While the US authorities and political leaders waste enormous amounts of time and energy looking for new enemies of the state, the real "bad guys" turn out to have nothing to do with Julian Assange, Bradley Manning or cyber criminals from Anonymous. And their actions could be incomparably more devastating and embarrassing for America than the combined efforts of all the whistleblowers and hackers. The latest military-led investigation concluded that corruption put US taxpayers' money into the hands of Taliban. The unreleased report provides evidence that US transportation funds have been indirectly transferred to the Afghan insurgents under a $2.16 billion contract funded by the US. And, what is even more shocking, the contract with all eight trucking companies involved in a fraud was extended by Pentagon in March for six more months. This fact looks even weirder in the wake of the battle over spending and the escalating threat of the default.

According to the report, the military obtained "documented, credible evidence...of involvement in a criminal enterprise or support for the enemy" by four of the eight contractors. The investigators claim they found proof that the trucking firms that were supposed to move US military supplies across Afghanistan, got involved in numerous cases of money laundering, profiteering and bribes to Afghan power figures and insurgence leaders. Literally that means the military was spending US budget to support the corrupted contractors who paid militants to ensure safe passage of the truck convoys across Afghanistan. Neither Assange nor Anonymous could disclose information more embarrassing for the US military.

"This goes beyond our comprehension," said Rep. John F. Tierney - a former chairman of a House subcommittee that charged the military of funding a blatant fraud, - "I would hate like hell to think my kid was over there" and the Taliban was "coming after them with something bought with our taxpayers' money."

Ten years after the notorious U.N. anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, that devolved into an Israel-bashing frenzy, anti-Zionist forces are mobilizing again to hold another anti-Israel conference in South Africa.

This time, Israel will be on trial.

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine -- a standing organization that held two tribunals against Israel last year in Barcelona and London -- has been called for Nov . 5-6 in Cape Town "to probe whether the treatment of Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories meets the criteria of the United Nations convention against the crime of apartheid."

The South African Zionist Federation has called the event, which is to involve prominent South Africans and already is making national headlines here, "an irrelevant talk shop."

"Despite its name, the Russell Tribunal is not an impartial, accountable judicial body," a vice chairman of the South African Zionist Federation, Ben Swartz, told JTA. "Rather it is a loose association of lobbyists pushing a narrow, one-sided political agenda, in this case the delegitimization of the State of Israel."

He called it "a pointless political smear campaign by a self-appointed group of anti-Israel activists."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed a trip to Poland scheduled for this week, his office said in a statement on Monday, as protests over high housing costs spread across Israel.

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told his Polish counterpart he will be postponing his visit to Warsaw to another date because he wants to stay in Israel to promote a law dealing with housing market reforms," it said.

Netanyahu's office said the premier would also be staying behind to promote "specific steps to help students, discharged soldiers and young couples," who have taken to the streets to protest against their lack of housing options.

Netanyahu's trip and itinerary had not been officially announced, but he was expected to visit Warsaw this week to ask Poland to vote against a Palestinian bid for United Nations membership this September, Israeli media reported.

US-CERT director gives no reason for departure

The head of a group that helps the federal government ward off computer attacks abruptly resigned Friday, amid a spate of high-profile assaults hitting government agencies and contractors.

The departure of US Computer Emergency Readiness Team director Randy Vickers was first reported Monday by InformationWeek, which cited an internal email sent to US-CERT staff. The email gave no reason for the resignation, which is effective immediately.

Glenn Beck, the leading Right-wing American broadcaster, has prompted outrage after comparing the teenage victims of the Utoya Island massacre to the Hitler Youth.

Beck said that the Labour party youth camp on the island, where 68 people were murdered, bore "disturbing" similarities to the Nazi party's notorious juvenile wing.

Beck, a multimillionaire darling of the Tea Party movement, said on his nationally-syndicated radio show: "There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler youth. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."

Hungry people will do anything for food, which means that those who have control over food can use it as leverage. In 1974, Henry Kissinger suggested using food as a weapon to induce targeted population reduction in a previously classified 200-page report, National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests. The primary tactic to be applied is that food aid would be withheld from developing nations until they submitted to birth control policies:

There is also some established precedent for taking account of family planning performance in appraisal of assistance requirements by AID [U.S. Agency for International Development] and consultative groups. Since population growth is a major determinant of increases in food demand, allocation of scarce PL 480 resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population control as well as food production. In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion.

So, food was to be used as just another method of imperial colonization to force countries to conform their policies to those desired by the controllers. Notably, this tactic only works as a blunt weapon on territories enduring a severe economic collapse and with little resources for food production. Today, however, it appears that the entire globe is receiving an arsenal of food bombs as there appears to be a multifaceted attack on people's access to food. In other words, what has been an admitted tactic for nearly 40 years of controlling food aid for regional population reduction has now grown more complex and expansive.

Massacre suspect Anders Breivik lived in London as a small boy, where his father was a diplomat at the Norwegian embassy, it has emerged.

His shocked father Jens, told Norwegian newspaper VG that they lost touch in 1995, but that it was his son who wanted to cut off contact.

"We've never lived together, but we had some contact in his childhood," said Mr Breivik, who is now retired and living in France.

"When he was young he was an ordinary boy, but reclusive. He wasn't interested in politics at the time."

Mr Breivik said he learned about the massacre on the internet. "I was reading online newspapers and then I suddenly saw his name and picture on the net," he told VG. "It was a shock to find out. I haven't gotten over it yet."

A bomb goes off at the office of the Norwegian Prime Minister's office. Hours later, a lone gunman goes on a killing spree on the island of Utoya. The news are quick to pin the blame to Al-Qa'ida, or in fact, any Muslims. Kurdish organisations, Muammer Gaddafi and Afghanis are mentioned. All without a shred of evidence. Another terrorist attack. Or as Murdoch's Sun newspaper ran with the following morning, "Norway's 9/11".

But something didn't add up. The only person to be arrested was a white man with blonde hair, or "apparently blonde" hair, who spoke fluent Norwegian. The obvious signs were pointing towards the far right. Sky News' analysis amounted to, 'he could be an Islamic convert'. Despite the revelation of Anders Behring Breivik's identity, the Sun continued with it's front page splash, tactfully removing the planned sub-heading of "Al-Qa'ida Massacre".

Gradually, the Sky News hawks, as political hip-hop artist Lowkey summarised on his Twitter feed, began to "swallow their propaganda". Pure racism and Islamophobia, exposed for what they were. This terrorist attack did not fit the desired narrative.

On July 24, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen suggested a Mossad link, saying "ample evidence" of its involvement exists.

Anders Breivik, the alleged bomber/gunman, calls himself a Christian conservative interested in hunting, body building and freemasonry. He's also expressed strong pro-Israeli views, hostile to Palestinians and Muslims.

Government business records name him the Breivik Geofarm director. Norway's media call it a farming sole proprietorship, cultivating vegetables, melons, roots and tubers.

The Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang quoted a friend saying he became a right-wing extremist in his late 20s. He's now age 32. The paper also said he participated in online forums expressing strong nationalistic, anti-multicultural views.

The future of the house in which Bin Laden lived and died will be decided at the top level of Pakistan's military

On the roof of a partly-finished building that overlooks the former home of Osama bin Laden, a US television reporter was working himself in a passion as he gestured to the compound behind him.

"It was one of the most secret places on earth," he enthused. "Now, it's a kind of tourist attraction."

In a way, he was correct. Around him were scores of other journalists and crowds of excited, jostling locals keen to make the most of the vantage point and the opportunity to catch at least a partial glimpse into the still-sealed compound. They may have been right to do so. The future of the house in which Bin Laden and his most trusted aides secretly lived remains unclear, but there are at least some people here who believe it should be torn down as quickly as possible.