News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:
- Exotic dancer gets SAfrica debt law changed | AP 26 August 2010
- South African strikers rally in major cities | AFP 26 August 2010
- U.S. Scans Afghan Inmates for Biometric Database – Spencer Ackerman | Wired.com 26 August 2010
- Somalia has a role model for success on its doorstep – Ioan Lewis | The Guardian 26 August 2010
- Wal-Mart Asks Supreme Court to Weigh In on Bias Suit | NY Times 26 August 2010
- Is the United States in Danger of Collapse? | Stephen M. Walt 26 August 2010
- Petraeus: Reconciliation With Taliban is ‘Ultimate Goal’ | Antiwar.com 26 August 2010
- US Mulls Escalating Drone Attacks in Yemen | Antiwar.com 26 August 2010
- Mossad in America – Philip Giraldi | The American Conservative 26 August 2010
- Key Karzai Aide in Corruption Inquiry Is Linked to C.I.A. | NY Times 26 August 2010
- Cops receive extra pay for brutally beating an honor roll student | Cop Block 26 August 2010
- At Least 86 Iraqis, Many Security Forces, Killed in Strikes | Antiwar.com 26 August 2010
- Will BP Own Up to the Real Flow Rate? | Mother Jones 26 August 2010
- Wikileaks posts classified CIA memo | MWC News 26 August 2010
- Ground Zero’s Slave Graves | Mother Jones 26 August 2010
- Army: Soldiers plotted to kill Afghan civilians | Seattle Times 26 August 2010
- Shhhhhh! JSOC is Hiring Interrogators and Covert Operatives for ‘Special Access Programs’ – Jeremy Scahill | The Nation 25 August 2010
- Scaring White People For Fun & Profit! 25 August 2010
- SA@TAC – Iraq and the Big Picture 25 August 2010
- Inside Story – Whistle blowers: ‘Criminals’ or the future of journalism? 25 August 2010
- UN says 800,000 cut off by Pakistan floods | AP 25 August 2010
- Pre-Crime Software? – Jim Harper | Cato @ Liberty 25 August 2010
- Oil spill panel hears about Halliburton warning | AP 25 August 2010
- Law and Disorder – After Katrina, New Orleans Cops Were Told They Could Shoot Looters | ProPublica 25 August 2010
- Pakistan recovery ‘to take years’ | AJ English 25 August 2010
- The Disappearing Gulf Oil Plumes Redux – Ronald Bailey | Reason Magazine 24 August 2010