Welcome to the new Wayne Madsen Report Since May 2005, we have striven to maintain this site as a free site. The generous contributions from our readers have kept us going thus far as an independent media source within Washington, DC.
However, two major factors have convinced us that we had to change our format from a free site to a members' site. One is the increasing costs associated with trying to compete with the corporate media here in the nation's capital. To put it bluntly, we were looking at maintaining the business model of a free site but the eventuality of going broke was a certainty.
The second is the fact that, although we were trying to compete with the corporate media as an independent sources of news and views, we found our site being regularly "borrowed from" by that very same corporate media. In other words, on our meager resources, we were actually providing, free-of-charge, story ideas for the corporate media. That was good news for their bottom line but disastrous for ours.
We now have now switched over to a membership site with many new features our readers have been asking us to provide for quite some time. Financial and technical restraints previously prevented us from providing RSS feeds, comments sections, and other features. But now we have all those and more!
To our readers and past financial supporters, we hope we can count on your continued interest and support -- whether as free, individual, or corporate members.
Note: Some of our readers avoid using Pay Pal for various reasons. You can still subscribe via snail mail to:
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Note: "Beltway Insider" is a special annual subscription rate.
To those who have contacted us about problems with the new web site -- we are working out these problems. Thanks for your understanding and please bear with us.
As for email addresses -- they are only maintained to handle the WMR subscription database. WMR will not share or sell them.