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 end
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