Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Pick Hit: Ralph Stanley, Clinch Mountain Gospel war Jenin: The Capital of the Palestinian Suicide Terrorists http://www.idf.il/english/news/jenin.stm http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ll60 http://www.idf.il/arafat/continuation/english/index2.stm http://www.idf.il/arafat/english/index1.stm Against Call for European Boycott of Academic and Cultural Ties With Israel http://euroisrael.huji.ac.il/ extensive coverage of Jenin etc http://middleeastinfo.org/ radio interview with Tariq Ali on What America Is Sowing Today http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2002/0418_ali.asp acquittal of apartheid's chemical terrorism expert http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?020422fr_archive04 http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?020422on_onlineonly03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1923000/1923000.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_143000/143006.stm http://www.mg.co.za/mg/news/99mar2/26mar-basson.html http://www.acronym.org.uk/52trial.htm Statement by the Director of the Org'n for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (who Bush forced out) http://www.opcw.org/SS1CSP/SS1CSP_DG_statement.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,689142,00.html more on FBI investigation of US germ warfare laboratories http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/9/rozen-l.html the CIA is back! (with no more pesky human rights concerns to blame for its incompetence) http://www.msnbc.com/news/741516.asp interview about Afghanistan with Robert Young Pelton http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/04/23/pelton/print.html Kissinger: Mistakes Were Made http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/04/24/uk.kissinger/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/Pinochet_on_trial/Story/0,2763,690254,00.html civil liberties and security S. 2201, the Online Personal Privacy Act http://www.epic.org/privacy/internet/s2201is.pdf http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong107/privacy/hollings/20020418summary.asp http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong107/privacy/hollings/20020418hollings.asp Prevent Identity Fraud: Death Master File Download https://dmf.ntis.gov/ Canada's Privacy Impact Assessment Policy http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/media/nr-cp/2002/0424_e.html purported security-related applications of data mining http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/Printer_Friendly_Version/0,1212,NAV47-81_STO70041-,00.html Ohio Students' Personal Data to Go to State http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/local/3096047.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp New Money-Laundering Rules Prompt Outcry From Financial Privacy Advocates http://www.msnbc.com/news/742407.asp incredibly silly article about teen hackers (yo, dudes! the systems are so porous that *anyone* can hack them!) http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/printer/17371/ interview with Mary Robinson http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0217/fahim.php Prevent Religious Electioneering (if they want to change their tax status, then fine, they can electioneer) http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/22/Opinion/Prevent_religious_ele.shtml Nearly 100 Arrested in Airport Security Roundup http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000029221apr24.story intellectual property Microsoft Puts the Squeeze on Northwest Schools (wouldn't it be easier to run Linux?) http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/10193037769515227.xml Newsletter on Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property http://www.researchoninnovation.org/tiip/archive/2002-1.htm record companies failing to pay artists their royalties (requires subscription) http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/23/copyright/print.html everything else New "Smart" Galleries, Wireless and Web-Friendly http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/24/arts/artsspecial/24JONE.html Fears About Microsoft Return, in Mexico http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/24/technology/24PESO.html?pagewanted=print XP Means Extra Pain http://www.fortune.com/indext.jhtml?channel=print_article.jhtml&doc_id=207355 online companies making it hard to cancel accounts http://www.msnbc.com/news/742475.asp Victims of Lost Files Out of Luck (this is the fallacy of many "ASP" and "Web services" plans) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-887849.html Telecom Slump Gets Deeper Amid New Layoffs, Cutbacks (notice how they blame the Telecom Act and technology, not greed and hype) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000028927apr23.story House GOP Challenges Bush on Records Gag http://www.thehill.com/042402/challenge.shtm more on the New York Times' blithering non-coverage of the 2000 election http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/9/alterman-e.html end of a long-running highway privatization debacle in Orange County http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000028864apr23.story US and Oil Lobby Oust Climate Change Scientist http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,687650,00.html Research Survey Confirms Life on Earth Now Being Affected by Global Warming (whether any of that life is intelligent is not yet known) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2002/200204168354.html end
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