News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:
- India approves nuclear liability bill | PressTV 31 August 2010
- Rights Groups Sue U.S. on Effort to Kill Cleric | NY Times 31 August 2010
- Petraeus Finishes Guidelines for Afghan Security Transition | NY Times 31 August 2010
- Iran: Medical Reactor Fuel Ready in a Year | Antiwar.com 31 August 2010
- US Inexplicably Optimistic on Mideast Peace Talks | Antiwar.com 31 August 2010
- Do anarchists at tea parties really want to kill all politicians? – Ross Kenyon | CSMonitor.com 31 August 2010
- Second Newspaper Chain Joins Copyright Trolling Operation – David Kravets | Wired.com 31 August 2010
- Alleged WikiLeaks Leaker Hires Civilian Defense Attorney – Kim Zetter | Wired.com 31 August 2010
- U.S. to Use Drones on Entire U.S.-Mexico Border, Official Says | BusinessWeek 31 August 2010
- Kurds should make the most of a divided Baghdad – Ranj Alaaldin | The Guardian 31 August 2010
- SOUTH AFRICA: ‘Tea Bag’ Filter Provides Safe Drinking Water – Chris Stein | IPS 31 August 2010
- Food crisis looms after floods in Pakistan | McClatchy 31 August 2010
- Ron Paul questions whether there’s gold at Fort Knox, NY Fed | The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room 31 August 2010
- Department of Justice Lists Survivalists, Constitutionalists in Extremism Guide | Public Intelligence 31 August 2010
- Waiting for WikiLeaks: Beijing’s Seven Secrets | The New York Review of Books 31 August 2010
- Putin hints will return to Kremlin in 2012 | Reuters 31 August 2010
- NATO chief hopes for Nov Afghanistan handover deal: report | Reuters 31 August 2010
- Iraq: Mysterious killings spur panic in Iraq | LA Times 31 August 2010
- China media: Police accidentally killed Tibetan | AP 31 August 2010
- Kunduz Bombing Victim: ‘The Germans Lied to All of Us’ | SPIEGEL ONLINE 31 August 2010
- Police fire kills 11-year-old in Indian Kashmir | AP 31 August 2010
- Japan announces 920 billion yen stimulus package | AFP 31 August 2010
- Somali presidential palace shelled | AJ English 31 August 2010
- Somali Citizen Pleads Guilty to Acts of Piracy Against USS Ashland | allAfrica.com 31 August 2010
- India Restates Role in Piracy War | allAfrica.com 31 August 2010
- How ACORN Helped Save New Orleans for Katrina Survivors – John Atlas | HuffPo 31 August 2010
- Genocide Denier Running Secret Ops in Pakistan? – Jayne Lyn Stahl | HuffPo 31 August 2010
- If You Disagree With Me, the Terrorists Have Won – Dylan Brody | HuffPo 31 August 2010
- U.S. Military Loses Control Of Subcontractor Spending, Warlords Benefit | HuffPo 31 August 2010
- ‘Israel deprives inmates of medical care’ | PressTV 31 August 2010
- Iran, Bolivia reject ‘world unilateralism’ | PressTV 31 August 2010
- UN investigators to probe Gaza flotilla raid | AFP 30 August 2010
- Drug war intensifies in Mexico | AFP 30 August 2010
- Iraq recovers 90 percent of US computers: customs | AFP 30 August 2010
- Mahmoud Abbas: If talks fail over settlements, only Israel will be to blame | Haaretz 30 August 2010
- China to Job-Seeking C.E.O.’s – Come Work for Us | NY Times 30 August 2010
- Location Sites Experiment to Attract Mainstream Users | NY Times 30 August 2010
- With Neighbors Unaware, Toxic Spill at a BP Plant | NY Times 30 August 2010
- Immigrants on Trains Near Northern Border Detained | NY Times 30 August 2010
- Iran Transfers Assets Out of European Banks | NY Times 30 August 2010
- U.S. Commander Fears Political Stalemate in Iraq | NY Times 30 August 2010
- CIA training Sudan’s spies as Obama officials fight over policy – Jeff Stein | WaPo 30 August 2010
- In Defense of the Kochtopus – Justin Raimondo | Antiwar.com 30 August 2010
- Thinking Patterns of Pakistan’s Youth – Muhammad Amir Rana | The AfPak Channel 30 August 2010
- What to Read About the “Direct Talks” (and why you should still be pessimistic) | Stephen M. Walt 30 August 2010
- The Billionaire Prince – Simon Henderson | Foreign Policy 30 August 2010
- Report: Hezbollah, Syria to join forces in future clash with Israel | Haaretz 30 August 2010
- Lawsuit challenges Obama’s power to kill citizens without due process – Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com 30 August 2010