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Democracy Now! | Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
Interview with Greg Grandin, whose book is a good follow up to Naomi Klein's "The Shock Docrtine"; he sees US intervention in Latin America as the "workshop" that comes into fruition in Iraq policy and the "war on terror"
more fromwww.democracynow.org
It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo
Founder of delicious leaves Yahoo, which had stalled on developing a new version of the site that it had purchased; no ads on site, no development of it, same old story; Yahoo also dropped its good podcasting directory.
more fromwww.techcrunch.com
International seed vaults
In Norway, a mountain vault contains many seeds to feed the world in case of a major catastrophe; many nations contribute money and seed.
more fromwww.portfolio.com
US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships | World news | The Guardian
"The US is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees."
more fromwww.guardian.co.uk
Audio Drama Podcast Directory | Dramapod.com
"directory of free podcasts of classic old time radio dramas, audiobooks, short stories and fan fiction. " Also has reviews of sites, top ten lists, etc. Good for those who like listening to narratives.
more fromwww.dramapod.com
The Guantánamo Testimonials Project — UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA)
"The goals of this project are to gather testimonies of prisoner abuse in Guantánamo, to organize them in meaningful ways, to make them widely available online, and to preserve them there in perpetuity."
more fromhumanrights.ucdavis.edu
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE || A SONY PICTURES CLASSICS RELEASE
site for Errol Morris film; be sure to read the book that accompanies the film, an excellent summary of US policy and practice surrounding torture
more fromwww.sonyclassics.com
Errol Morris - Zoom - New York Times Blog
major documentary filmmaker has blog for Times; always gathers extensive comments, which make the entries a compendium of ideas about documentary, info, film technique, journalism, culture, etc.
more frommorris.blogs.nytimes.com
How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author | Mail Online
Rebecca Walker has written the Mommy Dearest of the feminist movement about her mother, Alice Walker.
more fromwww.dailymail.co.uk
Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans - earth - 22 May 2008 - New Scientist Environment
Perhaps more forms of life beneath the surface than above it ... different and effective ways of surviving – ways that could be independent of light and oxygen. These forms of life could exist on other planets.
more fromenvironment.newscientist.com
Invictus: A blog on U.S. Politics and the Fight Against Torture
Valtin, psychologist and key writer in anti-torture activism in US, has own blog here and also on DailyKos, where he details fights inside American Psychological Association against its current stance.
more fromwww.valtinsblog.blogspot.com
Daily Kos: FBI & American Psych. Association Attack Patient Confidentiality
chilling report about 2002 conference FBI held with behavioral psychologists, prefiguring much of US interrogration practice to come
more fromwww.dailykos.com
NewsNow: Torture
extensive set of web links on torture; international; kept up to date
more fromwww.newsnow.co.uk
PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR AN ETHICAL APA
protest site for those appalled by APA policy statement that did not condemn psychologists' working to construct interrogation techniques at Guantanamo or for CIA; a large political movement in US, related also to medical participation in Holocaust
more fromwww.ethicalapa.com
Rorschach and Awe: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
U.S. coercive interrogation methods were reverse-engineered by two C.I.A. psychologists who had spent their careers training U.S. soldiers to endure Communist-style torture techniques.
more fromwww.vanityfair.com
Detainee Interrogations, Psychologists, & Other Health Care Professionals
Kenneth S. Pope resigned APA over policy on psychologists participating in the planning or implementation of detainee interrogation. Here is his important, long bibliography on topic.
more fromkspope.com
Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1
2004; in-depth study of how to look for art resources; one of my favorites is the New York Public Library collection, where you can order quality, framable, large photographic reproductions of anything you admire.
more fromwww.infotoday.com
American Scientist Online - Douglas R. Hofstadter
interview with author of I Am a Strange Loop, about what "I" means to us humans in age of cyborgs.
more fromwww.americanscientist.org
Powerhouse joins The Commons on Flickr - April 8, 2008
Australia national museum and Library of Congress post historical photos on Flickr whre they can be tagged and commented on.
more fromwww.powerhousemuseum.com
Dan Froomkin - White House Torture Advisers - washingtonpost.com
key news story: starting in spring 02, top admin. officials, including Cheney, Tenet, Ashcroft, Rice, met as a group and discussed all interrogation techniques in detail, including demos from CIA.
more fromwww.washingtonpost.com
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