Here are some more URL's, including both war-related topics and others. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html> Please forward this message to anyone who can use it. war Ground War Strategies, Part 2: The Northern Alliance Offensive http://www.stratfor.com/home/0111072355.htm Support Deepens for the Taliban, Refugees Report http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58791-2001Nov7.html Bin Laden's PR Blunder http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1648000/1648027.stm survey of world opinion with links http://prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/11/rayman-read-a-11-08.html A War We Cannot Win by John Le Carre http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011119&s=lecarre Bombing of Afghanistan is Illegal and Must Be Stopped http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumnew36.htm "the terrorism properly is categorized as a criminal act, not an act of war" http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorismdrumbl.htm Militarization in the Age of Globalization http://www.fpif.org/commentary/0111mic.html "a huge shift of intelligence power away from the Pentagon to the CIA" http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,590478,00.html read Bill Clinton's speech about the war http://www.truthout.com/11.10A.Clinton.htm http://www.georgetown.edu/admin/publicaffairs/protocol_events/events/clinton_glf110701.htm now see the Washington Times twist it (while making room for one personal slight against him for every 140 words) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20011108-470100.htm and watch the Washington Times' distortions ripple through a braindead press (even Andrew Sullivan, having mindlessly propagated them, is mortified) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h110901_1.shtml Uncle Sam Wants Napster! (very odd) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/washtech/techthursday/columns/dotcom/A59099-2001Nov7.html Sources: Middle Eastern Terrorists Have South American Link (no surprise: the same area housed the Nazis who ran our friends' regimes) http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/11/07/inv.terror.south/ Manufacturing Dissent: Chomsky Dissembles on Afghan Hunger (it's not just Rush Limbaugh who falsely declares the media to be silent) http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001_11_04_archive.html#6884599 a frightening trend: wholesale fabrications that find their way into print (by now a whole generation has grown up surrounded by aggressive irrationality) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h110701_1.shtml politics interesting nationwide table of this week's election outcomes http://www.truthout.com/11.08B.2001DG.htm the lesson of Virginia and New Jersey: Americans are repudiating hate (a political empire is built on that hate, and it's scared right now) http://www.thenewrepublic.com/online/sullivan110701.html half the country still realizes that Bush was not elected http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york110701.shtml Revitalizing Our Nation's Election System http://www.truthout.com/4.Election.Report.pdf Republicans Behaving Badly http://slate.msn.com/?id=2058495 campaign against war profiteering http://www.ourfuture.org/ Enron Admits to Overstating Profits by About $600 Million (the Bush administration is full of Enron executives and fakes its numbers too) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/business/09POWE.html?pagewanted=print http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/business/09NORR.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/10/business/10POWE.html Official Blames Defeat on Flier That Wrongly Linked Her to Afghanistan http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000089364nov08.story investigation US Agents Were Told: Back Off Bin Ladens ("soon after George Bush became president") http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/08/world/world4.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4293682,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/newsnight/newsid_1645000/1645527.stm Lessons from the Al Qaeda Cult Handbook http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11895 aviation security Why DeLay, Armey and Bush are Dead Wrong on Airline Security: Part 1 (with many links) http://www.buzzflash.com/BuzzScripts/Buzz.dll/sub3 legislators know from personal experience what a joke airport security is http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000089684nov09.story The Leader in Airport Security, and in Lapses (meet the company that House Republicans are going to the wall to defend) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/business/09SECU.html?pagewanted=print local radio station's report on security at the Denver Airport http://www.850koa.com/news/news_DIA.html privacy and civil liberties DOJ Field Guidance on New Authorities Enacted in the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/DOJ_guidance.pdf proposal for expanded law enforcement access to Social Security files http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1152/11-8-2001/20011108004148700.html Congress Probes Death Data Security http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011107/pl/selling_dead_numbers_2.html FTC Chief Grilled on Privacy at First Congressional Hearing http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171954.html Ashcroft Proposes to Eavesdrop on Attorney-Client Conversations http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011108/pl/attacks_monitoring_2.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64663-2001Nov8.html Council of Europe Adopts First Cybercrime Treaty http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2823645,00.html Europe Reruns Through Spy Bill http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48224,00.html Irish cell phones are being used as tracking devices http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,48251,00.html Interrogating a Suspected Terrorist http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorismparry.htm Screening, Travel IDs Sought for Air Safety (i.e., massive, detailed, centralized dossiers on most of the population) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000089663nov09.story Fed Cybersecurity Chief: ID Plan Unpopular http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7816442.html Go Slow on National Identification Cards http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumnew37.htm Online Index Documents Post-Sept. 11th Censorship, Free Speech Incidents http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171976.html http://www.ncac.org/issues/freeex911.html Maher Expects to Be Axed (this would be a very dangerous precedent) http://www.pagesix.com/celebritynews/4948.htm freedom of information Eclipsing the Sunshine of E-Government http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=661 Bush Tries to Close the Vault of History (listen as his people lie to cover up his father's crimes) http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5069 The Problems With Bush's Executive Order Burying Presidential Records (John Dean has become a remarkably valuable commentator) http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20011109.html Bush Urged to Rescind Order on Presidential Materials http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51774-2001Nov6.html Bush Attempts to Have His State Papers Declared Federal Property http://www.auschron.com/issues/dispatch/2001-09-28/pols_feature2.html Amid War, GAO Puts Legal Fight With Cheney on Hold http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64520-2001Nov8.html news from Planet Microsoft How Tenacity Kept Monopoly Intact (details of the "government" capitulation to Microsoft) http://www.msnbc.com/news/655131.asp Microsoft Deal Fans Flames of Revolt http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1276-210-7815103-1.html some probably over-the-top speculation on the deal http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/dgillmor/dg110701.htm http://davenet.userland.com/2001/11/06/youreFreeToThink Official: Microsoft Is a Monopoly in Israel http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=92883 How .NET Assures the Continuation of Monopoly http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20011108.html Microsoft's dangerous attempt to suppress free exchange of security information http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7823586.html this is Microsoft's manifesto for the suppression of security information http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/columns/security/noarch.asp some peculiar ranting from Microsoft's security spinner (long-time readers will recall detailed analysis of his rhetoric) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1014-201-7819204-0.html Microsoft IIS is significantly more vulnerable than other Web servers (in a test, it became infected before it even finished downloading) http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D708%2526a%253D17362,00.asp IE Security Hole Leads to Cookie Jar ("writing a tiny bit of JavaScript to hijack information in a cookie") http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7828689.html Cookie Data in IE Can Be Exposed or Altered Through Script Injection http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-055.asp http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172017.html worm that spreads on Outlook or Outlook express if you simply preview it http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.dat_private intellectual property Web Mega-Archive Raises Legal Questions (actually these questions have been around for a long time) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991534 MIT Puts Course Material on Web http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article.aspx?ref=123710 interesting article on the intellectual-property politics of Cipro pricing http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2001/000092.html everything else In US Court, Yahoo Beats French Order Over Nazi Memorabilia http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ5IEWWRTC http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/yahoo/yahoolaligue110701.pdf http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011107/tc/yahoo_nazi_auctions_1.html An Introduction to EVINCE: Using Ethnography to Evaluate IT-Related Change http://www.rdg.ac.uk/EVINCE/ Ken Goldberg's Hotlist in Art Forum (you might remember his book on telerobotics, excerpted here) http://www.artforum.com/index.php?pn=inprint&id=1792 Quest for Future-Car Standards http://wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,48252,00.html Security Hole in Cash Machines (good example of how insanely subtle cryptographic security can be) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1645000/1645552.stm http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22751.html "online auctions may not be the perfect pricing mechanism after all" http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=852466 The Race for a New Internet http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,589431,00.html Reports from the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee http://www.itrd.gov/pubs/pitac/ US Online Population Holds Steady (remember when it was going to grow exponentially forever?) http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_919221,00.html Does "Digital Divide" Rhetoric Do More Harm Than Good? (I just don't think that "digital divide" is a useful concept) http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i11/11a05101.htm Computers Have Had Little Impact in College Classrooms, Stanford Prof. Argues http://chronicle.com/free/2001/11/2001110802t.htm Footprints and Milestones: Population and Environmental Change http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm Berkeley Potters' Guild Holiday Sale http://www.berkeleypotters.com/saleseventsn4.html end
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