications consulting financial disclosure Christopher Soghoian is a Washington, DC based Open Society Fellow, supported by the Open Society Foundations. He is also a Graduate Fellow at the...
Thomas Drake – The Secret Sharer
Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state? by Jane Mayer May 23, 2011 Drake, a former senior executive at the National Security Agency, faces some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen. Photograph by Martin Schoeller. On June 13th,...
God’s Name Is “Jealous”
Posted by Russ Kick on March 4, 2011 The following is another chapter from my disinformation book, 50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know: Volume 2, published in 2004. For more on me go to The Memory Hole or follow me @RussKick on Twitter. There’s an old joke that says...
Time To Tell The Truth About Israel … Without Fear Of The Mind Police
TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT ISRAEL ... ... WITHOUT FEAR OF THE MIND POLICE The Thought Censors don't like it? Tough By David Icke January 10th 2009 Hello all ... So yet again the people of the virtual-concentration camp, known officially as 'Gaza', are being...
Libyan War Is For Water – NOT Oil – Largest Fossil Water Reserve
WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops
Another international conflict, another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security contractor tasked with training the Afghan police. While the company is officially based in the DC area, most of its business is managed on a satellite...
What I Learnt about Libya
WH OKs military detention of terrorism suspects
(AP) (CBS News) The White House is signing off on a controversial new law that would authorize the U.S. military to arrest and indefinitely detain alleged al Qaeda members or other terrorist operatives captured on American soil. As the bill neared final passage in the...
Former CIA Officer Argued U.S. Policy Created Its Own Enemies
A Former CIA Officer's Critique of U.S. Middle East Policy Michael Scheuer, a historian and former CIA officer who spent over 20 years with the agency and once led the unit tracking Osama bin Laden, offered a provocative assessment of American foreign policy in an...
US Military Guarded Afghan Opium Fields While Drug War Raged at Home
Afghanistan dominates the global opium market, accounting for roughly 92 percent of worldwide production. What remains deeply troubling is the documented role of Western military forces in safeguarding the very poppy fields that sustain this multibillion-dollar...
The Bin Laden Operation: Unanswered Questions and Global Impact
The May 2011 announcement of Osama bin Laden's death raised more questions than it answered, and even a surface-level review of mainstream reporting and official statements revealed contradictions significant enough to undermine the entire official account. The CIA's...
US Cyber Command achieves ‘full operational capability,’ international cyberbullies be warned
By Tim Stevens posted Nov 5th 2010 8:52AM A sword, a lightning bolt, a key, a globe, and a bird. These are the symbols of your United States Cyber Command, which you'll be proud to know has "achieved full operational capability." FOC is when a military organization...
The OKC-9/11 Connection: Hijacker Sightings Oklahoma Authorities Ignored
Oklahoma City Researchers Uncovered an Unexpected Connection Oklahoma City-based researchers Chris Emery and Holland Van den Nieuwenhof reportedly stumbled upon information linking several September 11 hijackers to central Oklahoma locations while conducting unrelated...
Syria Crackdown Gets Italy Firm’s Aid With U.S.-Europe Spy Gear
As Syria’s crackdown on protests has claimed more than 3,000 lives since March, Italian technicians in telecom offices from Damascus to Aleppo have been busy equipping President Bashar al-Assad’s regime with the power to intercept, scan and catalog virtually every...
Stratfor disputes OBL killing in Abbottabad
ISLAMABAD - Globally recognised intelligence and forecast STRATFOR has rejected the US Central Intelligence Agency claim that the man killed in Abbottabads compound by US Naval SEALs was al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. This was one of the reasons the CIA kept...
Shocking Truth About Gaddafi — what you don’t know.
Russian Intelligence Report Claims Nuclear Strikes on US Underground Tunnel Network
Claims of Underground Nuclear Detonations in August 2011 In late August 2011, a report attributed to Russian military intelligence (GRU) circulated claiming that two nuclear explosions had struck a vast intercontinental tunnel system operated by the United States...