Government Extortion Blocks Reconstruction in Gaza (Video)

via Al Jazeera English: ‘Thousands of Palestinians lost their homes during Israel’s war on Gaza last year. The task of rebuilding houses is made hard by Israel’s siege of the Strip. But Palestinians also say that a local government fee is hindering rebuilding. Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Phillips reports from Gaza.’ Mouin Rabbani, Institute of Palestinian Rights, discusses the “overzealous bureaucracy” of Hamas:

Finkelstein on the Gaza Massacre’s Impact on Israeli Geopolitics (Video)

Yesterday on Al Jazeera English’s “The Riz Khan Show”: Libertarian socialist Professor Norman Finkelstein discussed the ’08-’09 unlawful Gaza Massacre as a deliberate effort by Israel to “humiliate and terrorize” the Gazan population, its consequences for Israel on the domestic and international stage and the ‘two-state solution’ in light of his latest book on last year’s offensive, This Time We Went Too Far. He also describes why it is incorrect to call Israel’s offensive of over a year ago, a ‘war’, but a “premeditated slaughter, a massacre”. He also takes live callers with questions.

Socialist Worker on ‘When Wall Street Loves Reform’

The I.S.O.’s publication editorializes on why the “the Democratic Party is celebrating health care reform—and so is Corporate America”.

When a Union Acts Like a Big Corporation

Carl Finamore’s report from S.E.I.U.’s civil trial against a California break-away union.

Daily Briefing–31st March 2010

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

How ‘Progressives’ Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the F.B.I.

Anthony Gregory at The Independent Institute blog, The Beacon, on the ‘progressive’ media’s embrace of government thugs at war with people.

Radical Healthcare Reform: An Anarchist Approach (Video)

A talk by Gary Chartier for the Center for a Stateless Society on his article of the same name posted here; how to cut the cost of care by abolishing monopoly privilege.

S.E.I.U. Puts Squeeze on Workers Who Want to Organize

The Service Employees International Union (S.E.I.U.) have spent a “an estimated $10 million to sue 26 individuals who are former officers, organizers and staffers of S.E.I.U.’s third-largest chapter, the California-based United Healthcare Workers West (U.H.W.)”—whose board voted to break away soon after the Big Labor giant seized control.

Obama’s Violent Pacification

Kathy Kelly on the Obama Administration’s war crimes in Afghanistan and a ‘pacified’ America.

Extrajudicial Targeted Assassinations Not Included in State-Sanctioned Execution Numbers

Amnesty International documented 714 executions were committed in 2009 onto those formally sentenced to death. The report is clear that China’s secrecy forces them to exclude its numbers, but something else is missing.

Daily Briefing—30th March 2010

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

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Help/Direction Request on a Wikipedia Account Registered Today

I just registered an account on Wikipedia and am seeking help/suggestions as a wikin00b.

Daily Briefing—29th March 2010

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

Left: Against The Capitalistical Imperative

Response to: “Ayn Rand was, at least rhetorically speaking, a capitalist and an anti-libertarian. Shouldn’t we libertarians regard this as significant when considering the value of the term ‘capitalist’?”