economics

What $87 Billion Looks Like

The Cost of War: http://www.costofwar.com

Published on October 8, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
Iraq and Corporate Patriotism: It's Time to Stop the War Profiteers by Charlie Cray

Published on October 8, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
Paying For Iraq - by Joyce Marcel

Who Pays For Poverty?
By Mark Engler, TomPaine.com
September 22, 2003

THE REAL COST OF WAR - Sept. 18, 2003
Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange.com
How many new teachers could we have paid for with the billions spent on the Iraqi occupation?

Published on September 8, 2003 by USA Today
Monthly Costs of Iraq, Afghan Wars Approach That of Vietnam - by Dave Moniz

A Basic Right: Living-Wage Jobs
By Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet
September 3, 2003

US jobless recovery hurts Bush
By Gordon Corera
BBC correspondent, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Leave No Millionaire Behind
By Arthur I. Blaustein, MotherJones.com
July 25, 2003

Published June 18, 2003 by Inter Press Service
U.S. Military Budget Heading Towards Cold War Levels
by Thalif Deen

NY Times - June 1, 2003
2nd Study Finds Gaps in Tax Cuts
By DAVID FIRESTONE

What Is the War Going to Cost Us?
By Bob Burnett, AlterNet
May 2, 2003

It's Still the Economy, Stupid
By Don Hazen, AlterNet
May 16, 2003

Withering Economy? Try Miracle-Growth!
By Stan Cox, AlterNet
May 16, 2003

THE TINHORN PRESIDENT
Jim Hightower, AlterNet
George W spared no expense in putting together an ad for his upcoming election campaign. Unfortunately, he stuck us taxpayers with the bill.

It's the Ideology, Stupid
By Bob Burnett, AlterNet
May 14, 2003

WE'RE LOOKING FOR A FEW POOR MEN
Ted Rall, AlterNet
If America loves its troops so much, why don't we pay them a living wage?

Budgetary implications of the war and Bush's draconian budget and tax cuts - NY Times editorial March 25, 2003

protest/resistance

Democracy USA is a national initiative to build a pro-democracy movement to protect, enhance and exercise the power of the right to vote

Activist Training: from the children of former Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife, Sheila Wellstone: www.wellstone.org

Evidence Of Things Unseen: The Rise of a New Movement - By Tom Hayden, AlterNet
October 21, 2003

Worthy Dreams
By Doris 'Granny D' Haddock, GrannyD.com
September 23, 2003

Consciousness Is Cool, Just Ask Julia Butterfly Hill
By Julia Scott, AlterNet
September 19, 2003

A Small Group of Dedicated People Might Actually Do Something By Doris 'Granny D' Haddock, AlterNet
August 28, 2003

Published June 10, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
Text of speech to the Take Back America conference
sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future
given by Bill Moyers on June 4, 2003 in Washington, DC

DON'T STAND IN THE WAY OF OUR JOY
Doris 'Granny D' Haddock
Charting a course for the anti-war movement and the future of democracy.

Acts of Hope
By Rebecca Solnit, OrionOnline.org
May 20, 2003

Thousands of Iraqis Rally to Protest U.S. Moves in Baghdad - By BRIAN KNOWLTON,
International Herald Tribune - May 19, 2003

Winners and Losers: The Left's Dilemma is How to Harness the New Social and Protest Movements Into an Effective Electoral Strategy
by Gary Younge
May 5, 2003 by the Guardian/UK

Ballots Can Keep Bullets From Flying
By John Moyers and Elizabeth Ready, TomPaine.com
April 21, 2003

If Nation Goes Astray, It's OK to Break a Law
by Jenny Ruth Yasi
Published on Friday, April 11, 2003 by the Portland Press Herald (Maine)

WE'RE ALREADY FIGHTING AGAINST THE NEXT WAR
Paul Loeb and Geov Parrish, AlterNet
Those struggling against this war are part of a long-term movement for change and we must retain hope and courage even when the political tides seemed to run against us.

ACKNOWLEDGING DESPAIR
Ian Urbina and Desmond Tutu, AlterNet
A first step to personal healing is to acknowledge the depth of the devastation that many of us feel because of this war.

U.S. Anti-War Movement Breaks Ranks with the '60s
by Greg Frost
Published on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 by Reuters

post-war iraq

Published on November 13, 2003 by the Guardian/UK
'We Could Lose This Situation' : CIA Says Insurgents Now 50,000 Strong by Julian Borger in Washington and Rory McCarthy in Baghdad

Published November 13, 2003 by the Inter Press Service
The Bush Administration's Palpable Sense of Panic
by Jim Lobe

Posted on Wed, Nov. 12, 2003
CIA has a bleak analysis of Iraq
By Jonathan S. Landay (Inquirer Washington Bureau)

November 11, 2003 -- CommonDreams.org
'Nothing but Poison Plants Can Grow from Poison Seeds'
Another Former Intelligence Official Blows the Whistle on Iraq/9-11 Connection by Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill & the staff of Democracy Now!

Published November 7, 2003 by the Guardian/UK
Iraq is Not America's to Sell: International law is Unequivocal - Paul Bremer's Economic Reforms are Illegal by Naomi Klein

US bends statistical data on Iraqi surveys
By Dr. James J. Zogby, Gulf News
Oct. 20, 2003

Published October 15, 2003 by Reuters
Iraq War Swells Al Qaeda's Ranks, Report Says
by Peter Graff

Congress briefed on Iraq's WMD - BBC online- 10/2/03
No weapons have been found yet. Saddam Hussein may have been pretending to possess weapons of mass destruction, the US Congress is expected to be told by the man in charge of the US-led hunt for Iraqi weapons

Letter from a soldier
Posted by Lakshmi on September 22, 2003
Here is a letter received by Military Families Speak Out, a group that is protesting against the deployment of U.S. troops in Iraq.

Deserting Our Troops
Steven Rosenfeld is a senior editor for TomPaine.com.

Bring Our Children Home Now
By Nancy Lessin, AlterNet
September 22, 2003

MORE QUESTIONS FOR CHENEY
by Reps. Kucinich, Maloney and Sanders - 9/18/03
Two months after members of a key congressional subcommittee asked the Vice President about his role in building the case for war, questions still remain.

Published on Friday, September 19, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
The Striking Similarities Between Vietnam and Iraq: Can You Say Quagmire?
by Bruce Mulkey

Wounded in Iraq, Deserted at Home
By Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange.com
September 12, 2003

A Deadbeat President Hawks His Dead-end War
By Jason Vest, AlterNet
September 8, 2003

Battle for US hearts and minds
By Gordon Corera
BBC Washington correspondent

US vows 'no retreat' from Iraq
US President George W Bush has said there will be no retreat from Iraq or from the war against terror

August 5, 2003 by the San Diego Union-Tribune
Officials Confirm Dropping Firebombs on Iraqi Troops:
Results are 'remarkably similar' to using napalm
by James W. Crawley

Did Bush Mislead US Into War?
published online June 26, 2003
from column: Capital Games by David Corn (The Nation)

Published June 18, 2003: Seattle Weekly
Impeachable Offense
by Geov Parrish

Published June 18, 2003: Boston Globe
What are Americans Dying for Now?
by Derrick Z. Jackson

Friday June 13, 2003 The Guardian
War may have killed 10,000 civilians, researchers say
by Simon Jeffery
related:
Counting the Human Cost: A Survey of Projects Counting Civilians Killed by the War in Iraq
June 12, 2003

Published June 18, 2003 by Inter Press Service
Iraq: From Liberation to Counter-Insurgency in Less Than 80 Days
by Jim Lobe

The Dog Ate My WMDs
By William Rivers Pitt, TruthOut.com
June 16, 2003

Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror
By Laura Blumenfeld
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 16, 2003
"The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They're making us less secure, not more secure."

Britain waged Iraq war on 'suggestible' data: Cook
June 17, 2003

BBC News Online - June 17, 2003
Senator queries WMD claims

June 5, 2003 Washington Post
Some Iraq Analysts Felt Pressure From Cheney Visits
by Walter Pincus and Dana Priest

Credibility Gap, Anyone?
By Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service
June 4, 2003

Analysis: 'Potential WMD blow' for Bush
By Justin Webb
BBC correspondent in Washington

NY Times, June 4th
Aide Denies Shaping Data to Justify War
By ERIC SCHMITT

WMD claims rattle the coalition
By Jonathan Marcus
BBC defence correspondent

US widens Iraq weapons hunt
(BBC report, May 31, 2003
No weapons have been found yet. The Pentagon is widening its search to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq.

NYTimes - May 22, 2003
Prewar Views of Iraq Threat Are Under Review by C.I.A.
By JAMES RISEN

Bush's Eternal War Backfires - So What Was It All For?
by ROBERT FISK

Iraq War Helped Boost Al Qaeda--Allowed Network to Recruit: Experts
May 20, 2003 by the Toronto Star

Fallout of America's Vain Hunt for WMD Confined to Embarrassment
by Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Friday, May 16, 2003 by the lndependent/UK

Remains of Toxic Bullets Litter Iraq:
The Monitor finds high levels of radiation left by US armor-piercing shells. - by Scott Peterson

Anthrax, Chemicals and Nerve Gas: Who is Lying?
Growing evidence of deception by Washington
by Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Published on Sunday, April 20, 2003 by the lndependent/UK

Iraqi scientist: Sanctions killed germ war program
CNN Report
Monday, April 28, 2003 Posted: 12:58 PM EDT

American foreign policy

Published November 8, 2003 by the Boston Globe
The Demands of Democracy (Editorial)

MR. PRESIDENT, YOU'RE NO MOSES
Robert Scheer, AlterNet
Bush now wants us to believe the Iraq war was about
spreading freedom by force -- but liars can't be liberators.

Let Them Eat War
By Arlie Hochschild, tomdispatch.com
October 2, 2003 - published on alternet.org

Published on October 9, 2003 by the New York Times
Dean Says Bush is Setting the Stage for the 'Failure of America' by Jodi Wilgoren

Annan Trounces Bush at UN
By Ian Williams, AlterNet
September 23, 2003

SEEKING HONESTY IN U.S. POLICY
Joseph Wilson, AlterNet - Sept. 18, 2003

Published September 10, 2003 -- the Inter Press Service
U.S. Public Counsels Cooperation Two Years After 9/11 - by Jim Lobe

AMERICA'S FREEDOM REQUIRES ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
Jason Mark, AlterNet
Like a junkie with a jones, our oil addiction continuously puts the United States in dangerous situations.

Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception
By Jim Lobe, AlterNet - May 19, 2003

Waging oil wars
A 1999 Strategic Assessment report prepared by DoD's Institute of National Strategic Studies reveals what we've always known: that war-for-oil is an accepted part of Pentagon dogma. The May 19th edition of the Sydney Morning Herald reports that the document "vividly highlights how the highest levels of the US Defence community accepted the waging of an oil war as a legitimate military option."

The Empire Advances
by TARIQ ALI

Deterring the Empire
By Ian Williams, AlterNet - May 13, 2003

The Thirty-Year Itch
by Robert Dreyfuss
March/April 2003 Issue of Mother Jones
Three decades ago, in the throes of the energy crisis, Washington's hawks conceived of a strategy for US control of the Persian Gulf's oil. Now, with the same strategists firmly in control of the White House, the Bush administration is playing out their script for global dominance.

The Thirty-Year Itch: Oil and Arms
March/April 2003 Issue of Mother Jones
To get a sense of how control of the Gulf's oil economy has become the focus of Washington's military strategy, one need only look at the map.

Article that postulates how this war was being planned back in 1998 by a right-wing think tank:
A think tank war: Why old Europe says no
By Margo Kingston
March 7 2003
and
Rebuilding America's Defenses (PDF file*), report mentioned in above article that allegedly forms the basis of Bush's foreign policy
and
Link to the think tank that allegedly has Bush's ear.
This organization's membership includes current Administration big wigs, including Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Jeb Bush... all the usual suspects: http://www.newamericancentury.org/

AN AIR OF EMPIRE
The Heavy Price Of Dominance
by Leon Fuerth
"Americans -- whether they support or oppose war with Iraq -- need to realize the consequences of the status we may shortly assume ... the beginning of empire."

The Wraps Come Off Bush's Colonialist Agenda
Right-wing hawks have been calling the shots all along
by Robert Scheer
Published on March 25, 2003 by the Los Angeles Times

American Hawks' Plan Sounds Chilling Today
by Vinay Menon
Published on March 26, 2003 by the Toronto Star

Issue Portal Sites:

environmental site:
http://planetearth.org/do/Home

homelessness portal site:
http://www.homeless.org/do/Home

democracy portal site:
http://www.liberties.com/do/Home

Oct. 9, 2003 news release:
Amnesty International, Oxfam, IANSA Launch Global Control Arms Campaign

Oxfam America - working to end world hunger:
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/art1716.html

misc. opinion

Freedom and Security By Al Gore, MoveOn.org
November 10, 2003
A speech delivered at a MoveOn event,November 9, 2003, at DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, DC

Published November 8, 2003 by the Boston Globe
The Demands of Democracy (Editorial)

Published November 7, 2003 by the Guardian/UK
Iraq is Not America's to Sell -- International law is Unequivocal: Paul Bremer's Economic Reforms are Illegal by Naomi Klein

Published on October 9, 2003 by the New York Times
Dean Says Bush is Setting the Stage for the 'Failure of America' by Jodi Wilgoren

Let Them Eat War
By Arlie Hochschild, tomdispatch.com
October 2, 2003 - published on alternet.org

The Most Insidious Of Traitors
William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times best-selling author of two books, War On Iraq (Context Books) and The Greatest Sedition is Silence (Pluto Press)

Losing Dollars and Sense in Iraq
by US Senator Robert C. Byrd
Floor Remarks - US Senate
September 17, 2003

October 2003 Letter from Rep. DeFazio re: Iraq war & its aftermath

Bring Our Children Home Now
By Nancy Lessin, AlterNet
September 22, 2003

Framing a Democratic Agenda
By George Lakoff, The American Prospect
September 24, 2003

SEEKING HONESTY IN U.S. POLICY
Joseph Wilson, AlterNet - Sept. 18, 2003

Published September 5, 2003 by TomDispatch.com
Reprinted with permission from the September 22, 2003 issue of The Nation
The Importance of Losing
by Jonathan Schell

Who Knew?: The Unanswered Questions of 9/11
By Seth Ackerman, In These Times
September 10, 2003

Published in the October, 2003 issue of The Progressive
An Occupied Country
by Howard Zinn

Women Will Have to Save the World
By Marlene Nadle, Pacific News Service
September 15, 2003

SCHEER: He Must Admit the Error of His Ways
By Robert Scheer, AlterNet
September 9, 2003

September 5, 2003 : Washington Post
"I ask you, is it happening again?"
Ex-Envoy Criticizes Bush's Postwar Policy
by Thomas E. Ricks

A Small Group of Dedicated People Might Actually Do Something By Doris 'Granny D' Haddock, AlterNet
August 28, 2003

August 30, 2003
What is to be Done? Send the Neocons to Baghdad
By WILLIAM S. LIND

Published on August 1, 2003 by the Seattle Times
Bush's High Crimes Against the Nation
by Walter Williams

A Firm Basis for Impeachment
By Robert Scheer, AlterNet
July 18, 2003

Filling in the Holes in National Security
By Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet
July 28, 2003

Published on July 14, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
Intelligence Unglued
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?
by John Dean, former Legal Counsel to President Nixon

The U.S. Dilemma: Bombs or Blackboards
By Peter Dale Scott, Pacific News Service
June 16, 2003

WMDs or Not, Same Difference
By Ivan Eland, AlterNet
June 9, 2003

Published June 5, 2003 in the San Francisco Chronicle
Weapons of Mass Deception
by Ruth Rosen

June 5, 2003 Editorial in the Boulder Daily Camera
Among The Deceivers: Does It Matter If We Were Misled On Iraq? Hell, Yes!

Dreaming a New America: Peaceful Regime Change in 2004
By Farai Chideya, AlterNet
March 20, 2003
"Today we face another freedom struggle. It's time to retake, and remake, American democracy."

The Masters of the World; The World Order of the Superpower
By DER SPIEGEL (German Newspaper)

nonviolence/living in peace

Annotated Bibliography of Books on Active Nonviolence. . .

Learn and Teach Peace
from the National Council of Churches home page
( http://www.ncccusa.org/ ):
In support of the World Council of Churches' Decade to Overcome Violence, the NCC is offering its congregations free copies of the 24-page WCC study guide, "Why Violence? Why Not Peace?" To request your copy, e-mail jfw@ncccusa.org or call 212-870-2299.

On Mahatma Gandhi:
http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/
http://www.mkgandhi.org/

patriotism

Published on October 8, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
Iraq and Corporate Patriotism: It's Time to Stop the War Profiteers by Charlie Cray

AMERICA: LOVE IT BUT DON'T LEAVE IT
Zack Exley, AlterNet
Patriotism is love of country. But love comes in many forms: deep, permanent and unconditional, as well as superficial, fleeting and with strings attached.

AMERICAN REBELS
Jack Newfield, The Nation
Lefties and progressives are patriots just as much as anyone else.

A Kinder, Gentler Patriotism
by Howard Zinn
Published on Sunday, April 13, 2003 by the Long Island, NY Newsday

Think you know what patriotism is?
By Jerry Long

Patriotism, a Menace to Liberty
by Emma Goldman, 1911

public opinion

Published September 11, 2003 by the Toronto Star
Living in 'Apocalyptic Fear': Americans More Scared Than Ever - by Tim Harper

Published on September 10, 2003 -- Inter Press Service
U.S. Public Counsels Cooperation Two Years After 9/11 - by Jim Lobe

WHETHER TO BE LOVED OR FEARED
Mark Engler, AlterNet
Does international public opinion about the United States really matter? Yes, and here’s why.

NY Times, June 3rd
World's View of U.S. Sours After Iraq War, Poll Finds
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS

Public Still Rejects Unilateralism, Imperial Role
by Jim Lobe
Published on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 by the Inter Press Service

Negative Views of U.S. Are Increasing in Europe,
Poll Finds
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS and MARJORIE CONNELLY
March 19, 2003 / New York Times

Arab/Islamic Perspectives

Published November 13, 2003 by the Toronto Star
American Hypocrisy on Democracy
by Haroon Siddiqui

An Unprecedented Crisis - The Arab Condition
by EDWARD SAID

news about Al-Jazeera, the Mid-East news organization

information about Al-Jazeera on satellite

coming soon--English version of Al Jaz news website:
http://english.aljazeera.net/

Nuclear Weapons

SCHEER: A Nuclear Road of No Return
By Robert Scheer, AlterNet
May 13, 2003

Nuclear threat casts global shadow
By Paul Reynolds
BBC News Online world affairs correspondent

Nuclear War Risk Grows as States Race to Acquire Bomb
by Peter Popham
Published on Tuesday, April 29, 2003 by the lndependent/UK

Poverty/Hunger/Health Care

Is there really ONE SINGLE SOLUTION to the health care crisis as the Physicians' Working Group says here?
Steve Rosenfeld asks the author of UNIVERSAL COVERAGE: LET THE DEBATE RESUME by Rashi Fein, PhD, whether this is a serious proposal for people to consider in the article WHY NOW?

BEYOND THE WAR
Combating Global Poverty And Disease
by Mia McDonald and Danielle Nierenberg
New U.N. numbers show population and gender issues deserve more resources and political attention.

Energy/Oil

Background on current energy legislation from Citizen Action

OILEMPIRE.US
election coups, 911 (the American Reichstag Fire), fascism, World War IV and the peak of petroleum production (http://www.oilempire.us)

An Energy Solutions Reader - The TomPaine.com Staff

AMERICA'S FREEDOM REQUIRES ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
Jason Mark, AlterNet
Like a junkie with a jones, our oil addiction continuously puts the United States in dangerous situations.

Commentary from TomPaine.com, including:

Energy War: Fighting For Our Energy Future

Clean Energy Reader: A Clickable Compendium

Further reading

Read a flyer listing books about the U.S. war in the Middle East (PDF file**)

Read a brochure about the history of U.S. military interventions (PDF file**)

The University of Oregon Concerned Faculty for Peace and Justice have assembled a reading packet which includes articles and opinion pieces relating to the background of the September 11 terrorist attacks. It also includes a bibliography on the history and politics of the Middle East, Central Asia, Islam, U.S. foreign policy, and terrorism.

In addition to viewing the bibliography online, the packet may be purchased at the Copy Shop (539 E 13th, Eugene).

Democracy/Civil Liberties

Published November 17, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
Voting Machine Voodoo: Democracy at Risk
by Colleen Redman

Freedom and Security By Al Gore, MoveOn.org
November 10, 2003
A speech delivered at a MoveOn event,November 9, 2003, at DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, DC

An Open Invitation to Election Fraud:
Bev Harris: Diebold End-Runs Around Certification
Wednesday, 17 September 2003

All The President's Votes?
[a detailed expose of the 2002 Georgia mid-term elections, the first state to us computerized elections]
by Andrew Gumbel - Independent (UK) Oct. 14, 2003

Internal Memos: Diebold Doing End-Runs Around Certification
Friday, 12 September 2003 (PDT)
By Bev Harris - www.blackboxvoting.org

Reagan's Political Philosophy & His Legacy of a Dying Democracy - Oct. 7, 2003
by Walter Williams - TomPaine.com
Walter Williams is professor emeritus at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs and author of the just-published Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy (Georgetown University Press)

Democracy USA is a national initiative to build a pro-democracy movement to protect, enhance and exercise the power of the right to vote

The Campaign to Revoke Corporate Free Speech

Published on 9/29/03 - Madison Capital Times
High-Tech Voting Must be Fraud-Free
by Dave Zweifel

LURCHING TOWARD TRAGEDY
by John Prados - Sept. 18, 2003
The new Homeland Security department is massive, underfunded and increasingly redundant -- and is protected by a cloak of secrecy.

If We Lose the Constitution, Who Wins Then?
By Rachel Neumann, AlterNet
September 16, 2003

Locking Down Democracy to Keep America Free
By Jim Hightower, AlterNet
September 12, 2003

The Impact of the USA PATRIOT Act: An Update
By Nancy Kranich, FEPP Senior Research Fellow

Voting and Democracy: The Challenges Ahead
By Don Hazen, AlterNet
July 30, 2003

Published on June 18, 2003 by OneWorld.net
New U.S. Court Ruling Sanctions Secret Arrests
by Jim Lobe

ROSEN: Could It Happen Again?
By Ruth Rosen, San Francisco Chronicle
May 12, 2003

Total Information Awareness 2.0
May 21, 2003
The Pentagon is set to launch LifeLog, an ambitious program designed to collect information about a person's life into a searchable database. Which information, you ask? ALL OF IT! Everything you say, everywhere you go, all you do, even all you feel recorded in the name of national security.

Democracy Unbalanced
by Steven Hill and Rob Richie
Published on Friday, May 2, 2003 by the Baltimore Sun

A Chill Wind is Blowing in This Nation...
Transcript of the speech given by actor Tim Robbins to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on April 15, 2003
Published on Wednesday, April 16, 2003 by CommonDreams.org

THE PEACE CANDIDATE
Ruth Conniff, The Progressive
Dennis Kucinich will be the progressive's choice in 2004. But how far can he get?

Media Issues

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org

The Campaign to Revoke Corporate Free Speech

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
Media Misses Gap Between Bush And Reality
Bush's contradictions are rarely reported and so have not become a defining theme of his presidency.

US Plan for Global Domination Tops Project Censored's Annual List
By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet
September 17, 2003

9/11 Propaganda, Hollywood Style
By Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org
September 8, 2003

The Fog of War Talk
By John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, AlterNet
July 28, 2003

The Lies We Bought: The Unchallenged "Evidence" For War by John R. MacArthur
Published in the May/June issue of the Columbia Journalism Review

Of Monopolies and Hypocrisy: Corporate Media and the Free Market
by MATT VIDAL

WHY THE FCC'S RULES MATTER
Norman Solomon, AlterNet
If the dominant content of mainstream radio doesn't make you feel sick, then you're probably not paying close attention.

Take On the News:
A Running Commentary on Current Events
Democracy requires an aggressive, independent, skeptical press dedicated to serving the public interest. With that in mind, TomPaine.com has launched a Web log to watchdog the media.

Al-Jazeera Rocks, Rolls and Reports
By Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet
May 11, 2003

More alternative news resources & media commentary

Excellent media resources recommended by oilempire.us :

http://www.leftgatekeepers.com

http://www.deceptiondollar.com

Deaths of Journalists Bring Accusations and Concerns
By JACQUES STEINBERG and JIM RUTENBERG
NY Times April 9, 2003

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Media References (compiled by Oregon PeaceWorks staff)