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US Department of Immigration also know as the "American Immigration Center"
How the Immigration System Works. Basic discussion of the various organizations that make up the US immigration bureaucracy.
Raids included people's homes. Bryan Denson. 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.
Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.
Who's Inside Midwest Mystery Prisons?. AllGov 7/31/11. or at AllGov.
AllGov. A number of interesting articles - some well researched - on current policy and issues.
3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)
How Billy Graham Brought Us the Tea Party.
Blackwater Watch - the world's largest mercenary army.
Bias Payments Come Too Late for Some Farmers. Ashley Southall. NY Times. 5/25/2010.
Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes - Aid Agencies. Frank Mulder, IPS, 6/09/2010.
Surgery no longer a requirement for changing gender on passport. CNN. 6/09/2010.
Draft U.N. Treaty Targets Security Firms in War Zones. Thalif Deen. IPS. 6/09/2010.
BP Bets the Planet--We Lose. Terry Allen. In These Times. 6/10/2010.
Obama's Big Sellout. Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 12/09/2009.
UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless. Chris McGreal. Guardian. 11/12/2009.
Employer Health Benefits 2009 Annual Survey. Kaiser Family Foundation. 2009. Considered the most accurate and current report.
CIA Had Program to Kill Al-Qaeda Leaders. Joby Warrick & Ben Pershing. Wa. Post. 7/14/2009.
The Backbone of Complex Networks of Corporations: Who Is Controlling Whom. J.B. Glattfelder and S. Battison. 2/2009.
Guatemalan army stole children for adoption, report says. CNN. 9/12/2009.
US Govt Spy Program: Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government: Part 4. Ed Encho. OpEd News. 2/02/2009.
US Govt Spy Program: Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government: Part 3. Ed Encho. OpEd News. 2/02/2009.
US Govt Spy Program: Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government: Part 2. Ed Encho. OpEd News. 2/01/2009.
US Govt Spy Program: Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government: Part I. Ed Encho. OpEd News. 1/31/2009.
Report released 7/10/2009. President's Surveillance Program or here
World's Smallest Political Quiz. Advocates for Self-Government..
Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next?. Eric Hobsbawm. Guardian. 4/ 10/2009.
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.
Global Food Security Act. Annie Shattuck. FPIF. 4/17/2009.
Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Executive Summary) (research copy) ... Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Full Report) (research copy). World Health Organization. 2008. This report looks at the possibilities of social justice policies on addressing the social determinants of health. It is available in multiple languages.
Torture memos and historical amnesia. Noam Chomsky. Asia Times. 5/21/2009.
Informer's Role in Bombing Plot. William Rashbaum & Kareem Fahim. NY Times. 5/22/2009.
ECONOMY: Migrant Miseries Will Trickle Down Worldwide, U.N. Warns. Charlotte Lalanne. IPS, 7/01/2009.
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)
Financial Regulatory Reform Plan. Obama Administration. 6/2009. 88 pgs pdf
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
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.
US Courts - Enemies of Education?. David Bacon. TruthOut. 5/08/09.
Textbooks bogged down in Afghanistan. Heidi Vogt. AP. 4/22/2009.
David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)
4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.
4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)
Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns. Jesse McKinley. NT Times. 3/25/2009.
The American Form of Government. Author and date unknown. Excellent 10 minute discussion of various forms of government. Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)
The Big Takeover. Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 4/2/2009.
Europe says all markets must be regulated. Matt Falloon. Reuters. 2/22/2009.
Obama tries to halt talk of bank nationalization. Ben Feller. BusinessWeek/AP. 2/20/2009.
Greenspan backs bank nationalisation. Krishna Guha and Edward Luce. Financial Times/UK. 2/18/2009.
Oregon's immigration debate: More subtle, but no less heated. Gosnia Wozniacka. The Oregonian. 2/10/2009.
Who Owns The Federal Reserve?. Ellen Brown. Global Research. 10/8/2008.
Obama pricks America's bubble of denial. Naomi Wolf. London Times. 1/24/2009.
$3.43 Trillion & Counting. The costs of bailouts. Naomi Prins. Mother Jones. January/February 2009
Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg. James Lee. 1/06/2009. Sacramento Bee.
The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.
Saving Private Industry: Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years
The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for eight years of Bush. Linda Bilmes and Josepf Stiglitz, images by Nigel Holmes. Harper's Magazine. January 2009. 6 pgs pdf ( original (subscription req.)
Review: Illegal People. Mary Bauer. Foreign Policy In Focus. 12/10/2008.
Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.
AP Study Finds $1.6 Billion Went to Bailed-Out Bank Executives. Frank Bass and Rita Beamish, The Associated Press. 12/21/2008.
From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.
Senate Armed Services Committee Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody (or here). Executive Summary of the Classified Report.
Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns. Bob Drogin. LA Times. 12/07/2008.
Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.
US Diluted Loan Rules Before Crash. Mark Appuzo. Assoc. Press. 12/01/2008.
One Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex. David Barstow, NY Times, 11/29/08.
Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer. Binyamin Applebaum & Ellen Nakashima, Wa. Post. 11/23/2008.
Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention. Intelligence Daily. 11/20/2008.
The CIA's Secret Army. Douglass Waller. Time. 2/03/2003.
Gulf War Illness and the Health of Gulf War Veterans. Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses. Nov. 2008. (research copy)
The New Trough . Naomi Klein. Rolling Stone. 11/13/2008. The $700 billion Federal Bailout.
The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior. Joan Y. Chiao et al. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3666. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003666. October 2008.
Good looks help women candidates, men not so much. Randolph Schmid. AP. 10/31/2008.
No-match list catches regular voters by surprise. Curtis Morgan & Charles Rabini. Miami Herald. 10/31/2008.
Path to polls littered with obstacles for African Americans. James Ridgeway. Guardian. 10/31/2008.
Steal Back Your Vote. Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2008. How to protect against voter disenfranchisement.
Blocking the Vote. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast.Rolling Stone. 10/2008. How voters lose their vote and what to do about it.
Equal Before Mammon - Pay inequality.
Whites Swim in Racial Preference. Tim Wise. Alternet. 2/20/2003
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Draft legislation for $700 billion bailout.
How Washington Failed to Rein In Fannie, Freddie. Binyamin Appelbaum, Carol D. Leonnig and David S. Hilzenrath. Wa. Post. 9/14/2008.
Government owes American Indians $456 mln: judge. Tom Doggett. Reuters. 8/08/2008.
General Accounting Office. Reports for Congress and the government.
Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. General Accounting Office. GAO-08-957. 7/24/2008.
AFRICA: Critics Target U.S. Military Command. Lawrence Delevingne. Inter Press Service. 6/02/2008.
Where Credit Is Due: A Timeline of the Mortgage Crisis. Naomi Prins, Mother Jones. July/August 2008.
Watchdog: NASA misled on global warming studies. CNN. 6/02/2008.
FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Arvil. IPS. 6/04/2008.
Analysis: US Terrorism List Also a Political Tool. Foster Klug. AP. 6/04/2008.
Senate committee: Bush knew Iraq claims weren't true. Jonathan S. Landay. McClatchy. 6/05/2008.
U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.
FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Avril. IPS. 6/04/2008.
What happened at Abu Ghraib?. Rowan Wolf. 5/01/2004.
Fascism USA. Rowan Wolf. 12/19/2004.
Undocumented immigrants face Juan Crow. Roberto Lovato. The Progressive. 5/19/2008.
Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.
Oil: A Global Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/25/2008.
US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all. Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII). 5/10/2008.
Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.
Transparency International researches and monitors global corruption of governments and corporations.
India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.
Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.
I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Plummets, Study Says. Lynnley Browning. NY TImes. 4/14/2008.
Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.
For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.
In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials. Eric Lichtblau. 4/09/2008.
Defense Acquisitions: Assessment of Selected Weapon Programs. General Accounting Office Report to Congress. March 2008.
How much will it cost to fix the climate? The numbers vary. Brad Knickerbocker. Christian Science Monitor. 3/27/2008.
Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?. Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed. 3/27/2008
Q&A: EU and U.S. Offering Special WTO Deal to Lure South Africa. International Press Service. 3/25/2008.
Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.
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.
Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.
Drug Traces Common in Tap Water. AP. 3/10/2008.
What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."
'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.
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
Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. The Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.
Surveillance states. The Economist. 2/06/2008.
Book: 911 Commission Executive Director Had Closer White House Ties Than Publicly Disclosed. Hope Yen. AP. 2/04/2008.
Baghdad Drowning in Sewage: Iraqi Official. Agence France Presse. 2/04/2008.
Is Religion a Threat to Democracy?. Ira Chernus. Mother Jones. 1/14/2008.
Oil Wars: Transforming the American Military into a Global Oil-Protection Service. Michael Klare. Tom Dispatch. 4/29/2004.
Iran: Nuclear Intentions
and Capabilities. National Intelligence Estimate summary. Dec. 3, 2007
Former press aide blames Bush in CIA leak case. JoAnne Allen. Reuters. 11/20/07
Israel’s Syrian Airstrike Was Aimed at Iran. Gareth Porter. IPS. 11/20/07.
CIA agent alleged to have met Bin Laden in July. Anthony Sampson. The Guardian. Nov. 1, 2001.
Iraq war source's name revealed. BBC, 11/02/2007.
Orders From The Top:
Retired General Dunlavey: Guantanamo Mission Came Straight From Bush, Rumsfeld. Lisa Thompson, 11/02/2007, Erie Times News.
U.S. Space Command Vision for 2020
Impacts of Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Programs. Mathematica Policy Research. April 2007 (164 page pdf report)
A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of National Security Letters. Department of Justice. March 2007.
The Global Dominance Group: 9/11 Pre-Warnings & Election Irregularities in Context. Peter Phillips, Bridget Thornton and Celeste Vogler. Project Censored 2007 (Or here)
War Propoganda and the Language of Fascism (2005) 30 mins.
Democracy 1945 Encyclopedia Britanica. Companion piece to Despotism-Democracy. Approx 11 min. Presents nature of meaning of democracy; develops keen appreciation for meaning of democracy by analyzing 4 major concepts on which exists substantial body of general agreement. Points out that true democracy is characterized by at least 2 signs.
Despotism-Democracy Approx. 11 minutes. 1946 Encyclopedia Britanica. Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales?
Lie by Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold: August 1990 to March 2003 10/05/06 Mother Jones
9/20/06 Stephens, NYT, Quiet Break for Corporations9/12/06 Rupert Cornwell, Independent, The Big Question: What is neo-conservatism, and how influential is it today?
9/04/06 BBC, How 9/11 changed America: In statisticsDespotism - Democracy Internet Archive: Video 1946
Media Power Sources On party, gender, race and class, TV news looks to the most powerful groups
Non-Violence Resources. Albert Einstein Institution. Numerous texts and articles
Albert Einstein Institution (Non-violence - excellent resource)
On Strategic Non-violent Conflict Robert Helvey. Albert Einstein Institution (pdf)
From Dictatorship to Democracy Gene Sharp. Albert Einstein Institution. (pdf)
Uprooting War, Brian Martin. 1984.
Center for Public Integrity: Outsourcing the Pentagon
Political Compass Note that the results of this survey does not use the typical rhetorical categorizations
THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet
Statistical Resources (Great links to good research anf information)
Star Site U.S. Depository Reference Collection
Politics and Government9/12/06 Rupert Cornwell, Independent, The Big Question: What is neo-conservatism, and how influential is it today?
3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)
$3.43 Trillion & Counting. The costs of bailouts. Naomi Prins. Mother Jones. January/February 2009
'National crisis' for Iraqi women. BBC. 3/06/2008.
4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens. Wayne Drash. CNN. 4/14/2009.
9/20/06 Stephens, NYT, Quiet Break for CorporationsA Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of National Security Letters. Department of Justice. March 2007.
AFRICA: Critics Target U.S. Military Command. Lawrence Delevingne. Inter Press Service. 6/02/2008.
AP Study Finds $1.6 Billion Went to Bailed-Out Bank Executives. Frank Bass and Rita Beamish, The Associated Press. 12/21/2008.
Albert Einstein Institution (Non-violence - excellent resource)
AllGov. A number of interesting articles - some well researched - on current policy and issues.
Analysis: US Terrorism List Also a Political Tool. Foster Klug. AP. 6/04/2008.
BP Bets the Planet--We Lose. Terry Allen. In These Times. 6/10/2010.
Baghdad Drowning in Sewage: Iraqi Official. Agence France Presse. 2/04/2008.
Bangladesh Faces Climate Change Refugee Nightmare. Masud Karim. Reuters. 4/14/2008.
Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer. Binyamin Applebaum & Ellen Nakashima, Wa. Post. 11/23/2008.
Bias Payments Come Too Late for Some Farmers. Ashley Southall. NY Times. 5/25/2010.
Blackwater Watch - the world's largest mercenary army.
Blocking the Vote. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast.Rolling Stone. 10/2008. How voters lose their vote and what to do about it.
Book: 911 Commission Executive Director Had Closer White House Ties Than Publicly Disclosed. Hope Yen. AP. 2/04/2008.
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.
CIA agent alleged to have met Bin Laden in July. Anthony Sampson. The Guardian. Nov. 1, 2001.
Center for Public Integrity: Outsourcing the Pentagon
Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns. Jesse McKinley. NT Times. 3/25/2009.
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants. Suzanne Gamboa, AP. 4/12/2009.
Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Executive Summary) (research copy) ... Closing the Health Gap in a Generation (Full Report) (research copy). World Health Organization. 2008. This report looks at the possibilities of social justice policies on addressing the social determinants of health. It is available in multiple languages.
Comparison of the Reported Tax Liabilities of Foreign- and U.S.-Controlled Corporations, 1998-2005. General Accounting Office. GAO-08-957. 7/24/2008.
Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.
Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.
Defense Acquisitions: Assessment of Selected Weapon Programs. General Accounting Office Report to Congress. March 2008.
Democracy 1945 Encyclopedia Britanica. Companion piece to Despotism-Democracy. Approx 11 min. Presents nature of meaning of democracy; develops keen appreciation for meaning of democracy by analyzing 4 major concepts on which exists substantial body of general agreement. Points out that true democracy is characterized by at least 2 signs.
Despotism - Democracy Internet Archive: Video 1946
Despotism-Democracy Approx. 11 minutes. 1946 Encyclopedia Britanica. Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales?
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.
Drug Traces Common in Tap Water. AP. 3/10/2008.
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.
Employer Health Benefits 2009 Annual Survey. Kaiser Family Foundation. 2009. Considered the most accurate and current report.
Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.
Equal Before Mammon - Pay inequality.
Europe says all markets must be regulated. Matt Falloon. Reuters. 2/22/2009.
FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Arvil. IPS. 6/04/2008.
FRANCE: Noble Ignorance Fails the Minorities. Hilaire Avril. IPS. 6/04/2008.
Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?. Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed. 3/27/2008
Fascism USA. Rowan Wolf. 12/19/2004.
Financial Regulatory Reform Plan. Obama Administration. 6/2009. 88 pgs pdf
Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices. Dawn Babwin. Associated Press. 5/16/2008.
For Many, a Boom That Wasn't. David Leonhardt. NY Times. 4/09/2008.
Former press aide blames Bush in CIA leak case. JoAnne Allen. Reuters. 11/20/07
From Dictatorship to Democracy Gene Sharp. Albert Einstein Institution. (pdf)
From Global Crisis to "Global Government". Andrew Marshall. Global Research. 12/20/2008.
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)
General Accounting Office. Reports for Congress and the government.
Global Food Security Act. Annie Shattuck. FPIF. 4/17/2009.
Global warming is just the tip of the iceberg. James Lee. 1/06/2009. Sacramento Bee.
Good looks help women candidates, men not so much. Randolph Schmid. AP. 10/31/2008.
Government owes American Indians $456 mln: judge. Tom Doggett. Reuters. 8/08/2008.
Greenspan backs bank nationalisation. Krishna Guha and Edward Luce. Financial Times/UK. 2/18/2009.
Guatemalan army stole children for adoption, report says. CNN. 9/12/2009.
Gulf War Illness and the Health of Gulf War Veterans. Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses. Nov. 2008. (research copy)
9/04/06 BBC, How 9/11 changed America: In statisticsHow Billy Graham Brought Us the Tea Party.
How Washington Failed to Rein In Fannie, Freddie. Binyamin Appelbaum, Carol D. Leonnig and David S. Hilzenrath. Wa. Post. 9/14/2008.
How much will it cost to fix the climate? The numbers vary. Brad Knickerbocker. Christian Science Monitor. 3/27/2008.
How the Immigration System Works. Basic discussion of the various organizations that make up the US immigration bureaucracy.
I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Plummets, Study Says. Lynnley Browning. NY TImes. 4/14/2008.
Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.
Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. The Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.
Impacts of Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Programs. Mathematica Policy Research. April 2007 (164 page pdf report)
In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials. Eric Lichtblau. 4/09/2008.
India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.
Informer's Role in Bombing Plot. William Rashbaum & Kareem Fahim. NY Times. 5/22/2009.
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)
Iran: Nuclear Intentions
and Capabilities. National Intelligence Estimate summary. Dec. 3, 2007
Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey. Reuters. 1/31/2008.
Iraq war source's name revealed. BBC, 11/02/2007.
Is Religion a Threat to Democracy?. Ira Chernus. Mother Jones. 1/14/2008.
Israel’s Syrian Airstrike Was Aimed at Iran. Gareth Porter. IPS. 11/20/07.
Bill Moyers Journal. Shown 6/05/2009. Jeremy Scahill on Obama and Private Contractors (transcript included)
Lie by Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold: August 1990 to March 2003 10/05/06 Mother Jones
Anderson cooper interviews Dick Cheney's daughter Liz on the ex-Vice President's outspoken stance on torture. Video clip and transcript
Media Power Sources On party, gender, race and class, TV news looks to the most powerful groups
Middle class has been shrinking for decades. Rom Eblen. Kentucky Herald-Leader. 10/03/2008.
David Simon: An American Observer. Moyers Journal. 4/17/2009. Wide ranging interview addressing crime, poverty, the war on drugs, etc. (wolf wolf)
No-match list catches regular voters by surprise. Curtis Morgan & Charles Rabini. Miami Herald. 10/31/2008.
Non-Violence Resources. Albert Einstein Institution. Numerous texts and articles
David Sanger. Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran;. 6/01/12. NYT.
Obama pricks America's bubble of denial. Naomi Wolf. London Times. 1/24/2009.
Obama tries to halt talk of bank nationalization. Ben Feller. BusinessWeek/AP. 2/20/2009.
Obama's Big Sellout. Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 12/09/2009.
Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes - Aid Agencies. Frank Mulder, IPS, 6/09/2010.
Oil Wars: Transforming the American Military into a Global Oil-Protection Service. Michael Klare. Tom Dispatch. 4/29/2004.
Oil: A Global Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/25/2008.
On Strategic Non-violent Conflict Robert Helvey. Albert Einstein Institution (pdf)
One Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex. David Barstow, NY Times, 11/29/08.
Orders From The Top:
Retired General Dunlavey: Guantanamo Mission Came Straight From Bush, Rumsfeld. Lisa Thompson, 11/02/2007, Erie Times News.
Oregon's immigration debate: More subtle, but no less heated. Gosnia Wozniacka. The Oregonian. 2/10/2009.
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Draft legislation for $700 billion bailout.
Path to polls littered with obstacles for African Americans. James Ridgeway. Guardian. 10/31/2008.
Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.
Political Compass Note that the results of this survey does not use the typical rhetorical categorizations
Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention. Intelligence Daily. 11/20/2008.
Report released 7/10/2009. President's Surveillance Program or here
Punjab's migrants take less home. Geeta Pandey. BBC. 12/15/2008.
Q&A: EU and U.S. Offering Special WTO Deal to Lure South Africa. International Press Service. 3/25/2008.
Raids included people's homes. Bryan Denson. The Oregonian. 6/14/2007
Review: Illegal People. Mary Bauer. Foreign Policy In Focus. 12/10/2008.
Saving Private Industry: Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years
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.
Senate committee: Bush knew Iraq claims weren't true. Jonathan S. Landay. McClatchy. 6/05/2008.
Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next?. Eric Hobsbawm. Guardian. 4/ 10/2009.
Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns. Bob Drogin. LA Times. 12/07/2008.
Star Site U.S. Depository Reference Collection
Statistical Resources (Great links to good research anf information)
Steal Back Your Vote. Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2008. How to protect against voter disenfranchisement.
Surgery no longer a requirement for changing gender on passport. CNN. 6/09/2010.
Surveillance states. The Economist. 2/06/2008.
THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet
Textbooks bogged down in Afghanistan. Heidi Vogt. AP. 4/22/2009.
The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for eight years of Bush. Linda Bilmes and Josepf Stiglitz, images by Nigel Holmes. Harper's Magazine. January 2009. 6 pgs pdf ( original (subscription req.)
The American Form of Government. Author and date unknown. Excellent 10 minute discussion of various forms of government. Video Resource (U:wolf PW:wolf)
The Backbone of Complex Networks of Corporations: Who Is Controlling Whom. J.B. Glattfelder and S. Battison. 2/2009.
The Big Takeover. Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. 4/2/2009.
The CIA's Secret Army. Douglass Waller. Time. 2/03/2003.
The Global Dominance Group: 9/11 Pre-Warnings & Election Irregularities in Context. Peter Phillips, Bridget Thornton and Celeste Vogler. Project Censored 2007 (Or here)
The New Trough . Naomi Klein. Rolling Stone. 11/13/2008. The $700 billion Federal Bailout.
The Political Gender Gap: Gender Bias in Facial Inferences that Predict Voting Behavior. Joan Y. Chiao et al. PLoS ONE 3(10): e3666. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003666. October 2008.
The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers. Robert Reich. TruthOut. 1/10/2009.
Torture memos and historical amnesia. Noam Chomsky. Asia Times. 5/21/2009.
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.
Transparency International researches and monitors global corruption of governments and corporations.
U.S. Space Command Vision for 2020
U.S.-born children feel effects of immigration raids. Anna Gorman. 6/08/2008.
UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless. Chris McGreal. Guardian. 11/12/2009.
US Courts - Enemies of Education?. David Bacon. TruthOut. 5/08/09.
US Department of Immigration also know as the "American Immigration Center"
US Diluted Loan Rules Before Crash. Mark Appuzo. Assoc. Press. 12/01/2008.
US Govt Spy Program: Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government: Part 2. Ed Encho. OpEd News. 2/01/2009.
US Govt Spy Program: Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government: Part 3. Ed Encho. OpEd News. 2/02/2009.
US Govt Spy Program: Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government: Part 4. Ed Encho. OpEd News. 2/02/2009.
US Govt Spy Program: Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government: Part I. Ed Encho. OpEd News. 1/31/2009.
US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all. Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII). 5/10/2008.
Undocumented immigrants face Juan Crow. Roberto Lovato. The Progressive. 5/19/2008.
Uprooting War, Brian Martin. 1984.
War Propoganda and the Language of Fascism (2005) 30 mins.
Watchdog: NASA misled on global warming studies. CNN. 6/02/2008.
What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 1. Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima and Jill Drew. Washington Post, 12/15/2008.
What Went Wrong - Crash Part 2 - "Frenzy". Jill Drew. Washington Post. 12/16/2008. (Part 1).
What happened at Abu Ghraib?. Rowan Wolf. 5/01/2004.
Where Credit Is Due: A Timeline of the Mortgage Crisis. Naomi Prins, Mother Jones. July/August 2008.
Whites Swim in Racial Preference. Tim Wise. Alternet. 2/20/2003
Who Owns The Federal Reserve?. Ellen Brown. Global Research. 10/8/2008.
Who's Inside Midwest Mystery Prisons?. AllGov 7/31/11. or at AllGov.
4/03/2009. Bill Moyers interviews William Black in CSI Bailout. It is a stunning discussion of the current financial meltdown. A must watch. (wolf wolf)
World's Smallest Political Quiz. Advocates for Self-Government..
US Department of Immigration also know as the "American Immigration Center"
How the Immigration System Works. Basic discussion of the various organizations that make up the US immigration bureaucracy.
Raids included people's homes. Bryan Denson. 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.
Lewis H. Lapham. Ignorance of Things Past: who wins and who loses when we forget American History." Harper's Magazine. May 2012 pgs 26-33.
Who's Inside Midwest Mystery Prisons?. AllGov 7/31/11. or at AllGov.
AllGov. A number of interesting articles - some well researched - on current policy and issues.
3/03/11 David Cay Johnson. DemocracyNow! "Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting Walker's False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers' Pensions or Wolf Video Resources (13 minutes)
Blackwater Watch - the world's largest mercenary army.
Bias Payments Come Too Late for Some Farmers. Ashley Southall. NY Times. 5/25/2010.
Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes - Aid Agencies. Frank Mulder, IPS, 6/09/2010.
Surgery no longer a requirement for changing gender on passport. CNN. 6/09/2010.