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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"

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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.

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In Norway, a mountain vault contains many seeds to feed the world in case of a major catastrophe; many nations contribute money and seed.

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"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."

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"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.

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"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."

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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

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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.

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Rebecca Walker has written the Mommy Dearest of the feminist movement about her mother, Alice Walker.

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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.

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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.

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chilling report about 2002 conference FBI held with behavioral psychologists, prefiguring much of US interrogration practice to come

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extensive set of web links on torture; international; kept up to date

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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interview with author of I Am a Strange Loop, about what "I" means to us humans in age of cyborgs.

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Australia national museum and Library of Congress post historical photos on Flickr whre they can be tagged and commented on.

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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.

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