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]

Has Iraq become a fertile soil for Islamic jihadist movements? Is there coordination between these movements and al-Qa'ida network? The following article by Dr Hani al-Siba'i, the director of Al-Maqrizi Center for Historical Studies, entitled: "Ansar Al-Islam, Ansar Al-Sunnah Army, Abu-Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi, and Abu-Hafs Brigades" was posted 14 March on Al-Basrah Net. [html]

This is the first propaganda video created by Ansar al-Sunnah, an Iraqi resistance group. [wmv]

On June 4th, 2004, three organizations – EarthRights International, the Government Accountability Project, and the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network – urged the United Nations Security Council to reject language in the draft US/UK resolution on Iraq that would immunize U.S. corporations from the legal consequences of their actions in the Iraqi oil sector.

The Security Council is expected to vote on the Iraq Resolution as early as Monday, June 7th. Please contact your representatives regarding this issue ASAP. If this language survives, companies like Halliburton may be immune from any legal consequences from their actions in Iraq for the indefinite future. [pdf]

This memo was prepared by the legal counsel to the president, on behalf of the Bush Administration in the beginning of 2002. It articulated the belief that in any conflict part of the “war on terrorism,” the participants would not be granted prisoner of war (POW) status under the Geneva Conventions. Gonzales outlined the ramifications of this judgment, including the ability to use interrogation techniques outside “Geneva’s strict limitations on questioning” and prevents American personnel from being charged under the War Crimes Act. The memorandum was vehemently opposed by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had asked the president to reconsider his determination that the Geneva Convention did not apply, and he supplied his own memorandum on the subject. The president did not reconsider, and it has been speculated that it is this legal framework that engendered the human rights abuses in the Abu Ghraib prision in Iraq. [The memo is temporarily unavailable; you can download a copy off-site.] [pdf]

This memo was sent by Secretary of State Colin Powell in response to a briefing paper prepared by the legal counsel to the president. The secretary of state is asking the president to reconsider his judgment that detainees held in the “war on terrorism” cannot be afforded Prisoner of War (POW) status under the Geneva Convention. Calling the DOJ’s document “inaccurate,” Powell’s response casts the decision to strip detainees of Geneva protections in an ominous light, accurately predicting the response domestically, internationally and within Iraq itself. “The United States has never determined that the GPW did not apply to an armed conflict in which its forces have been engaged,” the secretary wrote, and “while no-one [sic] anticipated the precise situation that we face, the GPW was intended to cover all types of armed conflict.” [The memo is temporarily unavailable; you can download a copy off-site.] [pdf]

Iraqi resistance beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings in revenge for the "Satanic degradation" of Iraqi prisoners, in a video statement dated May 11, 2004. [wmv]

On May 11th, 2004 The Financial Times reported “An eye-witness told Amnesty's researchers that, rather than being hit accidentally by a warning shot as the army claimed, Hanan was killed when a soldier aimed at [the eight-year-old girl] and fired a shot from around 60 metres.” This report, however, did not fall on deaf ears. One the same day The Washington Post reported “A [British] High Court judge granted the families a full-court hearing into their claim that the soldiers' actions should be subject to British law and the European Convention on Human Rights... The ruling came as government officials responded to a new report by Amnesty International that accused soldiers of killing civilians -- including a child -- without justification.” [pdf]

"That was on 4 May. On 10 October President Bush, in an electoral show (previous word published in English) staged at the White House with terrorist elements, members of Cuba's ultra-rightwing from Miami -- the worst of Miami's ultra-radical fauna -- said these words: 'The Cuban regime will not change by its own initiative, but Cuba must change.' Cuba must change, the president of the United States said on 10 October, by force; it must do so even if it is not willing to do so." [html]

This report, which was prepared at the request of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, is a comprehensive examination of the statements made by the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq: President George Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. It finds that the five officials made misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq in 125 public appearances. The report and an accompanying database identify 237 specific misleading statements by the five officials. [pdf]

"Homeland security is a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the U.S., reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, minimize damage, and assist in the recovery from attacks. The Department of Defense (DoD) role in homeland security can be summarized as follows: (1) homeland defense, the military protection of United States territory, domestic population, and critical defense infrastructure and assets from external threats and aggression; and (2) civil support, support to U.S. civil authorities for domestic emergencies and for designated law enforcement and other activities. Civil support missions are undertaken by the Department where its involvement is appropriate and where a clear end state for the Department’s role is defined." [pdf]

"Following is the full text of the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2003, released by the Information office of China's State Council Monday." [html]

"The public relies on the media to separate facts and tangible realities from assumptions and spin. [This report] evaluates how well the media has performed this task in regards to the issue of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The study assesses how the coverage of WMD has changed over time and across geographies — especially since the launch of the “War on Terror” and the positioning of Iraq as the 'big' international story." [pdf]

"In the first, we investigate the general power relations in mobile practice that add to the surveillance and restriction of children’s mobility. In the second, we illustrate how parents monitor children’s mobility by chauffeuring them. In the third, we look into how parents remote control children’s mobility by means of behavioural restrictions and technology. By using statistical material and qualitative interviews, we illustrate how parents perceive and perform their own surveillance of children’s mobility. In addition, we comment on how children perceive their monitored mobility and how they cope with it. Finally, we reflect on the differences in parental mobile monitoring and relate this to welfare and socio-economic structures in the families." [pdf]

Full text of Adorno's "Anti-Semitism and Fascist Propaganda" [txt]

Testimony by DIA Director Vice Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby on "Security Threats to the United States". Given to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. See also, CIA and FBI testimony. [pdf]

Testimony by FBI Director Mueller on "Security Threats to the United States". Given to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. See also, CIA and DIA testimony. [pdf]

Testimony by CIA Director Tenet on "Security Threats to the United States". Given to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. See also, FBI and DIA testimony. [pdf]

On February 19th, 2004, the New York Times reported that "More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement yesterday asserting that the Bush administration had systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry at home and abroad." This 38 page report released by the esteemed scientists details the administrations efforts at censorship of the academic community. [pdf]

The Pentagon designed the electronic voting system SERVE to allow soldiers stationed overseas to vote over the internet. It was supposed to be used in the 2004 Presidential Election. However, the program was cancelled, by order of Deputy Director of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, according to the Associated Press, because of the results of this report. The Security Peer Review Group, composed of expert computer scientists, found the SERVE program to be unsafe and hence not fit to count votes. [pdf]

"This new study details what the U.S. and international intelligence communities understood about Iraq's weapons programs before the war and outlines policy reforms to improve threat assessments, deter transfer of WMD to terrorists, strengthen the UN weapons inspection process, and avoid politicization of the intelligence process. The report distills a massive amount of data into side-by-side comparisons of pre-war intelligence, the official presentation of that intelligence, and what is now known about Iraq's programs." [pdf]

This fifty page book published by al-Qa'ida supporters provides a justification for their May 2003 attack on Saudi Arabian targets. [txt]

Published by al-Qa'ida supporters to celebrate the anniversary of 9/11, this 50+ page book is described as "an attempt to provide a serious interpretation of the event. Each of the writers examines the 11 September raid from a particular angle and supplies a unique view. Readers of varying interests will find here an overview of the event that shook the world." [txt]

This document, marked "For Official Use Only", was written by the FBI to "provide guidance to Carrier-Grade Voice over Packet Service Providers and equipment manufacturers in the form of law enforcement’s requirements for these electronic surveillance capabilities." Originally mirrored by Cryptome, this version allows copying and pasting. Quintessenz offers further documents of interest. [pdf]

Text of speech by Osama bin Laden broadcast on TV. [pdf]

The document used by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush as evidence that Osama bin Laden was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and as justification for war with Afghanistan. [html]

A serious biomedical DARPA program analysis that incorporates visions of virtual reality systems with both alluded-to models from the film The Matrix and new possibilities of surgical brain implants useful toward fulfilling the fantasies of "total system integration" permeating contemporary military thinking. The report is direct in its ambitions: "Develop new neural implant technologies to establish reliable, high-capacity, and long-term information channels between the brain and external world. Develop real-time signal processors and system controllers to optimize information transmission between the brain and the external world." The author, Daryl R. Kipke, can be contacted at kipke@asu.edu. [pdf]

A listing of the postal addresses of Department of Defense officials. [pdf]

This document, which the NYTimes analyzed, lists which countries are able to bid on Iraq reconstruction projects. The list excludes countries which opposed the war. Official description: "The Deputy Secretary of Defense issued a determination dated 5 December 2003 for 26 contracts to be awarded by the Department of Defense on behalf of the Coalition Provisional Authority for the purpose of Iraq relief and reconstruction. The determination requires firms to be from the United States, Iraq, Coalition partners and force contributing nations to be eligible to compete for the prime contracts." [pdf]

This fact sheet produced by the Minority Office of the Committee On Government Reform, offers a concise summary of Bush Administration contracts with Halliburton. [pdf]

The New York Times writes, "A report issued [...] by the House Committee on Government Reform gave the fullest accounting to date of the F.B.I.'s use of murderers as informants in Boston for three decades and its protection of them even to the point of allowing innocent men to be sentenced to death. More than 20 people were killed by F.B.I. informants in Boston starting in 1965, often with the help of F.B.I. agents, it said, but no F.B.I. agent or official has ever been disciplined." [pdf]

"On or around 17 Oct. 2003, al-Qaeda’s Sahab Institute for Media Production released a new produced video entitled “The Wills of the Heroes: The Martyrs of the Two Holy Places”. The video is 00:45:19 in length. It focuses on the 12/13 May 2003 attacks that occurred in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. All images in this report are of stills from the actual video. This is the sixth al-Qaeda video by Sahab". Also see WW?'s exclusive al-Qa'ida timeline. [pdf]

"An examination of al-Adel's article provides useful insight into al-Qaeda's guerrilla warfare tactics, techniques and procedures in Afghanistan, and what the group will be seeking to employ in Iraq and other future conflicts. It is in essence, one portion of al- Qaeda's guerrilla warfare playbook." [pdf]

Statement made on Febuary 23, 1998 by what would later become known as al-Qaeda. [pdf]

"While it is impossible to ascertain the exact nature of al-Ablaj's comments regarding sarin and the poisoning of water supplies, it is clear that al-Ablaj said an attack against Americans would occur following his latest interview with al-Majallah, which was published on 25 May. Due to Abu Mohammad al-Ablaj?s previous messages to al- Majallah providing advance notice of the Riyadh attack, one 35 days and another about 48 hours prior, his latest threat delivered through an established channel should be taken with serious concern." [pdf]

"The al-Qaeda Messaging/Attacks Timeline covers statements and other significant public and semi-public communications by al-Qaeda and its affiliates. The timeline also covers significant attacks by al-Qaeda and its affiliates. This version covers the period from January 2003 to 19 August 2003. The prior period from 29 December 1992 to the end of 2002 is available in The al-Qaeda Threat: An Analytical Guide to al-Qaeda's Tactics & Targets" [pdf]

CRS report on Electronic Voting Machines [pdf]

"This report assesses the impact of the 2003 war on the environment and on the physical and mental health of civilians and combatants. It describes the war and some of the weapons used; its impact on health and the environment; and health-related issues in postwar reconstruction. The health of civilians and combatants has suffered greatly and continues to suffer. Its conclusions may help to determine whether waging war on Iraq was more or less damaging than alternative courses of action; how best to conduct postwar affairs to minimise further loss of life and maximise health gain; and how to approach such issues in debates about other conflicts. The report ends with recommendations relating both to Iraq and prevention of war." [pdf]

In a report released by the State of Nevada's Agency for Nuclear Projects, recent Department of Defense reports that find "Yucca could not geologically isolate wastes" are analyzed toward favorable conclusions that such a massive relocation would be ultimately destructive. For instance: "Waste packages will be made from “Alloy-22,” a new industrial metal that DOE claims will contain wastes for at least 10,000 years. The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (“TRB”) recently concluded there is no scientific basis to believe Alloy-22 is capable of this task." [pdf]

The massive Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconaissance (C4ISR) project, created by the Department of Defense toward the goal of establishing a single (perfect) information network uniting the operational branches of the military on the battlefield, happily articulates the possibility of a total, abstract, rational, self-operating machine of war. The details of the actual network infrastructure can be found in Chapter 8 of the 1998 Annual Defense Report (to the President and Congress). Chapter 9 is "Total Force Integration". [txt]

In contrast to rosy statements by White House officials, this memo from the Secretary of Defense reveals significant doubts about progress in the war against terrorism. Some political analysts have speculated that the memo was leaked intentionally in order to bolster Rumsfeld's "side" against the rest of the Bush Administration in an ongoing debate over the nature of the war. [txt]

"This paper describes new attacks for amplifying rights in mechanical pin tumbler locks. Given access to a single master-keyed lock and its associated change key, a procedure is given that allow discovery and creation of a working master key for the system. No special skill or equipment, beyond a small number of blank keys and a metal file, is required, and the attacker need engage in no suspicious behavior at the lock’s location." Read the New York Times story on the study. [pdf]

"This document provides short summaries of selected DARPA programs in FY 2003 and FY 2004, and it is intended as a ready reference for those interested in DARPA's research portfolio. To better illustrate the goals of the programs, the programs have been grouped into the eight Strategic Thrusts and three Enduring Foundations described in DARPA's Strategic Plan, each with various sub-areas." [pdf]

"During the past few months the construction of the Wall, separating Israel from the West Bank, has been frenetically pursued. The Wall does not follow the Green Line, which marks the de facto boundary between Israel and Palestine. Instead, it incorporates substantial areas of the West Bank into Israel. Over 210,000 Palestinians will be seriously affected by the Wall. Palestinians living between the Wall and the Green Line will be effectively cut off from their farmlands and workplaces, schools, health clinics and other social services. This is likely to lead to a new generation of refugees or internally displaced persons." See also Israel Seen as Likely to Approve Barrier [pdf]

This yearly report is conducted by the Congressional Research Service and is considered the most authoritative source of information relating to arms sales to developing countries. See also U.S. Remains Leader in Global Arms Sales, Report Says [pdf]

The AP reported on Sept. 22nd, 2003 that, "federal prosecutors were ordered Monday by Attorney General John Ashcroft to pursue maximum criminal charges and sentences whenever possible and to seek lesser penalties through plea bargains only in limited circumstances." This is the full text of that memo. [pdf]

An excellent in depth guide to issues of "security culture" within the activist community. Although originally written for a Canadian audience, it offers many insights that can be applied universally. See also Why War's guide to Security Culture. [pdf]

Text of the Bush administration's request for $87 billion to continue the "war on terrorism". [pdf]

Text of undersecretary of state John Bolton's comments against Syria. The New York Times was the first to break the story that he would be presenting these comments. [pdf]

Archived copy of the announcement of the new "Terrorist Screening Center". See also "FBI Plans Counterterrorism Database." [pdf]

As the American Prospect's Jason Vest describes it, this report "said that the administration hadn't planned adequately for a post-Hussein Iraq; it also very presciently rendered the likely results of such poor planning and gave well-considered suggestions for how to either properly shepherd Iraq to stability or, if too late for that, what not to do to make a bad situation worse." [pdf]

Full text of the "VICTORY Act," a sequel to John Ashcroft's "USA-PATRIOT Act," widely condemned across the political spectrum as well as by more than 150 cities and three state governments, for infringements on individual civil rights. [pdf]

Jack Van Impe is one of the nuttier biblical prophecy televangelists. Which is why this document is simply frightening. It's a copy of Van Impe's response to the question, "Do you think that President Bush, apparently a Christian man, believes and knows he is involved in prophetic events concerning the Middle East and final battle between good and evil?" His response? Not only does Bush know, but Jack has personally been asked by the White House to draw up a prophecy roadmap! This is unconfirmed - although you have to wonder if the White House would confirm this story even if it were true. [pdf]

This report from 1996 is described by the Boston Globe as playing an important ideological role in America's belief that Iraq could be conquered and made into a democracy. The study group that produced this paper was led by Richard Perle. [pdf]

The Guardian writes that this study is angering conservatives. The reason is obvious from the abstract: "Analyzing political conservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality authoritarianism, dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management), and ideological rationalization (social dominance, system justification). A meta-analysis (88 samples, 12 countries, 22,818 cases) confirms that several psychological variables predict political conservatism: death anxiety; system instability; dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity; openness to experience; uncertainty tolerance; needs for order, structure, and closure; integrative complexity; fear of threat and loss; and self-esteem. The core ideology of conservatism stresses resistance to change and justification of inequality and is motivated by needs that vary situationally and dispositionally to manage uncertainty and threat." [pdf]

Freedom loving Americans cheer on the news that Poindexter has officially stepped down from DARPA. Enjoy his resignation letter. [pdf]

This is the revised version of the Air Force Doctrine on Information Operations. The previous version is also available in our archives. [pdf]

"This Air Force Doctrine Document (AFDD) explains the Air Force perspective on information superiority, and the relationship between information operations and its two pillars, information warfare and information-in-warfare. This AFDD focuses its discussion primarily on information warfare." The revised version of this doctrine is also available. [pdf]

An analysis of executive order 13303 written by the Government Accountability Project. [pdf]

Kenneth Davidson, in an editorial in The Age, writes, "what would the occupying forces and their families make of Bush's executive order 13303, promulgated without fanfare in May, which gives sweeping powers to US oil companies operating in Iraq while granting immunity to them for the consequences of any of their actions in exploiting the oil. In a report last month for the US Democratic legal think tank Government Accountability Project (GAP), the legal director, Tom Devine, said that in terms of legal liability, 13303 'cancels the concept of corporate accountability and abandons the rule of law . . . (It) is a blank cheque for corporate anarchy. Its sweeping, unqualified language places the industry above domestic and international law for anything related to commerce in Iraqi oil.'" [pdf]

Contains the script and slides from the talk that Poindexter gave concerning the "Information Awareness Office", the office in charge of Total Information Awareness. [pdf]

Offers 14 characteristics of 'eternal fascism', which Eco terms 'Ur-Fascism'. [pdf]

This is an exhaustive listing of WMD claims made by the Bush regime. It's 36 pages long. [pdf]

"The shadow of 9/11 is not about magical leaders who are either heroes or evil seeds who hypnotize or mesmerize people to obediently carry out their plans. Such a focus seems misplaced since it neglects the more compelling and frightening issue of the psychological and social factors that create groups who are willing to obediently, mindlessly, heartlessly, and blindly carry out destructive acts towards others as well as themselves" [pdf]

Full text of the famous 500-page book written by Hardt and Negri. The Los Angeles Times writes of the book, "Those who admire the book praise it for pulling together seemingly disparate critiques of corporate and international behavior into one grand theory. 'The popularity of the book among liberals and left academics is that it brings a vast amount of material into a coherent framework,' notes globalization expert Lauren Langman, professor of sociology at Loyola University of Chicago. And it helps explain why so many diverse groups see globalization as the enemy. An enemy, Hardt and Negri contend, that has no face. 'Our slogan is that 'Empire has no center,'' Hardt says." Unlike other versions that are available on the Internet, this file is printable. [pdf]

"Critical theorists will be pretty quick to observe that the multiplication brings with it an insidious denial of alternative futures. Defining the future as today multiplied by X is one of the most effective ways that one could deny the possibility of a complete, or even a significant, modification of the basic ground rules on which 'today' is defined. The multiplication effect reduces the Other to the Same. It gives the appearance of change while cleverly maintaining a relatively constant state. against this, critical theory asserts at least the possibility of a radical difference." [pdf]

"After joining the protests and some of the debates in Geneva, I would like to take the opportunity of this note to report back on some developments from the Evian protests, and introduce some of the questions andissues of organisation faced by the anti-capitalist movement. The Evian anti-G8 protests were an opportunity to bring together the European social movements, the anti-capitalist movement, and the antiwarmovements. The coming together of the European Social Forums in Florence last year made the antiwar movement truly international. What exactly is the elationship between the anti-war movements and the social forums? How are they to develop, locally and nationally, in the UK? What need is there for such organisation? And on what level are the social forums actually creating alternative democratic assemblies to the G8 World leaders of imperialism?" [pdf]

These meeting minutes were leaked to Los Alamos Study Group and revealed the planning for a secret meeting to restart America's nuclear weapons program. The meeting occurred August 7, 2003 and was covered by the Guardian. [pdf]

The Food Marketing Institute (FMI), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Auto-ID Center collaborated for the 2002 FMI Conference, releasing a new product that monitors consumers with the principal functions of "bulk theft prediction" while simultaneously monitoring inventory then processing and sending via the Internet automated "replenishment reports" to distributors. The Auto-ID report boasts of an invasive, real-time consciousness and control of the "global supply chain". As Auto-ID's slogan promises: "Identify Any Object Anywhere", consumers are included in this set. Gilette (and soon many of the long list of corporate sponsors) is already using the new RF tag system in substitution of the increasingly outdated bar code. Now, with RFID chips, which are tracking devices nearly invisible to the eye, corporations are already secretly tracking consumers - "right through your clothes, wallet, backpack, or purse. Have you already taken one home with you?" (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, [CASPIAN]) [pdf]

The Guardian describes this document as the origin of Bush's resumption of the nuclear arsenal. It describes it thus: "the National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP) published in January 2001 as the Bush administration took office. The report argued for a 'smaller, more efficient, arsenal' of specialised weapons. Some deeply buried targets, it argued, could only be destroyed by 'one or more nuclear weapons' [...] Many of the NIPP report's authors went on to take senior positions in the administration, including Linton Brooks, head of the national nuclear security administration which oversees new weapons projects, Stephen Hadley, the deputy national security adviser, and Stephen Cambone, undersecretary of defence for intelligence." [pdf]

A frequently updated listing of military deaths that have occured either in Afghanistan or Iraq. [URL]

"The United States has sought to change Iraq's regime since the 1991 Persian Gulf war, although achieving this goal was not declared policy until 1998. In November 1998, amid a crisis with Iraq over U.N. weapons of mass destruction (WMD) inspections, the Clinton Administration stated that the United States would seek to go beyond containment to promoting a change of regime. A regime change policy was endorsed by the Iraq Liberation Act (P.L. 105-338, October 31, 1998). Bush Administration officials have emphasized regime change as the cornerstone of U.S. policy toward Iraq since shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks. Operation Iraqi Freedom was launched on March 19, 2003, and had effectively removed Saddam Hussein from power by April 9, 2003." [pdf]

"This chronology provides information on selective instances of North Korean provocations between June 1950 and 2003. The purpose of this report is to place current provocations in the context of past actions in order to better judge their significance and to determine changes in trends. The term "provocation" is defined to include: armed invasion, border violations, infiltration of armed saboteurs and spies, hijacking, kidnaping, terrorism (including assassination and bombing), threats/intimidation against political leaders, media personnel, and institutions, and incitement aimed at the overthrow of the South Korean government. Information is taken from South Korean and Western sources and typically is denied by the North Korean government." [pdf]

"The main elements of Bush Administration policy are (1) terminating the Agreed Framework; (2) no negotiations with North Korea until it dismantles its nuclear program;(3) assembling an international coalition to apply economic pressure on North Korea, (5) planning for future economic sanctions and military interdiction against North Korea; and (6) warning North Korea not to reprocess nuclear weapons-grade plutonium, including asserting that 'all options are open,' including military options. China, South Korea, and Russia have criticized the Bush Administration for not negotiating directly with North Korea, and they voice opposition to economic sanctions and to the use of force against Pyongyang." [pdf]

"U.S. policy toward international terrorism contains a significant military component, reflected in the war in Iraq; U.S. operations in Afghanistan; deployment of U.S. forces around theHorn ofAfrica, to Djibouti, and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia; and ongoing military exercises in Colombia. President Bush has expressed a willingness to provide military aid to 'governments everywhere' in the fight against terrorism. Issues for Congress include whether the Administration is providing sufficient information about the long-term goals and costs of its military strategy and whether military force is necessarily an effective anti-terrorism instrument in some circumstances." [pdf]

"On March 17, 2003 President Bush issued an ultimatum demanding that Saddam Hussein and his sons depart from Iraq within 48 hours. On March 19, offensive operations began with air strikes against Iraqi leadership positions. By April 15, after 27 days of operations, coalition forces were in relative control of all major Iraqi cities and Iraqi political and military leadership had disintegrated. On May 1, President Bush declared an end to major combat operations. There was no use of chemical or biological (CB)weapons, and no CB weapons stockpiles have been found." [pdf]

"This report lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its armed forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes [...] The list does not include covert actions or numerous instances in which U.S. forces have been stationed abroad since World War II in occupation forces or for participation in mutual security organizations, base agreements, or routine military assistance or training operations." [pdf]

This report reviews the historical record regarding the uses of U.S. military force in a "preemptive" manner, an issue that has emerged due to the possible use of U.S. military force against Iraq. It examines and comments on military actions taken by the United States that could be reasonably interpreted as "preemptive" in nature. For purposes of this analysis we consider a "preemptive" use of military force to be the taking of military action by the United States against another nation so as to prevent or mitigate a presumed military attack or use of force by that nation against the United States. This review includes all noteworthy uses of military force by the United States since the establishment of the Republic." A listing of such instances can be found in CRS Report RL30172, Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2001. [pdf]

Written shortly after Congress authorized the use of force against Iraq. The brief offers a backgrounder on the situation from a US perspective. [pdf]

Brief published shortly before the war on Iraq began that details the US perspective on Iraq. [pdf]

An overview of Intelligence Issues which is geared for those in Congress. [pdf]

19 page research paper about Saudi Arabia. [pdf]

"In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon, some attention has been focused upon the assassination ban contained in Executive Order (E.O.) 12333, Section 2.11, and whether it would prohibit the United States from responding to the attacks by targeting those who orchestrated these acts of terrorism. In considering the challenges involved in effectively combating terrorism and protecting the United States from future terrorist attacks, there has been wide-ranging debate as to what approaches might be beneficial. Part of that discussion has centered around whether assassination of terrorist leaders is, or should be, one of the options available. This report offers a summary discussion of the assassination ban in E.O. 12333, its context, and possible interpretations of its scope." [pdf]

A narrative account prepared by the US Military for it's own purposes of the now famous convoy ambush that resulted in Lynch's capture. Contains lots of very interesting details including a reproduction of the Rules of Engagement (ROE) card given to the soldiers. It's essentially the story of endless mistakes, worth reading. [pdf]

Photos and explaination of how an ambush of American troops was set up on July 21, 2003 in Iraq. [pdf]

Senator Barabara Boxer (CA) entered this map into the Congressional record while questioning Paul Wolfowitz during a Senate Foreign Relations hearing about the Reconstruction of Iraq held on July 29th, 2003. She noted, "I quote you [Wolfowitz] in your speech, 'The central battle on terrorism is happening in Iraq.' I want to put into the record, Mr. Chairman, a page from this document put out by the Bush administration, 'The Network of Terrorism'. It was put out a month after 9/11. And it has in the mid part a page that says, 'Countries where al Qaeda or affiliated groups have operated'. Iraq is not listed. This is after 9/11. I want to put that in the record." [pdf]

America's stated strategy for combating terrorism is essentially eternal war: "Ours is a strategy of direct and continuous action against terrorist groups, the cumulative effect of which will initially disrupt, over time degrade, and ultimately destroy the terrorist organizations. The more frequently and relentlessly we strike the terrorists across all fronts, using all the tools of statecraft, the more effective we will be." [pdf]

Powerpoint presentation by Dr. Bob Popp, Deputy Director of the Information Awareness Office (IAO) for DARPA, to the Technology and Privacy Advisory Comittee about Total Information Awareness (TIA) and other IAO programs. [ppt]

"This annual report addresses gaps in knowledge of China's military power; China's grand strategy, security strategy, and military strategy; developments in China's military doctrine and force structure, to include developments in advanced technologies that would enhance China's military capabilities; China's relations with the former Soviet Union; and the security situation in the Taiwan Strait." [pdf]

This document, National Security Directive 17, provides the de-classified version of the Bush Administration's position underlying their National Security Strategy. According to the Federation of American Scientists, the classified version of this document contained the sentence, "The United States will continue to make clear that it reserves the right to respond with overwhelming force — including potentially nuclear weapons — to the use of [weapons of mass destruction] against the United States, our forces abroad, and friends and allies." [pdf]

This 85-page document "is a research compendium designed to help interested parties understand and evaluate reconstruction activities in Iraq. The booklet provides extensive background information on a wide range of topics related to Iraq specifically and to reconstruction generally, as well as lists of experts and reports that can be consulted for further information." [pdf]

This is the first independent analysis of the Diebold electronic voting machines. The verdict: they are highly vulnerable to attack. Also read a news report about the analysis. [pdf]

"This is the declassified version of the Final Report of the Joint Inquiry that was approved and filed with the House of Representatives and the Senate on December 20, 2002." It's also 858 pages long — happy digging! [pdf]

"Section 1001 of the Patriot Act directs the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to undertake a series of actions related to claims of civil rights or civil liberties violations allegedly committed by DOJ employees. It also requires the OIG to provide semiannual reports to Congress on the implementation of the OIG's responsibilities under Section 1001. This report — the third since enactment of the legislation — summarizes the OIG's Patriot Act–related activities from December 16, 2002, through June 15, 2003." [pdf]

Sixteen-page document with pictures that offers an intelligent background and history on the Iraq crisis. [pdf]

Well-designed pamphlet with various talking points concerning the lack of any links between Al Qaeda and Iraq. [pdf]

Anne Gwynn, a 65 year old grandmother from Wales, was shot while in Nablus. This is audio of her leaving a series of messages on the voicemail of Flashpoints radio prior to and after she has been shot. [rm]

Fox's Bill O'Reilly freaks out at Jeremy Glick, the articulate anti-war son of a victim of the Sept. 11 attacks. [mp3]

Bush responds to a reporter's question about the effect that the global protests will have on Tony Blair's career by dismissing the protests and saying that to decide policy based upon protests would be akin to deciding policy based upon a focus group. [mp3]

" ... the area in the south and the west and the north that coalition forces control is substantial. It happens not to be the area where weapons of mass destruction were dispersed. We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." — Donald Rumsfeld [mp3]

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." — George W. Bush [mp3]

"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands." — George W. Bush [mp3]

" ... the Iraqi regime was required to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, to cease all development of such weapons, and to stop all support for terrorist groups. The Iraqi regime has violated all of those obligations. It possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons." — George W. Bush [mp3]

"We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas." — George W. Bush [mp3]

"We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We're concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs for missions targeting the United States." — George W. Bush [mp3]

"Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons." — George W. Bush [mp3]

"The full extent of live mines and unexploded bombs that still litter Iraq since the conflict is revealed in sharp detail for the first time today. A map [...] provided for Non-Governmental Organisations tasked with bringing humanitarian aid to the country shows the vast extent of the live munitions issue." [pdf]

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." — Richard B. Cheney [mp3]

"We know for a fact that there are weapons there." — Ari Fleischer [mp3]

Read the article [html] about this cartoon, which depicts "politics" shooting Bush in a scene that evokes the infamous photo of Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong lieutenant at point-blank range, that prompted a visit to the LA Times by the US Secret Service. [jpg]

A National Intelligence Estimate is a written judgment concerning a national security issue prepared by the US Intelligence Community (CIA, NSA, et al.); this particular one discussed intelligence findings on Iraq. Note that this contains only excerpts that have been selectively declassified by the White House on July 18, 2003. [html]

Just under five percent of libraries — approximately 275 libraries nationwide — reported that they had been targeted by the FBI or other law enforcement, under provisions of the USA-PATRIOT Act that allows spying on library patrons without informing them. [pdf]

The official White House document that outlines their National Security Strategy. At only 35 pages it's worth reading for insight into America's stated objectives. [pdf]

"We have argued, first of all, for adopting a broad concept of 'information' - so that it is defined as something that refers not only to communications media and the messages transmitted, but also to the increasingly material 'information content' of all things, including weapons and other sorts of systems. The next part of our vision focused on the organizational dimension, emphasizing that the information revolution empowers the network form - undermining most hierarchies. Moving on to the third part, we then exposited our ideas about developing an American grand strategy based on 'guarded openness' - a principle that, for example, encourages reaching out widely with ideas about freedom and progress, while still being circumspect about diffusion of advanced information processes and technologies.

"In this document, we complete our four-part vision by articulating a doctrine we call 'swarming,' and which we believe may eventually apply across the entire spectrum of conflict-from low to high intensity, and from civic-oriented actions to military combat operations on land, at sea, and in the air." [pdf]

18-page handbook providing lots of ideas about how to get a divestment campaign started in your area. [pdf]

We've all heard the story of the Iraqi defector who brought with him volumes of previously unknown information about the Iraqi WMD program. What is not often noted is that when interviewed by the weapons inspectors Hussein Kamel disclosed that "I ordered destruction of all chemical weapons. All weapons — biological, chemical, missile, nuclear were destroyed" among other details that contradict the Bush justifications for war. This document, marked "sensitive", is the transcript of the interview of Hussein Kamel conducted by UNSCOM and IAEA. [pdf]

"My purpose here is to understand what resources are available within leftist discourse for an opposition to war, and to this war in particular. Necessarily, this entails a confrontation with the limits of leftist discourse as well - its prejudices, its failures of imagination, its habits of Occidentalism. My thesis is simple: that the history of the present (including the present relation of the Left to this war) must be understood in terms of at least two prior moments in which the questions of freedom, internationalism, and women's emancipation have been posed." [pdf]

Attempts to answer the question with a historical review of various acts of violence against civilians by both Palestinians and Israelis. [pdf]

Picture of Army reservists in Iraq displaying the sign quoted in the title. [jpg]

45-minute documentary from the BBC that begins with uncovering the truth about Jessica Lynch's rescure and then goes on to evaluate how coalition propaganda functioned during the war. [rm]

Excellent one-hour documentary by Greg Palast about the Bush family that was aired on BBC Three. Covers basically all the major scandals: Bush's draft dodging, connections to Bin Laden's family, and the stealing of the election in Florida. [wmv]

Lists of political officials around the world. [URL]

This website "links to Internet sites around the world which provide complete and detailed national and local election statistics, as well as other election resources." If you're looking for electon statistics from Brazil, for example, this is for you. [URL]

Written by Dr Karma Nabulsi who is a Fellow of Nuffield College and teaches at Oxford University. This document written for BADIL, a Palestinian-run organization based out of Bethelem, that clearly articulates an alternative perspective on the Palestinian Right of Return based within the discourse of political science. [pdf]

Palestinians have often employed, and seriously considered, nonviolence in their struggle for independence. This article from 1984 is one example of the formation of a strategy for a non-violent movement in Palestine. [pdf]

This journal article argues that Security Council Resolution 678 which authorized the start of the 1991 Gulf War was not legitimate. The prescient article provides insight into how the United Nations, originally created to promote peace, has come to endorse war. For those who aren't as interested in international law, the last four pages offer an excellent summary and conclusion. [pdf]

Full text of Naomi Klein's influential book about the anti-globalization movement. Highly recommended. [txt]

Transcript [pdf] also available. A press conference with Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, with the Traprock Peace Center. [mp3]

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) sent this letter to President Clinton in January of 1998. It's signed by Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, William Kristol, and others. The letter argues for aggression against Iraq. [pdf]

Published by the Project for the New American Century in 2000, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace describes it thus: "...coauthored by among others, six key defense and foreign policy officials now serving in the Bush administration. This report seems to have become a blueprint for Bush's foreign and defense policies." [pdf]

The Democratic National Committee released this advertisement as part of their "Truth" campaign. [rm]

171 anti-war art posters designed to look like WWII-era propaganda posters. New pictures are also available at the website. [zip]

Results of the UK's Foreign Affairs Committee investigation into the decision to go to war with Iraq. [pdf]

"This Paper discusses some legal issues surrounding the occupation of Iraq during and after Operation Iraqi Freedom in spring 2003." [pdf]

The US secretary of defense autographs a roadsign in Baghdad. [jpg]

Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld met Saddam on December 20, 1983 on behalf of President Reagan. [wmv]