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FEMA and National State of Emergency
FEMA Website Federal Emergency Management Agency
Executive Order 12656  FEMA: Executive Order 12656--Assignment Of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities
Information on what it means to declare a "national state of emergency" Scope of a state of emergency [President Bush declared a national state of emergency 9/12/2001]

Homeland Security Act
The Homeland Security Act in various renditions from March 2001 to October 2001  Homeland Security Acts
Thomas Legislative Information (with search capability)  THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet
MSNBC summary of what Homeland Security entails  Fighting on America’s home turf
Journal of Homeland Security   Journal of Homeland Security
From the whitehouse  Executive Order Establishing Office of Homeland Security
11/12/02, William O'Harrow Jr., SanFran Chronicle, Pentagon plans cyber surveillance
Here's the SS Office (no I didn't make that up) of DARPA synopsis of TIA TIA System
11/12/02, Adrew Buncombe, Independent UK, US warns war on Iraq may start before Christmas

The al Qaeda  Top
Time.com report  http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/terror_map_intro.html

The Taliban
BBC article  BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Analysis: Who are the Taleban?
This article was published in the 18th issue of Nida'ul Islam magazine The Islamic Taliban Movement And The Dangers Of Regional Assimilation
Robert Scheer (columnist 5/2/2001)  Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban --May 22, 2001

Alternative Media  Top
AlterNet  Alternet
British Broadcasting Company (BBC Online)  BBC Online Homepage - Welcome
 Centre for Research on Globalisation
Tremendous articles and links  Common Dreams NewsCenter
Debka File (alternative global coverage source)  DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism Security
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting  F.A.I.R.
 Globalvision News Network
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  IPS - Inter Press Service The Global News Agency
Islamic news web site  Islamic Gateway (daily updated)
ITN (British news source)  ITN News: first for breaking and headline news
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 The Emperor's New Clothes
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Nida'ul Islam magazine Nida'ul Islam / The Call of Islam Magazine
National Public Radio  NPR News [Portland FM: KOPB 91.5   AM: KPBS 1450]
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 Working For Change
Z Magazine Welcome to ZNet
 

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Understanding and Stopping Hate         Top
Anti-hate organization (domestic)  Welcome To Stop The Hate.
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Anti-Defamation League (ADL)  Discussing Hate and Violence with your Children
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Afghanistan Aid Agencies     Top

Analysis and Discussion
Click here for Archive of early articles

Iraq and War on Terrorism   See also  Lies and Truths - Iraq

From F.A.I.R., by Norman Solomon 9/25/01 Killing Civilians: Behind the Reassuring Words
From Common Dreams, C. Cushing-Murray 9/28/01 Loving My Country, Fearing Patriotism
Atlantic Monthly, Robert Kaplan, Sept. 2000  THE LAWLESS FRONTIER
Atlantic Monthly, Flashback- links to pertinent articles from past AMs, 9/12/01   The Triumph of Terrorism
Radio B92 Belgrade, interview with Norm Chomsky, 9/14/01  B-92 interview
Robin Morgan article (ADOBE) with author permission  Ghosts and Echoes
Paul Rogat Loeb 10/1/01  Breaking the Cycle of Vengeance
Series of articles from the Nation
    From 10/15/01 Assessing WTC bombing impacts Dispatches (1)
    Web Index of recent articles  Web-only Archive
The Price of the Anti-terrorism Coalition  Anti-Terror Coalition: Posse with a Price?
CNN.com 10/5/01  INS: Many WTC victims illegal immigrants
Foreign Terrorist Organizations 2001 report released 10/5/01 Foreign Terrorist Orgs
   (Description of these groups found in the US State Department Global Terrorism 2000 report)
LA Times 10/8/01  Arab Regimes Breed Discontent and Anger at U.S., Analysts Say
Radio report on undocumented workers lost in the World Trade Center destruction. Democracy NOW! [Link is half way down page for 10/5/01 under  Family memebers of undocumented immigrants ... ]
Arundhati Roy in the London Guardian 10/23/01 Brutality Smeared in Peanut Butter
Naomi Klein from The Globe (Canadian) (as linked at CommonDreams) 10/24/01 The Real Battle Lines
Pamela Constable Washington Post 10/24/01  Plaintive Afghan's Plea From Community: Stop the Bombing
C. Brauchli, Boulder Daily Camera 11/10/01 How we became enemies of Iran AND Iraq
Howard Zinn, The Progressive Dec. 2001 A Just Cause, Not a Just War
The economic stimulus package:
     Lobbyists Shaping Stimulus Bill (washingtonpost.com)
     Paying Back Big Energy Evil-Doers (Common Dreams 11/12/10)
     Between the Lines Radio 11/16/01  Economic Stimulus and Profiteering
    Coalition On Human Needs  What the Economic Stimulus Package Must Include
International Action Center  U.S. War on Afghanistan (Adobe Acrobat)
Sanjay Suri India Abroad News Service 3/17/01  CIA worked with Pakistan to create Taliban
 ACLU Press Release: 11-14-01 -- As Government Prepares to Investigate Thousands, ACLU Issues Multi-Lingual “Know Your Rights!” Pamphlet to Educate Public
Seattle Post Intelligencer 11/18/01 Editorial Recognize the Link Between Oil, War
12/17/01 Madeleine Bunting - Guardian Unlimited (London)  A Fairy Tale at Christmas
12/18/01 Geov Parrish - WorkingForChange  The Forgotten Dead
12/18/01 George Monbiot. Guardian Unlimited (London) Taliban of the West
12/19/01 George Monbiot followup article  Wrong But Also Right
12/19/01 Frida Berrigan (CommonDreams) The War Profiteers: How Are Weapons Manufacturers Faring in the War?
Is Higher Education Unpatriotic? Lynne Cheney's 10/5/01 (Adobe Acrobat) report
           Defending Civilization: How Our Universities are Failing American and What We Can Do About It
        Lynne Cheney-Joe Lieberman group puts out a blacklist (12/13/2001)
01/02  The New McCarthyism | Matthew Rothschild | January 2002 issue of The Progressive magazine
12/20/01  Global Poll: US Policies Played "Significant Role" in Terror Attacks
12/20/01  The Guardian | Seumas Milne: The innocent dead in a coward's war
12/01  Mediafile  Civilian Dead in Afghanistan
01/09/02 BBC News  Starving Afghan villagers eat grass
01/09/02 BBC  Where Does the War Go Next?
01/15/02 BBC  Rebuilding war-torn lives
01/17/02 Inter Press Service  U.N. Assails U.S. Treatment of Afghan Prisoners
01/16/02 Simon Tisdal, Guardian of London  Reaching the Parts Other Empires Could not Reach
01/22/02  Afghan Victims of US Bombings Demand Compensation
01/28/02 Rory McCarthey, Guardian of London  US accused of killing anti-Taliban leaders
01/28/02 Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian   Long after the air raids, bomblets bring more death
No Date US Department of State  The Global War on Terrorism: The First 100 Days
01/28/02 Jim Lobe, OneWorld US  "Quiet Atrocity" uncovered in Afghan prison
01/29/02 Yahoo News  US anti-terror campaign in the Philippines to start Thursday
02/14/02 Howard Zinn, The Nation   The Others: What If We Could See the Afghan Dead as We've Seen the September 11 Victims?
2/11/02 Arianna Huffington, CommonDreams,  The War on Terror's Newest Target: America's Kids
2/11/02 Agence France Presse, Thousands Rally Against US in Iran as More Innocent Afghans Killed
2/11/02 Carlotta Gall, SanFransisco Chronicle,  Afghans tell of beatings after botched U.S. raid
2/17/02 Howard Kurtz, Washington Post  War Coverage Takes a Negative Turn
2/18/02  Hassan Hafidh, Reuters  Iraqi Papers: U.S. Preparing to Attack Iraq
2/26/02 Andrew Gumble, Independent  - UK, The Disappeared
2/26/02 André Gerolymatos, Toronto Globe and Mail,  Greasing Conquest's Wheels
2/27/02 Watson and McGrory, Times of London  Terror Prisoners Escape Military Tribunals
2/27/02 Gallup Poll Most residents of Muslims countries dislike US: poll
3/02/02 Christopher Brauchli, Boulder Daily Camera,  Ashcroft Sets the Tone at Heavy-Handed Justice
3/03/02  Agence France Presse  US Uses Bunker-Busting 'Thermobaric' Bomb for First Time
3/03/02  Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post,  Bush View of Secrecy Is Stirring Frustration
3/18/02  Walden Bellow, The Nation,  A 'Second Front' in the Philippines
Jon Flanders, ProjectCensored,  The World Trade Center Attack - Caspian Oil and the Afghanistan Pipeline Connection
Center for Globalisation Research CRG -- Cover-up or Complicity of the Bush Administration? The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence Agency (ISI) in the September 11 attacks
3/05/02 George Monbiot, Guardian of London, War on the Third World
3/09/02 Paul Richter, LA Times,  U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms
3/11/02 Alexandra Williams and Bob Roberts, The Daily Mirror (UK), Bush's Nuclear Lunacy: Horror at Dubya's Secret Attack Plan on 7 Countries
3/12/02 Duncan Campbell, The Guardian of London,  US Sends Suspects to Face Torture
3/14/02 Molly Ivins, Miami Harold,  Nukes and Consequences
3/18/02 Representative Dennis Kucinich speech  A Prayer for America
3/18/02 Kathleen Burge, Boston Globe, Sept. 11 Leaves Same-Sex Partners Adrift; Laws Bar Benefits, Even Recognition

Radio report on undocumented workers lost in the World Trade Center destruction. Democracy NOW! [Link is half way down page for 10/5/01 under  Family memebers of undocumented immigrants ... ]
C. Brauchli, Boulder Daily Camera 11/10/01 How we became enemies of Iran AND Iraq
Howard Zinn, The Progressive Dec. 2001 A Just Cause, Not a Just War
Sanjay Suri India Abroad News Service 3/17/01  CIA worked with Pakistan to create Taliban
 ACLU Press Release: 11-14-01 -- As Government Prepares to Investigate Thousands, ACLU Issues Multi-Lingual “Know Your Rights!” Pamphlet to Educate Public
Seattle Post Intelligencer 11/18/01 Editorial Recognize the Link Between Oil, War
Is Higher Education Unpatriotic? Lynne Cheney's 10/5/01 (Adobe Acrobat) report
           Defending Civilization: How Our Universities are Failing American and What We Can Do About It
        Lynne Cheney-Joe Lieberman group puts out a blacklist (12/13/2001)

7/5/02   CNN.com - Report: U.S. plan calls for attack on Iraq - July 5, 2002
7/15/02 Richard Falk, The Nation  The New Bush Doctrine (1)
8/12/02 Shankar and Risen. NY Times  Rumsfeld Weighs Covert Activities by Military Units
8/12/02 Brogan and King. London Daily Telegraph.   Two-Thirds of British Public Oppose US Attack Against Iraq: Poll
8/14/02 Jonathan Turley, LA Times Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision
8/14/02 Josh Meyer, LA Times  American Bar Assn Condemns Bush's Secret Detention of Hundreds
8/18/02 Patrick Tyler, NY Times,  Officers Say U.S. Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas
8/29/02 Gen. Anthony Zinni (Ret.) on war with Iraq  NPR : Gen. Anthony Zinni
8/28/02 NPR interview with Scott Ritter - former UN Chief Inspector in Iraq (audio only) NPR : Iraq: What's the Threat?
8/30/02 Agence France Presse World Stiffens Opposition to US Strike on Iraq
9/16/02 Dilip Hiro, The Nation Iraq and Poison Gas
9/1/02 Scott Ritter, Baltimore Sun Is a Domestic Political Agenda Driving War With Iraq?
9/5/02 Paul Knok, Toronto Globe,  War on Terror Ignites Battle Over Course of US Justice
9/5/02 Marie Coco, LI Newsday, US Stands Frighteningly Alone in the World
9/5/02 Steven Erlanger, NY Times German Leader's Warning: War Plan Is a Huge Mistake
9/5/02 Charles M. Madigan, Chicago Tribune Poll: US Public Leery of War on Iraq
9/6/02 Jimmy Carter, Washington Post,  The Troubling New Face of America
9/6/02 Tom Regan, Christian Science Monitor,  When Contemplating War, Beware of Babies in Incubators
9/8/02 Scott Ritter transcript, BBC Scott Ritter Addresses Iraqi Parliament
9/8/02 Plesh, Beaumont, and Beaver. The Observer.  US Pours Arms into Gulf Region
9/8/02 Mackay and Arbuthnot, Sunday Herald (Scotland)  How Did Iraq Get Its Weapons? We Sold Them
9/13/02 Commondreams link to articles at the  Institute for Public Accuracy ... The United States, the World and War
9/13/02 Borger and Norton-Taylor, Guardia/UK,  US Military Builds Up Huge Attack Force
9/15/02 Neil Mackay  Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becomming president
9/26/02 Molly Ivins, Baltimore Sun, Mr. Bush, Stop the Insanity
9/27/02 Paul Nyrden, Charleston Gazette,   Will the US reap whatit has sown?  
9/29/02 Johnson and Thompson, The Independent (UK) The Biggest Protest in a Generation Hears Calls for Peace with Iraq
9/30/02 Barbara Lee, SanFrancisco Chronicle, Alternatives to War
10/01/02 Matt Kelley, AP, Records show US sent biological weapons germs to Iraq
Project for a New America report for Bush - Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century
Sept 2002 - just released from the Bush Administration National Security Strategy of the United States of America 
10/2/02 Rick Stahlhut, CommonDreams, Considering Motives for Gulf War II
Link to Foreign Policy In Focus new Iraq Page
Text of House Resolution Authorizing Use of Force Against Iraq
10/11/02  David Fireston, NY Times White House Blocks Independent 9/11 Investigation
10/13/02 Leslie Wayn, NY Times Going backwards - America's for-profit secret army
10/13/02 Neil McKay, Sunday Herald (Scotland) Why the CIA thinks Bush is wrong
10/18/02 Kim Sengupta, Independent / UK US forces ready for land war in Iraq
10/26/02 William Pfaff, International Herald Tribune, America's Global Hegemony: No One Elected Bush to Attack Iraq
10/26/02 Robert Jensen, CommonDreams, Bush's Lies and Simple Truths  
11/12/02, William O'Harrow Jr., SanFran Chronicle, Pentagon plans cyber surveillance
Here's the SS Office (no I didn't make that up) of DARPA synopsis of TIA TIA System
11/12/02, Adrew Buncombe, Independent UK, US warns war on Iraq may start before Christmas
11/12/02, George Edmundson, Toronto Star, Iraq invasion will trigger "human catastrophe" report warns
11/17/02, Johnston and Van Notta, NY Times Agencies Monitor Iraqis in the U.S. for Terror Threat  (this is getting bigger and bigger)
*** Thomas Nagy 9/01 Progressive, The secret behind the sanctions: how the U.S. intentionally destroyed Iraq's water supply
11/02  Dennis Kucinich (US Congressperson) The Progressive The bloodstained path
11/24/02 David Sanger, NY Times, In North Korea and Pakistan, Deep Roots of Nuclear Barter  
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