Beyond Rhetoric
Critical Resources
for Understanding the War on Terrorism
Due to the duration and amount of information, I have created an archive
of this page for the early events in the War on Terrorism.
This is to keep this site to a manageable size. You may access
the Archive through the following link:
Archive of early articles
This is an informational web page aimed at understanding and thought
on the issues surrounding the terrorist attacks
of September 11, 2001 and the U.S. response to them.
This page was designed
by S. Rowan Wolf. The content was contributed by Dr. Wolf,
other faculty at Portland Community College, and friends around
the country. Any comments or suggestions should go to Dr. Wolf
at rwolf@pcc.edu
last update 11/23/2002
Email
links to US Representatives and Whitehouse Includes Whitehouse
and Committee Chairs
New Page re Iraq - Misdirections and
Truth - Manufacturing Consent
Ghandi: "An eye for an eye makes the world
blind."
Benjamin Franklin: "They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety. "
Email U.S. Senators and
Representatives Congressional
Email Directory
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
Counter-Terrorism Top
Track legislation yourself through
THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet
There are a wide
number of appropriations bills. Search THOMAS under counter-terrorism
ACLU Discussion of the above legislation
Safe and Free:
Safe and Free in Times of Crisis
Full Text
of H.R. 3162 signed by president 10/26/01
USA Patriot Act
of 2001
John Kaminski, Common Dreams, 11/10/01
The New USA PATRIOT
Act: Are You a Patriot?
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)
Individual Rights
& Responsibilities Section - Human Rights - Winter 2002
Discussion of USA Patriot Act
Arabs and Islam Top
See Archive
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
Independent Media Center
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
Portland independent radio KBOO COMMUNITY RADIO 90.7 FM Portland, Oregon
[FM: 90.7]
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Nation is a left leaning analysis
oriented magazine The
Nation:
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]
One World Net OneWorld
The Progressive Magazine
The Reporters Committee for Freedom
of the Press
Working For Change
Z Magazine Welcome to ZNet
Government
and Mainstream Media Top
Whitehouse Your Government
State Department US Department of State - Home Page
US Counterterrorism department
Counterterrorism Office
Department of Defense DefenseLINK - Official Web Site
of the U.S. Department of Defense
Gateway to federal government agencies
and information FirstGov
CNN CNN.com
MSNBC MSNBC
Time Welcome to TIME.com
C-span cable network news
C-SPAN.org
Associated Press AP News Service
Reuters Reuters News Service
Understanding
and Stopping Hate
Top
Anti-hate organization (domestic)
Welcome To Stop The Hate.
Center for the Prevention
of Hate Violence
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Discussing
Hate and Violence with your Children
American Counseling Association Counseling victims
of ethnic violence [ACAeNews, Vol 2, Issue 6 - Mental Health
Practice]
Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance links
to 10 ways to fight hate and other resources Tolerance.org
Relief Efforts and
Organizations
Top
See Archive
Afghanistan Aid Agencies Top
See Archive
Analysis and Discussion
Click here for Archive of early articles
Iraq and War on Terrorism See also New Page Misdirections and
Truths - Manufacturing Consent
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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