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  • War in Iraq: News, Analysis and Internet Resources.

  • 1stHeadlines - News.
    Contains current headlines from over 300 newspaper, broadcast & online sources around the world. Search by state, subject, source, or keyword search the entire site. Includes the Virginian-Pilot, Roanoke Times, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Newport News Daily Press, and the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star.

  • A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science.
    Evidence of political interference in science from the Union for Concerned Scientists. 10,000 scientists, including 52 Nobel Laureates, speak out on concerns of distorted and suppressed information on the environment, public health, pollution, national security and other matters.

  • The Agonist.
    News source for under-reported or over-looked current events.

  • Aljazerra.
    English version of one of the Arab world's primary news sources.

  • Blinkx.tv.
    Search over 1,000,000 hours of audio, video, podcast, vlog and television content for current headlines and popular videos.

  • C-Span.
    A private, non-profit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service, C-Span provides public access to the political process. This site includes archived videos of past shows.

  • Common Dreams News Center.
    News and views for the progressive community.

  • Congressional Research Service Reports.
  • Congressional Research Service Reports - University of North Texas Libraries.
    The Congressional Research Service (CRS) does not provide direct public access to its reports, requiring citizens to request them from their Member of Congress. Some Members, as well as several non-profit groups, have posted the reports on their Web sites. This site aims to provide integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available at a variety of different Web sites since 1990.

  • Congressional Research Service Reports - zFacts.com.
    The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the public policy research arm of the US Congress. It issues about 3,000 briefs, reports, short issue papers and longer position papers per year. It is renowned for its non-partisanship and in-depth analysis, but it does not make its reports available to the public. However, some members of Congress have made a few of them available online. This site does a Google search of over 1,000 CRS Reports.

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  • ConsortiumNews.com.
    A private, non-profit organization that produces stories which tend to be overlooked by the media.

  • Crooks and Liars.
    John Amato's virtual online magazine... OK, it's a blog.

  • Diplomacy Monitor.
    Attempts to synthesize information from governments around the world from their latest "diplomacy-related documents." Includes translations of full-text documents with Boolean searching capabilities.

  • Drudge Report.
    A collection of sites for finding information on current events. Has links to the AP or Reuters wire, AP news alerts, the New York Times or Washington Post wire service news, earthquake reports, and weather. You can search the past 14 days of Associated Press by keyword or browse TV and movie reviews.

  • Guantanamo Docket.
    From the New York Times, an analysis of documents from the Department of Defense on the 779 people who have been detained at the United States military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

  • Gulf Oil Disaster.
    From Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, this site provides the latest news and images of the Gulf oil spill, along with timely commentary on spill-related science, economics and policy.

  • Health Care Debates.

  • Lexis Nexis News.
    Free online news site.

  • Links to the News.
    From the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, this site is aimed at journalists and those interested in research sources that help you understand top news stories. Links are kept current and go back to Jan. 1995, when the "Hot News" was the "Contract with America" and the war in Chechnya.

  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - The Official Blog.
    Personal blog of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Available in four languages, one of which is English. Want to send a message or read what others from around the world have to say to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? He replies to correspondence in person.

  • The Memory Hole.
    Edited and published by Russ Kick, author of 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, this site saves official documents from oblivion and posts them online. Among its archives are 9/11 incidents such as the 5-minute video of George W. Bush on the Morning of 9/11, multiple documents of pre-9/11 information, survivor testimonies, firefighters' tapes and more.

  • National Security Archive.
    The National Security Archive was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who had obtained documentation from the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act and sought a centralized repository for these materials. The Archive has become the world's largest non-governmental library of declassified documents. Located in George Washington University's Gelman Library in Washington, D.C., the Archive is designed to apply the latest in computerized indexing technology to the massive amount of material already released by the U.S. government on international affairs, make them accessible to researchers and the public.

  • Newsclipper.org.
    News video clips from the major networks.

  • Real ID Act.
    Full text of H.R. 418 from the Library of Congress. Title: To establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, and to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence.
  • What's wrong with Real ID?   From the ACLU.
  • Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: REAL ID.    From the Department of Homeland Security.
  • Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA).
    Established in 1977 in Kabul, Afghanistan, as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and social justice.

  • Sabawoon.com.
    An Islamic news service, this site offers an Afghanpedia with basic information about Afghanistan, an art gallery, editorials, and chat groups.

  • The Smoking Gun.
    Using material obtained from government and law enforcement sources, via Freedom of Information requests, and from court files nationwide, this site claims everything here is 100% authentic.

  • Spin of the Day.
    From PR Watch, a site that offers investigative reporting on the public relations industry.

  • Terrorism
  • Jurist Legal Intelligency: Terrorism Law and Policy.

  • Lesson plans from PBS.

  • Purdue Extension: Terrorism and Children

  • Terrorism.
    From the University of Michigan Government Documents Center, a compilation of links to information about terrorist attacks.

  • Terrorist Group Profiles.
    From the Dudley Knox Library at the Naval Postgraduate School, this site includes descriptions, activities, strengths, locations/areas of operation, and external aid for over 70 terrorist organizations.

  • U. S. Department of State: Counterterrorism Office.

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  • Wikileaks.
    Founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and startup company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa, this site is developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. The primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but also includes those in the west who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their own governments and corporations.
    [Because Wikileaks has been shut down by US Courts in the past, an alternate site is provided by IP Address.]

  • Worldnews Network.
    Includes the Middle East Daily.

  • zFacts.
    Researched facts on current events.

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