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Items within sections are randomized. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Activism | Cynics 4 Peace | In addition to the well-known definition of cynicism as believing that all things are motivated by self-interest, the fundamental definition is as true today as it was 2500 years ago. Cynicism is an ancient Greek philosophy holding the view that virtue is the only good and that its essence lies in self-control and independence. Cynics 4 Peace continues the tradition with its genuinely cynical take on politics and culture. | | http://www.cynics4peace.com |
| NIRS/WISE | Information and networking center for citizens and environmental activists concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation and sustainable energy issues.
| | http://www.nirs.org/ |
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| Kosova Crisis Center | "...to keep the world informed with the facts from the ground about the Serb atrocities committed against women, children and elderly people, as well as the oppression against everything Albanian in Kosova."
| | http://www.alb-net.com/index.htm |
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Establishment | United States House | Chaos personified. In the aggregate, the US House is a vile institution that gives democracy a bad name. On the individual member level, getting to know your representative can be a rewarding experience that keeps hope alive for the future of this country. Follow the proper format for contacting YOUR congressman. DO NOT ATTEMPT to contact a member that does not represent your district. | | http://www.house.gov |
| United States Senate | These mandarins can seem as useful as the ancient Roman Senators under Nero. Nevertheless, you can find info on your Senator, positions and contact methods. ALL of them want to be President, so they will be happy to listen if you deliver your message properly (Hint: Don't use email OR snail mail. They hate computers and they're still, understandably, paranoid about anthrax et. al. Follow the proper format of writing to a Senator and send it via FAX.) | | http://www.senate.gov |
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| B'Tselem | An Israeli human rights organization working to change Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories and ensure that Israel complies with its obligations under international law.
| | http://www.btselem.org/ |
| Not In My Name | "We call ourselves "Not In My Name" because we feel that the State of Israel often claims to act in the name and interests of world Jewry, but that these actions do not reflect our Jewish values and beliefs." | | http://www.nimn.org/ |
| Jewish Unity for a Just Peace | "We are critical of these (Israeli) policies (in the Occupied Territiories) not despite, but because of, our Jewish ethical commitments and our deep concern for Israeli and Palestinian lives and well-being." | | http://www.junity.org/ |
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Literature | Michel Foucault Resources | "My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed."
| | http://www.qut.edu.au/edu/cpol/foucault/ |
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Open Source Software | Firefox | Best web browser ever. You probably know by now that commercial browsers think you are a product to be traded and sold. Fuck them all. Eliminate popups, adware, spyware and malware. It doesn't prevent you from being a complete moron but, unlike Internet Explorer, it's not counting on it either. Out-performs Internet Explorer in every way. Between the library of extensions from the community, live bookmarks and tabbed browsing, there's no comparison. Download it now. Save yourself from Internet Explorer. | | http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ |
| ClamWin Anti-Virus | There are evil people in this world that seek to destroy your computer because they don't like Microsoft Windows. If that were the extent of the problem, it wouldn't be much of a problem. Unfortunately, there are other evil people writing commercial Anti-Virus software. Charging a fee to protect your computer from viruses is nothing short of extortion. If all these organizations and companies can trust open source Clam Anti-Virus, so can you. It's time to join the other villagers, young grasshopper. | | http://www.clamwin.com/ |
| Thunderbird | Reclaim your inbox. Thunderbird is a slick email client with excellent spam filtering features. It will not execute any attachments. It's orders of magnitude better than M$ Outbreak Express. It's easier than Eudora. It's free. Outbreak users might not like the fact that there's no personal scheduling features. That's due in July according to the Mozilla Foundation. If all you need is a good email programs. Get this now. | | http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ |
| OpenOffice.org | Excellent productivity suite comprising of a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software. Free, legal, polished and professional, it is fully compatible with M$ Office. It also exports to Adobe Acrobat. Encourage your local government to use OpenOffice. When M$ Office costs $300 per computer, your government is wasting money that could be spent on police or schools. | | http://openoffice.org |
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| all Africa.com | Largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide, posting over 700 stories daily in English and French, with a 400,000-article searchable archive to boot. | | http://allafrica.com/ |
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sci_tech | Wired | Great magazine. Cutting edge stories and commentary. They can be irritating by using slang that *nobody* else uses and words that don't exist, like "speechifier." They take far more risks than CNET but are hardly "alternative". They're alternative to geeks in the same way that Rolling Stone is to musicians. Read it daily. Just don't try to tell us how cool you are because you read Wired. | | http://www.wired.com |
| NASA | Need Another Space Agency? If you plan on vacationing in geosynchronous orbit(~35,000km) anytime soon then yes, you need another one. The Russian Space Agency will take your take your order if you have the cash. In the meantime, if you are looking for any information related to space and space sciences, NASA is the place to go. | | http://www.nasa.gov |
| Russian Space Agency | The Ruskies made it into orbit first, they put people up first, they put the first woman up(long before the US), they built a legendary space station called Mir, meaning "Peace." They didn't get to the moon but that is beside the point. Like a good naval organization, they abhor meaningless acronyms like "NASA", "ISS" & the rest of the alphabet soup so cherished by the US. They are poineering the commercialization of space. They take chances. They scorn bloated beauracracy. Where are the Communists??? | | http://www.rosaviakosmos.ru/english/eindex.htm |
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| epic | A Washington, DC-based organization dedicated to improving humanitarian conditions in Iraq and defending the human rights of the Iraqi people; public education and advocacy campaigns, home of the highly successful Iraqi Online Forum. | | http://epic-usa.org/ |
| NOT IN OUR NAME | "We refuse to allow President Bush to speak for all the American people. We will not give up our right to question. We will not hand over our consciences in return for a hollow promise of safety. Together as one we say NOT IN OUR NAME."
| | http://www.notinourname.net/ |
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| Project for a New American Century | Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol heads up this new think tank, which argues that the U.S. should seek a global military hegemony, starting with Iraq. Authors of the controversial report, "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century,"
| | http://www.newamericancentury.org |
| townhall.com | More small town, corner-of-the-dime-store gossip from the "Oh my God, it's a black man, roll up the windows," set. You'll find all those scared of their own shadows right here, in their little townhall... | | http://www.townhall.com/ |
| FrontPage Magazine | The flagship magazine of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC). Well-known lefty in the 60s, Black Panther supporter, and editor of Ramparts magazine turned virulent neocon poster boy David Horowitz hopes to cleanse U.S. campuses of a "fifth column" of "America haters," "fascist leftists," and "enemy sympathizers." Horowitz also heads up the CSPC, a well-funded, LA-based think tank dedicated to policing the ivory towers of Left-progressive academia. | | http://www.frontpagemag.com/ |
| JINSA | Founded in 1976 by neocons in bed with the military industrial complex, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) upholds that there is no difference between U.S. and Israeli national security interests, and that the only way to assure continued safety and prosperity for both countries is through hegemony in the Middle East. Until the beginning of the current Bush Administration, JINSA's board of advisers included such notables as Dick Cheney, John Bolton (now Under Secretary of State for Arms Control) and Douglas Feith, the third-highest-ranking executive in the Pentagon. Both Richard Perle, chairman of the Defense Policy Board and former CIA Director James Woolsey are still on the board, as are such Reagan-era neocons as Jeane Kirkpatrick, Eugene Rostow and Michael Ledeen--Oliver North's Iran/ contra liaison with the Israelis. | | http://www.jinsa.org/home/home.html |
| American Enterprise Institute | Capitalism without gloves on. Literary home for such luminaries as Charles Murray (The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, in which he argued that black people are genetically intellectually inferior to white people) and Dinesh D'Souza (The End of Racism, in which he argues that low-income Black people are basically pathological; and that white racism isn't really racism at all, just a logical response to this), former conservative officeholders Jeane Kirkpatrick, Jack Kemp and William Bennett, and arch-conservative jurists Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia. Former ENRON CEO Kenneth Lay served with Vice President Dick Cheney on the AEI Board. | | http://www.aei.org/ |
| The Public Interest | Whose Interest? Irving Kristol founded the magazine in 1965, and has served as its Co-Editor ever since. Prominent neocons Charles Krauthammer and Daniel P. Moynihan serve on the Publication Committee. A Bradley Foundation Grantee (see Bradley Foundation). | | http://www.thepublicinterest.com/ |
| Commentary Magazine | The American Jewish Committee's monthly magazine, which turned into a major neoconservative outlet under the editorship of former Trotskyite Norman Podhoretz. Irving Kristol served as managing editor from 1947 to 1952. It's pages have been graced by articles from prominent neocons such as Jeane Kirkpatrick and Richard Pipes. | | http://www.commentarymagazine.com/ |
| Bradley Foundation | With more than $700 million in assets, a huge web of national connections and a sharply focused political agenda, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee,Wisconsin is the country's largest and most influential right-wing foundation. Bradley supports the organizations and individuals that promote the deregulation of business, the rollback of virtually all social welfare programs, and the privitization of government services. | | http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders/bradley_foundation.htm |
| The National Interest | Irving Kristol founded the National Interest in 1985, and continues to serve as its publisher. The same empty, post-Cold War soul searching that gave birth to Fukuyama's moronic "good news" rant, The End of History. A Bradley Foundation Grantee (see Bradley Foundation). | | http://www.nationalinterest.org/ |
| The Heritage Foundation | Source of policy papers on budget cuts, supply-side economics, and the Star Wars military plan for the Reagan Administration. More recently, they attempted to implicate Castro in the manufacture of biological weapons. Yeah, hello. | | http://www.heritage.org/ |
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