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In case Yglesias didn’t provide a sufficient dose of incoherence today, check out Bryan Caplan, who is apparently trying to bridge the gap between libertarians and conservatives.  In doing so, he resembles a certain liberal with a conscience far, far more than he does any “conservative”:

A few liberals – and many libertarians – literally advocate open borders.  I recognize that immigration is the greatest foreign aid program in human history, and I sympathize with the plight of would-be immigrants in the Third World.  Most immigrants – legal or not – are nice people.  But open borders is crazy.   It seriously risks killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.  I’m very open to more cost-effective and humane ways to deal with the negative effects of immigration.  But as long as immigrants are eligible for government benefits, hurt low-skilled native workers, and vote, the only people we should readily admit are the highly-educated and clear-cut humanitarian cases.  I’d put Haitians in the latter category.  Asking Mexicans to live on a $10,000 a year in Mexico is reasonable, but asking Haitians to starve in post-earthquake Haiti is a disgrace.

The Conservative Missionary, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty.

Caplan thinks there are only two groups of immigrants worthy of our attention: those who have attained advanced degrees, and those who can stimulate our sense of pity.  In other words, he resembles no one more than your typical “meritocratic egalitarian” liberal with his twin obsessions:  signaling his status among members of his own class and educational achievement, and demonstrating great solicitude for the most extraordinarily disadvantaged.  Everyone in between–the middle class, those who may not have attended the Harvards of their respective home countries –is invisible and can pretty much go to hell.  It’s only reasonable.

From a purely economic standpoint, this makes no goddamn sense.  The American economy would clearly be boosted by admitting those who have attained a moderate level of affluence on their own; certainly they are better equipped to do so than the absolutely desperate and destitute.  What conservative would argue that America should import those from the very top and the very bottom of the social strata?

I think this is how one fundamentally distinguishes liberals from conservatives.  Conservatives at least aren’t perpetually surprised to learn that the middle class even exists.  Liberals are only interested in the middle class so long as they are trying to propel members of the lower class into it; once they’ve attained such status, liberals can go back to ignoring, despising and disdaining them.

Filed under: Blogging, Immigration, Libertarianism Tagged: wtf

Here is the WaPo by way of Yglesias, who thinks the most important thing about our latter-day Mexican Repatriation is that people will become “less enthusiastic” about our president:

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency expects to deport about 400,000 people this fiscal year, nearly 10 percent above the Bush administration’s 2008 total and 25 percent more than were deported in 2007. The pace of company audits has roughly quadrupled since President George W. Bush’s final year in office.

Deportation of illegal immigrants increases under Obama administration

You know, Arizona also expects to expel 400,000 “illegal” Mexicans from its state alone.  I suspect the real reason the federal administration is blocking aspects of the Arizona state law, otherwise poised to go into effect tomorrow, is that it fears competition:

[U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton in Phoenix] forbade Arizona from making it a state crime to not carry immigration documents, and struck down two other provisions as an unconstitutional attempt by Arizona to undermine the federal government’s efforts to enforce immigration policy.

In her 36-page decision, Bolton wrote that the provisions would have inevitably “swept up” legal immigrants and were “preempted” by the federal government’s immigration authority.

“The court by no means disregards Arizona’s interests in controlling illegal immigration and addressing the concurrent problems with crime,” she wrote. But, she added, “it is not in the public interest for Arizona to enforce preempted laws.”

Arizona immigration: Immigration law blocked – latimes.com.

In other words, the individual states have no right interfering with the feds’ well-established racket in persecuting the very poor.

Anyway, in case you were lucky enough to forget inane slogans like ¡Obamanos! , here’s an explanation from 2008, with some gratuitous heartbreaking irony thrown in:

“Obamanos” is a strange bit of political Spanglish, often seen in the past few months on bumper stickers in states with large Hispanic populations. The term translates — in essence, not literally — to “let’s go Obama.”

This has been the general spirit in San Miguel de Allende, a colonial town in the mountains of central Mexico. The mood was especially evident tonight after Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of its northern neighbor.

“It’s good because he’s moreno (brown-skinned) and I know morenos have faced a lot of discrimination and resistance,” Martha Aguilar, my children’s 18-year-old babysitter, told me. “I think it will mean that Mexicans in the United States will be treated better. I think they’ll have more opportunity.”

Jeannie Ralston » Mexicans says “Obamanos”

Filed under: Immigration, obama, Political Machinations Tagged: arizona, gratuitousfuckingselfdelusion, immigration, obamanos, thefeds

• Saving Our History Books For The Singularity. rechelon, Human Iterations (2010-07-26). Some noble soul has labored to put the two most important history books on Individualist Anarchism’s first wave in America online — and in very accessible condition.   Anyway, I felt I had to pause in my projects and distractions to let you know.  This is the shit. Eunice Minette Schuster’s... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• What does it mean to love your enemies? Ryan, The Peaceable Kingdom (2010-07-26). A question many Christians aren’t really asking. This moving video lays it out very simply. It is not wide-eyed optimism in the sense that it doesn’t portray automatic world peace and love in the face of violence. It means that to truly love your enemies you might have to receive... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• A squealing leftie writes. chris dillow, Stumbling and Mumbling (2010-07-23). Tim says something that puzzles me:Human beings really are status seeking beings. The method of ranking it, enforcing it, discovering it, may change, but that there will be a social hierarchy is a given. And that’s the bit that our squealing lefties seem to forget….Simply because we are human beings... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Three from Vienna. Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-07-27). Including an excellent anthology from my teacher Kelly Jolley, also including essays by my other teacher Roderick Long; and a Tractarian musical number. About the latter, all I can say is that he would have been better off trying to whistle it. (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Trail of Tears 2010. der Blaustrumpf (2010-07-27). Deportation is ethnic cleansing. Nothing more, nothing less. (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Remember Furkan Dogan. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-07-27). Furkan Dogan was the 19-year-old American fatally shot five times by Israeli commandos aboard the Mavi Marmara headed for Gaza -- without a peep from the Obama administration, which has time to get involved with everything else happening in the world. Dogan was a bright young man with a promising... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: "largest intelligence leak in history" Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing (2010-07-25). An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the war in Afghanistan that is far more grim, and far less hopeful, than previously portrayed. The New York Times, London's... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Guadec Day 2: In pursuit of critical mass. Ivanka Majic, Canonical Design (2010-07-27). Today I was reminded of this quote by Jane Goodall: If everyone could think a little bit about small choices they make every day: What do you eat, does it result in animal cruelty? What do you wear, how was it made, does it damage the environment? When people start... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Saving Our History Books For The Singularity. rechelon, Human Iterations (2010-07-26). Some noble soul has labored to put the two most important history books on Individualist Anarchism’s first wave in America online — and in very accessible condition.   Anyway, I felt I had to pause in my projects and distractions to let you know.  This is the shit. Eunice Minette Schuster’s... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• What does it mean to love your enemies? Ryan, The Peaceable Kingdom (2010-07-26). A question many Christians aren’t really asking. This moving video lays it out very simply. It is not wide-eyed optimism in the sense that it doesn’t portray automatic world peace and love in the face of violence. It means that to truly love your enemies you might have to receive... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• A squealing leftie writes. chris dillow, Stumbling and Mumbling (2010-07-23). Tim says something that puzzles me:Human beings really are status seeking beings. The method of ranking it, enforcing it, discovering it, may change, but that there will be a social hierarchy is a given. And that’s the bit that our squealing lefties seem to forget….Simply because we are human beings... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Three from Vienna. Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-07-27). Including an excellent anthology from my teacher Kelly Jolley, also including essays by my other teacher Roderick Long; and a Tractarian musical number. About the latter, all I can say is that he would have been better off trying to whistle it. (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Trail of Tears 2010. der Blaustrumpf (2010-07-27). Deportation is ethnic cleansing. Nothing more, nothing less. (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Remember Furkan Dogan. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-07-27). Furkan Dogan was the 19-year-old American fatally shot five times by Israeli commandos aboard the Mavi Marmara headed for Gaza -- without a peep from the Obama administration, which has time to get involved with everything else happening in the world. Dogan was a bright young man with a promising... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: "largest intelligence leak in history" Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing (2010-07-25). An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the war in Afghanistan that is far more grim, and far less hopeful, than previously portrayed. The New York Times, London's... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

• Guadec Day 2: In pursuit of critical mass. Ivanka Majic, Canonical Design (2010-07-27). Today I was reminded of this quote by Jane Goodall: If everyone could think a little bit about small choices they make every day: What do you eat, does it result in animal cruelty? What do you wear, how was it made, does it damage the environment? When people start... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

Here we go again.  Apparently America’s done this before, with the Mexican Repatriation Act of 1930, which oddly enough doesn’t get a lot of play in California public school history textbooks.  Probably many were embarrassed, not by having made the attempt, but that the experiment in forced depopulation ultimately failed.

I don’t even want to know what Thursday is going to look like:

Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block.

A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbor Wendi Villasenor touts a kitchen table, some chairs and a few dishes as her family scrambles to get out of Arizona ahead of a looming crackdown on illegal immigrants.

“Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving,” said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. “We have no alternative. They have us cornered.”

The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend as they rush to sell up and get out before the state law takes effect on Thursday.

The law, the toughest imposed by any U.S. state to curb illegal immigration, seeks to drive more than 400,000 undocumented day laborers, landscapers, house cleaners, chambermaids and other workers out of Arizona, which borders Mexico.

Migrants sell up, flee Arizona ahead of crackersdown – Yahoo! News.

God bless America, but in particular Arizona, the only state brave enough to drive out its poor Mexican gardeners and chambermaids.  Let’s hope California follows its example and expels some of its most vulnerable and hardworking citizens as soon as possible.

Filed under: Immigration Tagged: gratuitousfuckingcruelty, immigration, repatriation

News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:

• Peace bullish or ‘bullshit’ – Marwan Bishara | AJ English 8 July 2010
• Greeks strike before pension vote | BBC News 8 July 2010
• AP Exclusive: Priests who abuse impaired targeted 8 July 2010
• Bank of England keeps interest rates at record low | AFP 8 July 2010
• ICC suspends DR Congo ex-militia chief’s trial | AFP 8 July 2010
• Kashmir streets under army lockdown to end protest | AP 8 July 2010
• Indian govt warns youths over Kashmir protests | AFP 8 July 2010
• Facebook deal creates virtual ‘credits’ | AFP 8 July 2010
• The Chinese in Japan: Department stores and sweat shops | The Economist 8 July 2010
• US to spend $3B to combat Afghan homemade bombs | AP 8 July 2010
• U.S. gives China pass on currency | Reuters 8 July 2010
• US Gen James Mattis nominated to replace Petraeus | BBC News 8 July 2010
• Drug war hits Mexico’s richest city | Reuters 8 July 2010
• Cuban dissident ends 134-day hunger strike | AP 8 July 2010
• U.S. casualties to mount as Afghan war widens, general says | McClatchy 8 July 2010
• Guatemalan tied to massacre pleads guilty in U.S. | Reuters 8 July 2010
• Argentine ‘dirty war’ general gets life sentence | AP 8 July 2010
• HIV-Blocking Antibodies Stop 90% of Strains in Study | BusinessWeek 8 July 2010
• Consumer Credit in U.S. Fell $9.1 Billion in May, Fed Says | BusinessWeek 8 July 2010
• NY National Guard Involved In Mass Arrests Of U.S. Citizens – Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet 8 July 2010
• U.S. Tomahawk Missiles Deployed Near China Send Message | TIME 8 July 2010
• Report: NSA creating spy system to monitor domestic infrastructure | Raw Story 8 July 2010
• Afghan Companies Say U.S. Did Not Pay Them | NY Times 8 July 2010
• Why CNN Firing Octavia Nasr for Tweeting About Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah Was Spineless | Stephen M. Walt 8 July 2010
• Octavia Nasr’s firing and what the liberal media allows – Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com 8 July 2010
• News Analysis: Administration’s Challenge to Arizona Law Is Not Over Profiling | NY Times 8 July 2010
• Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac move to over-the-counter trading | WaPo 8 July 2010
• Criminalizing Art: Two Prominent Art Curators Face Three Years in Jail for Offending Orthodox Church | JONATHAN TURLEY 8 July 2010
• Accused Russian Spy Stunner Anna Chapman to Fly Home Today, Her Attorney Says | ABC News 8 July 2010
• LeBronomics: Could High Taxes Influence James’ Team Decision? | Business & Media Institute 8 July 2010
• Rail firms’ wartime records: What did you do in the war? | The Economist 8 July 2010
• Ron Paul – The Situation Room, 7/7/10, Pt. 2 8 July 2010
• Ron Paul – The Situation Room, 7/7/10, Pt. 1 8 July 2010
• In Israel, the Noble Vs. the Ugly – Nicholas Kristof | NY Times 8 July 2010
• Repeal the Drinking Age – Jeffrey A. Tucker | LRC 8 July 2010
• IMF Says India May Expand at Fastest Pace in Four Years in 2010 | BusinessWeek 8 July 2010
• Bank of England Governor Mervyn King calls for merger of G20 and IMF | Telegraph 8 July 2010

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• Seeing Like a State. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-07-03). I was just watching part of a Congressional presentation on C-Span honouring the slaves who built the u.s. capitol – not by making restitution to their heirs, of course, but by setting up some sort of plaque. What especially bugged me was the speakers’ continual references to expressing “thanks” and... (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

• July 4 thoughts. Thoreau, Unqualified Offerings (2010-07-03). By Thoreau First, I should preface this by saying that I just went through a DUI checkpoint.  A dozen cops standing around at a low-traffic intersection, and I’ll bet that a lot of them are collecting overtime for this.  Interestingly, he didn’t ask me “Have  you had anything to drink... (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

• The America John Boehner Grew Up In. Matthew Yglesias (2010-07-04). Conservatism Vs. The Past (Cont'd.) (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

• Homeland Security Works For Disney Now? Announces Shut Down Of Movie Sites At Disney. Mike Masnick, Techdirt (2010-06-30). Well, here we go. Remember how, a few months back, we noted how odd it was that the Justice Department (which, of course, employs many former RIAA/MPAA/BSA lawyers) was designating a special task force to fight copyright infringement? After all, copyright infringement is mostly a civil issue, between two private... (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

• Sumner Time Blues. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-07-04). William Graham Sumner said lots of things I like. (See, for example, his “Conquest of the United States by Spain.”) The following (which I apparently transcribed a couple of decades ago and just came across today) isn’t one of them: [H]ow are we to appreciate the work of the Constitution-makers?... (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

• feministhulk: HULK NOT DOWN WITH COMPLACENCY IN THE FACE OF HEGEMONY. IF THAT'S "JUST THE WAY IT IS," LET'S FUCK IT UP! Twitter / feministhulk (2010-07-04). feministhulk: HULK NOT DOWN WITH COMPLACENCY IN THE FACE OF HEGEMONY. IF THAT'S "JUST THE WAY IT IS," LET'S FUCK IT UP! (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

• On Celebrating Your Freedom… Radley Balko, The Agitator (2010-07-04). Libertarian activists Pete Eyre and Adam Mueller have been arrested for filming police in Greenfield, Massachusetts. (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

• More on Immigration. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-07-03). I'm sick of all the pro-immigration articles showing how good immigrants can be for us. It's not that the arguments are wrong. They're just not terribly relevant to the essential issue -- the freedom of people to move without permission, unmolested by governments or private individuals. Emphasizing how good immigration... (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

• The Political Animal. Cafe Hayek (2010-07-05). Here’s a letter to DC news-radio station WTOP: In this morning’s 6 am hour, your Capitol Hill reporter, Dave McConnell, excused Sen. Robert Byrd’s long-ago active membership in the KKK as simply being “something that had to be done in West Virginia back then to get ahead in politics.” No... (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

• Blogs and peer review. Eric Crampton, Offsetting Behaviour (2010-06-30). I had coffee with Bryce Edwards over the weekend. His two year old is a week younger than ours; good times were had by all. But we both pondered what the New Zealand academic evaluation mechanism - the Performance Based Research Fund - will make of our blogging when we're... (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

• Let 560 Nations Bloom – Within the Boundaries of the U.S. flowidealism, Let A Thousand Nations Bloom (2010-07-02). This post by Michael Strong is part of Secession Week 2010: Federalism and Secession Arguably the simplist and most immediate path for “Letting a Thousand Nations Bloom” is to support tribal sovereignty movements around the world, especially in the Common Law nations of the Anglosphere like the U.S.  Other colonialist European... (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

• Seeing Like a State. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-07-03). I was just watching part of a Congressional presentation on C-Span honouring the slaves who built the u.s. capitol – not by making restitution to their heirs, of course, but by setting up some sort of plaque. What especially bugged me was the speakers’ continual references to expressing “thanks” and... (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

• July 4 thoughts. Thoreau, Unqualified Offerings (2010-07-03). By Thoreau First, I should preface this by saying that I just went through a DUI checkpoint.  A dozen cops standing around at a low-traffic intersection, and I’ll bet that a lot of them are collecting overtime for this.  Interestingly, he didn’t ask me “Have  you had anything to drink... (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

• The America John Boehner Grew Up In. Matthew Yglesias (2010-07-04). Conservatism Vs. The Past (Cont'd.) (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

• Homeland Security Works For Disney Now? Announces Shut Down Of Movie Sites At Disney. Mike Masnick, Techdirt (2010-06-30). Well, here we go. Remember how, a few months back, we noted how odd it was that the Justice Department (which, of course, employs many former RIAA/MPAA/BSA lawyers) was designating a special task force to fight copyright infringement? After all, copyright infringement is mostly a civil issue, between two private... (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

• Sumner Time Blues. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-07-04). William Graham Sumner said lots of things I like. (See, for example, his “Conquest of the United States by Spain.”) The following (which I apparently transcribed a couple of decades ago and just came across today) isn’t one of them: [H]ow are we to appreciate the work of the Constitution-makers?... (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

• feministhulk: HULK NOT DOWN WITH COMPLACENCY IN THE FACE OF HEGEMONY. IF THAT'S "JUST THE WAY IT IS," LET'S FUCK IT UP! Twitter / feministhulk (2010-07-04). feministhulk: HULK NOT DOWN WITH COMPLACENCY IN THE FACE OF HEGEMONY. IF THAT'S "JUST THE WAY IT IS," LET'S FUCK IT UP! (Linked Sunday 2010-07-04.)

• On Celebrating Your Freedom… Radley Balko, The Agitator (2010-07-04). Libertarian activists Pete Eyre and Adam Mueller have been arrested for filming police in Greenfield, Massachusetts. (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

• More on Immigration. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-07-03). I'm sick of all the pro-immigration articles showing how good immigrants can be for us. It's not that the arguments are wrong. They're just not terribly relevant to the essential issue -- the freedom of people to move without permission, unmolested by governments or private individuals. Emphasizing how good immigration... (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

• The Political Animal. Cafe Hayek (2010-07-05). Here’s a letter to DC news-radio station WTOP: In this morning’s 6 am hour, your Capitol Hill reporter, Dave McConnell, excused Sen. Robert Byrd’s long-ago active membership in the KKK as simply being “something that had to be done in West Virginia back then to get ahead in politics.” No... (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

• Blogs and peer review. Eric Crampton, Offsetting Behaviour (2010-06-30). I had coffee with Bryce Edwards over the weekend. His two year old is a week younger than ours; good times were had by all. But we both pondered what the New Zealand academic evaluation mechanism - the Performance Based Research Fund - will make of our blogging when we're... (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

• Let 560 Nations Bloom – Within the Boundaries of the U.S. flowidealism, Let A Thousand Nations Bloom (2010-07-02). This post by Michael Strong is part of Secession Week 2010: Federalism and Secession Arguably the simplist and most immediate path for “Letting a Thousand Nations Bloom” is to support tribal sovereignty movements around the world, especially in the Common Law nations of the Anglosphere like the U.S.  Other colonialist European... (Linked Monday 2010-07-05.)

News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:

• US Delivering F-16s to Pakistan This Weekend – Jeremy Scahill | The Nation 24 June 2010
• High Court Restricts Suits by Foreign Investors | AP 24 June 2010
• Libya accused UNHCR representative of sexual abuse | AFP 24 June 2010
• Iran on war alert over “US and Israeli concentrations” in Azerbaijan | DEBKAfile 24 June 2010
• Kagan Calls Israeli Judge Dredd “My Judicial Hero” – Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet 24 June 2010
• Americans Smoking Pot Rises for First Time Since 2002, UN Says | BusinessWeek 24 June 2010
• Cities Where the Dollar is Weakest – Venessa Wong | BusinessWeek 24 June 2010
• Report: Over 115 million widows live in poverty | AP 24 June 2010
• S.Lanka to block UN visits to probe war crimes | AFP 24 June 2010
• Does Petraeus Mean a Return of Afghanistan Air War? – Noah Shachtman | Wired.com 24 June 2010
• How Fed’s policymakers hold power over your purse – Jeannine Aversa | AP 24 June 2010
• Venezuela to nationalize U.S. firm’s oil rigs | Reuters 24 June 2010
• Chicago not done fighting if court strikes gun ban | AP 24 June 2010
• Class Struggle Rightly Conceived – Sheldon Richman | The Freeman 24 June 2010
• Drone Attacks to Stimulate Economy? – Laura Flanders | The Nation 24 June 2010
• Did McChrystal want this outcome? – Michael Tomasky | guardian.co.uk 24 June 2010
• McChrystal sacking brings calls for Obama to drop Afghan exit deadline | The Guardian 24 June 2010
• The Banks Keep Stealing — Why Do We Keep Paying? – Dylan Ratigan | Business Insider 24 June 2010
• Fake calls to “ease” the Gaza siege – Hasan Abu Nimah | ei 24 June 2010
• Iran nabbed US hikers on Iraqi side of border: report | AFP 24 June 2010
• Israel’s Likud approves West Bank settlement growth | AFP 24 June 2010
• CIA hires Xe, formerly Blackwater, to guard facilities in Afghanistan, elsewhere – Jeff Stein | WaPo 24 June 2010
• Meet The New Regime: Welcome AUDJPY, Goodbye EURJPY | zero hedge 24 June 2010
• The Price of Oil | Ideas and Action 24 June 2010
• Congress moves forward with “crippling sanctions” and misses opportunity to support Iranians – Jamal Abdi | The Middle East Channel 24 June 2010
• Mere Anarchy: Can A Society Without Government Be Better Run Than What We Have Now? – J. Neil Schulman | C4SS 24 June 2010
• Abu Zubaydah and the Case Against Torture Architect James Mitchell | Andy Worthington 24 June 2010
• Corporate governance in America: The fight for better boards | The Economist 24 June 2010
• Israel Lobby Riding High in US Election Run-Up – Jim Lobe | Antiwar.com 24 June 2010
• Switch to Petraeus Betrays Afghan Policy Crisis – Gareth Porter | Antiwar.com 24 June 2010
• Stan the Man and the people who own the war – Kelley B. Vlahos | Antiwar.com Blog 24 June 2010
• Right-wing self-delusion – Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com 24 June 2010
• What does it mean to be a “Failed State”? | The Zeitgeist Politics 24 June 2010

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News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:

• Former Iraqi prime minister accuses government figures of plotting to kill him | LA Times 21 June 2010
• Feds: New Gulf waivers are for existing wells | McClatchy 21 June 2010
• China Backs Obama With Treasury Holdings Rising to $900 Billion | BusinessWeek 21 June 2010
• Yuan Climbs Most in 18 Months After China Signals End to Peg | BusinessWeek 21 June 2010
• US Officials Dispute, Downplay July 2011 Afghan Pullout Date | Antiwar.com 21 June 2010
• Western-Backed Jundallah Insurgent Leader Hanged in Iran | Antiwar.com 21 June 2010
• U.S. once again cast as world’s consumer of last resort | LA Times 20 June 2010
• Dollar Weakens as End to Yuan Peg Signals Confidence in Global Recovery | Bloomberg 20 June 2010
• Israel to allow more Gaza goods | AJ English 20 June 2010
• Former defense minister wins Colombian presidential election | LA Times 20 June 2010
• Al Qaeda spokesman sets peace conditions with U.S. | AP 20 June 2010
• “Crony capitalism reigns US economy” | Press TV 20 June 2010
• Organise workplaces where we are strong rather than where we are weak – Andrew Flood | Anarchist Writers 20 June 2010
• Twenty-Two Reasons Why American Working People Hate the State – James Petras | Infoshop News 20 June 2010
• BP’s plan: Raise $50 billion, sue business partners | AFP 20 June 2010
• Afghan Civilians Said to Be Killed in an Airstrike | NY Times 20 June 2010
• Next for Afghanistan, the Curse of Plenty? | NY Times 20 June 2010
• Utah Firing Squad Executes Convict | AP 20 June 2010
• The New Poor – Peddling Relief, Firms Put Debtors in Deeper Hole | NY Times 20 June 2010
• On Border Violence, Truth Pales Compared to Ideas | NY Times 20 June 2010
• Cost of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Keeps Rising | NY Times 20 June 2010
• The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks – Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com 20 June 2010
• Obama must keep to his Afghanistan deadline – Eugene Robinson | WaPo 20 June 2010
• Car bombs near bank in Baghdad kill at least 26 people | WaPo 20 June 2010
• U.S. military criticized for purchase of Russian copters for Afghan air corps | WaPo 20 June 2010
• U.S. considers partially lifting ban on transfers of detainees to Yemen | WaPo 20 June 2010
• As demand grows for locally raised meat, farmers turn to mobile slaughterhouses | WaPo 20 June 2010
• IMF Sells 38.5 Tonnes Of Gold In Q2, As Saudi Holdings Higher By 180 Tonnes | zero hedge 20 June 2010
• Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: 2 Years, 50 Cases, 36 Victories for the Prisoners | Andy Worthington 20 June 2010
• General Petraeus Starts Moving the Goalposts on Afghanistan Withdrawal – Derrick Crowe | HuffPo 19 June 2010
• 17 Afghan Military Go AWOL In Texas, Alert Issued | AP 19 June 2010
• What Price Afghanistan? – Patrick J. Buchanan | Antiwar.com 18 June 2010
• The Snitch Syndrome – Justin Raimondo | Antiwar.com 18 June 2010

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