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FUNDAMENTALIST UPRISING. 2:07 pm / 28 October 2011 by ann arky, at annarky's blog.
Change You Can Believe In (Vol. III, No. 10) 5:13 pm / 22 October 2011 by Rad Geek, at Rad Geek People's Daily
From Adam Serwer, in Mother Jones (18 Oct 2011):
Barack Obama Deported More Immigrants This Year Than Any Other President in American History.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement announced Tuesday that it has reached a new record number of deportations for Fiscal Year 2011: 396,906 removals of unauthorized immigrants.
The numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. Last year ICE miscounted the number of deportations, and the number was revised down to 387,790, still a record. Or at least it was a record, until today. ICE has previously stated it has the resources to deport about 400,000 people a year, which means that Tuesday’s number puts ICE around 3,000 people shy of the total number of people the agency says it has the capacity to deport.
… In the twisted bizarro world of Washington politics, media conventions have obliged journalists to report with equal “balance” the Republican claim that Obama is pursuing a policy of “backdoor amnesty” even as he racks up more deportations than any president ever before… . What you won’t hear about, however, is the human cost to the families, citizen and non-citizen, impacted by the sheer volume and efficiency of the Obama administraton’s immigration removal policy
—Adam Serwer, Open-Borders Obama Sets New Deportation Record, in Mother Jones (18 Oct 2011)
But of course once the U.S. government has stormed your home, locked you in a hellhole detention camp, separated you from your family, and cast you out thousands of miles from your home, they’re not really done with you. Because the United States government hardly stops at United States borders — our Progressive Peace President is a humanitarian and his campaign for peace, democracy and human rights will bring Hope and Change to you in whatever land you may be exiled to. For example, by forcing your former neighbors to subsidize governments that draft child soldiers and send them to kill you:
Barack Obama Forces U.S. Taxpayers To Subsidize Armies That Use Child Soldiers In Conflict Zones
President Barack Obama has decided to waive almost all the legally mandated penalties for countries that use child soldiers and provide those countries U.S. military assistance, just like he did last year.
The White House is expected to soon announce its decision to issue a series of waivers for the Child Soldiers Protection Act, a 2008 law that is meant to stop the United States from giving military aid to countries that recruit soldiers under the age of 15 and use them to fight wars. The administration has laid out a range of justifications for waiving penalties on Yemen, South Sudan, Chad, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, all of which amount to a gutting of the law for the second year in a row.
… In a meeting with NGO representatives on Tuesday afternoon at the White House, State Department officials, led by Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Dan Baer, explained this year’s reasons why the White House will continue to give military funding to countries that use child soldiers.[1]
Fo r South Sudan, State Department officials argued that since the country didn’t exist when the latest report on child soldier abuse came out, that country doesn’t fall under the law. Their reasoning is that the report in question, known as the 2011 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, came out June 27. South Sudan was declared independent 12 days later on July 9. They will receive $100 million in U.S. military aid this year.
“South Sudan may be a new country, but it’s not a blank slate here,” one attendee at the White House meeting told The Cable. “There’s been two decades of child soldier use and unfulfilled promises by the [Sudan People’s Liberation Army].”
For Yemen, the administration’s argument is simply that counterterrorism cooperation with that country is too important to suspend. Yemen is set to receive $35 million from the United States in foreign military financing. What stunned activists in the room, however, was State Department officials’ admission that they don’t know who actually controls the Yemeni military these days.
“The officials said, ‘We don’t even know day by day who we’re even talking to,’” one attendee reported.
But I am sure that their collaboration is vital to defeating terror and safeguarding human rights throughout the world. Whoever the hell they are.
Oh well, close enough for government work, anyway. The more things Change….
See also.
- GT 2011-04-30: Change You Can Believe In (Vol. III, No. 4, April 2011)
- GT 2011-03-30: Change You Can Believe In (Vol. III, No. 3, March 2011)
- GT 2011-02-06: Change You Can Believe In (Cont’d)
- GT 2011-01-27: Change You Can Believe In
- [1] Sic. Actually the announcement from Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Dan Baer — since the White House has nothing to
give
andcountries
don’t use soldiers, is that the White House will continue forcing U.S. taxpayers to give multimillion-dollar subsidies to war criminals. ↩
Work-around’s to get the word out from Egypt 7:51 pm / 31 January 2011 by Royce Christian, at .urbandissent
So while Mubarak has sworn in his new cabinet, it looks like Egypt has been taken completely offline but activists are finding means and methods to work around the government crackdown on communications and get the word out.
@Jan25 Voices is a Twitter feed that gives regular updates based on phone calls made by people on the street.
Even though Western media have largely scaled back their reporting on Egypt, you can access reports given by individuals on the ground.
One recorded audio phone call painted the scene in Tahrir Square on January 30th.
This, no doubt, will hopefully be used to get the word out as a General Strike has been called with huge numbers of people expected to converge on the capital.
Although revolutions like that which have taken place in Tunisia and Egypt are not Anarchist, every little step towards counts. The movements have been largely leaderless, spontaneous and widespread, having utilised New Media and workarounds to continue to communicate and get the word out.
Harsh, authoritarian regimes have been challenged, head on and if an entire country of people wish to throw off a 30-year-old regime that crushes dissent, expression and tortures individuals as a matter of course, then that movement must be supported from the outside whereever possible.
See here for more background regarding Egypt and the efforts of Egypt’s elite to maintain the status quo.
Now there are rumblings in Syria and Sudan.
Update:
Video showing Egyptian security forces trying to run down protesters (1:09) before unleashing a water cannon on people attempting to pray directly in front of the security forces.
Update 2:
Phillip Weiss of Salon.com writes what I’ve been thinking for a while now,
…Racism against Arabs is shutting down the American mind once again. And all my friends must turn to Al Jazeera English to get the soul of the story: that these events are electrifying to Arabs everywhere, a heroic mobilization. And not only to Arabs. When ElBaradei says, I salute the youth for overturning a pharaonic power, lovers of human freedom everywhere must be thrilled. We are seeing a dictator dissolve before our eyes. These are the events we cherished in history books; let us embrace the Egyptian movement.
Why is America so afraid?
However, while his analyses of the American administration’s attitude and approach to Israel is correct and the response by prominent commentators in both Israeli and American media has both been less than supportive of an Egyptian pro-democracy movement, Weiss transitions into a credible analysis of media coverage to, seemingly, hating on “the Jews”. While I agree with some thoughts, such as the quote above, I disagree with and repudiate much of the rest.
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Daily Briefing—8th Sept 2010 1:00 pm / 08 September 2010 by Editors, at Little Alex in Wonderland
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:
- Eleven killed in Mogadishu battles | AFP 8 September 2010
- ABC News Exclusive: Whistleblower Claims Many U.S. Interpreters Can’t Speak Afghan Languages | ABC News 8 September 2010
- The Government’s Winning the Drug War – Kevin Carson | Little Alex in Wonderland 8 September 2010
- Former Polish leader denies knowledge of CIA site | AP 8 September 2010
- French unions call fresh protests against retirement at 62 | AFP 8 September 2010
- The Other Oil Spill | Foreign Policy In Focus 8 September 2010
- Rwanda: Over 3,500 Tonnes of Marijuana Seized Since Last Year | allAfrica.com 8 September 2010
- Uganda: Thirty-One IFEX Members And Global Partners Demand Retraction of Proposed Amendment to Press And Journalists Act | allAfrica.com 8 September 2010
- Nigeria: Halliburton Trial in Shaky Start | allAfrica.com 8 September 2010
- Sudan: Fresh Clashes in Darfur Kill Dozens of Civilians, UN-African Union Mission Reports | allAfrica.com 8 September 2010
- Inside the mind of a suicide bomber | AJ English 8 September 2010
- Deaths in Pakistan ‘drone attack’ | AJ English 8 September 2010
- Taiwan to deploy new missile defense system by 2015 | Reuters 8 September 2010
- China blacks out towns to meet energy goal | AP 8 September 2010
- ‘Non-lethal’ force can be lethal in Kashmir | AP 8 September 2010
- IDF soldier convicted of killing U.K. activist in Gaza released from jail | Haaretz 8 September 2010
- Clinton Says Mexico Drug War Looks Like ‘Insurgency’ | Bloomberg 8 September 2010
- Al-Qaida and Taliban threat is exaggerated, says security thinktank | The Guardian 8 September 2010
- AGRICULTURE-AFRICA: Land Grabs in Poor Countries Set to Increase – Hilaire Avril | IPS 8 September 2010
- Who’s Really Responsible For Afghan Corruption? You – Danger Room | Wired.com 8 September 2010
- Home buying up in week, but down 40 percent in year | Reuters 8 September 2010
- Spain: Calls for Participation in the General Strike, September 29 | Infoshop News 8 September 2010
- FSA Will Announce New Fraud Fine Against Goldman As Soon As Tomorrow | Business Insider 8 September 2010
- Politics Can’t Fix A Systemic Crisis In Neoliberal Global Capitalism – Charles Hugh Smith | Business Insider 8 September 2010
- Digging for Riches: High Gold Prices Spark New Peruvian Gold Rush | SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International 8 September 2010
- US terror training in Yemen reflects wider program | Raw Story 8 September 2010
- Exclusive: An Iraq veteran’s descent from PTSD to suicide | Raw Story 8 September 2010
- Obama’s new mortgage aid plan erases 10% of homeowners’ original debt | AP 8 September 2010
- Obama to attend U.N. Sudan meeting September 24 | Reuters 8 September 2010
- Biden and the False Iraq War Narrative – Gareth Porter | Truthout 8 September 2010
- Ditch your bank for a credit union – Liz Pulliam Weston | MSN Money 8 September 2010
- BP oil spill report: the Deepwater Horizon blame game – Damian Carrington | The Guardian 8 September 2010
- Airport ‘Naked Image’ Scanners in U.S. May Get Privacy Upgrades | Bloomberg 8 September 2010
- Mullah Omar Tells Afghans Taliban Are Winning | AP 8 September 2010
- BP Report Says a Series of Failures Led to Oil Spill | NY Times 8 September 2010
- As Stadiums Vanish, Their Debt Lives On | NY Times 8 September 2010
- Sri Lanka Ends Presidential Term Limits | NY Times 8 September 2010
- Iran Says Stoning Sentence Suspended | Reuters 8 September 2010
- For-Profit Colleges Step Up Lobbying Against New Rules | NY Times 8 September 2010
- Experimental Philosophy – Joshua Knobe | NY Times 8 September 2010
- Political Ties Shielded Bank in Afghanistan | NY Times 8 September 2010
- As China finds bigger place in world affairs, its wealth breeds hostility | WaPo 8 September 2010
- Afghan police beat back mob of government workers at Kabul Bank branch | WaPo 8 September 2010
- Mahmood Karzai profited on deal tied to Kabul Bank | AFP 8 September 2010
- Eleven ‘Myths’ Clouding the Afghanistan Discourse | Little Alex in Wonderland 8 September 2010
- NATO Still Planning Kandahar Offensive | Antiwar.com 8 September 2010
- Somali Military Chief Sacked Over Stolen US Weapons | Antiwar.com 8 September 2010
- Report: NATO’s July 2011 ‘Drawdown’ May Not Involve Removing Any Troops | Antiwar.com 8 September 2010
- The secret to working in Tampa? Get clearance | TBO.com 8 September 2010
- Is al Qaeda Still Relevant? – Blake Hounshell | Foreign Policy 8 September 2010
- UN reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo | AP 8 September 2010
- Gulf oil spill: Oxygen dropped near oil plumes – Greenspace | LA Times 8 September 2010
- Obama Will Not Extend Bush-Era Tax Cuts to Wealthy | NY Times 8 September 2010
- Relatives with blood on their hands – Robert Fisk | The Independent 8 September 2010
- The crimewave that shames the world – Robert Fisk | The Independent 8 September 2010
- US Denies Planning to Participate in Next Afghan Escalation | Antiwar.com 8 September 2010
Filed under: Daily Briefing Tagged: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Africa, airport body scanners, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Aleksander Kwasniewski, AMISOM, banking, black sites, Blake Hounshell, BP, Bush tax cuts, Charles Hugh Smith, China, CIA, cognitive science, counterterrorism, credit unions, Deepwater Horizon, DR Congo, drones, drug war, experimental philosophy, extrajudicial assassination, for-profit universities, France, free press, Gareth Porter, general strike, gold, Goldman Sachs, Gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Hillary Clinton, IDF, IFEX, India, Iran, Iraq War, ISAF, Israel, Israel-Lebanon War, Joe Biden, Kabul Bank, Kandahar Surge, Kashmir, Kevin Carson, land grabbing, Lebanon, Liz Pulliam Weston, Macondo oil spill, Mahmood Karzai, Mexico, military industrial complex, missile defense, Mullah Omar, NATO, neoliberalism, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philosophy, Poland, PTSD, Robert Fisk, Rwanda, secret prisons, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Stephen Walt, student loans, Sudan, suicide bombings, Taiwan, Taliban, Transocean, TSA, Uganda, UN, Yemen
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Daily Briefing—23rd-24th Aug 2010 9:00 pm / 23 August 2010 by Editors, at Little Alex in Wonderland
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:
- Somalia: Bitter Clash in Mogadishu Leaves 20 Dead | allAfrica.com 24 August 2010
- South Sudan facing currency crisis over oil payments | BBC News 24 August 2010
- ‘Too Big to Fail’ View Hurts Small Banks, Hoenig Says | NY Times 24 August 2010
- State Department details Blackwater violations of U.S. laws | McClatchy 24 August 2010
- Fed Said to Plan Reining in AIG Loans by $3.6 Billion | BusinessWeek 24 August 2010
- Government funding for stem cell research blocked by US court – Richard Adams | The Guardian 24 August 2010
- Efraim Diveroli Charged in New Weapons Case | NY Times 24 August 2010
- Readers Discuss Wikipedia Editing Course That Aims for ‘Balanced and Zionist’ Entries – The Lede Blog | NY Times 24 August 2010
- 15 Net Neutrality Facts You NEED TO KNOW (INFOGRAPHIC) | HuffPo 24 August 2010
- End of settlement freeze could derail Mideast talks – Eli Lake | Washington Times 24 August 2010
- Afghan officials challenge U.S. on aid contract abuses | WaPo 24 August 2010
- Stolen U.S. dollars exit Afghan airport controlled by Karzai brother – Jeff Stein | WaPo 24 August 2010
- Why I Became A Political Scientist and Lessons from the Weimar Republic | Stephen M. Walt 24 August 2010
- Pakistanis Tell of Motive in Taliban Leader’s Arrest | NY Times 24 August 2010
- Pakistan Admits to Sabotaging Karzai’s Peace Talks | Antiwar.com 24 August 2010
- US General: Afghan Military Can’t Do Much More Until October 2011 | Antiwar.com 24 August 2010
- Report: Sadr and Allawi Close to Govt Deal | Antiwar.com 24 August 2010
- US to Launch Sixth Offensive Against ‘Birthplace of Taliban’ | Antiwar.com 24 August 2010
- Iraqiya Again Rules Out Maliki as Prime Minister | Antiwar.com 23 August 2010
- Demagoguing the Mosque – Ron Paul | Little Alex in Wonderland 23 August 2010
- Scott Horton On Russia Today. 23 August 2010
- Air base expansion plans reflect long-term investment in Afghanistan | WaPo 22 August 2010
- Odierno Raises Prospect of US Troops ‘Returning’ to Iraq | Antiwar.com 22 August 2010
Filed under: Daily Briefing Tagged: Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, AIG, arms trading, Blackwater, Bushehr, Cordoba House, Efraim Diveroli, Eli Lake, Federal Reserve, Ground Zero Mosque, Iran, Iraq, Iraq election, Iraq War, Iraqiya, Israel, Iyad Allawi, Jeff Stein, Middle East, Moqtada al-Sadr, net neutrality, Nouri al-Maliki, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, Park51, Ray Odierno, Ron Paul, Scott Horton, Somalia, stem cell research, Stephen Walt, Sudan, Taliban, Thomas Hoenig, United States, Warfare and Conflict, Wikipedia, Xe, Zionism
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Daily Briefing—12th-13th Aug 2010 8:00 pm / 12 August 2010 by Editors, at Little Alex in Wonderland
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:
- Who’s Afraid of Socialism? – Sheldon Richman | The Freeman 13 August 2010
- US Marine Corps must redefine mission: Gates | AFP 13 August 2010
- The Man who Gitmo Raised – Andrea Prasow | Foreign Policy 13 August 2010
- Charge, Don’t Kill, Anwar Awlaki – Jason Ditz | Antiwar.com Blog 13 August 2010
- Netanyahu rejects peace talks based on 1967 borders | Haaretz 13 August 2010
- Israel to free Palestinians in ‘swap,’ says Kadhafi son | AFP 13 August 2010
- China PLA warns U.S. over fresh military drill in region | Reuters 13 August 2010
- India approves caste-based census | BBC News 13 August 2010
- US criticises Sri Lanka war inquiry | AJ English 13 August 2010
- Shocking Images of Dead Kurdish Fighters: Turkey Accused of Using Chemical Weapons against PKK | SPIEGEL ONLINE 13 August 2010
- US military sees heavier fighting in fall | AP 13 August 2010
- CAR/DR Congo: LRA Conducts Massive Abduction Campaign | Human Rights Watch 13 August 2010
- South Sudan conflict is ‘resource war’ | AFP 13 August 2010
- UK police charged with beating terrorism suspect | Reuters 13 August 2010
- US court rejects ‘genocide’ denial | AJ English 13 August 2010
- US bailouts aided foreign firms: watchdog | AFP 13 August 2010
- Obama Administration Sued over Secrecy Surrounding Nuclear Power Subsidies | Truthout 13 August 2010
- Omar Khadr Guantánamo military trial condemned | Amnesty International 13 August 2010
- The other Kashmir problem: India and Pakistan tussle over water | CS Monitor 13 August 2010
- Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan: Beyond the Body Count | Truthout 13 August 2010
- WikiLeaks preparing to release more Afghan files | AP 13 August 2010
- Border security bill: Senate passes border security bill | LA Times 13 August 2010
- Poultry fingered as No. 1 food poisoning culprit | AP 13 August 2010
- Narco-blogger beats Mexico drug war news blackout | AP 13 August 2010
- Lockheed Martin gets $300M Javelin missile deal | AP 13 August 2010
- ITT gets $260.5M Army contract | AP 13 August 2010
- Bin Laden’s cook sentenced to 14 years in jail | Reuters 13 August 2010
- How the US economy is being ‘Japanised’ – Chris Payne | The Guardian 13 August 2010
- About 340,000 Babies Had Illegal Immigrant Parent, Study Finds | BusinessWeek 13 August 2010
- In Guantánamo Tours, Many Questions, Few Answers | NY Times 13 August 2010
- BP to Pay Record $50.6 Million Safety Fine for Texas Refinery | NYTimes.com 13 August 2010
- Judge Allows, but Delays, Gay Marriage in California | NY Times 13 August 2010
- Man Settles Wrongful-Conviction Case for $7.95 Million | NY Times 13 August 2010
- U.S. lacks policy on housing detainees convicted in military commissions | WaPo 13 August 2010
- The Rubin Con Goes On – Robert Scheer | HuffPo 12 August 2010
- $830 Billion in Student Loans: The New Mortgage Bubble – Anya Kamenetz | HuffPo 12 August 2010
- Wells Fargo Overdraft Lawsuit: Bank Ordered To Pay $203 MILLION In Fees Over ‘Unfair’ Charges | HuffPo 12 August 2010
- DANGERS OF ATHEISM DEBUNKED! 11 August 2010
- How the Military Destroys the Lives of Soldiers Who Try to Tell the Truth – Justine Sharrock | AlterNet 11 August 2010
- Mercenaries in Iraq to Take Over Soldiers’ Jobs | Newsweek 11 August 2010
Filed under: Daily Briefing Tagged: 14th Amendment, Af-Pak War, al-Quds, Andrea Prasow, Anwar al-Awlaki, Anya Kamenetz, atheism, bailouts, BP, Bradley Manning, capitalism, caste system, chemical weapons, civilian casualties, constitutional rights, DR Congo, East Jerusalem, free enterprise, gay marriage, Guantanamo Bay, illegal immigration, India, international law, Iraq, Iraq War, Jason Ditz, Justine Sharrock, libertarian, Libya, mercenary firms, military commissions, Netanyahu, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Omar Khadr, overdraft fees, Pakistan, PKK, Robert Gates, Robert Rubin, Robert Scheer, Sheldon Richman, socialism, Sri Lanka, Sudan, TARP, torture, Turkey, UK, US Constitution, US Marine Corps, US military, war crimes, Wells Fargo, West Bank
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Daily Briefing—4th Aug 2010 2:00 pm / 04 August 2010 by Editors, at Little Alex in Wonderland
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:
- Proposition 8 Overturned: Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional | AP 4 August 2010
- Allstate Quarterly Profit Slips 63% on Derivatives | BusinessWeek 4 August 2010
- Prudential Profit Jumps Sevenfold on Investments | BusinessWeek 4 August 2010
- Goldman Sachs Sells $788.5 Million of Mortgage Bonds | BusinessWeek 4 August 2010
- Senate to Approve $26 Billion for Schools and States | NY Times 4 August 2010
- Europe exporting electronic waste despite ban | BBC News 4 August 2010
- ‘Those who want war will get war’: Rwanda’s Kagame | AFP 4 August 2010
- Neighboring countries compete for influence in Iraq | LA Times 4 August 2010
- Pakistani police targeted in blast (Video) | Reuters 4 August 2010
- Maoists clash with Indian police | AJ English 4 August 2010
- US stresses aid to Pakistan, eyeing improved image | AP 4 August 2010
- UN: Israel did not cross border | AJ English 4 August 2010
- UPDATED: Scores injured in explosions, Israeli attacks on Gaza | ei 4 August 2010
- U.S. Treasury unveils new action against Iran | McClatchy 4 August 2010
- U.S. still undecided on joining landmines treaty | Reuters 4 August 2010
- BP relooping video of oil leak, expert charges | Raw Story 4 August 2010
- Ecuador signs $3.6bn deal not to exploit oil-rich Amazon reserve | The Guardian 4 August 2010
- Goldman Says High Court Case Bars Basis Capital Suit | BusinessWeek 4 August 2010
- U.S. Says 74 Percent of BP Oil Gone From Gulf Waters | BusinessWeek 4 August 2010
- N.Y. Fed May Require Banks to Buy Back Faulty Loans | BusinessWeek 4 August 2010
- After Afghan War Leaks, Revisions in a Shield Bill | NY Times 4 August 2010
- ‘Static Kill’ Appears to Be Working in Well, BP Says | NY Times 4 August 2010
- Gareth Porter on Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton 4 August 2010
- Eric Margolis and Tom Engelhardt on Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton 4 August 2010
- Pardiss Kebriaei on Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton 4 August 2010
- Dahr Jamail on Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton 4 August 2010
- Copyright Office Rules in Favor of Fair Use and Consumer Freedom – Edward Lee | HuffPo 4 August 2010
- Body Scan Images From Security Checkpoints Were Saved By Feds | HuffPo 4 August 2010
- Michael Hastings, Reporter Whose Rolling Stone Article Felled McChrystal, Denied Afghan Embed | AP 4 August 2010
- ‘Capture or Kill’: Germany Gave Names to Secret Taliban Hit List | SPIEGEL ONLINE 3 August 2010
- Where’s the oil? It’s oozing out of the Louisiana ground | Yahoo! News 3 August 2010
- Video sheds light on Indonesia military actions | AP 3 August 2010
- Desmond Tutu Rebukes Sri Lanka – The Lede Blog | NY Times 3 August 2010
- New Rules Stress G.I.s’ Limits in Afghan Fighting | NY Times 3 August 2010
- Wikileaks Must be Protected and Respected – George Donnelly | Arm your Mind for Liberty 3 August 2010
- U.N. panel removes 45 names from al Qaeda, Taliban blacklist | CNN 3 August 2010
- Pakistan Vies With Islamists to Aid Flood Victims – The Lede Blog | NY Times 3 August 2010
- Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Iraq Withdrawal That Isn’t (Video) | Little Alex in Wonderland 3 August 2010
- The Myths That Made an Empire – Bruce Fein | The American Conservative 3 August 2010
- Too Lazy To Read The Wikileaks Data? Here It Is, In Easily Digestable Video Format | zero hedge 3 August 2010
- Was there really a “nuclear revolution?” | Stephen M. Walt 3 August 2010
- Obama is a Foreign Policy Failure – Stephen M. Walt | FP Magazine 3 August 2010
- Republicans move to block US citizenship for children of illegal aliens | The Guardian 3 August 2010
- Sri Lanka arrests over 1,500 Tiger suspects: PM | AFP 3 August 2010
- China mines still deadly, as bosses ordered below | AP 3 August 2010
- 39 killed in Iraq attacks as Qaeda plants flag | AFP 3 August 2010
- Assad: We’ll support Lebanon in face of criminal Israeli aggression | Haaretz 3 August 2010
- New Evidence About Prisoners Held in Secret C.I.A. Prisons in Poland and Romania – Andy Worthington | Little Alex in Wonderland 3 August 2010
- Iran, Venezuela to form joint oil firm | Press TV 3 August 2010
- US Congressman calls for Wikileaks whistleblower to be executed – We don’t like whistleblowers in the army | TechEye 3 August 2010
- BREAKING: BP Just Got Hit With A $10 Billion Lawsuit That Has Nothing To Do With The Oil Spill | Business Insider 3 August 2010
- ACLU, CCR seek to have Obama enjoined from killing Awlaki without due process – Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com 3 August 2010
- Simon v. Simon – Charles Davis | false dichotomy 3 August 2010
- NYT: Pervasive surveillance is a serious threat — in China – Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com 3 August 2010
- Obama Drops 2009 Pledge to Withdraw Combat Troops from Iraq – Gareth Porter | IPS 3 August 2010
- Should The U.S. Kidnap WikiLeak’s Founder Julian Assange? – Swampland | TIME.com 3 August 2010
- Whistleblower: BP used dispersants to hide oil – Allison Kilkenny | Unreported 3 August 2010
- US official: Nuclear inspection in Syria possible | AP 3 August 2010
- The War in Afghanistan: Echoes of Vietnam – Noam Chomsky | Little Alex in Wonderland 3 August 2010
- Somali Islamists demand cash and jewelry for holy war | Reuters 3 August 2010
- Rwandan Ntawukulilyayo gets 25 years for genocide crime | BBC News 3 August 2010
- Sudan’s Bashir to visit Libya: state agency | AFP 3 August 2010
- Indian Kashmir protests after deaths | AFP 3 August 2010
- Faith in Obama’s handling of Afghan war at record low: poll | AFP 3 August 2010
- Report: Turkey could host advanced U.S. radar to confront Iran missile threat | Haaretz 3 August 2010
- Israel approves new east Jerusalem apartments | AP 3 August 2010
- Former Saddam official sentenced to death | AFP 3 August 2010
- Poll: Identity, blending in important to Hispanics | AP 3 August 2010
- Iraq’s Garden of Eden: Restoring the Paradise that Saddam Destroyed | SPIEGEL ONLINE 3 August 2010
- Special Report: China bets future on inland cities | Reuters 3 August 2010
- Army lawyer asks Supreme Court to stop Guantánamo trial | MiamiHerald.com 3 August 2010
- BP oil spill – the static kill explained | The Guardian 3 August 2010
- Pakistan’s Zardari says war with Taliban being lost | Reuters 3 August 2010
- BP Agrees on $1.9 Billion Colombia Sale to Ecopetrol, Talisman | BusinessWeek 3 August 2010
- Iran wants fighter jets back from US | Press TV 3 August 2010
- The latest developments in the oil spill | WaPo 3 August 2010
- N. Korea Threatens South Over Drills | NY Times 3 August 2010
- The Dark Side of the Boom: Chinese Fight Property Seizures by the State | SPIEGEL ONLINE 3 August 2010
Filed under: Daily Briefing Tagged: 14th Amendment, ACLU, Aegis System, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Quds, Allison Kilkenny, Allstate, Amazon, American Empire, Andy Worthington, Anwar al-Awlaki, Asif Ali Zardari, assimilation, Baathists, bailout, Bashar Assad, black sites, body scanners, BP, Bradley Manning, Bruce Fein, CCR, Charles Davis, China, Chuck Schumer, CIA, cluster bombs, COIN, Colombia, copyrights, Dahr Jamail, Death Penalty, Desmond Tutu, Dianne Feinstein, dispersants, domestic surveillance, DPRK, e-waste, East Jerusalem, economic sanctions, Ecopetrol, Ecuador oil drilling, Edward Lee, embed journalists, Eric Margolis, extrajudicial assassination, fair use, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Gareth Porter, gay marriage, Gaza, George Donnelly, Germany, Glenn Greenwald, Goldman Sachs, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, Hizbollah, human rghts, ICC, IED's, illegal immirgation, immigration, imperialism, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq withdrawal, IRGC, Islamic State of Iraq, Israel, Jeremy Scahill, JPEL, Julian Assange, Kagame, Kashmir, land grabbing, landmine treaty, Lebanon, Libya, LTTE, Marc Lynch, Marc Thiessen, Michael Hastings, Middle East, Mike Rogers, missile shields, Noam Chomsky, North Korea, nuclear revolution, nuclear weapons, NY Fed, NY Times, Obama, Obama Administration, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Omar Khadr, OTC derivatives, Pakistan, Pardiss Kebriaei, poverty, Prop 8, Prudential, Rwanda, Rwanda genocide, SCOTUS, SOFA, Somalia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, state capitalism, static kill, Status of Forces Agreement, Stephen Walt, Sudan, Syria, Taliban, Talisman, Tamil Tigers, TARP, Task Force 373, TF 373, Timothy Geithner, Tom Engelhardt, toxic assets, Treasury Department, TSA, Turkey, UN, UN Security Council, Venezuela, Wall Street, Wikileaks
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Evening Briefing—19th July 2010 2:45 pm / 19 July 2010 by Editors, at Little Alex in Wonderland
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
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