The full text of the Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona, published in June 2005 by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). [html]

At the beginning of 2005, for the first time ever, the White House released details about who receives money under the "faith-based" grant program. [pdf]

"Diligence Middle East is the Middle East subsidiary of Diligence LLC, a premier global risk consultancy and strategic business information provider. DME Iraq security services utilize integrated Expatriate and Iraqi specialists, providing for all aspects of security and information support to governmental, non-governmental and commercial organizations. Current operations in Iraq include discreet personal security teams, managed guard forces, risk and threat assessments and contingency planning, secure movement of high value assets, and bespoke training packages. DME also provides due diligence and investigative services for clients engaging in business in the region." [doc]

A pdf version of Lynne Cheney's romance novel that was published in 1981 and has since been suppressed. USA Today writes that " A publisher has canceled plans to reissue a racy novel by Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, after she said the book did not represent her 'best work.' New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), was going to reprint Sisters, a historical romance published in 1981 that includes brothels, attempted rapes and a lesbian love affair." [pdf]

As the U.S. Air Force describes it, ADS is “a non-lethal, counter-personnel directed energy weapon. ... Traveling at the speed of light, the energy reaches the subject and penetrates the skin to a depth of less than 1/64 of an inch. Almost instantaneously it produces a heating sensation that within seconds becomes intolerable and forces the subject to flee. The sensation immediately ceases when the individual moves out of the beam or when the system operator turns it off.” As the Christian Science Monitor reported in 2002, military forces “could fend off crowds of rock throwers,” so the technology has clear applications in domestic protest/crowd control situations. The linked file is the USAF description of the project. [html]

For over a year, the people of Darfur have endured a vicious campaign of violence and terror which has led to huge numbers of deaths and forced more than a million people to flee from their destroyed villages in search of safety. [doc]

From Security Indicators, Economic & Quality of Life Indicators to Polling, the Brookings Institution brings you your one-stop-shop for available data on Iraqi Reconstruction. [pdf]

Based on a series of cluster studies, Lancet estimates that making conservative methodological assumptions (See The Economist's Review of the Report), most likely 98,000 extra Iraqi deaths have occurred since the Invasion in March 2003. Currently the Brookings Institution, a major centrist Washington based Think-Tank, in their "Iraq Index," which is also available from why-war.com, estimates between 16,800 and 31,400 Iraqi casualties as of October 31, 2004. Iraqbodycount.net, the most cited source of civilian death statistics in the major media today, estimates between 14,000 and 16,400. Although these statistics may appear to be radically divergent, Lancet claims that they are the result of the difference between passive media monitoring and on-the-ground data gathering, and that furthermore, the trends in the wholely independent sources closely parallel one another, suggesting further evidence that the 98,000 projection may unfortunately in fact be correct. [pdf]

"We may not have stopped [imperialism] in its tracks — yet — but we have stripped it down. We have made it drop its mask. We have forced it into the open. It now stands before us on the world’s stage in all it’s brutish, iniquitous nakedness." [html]

In a few key areas — electricity, the judicial system and overall security — the Iraq that America handed back to its residents Monday is worse off than before the war began last year, according to calculations in a new General Accounting Office report released Tuesday. [pdf]