Congressional Democrats exploit public outrage to enact a proposal ‘with which people are more comfortable’.
Archive for April, 2010
ACLU: National ID Card Mandate, Worker Fingerprinting Database Masqueraded as ‘Immigration Reform’
Posted: 30 April 2010 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: 287(g), ACLU, Andrew Napolitano, Anis Shivani, Arizona, Big Brother, comprehensive immigration reform, Congress, conservatives, Daniel Tencer, Democrats, Ezra Klein, Hegelian Dialectic, immigration, law, national ID, national ID card, Newspeak, Nina Bernstein, politics, problem-reaction-solution, progressives, REAL ID, Republicans, SB 1070, Venita Gupta
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Daily Briefing—30th April 2010
Posted: 30 April 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, ALCU, CIA, Dan Pearson, David Cameron, Dyncorp, economic crisis, financial crisis, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Goldman Sachs, Haiti, Hillary Clinton, illegal immigration, immigration, India, Iran, Iraq War, Kashmir, Kathy Kelly, Kevin Carson, labor unions, Matthew Hoh, Max Keiser, media, Michael Medved, Mir Housein Mousavi, Mumbai attacks, national ID card, neoconservatives, NPT, Omar Khadr, Pakistan, PTSD, Puerto Rico, rape, Republicans, Robert Fisk, Syria, torture, UK elections
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
Report: Chronic Rape, Torture and Kidnapping—A Crisis of Prohibited Migration
Posted: 29 April 2010 by Sayyid in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Amnesty International, CNDH, fascism, human rights, human rights abuses, immigration, kidnapping, libertarian, Mariana Sanchez, Mexico, murder, rape, Tim Johnson, torture, US
A new Amnesty International report displays the sick industry of human trafficking created by Draconian U.S. immigration law. Mariana Sanchez reports of the ‘kidnapping, torture, rape and murder’ at Al Jazeera English
Tunneling for Life in Gaza
Posted: 29 April 2010 by Editors in Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: agorism, airstrikes, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Egypt, fascism, Gaza, Gaza blockade, human rights, international law, Israel, Max Ajl, Middle East, Palestine-Israel, Palestinians, tunnel smuggling, UNRWA, Zionism
Max Ajl on the tunnel smuggling nightmare created by Israel’s unlawful blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Daily Briefing—29th April 2010
Posted: 29 April 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Mumbai attacks, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, UN, China, US, Iraq, Iraq War, Venezuela, Israel, nuclear proliferation, Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza, Baghdad, Hamas, nuclear weapons, NATO, Justin Raimondo, Syria, War on Terror, Japan, Egypt, UNRWA, Ban Ki-moon, Gideon Levy, NPR, Cuba, Islam, James Risen, drones, ACLU, Australia, Belgium, Kandahar, Wikileaks, SCOTUS, NPT, Rachel Maddow, abortion, NY Times, Supreme Court, Honduras, immigration, MI5, Baitullah Meshud, airstrikes, Okinawa, Gaza blockade, racial profiling, military tribunals, New Baghdad Massacre, Collateral Murder, Tooryalai Wesa, Greece bailout, Omar Khadr, journalist shield, Tlaiban, Pakistani Taliban, May Day, Iraq election, Salam Fayyad, Amed Wali Karzai, Oklahoma, Mexico drug war, Jacob Hornberger, Stephen Lendman, 7/7 London bombing, extradition
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
Report: Secret Baghdad Prison Detainees Describe Brutal Torture, Rape, Humiliation
Posted: 28 April 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Abu Ghraib, Al Rusafa Detention Center, American Empire, Antavillai, Ayad Allawi, Baghdad, Bagram Air Base, black jails, CIA, democracy, HRW, Human Rights Watch, immigrat jail, imperialism, Iraq, Iraq Civil War, Iraq elections, Iraq War, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, lithuania, Muthanna, Ned Parker, Ninveh, Nouri al-Maliki, NYC, Obama Administration, OLC, Sam Dagher, secret prisons, sectarianism, Sheik Abdullah Humed, stress positions, torture, Varick Street Detention Center
42 men interviewed describe similar accounts of being extensively tortured while in captivity at a Baghdad prison, secret until recently.
Benjamin Tucker: Who is the Somebody?
Posted: 28 April 2010 by Editors in Philosophy, Political ScienceTags: anarchism, anti-Statism, banking, Benjamin Tucker, capital, capitalism, corporatism, currency, economics, economy, Federal Reserve, fiat money, free market, free markets, individualist anarchism, interest rates, labor, labor theory of property, land monopoly, law, libertarian, liberty, LTP, market-anarchism, money monopoly, Newspeak, Philosophy, property rights, rent, US, usury
Benjamin Tucker on the source of capital, first published in a 6 Aug 1881 issue of Liberty, and later in his classic, Instead of a Book, by a Man Too Busy to Write One.
Afghanistan Clusterfuck in One Picture
Posted: 28 April 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, ANP, ANSF, ASF, COIN, counterinsurgency, insurgency, ISAF, narco-terrorism, NATO, Obama Administration, Stanley McChrystal, terrorism, US, War, War on Terror
“When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” General Stanley McChrystal, commander of the U.S.-led occupation in Afghanistan, said in a briefing, the Daily Mail reports.
Justin Raimondo is Wrong on Immigration
Posted: 28 April 2010 by Editors in National News, Political ScienceTags: anarchism, anti-Statism, AntiWar.com, Arizona, civil rights, drug cartels, drug war, free markets, Homeland Security, human rights, illegal immigration, immigration, IRA, Jim Crow, Justin Raimondo, law, libertarian, liberty, Newspeak, progressives, prohibition, SB 1070, undocumented workers, US, War on Drugs
Little Alex and Sayyid’s joint response to an editor of AntiWar.com’s stance against open borders.
Daily Briefing—28th April 2010
Posted: 28 April 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Abu Zubaydah, Afghanistan, anarcho-capitalism, Arizona, AstraZeneca, Ayad Allawi, Bush Administration, CCR, fair use, Gaza, Guantanamo, Hamas, immigration, Israel, Lew Rockwell, Middle East, Noam Chomsky, Omar Khadr, Peru, political prisoners, racism, Red Shirts, SB 1070, secret immigrant prisons, Skunk Truck, Somalia, Spain, Taliban, TARP, terrorist, Thailand, universal jurisdiction, voluntaryism
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
Benjamin Tucker: The Right of Ownership
Posted: 27 April 2010 by Editors in Philosophy, Political ScienceTags: anarchism, Benjamin Tucker, free markets, Hugo Bilgram, law, libertarian, liberty, market-anarchism, Philosophy, property rights
Benjamin Tucker on property rights in an anarchist society, in response to a letter. This letter was first published in an 1890 issue of Liberty and later in his classic, Instead of a Book, by a Man Too Busy to Write One.
RAND to U.S.: Learn Lessons From Israel’s Massacres in Lebanon and Gaza
Posted: 27 April 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, drones, fascism, Gaza Massacre, Goldstone Report, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, human rights, IDF, international law, Iraq War, Israel, Israel-Lebanon War, Kandahar Surge, Lebanon, libertarian, Middle East, Newspeak, night raids, Obama Administration, Palestine-Israel, Pentagon, RAND Corporation, terrorism, US, US Army, War, War on Terror, Zionism
The Beltway, quasi-government think-tank of warmongerers provides a sick glimpse into the craniums of how governments approach war.
More Than 40 Lobbyists ‘Infesting the Obama Adminsitration’
Posted: 27 April 2010 by Sayyid in National News, Political ScienceTags: banking, corporatism, corruption, Daivd Hayes, Gabriella Gomez, Goldman Sachs, Gus Lubin, Krysta Harden, lobbyists, Mark Patterson, Michael Taylor, military industrial complex, Newspeak, Obama, Obama Administration, Raytheon, US, Wall Street, William Lynn, William Wilkins
Mini-profiles on 20 of the lobbyists in the president’s administration that he promised wouldn’t be there.
