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I have merged 3 related pages here: People's Media, Research Resources, and Policy / Legislation
AlterNet
Al-Jazeera through Cursor
Antiwar.com  News sources from Antiwar.com - they are extensive  
 
Center for Economic and Social Rights
Common Dreams
Democratic Underground
Democracy Now
EnviroLink  collects daily news  reports on environmental issues
FAIR
Free Speech TV
From The Wilderness Publications
Guerilla News Network
Harper's Magazine
Independent Media Center
IPS - Inter Press Service The Global News Agency
ITN Online
The Narco News Bulletin
The Nation Digital Edition
KPFA - Pacifica Radio
Project Censored
The Progressive
Public Campaign
Reclaiming Democracy
Reporters Comm. for Freedom of the Press   
The Seeker Magazine
TAP:The American Prospect Online
Tolerance.org
TrueMajority
Truthout
ZNet
General Research Sources
Prospective sources of information on Iraq   Namebase.Org  
Defense and the National Interest Absolutely tremendous site
Stratfor Global Intelligence
Dspace at MIT Online database of virtually everything published at MIT - including some works in progress.
 The New Landscape of Imprisonment: Mapping America's Prison Expansion  from the Urban Institute 4/2004
Felon Disenfranchisement From the Sentencing Project Winter 2004 Link to full disenfranchisement archives 
Think Tank Monitor - FAIR has table with political leanings of the largest think tanks.
WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications pdf report from the Carnegie Institute.
Globalization & Development         
Centre for Research on Globalisation
  
Foreign Policy In Focus    
The Emperor's New Clothes  
Global Watch  
TCF Online.  Policy in Perspective  
Third World Traveler 

UN Development Program 
Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development 
Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World    
Politics                 
Democratic Socialists   
Opensecrets.org--Money in politics data  
BushFlash
Freedom Isn't Free
Federation of American Scientists
Corporate
CorpWatch.org  
Media
  MAP: The Media Awareness Project  
Minority Links for Media  
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)    
PR Watch   
Crime, Social Justice, Diversity  
TalkLeft the politics of crime  
Social Justice E-zine  
Race Watch
Gender Watch
The Neo-Conservatives
The New American Century

Legislation
Full Text of H.R. 3162 signed by president 10/26/01  USA Patriot Act of 2001
Text of House Resolution Authorizing Use of Force Against Iraq
Executive Order Establishing Office of Homeland Security
Homeland Security Act of 2002  pdf version
Homeland Security Act of 2002   text version
HJ 114 - Authorize use of force against Iraq

Proposed and Draft Legislation
5/21/03 Allen, Reuters, Senate backs study of low-yield nuclear weapons

Read these and share as widely as possible!!!
The following is a draft bill created by the Department of Justice. It is NOT legislation that has been sent to Congress YET. You foreknowledge and action will hopefully ensure that if it does go to Congress that it does not pass.
Center for Public Integrity Justice Department drafts sweeping expansion of anti-terrorism act

Link to a copy of the draft legislation: Domestic Security Enforcement Act of 2003
This document is in Adobe format, so you need the Adobe Reader to access. If you want to print the document you must do so as an "image" file as it was apparently scanned.
The following is a draft bill created by the Department of Justice. It is NOT legislation that has been sent to Congress YET. You foreknowledge and action will hopefully ensure that if it does go to Congress that it does not pass.
Center for Public Integrity Justice Department drafts sweeping expansion of anti-terrorism act

Link to a copy of the draft legislation: Domestic Security Enforcement Act of 2003
This document is in Adobe format, so you need the Adobe Reader to access. If you want to print the document you must do so as an "image" file as it was apparently scanned.

 The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act
(access the producers of the Act -  The Center for Law and the Public Health


 Transcripts and Government Documents
The Bush Files from "The Price of Loyalty"  
Part I - Transcript of Testimony of Condoleezza Rice Before the 9/11 Commission
Part II - Transcript of Testimony of Condoleezza Rice Before the 9/11 Commission 

Datamining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses (GAO report)


Report of the Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 – BY the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (12/2002)

Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq  (7/07/04)

Conclusions Section - Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (7/07/04)


 Reports on Iraq
Full Iraq legal advice to Tony Blair 
The Taguba Report on Abuse in Iraq 
The Intl. Red Cross Report on US Abuse in Iraq 

Report of the High Commissioner : The Present Situation of Human Rights in Iraq  Annex 1  Annex 2  Annex 3  Annex 4  Annex 5 


Web Logs of Note 
Beyond Corporate  
Coherence TheoryOfTruth   
TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime 
 
 Military Strategy Documents

National Defense Strategy of the United States - 2005 
National Military Strategy of the United States of America - 2004 

Nuclear Posture Review 2002
National Security Strategy 2002
Quadrennial Defense Review 2001 
Rebuilding America's Defenses 
US Space Command Vision 2020