Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html> war Allies Direct the Death Rites of Trapped Taliban Fighters ("going to their doom with a defiance verging on the flamboyant") http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,606765,00.html CIA Blunder Sparked Taleban Revolt That Became a Mass Suicide http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001540008-2001551563,00.html Amnesty Calls for Prison Revolt Inquiry http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1680000/1680072.stm My Lai in Afghanistan (I'm not persuaded about this) http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/01/ed.htm US Planes Rain Death on the Innocent http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,610052,00.html A Village Is Destroyed. And America Says Nothing Happened http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=108209 Afghan "Highwaymen" Return http://metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-48/reg/afghan_highwaymen_return.htm Minority Afghans Tell Taliban Atrocities http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0111260264nov26 Differences Intensify Among Northern Alliance Commanders http://www.paknews.com/specialNews.php?id=263&date1=2001-11-29 weekly columns from a reporter now missing in Afghanistan http://www.montrealmirror.com/old/2001/nov22/news7.html http://www.montrealmirror.com/old/2001/nov15/news7.html http://www.montrealmirror.com/old/2001/nov08/news7.html http://www.montrealmirror.com/old/2001/nov01/news7.html http://www.montrealmirror.com/old/2001/oct25/news8.html http://www.montrealmirror.com/old/2001/oct18/news7.html technical obstacles to cooperation among the military services http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000096429dec04.story Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst http://www.cacianalyst.org/ Russia, Oil, and Conspiracy Theories http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059026 Russia Checkmated Its New Best Friend (it's about oil) http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D000094697nov28 photographs from Afghanistan http://dallasnews.com/attack_on_america/background/alliance/slideshow/picture1.html Bush Appointee Linked to Terrorism http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,608009,00.html "in all but name, the United States is at war with Pakistan" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=2008798215 The Muslim Revolt That Never Came http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-48/opin/muslim_revolt_that.htm Rebuilding Afghanistan? (heck, Bush isn't even willing to rebuild New York) http://www.counterpunch.org/wblum2.html The Laws of War http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/lawwar.htm http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/26.htm http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=317&invol=1 The War Powers Act of 1973 http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/warpow.html dangerous thought-pattern: we have been oppressed so we can do whatever we want (the Israelis are hardly alone in this, but that doesn't make it right) http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/12/02/Opinion/Opinion.39131.html The Real Story of Flight 93 http://www.msnbc.com/news/662607.asp Clinton Maps Out Road to Peace http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-clinton1203.artdec03.story jargon watch: Washington Times Keeps the Clinton Spin Rolling (the lie echoes through the media, to the point where *not* lying is "bias") http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001_11_25_archive.html#7400438 the quotes in this article on Fox Conservative News are a jackpot of jargon http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/business/03FOX.html jargon watch must-read: David Horowitz's demented response to our WTC courses (scroll past the pundit raving nonsensically based only on the course *names*) http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-11-29/finger.html/1/ story about objectivity in coverage of Islamic and Arab World issues http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=668 US a Terrorist State: Chomsky http://www.dawn.com/2001/11/25/top17.htm the strange history of the World Trade Center http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20011126/3649783s.htm Bush's first reaction to WTC: "There's one terrible pilot." (I am not making this up) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Bush-Reaction.html article about watching ground zero on a live video camera http://www.msnbc.com/news/651784.asp?cp1=1 Afghanistan: Maps, News, Photos, More http://www.nationalgeographic.com/landincrisis/ A Failure of Intelligence? http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14941 "Terrorists Have Won" Declarations Make Us All Losers in the End http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/features/1151647 "Day of Reconciliation" Worship Service in Congress Mixes Church and State (its purpose is to appease the God who supposedly attacked the WTC) http://www.au.org/press/pr113001.htm White House Sought to Soften Anti-Terrorism Legislation for Tobacco Companies (wow) http://www.public-i.org/story_01_112901.htm the bottommost depths of PR exploitation of the terrorist attacks http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61373-2001Nov20?language=printer civil liberties and security Kangaroo Courts http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/26/opinion/26SAFI.html Careless With The Constitution? The Problem With Military Tribunals http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20011129_grossman.html Why Congress Must Curb Bush's Military Courts http://www.thenewrepublic.com/121001/tribe121001.html Using Our Fears to Justify a Power Grab http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-000095119nov29.story Null and Void: Guarantees of Liberty http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5162 Tribunal Comparison Taints Courts-Martial, Military Lawyers Say http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/national/02TRIB.html?pagewanted=print "Ashcroft has sought to conceal menacing facts of the Bush tribunal order" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/04/opinion/04LEWI.html A Realistic Look at Terrorism Trials by Military Commission http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/lathrop.trials.112001.html John Dean supports tribunals http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20011123.html Robert Bork argues for extending military tribunals to include US citizens (I am not making this up) http://www.nationalreview.com/17dec01/borkprint121701.html Preserving Our Freedoms While Defending Against Terrorism http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/policy/senate.htm http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/silliman/ Bush Law Chief Tried to Drop Habeas Corpus http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001540012-2001560640,00.html Ashcroft Seeking to Free FBI to Spy on Groups http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/01/national/01BURE.html FBI Agents Rebel Over New Powers http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,610381,00.html Amnesty letter to the US government about Mazan Al-Najjar (held and deported on secret evidence) http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index/AMR511162000?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES%5CUSA http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0798/9807028.html http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/619vpyea.asp http://www.cafearabica.com/law/law16/lawsec16x3.html http://www.courttv.com/assault_on_america/1102_evidence_ap.html http://news.tbo.com/news/MGA183UHNUC.html list of the identified detainees charged by the US http://cryptome.org/s93/screwed-93.htm defense lawyers refusing to defend people accused of ties to the attacks (but without defense lawyers, innocent people go to jail) http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ65Y00TUC Congressional Research Service: The Fifth Amendment http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/constitution/amdt5.html NYC Surveillance Camera Project http://www.mediaeater.com/cameras/ http://www.appliedautonomy.com/isee/ http://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,48664,00.html US Assumes Global Cyber-Police Authority http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23036.html Antivirus Vendors Split Over FBI Trojan Snoops http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23057.html FBI "Magic Lantern" Reality Check http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23150.html Geeks and Spooks http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/251-300/00283_geeks_and_spooks.html A New Legal and Military Approach to Terrorism http://writ.news.findlaw.com/misc/okculr.html Uniform Code of Military Justice http://jaglink.jag.af.mil/ucmj.htm EU plans "suspected protester" database http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/nov/19sis.htm jargon watch: quotes from Lynne Cheney's odd speech at Princeton (her opposition to teaching about Islam in response to 9/11 is bizarre) http://www.loper.org/~george/trends/2001/Oct/66.html http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2712628&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6 Many People Saying Bad Things (best response to Cheney's list of alleged enemies of civilization) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/27/DD24114.DTL Photographer at Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Threatened With Treason Charge (it's a good thing the Constitition defines treason so carefully) http://timesargus.nybor.com/Story/38326.html Who EU Calling a Terrorist? (no civil rights for terrorists! but the term's been defined very broadly) http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,48807,00.html Bush Freezes Suspected Terror Assets http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1151/12-4-2001/200112041007475943.html http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/dotreas/terroristsanctions110701.html Somalis Said to Feel Impact of US Freeze of al-Barakaat http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36303-2001Nov29?language=printer conflict at the NRC over nuclear power plant security (February 1999) http://www.ncwarn.org/orrikfilesmay4-01.htm Emergency Preparedness and the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain http://www.ashp.org/public/proad/emergency/em_prep.html http://www.ashp.org/public/proad/emergency/exec_summary2001.html NTSB Birdbrains Sticking Heads in Rockaway Sand http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nypost/20011202/cm/ntsb_birdbrains_sticking_heads_in_rockaway_sand_1.html Flight 587 Probe Turns to Pilots' Rudder Training http://www.msnbc.com/news/665341.asp investigation of flight 990 http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2001-11-15.htm Loose Nukes http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1205/p1s3-wogi.html Bioterror: What Can Be Done? http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14971 bioweapon horrors http://www.thethresher.com/richardpreston.html http://newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?011008fr_archive01 Ames Strain of Anthrax Limited to Few Labs http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36408-2001Nov29.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31242-2001Nov28.html election A Year Later, the Election Is Still a Sham http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5142 "how lazy reporting, pack journalism and GOP spin cost Al Gore the election" (if you read the Daily Howler you know all this; if not then there's lots more) http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=14976&cf2=1 Gene Lyons Interview (co-author of "The Hunting of the President") http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/2001/11/Gene_Lyons.html arguments against the electoral college (which is heavily and unfairly biased toward rural states) http://writ.news.findlaw.com/amar/20011130.html "your first stop for election reform information" http://www.electionline.org/ politics Public Schools to Take Brunt of Proposed Florida Budget Cuts (this is the predictable and predicted outcome of their radical tax cuts) http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/florida/digdocs/106613.htm Recession Hits State Budgets -- and Schools -- Nationwide http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news01/112801_news_budgets.shtml continuing lies about the country's finances http://slate.msn.com/?id=2059246 Joint Worship Rattles Conservatives (the West became secular to get away from wars of mutual religious intolerance) http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-attacks-evangelicals1201dec01.story A Creeping Theocracy (much as I despise them, this evidence doesn't support the charge of theocracy) http://writ.news.findlaw.com/colb/20011121.html Bush nominates a prominent theocrat to the NLRB (here the charge is much clearer) http://www.nwu.org/pic/0111nlrb.htm http://www.au.org/press/pr112901.htm http://www.americanvision.org/ http://www.guidestar.org/pdf/2000/581/374/2000-581374143-1-9.pdf Pat Robertson: "I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist" (May 1999) http://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=49 jargon watch: Pat Robertson defends his business deals with vile dictators (it's standard-issue PR) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36685-2001Nov29.html "how Nixon's Rehnquist nomination screwed up the way we pick judges" http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0112.greenberg.html Business Lobbyists Asked to Discuss Onerous Rules (a maneuver so Reaganesque that even lobbyists were shocked) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52194-2001Dec3.html Republican thugs are trying to paint environmental groups as terrorists (and equating minor property destruction with mass murder) http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/11/26/ecoterror/ it turns out that Mike Bloomberg has a history of trivial exaggerations! (what? you didn't hear pundits scream about it all through the campaign?) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/26/nyregion/26BLOO.html?pagewanted=all ugly conservative list that equates the ACLU and ADA with Nazis and Communists (notice the projection: labeling *them* as "hate and divisive") http://www.conservavets.org/opposition.html news from Planet Microsoft New Microsoft Worm Can Capture Keystrokes (I'm afraid I'm about three Microsoft worms behind the times, but I'm trying) http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/034639.htm BadTrans Surges Past SirCam as Most Infectious Microsoft Virus http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/23149.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1678000/1678578.stm New Microsoft Worm Makes Some Files a "Goner" http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/12/04/goner.worm/ http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8065378.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Goner-Virus.html http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.goner.aat_private http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/goner/default.asp?cid=2636 http://www3.ca.com/solutions/collateral.asp?CT=65&ID=1212 Microsoft's security chief is going to work on security at the White House! (I am not making this up) http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200112/msg00003.html Cybersecurity Chief Pushes Early-Warning System (another bureaucracy to protect society from Microsoft's products) http://www.govexec.com/news/index.cfm?mode=report&articleid=21712&printerfriendlyVers=1& The Great Microsoft Patch Nobody Uses (normal people shouldn't have to keep track of Microsoft's stupid patches) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48756,00.html West Virginia Files Suit Against Microsoft http://news.findlaw.com/business/s/20011203/microsoftwestvirginiadc.html http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/microsoft/wvms120301cmp.pdf Microsoft Passport Needed for Microsoft List Builder? http://Ezine-Tips.com/articles/management/20011203.shtml Microsoft Resisting Licensing of Its Code http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/04/technology/ebusiness/04SOFT.html?pagewanted=print intellectual property New Company Besieges Colleges With Notices About Copyright Violations http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i14/14a02901.htm The DMCA's Chilling Effect on Encryption Research http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2001/landau-2001-09-p1.html Review of "The Future of Ideas" http://writ.news.findlaw.com/books/reviews/20011121_katyal.html Anti-Piracy Feud Bodes Ill for Web Music http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7943556.html KaZaA Ordered to Cease Infringing Copyright http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23107.html How ICANN Avoids Complying with Its Own Bylaws http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=483&mode=thread&order=0 court ruling against the theory that you only "license" software, not buy it http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23073.html XFR: eXperiments in the Future of Reading http://Quarry.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/011130-cs547-100.asx freedom of information The Bush Administration and Secrecy http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20011127.html Hiding Presidential Papers http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/11/ED81976.DTL http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/03/ED168843.DTL Suit Filed to Reverse Presidential Papers Order http://news.findlaw.com/politics/s/20011128/bushpapersdc.html http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gwbush/ahanara112801cmp.pdf http://www.nsarchive.org/news/20011128 The Web Never Forgets (that sensitive information you're supposed to delete is still out there) http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000094419nov27.story the death of Enron (see also the extensive coverage in last Friday's Wall Street Journal) Oh, the Games Enron Played (free registration required) http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/articles.cfm?articleid=469&catid=7 Enron's Many Victims http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-000094687nov28.story "rules forced employees to hold Enron stock just as it began its death spiral" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/04/opinion/04KRUG.html Enron's Blackout Cuts Power Behind Numerous Thrones http://www.tpj.org/Lobby_Watch/enron.html other privacy and security stuff more on "brain fingerprinting" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101011126-184979,00.html ID Mouse Has Finger on Security Concerns http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/14993.html State Sells Birth Data to Web Site, Raising ID Theft Fears http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/037140.htm Standard, Plain-English Privacy Policies Wanted http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172621.html Cameras Snap 12,000 Motorists Running Red Lights http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000096475dec04.story the strange story of a Web demo that pinged cell phones http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48631,00.html How to Crash a Phone by SMS http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23080.html articles on search engines finding stuff they're not supposed to find http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5099914,00.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23069.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7946411.html everything else Designing and Visualizing Computer-Mediated Conversation http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/DiscourseArch02CFP.html Ethnography, Systems and Strategy, Lancaster, UK, 22-23 April 2002 http://curdsweb1.ncl.ac.uk/amase/Dircamas.htm amusing article about the wireless tribes turning cafe tables into offices http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2001-11-28/feature.html/1/ "often-told story of Cisco's launch leaves out the drama, intrigue" http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/depth/cisco120201.htm Rivals Mobilize Alternatives to US GPS System http://www.iht.com/articles/40134.html a poor arts group had an open relay, got blacklisted, and freaked out (being normal people, they have no clue that the problem's in default configs) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/23/BU91383.DTL&type=business Open Source Research Community http://opensource.mit.edu/ Terrorism Bill "Biggest Threat to Competition Since RIP" http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23161.html Free Speech Shrinking on the Net? http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100154,00.html Cities Online: Urban Development and the Internet http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=50 State and Federal E-Government in the United States, 2001 http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubman_Center/polreports/egovt01us.html Translations From New York's Ethnic Press http://www.indypress.org/ more on Bjorn Lomborg's book "The Skeptical Environmentalist" http://pacinst.org/gleick_review_of_Skeptical_Environmentalist.pdf jargon watch: inflated use of nasty words (he alleges sloppy arguments but presents no evidence of a "smear campaign") http://www.techcentralstation.com/EnviroScienceTechnology.asp?id=101 Challenging Particle Physics as Path to Truth http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/04/science/physical/04SQUA.html?pagewanted=print U2 to Perform Live During E*TRADE Super Bowl XXXVI Halftime Show (boy did I get hate mail from U2 fans) http://www.nfl.com/features/2001/sb_halftime.html end
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