Concerned
you might have un-indicted war criminals running your country? Check out
the evidence at: www.afterdowningstreet.org
IP Justice. Got Intellectual Property freedom? Well, maybe
not. Read about how Norwegian teen Jon Johansen is being prosecuted -
again - for writing and distributing (for free) a program that he wrote so that
he could play HIS OWN DVDs on his own computer. How about
this: think you should be able to buy aftermarket toner cartridges for
your own printer? Well, maybe not. Read about Lexmark's suit against
Static Control. www.ipjustice.org
CounterPunch - www.CounterPunch.org
Amazing reporting hosted by Amy Goodman - www.democracynow.org
The Electronic Frontiers Foundation - www.eff.org
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - www.fair.org
For a particularly concise horrifying read on the state of news reporting in the U.S., click http://www.fair.org/extra/0210/inspectors.html
The elimination of "The Fairness Doctrine" by Reagan and former
FCC chair Mark Fowler paved the way for the takeover of
the airwaves by right wing pundits
like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage. An interesting history of the
birth, life, and death of the Fairness Doctrine is reported in the article
"Fairness
Doctrine: US Broadcasting Policy" by Val E. Limburg and "The
End of Fairness: Right-wing commentators have a virtual monopoly when it comes
to talk radio programming" by Edward Monks.
The First Amendment Project --
for those who support freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of
association, the freedom to petition the government and (the concept if not the
reality of) freedom of the press.
The Just Cause Law Collective - www.LawCollective.org
(Scheduled to be updated Spring 2003)
Because you never know when you might really need to know what your rights are...
Global Exchange - www.globalexchange.org
The Media Channel - www.mediachannel.org
Pacifica listener sponsored radio stations, including KPFA Berkeley, KPFK Los
Angeles, and WBAI NY - www.pacifica.org
Link to author Michael Parenti's
website - www.MichaelParenti.org
(My first Parenti recommendation is "Against Empire," a provocative read that includes review of the Spanish American War that began in 1899, ended with perhaps 1,000,000 Filipinos dead, and still provides the basic model for U.S. foreign policy.)
People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals - www.peta.org
What you wear and what you eat makes a difference.
Project Censored featuring "under reported" stories for
a different view of the world - www.projectcensored.org
Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy - www.POCLAD.org
Twentieth Century Atlas -- "Deaths by mass unpleasantness" --
Various estimates of real world deaths and murders during the previous
century... http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat8.htm
In the beginning, corporations were not supposed to live forever, they were not entitled to have the rights of human beings, and they were supposed to be organized only for limited purposes and NOT ownership of a multiple different kinds of businesses, never mind the domination of governments.
www.RingNebula.com - a website dedicated to "Peace & justice through law - not through perpetual violence." It features, among other things, an Afghanistan timeline and an Iraq timeline that shines an oil illuminated light on the circumstances of the two most recent U.S. invasions of sovereign nations. Additionally, there is extensive data on the recent Pacifica litigation plus links to very different material on astronomy and medical research on radiation and human beings...