Evening Briefing—16th Sept 2010

News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:

Report: $2.75bn U.S. Fighter Jet Welfare to Israel Approved While One in Seven Americans Live in Poverty

20 F-35’s purchased by Israel will be ‘entirely funded’ by the U.S. military.

Daily Briefing—4th Aug 2010

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Daily Briefing—14th-15th July 2010

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Daily Briefing—12th-13th July 2010

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Evening Briefing—24th June 2010

News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:

Chomsky’s Lectern: ‘The Role of the Radical Intellectual—Some Personal Reflections’ (Video)

Earlier this month, in Madison, WI, Professor Noam Chomsky reflected on:

• His early personal exposure to anarchism and activism through people we wouldn’t today call ‘intellectuals’, but the insight of ‘everyday people’;
• The crushing of liberation ventures by “fascism, Stalinism and liberal democracies” and the “miraculous sympathy and humanity” of the most brutally oppressed from Vietnam to Palestine to Southern Colombia;
• His introduction to the “intellectual class” of “liberal democrat” gatekeepers during his graduate studies and its manipulation of the word “enemy” for “conquerors”, ‘radical rewrite’ of John F. Kennedy’s “legacy” to communicate him as a “dove” after the Tet Offensive, ‘liberal imperialists’  and their ‘unprincipled’ objection to the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a “strategic blunder” showing its ‘deeply rooted imperial mentality’;
• The validity of the “Tea Party Movement”, the “big business community” and their love for Obama, the “owners of society” and how policy is engineered for “their interests”;
• The “global shift in power” from the “workforce to multinational capital” making China a giant “assembly plant”, the financial community’s ‘rational externality’ of “systemic risk” for “institutional reasons” provided by the “Nanny State”, the “doom loop” of government bailouts that provide incentive for those in power to create “financial crises”;
• The “moving” and “articulate”, though “ridiculed”, “manifesto” of terrorist Joe Stack before his suicide bombing (57:48):

Daily Briefing—14th April 2010

News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:

Gary Chartier: Advocates of Freed Markets Should Oppose Capitalism (Video)

The presentation of Prof. Chartier’s argument that ‘freed markets are anti-capitalist’ posted here.

Part One (9:22):

Arundhati Roy: ‘What is Peace? We Need Resistance and Not Just on the Weekends’ (Video)

Indian author and dissident Arundhati Roy calls democracy “the biggest scam on Earth” in a climate where so-called ‘democracies’ are the driving forces of war, poverty and disenfranchisement. She provides harsh, educated critiques of the American Empire and India’s U.S.-enabled occupation of Kashmir and oppression within in an interview with Amy Goodman and Anjali Kamat at Democracy Now!

Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace “Anti-Capitalism”

C4SS Advisory Panel member Prof. Gary Chartier will be giving the following presentation to the Association of Private Enterprise Education at the Free Market Anti-Capitalism session during their Annual Conference in April. A PDF version of this presentation is available for download.

Shoot the Samaritan

via Kyle Munzenrieder at the Miami New Times blog:

A proposed ordinance will come before the Miami Commission next month that would make it illegal for unauthorized people and groups to feed the homeless in Park West. Commission Chair Marc Sarnoff and other city officials spoke with Miami Today like the homeless in Miami are as disposable and worthless as excess pigeons.

(h/t: Marc Parent)

Gaza: A Prison by the Sea (Video)

The U.S.-Israel-Egypt blockade forced on Gazans has turned it into—what AntiWar Radio host Scott Horton calls—“a prison by the sea”. This documentary for al Jazeera (AJE), Locked In: Life in Gaza by George Azar and Mariam Shahin, looks into the everyday life of Munzer al-Dayyeh, a 40-year-old mechanic supporting a family of eight children in the Gaza Strip. “It’s like we are orphaned,” he says.

Part One (12:06):

Moldova’s ‘Twitter Revolution’: Made in America?

Legislative Aide to Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) Daniel McAdams writes on the LewRockwell.com blog that this could very well be a US-funded experiment or display to enhance global obedience to broke — therefore, dwindling — superpower.

A Statist Intervention

Freedomain Radio host Stefan Molyneux makes the argument against Statism for those who believe government is or can be ‘good’.