Evening Briefing–22rd July 2010

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