Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Iraq The Push for War http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n19/print/liev01_.html US draft UN resolution on arms inspections in Iraq http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,803467,00.html line-by-line commentary on the resolution by a liberal think tank http://www.ips-dc.org/comment/Bennis/replytobush.htm almost 100 other Security Council resolutions also currently being violated (i.e., by countries other than Iraq) http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2002/0210unres.html US Use of Preemptive Military Force http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/13841.pdf "Humanitarian Disaster" Looms in Iraq http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2295589.stm CIA's Strategic Intelligence in Iraq http://www.psqonline.org/cgi-bin/99_article.cgi?byear=2002&bmonth=summer&a=02free&format=view Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/iraq_wmd/Iraq_Oct_2002.htm CIA Rejects Request for Report on Preparations for War in Iraq (the Constitution doesn't enforce itself) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/03/politics/03INTE.html?pagewanted=print http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021003/ap_to_po/attacks_intelligence_5 Missiles and Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq and Iran (1998) http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/media/eisenstadt/ballistic.htm testimony by the former chief nuclear weapons inspector in Iraq (1998) http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/030102kay.htm NSD 54: Responding to Iraqi Aggression in the Gulf (1991) (the objectives of the first invasion as outlined by then President Bush) http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/nsd/NSD/NSD%2054/0001.pdf a bunch of documents etc on Iraq http://cns.miis.edu/research/iraq/index.htm Low Intensity Conflict and Terrorism http://www.unbsj.ca/library/subject/terror.htm Canada-US Gulf Widens Over Iraq (message to war opponents: you can help your cause by remaining rational) http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id={FBD3701F-DAE0-4C95-914F-451DAD422DB6} some people get to call it "imperialism" and others don't (except that's what the whole world calls it, including many on the US right) http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=215958 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/thesavagewarsofpeace.htm http://hnn.us/articles/699.html http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kipling.html Spying in Iraq: From Fact to Allegation http://www.fair.org/activism/unscom-history.html once the media sets a message, the uniformity of opinion is Stalinistic (and to find something "mysterious", just ignore the obvious explanation) http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh100102.shtml http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh100302.shtml war indictment against alleged terrorists in Oregon and Michigan http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usbattle100302ind.pdf http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,64837,00.html A Review of the FBI's Counterterrorism Program http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/audit/0238/exec.htm The Intelligence Community's Knowledge of the Hijackers Prior to 9/11 http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/ssci92002jntinqrpt.pdf The Hawala Alternative Remittance System and Its Role in Money Laundering http://www.interpol.int/Public/FinancialCrime/MoneyLaundering/hawala/default.asp Abu Sayyaf Blamed in Philippine Bombing That Killed an American Green Beret http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-nws-phil03.html more on allegations of inadequate weapons testing by the US Navy http://www.pogo.org/p/defense/da-020908-failures.html Chemical Biological Defense http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-03-137T article about the NYPD bomb squad http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/magazine/06HOWTO.html?pagewanted=print Plan to Destroy Russian Weapons Nears Collapse http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-09-30-russian-weapons-1acover_x.htm World Peace Keepers Battle Station $24.99 http://www3.jcpenney.com/jcp/Products.asp?GrpTyp=PRD&ItemID=05b5ba2&RefPage=Products&mscssid=3B067FCC3A4214FF7BDFC8941DA8F11A9xMnVNoV5aZWxMnVNoV5aZo200B23507A648BF10EEC2C108EA1FE7B69B36V1 civil liberties and security Belgium Plans Digital ID Cards (can anyone in .be send URL's with details?) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2295433.stm stores in a CO county to require fingerprints for checks or credit cards http://www.kusa.com/storyfull.asp?id=7112 Global Internet Freedom Act http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proxy-methods-list-b/message/69 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-960679.html EPA Passes on Chemical Security Responsibility http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2002/2002-10-03-09.asp#anchor3 Microsoft Issues Another Critical Security Fix -- in the Help Facility! (when ActiveX first came out, chronic security problems were widely predicted) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/27409.html I am getting tons of messages from the Bugbear Microsoft worm (Microsoft is despicable) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992864 http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/10/04/virus.bugbear/ http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2002/02-008.htm http://www.internetnewsbureau.com/archives/2002/oct02/kaspersky.html corruption Fastow perp walk (it seems like so long ago) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1601320 http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1599582 http://www.businessweek.com/print/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2002/nf2002103_9883.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/03/business/03FAIL.html?pagewanted=print http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/03/business/03FAST.html?pagewanted=print http://www.msnbc.com/news/815958.asp http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128670604 http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/usfastow100102cmp.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/secfastow100202cmp.pdf more on Eliot Spitzer vs Bernie Ebbers et al over IPO's http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/worldcom/nyanschultz93002cmp.pdf http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/telecom/2002-09-30-ny-sues-ebbers_x.htm Salon Removes a Web Article about Enron and Army Secretary White; Flaws Cited (I can't tell whether this is an article that RRE carried or not) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/national/04SALO.html?pagewanted=print here is the reporter's side of the story http://www.americanpolitics.com/20021004emailedition.html politics stuff from the New Jersey ballot controversy (I can't find the Republican filings) http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128669652 http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/torricelli/frstrnjdp100402dopp.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/wp/docs/torricelli/njdpsmsn100202scord.pdf http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=683&ncid=716&e=5&u=/ap/20021003/ap_on_el_se/torricelli http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/amar/20021004.html http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128686704 jargon watch: study the Dilbertian emptiness of the "acting chairman's" verbiage (if you can act, you don't have to talk) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/05/arts/05ENDO.html?pagewanted=print EPA Inspector General Slams Pollution Trading (one of those things that's designed to sound good in theory) http://www.peer.org/press/279.html Time Runs Out for Bill to Limit Secret Life Insurance Policies on Employees http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/business/1599536 the recent House fight over tax exemptions for churches engaging in politics http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=5507 http://www.grassfire.net/53/petition.asp?MGID=13 http://www.vision-america.org/HR2357/020722HR2357-pltr.htm more than you could want to know about the upcoming US elections (may require subscription) http://nationaljournal.com/members/buzz/trail.htm How Local Elected Officials Use the Internet http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=74 intellectual property Congress Reps Launch Fightback on DRM Rights Erosion http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27404.html argument for the wacky anti-P2P self-help bill http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/commentary/20021001_berman.html Internet Users Not Bound by Hidden License Agreements http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128653116 everything else article about FCC chair Michael Powell http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?021007fa_fact Information for Sale: My Experience With Google Answers http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/oct02/west.htm where California residents can report illegal spam http://caag.state.ca.us/spam/ Satellite Provider Teledesic Suspends Operations http://news.excite.com/tech/article/id/271789|technology|10-02-2002::15:41|reuters.html Social Science Information Gateway http://sosig.esrc.bristol.ac.uk/ Biodiversity Hotspots http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/ another brilliant cartoon by Ben Katchor http://metropolismag.com/html/content_1002/ben/ben_a.html Your Ad Here: Cop Cars as the Next Billboards (deeply weird) http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1003/p01s01-ussc.htm Politician Turns Blue From Drinking "Health" Solution http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_683401.html end
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