[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 22:45:37 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
    
    
    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
    
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