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"WW III? No thanks...!" On-Line Library
What is an appropropriate response?
Political and philosophical considerations after the attack on the World Trade Center
Please note: the articles in this on-line library represent a variety of assessments and opinions, which in different (often mutually incompatible) ways challenge many of the positions presented by the US adminstration. Obviously i cannot agree with everybody whose opinion is represented here (although i agree with some), and the diversity of views that are presented here under the banner "WW III? No thanks..." reflects the purpose of this collection: to be a tool for research and to encourage discussion and further inquiry.
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This on-line library was initially divided into several sections, but that subdivision has become impossible to maintain in any meaningful way, because many articles cover topics of more than one section and because there are always new sections one needs to make up. Articles are now shown under their authors' names which are given in alphabetical order (in the case of two authors, the second author's name is referenced to the first author's name). In some cases i have also added keywords to make a search easier (you can search this list by using your web browser's "find" function).
Any added keywords are from this list: bin Laden, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, feminism, history, law, oil, propaganda, religion, strategy, US terrorism
- Sharif M. Abdullah
2001/09/??
[click here] Our War With "The Other"
keywords: propaganda, religion, US terorrism
- Karen Armstrong
2001/10/13
[click here] September apocalypse: who, why and what next? (Part 1)
2001/10/13
[click here] September apocalypse: who, why and what next? (Part 2)
keywords: history, religion
- John Bacher
2001/10/03
[click here] Petrotyranny: the world's worst enemy
keywords: history, oil
- Scott Baldauf and Faye Bowers
2001/09/14
[click here] Origins of bin Laden network
keywords: bin Laden, CIA
- William O. Beeman
2001/09/12
[click here] Understanding Osama bin Laden
keywords: bin Laden
- Walden Bello
2001/09
[click here] Endless war?
keywords: strategy
- Shepherd Bliss
2001/09/??
[click here] As We Grieve, Remember Chile & Our Civil Liberties
keywords: Allende, CIA, civil liberties
- Faye Bowers: see Scott Baldauf
- Robert Bowman
1998/10/02 (!)
[click here] Truth is, we're terrorized because we're hated
keywords:
- Janelle Brown
2001/10/02
Not war - information and education: An underground resistance of Afghan women risks torture and execution to alert the world to the regime's atrocities.
[click here] The Taliban's bravest opponents
keywords: women
- Madeleine Bunting
2001/10/08
[click here] Intolerant liberalism
keywords: religion
- Nina Burleigh
2001/10/11
[click here] Missing The Oil Story
keywords: oil
- Duncan Campbell
2001/10/14
[click here] Stop the War, Plead Parents of NY Victim
keywords:
- Noam Chomsky
2001/10/18
[click here] The New War Against Terror
keywords:
- Michel Chossudovsky
2001/09/12
[click here] Who is Ousmane Bin Laden?
keywords:
- Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair
[click here] "Flying Bombs" Who Saw It Coming? (excerpts)
keywords:
- David Cole
2001/09/25
[click here] Liberties in a Time of Fear
keywords:
- David Cornwell
2001/10/08
[click here] The Making of a Master Criminal
keywords: CIA
- Richard Dawkins
2001/09/15
[click here] Religion's misguided missiles
keywords:
- Paul de Armond
2001/09/13
[click here] Coming to grips with terrorism
keywords:
- David Dieteman
2001/09/13
[click here] Pouring Gasoline on the Fire
keywords:
- Robert Fisk
2001/09/12
[click here] Osama bin Laden - Is the world's favourite hate figure to blame?
2001/09/12
[click here] The wickedness and awesome cruelty of a crushed and humiliated people
keywords:
- Jon Flanders
2001
[click here] Caspian Oil and Gas and the Afghanistan Pipeline Connection
2001/10/03
[click here] Oil War II, the Sequel: The Empire Strikes Back in the Caspian
keywords: oil
- Laura Flanders
2001/10/18
[click here] Oil Omissions
keywords: oil
- Giles Foden
2001/09/15
[click here] Blowback chronicles
keywords: CIA
- Peter Ford, with other contributors
2001/09/27
[click here] 'Why do they hate us?'
keywords:
- Jonathan Friedland
2001/09/19
[click here] Blaming the victims
keywords:
- Eduardo Galeano
2001/09/21
[click here] The Theatre of Good and Evil
keywords:
- Gallup International Surveys Sept 14 to 17
[click here] Official lies - How the world views a US military response
keywords:
- George Galloway
2001/09/12
[click here] Reaping the whirlwind
keywords:
- Reuel Marc Gerecht
2001/09
A former CIA operative explains why the terrorist Usama bin Laden has little to fear from American intelligence
[click here] The Counterterrorist Myth
keywords:
- Don Hazen
2001/10/19
[click here] 10 Reasons to Stop Bombing Afghanistan
keywords:
- Pervez Hoodbhoy
2001/09/??
[click here] The View From Islamabad
keywords:
- Derrick Z. Jackson
2001/09/12
[click here] For America, a dose of reality
keywords:
- Simon Jenkins
2001/10/10
[click here] They opted to bomb, it had better work
keywords:
- Robert Jensen: see Rahul Mahajan
Jamal Khashoggi
2001/10/11
[click here] War against terror: A Saudi perspective
keywords:
- Barbara Kingsolver
2001/09/23
[click here] Questions without Answers, Answers without Questions
keywords:
- Brad Knickerbocker
2001/09/13
[click here] What's the right US response?
keywords:
- Scott Laderman
2001/10/16
[click here] Moral reasoning betrays a double standard
keywords:
- Jacob Levich
2001/09/22
Bush's Orwellian Address
[click here] Happy New Year: It's 1984
keywords:
- Ben Macintyre
2001
[click here] What Happens In Afghanistan 'Decides The Course Of History'
keywords:
- Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen
2001/10/18
[click here] Hearts and Minds: Avoiding a New Cold War
keywords:
- Mail & Guardian (S.A.)
2001/09/14
[click here] Technology Fails to Find Osama
keywords:
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
2001/06/20
[click here] Limbs of no body
keywords:
- Michael Mandel
2001/10/09
[click here] Say what you want, but this war is illegal
keywords: law
- Seumas Milne
2001/09/14
[click here] They can't see why they are hated
keywords:
- Testimony by John J. Maresca, Vice President, International Relations,
Unocal Corporation, to the House Committee on International Relations,
Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, February 12
1998, Washington, D.C.
[click here] U.S. Interests In Afghanistan and the Central Asian Republics
keywords: oil
- Eric Margolis
1998/09/13 (!)
[click here] Taliban Makes The Communists Tremble
2001/09/30
[click here] No faith in U.S. foreign policy
keywords:
- George Monbiot
2001/10/02
[click here] Genocide or Peace
2001/10/09
[click here] Folly of aid and bombs
2001/10/16
[click here] Gagging the sceptics
2001/10/23
[click here] America's pipe dream
2001/10/30
The US has been training terrorists at a camp in Georgia for years - and they're still at it: the School of the Americas ("SOA") recently renamed "Whisc"
[click here] Backyard terrorism
keywords: oil, strategy, disinformation, US terrorism,
- Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
2001/09
[click here] Respond to Violence: Teach Peace, Not War
2001/09/25
[click here] The Wartime Opportunists
keywords:
- Michael Moran
1998/08/24 (!)
[click here] Bin Laden comes home to roost
keywords:
- Bruce W. Nelan
1998/05/04 (!)
[click here] The Rush for Caspian Oil
keywords: oil
- Gary North
2001/09/13
[click here] The Unasked Question of 9-11: What Was the Motive?
keywords:
- Peter Oborne
2001/09/23
[click here] A foolish crusade
keywords:
- Greg Palast
2001/09/23
[click here] Two Symbols Of American Capitalist Hegemony
keywords:
- Michael Parenti, 1996 (!)
[click here] Making The World Safe For Hypocrisy
keywords:
- PBS Frontline Interview
originally aired 1999/04/13
[click here] Interview with Dr. Saad Al-Fagih
keywords: bin Laden
- William Pfaff
2001/09/12
[click here] Attacks Show That Political Courage Is The Only Real Defense
keywords:
- Katha Pollitt
2001/10/12
[click here] Where Are the Women?
keywords: women
keywords: women
- Arundhati Roy
2001/09/29
[click here] The algebra of infinite justice
keywords:
- Edward Said
2001/09/16
[click here] Islam and the West are inadequate banners
keywords:
- Robert Scheer
2001/09/25
[click here] Falwell Should Have Listened to the Feminists
keywords:
- John Schwartz, September 25
2001
[click here] Disputes on Electronic Message Encryption Take On New Urgency
keywords: civil liberties,
- Susan Sontag
[click here] [Psychotherapy in Place of Democracy]
keywords:
- John J. Thatamanil
2001/09/25
[click here] Is God on Our Side? Or Is He on Theirs?
keywords: religion
- Sunera Thobani (Parliament Hill speech)
2001/10/05
[click here] You cannot slaughter people into submission
2001/10/17
[click here] War frenzy
keywords: propaganda
- Washington Post
2001/09/14
[click here] (Ret. US Gen.) Zinni Urges Economic, Diplomatic Moves
keywords:
- Robert Weissman: see Russell Mokhiber
- Cecil Williams
2001/10/04
[click here] Washington's strategic target in Central Asia
keywords: oil
- World Federalists Of Canada
2001/09
[click here] Response To September 11 Terrorist Attacks
keywords:
- Mark Zapezauer, Physicians for Human Rights
[click here] The CIA
keywords:
- Ariana Eunjung Cha
2001/09/21
To Attacks' Toll Add a Programmer's Grief
- Philip Zimmermann
2001/09/24
No Regrets About Developing PGP
[click here] Limiting citizens' right to use encryption is not an acceptable response
keywords: civil liberties,
- Stephen Zunes
2001/09/26
[click here] 10 Things to Know about U.S. Policy in the Middle East
keywords: oil
- Excerpted contributions by Leslie Feinberg, David N. Gibbs, and Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Jan 15-21, 1998, p.76 (translated by Bill Blum)
[click here]Brzezinski and the US involvement in Afghanistan in 1979 (before the Soviet invasion)
keywords: oil, US terrorism
- ???
2001/09/??
[click here] God Angrily Clarifies "Don't Kill" Rule
keywords: moral law
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