General Research Resources
General
Prospective sources of information on Iraq
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.
Namebase Index Social Network tool
Accurint low cost search for information on people
Globalization & Development
Centre for Research on Globalisation
TCF Online -Policy in Perspective
Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development
Cultural Liberty in Today’s Diverse World
Politics
Opensecrets.org–Money in politics data
Federation of American Scientists
Corporate
They Rule Find out about who sits on whose corporate boards
Namebase Index Social Network tool
Accurint low cost search for information on people
Working America find businesses in your area that have outsourced jobs, laid off workers because of trade, have increases in safety violations.
Media
MAP: The Media Awareness Project
Census Data for Media – Select “Newsroom” and then whatevver sub-link you are interested in
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
Crime, Social Justice, Diversity
TalkLeft the politics of crime
Where did the Productivity Growth Go? Inflation Dynamics and the Distribution of Income, Ian Dew-Becker and Robert J. Gordon, Northwestern University, 9/2005
The Neo-Conservatives
Right Web from Foreign Policy In Focus which is sponsored by the International Relations Center and the Institute for Policy Studies
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) text version/a>
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. Your 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 (pdf) 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.
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 (pdf) 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
Open CRS – Access to public domain reports by the Congressional Reporting Service
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 on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (7/07/04)
5/05 DoD Report Part I
5/05 DoD Report Part II
9/2006 Senate Intelligence Committee, Postwar Findings on Iraq’s WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism (or Senate Comm. site
9/2006 Senate Intelligence Committee, The Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress (or Senate Comm. site
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
Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq August 2006
Military Strategy Documents
National Defense Strategy of the United States – 2005
National Military Strategy of the United States of America – 2004
National Security Strategy 2002