Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. The RRE home page includes many valuable items from the last few years, including many formerly broken links that are now fixed. The URL is <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html>. Pick Hit: Rachid Tara, Made in Medina. war Kandahar on Brink of Chaos as Warlords Ready for Battle http://www.observer.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,615929,00.html Two Hundred Peacekeepers, Too Many Warlords http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/10/opinion/opinion2.html The Unseen Side of the Inter-Afghan Talks in Germany http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/12/06/FFXTGCUEVUC.html In Baltimore, an Afghan Restaurateur Fights Against the Taliban (two of Karzai's brothers run Helmand Afghan restaurants) http://www.citypaper.com/2001-09-26/mobs.html How My Friend Outwitted the Mullahs http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/08/wfall308.xml http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,615225,00.html Video Shows CIA Threatened to Let Prisoner Be Killed http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=108988 http://www.msnbc.com/news/668588.asp http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001560012-2001565689,00.html Working With the CIA http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/01winter/jones.htm translated excerpts from alleged al-Qaeda Training Manual http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/manualpart1.pdf My Beating by Refugees Is a Symbol of the Hatred and Fury of This Filthy War http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?dir=71&story=109257&host=3&printable=1 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1699000/1699708.stm articles relating to Afghanistan humanitarian issues http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLCE/7AE35E3BD46E47B6C1256AEE002FFD06?OpenDocument&StartKey=Afghanistan&ExpandView Taliban Ex-Allies Air Few Regrets http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/343/nation/Taliban_ex_allies_air_few_regrets+.shtml How Omar Led Taliban to Power, Then Defeat http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/343/nation/How_Omar_led_Taliban_to_power_then_defeat+.shtml jargon watch: liberals in general are responsible for John Walker (study the tricks they use to lump half the country into a stereotype) http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=95001562 "those who say relativism made Walker don't know what they're talking about" (stereotypes come so easily to some people) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/12/11/walker/ article about Tamim Ansary's widely circulated message of September 12th (but no evidence for its speculation that the message had a material effect) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/magazine/09EMAIL.html Terror Money Hard to Block, Officials Find http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/10/international/10MONE.html?pagewanted=all Battlefield Clues Key to Bush's Next Step http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000097775dec09.story Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2001_rpt/hrep107-328.html The War of Words (propaganda campaigns from previous wars) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/337/nation/The_war_of_words+.shtml bioterror A Compilation of Evidence and Comments on the Source of the Mailed Anthrax http://fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxpaper.htm Ex-Anthrax Makers Want FBI to Talk With Them (they should change their name to Abdul) http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.anthrax09dec09.story anti-abortion terrorist feels that Ashcroft is on his side http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2001/12/07/national0718EST0514.DTL Anthrax Pervades Florida Site, Experts See Likeness to That Sent to Senators http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/05/national/05ANTH.html Lobbyists Seek Special Spin on Federal Bioterrorism Bill http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/11/politics/11LOBB.html?pagewanted=print Smallpox: What Every Clinician Should Know (advertisement for a satellite and webcast training program) http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/phtn/1213Factsheet.pdf civil liberties Testimony of Attorney General John Ashcroft, December 6, 2001 http://judiciary.senate.gov/te120601f-ashcroft.htm widespread condemnation of Ashcroft likening dissent to treason http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/08/opinion/08RICH.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/668757.asp http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/20011209edashcroft1209p2.asp http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/1287465p-1355952c.html http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c5917686/16696895.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ucrr/20011207/cm/there_is_a_difference_between_dissent_and_treason_1.html jargon watch: tendentiously vague language lets you deny everything (jargonheads talk in a netherworld just beyond the reach of rational thought) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011207/pl/attack_justice_dc_1.html Closing Down Debate: Ashcroft's Attack on Dissent (including analysis of Mindy Tucker's even more objectionable follow-up) http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20011210.html ACLU FOIA request for information on detainees http://www.aclu.org/court/detainee-foia-complaint.pdf Bush's (former) stand against secret evidence http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/debate001011_trans_8.html Ashcroft's (former) stand against secret evidence http://www.islamicinstitute.org/fb2001-1-12.pdf Innocent Are Caught in Cross Hairs of the Hunt for Suspected Terrorists http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/343/business/Innocent_are_caught_in_cross_hairs_of_the_hunt_for_suspected_terrorists+.shtml National Identification Schemes and the Fight Against Terrorism http://www.cpsr.org/program/natlID/natlIDfaq.html The Lie Detector That Scans Your Brain http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/magazine/09LIEDETECTOR.html Students Who Speak Out Against War Find Themselves Battling to Be Heard http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14157-2001Dec8.html Franklin Graham says he doesn't blame Islam, then goes right ahead and does so ("the terrible deeds that are committed as a result of Islamic teaching") http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001576 jargon watch: check out this lie about what Michael Moore said (this is the newspaper that constantly claims to speak in the name of truth) http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=95001567 politics Stimulus Bill May Mean Tax Breaks for Corporate America (these tax breaks have almost nothing to do with economic stimulus) http://www.nandotimes.com/business/story/189970p-1840013c.html Bush is trying to give a giant handout to a cellular company that defaulted http://www.hillnews.com/112801/mutiny.shtm Waxman Asks Cheney to Come Clean http://www.mapcruzin.com/news/bush120701a.htm Halliburton Battered as Asbestos Verdict Stirs Deep Anxieties http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/08/business/08HALL.html Bush keeps changing his clothes -- and that just proves how great he is (servile pundits will say anything, no matter how stupid) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h121001_1.shtml Supreme Court Conservatives Brought Disgrace on Their Institution http://www.thedailycamera.com/opinion/guest/09eguest.html an entertaining polemic about Pat Robertson http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/opinion/09LIND.html Robertson's Loony Ideas Undercut Christian Cause http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/1164318 A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement ("the truth of an idea is not the primary reason for its acceptance") http://www.freecongress.org/centers/conservatism/traditionalist.htm security Four Minors Held for Creating Vicious Computer Virus http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=103698 FAA Put Security Testing on Hold http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/343/metro/FAA_put_security_testing_on_hold+.shtml Airport Design in US Took a Big Hit on September 11th http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000097771dec09.story everything else Revealing the Microsoft Windows Source Code http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/ghosh-2000-01-p1.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2830948,00.html Sarah, 15, Sticks It to Bill Gates in BBC Interview http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23274.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_1697000/1697132.stm Paypal Warning (I have no information about whether this is true or not) http://www.paypalwarning.com/ Marketplace of Ideas or Tag Sale? http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011217&s=johnson IEEE 802.16 Sets Stage for Metro Area Networks Using Fixed Broadband Wireless http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.120701/213412218 GeoCommunicator http://www.geocommunicator.gov/ Parallel History Project on the Warsaw Pact http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/ Re-Envisioning the PhD http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/ Narco News Beats Banamex! http://www.narco.news.xs2.net/ remember my review of the book about the design methods of IDEO? http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20011210.html The Broadband Economy ("failed to foresee the enormous difficulty of upgrading the last mile") http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/10/opinion/10KORN.html First World Map of Lightning Frequency (cool) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991657 Navy Rewrites Its Course-Writing Software to Enhance Online Distance Education http://chronicle.com/free/2001/12/2001120501u.htm Turbulent Cities, London, 17-18 December 2001 http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/information/turbulent/ a theological critique of the Social Gospel (it doesn't reflect my views, but it's interesting) http://www.visi.com/~contra_m/pc/1957/3-1social.html Prosperity Made Blacks a Target for Land Grabs http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000097774dec09.story Mexicans Shine Light on State's Dark Secrets http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000097773dec09.story end
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