Amidst “security concerns”, the heroic Julian Assange has canceled a scheduled trip to speak today in Las Vegas after appearing remotely to a New York scheduled appearance, earlier in the week.
Archive for June, 2010
Report: Wikileaks Founder ‘Hunted by the Pentagon’
Posted: 11 June 2010 by Little Alex in International AffairsTags: Afghanistan, AntiWar radio, Bradley Manning, Bush Administration, Collateral Murder, Daniel Ellsburg, Defense Department, Dylan Ratigan, fascism, Garani Massacre, government transparency, Granai Massacre, Iraq War, Julian Assange, Kevin Poulson, Kim Zetter, libertarian, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Pentagon, Philip Shenon, Scott Horton, torture, US, US Army, US military, Vietnam War, West Baghdad Massacre, whistleblowers, Wikileaks
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BP: Cleanup Workers Using Safety Equipment ‘Would Only Spread Hysteria’, R.F.K. Center Finds
Posted: 11 June 2010 by Sayyid in National NewsTags: 2-butoxyethanol, benzene, BP, BP cleanup workers, corporatism, David Edwards, Elana Schor, Eric Bolling, FNC, FOX News, Franklin Mirer, Gulf oil spill, health, Kerry Kennedy, libertarian, Megyn Kelly, Newspeak, NIOSH, OSHA, US
BP cleanup workers are being ‘discouraged’ from using equipment like respirators because it makes for bad-looking pictures, R.F.K. Center President Kerry Kennedy tells F.N.C.
Daily Briefing—11th June 2010
Posted: 11 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, AIG, airstrikes, Anastasio Rojas, Andy Worthington, Bagram Air Base, Bolivia, BP, China, CIA, debtor prisons, drones, Egypt, EU, European Union, Federal Reserve, Frank Chavez, Goldman Sachs, Google, Green Revolution, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, Hamid Karzai, Hugo Chavez, IAEA, INA, indigenous people, Iran, Iran elections, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi National Alliance, John Byrne, labor unions, Latin America, Pakistan, renminbi, Russia, Shahram Amiri, smoking bans, South America, Spain, Taliban, TARP, terrorism, Turkey, UNSC, US, Venezuela, Vincent Fernando, War on Terror, William Fisher
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
Daily Briefing—10th June 2010
Posted: 10 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: 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
U.S. Border Agent Murders 14-Year-Old Mexican… in Mexico
Posted: 9 June 2010 by Little Alex in National NewsTags: Amnesty International, Anastasio Rojas, Andrea Simmons, Augustin Reyes, Customs and Border Patrol, human rights, immigration, LA Times, libertarian, Obama Administration, Oscar Ayala, Paso del Norte, Sergio Hernandez, US
Two weeks after a border agent killed a father of five with a Taser, the F.B.I. OK’s the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol murder of a Mexican teenager across the U.S.-Mexico border
Treasury: U.S. Debt to Near $20 Trillion by 2015
Posted: 9 June 2010 by Sayyid in National News, Political ScienceTags: economy, Federal Reserve, fiat money, GDP, GSE, libertarian, national debt, Newspeak, Obama Administration, SSNs, Timothy Geithner, Tyler Durden, US, Zero Hedge
As the government projects its debt to reach $19.6tn by 2015, it also asserts the debt will not surpass GDP…. lolwut?!
BP Still Fuels Pentagon For Billions and Iraq Oil
Posted: 9 June 2010 by Sayyid in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: ACORN, BP, BP Gulf oil spill, corporatism, CPC, Dan Froomkin, Deepwater Horizon, Defense Department, fascism, Flow Rate Technical Group, Ira Leifer, Jeremy Scahill, Majnoon, Middle East, military industrial complex, Newspeak, no-bid contracts, Obama Administration, Pentagon, Royal Dutch Shell, Rumaila, Tony Hayward, US, War, War on Terror
BP in bed with the perpetual war machine, benefiting far past its $2bn annual contract with the Pentagon.
Daily Briefing—9th June 2010
Posted: 9 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, Agent Orange, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Alan Grayson, Andy Worthington, Bagram Air Base, border patrol, BP Gulf oil spill, Bradley Manning, Brazil, Britain, Chicago Police, China, civilian surge, Darfur, Dennis Kucinich, DPRK, economic sanctions, EU, European Union, Foxconn, France, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza blockade, Gitmo, gold, Guantanamo Bay, Honda, immigration, India, Iran, Iran elections, IRGC, Israel, Japan, Jundallah, Kandahar Surge, MEK, Mir Housein Mousavi, national debt, Noam Chomsky, North Korea, NPT, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, peace jirga, public opinion, Shahram Amiri, South Korea, Sudan, Taliban, tariffs, terrorism, TORDAN, Turkey, UK, UN Security Council, UNSC, Vietnam War, War, War of Terror, Yemen
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
Agent Orange Cleanup ‘Expected to Start Next Year’
Posted: 8 June 2010 by Little Alex in International AffairsTags: Agent Orange, Andrew Shapiro, Chicago Tribune, dioxin, human rights, Jason Grotto, Tim Jones, US, Vietnam War, War, war crime
The chemical weapon sprayed during the U.S. government’s crimes of aggression against Vietnam destroys and deforms lives to this day.
Report: U.S.-Backed Shah’ist ‘Terror Group’ in Iran
Posted: 8 June 2010 by Sayyid in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, Ali Motlaq, Asso Ahmed, covert operations, economic sanctions, Forud Fuladwand, Gaza blockade, Iran, Iraq War, Iraqi Kurdistan, Israel, Jason Ditz, Junallah, Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, Mehdi Eslamian, MEK, Middle East, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi], Mohsen Eslamian, Mujahedin-e-Khalq, PJAK, Press TV, Radio Farda, Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, terrorism, TORDAN, UNSC, US, War, War on Terror
A TONDAR member in Iranian custody tells the State-run media his connection to the group originated through a U.S.-run media corporation.
Daily Briefing—8th June 2010
Posted: 8 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Alan Fisher, Anastasio Hernandez, AntiWar Radi, AntiWar radio, Arab League, Ben Smith, Bhopal, Blackwater, BP, Bradley Manning, Brian Ross, Chicago Public Schools, China, Chris Hedges, Christofascists, CIA, Collateral Murder, Congo, Costa Rica, CPS, David Friedman, DPRK, DRC, economic sanctions, Egypt, Erik Prince, eurozone, Farah Massacre, Felipe Calderon, free market, Garani Massacre, Gaza blackade, gold, Granai Massacre, Guatemala, healthcare, Honda, IAEA, immigration, Iran, Iraq War, Jeff Stein, Kevin Carson, Kurdistan, labor unions, Maggie Hberman, Mexico, Mexico drug war, national debt, NATO, Noah Shachtman, North Korea, PTSD, Red Crescent, Saudi Arabia, Scott Horton, Somalia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, stem cell research, tasers, terrorism, The Machinery of Freedom, UN Security Council, war crimes, Wikileaks, Xe
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Sri Lanka ‘Will Hang’ Former Army Chief for War Crimes Investigation Participation
Posted: 7 June 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Anna Neistat, Arundhati Roy, BBC, China, corporatism, Cuba, detention camps, Geneva Conventions, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, HardTalk, human rights, Human Rights Watch, IHL, India, international humanitarian law, international law, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, LTTE, Mahinda Rajapakse, Manmohan Singh, Pakistan, Pratibha Patil, Rajavarothayam Sambanthan, Rajiv Gandhi assassination, Russia, Sarath Fonseka, SLAF, Sonia Gandhi, Sri Lanka, Stephen Sackur, Sutirtho Patranobis, Tajikistan, Tamil Tigers, UN, UN Security Council, UNHRC, UNSC, Uzbekistan, Venezuela
The Sri Lankan defense minister has threatened to hang a parliament member, recently resigned from the S.L.A.F., if he exposes the country’s war crimes against the Tamils. The suppression of the war crimes during the country’s quarter-century civil war and the government’s forging alliances have dangerous potential.
Report: Human Experimentation at the Heart of Bush Administration Torture Program
Posted: 7 June 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Abu Zubaydah, Brent Mickum, Bush Administration, Campaign Against Torture, CIA, Department of Justice, fascism, Frank Donaghue, Geneva Conventions, HIG, High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, human rights, ICRC, indefinite detention, international law, Jane Mayer, Jason Leopold, Jay Bybee, Jeffrey Kaye, John Durham, John Yoo, law, Military Commissions Act, Nathaniel Raymond, Newspeak, Obama, Obama Administration, OHRP, OLC, OPR, Paul Gimigliano, PHR, Physicians for Human Rights, PSYOPS, Red Cross, Stephen Soldz, Steven Bradbury, torture, torture memos, US, war crimes, War Crimes Act, War on Terror, waterboarding
Jason Leopold reports on the Physicians for Human Rights report, “Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Program.”
AntiWar Radio Extended One Hour and to Five Days a Week!
Posted: 7 June 2010 by Editors in International AffairsTags: AntiWar radio, AntiWar.com, libertarian, media, Newspeak, Scott Horton
Angela Keaton: Antiwar Radio can now be heard Monday through Friday, 12-3pm Eastern at Liberty Radio Network.
