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Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist, nationally distributed columnist, and author who has covered Washington, DC, politics, national security, and intelligence issues since 1994. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ, Counterpunch, and the Intelligence Newsletter (based in Paris).
Look for his new book, Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day: The Internet Irregulars vs. The Powers That Be!, in the fall.
Friday, February 18, 2011 Details of U.S. False Flag Attacks in Iraq Revealed and More (4 comments)
Do you know where your Black Ops troopers are tonight and what they are up to? After all, they have been receiving not millions, but billions of dollars from the Pentagon to ply their dark trades.
Friday, February 4, 2011 Obama's gambit: Holding Egypt for Holder (1 comments)
The CIA's last-ditch support for the Mubarak regime is strikingly similar to its support for the Shah of Iran in his final days in power. As with the revolt against Mubarak in Egypt, the uprising against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1978 came as a shock to the CIA. In the world of the CIA, the playbook never seems to change.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Stuxnet: A Violation of US Computer Security Law (2 comments)
Placing intelligence operatives inside computer security management positions can always result in the use of computers for sabotage and intelligence. Stuxnet may be the culmination of such infiltration of the computer security profession.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 Wikileaks: Its Impact On World Media (1 comments)
The release of the State Department cables may have served as a digital "9/11," an event that has spurred on the agenda of neo-conservatives who continue to exercise influence outside and within the Obama administration to bring about total government control of the flow of information in cyberspace.
Friday, November 26, 2010 The U.S. Economy: Stand by for more worse news (8 comments)
At the end of December, another two million workers will join the ranks of those who have exhausted their unemployment benefits and a total of 4 million Americans will be without unemployment checks and face destitution.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 The Gulf oil disaster truth (6 comments)
The Gulf waters are slowly being turned into a hydrocarbon soup of dispersed oil bubbles that is translucent black in color. Fishing boat owners whose boats have been used for clean-up efforts are suffering fiberglass hull damage from hydrocarbon penetration and BP has informed the owners that their boats will have to be destroyed afterwards and their hulls ground up.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 Israel Slandering American ex-Marine. Semper Fi, Ken! Your Turn to Speak (11 comments)
Desperate to demonize the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as terrorist-linked to thus justify their wanton slaughter of humanitarian aid volunteers, now they are slandering Ken O'Keefe, a dual British and American citizen and an ex-Marine. They are accusing him of being a "radical anti-Israel activist" who was traveling to Gaza to "train a commando unit" for Hamas. Well, Semper Fi, Ken, your turn to speak, we got your back.
Sunday, May 9, 2010 The Cover-up: BP's Crude Politics and the Looming Environmental Mega-Disaster
There is another major threat looming for inland towns and cities. With hurricane season in effect, there is a potential for ocean oil to be picked up by hurricane-driven rains and dropped into fresh water lakes and rivers, far from the ocean, thus adding to the pollution of water supplies and eco-systems.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 NSA eavesdropping more widespread than reported (4 comments)
NSA sources report that the agency's warrantless wiretapping program was more widespread than originally reported and it began shortly after the 2001 inauguration of Bush and Cheney, some six months prior to the 9/11 attacks. It soon grew to include millions of Americans--elected and appointed government officials, federal judges, anti-Bush celebrities and clergy, and even intelligence and law enforcement officials.
Saturday, August 23, 2008 Rove intimidating Republicans into silence (5 comments)
Buoyed by an ineffective House Judiciary Committee under the control of gatekeeping staffers working for John Conyers, Karl Rove has effectively curtailed any effective investigation of past election fraud, including the 2004 presidential election, as a result of threats and intimidations directed against potential witnesses. George Soros may be behind limiting the investigation into Don Siegleman's imprisonment.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Army Spying on Soldiers' Blogs (6 comments)
It's actually mandated by an Army regulation that was leaked.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 Is CIA Using Rendition Aircraft to Haul Drugs? (4 comments)
The Central Intelligence Agency, also known as the "Cocaine Import Agency," is suspected by aviation experts of running cocaine and other drugs on its fleet of small passenger jets used to ferry prisoners to and from American gulags like Guantanamo Bay and Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 The DC Press Is up in Arms (2 comments)
From the production shop of Washington's signature newspaper, the Washington Post, to the 100-year old National Press Club, journalists and newspaper support workers are up in arms over the further attempts to corporatize the Fourth Estate.
Thursday, January 3, 2008 AFRICOM: The Recolonization of Africa by Uncle Sam (1 comments)
George W. Bush's Africa Command (AFRICOM) not only places oil and global military strategy as the number one and two goals of America's Africa policy but places the State Department's assistance program for Africa firmly under Pentagon control.
Friday, December 28, 2007 Bhutto Herself Had Links to Islamic Militants (1 comments)
Bhutto assassination follows Bush neocon game plan to wrest control of its nukes from Pakistan.
Thursday, November 29, 2007 Beware of the Clinton "Neocons-Lite" (1 comments)
A future Hillary Clinton administration threatens to immerse us in more war. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Senator Clinton's two top foreign policy advisers -- who could both end up in her administration in senior foreign policy positions -- are known to have hard-line positions on both Kosovo and Kurdistan. The better to antagonize Russia.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Can UFOs Bring Iran and the US Together? (1 comments)
The hard right villifies Dennis Kucinich for admitting to seeing a UFO. Yet astrophysicists and retired air force generals (including one from Iran!) convened in Washington to call for a dialogue on UFOs.
Friday, November 9, 2007 Our Schizophrenic Policy Towards Iran Confuses Mid-East
For example, although the United States military command in Iraq recently announced that nine Iranians arrested in Iraq by U.S. forces will soon be released, neocons in the Bush administration are delaying the release.
Friday, November 2, 2007 Not Just Kucinich, But Presidents, Have Sighted UFOs (2 comments)
Although NBC's Tim Russert attempted to embarrass Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich in the October 30 presidential debate in Philadelphia, Kucinich may have the last laugh.
Monday, October 15, 2007 Coming to a Community Near You: Blackwater (17 comments)
A network of Blackwater-trained police, sheriffs, and other police units is being established around the country. Given its dismal record on human rights and brutality, this spells trouble for civilian control of police.
Friday, September 28, 2007 News of B-52 Nukes Leaked by Personnel Opposed to Attack on Iran (14 comments)
The nuclear warheads illegaly transported to Barksdale Air Force Base were intended for use in the Middle-East. But elements of the Air Force and US intelligence community bravely blew the whistle.
Friday, September 7, 2007 Questions Remain Over Nuclear-Armed B-52 Over Midwest (4 comments)
The reported "loss" of six nuclear-armed stealthy advance cruise missiles (ACMs) flown on the wing pylons of a B-52 from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana on August 30 would represent a complete and unprecedented breakdown in the command and control of nuclear weapons in the United States.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Signs Point to Anxious Labor Day in the City by the Bay
Chatter picked up by WMR's sources in the nation's capital and in California point to unusual events that could be a prelude to a 9/11-like false flag "incident" during the Labor Day weekend, possibly one focused on the San Francisco Bay Area.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007 Roll Call of Traitors
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), amended to permit warrantless eavesdropping, could not have been signed into law by President Bush without the active support of Vichy Democrats, who bolted their leadership.
Monday, July 23, 2007 More Senate Defections Expected Over Iraq (3 comments)
More rats, er, Republicans poised to abandon sinking ship. Also, "intelligence fusion" centers.
Friday, July 20, 2007 How to Get Michael Vick Suspended (4 comments)
Also, fake Al-Qaeda, suspect judges and his unitary executive-ship.
Sunday, July 8, 2007 Names of Agencies and Businesses That Hired DC Madam Emerging (5 comments)
A cursory examination of Pamela Martin & Associates' phone lists is beginning to show that so-called "Washington Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey's contention that a number of influential public and private officials were clients of her escort agency is being borne out.
Thursday, July 5, 2007 Libby a Long-Time Mossad Agent (19 comments)
Scooter Libby has been a long-serving intelligence agent for Israel's Mossad, according to a veteran CIA "official cover" officer who spoke to the author on deep background.
Monday, July 2, 2007 CIA Still Committing Same Abuses for Which It Was Called on the Carpet in the 70s
Then as now, American journalists were being physically surveilled and wiretapped, government employees thought to be leakers were also under surveillance and subjected to polygraphs, and U.S. domestic communications were being wiretapped as part of "testing."
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 How the NeoCons Cut Their Teeth (6 comments)
Sabotaging President Carter and other treasonous escapades under cover of unber-hawk Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson's office.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 How the US Helped Yeltsin Avoid Another Afghanistan
Both Moscow and the West wanted a quick end to the Chechens' war for autonomy, which was draining the lives of hundreds of Russia's young soldiers and its cash reserves, as well as threatening Yeltsin's chances for re-election. One from the author's archives.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 No Avoiding the Day of Reckoning (1 comments)
Iraq: A hell on earth brought about by an elite cabal of neo-cons who have not yet paid a fitting price for their despicable actions.
Friday, March 30, 2007 Democrats Harrassed by Capitol Police (2 comments)
Senator Webb's aide wasn't granted the ame weapons privileges as, for instance, visiting Jordanians.
Thursday, December 28, 2006 Why the Bush Crime Family Wants Saddam Iced (3 comments)
The Iraqi ex-dictator knows too much about the chemical-biological weapons supplied to Iraq by Reagan and Bush.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Before We Go Eulogizing Gerald Ford. . . (9 comments)
remember that he was the first to grant Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Bush I access to the Oval Office.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Election Post-Mortem; We Could Have Done Better, Much Better (1 comments)
Rahm Emanuel: Did he cost Democrats an even larger House victory? Unsuccessful candidates say yes. It's time for a Dean Loyalist to be running the DCCC 2008 campaign
