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How the Immigration System Works. Basic discussion of the various organizations that make up the US immigration bureaucracy.
Raid sends illegal immigrants underground. Esmeralda Bermudez. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
JO BECKER and SCOTT SHANE. Secret 'Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will. NYT. 5/29/2012.
David Sanger. Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran;. 6/01/12. NYT.
AllGov. A number of interesting articles - some well researched - on current policy and issues.
Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)
Draft U.N. Treaty Targets Security Firms in War Zones. Thalif Deen. IPS. 6/09/2010.
G20 and Global Poverty. Neil Watkins. FPIF. 4/08/2009.
CIA Had Program to Kill Al-Qaeda Leaders. Joby Warrick & Ben Pershing. Wa. Post. 7/14/2009.
Guatemalan army stole children for adoption, report says. CNN. 9/12/2009.
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.
POLITICS: Same Firms Shipping Aid and Arms, Report Says. Thalif Deen. IPS. 5/12/2009.
ECONOMY: Migrant Miseries Will Trickle Down Worldwide, U.N. Warns. Charlotte Lalanne. IPS, 7/01/2009.
CNN interview on CNN's Late Edition on 6/29/2008 with Seymour Hersh. The interview discusses the Bush administration's inventions and activities in Iran. Link to the YouTube video. Link to the research copy (U wolf PW wolf) (5:01)
This is a 5/24/2007 report by Brian Ross aired on ABC Now on the approval of $400 million CIA operations in Iran. The aim of the funding was to destabilize the government and thry to determine (and undermine) Iran's Nuclear plans. Link to YouTube video. Link to the research copy (U wolf PW wolf) (time 5:34)
Torturing Democracy. This site includes a documentary, access to official memos and interviews, on the implementation of torture under the administration of George W. Bush.
Torturing Democracy. Documentary detailing the implementation and use of torture under the George Bush Administration. 2009.
Bill Moyers Journal. Shown 6/05/2009. Jeremy Scahill on Obama and Private Contractors (transcript included)
Anderson cooper interviews Dick Cheney's daughter Liz on the ex-Vice President's outspoken stance on torture. Video clip and transcript
And He Shall Be Judged: Rumsfeld. Robert Draper. Gentleman's Quarterly. 5/18/2009.
This clip is from the May 10, 2009 showing of GPS with Fareed Zakaria. Panel consists of Richard Haass, Shashi Tharoor and Aqil Shah discussing the power of the Pakistani military. (10:29)
Tortured Logic: Drip, Drip, Drip. The Rachel Maddow Show 5/15/2009. (11:44)
Maddow lays out the use of torture to try to prove a connection between al Qaeda - an illegal use of torture even under the advisement of the Bush Administration advisors. Also discussed is Cheney's intimate involvement in pushing for the intelligence material.
Textbooks bogged down in Afghanistan. Heidi Vogt. AP. 4/22/2009.
Is access to clean water a basic human right?. Yigal Schleifer. Christian Science Monitor. 3/19/2009.
In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.
Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe. Shankar Vedantam. Washington Post. 2/23/2009.
Oregon's immigration debate: More subtle, but no less heated. Gosnia Wozniacka. The Oregonian. 2/10/2009.
Can Hamas still walk tall in Gaza's streets?. Peter Beaumont & Hazem Balousha. Guardian/UK. 1/18/2009.
DEVELOPMENT: Africa May Face 'Centuries' of Poverty. David Cronin. International Press Service. 1/08/2009.
Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg. James Lee. 1/06/2009. Sacramento Bee.
Imperialist destabilization campaign continues to threaten Zimbabwe. Eugene Puryear. Party for Socialism and Liberation. 12/5/2008.
From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.
Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience. The draft of a federal report by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Annotations are based on the review's findings. 12/2008. NY Times searchable copy.
The Institute for Policy Studies. Independent research organization the turns "ideas into action for peace, justice and the environment." Wide ranging series of research and reports.
Senate Armed Services Committee Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody (or here). Executive Summary of the Classified Report.
Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World. National Intelligence Council. Nov. 2008. 120pg pdf report of the possible futures of 2025.
The CIA's Secret Army. Douglass Waller. Time. 2/03/2003.
Global Witness. Organization focused on exposing the links between natural resources, international trade, and conflict. Has some excellent research.
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.
AFRICA: Critics Target U.S. Military Command. Lawrence Delevingne. Inter Press Service. 6/02/2008.
$40bn shortfall in Africa aid endangers 5 million lives. Tracy McVeigh. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.
Destroying African Agriculture. Walden Bello. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/03/2008.
111 Nations, But Not US, Adopt Cluster Bomb Treaty. Shawn Pogatchnik. AP. 5/31/2008.
Disturbing 2008 Global Peace Index Report. Stephen Lendman. IntelDaily. 5/29/2008.
System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.
US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all. Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII). 5/10/2008.
Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand. David Barstow. NY Times. 4/20/2008.
Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.
High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.
The Military-Petroleum Complex. Nick Turse. Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/24/2008.
Domestic Spying Program Could Aid Terrorists, Experts Say. Justin Rood. ABC News. 2/01/2008.
Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.
Early WMD dossier draft released. BBC. 2/18/2008.
Food Crisis Will Take Hold Before Climate Change, Warns Chief Scientist. James Randerson. Guardian. 3/07/2008.
'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.
A Global Need for Grain That Farms Can’t Fill. David Strietfeld. NY Times. 3/09/2008.
11 Sep: Unknown e-mailer makes last call for intelligence material or here
September dossier conclusion (left out of final draft) or here
19 Sep: Experts' suggested dossier revisions or here
20 Sep: John Scarlett's note on the final dossier version or here
24 September: Final version or here
Central Africa: War without borders. Economist.com. 2/06/2008.
Baghdad Drowning in Sewage: Iraqi Official. Agence France Presse. 2/04/2008.
Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Jerome Starkey. Independent/UK. 2/04/2008.
Foreign Policy$40bn shortfall in Africa aid endangers 5 million lives. Tracy McVeigh. Guardian/UK. 6/15/2008.
'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.
111 Nations, But Not US, Adopt Cluster Bomb Treaty. Shawn Pogatchnik. AP. 5/31/2008.
A Global Need for Grain That Farms Can’t Fill. David Strietfeld. NY Times. 3/09/2008.
AFRICA: Critics Target U.S. Military Command. Lawrence Delevingne. Inter Press Service. 6/02/2008.
AllGov. A number of interesting articles - some well researched - on current policy and issues.
And He Shall Be Judged: Rumsfeld. Robert Draper. Gentleman's Quarterly. 5/18/2009.
Baghdad Drowning in Sewage: Iraqi Official. Agence France Presse. 2/04/2008.
Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand. David Barstow. NY Times. 4/20/2008.
11 Sep: Unknown e-mailer makes last call for intelligence material or here
September dossier conclusion (left out of final draft) or here
19 Sep: Experts' suggested dossier revisions or here
20 Sep: John Scarlett's note on the final dossier version or here
24 September: Final version or here
CIA Had Program to Kill Al-Qaeda Leaders. Joby Warrick & Ben Pershing. Wa. Post. 7/14/2009.
Can Hamas still walk tall in Gaza's streets?. Peter Beaumont & Hazem Balousha. Guardian/UK. 1/18/2009.
Central Africa: War without borders. Economist.com. 2/06/2008.
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.
Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe. Shankar Vedantam. Washington Post. 2/23/2009.
DEVELOPMENT: Africa May Face 'Centuries' of Poverty. David Cronin. International Press Service. 1/08/2009.
Destroying African Agriculture. Walden Bello. Foreign Policy in Focus. 6/03/2008.
Disturbing 2008 Global Peace Index Report. Stephen Lendman. IntelDaily. 5/29/2008.
Domestic Spying Program Could Aid Terrorists, Experts Say. Justin Rood. ABC News. 2/01/2008.
Draft U.N. Treaty Targets Security Firms in War Zones. Thalif Deen. IPS. 6/09/2010.
ECONOMY: Migrant Miseries Will Trickle Down Worldwide, U.N. Warns. Charlotte Lalanne. IPS, 7/01/2009.
Early WMD dossier draft released. BBC. 2/18/2008.
Food Crisis Will Take Hold Before Climate Change, Warns Chief Scientist. James Randerson. Guardian. 3/07/2008.
From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.
G20 and Global Poverty. Neil Watkins. FPIF. 4/08/2009.
This clip is from the May 10, 2009 showing of GPS with Fareed Zakaria. Panel consists of Richard Haass, Shashi Tharoor and Aqil Shah discussing the power of the Pakistani military. (10:29)
Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World. National Intelligence Council. Nov. 2008. 120pg pdf report of the possible futures of 2025.
Global Witness. Organization focused on exposing the links between natural resources, international trade, and conflict. Has some excellent research.
Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg. James Lee. 1/06/2009. Sacramento Bee.
Guatemalan army stole children for adoption, report says. CNN. 9/12/2009.
Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience. The draft of a federal report by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Annotations are based on the review's findings. 12/2008. NY Times searchable copy.
High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.
How the Immigration System Works. Basic discussion of the various organizations that make up the US immigration bureaucracy.
Imperialist destabilization campaign continues to threaten Zimbabwe. Eugene Puryear. Party for Socialism and Liberation. 12/5/2008.
In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock. Dan Frosch. NY Times. 2/22/2009.
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focus is on peace and justice issues.
This is a 5/24/2007 report by Brian Ross aired on ABC Now on the approval of $400 million CIA operations in Iran. The aim of the funding was to destabilize the government and thry to determine (and undermine) Iran's Nuclear plans. Link to YouTube video. Link to the research copy (U wolf PW wolf) (time 5:34)
Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.
Is access to clean water a basic human right?. Yigal Schleifer. Christian Science Monitor. 3/19/2009.
Bill Moyers Journal. Shown 6/05/2009. Jeremy Scahill on Obama and Private Contractors (transcript included)
Anderson cooper interviews Dick Cheney's daughter Liz on the ex-Vice President's outspoken stance on torture. Video clip and transcript
David Sanger. Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran;. 6/01/12. NYT.
Oregon's immigration debate: More subtle, but no less heated. Gosnia Wozniacka. The Oregonian. 2/10/2009.
POLITICS: Same Firms Shipping Aid and Arms, Report Says. Thalif Deen. IPS. 5/12/2009.
Raid sends illegal immigrants underground. Esmeralda Bermudez. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Jerome Starkey. Independent/UK. 2/04/2008.
JO BECKER and SCOTT SHANE. Secret 'Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will. NYT. 5/29/2012.
Senate Armed Services Committee Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody (or here). Executive Summary of the Classified Report.
System of Neglect - Immigrant Detention. Dana Priest & Amy Goldstein. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.
Textbooks bogged down in Afghanistan. Heidi Vogt. AP. 4/22/2009.
The CIA's Secret Army. Douglass Waller. Time. 2/03/2003.
The Institute for Policy Studies. Independent research organization the turns "ideas into action for peace, justice and the environment." Wide ranging series of research and reports.
The Military-Petroleum Complex. Nick Turse. Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/24/2008.
Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)
Tortured Logic: Drip, Drip, Drip. The Rachel Maddow Show 5/15/2009. (11:44)
Maddow lays out the use of torture to try to prove a connection between al Qaeda - an illegal use of torture even under the advisement of the Bush Administration advisors. Also discussed is Cheney's intimate involvement in pushing for the intelligence material.
Torturing Democracy. Documentary detailing the implementation and use of torture under the George Bush Administration. 2009.
Torturing Democracy. This site includes a documentary, access to official memos and interviews, on the implementation of torture under the administration of George W. Bush.
CNN interview on CNN's Late Edition on 6/29/2008 with Seymour Hersh. The interview discusses the Bush administration's inventions and activities in Iran. Link to the YouTube video. Link to the research copy (U wolf PW wolf) (5:01)
US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all. Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII). 5/10/2008.
Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.
How the Immigration System Works. Basic discussion of the various organizations that make up the US immigration bureaucracy.
Raid sends illegal immigrants underground. Esmeralda Bermudez. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007.
JO BECKER and SCOTT SHANE. Secret 'Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will. NYT. 5/29/2012.
David Sanger. Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran;. 6/01/12. NYT.
AllGov. A number of interesting articles - some well researched - on current policy and issues.
Too young to Work. On 101 East - Al Jazeera (English). Child labor in Bangladesh. 3/30/2011 25 minutes (or here)
Draft U.N. Treaty Targets Security Firms in War Zones. Thalif Deen. IPS. 6/09/2010.
G20 and Global Poverty. Neil Watkins. FPIF. 4/08/2009.
CIA Had Program to Kill Al-Qaeda Leaders. Joby Warrick & Ben Pershing. Wa. Post. 7/14/2009.
Guatemalan army stole children for adoption, report says. CNN. 9/12/2009.
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.
POLITICS: Same Firms Shipping Aid and Arms, Report Says. Thalif Deen. IPS. 5/12/2009.
ECONOMY: Migrant Miseries Will Trickle Down Worldwide, U.N. Warns. Charlotte Lalanne. IPS, 7/01/2009.
CNN interview on CNN's Late Edition on 6/29/2008 with Seymour Hersh. The interview discusses the Bush administration's inventions and activities in Iran. Link to the YouTube video. Link to the research copy (U wolf PW wolf) (5:01)
This is a 5/24/2007 report by Brian Ross aired on ABC Now on the approval of $400 million CIA operations in Iran. The aim of the funding was to destabilize the government and thry to determine (and undermine) Iran's Nuclear plans. Link to YouTube video. Link to the research copy (U wolf PW wolf) (time 5:34)