Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Iraq Aiming to Disrupt Diplomacy, Iraq Risks War by Rejecting Plan (not good) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/international/middleeast/29IRAQ.html?pagewanted=print Iraq: Evaluating the Military Options http://www.msnbc.com/news/811188.asp Assessment of Iraq's Past Nuclear Programme http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/Programmes/ActionTeam/nwp2.html#assess interview with a past UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq http://www.irak.be/ned/bivv/iraq4questions4answers.htm hear about the 33 pounds of weapons-grade uranium seized near the Iraq border? (that story was widely broadcast -- we'll see if the correction is too) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021001/wl_nm/turkey_uranium_dc_1 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=574&e=17&u=/nm/20020929/wl_nm/turkey_uranium_dc Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda Are Not Allies http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/opinion/30BENJ.html?pagewanted=print Bush's Real Goal in Iraq http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/0902/29bookman.html best analysis of Bush's solipsistic "national security strategy" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/opinion/29WRIG.html?pagewanted=print Weapons of Mass Distraction http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,800486,00.html "the biggest oil bonanza in recent memory may be just around the corner" http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/29/MN116803.DTL&type=printable deepening divide between US and EU (this is nothing compared to what it'll be if the Republicans win Congress) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20343-2002Sep29.html "I wouldn't want preemptive war to become the strategy of every country" (let me explain this real slow: that is why we have international law) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/opinion/29FRIE.html?pagewanted=print "the White House and the debate about whom to fight next" http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/020916fa_fact Statement of Henry Kissinger before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/KissingerTestimony092602.doc UN Security Council Resolution condemning Israel's attack on Iraqi nuke (1981) http://daccess-ods.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/418/74/IMG/NR041874.pdf A US Gift to Iraq: Deadly Viruses http://www.businessweek.com/print/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2002/nf20020920_3025.htm http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021001/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_bioweapons_6 http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_cr/s092002.html Gulf War veterans opposed to war on Iraq http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/ overwhelming public opposition to Bush's policy on Iraq (much of the press is misrepresenting the issue as war versus no war ...) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=513&u=/ap/20020927/ap_on_go_ot/iraq_attitudes_glance&printer=1 same thing in the UK (... when in fact it's international law versus no international law) http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,801073,00.html slander campaigns increasingly dictate the "news" agenda http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh093002.shtml war "The Washington Times gets its facts utterly wrong in an attack on Tom Daschle" http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_09_29_archive.html#85505758 the Washington Times actually "clarifies" one of its smears (without giving you the specifics you'd need to realize that it *was* a smear) http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20021001-468502.htm the Washington Times was hardly alone in its basic factual misreporting http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_09_29_archive.html#85511330 but reporters did show some appreciation of the issue's importance http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/opinion/30HALP.html?pagewanted=print Arlington County After-Action Report on Response to Terrorist Attack http://www.co.arlington.va.us/fire/edu/about/pdf/after_report.pdf Impact of 9/11 on Our Nation's Cultural Heritage http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PDFS/Cataclysm.pdf Analysis of World Trade Center's Fall May Be Sealed http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2053705,00.html assessment of the peace-keeping operations in Kosovo http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/2002/pf162_Peacekeeping.html escalating rhetoric in Israel http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=20020929141853698&mode=print http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=202714 http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=202207 http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=203109 Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala ("a CIA spokesman observed that it would be inappropriate to comment") http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dbk%2Dcullather29sep29§ion=%2Ffeatures%2Fprintedition%2Fbooks civil liberties and security Academia Becomes Target for New Security Laws http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0924/p11s02-lehl.htm NSA to Upgrade Monitoring Abilities http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20021001_536.html article about media censorship in Arab countries http://www.msnbc.com/news/808704.asp America's National Cybersecurity Strategy http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/27363.html Joint Doctrine for Information Operations http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp3_13.pdf Secret Service Probes Wireless Networks in Washington http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/4181308.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Organization for Internet Safety (hmm) http://www.oisafety.org/ Michigan sheriff spreads a spoof from the Onion about al-Qaeda telemarketing http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/news/stories/20020926/localnews/160109.html http://onion.com/onion3834/al-qaeda_telemarketing.html FBI Never Completed Terror Threat Assessment http://news.lycos.com/news/forms/printstory.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=534594 politics oh by the way, the economy is tanking http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Doutlook30sep30004434§ion=%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fnation Bear Market Longest in 60 Years http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=568&e=4&u=/nm/20020928/bs_nm/markets_stocks_bear_dc "Congress is in a fiscal mess of major proportions" (that quote sounds like a cliche, yet the situation actually is historic) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/01/politics/01TALK.html?pagewanted=print Majority of Texans Favor Federal Single-Payer Health Plan http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/ec/polls/1493723 Bush undermining basic environmental disclosure law http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/opinion/30MON1.html?pagewanted=print documents on George Bush's military service http://www.talion.com/georgebush.html the prospect of one-party Republican rule http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0210.confessore.html jargon watch: study how the "attacks" are treated as ipso facto untrue (notice, for example, the word "inaccurate", which now means "not our spin") http://www.rnc.org/Attacks/GetInvolved.asp remember the bizarre "treason" charges over Clinton-era tech sales to China? (those charges are still repeated constantly in the conservative press) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/opinion/30SAFI.html?pagewanted=print Miami-Dade Poll-Worker Instructors Walk Off Job http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/4167724.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp intellectual property more on shrinkwrap licenses to prevent reverse engineering of software http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/commentary/20020926_sprigman.html "downloading a plug-in did not constitute acceptance of license terms" http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/2nd/017860.html On Behalf of Film Studios, Company Searches for Students Downloading Movies http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002100101t.htm Vintage Phonograph Recordings, 1900-1939 http://www.dismuke.org/ "this page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors" http://news.google.com/ corruption Eliot Spitzer going after people like Bernie Ebbers over IPO's (there were lots of IPO's in the 1990's, and they all deserve investigation) http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128638678 http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?021007ta_talk_surowiecki http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/dowjones/20020930/bs_dowjones/200209301139000615 Report: Prosecutors Are Investigating Tyco's Auditor (link may be temporary) http://www.newsday.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=ny%2Dbc%2Dny%2D%2Dtyco%2Dauditors0930sep30§ion=%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fwire Celebrity Analysts Hit "Bubble Scrapheap" http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1031119743890&p=1012571727162 article about Enron's fleet of private jets http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/0929/enron_entire.htm Witness: Qwest Made Secret Deals http://www.rockymountainnews.com/cr/cda/article_print/1,1250,DRMN_4_1438122,00.html Global Crossing Swaps Misled, Data Show http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfi%2Dglobal25sep25§ion=%2Fbusiness For Dynegy, One Problem Ends as Another Surfaces http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1589396 "the former fisherman thought his nest egg was safely incubating in high-tech stocks" (the Internet stock bubble wasn't just numbers) http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134542074_jobfair25.html everything else report on alleged fraudulent research at Lucent http://www.lucent.com/news_events/researchreview.html Questions Arise Over Laptops' Use as Learning Tool (identifying a failure is a first step; next, study how they were used) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/265/learning/Questions_arise_over_laptops_use_as_learning_toolP.shtml assistant professor position in bioinformatics http://www.csee.umbc.edu/jobs/brc2003.shtml Intel's chronic problems with Itanium (the microprocessor has gotten way too macro) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/technology/circuits/29CHIP.html?pagewanted=print morbidly interesting article about Prince Charles http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,800990,00.html end
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