News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:
- BREAKING NEWS: South Korean ship with 100 on board sinking after torpedo attack ‘by North Korea’ | Mail Online 26 March 2010
- Obama Presses for $33 Billion War Supplement | Antiwar.com 26 March 2010 — In a move that was widely expected, Obama Administration officials headed to the Senate to press for approval of a $33 billion war supplemental bill, with most of the money going to pay for the Afghan War.
- Despite ‘Tensions,’ US OKs Massive Arms Shipment to Israel | Antiwar.com 26 March 2010 — As reports continue to fly about the ever-worsening relationship between the Obama Administration and Israel’s Netanyahu government, it is business as usual for the nations’ defense establishments, which today reached an agreement on a $210 million arms deal.
- Have a Nice World War, Folks by John Pilger | Antiwar.com 26 March 2010 — Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and now the Horn of Africa. In preparation for an attack on Iran, American missiles have been placed in four Persian Gulf states, and “bunker-buster” bombs are said to be arriving at the US base on the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
- Bibi’s Hollow Victory by Patrick J. Buchanan | Antiwar.com 26 March 2010 ‘There is now visible daylight between U.S. and Israeli policy for all the world to see. And America cannot back down without eviscerating her credibility in the Arab and Muslim world’
- Liberals with guns: scarier than Tea Partiers by Charles Davis 25 March 2010 — ‘ Considering that U.S. government imprisons more of its own citizens than any other in the history, with 25 percent of the world’s prisoners; that it has more military bases in more countries than any previous empire in history, and has killed millions of people from Iraq to Vietnam; and that its current head, Barack Obama, is openly targeting for extrajudicial killing Americans and foreigners alike, one might ask: why is a liberal magazine so concerned about this state’s legitimacy?’
- International Uproar over Uganda Anti-Gay Bill, Study Finds American Evangelicals Encouraging Homophobia | DN! 25 March 2010 — ‘Proposed anti-gay legislation in Uganda has sparked international uproar. Homosexuality is already illegal in Uganda, but the new bill would impose much harsher punishments including life imprisonment and even the death penalty for some homosexual acts. We speak with a leading Ugandan gay rights organizer and a Zambian priest who has documented the role of American evangelicals in fostering homophobia in Uganda.’
- Whistleblower Exposes JP Morgan’s Silver Manipulation Scheme | zero hedge 26 March 2010 — On March 23, 2010, GATA Director Adrian Douglas was contacted by a whistleblower by the name of Andrew Maguire. Maguire is a metals trader in London. He has been told first-hand by traders working for JPMorganChase that JPMorganChase manipulates the precious metals markets, and they have bragged to how they make money doing so.
- Despite Drawdown, Big Bucks for Baghdad Embassy Security by Nathan Hodge | Wired.com 26 March 2010 — According to a new audit by the department’s Office of the Inspector General, or IG, the department has paid one company — Triple Canopy — a whopping $438 million to guard the embassy in Baghdad since mid-2005.
- A free man at last | Socialist Worker 26 March 2010 — Marlene Martin of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty spends a day with Marvin Reeves—a victim of Chicago police torturers who was finally exonerated and freed.
- The Hidden Cost of DNA Banking by Patricia Williams | The Nation 25 March 2010
- More than 250 Congress members declare commitment to ‘unbreakable’ U.S.-Israel bond | Haaretz 25 March 2010
- Murray Rothbard on free banking by Wendy McElroy 25 March 2010
- Obama appoints new chief for war court at Guantanamo | McClatchy 26 March 2010
- Towards a World Day of the Commons, a proposal | P2P Foundation 26 March 2010
- Hitler’s book banned as extremist | RT 26 March 2010
- ‘Arab summit is political theatre’ | Al Jazeera English 26 March 2010
- US and Russia agree nuclear deal | Al Jazeera English 26 March 2010
- Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai rejects gay rights move | BBC 26 March 2010
- Report: IDF kills two Palestinians on Gaza border | Haaretz 26 March 2010
- China Bars Scholar From Traveling to U.S. | NYTimes 26 March 2010
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Health Bill ‘Pro-Business’ | NYTimes 26 March 2010
- U.S. and Mexican Officers Team Up on Either Side of Border | NYTimes 26 March 2010
- Proposals to limit trading of fish rejected at global conference | WaPo 26 March 2010
- Venezuela arrests chief of Globovision news channel | LA Times 26 March 2010
- S.E.C. to Review Use of Derivatives in Some Funds | NYTimes 26 March 2010
- Health Care Anger, Anarchist Solutions by Darian Worden 26 March 2010
- Drug War Shame: Severely Ill Man Fired, Cut from Health Care | Antiwar.com 26 March 2010
- California to hold referendum on legalising marijuana | Telegraph 25 March 2010
- Europe agrees IMF-EU ‘rescue’ for Greece | Telegraph 25 March 2010
- ‘Scandal hidden in secret vaults’ | AJ English 25 March 2010
- Thai ‘red shirts’ step up anti-government protest | FT 25 March 2010
- Judge Strikes Down Racist Rental Ordinance | NBC Dallas-Fort Worth 25 March 2010
- ‘KopBusters’ Couple Lose Son Over Misdemeanor Pot Charge by Stephen C. Webster | True/Slant 25 March 2010
- The Fed Emperor Has No Clothes | LewRockwell.com Blog 25 March 2010
