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By MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI

Huge quantities of methane have entered the Gulf, scientists say, potentially suffocating marine life and creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives. "This is the most vigorous methane eruption in modern human history," Kessler said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25764.htm



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By Ray McGovern, Daniel Ellsberg and Coleen Rowley

It is a safe bet that NSA, CIA, FBI and other agencies have been instructed to do all possible to make an example of Wikileaks leader, Australian-born Julian Assange, and his colleagues. Much is at stake -- for both Pentagon and freedom of the press.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25758.htm



The Strange and Consequential Case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks

By Glenn Greenwald

From the start, this whole story was quite strange for numerous reasons. In an attempt to obtain greater clarity about what really happened here, I've spent the last week reviewing everything I could related to this case and speaking with several of the key participants (including Lamo, with whom I had a one-hour interview last night that can be heard on the recorder below.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25767.htm



Victory for WikiLeaks in Iceland's Parliament

At 4 a.m. on Thursday, at the end of an all-night session, Iceland's Parliament, the Althing, voted unanimously in favor of a package of legislation aimed at making the country a haven for freedom of expression by offering legal protection to whistle-blower Web sites like WikiLeaks, which helped to craft the proposal.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/victory-for-wikileaks-in-icelands-parliament/



WikiLeaks part II: Adrian Lamo responds

The hacker at the heart of yesterday's post about WikiLeaks and military espionage responds with corrections and new info.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/wikileaks-part-ii-adrian-lamo-responds-580-0



WikiLeaks Preparing to Release Video of Alleged U.S. 'Massacre' in Afghanistan

As the founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks remains underground in fear that the U.S. will detain him, the site is preparing to release a leaked video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan that is said to be more shocking than the Iraqi video that sent its controversial leader into hiding.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/wikileaks-preparing-release-video-alleged-us-massacre-afghanistan/story?id=10954929



Pentagon Rebuffs Leaker's Lawyers

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hired lawyers to represent the Army intel analyst accused of leaking State Dept. secrets. But the Pentagon sent them away. Philip Shenon reports.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-18/wikileaks-/



Stop Trying to Hide the Truth from Us

By Kevin Zeese

The peace movement needs to stand with Bradley Manning and Wikileaks in their efforts to let Americans see the truth about what the military is doing in our name.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25993.htm


From Information Clearing House

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WikiLeaks Aftermath Puts Spotlight on Obama Administration's Crackdown on Whistleblowers

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy NOW!: "Pentagon investigators are reportedly still searching for Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, who helped release a classified US military video showing a US helicopter gunship indiscriminately firing on Iraqi civilians. The US military recently arrested Army Specialist Bradley Manning, who may have passed on the video to Wikileaks."

http://www.truth-out.org/wikileaks-aftermath-puts-spotlight-obama-administrations-crackdown-whistleblowers60542

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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Rowley, McGovern and Ellsberg -- Statement on Wikileaks

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/18-12

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WikiLeaks May Be Under Attack - Courage Is Contagious

One of our alleged sources, a young US intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning, has been detained and shipped to a US military prison in Kuwait, where he is being held without trail. Mr. Manning is alleged to have acted according to his conscious and leaked to us the Collateral Murder video and the video of a massacre that took place in Afghanistan last year at Garani. The Garani massacre, which we are still working on, killed over 100 people, mostly children. Mr. Manning was allegedly exposed after talking to an unrelated "journalist" who then worked with the US government to detain him. WikiLeaks a small organization going through enormous growth and operating in an advers arial, high-security environment which can make communication time consuming and the acquisition of new staff and volunteers, also difficult since they require high levels of trust. To try and deal with our growth and the current difficult situation, we want to get you to work together with our other supporters to set up a "Friends of WikiLeaks" group in your area. We have multiple supporters in most countries and would like to see them be a strong and independent force. Please write to friends@sunshinepress.org if you are interested in helping with Friends of WikiLeaks in your area. You will receive further instructions. We also have significant unexpected legal costs (for example flying a legal team to Kuwait, video production. Collateral Murder production costs were $50,000 all up). Any financial contributions will be of IMMEDIATE assistance. Please donate and tell the world that you have done so. Encourage all your friends to follow the example you set, after all, courage is contagious.

Julian Assange, Editor in Chief, WikiLeaks

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Bradley Manning, American patriot

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/07/10

Army Specialist Bradley Manning, the intelligence analyst who leaked the ‘Collateral Murder’ video of US pilots shooting down Iraqi civilians (including two Reuters photographers) in cold blood, is finally being charged. For revealing to the American people the truth about what’s going on in Iraq, Manning faces horrendous legal consequences — nearly sixty years in prison if convicted on all counts. One of the charges, incredibly, is espionage. He was a ’spy,’ according to the US government — for letting Americans in on the ’secret’ that we are committing war crimes in Iraq, and around the world...

http://tinyurl.com/34hwgkw



What makes Bradley Manning a hero?

Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden

07/21/10

Everybody must deal with stress and everybody makes mistakes. A hero is not someone without weakness. A hero is someone who manages to do the right thing in spite of his weaknesses. Manning realized the tyranny of an organization he played an active part in. Instead of force-feeding himself more propaganda or eating his gun, he did something positive about it. As Henry David Thoreau said in Civil Disobedience, ‘Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?’

http://c4ss.org/content/3223


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By John Grant

There is no reason why Americans should not see what US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing in their name and with their tax resources. In a free society, the fact something may discredit the military is the military's problem. Using the power of courts, prisons or worse to quash the truth is, as a Times editorial put it, disgraceful.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25760.htm



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Robotic warfare
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=war-of-the-machines

This article is an eye-opener - says they have hummingbird sized drones, and quadruped robots deployed in Afghanistan.

Cole



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Why Wall Street's Generous to New Democrats in House

David Lightman and Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers: "Members of the powerful New Democrat Coalition in the House of Representatives are among the top Democratic recipients of Wall Street campaign money this election cycle - and also among the most vocal advocates for weakening a plan to regulate complex financial instruments called 'derivatives' that helped fuel the near-collapse of the economy in 2008."

http://www.truth-out.org/why-wall-streets-generous-new-democrats-house60572

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Why Wall Street's generous to New Democrats in House

Members of the powerful New Democrat Coalition in the House of Representatives are among the top Democratic recipients of Wall Street campaign money this election cycle - and also among the most vocal advocates for weakening a plan to regulate complex financial instruments called "derivatives" that helped fuel the near-collapse of the economy in 2008.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/18/1688815/why-wall-streets-generous-to-new.html#ixzz0rLEGxKTF


From Information Clearing House

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The bank lobby: Desperate on derivatives

Our Future Blog
by Zach Carter

06/23/10

Astonishingly, as Wall Street reform enters its final hours a tired, generic corporate refrain against regulation is gaining traction. As bigwig bankers and their lobbyist brethren fight to defeat tough new rules on derivatives — the crazy casino that brought down AIG — all their sloganeers can come up with is the trite wail that serious rules will send this risky business overseas. It’d be funny if members of Congress weren’t taking it seriously. ‘Oh no; the business will go overseas!’ is the last-ditch, we’re-about-to-lose-this-one cry of despair for corporate executives in every industry. Crack down on a profitable abuse in the United States, and the entire business will move to London or Mumbai, sending jobs and tax revenue abroad — or so the argument goes. You only hear this line when CEOs know they have no case, and have to divert attention away from the real substance of the policy debate...

http://tinyurl.com/334hvj7



Battling the banksters

The Nation
by William Greider

06/30/10

Hold the applause. The president would like us to celebrate his ‘Wall Street reform,’ but the legislation is misnamed. Barack Obama did not set out as president to reform Wall Street in fundamental ways but to restore it. Judging by the largest banks’ booming stock prices and executive bonuses, he appears to have succeeded. The leading bankers expressed relief when they saw the reform package Congress cobbled together on June 25. Wall Street, loathed by citizens everywhere, dodged the bullet in Washington. Congress followed Obama’s path and rejected the sterner measures that promised to actually change things. As with healthcare reform, the White House, joined by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, spent much of its energy opposing more aggressive ideas or bargaining small-bore compromises. The president kept a low profile, saving himself for the victory celebration...

http://www.thenation.com/article/36905/battling-banksters


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Fighting Back Against the Banksters
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/04-2



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The Urgent Case for Nullification
http://www.lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem41.1.html



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The Nation
by Laura Flanders

06/17/10

President Obama’s announcement that BP would set aside $20 billion in a fund for victims of the Gulf spill is a welcome relief to communities where businesses and homes have been destroyed. The total amount needed to compensate, however, is being estimated at closer to $60 billion. Obama swears the 20 is not a cap — I guess we’ll see. More to the point: since the president had no legal basis to demand the set aside, on what basis did he extract those billions? It’s called the power of the president. It just goes to show what you can do when you’ve got the top job...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/36383/power-presidency



BP doesn’t deserve a liability cap

Cato Institute
by Richard Epstein

06/16/10

Our national frustration continues to rise with each new drop of BP oil that leaks into the Gulf of Mexico. Everyone knows we can’t legislate away environmental risks without consigning ourselves to the Stone Age. What’s needed going forward is a comprehensive legal strategy that addresses the risks though a combination of regulation before the fact and tort liability (and criminal sanctions where appropriate) afterwards. Tort remedies are essential to protect people (and their property) who do not have contractual relations with defendants from harms such as air and water pollution. The legal system should never allow self-interested parties to keep for themselves all the gains from dangerous activities that unilaterally impose losses on others — which is why the most devout defender of laissez-faire must insist, not just concede, that tough medicine is needed in these cases. The fundamental question here is one of technique: What mix of before and after sanctions will do the job at the lowest cost?

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11905



Liberal despair and the cult of the presidency

The New Republic
by Jonathan Chait

06/17/10

Few people follow the arcana of Congressional debate. They attribute all political outcomes to the president, and thus when the outcome is unsatisfactory, the reason must be a failure of presidential willpower. … Rachel Maddow offered a perfect example of the phenomenon the other night. She delivered her fantasy version of the speech President Obama should have given...

http://tinyurl.com/29eszgt



Barack Obama’s square box

The American Spectator
by Daniel Oliver

06/18/10

When John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane crashed into Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, in July 1999 some observers said he had gotten himself into a “square box,” meaning that he had run into the limits of his experience and his imagination. Barack Obama is in a square box, and observers are now beginning to talk about his inevitable crash...

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/18/barack-obamas-square-box



Executive privilege

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

Even if the long war finally ends some day, there will be no revival of the liberties enshrined in the United States constitution and the protections afforded by the rule of law. This will be the most enduring legacy of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. It hasn’t mattered which party has been in power, the objective of both has been to establish an all powerful executive that can operate without any constitutional restraints. Since 2001, the creation of just such a central authority, fueled by an exaggerated fear of terrorism, has led to the dismantling of many of the freedoms that Americans enjoyed for over two hundred years...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/06/30/executive-privilege/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Let's Not Write Our Future in Oil
http://unearthed.earthjustice.org/blog/2010-june/lets-not-write-our-future-oil



Obama, BP and the Gulf Oil Disaster

Max Ajl, Truthout: "The most pathetic images I have seen in the aftermath of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizons deep-oil drilling rig were of pelicans drenched in oil, with brown glistening gunk matting down their plumage. When pelicans become covered in oil, they can't properly regulate their body temperature. In Louisiana summer, they overheat and die."

http://www.truth-out.org/obama-bp-and-gulf-oil-disaster60523



Waxman: Tony Hayward Acting Like He Has Nothing to Do With BP

Deb Weinstein, Truthout: "Unflappable before lawmakers choking back their anger, BP's Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward responded to questions from the members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce with the equivalent of rank, name and serial number."

http://www.truth-out.org/waxman-tony-hayward-acting-like-he-has-nothing-do-with-bp60536



Corruption and Collapse

Francis Shor, Truthout: "Since the explosion of the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, we have been treated to a case study in both the endemic corporate corruption of US politics and the inherent environmental catastrophes of the fossil fuel economy. The spread of toxicity, whether from oil, chemical dispersants, or corporate lobbyists and their willing handmaidens in Washington, DC, is so evident that even President Obama has been forced to ramp up his rhetoric about 'cozy relationships' and conflicts of interest."

http://www.truth-out.org/corruption-and-collapse60356



How Halliburton Is Profiting From the Gulf Oil Spill

Matt Rocheleau, The Christian Science Monitor: "Shortly before the Deepwater Horizon blowout, Halliburton bought an oil spill prevention firm. The oil-services industry is consolidating, which is not necessarily good news for quality, experts say. Eleven days prior to the April 20 Deepwater Horizon blowout, Halliburton Co., the contractor in charge of cementing the rig's well, agreed to purchase a little-known company."

http://www.truth-out.org/how-halliburton-profiting-gulf-oil-spill60551



Weeping and Anger Over a Lost Shrimping Season, Perhaps a Way of Life

Elizabeth Grossman, SolveClimate: "'This is the one thing that could destroy our culture and I don't want to see it happen,' says Grand Isle, Louisiana resident Karen Hopkins wiping at tears she's clearly fighting. She's talking about this year's lost shrimp season, and the fear that it won't be the last."

http://www.truth-out.org/weeping-and-anger-over-a-lost-shrimping-season-perhaps-a-way-life60570

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The Crash Is Underway
http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente38.1.html



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These tax breaks totaling $9.7 billion to $57.3 billion (depending on the type and number of reactors) would come on top of the Kerry-Lieberman measure's lucrative $35.5 billion addition to the more than $22.5 billion in loan guarantees already slated for nuclear power.

http://www.foe.org/billions-new-nuke-giveaways-kerry-lieberman-bill-exposed



Washington: Theater of the Absurd

By Ralph Nader

This week, a united Republican cabal, joined by Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Ben Nelson (D-NE), blocked a $120 billion package (the threat of filibuster again) to extend unemployment benefits, preserve Medicare payments, extend tax credits for corporate research, raise taxes on oil companies, other big companies and investment partnerships.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25776.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Unemployment: Outlook Grim For Jobs Bill Ahead Of Vote
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/24-2



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In assuring Americans on Tuesday that BP won't control the compensation fund for Gulf oil spill recovery, President Barack Obama failed to mention that the government won't control it, either. That means it's anyone's guess whether the government can, in fact, make BP pay all costs related to the spill.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37720386/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/



WH requests $15 million for oil spill commission

The White House is asking Congress for $15 million to pay for the presidential commission that will investigate the BP oil spill. President Barack Obama made the request in a letter Wednesday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/16/1684638/wh-requests-15-million-for-oil.html



BP Finds a Champion

At least one member of Congress, Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican and former chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, is sympathetic to BP. Actually, he's rather mad at President Obama and Congress on BP's behalf.

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/06/17/bp-finds-a-champion/?xid=rss-blogs



BP Admits That - If It Tries to Cap the Leak - the Whole Well May Blow

Video

Oil industry expert Rob Cavner said that BP must "keep the well flowing to minimize oil and gas going out into the formation on the side",

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/06/bp-admits-that-if-it-tries-to-cap-leak.html



BP starts burning oil from leaking ruptured well

Once that gas reaches the rig, it will be mixed with compressed air, shot down a specialized boom made by Schlumberger Ltd. and ignited at sea. It's the first time this particular burner has been deployed in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100616/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_containment



Protester interrupts BP hearing

A woman with a black oil-like substance on her hands and face stood up and started shouting down Hayward before he could get a word in. "You should be in prison!" she yelled at the BP chief.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/103833-protester-interrupts-hayward-hearing


From Information Clearing House

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Gas stations boycott: Is there a better protest?

Christian Science Monitor

06/17/10

Boycott local BP stations? The oil giant makes only a small portion of its profits from retail gas sales, and can sell excess fuel to other retailers.The 10,000 BP gas stations in the United States are run by small business owners with supply contracts to various oil companies, not just BP, which are difficult and costly to break. ‘Anytime you boycott a local gas station you’re doing far more harm to that station owner than who they’re buying their gas from,’ said Brandon Wright, a spokesman from the Petroleum Marketers Association of America. BP’s local gas distributors, called jobbers, are starting to see serious losses, said John Klein, a spokesman for the BP Amoco Marketers Association...

http://tinyurl.com/256rm6g



As the spill expands, so does presidential power

Reason
by Steve Chapman

06/17/10

The other day, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked what will happen if the people running BP decline to go along with everything the administration demands of it. ‘The president,’ he replied with chilly menace, ‘has the legal authority to compel them to do so, and if they don’t, he will.’ As a matter of strict truth, Barack Obama may not have all the legal authority he would need. But punctilious adherence to the law is rarely the hallmark of American presidents. When the head of the executive branch makes his desires known to a private corporation, the company defies him at its peril...

http://reason.com/archives/2010/06/17/as-the-spill-expands-so-does-p


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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