[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 09:36:37 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
    
    
    war
    
    Al Qaeda Fighters Are Said to Return to Afghanistan
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/10/international/asia/10QAED.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Al-Jazeera: Bin Laden Tape Praises Hijackers
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/09/09/binladen.tape/
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/10/ar911.osama.exclusive/
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dthreats10sep10005041
    
    analysis of a bin Laden recruiting video
    http://www.ciaonet.org/cbr/cbr00/video/excerpts/excerpts_index.html
    
    On Path to the US Skies, Plot Leader Met bin Laden
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/10/national/10PLOT.html?pagewanted=print
    
    The Taliban Minister's Warning of September 11th That Was Ignored
    (apply the usual British press discount)
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=331115
    
    extensive coverage of incompetence and resistance to reform at the FBI and CIA
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/805186.asp
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/weekinreview/08RISE.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/books/review/08STEINRT.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/252/nation/The_hunt_for_Al_QaedaP.shtml
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=584&ncid=584&e=4&u=/nm/20020908/pl_nm/attack_anniversary_fbi_dc
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15681
    
    The United Kingdom and the Campaign Against International Terrorism
    http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/sept11/index.htm
    
    Congressman Dana Rohrabacher: An Expert on South and Central Asia (1996)
    (on the Taliban: "devout traditionalists, not terrorists or revolutionaries")
    http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1196/9611008.htm
    
    George Bush and the World
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15698
    
    more 9/11 conspiracy sites
    http://www.unansweredquestions.net/timeline/
    http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wot/bollyn2.htm
    http://www.reseauvoltaire.com/11septembre.html
    
    more right-wing defense of the media anthrax suspect
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/623rbipi.asp
    
    another superficial attack on 9/11 public mourning
    (do we really want to return to a world where people just died inside?)
    http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/06/MN167195.DTL&type=printable
    
    One Year Later: September 11th and the Internet
    http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=69
    
    jargon watch: "the NEA curriculum was more about getting in touch with feelings ..."
    (using "about" to create an association that's so vague it can't be refuted)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110002243
    
    Pilgrims Flock to Crash Site
    ("'we are trying to catch the bad guys', a child printed in a message to the victims")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/09/national/09PENN.html?pagewanted=print
    
    rebuilding the Pentagon
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51872-2002Sep7?language=printer
    
    history of how the World Trade Center got built
    (maybe we can do it without so many magnates this time)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/magazine/08WTC1.html
    
    September 11th Prompts New Caution in Skyscraper Design
    (do engineers have useable models of building structures hit by truck bombs?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/09/nyregion/09SKYS.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Don't Rebuild -- Reimagine
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/magazine/08REBUILD.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54885-2002Sep8?language=printer
    
    
    Iraq
    
    Where the World Stands on Iraq
    (hard to see how the war can proceed politically without much more evidence)
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/2240570.stm
    http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=331732
    
    Questions for the Commander in Chief on Iraq
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48684-2002Sep6?language=printer
    
    weirdness of administration infighting over Iraq
    (neoconservatives want war even w/o allies, but US and world opinion say no)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/805160.asp
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2243657.stm
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/2244613.stm
    http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,62401,00.html
    
    confusion over evidence of Iraq's weapons-building
    (Bush at one point misrepresented a UN report, but the White House backed off)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/802167.asp
    
    Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Net Assessment
    http://www.iiss.org/news-more.php?itemID=88
    
    In Iraqi Kurdistan
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15688
    
    columns that obnoxiously confuse the point of criticism of "chicken hawks"
    (not that they haven't served but that they actively avoided it)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38443-2002Sep4?language=printer
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A45835-2002Sep6?language=printer
    http://www.nhgazette.com/chickenhawks.html
    http://www.presentdanger.org/commentary/2002/0209chickenhawks.html
    
    100 Jets Join Attack on Iraq
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/06/wirq06.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/09/06/ixnewstop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=32726
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    A Swift, Secretive Dragnet After Attacks
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Ddetain10sep10005041
    
    Patriot Act's Scope, Secrecy Ensnare Innocent, Critics Say
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/08/MN30478.DTL&type=printable
    
    US Government Ready to Fingerprint and Track Some Foreign Visitors
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/09/nyregion/09FING.html?pagewanted=print
    
    The Imperial Presidency vs. the Imperial Judiciary
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/weekinreview/08GREE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    more on Bush secrecy and freedom of information
    http://www.ajr.org/article_printable.asp?id=2617
    
    Muslims in UK Jails Tell of Plight
    ("detention without charge or trial of foreign nationals")
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/0,11017,788583,00.html
    
    On World Court, US Focus Shifts to Shielding Officials
    (starting with Henry Kissinger)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/07/international/europe/07COUR.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Legal Issues Concerning Military Use of Non-Lethal Weapons
    http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v7n2/sautenet72_text.html
    
    Zimbabwe's Muzzle on Independent Media Must Be Removed
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Doe%2Dhusarska9sep09
    
    surveillance technologies at high schools
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfi%2Dcampus8sep08005041
    
    $20 Million Tab to Defeat California Privacy Bill
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/07/MN52669.DTL&type=printable
    
    continuing corporate narcosis about security
    (they're only online because they'd be boringly easy to attack)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/09/technology/09SECU.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Drive-By Spam Hits Wireless LAN's
    (as predicted)
    http://news.com.com/2102-1033-956911.html
    
    
    politics
    
    Editor's File: Decision to "Fire" Coulter Gets Worldwide Attention
    (what's important is that this sort of rhetoric is finally being called "hate")
    http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/4015823.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    authors paid to write "novels" for PR purposes
    (how touching that they can imagine novelists affecting public opinion)
    http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=329314
    
    Church Electioneering Bill Set for Vote in US House in September, Sources Say
    http://www.au.org/press/pr090502.htm
    
    false accusations of media bias come in numerous settled formulas
    (do the people who pass them along know they're being lied to? do they care?)
    http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000827.html
    
    more on the campaign to erase all memory of Social Security privatization
    (by people who live in a PR universe where truth cannot even be conceptualized)
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/sept0202.html#091002200am
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/sept0201.html#090602440pm
    http://johnquiggin.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_johnquiggin_archive.html#85419725
    http://johnquiggin.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_johnquiggin_archive.html#85423035
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2070573
    
    
    everything else
    
    Wheels Come Off the Privatisation Express
    (use some sense about what can be privatized and what can't)
    http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/comment/0,11268,788379,00.html
    
    oh my goodness -- the prospect of tax evasion charges against Jack Welch
    (even I would wince at that)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/09/business/09CHIE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Justice Department Starts Inquiry at Sunbeam
    (including a photo of Al Dunlap as a corporate villain out of a comic book)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/09/business/09SUNB.html
    
    Microsoft lobbying group against government open-source policies
    (they thought of calling it the Alliance for Bad Software, but that was taken)
    http://softwarechoice.org/
    
    law firm's site about standards-setting consortia
    http://www.consortiuminfo.org/
    
    China's New Rulers
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15673
    
    Q&A: First Synthetic Virus
    (if you can make a synthetic virus, you can make an awful lot of things)
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/2124354.stm
    
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