Anarchoblogs

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

• Rehab clinics turn into killing zones in Mexico’s drug war | McClatchy 22 July 2010
• No To Oligarchy – Sen. Bernie Sanders | The Nation 22 July 2010
• Clegg told the truth on Iraq. It’s for Cameron to end a decade of pretence – Simon Jenkins | The Guardian 22 July 2010
• Nuclear Sabotage In Iran? | zero hedge 22 July 2010
• Manufacturing Consent for the National Security Surveillance State | Little Alex in Wonderland 22 July 2010
• Sri Lanka to sell billion-dollar bond: government | AFP 22 July 2010
• Japan’s trainee programme ‘human trafficking’: lawyer | AFP 22 July 2010
• Chicago: ‘The National Capital of Police Repression’ – Stephen Lendman | MWC 22 July 2010
• Libertarian Parenting: David Friedman and Unschooling (Video) | Little Alex in Wonderland 22 July 2010
• Are Critics of Cops Driving a Spike in Cop Killing? – Radley Balko | Reason Magazine 22 July 2010
• The Color of Failed States – John Feffer | HuffPo 22 July 2010
• Rachel Maddow: Fox News Stoking Racial Fears Among Whites (VIDEO) | HuffPo 22 July 2010
• China Oil Spill PHOTOS: Official Warns Of ‘Severe Threat’ | HuffPo 22 July 2010
• For Rape Victims, a Dead End on Justice – Sarah Tofte | HuffPo 22 July 2010
• Stephen M. Walt on Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton 22 July 2010
• Huge DR Congo gold mine to open, displacing 15,000 | BBC News 22 July 2010
• UN Court Rules Kosovo Secession Was Legal | Antiwar.com 22 July 2010
• Ian Tomlinson’s family accuse CPS of ‘cover-up’ | Guardian 22 July 2010
• “Our American Heroes” – William Astore | The Nation 22 July 2010
• Iran May Shun Dollar, Euro for Oil Payments, VP Says | BusinessWeek 22 July 2010
• Presidential Guards in Somalia Defect to Insurgents | NY Times 22 July 2010
• It’s That Time Of The Month Again: US Prepares To Bleed Over $100 Billion In Debt Next Week | zero hedge 22 July 2010
• The Accomodationists: Memo to Liberals on the White House Death Warrants – Chris Floyd | Baltimore Chronicle 22 July 2010
• Iraq Withdrawal? Obama and Clinton Expanding US Paramilitary Force in Iraq – Jeremy Scahill | The Nation 22 July 2010
• Amnesty condemns lawyers’ detention in Kashmir | AFP 22 July 2010
• U.S. seeks to ease India’s Afghan fears, backs Pakistan | Reuters 22 July 2010
• Ten Indian rebels from rival factions die in gunfight | BBC News 22 July 2010
• Clashes in north Yemen kill at least 19 people | BBC News 22 July 2010
• Yemeni psych patient ordered freed | MiamiHerald.com 22 July 2010
• BP admits it ‘Photoshopped’ official images as oil spill ‘cut and paste’ row escalates | Telegraph 22 July 2010
• Report: DHS Filtered Hundreds of Public Records Requests Through Political Appointees – Kim Zetter | Wired.com 22 July 2010
• Iraq ‘needs $7 bn for industrial revival’ – Press TV 22 July 2010
• Jobless Claims in U.S. Increased More Than Forecast | BusinessWeek 22 July 2010
• Another ceremonial monument found near Stonehenge | AP 22 July 2010
• Will America’s Police Become Federales? – Wendy McElroy | The Freeman 22 July 2010
• Not More Capital — the Right Capital – Steven Horowitz | The Freeman 22 July 2010
• U.S. to resume ties with Indonesia’s once-harsh special forces | WaPo 22 July 2010
• Iraqi-American artist turns body into anti-war work of art 22 July 2010
• Arab ‘rape by deceit’ conviction in Israel defended 22 July 2010
• UN Chief Dilly-Dallying on Panel to Probe Israeli Killings? – Thalif Deen | Antiwar.com 22 July 2010

Filed under: Daily Briefing Tagged: Al Shabaab, Amnesty International, Andrew Breitbart, AntiWar radio, Anwar al-Awlaki, Bernie Sanders, capital, Chicago Police, China, China oil spill, Chris Floyd, cop killing, corporatism, David Friedman, deficit spending, DHS, DR Congo, DRC, drug war, ER, euro, extrajudicial assassination, failed staes, financial reform, Financial Times, FinReg, FOX News, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza blockade, gold mining, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights Watch, hyperinflation, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, Israel lobby, Japan, Jeremy Scahill, John Feffer, Kashmir, Kim Zetter, Kosovo, labor, libertarian, military, NAACP, national debt, Netanyahu, Nick Clegg, NPT, Obama Administration, Pakistan, parenting, police, police brutality, Rachel Maddow, Radley Balko, rape kits, Sarah Tofte, Scott Horton, secession, Shirley Sherrod, Simon Jenkins, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Stefan Molyneux, Stephen Walt, Steven Horowitz, Stonehenge, Top Secret America, torture, UN, UN Security Council, unemployment, UNSC, unschooling, USD, USDA, Wall Street, Wendy McElroy, William Astore, Yemen

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

• As Predicted, BP Tries to Pretend New Leak is a ‘Natural Seepage’ | Little Alex in Wonderland 19 July 2010
• Clinton unveils $500 million in aid projects for Pakistan | McClatchy 19 July 2010
• Female Afghan Governor Fears Taliban Deal – The Lede Blog | NY Times 19 July 2010
• Feds: Oil, gas leaking from cap on ruptured well | AP 19 July 2010
• Report: 196 indicted in alleged Turkish coup plot | AP 19 July 2010
• Sudan’s ‘brutal’ war on dissent | AJ English 19 July 2010
• BP signs major offshore gas deal with Egypt | AFP 19 July 2010
• Jem to sign ‘child soldier’ deal | AJ English 19 July 2010
• Iran urges US to drop ‘cowboy logic’ over nuclear issue | BBC News 19 July 2010
• In US cities, HIV linked more to poverty than race | AP 19 July 2010
• Biden: Pelosi ‘most powerful person’ in politics | The Swamp 19 July 2010
• US troops to deploy on Mexico border in August | AFP 19 July 2010
• ‘Torture diary’ logs charges of police abuse in Egypt | McClatchy 19 July 2010
• BP’s Scheme to Swindle the “Small People” – Dahr Jamail | Truthout 19 July 2010
• FinReg’s Biggest Problem: It Gives More Power to This Man – Marshall Auerback | Business Insider 19 July 2010
• Did The U.S. Just Oust Russia And China Out Of Central Asia? – Gregory White | Business Insider 19 July 2010
• Israeli ‘loyalty oath’ approved | MWC 19 July 2010
• Report: Kandahar drive to backfire | MWC 19 July 2010
• Howard Zinn’s ‘The Bomb’ – David Swanson | MWC 19 July 2010
• Lawsuit Dropped; Claimed That Copyright-Filtering Violates Copyright – David Kraverts | Wired.com 19 July 2010
• Big Oil Makes War on the Earth – Ellen Cantarow | The Nation 19 July 2010
• Killer Drones Get Stealthy – Noah Shachtman | Wired.com 19 July 2010
• Intelcrats’ Awesomely Bad Pushback to ‘Top Secret America’ – Spencer Ackerman | Wired.com 19 July 2010
• Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Programme – Gareth Porter | IPS 19 July 2010
• President of the Council on Foreign Relations on Afghanistan: ‘It’s not worth it’ | Raw Story 19 July 2010
• UN’s Big Five Facilitate Arms Transfers to Rights Violators – Thalif Deen | IPS 19 July 2010
• Iran speaker says world bodies misused by US, other powers | AFP 19 July 2010
• China Should Reduce Dollar-Reserve Assets, Yu Writes | BusinessWeek 19 July 2010
• Halliburton Adds Jobs as Onshore Boom Lifts Profit | BusinessWeek 19 July 2010
• Boeing Co. Drones Play Pivotal Role in War on Taliban, Al-Qaeda | BusinessWeek 19 July 2010
• Wikileaks Re-Opens for Leakers – Ryan Singel | Wired.com 19 July 2010
• Sadr Emerges to Call for New Government for Iraq | NY Times 19 July 2010
• Radical Cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki Taunts U.S. Military and Obama – Brian Ross | ABC News 19 July 2010
• A Record Number of Drugs Are Being Tested to Treat Mental Illness – Prescriptions Blog | NY Times 19 July 2010
• War on terrorism’s price tag: $1 trillion – Jeff Stein | WaPo 19 July 2010
• The ‘Failed State’ Boogeyman | Little Alex in Wonderland 19 July 2010
• Inside the ‘Class War’ – Danny Schechter | CommonDreams.org 19 July 2010
• Review: Hopes and Prospects, By Noam Chomsky – Johann Hari | The Independent 19 July 2010
• Afghanistan: paths to peace – Muhammed Abdullah Gul | AJ English 19 July 2010
• The Killing Fields of Multi-National Corporations – Vandana Shiva | Common Dreams 19 July 2010
• BP allowed to keep well shut amid concerns about seepage | WaPo 19 July 2010
• South Africa’s ‘dirty bomb’ mystery – Jeff Stein | WaPo 19 July 2010
• Why Failed States Are Not the Real Threat – Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek 19 July 2010
• The Real U.S. Government – Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com 19 July 2010
• Omar Khadr Accepts US Military Lawyer for Forthcoming Trial by Military Commission | Andy Worthington 19 July 2010
• Report: Netanyahu Bragged of Disregarding Oslo and Implementing Terror Strategy | Little Alex in Wonderland 19 July 2010
• Clinton, in Pakistan, Discusses Nuclear Program and Al Qaeda | NY Times 19 July 2010
• Editorial: Forbidden in Russia | NY Times 19 July 2010
• Top Secret America | WaPo 19 July 2010

Filed under: Daily Briefing Tagged: Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Andy Worthington, Bhopal, BP, class war, covert operations, Danny Schechter, dirty bombs, domestic surveillance, Failed States, Fareed Zakaria, FinReg, Glenn Greenwald, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, Hillary Clinton, Hopes and Prospects, illegal immigration, Iran, Jeff Stein, JeM, Joe Biden, Johann Hari, media, Mexico, Muhammed Abdullah Gul, Nancy Pelosi, Netanyahu, Noam Chomsky, Omar Khadr, Oslo Accords, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Sudan, torture, Turkey, UN, USAID, Vandana Shiva, Wall Street

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

• Keiser Report №60: Markets! Finance! Scandal! 16 July 2010
• Is Afghanistan the new Vietnam War? 16 July 2010
• Afghanistan youth in revolt 16 July 2010
• US-Backed Jundallah Bombs Iran Mosque, Killing at Least 21 | Antiwar.com 15 July 2010
• The Power of Technology and D.I.Y. Against the War on Kids and (Video) | Little Alex in Wonderland 15 July 2010
• Poll: Most Americans back Israeli military action against Iran | Haaretz 15 July 2010
• Financial overhaul legislation: Senate passes sweeping financial overhaul legislation | LA Times 15 July 2010
• Goldman Sachs to Pay $550 Million to Settle SEC Suit | BusinessWeek 15 July 2010
• De-classified Vietnam-era Transcripts Show Senators Knew Gulf Of Tonkin Was A Staged False Flag Event – Steve Watson | Prison Planet 15 July 2010
• Clues Suggest Amiri Defection Was an Iranian Plant – Gareth Porter | IPS 15 July 2010
• Ancient ship unearthed at World Trade Center site | Reuters 15 July 2010
• UAE Ambassador Says Country May Back A US-Israeli Attack On Iran – Gregory White | Business Insider 15 July 2010
• Israel makes another family homeless | Press TV 15 July 2010
• The information war is on you – John Pilger | SocialistWorker.org 15 July 2010
• Dutch lawmaker forms anti-Islam group | AP 15 July 2010
• World parliaments criticize Israel, Cambodia | AP 15 July 2010
• Shebab threaten more attacks after Uganda bombings | AFP 15 July 2010
• Uganda willing to send 2,000 more troops to Somalia | AFP 15 July 2010
• Congolese ex-militia chief can go free unless appeal: ICC | AFP 15 July 2010
• India steps up fight against Maoists | BBC News 15 July 2010
• Americans torn over Obama strategy in Afghanistan: poll | AFP 15 July 2010
• US drone ‘kills seven suspected militants’ in Pakistan | BBC News 15 July 2010
• BP Would Be Barred From U.S. Leases in Measure Sent to House | BusinessWeek 15 July 2010
• GE’s Immelt Boosts R&D Budget as NBC, Finance Shrink | BusinessWeek 15 July 2010
• Last U.S.-Run Prison Handed Over to Iraqis Ahead of Withdrawal | BusinessWeek 15 July 2010
• Just What Is America Doing all Over the World? – Doug Bandow | Campaign for Liberty 15 July 2010
• UN: Vatican child rights report 13 years overdue | AP 15 July 2010
• CHINA: A Year After Xinjiang Riots, Ethnic Tensions Simmer – Gordon Ross | IPS 15 July 2010
• Clarence Thomas “Outraged” by Treatment of His Nephew, But Condones the Same for Thousands of Others – Jean Casella and James Ridgeway | Truthout 15 July 2010
• How states fared on jobless claims, at a glance | AP 15 July 2010
• Dollar drops against euro, yen on poor US data | AFP 15 July 2010
• Nairobi settlement residents tell of forced eviction misery | Amnesty International 15 July 2010
• Lockheed Using Gravity to Spot ‘Subterranean Threats’ – Katie Drummond | Wired.com 15 July 2010
• Panama: Strikes and protests force climbdown on anti-strike laws | Infoshop News 15 July 2010
• Legalising marijuana: The law of the weed | The Economist 15 July 2010
• AZ immigration law gets first major court hearing | AP 15 July 2010
• BP starts crucial pressure test on gushing oil well | LA Times 15 July 2010
• New Strike Hits Honda Parts Supplier in China | Reuters 15 July 2010
• Iranian scientist claims US torture | AJ English 15 July 2010
• Argentina legalizes gay marriage in historic vote | WaPo 15 July 2010
• Illinois: Higher Default Risk than Iceland – Dian Chu | zero hedge 15 July 2010
• Cory Doctorow: Technology Can Be a Force for Liberation | P2P Foundation 15 July 2010
• Military drones: Robo raider | The Economist 15 July 2010
• U.S. Home Seizures Rise 38% to Record as Banks Process Backlog | Bloomberg 15 July 2010
• Rebranding the Haqqani Network | CHUP! 15 July 2010
• Companies pile up cash but remain hesitant to add jobs | WaPo 15 July 2010
• Cops TASER Woman On The Ground Begging For Mercy 15 July 2010

Filed under: Daily Briefing Tagged: Afghan Taliban, airstrikes, Al Shabaab, anarchism, Argentina, BP, Cambodia, China, Clarence Thomas, Congo, corporate fraud, Cory Doctorow, debt default, Dian Chu, DIY, Doug Bandow, DRC, drones, economy, EUR, euro, Foxconn, Gareth Porter, gay marriage, GE, Goldman Sachs, Gregory White, Gulf oil spill, Haqqani Network, home foreclosures, Honda, ICC, Iceland, Illinois, India, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jeffrey Immelt, John Pilger, JPY, Jundallah, Kashmir, labor unions, marijuana, Mark Frauenfelder, Netherlands, Pakistan, Panama, SEC, Sistan-Baluchistan, Somalia, Stefan Molyneux, tasers, terrorism, Tonkin Gulf, UAE, Uganda, UN, unemployment, USD, Vatican City, Vietnam War, Wall Street, war crimes, yen

Congress and the media further narrow the ‘Wall St. reform debate’ performance.

16 June 2010 | InfoShop News

The Democratic-led Congress is pushing actions which tolerates and ignores the overwhelming authority of the primary center of wealth distribution in the U.S.—the quasi-autonomous central bank—Andy Sullivan and Kevin Drawbaugh reported today at Reuters:

The report was initially only credited to Mr. Sullivan was titled, “Fed could emerge intact from Wall Street reform debate.” To which I tweeted: “What an Orwellian title. With the Fed guaranteed to ‘emerge intact’, there is no ‘Wall St. reform debate’.” The Reuters title was edited within hours to read: “Fed could evade toughest scrutiny in Wall Street bill.”

The report added that the charge to perpetuate Fed command of the economy is being led by Capitol Hill Democrats:

House Democrats on the panel aim to drop a provision included in their version of the bill that would have opened the Fed’s interest rate policy to congressional audits.

They also said they would try to defeat an aspect of the Senate bill that would allow the U.S. president to name the head of the New York Fed. Currently, the head of the New York Fed—the only one of the 12 regional Fed banks with a permanent voting seat on the central bank’s policy-setting committee—is named by the bank’s board, which includes private bankers.

This cronyist cartel, led by a hand-picked puppet at the head of the table in New York, will be the chief body to “resolve disputes”, the report added.

Though, the proposed bill “is likely to crimp financial firms’ profits and saddle them with tighter regulations”, according to a Citigroup analysis, there is no reason to believe the insider cartel will not possess a much larger share of the market. It will regulate the mutual risk by not overpowering each other and taking turns scooping up the failed banks disconnected to the money-priniting, credit-manufacturing cabal.

Washington puppets can give all of the noise they want about it being imperative to end ‘too big to fail’ policy, but when four banking institutions—Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase—carry over 52% of systemic risk, strengthening the cartel makes enriches the economy’s dependence on it. Ergo, political power is dependent on the safety against the failure of this risk. The result is Washington as a perpetual bailout machine for Wall Street, Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser implied last Friday in a speech.

Remember that the purpose for the Fed’s existence is to bail out banking institutions as the ‘lender of last resort’. The moral hazard inherent in the institutions objectives enable high risk to pocket huge rewards when the worst case scenario is that risk being nationalized.

The bill to audit the Fed, led by Reps. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), which passed the House was greatly waterlogged before passing through the Senate to only audit the transactions relating to the Troubled Asset Relief Program and “emergency lending” to bail out Wall Street in the fall of 2008. Because of this, “congressional investigators would not be able to probe monetary policy decision”, the report added.

Case and point: Wall Street is betting in high volume against the viability of BP, so even if full restitution and restoration is provided directly from BP for damaging the livelihood of masses, those masses will—in the end—bail out Wall Street to cover the bets, whether or not BP is able to survive this entirely hypothetical scenario. This example is a microcosm of the derivatives market nearing $620tn—at the time of this posting—in a $14tn economy.

Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee said the country’s “patience has run out” on currency manipulation, Doug Palmer reported today at Reuters. He called it a “prime example” of “mercantilism” and added that if currency manipulators don’t change their policy “and the administration does not respond promptly thereafter, the Congress will act”.

Rep. David Camp (R-Mich.), a ranking member on the same committee, agreed. He noted that such economic policy “will wreak havoc” on “the global economy”.

Unfortunately, the two congressmen were only condemning China at the time. You see, the narrative is that China is undervaluing its currency against the U.S. dollar. Hinting at the possibility that the U.S. dollar—and the euro, for that matter—are overvalued, as the banking class existentially manipulates and consolidates the supply, is something you’re not allowed to do.

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views,” Professor Noam Chomsky said in a collection of interviews published in The Common Good (1998). “That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”

We immediately commented on an excellent Socialist Worker editorial, published in late March, which displayed how and why the bill touted as the “sweeping sweeping overhaul of financial regulations” would only pass as a “business-friendly bill” that would only strengthen the most powerful. Politicians easing off the Fed doesn’t—nor should it—come as a surprise. The key is to not get swept up in unjust bills being written and sold in Washington that perpetuate the puppeteers of the economy and enrich their power to do so in manners that will only trickle wealth up to their pockets and increase their authority.

No matter how many times Ezra Klein’s balls swell up per day about “FinReg” and how loud Ed Schultz’s belligerent economic illiteracy pierces the ear, calling the play-by-play and quoting shallow opinions of the narrow narrative—as I wrote in October, regarding the Fed—”when only abolition is just, reform is naïve”. And when the motions by the power that be are regressive, the totality cannot at the same time be a progressive measure.

EDIT: “The Senate will accept an expanded Federal Reserve audit proposal from the House as part of Wall Street conference committee deliberations, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) told the panel Wednesday evening,” Ryan Grim just reported at The Huffington Post.

Given there are no details, one could drive a convoy of trucks between the House and Senate bills. That Sen. Dodd would not fully embrace the House bill displays a substantial deviation in any audit plan. The Senate is very scared to demand the wealth distributors and debt nationalizers keep their doors open or their money monopoly will end. Of course audits of integrity would result in this anyway. This “story” is a four-paragraph pacifier.

Abolish the Fed.

EDIT2: Around 9 p.m. CST, Reuters re-edited the article again, replacing “House Democrats” with “Lawmakers” in the paragraphs I quoted. They did modify the title again, as well to: “Wall Street bill likely to preserve Fed independence.”

Filed under: National News, Political Science Tagged: Alan Grayson, Andy Sullivan, Audit the Fed bill, bailouts, banking, BP, CDS, China, Chriss Dodd, Citigroup, corporatism, credit default swaps, currency manipulation, David Camp, Doug Palmer, Ed Schultz, Ezra Klein, Federal Reserve, financial regulation, FinReg, HR 1207, Kevin Drawbaugh, libertarian, monetary policy, Newspeak, Noam Chomsky, progressives, Reuters, Ron Paul, Ryan Grim, TARP, Timothy Geithner, US, Wall Street

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

• Chicago man awarded $1.3M in false confession case | Chicago Breaking News 10 June 2010
• Talking About Israel, Without the Clichés – Tony Judt | NY Times 10 June 2010
• ‘Still a long way to go’ for U.S. operation in Marja, Afghanistan – Rajiv Chandrasekaran | WaPo 10 June 2010
• Syed Hashmi Sentenced to 15 Years for Aiding Al-Qaeda | BusinessWeek 10 June 2010
• What if Political Scientists Wrote the News? | Stephen M. Walt 10 June 2010
• Fee Increase for Immigration Papers Proposed | NY Times 10 June 2010
• In the Afghan Papers: Proselytizing – Mujib Marshall | NY Times 10 June 2010
• West Chicago gang member guilty under new gun law | Chicago Breaking News 10 June 2010
• Chicago aldermen pass symbolic anti-BP ordinance | Chicago Tribune 10 June 2010
• Emergency drills may close Chicago-area roads | Chicago Breaking News 10 June 2010
• Russia becomes leading oil producer, BP says | BBC News 10 June 2010
• Stalin-era mass grave yields tons of bones | Reuters 10 June 2010
• Int’l monitor: Allow Zimbabwe to sell diamonds | AP 9 June 2010
• China farmer uses cannon to fight eviction | AFP 9 June 2010
• China court upholds 5-year sentence for activist | AP 9 June 2010
• Pentagon links spike in casualties to surge in troops | AFP 9 June 2010
• Dozens killed in Afghan wedding | AJ English 9 June 2010
• US Senator unveils pro-Israel resolution in flotilla feud | AFP 9 June 2010
• US sets deadline over BP oil spill | AJ English 9 June 2010
• Argentina tries to uncover ‘dirty war’ orphans | LA Times 9 June 2010
• U.S. Border Agent Murders 14-Year-Old Mexican… in Mexico | Little Alex in Wonderland 9 June 2010
• Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn’t about security | McClatchy 9 June 2010
• Gaza ‘Peace Activists’: A Closer Look at Israel’s Terror Accusations | SPIEGEL ONLINE 9 June 2010
• Brazil rejects UNSC sanctions on Iran | Press TV 9 June 2010
• Israel preparing for prolonged ME war | Press TV 9 June 2010
• ‘Iran won’t give up nuclear rights’ | Press TV 9 June 2010
• US lawmaker’s ‘anti-Israel’ move rebuked | Press TV 9 June 2010
• New sanctions on Iran ‘not crippling’ – Ian Black and Ewen MacAskill | The Guardian 9 June 2010
• BP Just Got Hammered — Stock Down 11% | Business Insider 9 June 2010
• Iran Sanctions Imposed by UN; Turkey, Brazil Vote No | BusinessWeek 9 June 2010
• Bank of America May Lead Banks in Home-Equity Losses | BusinessWeek 9 June 2010
• U.S. Courts Scale Back Investor Disclosure Rule in Bankruptcy | BusinessWeek 9 June 2010
• Airlines Battle Workplace Democracy – Jim Hightower | truthout 9 June 2010
• U.S.: Neo-Conservatives Lead Charge Against Turkey – Jim Lobe | IPS 9 June 2010
• NY Times: Supreme Court ‘keeping politics safe for the rich’ | Raw Story 9 June 2010
• Obama calls Israeli blockade ‘unsustainable’; pledges $400 million in aid for Gaza | Raw Story 9 June 2010
• Treasury: U.S. Debt to Near $20 Trillion by 2015 | Little Alex in Wonderland 9 June 2010
• Why Did The U.S. Refuse International Help on The Gulf Oil Spill? | Economic Forecasts & Opinions 9 June 2010
• BP Still Fuels Pentagon For Billions and Iraq Oil | Little Alex in Wonderland 9 June 2010
• Fueling War: Pentagon Still Buying Most of Its Oil and Gas from BP – Jeremy Scahill | The Nation 9 June 2010
• UN Security Council Passes Iran Sanctions 12-2 | Antiwar.com 9 June 2010

Filed under: Daily Briefing Tagged: Argentina, Bank of America, banking, BP, Brazil, campaign contributions, Charles Schumer, Chicago, Chicago Police, corporate personhood, Customs and Border Patrol, Der Spiegel, diamonds, economic sanctions, eminent domain, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza blockade, Great Lakes, Gulags, Gulf oil spill, gun control, Iran, Jeremy Scahill, Jim Lobe, journalism, JPMorgan Chase, labor unions, Marja, media, mortgage crisis, national debt, neoconservatives, NY Times, Palestine-Israel, Pentagon, Russia, SCOTUS, Stalin, Stephen Walt, terrorism, Treasury Department, Turkey, UN Security Council, UNSC, USSR, Wall Street, Wells Fargo, WSJ, Zimbabwe

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

• Lift the Siege of Gaza – Patrick J. Buchanan | LRC 5 June 2010
• Secret Detention Practised in All Corners of the World – Gustavo Capdevila | IPS 5 June 2010
• Real People v. Corporate “People”: The Fight Is On | CommonDreams.org 5 June 2010
• Lawyer: As many as 20 women claim sex assault at KBR | Raw Story 5 June 2010
• Financial industry hired 1,400 former government staffers as lobbyists in 2009 | Raw Story 5 June 2010
• Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range | The Guardian 5 June 2010
• U.S. Backs S. Korean UN Move Before Military Exercise | BusinessWeek 5 June 2010
• The Oil Spills We Don’t Hear About – Anene Ejikeme | NY Times 5 June 2010
• Prosecuting Crimes Against the Earth – David Uhlmann | NY Times 5 June 2010
• Japan Elects a New Premier, Fifth in Four Years | NY Times 5 June 2010
• Rule of the Gun – With U.S. Aid, Warlord Builds an Afghan Empire | NY Times 5 June 2010
• Report: Turkish PM May Sail to Gaza Himself | Antiwar.com 5 June 2010
• We Bought The Bullets – Will Grigg | Pro Libertate 5 June 2010
• Awake, O Zion – Thomas Knapp | C4SS 5 June 2010
• Egypt Confronts Its Role in the Gaza Blockade – Issandr El Amrani | The Middle East Channel 5 June 2010
• Obama’s Expanding Covert Wars – Jeremy Scahill | The Nation 5 June 2010
• PTSD Soldier Punished by Army | Dahr Jamail 5 June 2010
• What is Obama Doing at Bagram? (Part Two): Executive Detention, Rendition, Review Boards, Released Prisoners and Trials | Andy Worthington 5 June 2010
• What is Obama Doing at Bagram? (Part One): Torture and the “Black Prison” | Andy Worthington 5 June 2010
• Lying About The Gaza Flotilla Disaster – M.J. Rosenberg | Political Correction 5 June 2010
• BP and Feds Withheld Videos Showing Massive Scope of Oil Spill | ABC News 5 June 2010
• KBR Employee Says She Was Raped and Beaten By Fellow KBR Employee in Iraq | ABC News 5 June 2010
• Gen. Clapper Tapped as Next Director of National Intelligence | Antiwar.com 5 June 2010
• Israeli Commando Who Killed Six Aid Workers to Receive Medal | Antiwar.com 5 June 2010
• Israeli Warships Seize the ‘Rachel Corrie’ | Antiwar.com 5 June 2010
• Obama Has Special Forces Operating in 75 Nations | Antiwar.com 5 June 2010
• Pentagon Ordered to Make Cuts to Spend Billions More on War | Antiwar.com 5 June 2010
• Report: Israel Proposes ‘International Force’ to Monitor Gaza Ports | Antiwar.com 5 June 2010
• US Border Patrol kills Mexican migrant in custody | RT 3 June 2010
• Army Plans $100 Million Special Ops HQ in Afghanistan – Noah Shachtman | Wired.com 3 June 2010
• Severe Drought Causes Hunger for 10 Million in West Africa | CommonDreams.org 3 June 2010
• US to bill BP $69mn for oil spill | Press TV 3 June 2010

Filed under: Daily Briefing Tagged: Afghanistan, Anene Ejikeme, Bagram Air Base, BP, BP Gulf oil spill, corporate personhood, Dahr Jamail, David Uhlmann, DEA, DPRK, Egypt, financial crisis, Free Gaza Movement, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Gulf oil spill, Gustavo Cadevila, illegal immigration, indefinite detention, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, Issandr El Amrani, Japan, Jeremy Scahill, JSOC, KBR, law, limited liability, military industrial complex, MJ Rosenberg, MV Rachel Corrie, Naoto Kan, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Noah Shachtman, North Korea, Obama Administration, oil spills, Pat Buchanan, PTSD, Recep Erdgoan, South Korea, Thomas Knapp, Turkey, Wall Street, Washington lobbyists, West Africa, Will Grigg

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