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::  Iraq

Voices in/of Iraq
A Family in Baghdad -- "Mother: fayza, sons: raed, khaled and majed writing down their dairies." (Blog)
Al-Muajaha -- "The Iraqi witness" (Indymedia)
Baghdad Burning -- "Let's talk war, politics and occupation" (Blog)
Bob Zangas' Journey in Iraq -- First blogger to die in Iraq
Boots on the Ground -- U.S. soldier in Baghdad (Blog)
Dagger JAG -- A US Army lawyer with the 1st Infantry Division's, 2nd (DAGGER) Brigade (Blog)
Deeds -- U.S. civilian in Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad (Blog)
Hammorabi -- Iraqi (in UK?) (Blog)
Healing Iraq -- "Daily news and comments on the situation in post Saddam Iraq " (Blog)
Iraq At A Glance -- "Stories and news from Iraq after the liberation" from a dentist in Baghdad (Blog)
Iraq The Model -- "New points of view about the future of Iraq" (Blog)
Iraq Today -- "Iraq’s first national English-language newspaper of the post-Saddam era"
Iraqi Passport -- Iraqi born, U.S. raised filmmaker returns to Iraq after 20 years (Blog)
Justin's Waffle -- Justin Alexander from Jubilee Iraq (Blog)
Kurdo's World -- "Where Kurds are given their full self-determination rights"
Letters from Baghdad -- U.S. soldier in Baghdad (Blog)
Raed in the Middle -- Palestinian-Iraqi architect now living in Jordan (Blog)
Sophia's Peace Work -- America peace worker in Iraq
The Messopotamian -- Iraqi in Baghdad (Blog)
Turningtables -- U.S. soldier in Iraq June-October 2003 (Blog)
Where is Raed? -- The original Baghdad blogger

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News pages featuring Iraq
AlterNet
Asia Times
Baltimore Sun
BBC
Christian Science Monitor
Electronic Iraq -- (From the creators of Electronic Intifada)
Financial Times
The Guardian
Institute of War and Peace Reporting
International Herald Tribune
Iraq Daily
IraqNet -- (news aggregator)
Iraqwar.ru -- Russian independent media project
KurdMedia -- "a one-stop-shop information provider on Kurds and Kurdistan"
Los Angeles Times
New York Times
Scotsman
War Report -- compiled by the Project on Defense Alternatives
Washington Post
Yahoo News

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Background
Ayatollah Hakim Interview -- Newsweek, December 26, 2001
Brookings Institute Iraq Index -- Tracking reconstruction and security in post-Saddam Iraq
CIA Factbook -- Profile on Iraq
Coalition Provisional Authority
Cost of the War -- Updated cost of war in Iraq
Declaration of the Shia -- " Confronting the issue of sectarianism and the anti-Shia biases of the Iraqi state" (July 2002)
Frontline: Gunning for Saddam -- PBS documentary, November, 2001
Frontline: War Behind Closed Doors -- PBS, February, 2003
Frontline: Truth War & Consequences -- PBS, October, 2003
Global Policy Forum - Iraq Crisis -- NGO monitors policy making at the United Nations
Future of Iraq Portal -- "linksite focusing on empowering the Iraqi people"
Global Security -- military focus, huge resource
Guardian Special: The Kurds -- Guardian news archives
IAEA -- Iraq Nuclear Verification Office
Imam Ali Foundation -- London office of Grand Ayatollah Al Sistani
Iraq Body Count -- "reported civilian deaths in the Iraq war and occupation"
Iraq Revenue Watch -- "an effort to ensure that Iraqi oil revenues are managed in a transparent manner"
Iraq Oilfields -- map
Iraq Maps -- extensive resource
Muslims, Islam, Iraq War -- large resourece created by Dr. Alan Godlas, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Georgia
Occupation Watch -- "exposing the impact of the military and economic occupation of Iraq"
Sistani.org -- The official site of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani
UNMOVIC -- United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (weapons inspectors for Iraq)
U.S. Bombing Watch -- Archive of U.S. bombings, invasions and occupations of Iraq

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Blogs
The Agonist -- "breaking, balnced news from around the globe" (Sean-Paul Kelley)
Back to Iraq 3.0 -- "a recounting of my journalistic adventures concerning Iraq" (former AP reporter, Christopher Allbritton)
Daily Kos -- "political analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation" (Markos Moulitsas Zúniga)
Juan Cole -- "Thoughts on the Middle East, history, Islam, and religion" (Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan)
No War Blog -- "Stand down: The Left-Right blog opposing invasion of Iraq"
Talking Points Memo -- Writer, Joshua Micah Marshall
This Modern World -- Cartoonist, Tom Tomorrow
TomDispatch -- "a regular antidote to the mainstream media" (Tom Engelhardt)
Warblogging
Warblogs:cc

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Activism
Campaign of Conscience -- American Friends Service Committee
Bring Them Home Now
End The War -- National Network to End the War Against Iraq
Education for Peace in Iraq -- Working to improve humanitarian conditions in Iraq
Global Exchange Iraq Campaign
Iraq Action Coalition -- Working to end the war against the people of Iraq
Iraq Water Project -- a project of Veterans for Peace
Jubilee Iraq -- "The Iraqi people should not have to pay Saddam's bills"
Military Families Speak Out
Poets Against the War
United for Peace: Events
Veterans Against The Iraq War
Voices in the Wilderness -- Campaigning to end economic and military warfare against the Iraqi people

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::  Afghanistan

Afgha.com - Press Agency
Afghan News Network
Afghan Women's Network
Afghanistan Times
Constitutional Commission
Human Rights Watch
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Médecins Sans Frontières -- A field logistician's day-to-day life
Revolutionary Assoication of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

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::  The Niger-Plame Affair

British "Dodgy Dossier" -- Iraq's weapons of mass destruction: The Assessment of the British Government, September, 2002 (PDF)
U.S. National Intelligence Assessment -- Iraq's continuing programs for weapons of mass destruction, October, 2002 (PDF)
State of the Union Speech -- January, 2003
Who Lied to Whom? -- Seymour Hersh, March, 2003
Selective Intelligence -- Seymour Hersh, May, 2003
What I didn't find in Africa -- Ambassador Joseph Wilson, July, 2003
Here you have the bogus dossier on Saddam’s uranium -- La Repubblica, July, 2003
Bogus Niger Documents -- images accompanying the La Repubblica article
Mission to Niger -- Robert Novak, July, 2003
Mama Mia -- Dennis Hans, July, 2003
African Uranium and the Scarlett Dossier -- Dennis, Hans, August, 2003
CIA Agent's Identity Was Leaked to Media -- Washington Post, September, 2003
Saddam's Niger Point-man Speaks -- Time, October, 2003
Revelations Blow Up in Faces of Blair and Bush -- Dennis Hans, October, 2003
The Stovepipe -- Seymour Hersh, October, 2003
Hersh's Pipedream -- Dennis Hans, October, 2003
Cooperative Research File

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::  Nuclear Middle East

Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East -- Nuclear Threat Initiative

Iraq
Global Security
IAEA and Iraq
Weapons of Mass Destruction

Iran
Arms Control Association
Carnegie Endowment
Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Fed. of American Scientists
Global Security
IAEA and Iran

Israel
Carnegie Endowment
Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Israel's nuclear weapons -- Federation of American Scientists
Global Security
Israel and the Bomb -- Avner Cohen
Israel's Nuclear Posture Review
Nuclear Threat Initiative
"The Third Temple's Holy of Holies" -- Warner D. Farr

Syria
Federation of American Scientists
Global Security
Nuclear Threat Initiative

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::  Middle East Conflict

Information
 The Fence -- Maps and photos of "Israel's Berlin Wall"
"The Road Map" -- U.S. Department of State
Maps-- Settlements, Gaza, West Bank, Golan Heights
Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Primer -- Middle East Research and Information Project
Balfour Declaration -- November 2, 1917
B'Tselem -- The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Electronic Intifada -- News, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian perspective
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Human Rights Watch Reports Israel-Palestine
Middle East Research and Information Project
MIFTAH -- The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy
Nigel Parry Diary -- Personal diary from co-creator of Electronic Intifada
Origins of the Conflict -- Jews for Justice in the Middle East
The Palestine Chronicle
Pro-Israel Dollars -- PAC Contributions to 2000 Congressional Candidates
Sykes-Picot Agreement -- 1916, divided the Middle East into areas of influence for France and Britain
U.S. Peace Broking -- 25 years of "peace process"
U.S. Aid to Israel -- Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

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Action
Al-Awda -- The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Americans For Peace Now -- Supporting the activities of Shalom Achshav [Peace Now] in Israel
Courage to Refuse -- "... we, whose eyes have seen the bloody toll this Occupation exact..."
End The Occupation -- The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
International Solidarity Movement -- Utilizing nonviolent, direct-action methods of resistance to the Occupation
Jewish Friends of Palestine -- Jewish Activists for a Free Palestine
Jewish Peace Fellowship -- Fighting for peace and justice since 1941
Jewish Voice for Peace -- Israelis and Palestinians. Two Peoples, One Future
Middle East Children's Alliance -- Working for peace and justice in the Middle East
Muslim Peace Fellowship -- A gathering of peace and justice-oriented Muslims
Not In My Name -- Taking action for a just peace in Israel and Palestine
Partners For Peace --The voices of Palestinians and Israelis seeking a just peace
Friends Committe on National Legislation
Stop US Military Aid to Israel
SUSTAIN -- Stop US Tax-Funded Aid to Israel Now

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Israel's Attack on USS Liberty, June, 1967
Attack on Liberty -- Washington Post, February, 2003
USS Liberty Memorial -- Created by Jim Ennes and Joe Meadors, survivors of the attack
Remember the Liberty -- John Borne, July, 1997
Liberty Cover-Up -- James Ennes, June, 2002
USS Liberty Survivors: Our Story -- How to receive this DVD

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::  Korean Crisis

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Carnegie Endowment
Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Federation of American Scientists
Global Security
IAEA and North Korea
Inter-Korean Relations
Korea Times
KoreaWatch
Korea Web Weekly
Nautilus Institute
Where The Cold War Never Ends -- Bruce Cummings, January, 1997

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::  Galleries

Afghan Refugees
Afghanistan Gallery - James Hill
Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay
The Day After 9-11
Families Under Seige in Occupied Palestine
Gaza
Human Rights Watch
Images of Iraq - Sean Smith
Life in Afghanistan Under the Taliban
A Life Revealed - An Afghan Girl
Lorna Tychostup
Mass Grave at Hilla, Iraq
The Middle East
Middle East Conflict
Palestine Chronicle - Snapshots
People of Iraq
Picture Iraq
Regular Everyday People -- Put a human face on war
Shattered- 9/11/2001
Victims of War
Worldwide Antiwar Protests

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::  War and Peace

Americans Against World Empire, Americans Against Bombing -- A Conservative/Libertarian coalition
A.N.S.W.E.R. -- Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
Antiwar.com -- antiwar news, viewpoints and activities
Arms Control -- Global Issues
Arms Sales Monitoring Project -- Federation of American Scientists
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists -- Foundation for Nuclear Science
Campaign to Ban Landmines
Center for Cooperative Research
Center for Defense Information
Chickenhawks -- Born to Kill, Not Serve
Children, Conflicts and the Military -- Global Issues
CIVIC -- Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict
Crimes of War Project -- journalists, lawyers and scholars dedicated to raising public awareness of the laws of war
Critical Media Literacy in Times of War
Ellsberg Papers -- Daniel Ellsberg Writing, Interviews, and Lecture Transcripts
Federation American Scientists
Fellowship of Reconciliation -- For a world of justice, peace, and freedom
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
International Action Center -- Information, Activism, and Resistance to U.S. Militarism, War, and Corporate Greed
International Crisis Group -- working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict
International Peace Bureau
Intervention Magazine -- war, politics, culture
Los Alamos Study Group -- research-oriented, nuclear disarmament organization
Media Workers Against War
National Security Archive -- George Washington University
Nuclearfiles -- the history of the Nuclear Age
Oxford Research Group -- building bridges fro global security
Peace.protest.net -- global calendar of pro-peace and anti-racism protests, meetings, benefits, and conferences
Peace Studies Resources
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Regular Everyday People -- Put a human face on war
School of the Americas Watch -- seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas
Stop the War Coalition (UK)
Top Arms Contractors -- US Department of Defense
Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research
United for Peace and Justice
U.S. Labor Against War
U.S. Military Budget
Veterans for Common Sense
Veterans for Peace
Waging Peace
War on Terrorism Sites
War Times
Western States Legal Foundation -- monitors and analyzes U.S. nuclear weapons programs and policies
Why War? -- to show that war was neither just nor the proper response to 9-11
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Women Waging Peace
World Military Spending
Women in Black -- holding vigils in solidarity with our sisters throughout the world

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:: The Power Behind the Throne

Americans for Victory Over Terrorism
AIPAC -- America's Pro-Israel Lobby
American Enterprise Institute
CAMERA -- Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
Campus Watch
Center for Security Policy
Christian Coalition of America
Council on Foreign Relations
Empire Builders -- Neoconservatives and their blueprint for US power (Christian Science Monitor)
Family Research Council
The Federalist Society
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies
The Heritage Foundation
Hoover Institution
Hudson Institute
JINSA -- The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
Middle East Forum
National Review
Project for the New American Century-- "American leadership is good both for America and for the world"
Richard Perle's Social Network
Right Web
The National Interest
The Public Interest
Townhall.com
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Washington Times
Weekly Standard

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:: War in Context Editorials...

Freedom From Guilt
Escape From Baghdad
Baghdad's New Blogger
Beyond the War
It's the Empire, Stupid!
Government Recruiting Terrorists
President and Executioner
Cakewalk or Oblivion
The Fevered Eye
Principle to Prerogative
Axis of Contradictions
Disarray in Washington
Open Letter to Congress
Cold Warrior's Crusade

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::  Issues

Environment
Amazon Watch
Centre for Alternative Technology
Climate.org
Council for Responsible Genetics -- publisher of GeneWatch
Earth Island Institute
Friends of the Earth
GRAIN -- Genetic Resources Action International
Greenpeace
Organic Consumers Association
Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Alliance
Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming
World Resources Institute

Law/Rights
ACLU -- American Civil Liberties Union
Amnesty International
Anti-Defamation League
Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Human Rights Watch
International Commission of Jurists
MADRE -- Demanding human rights for women and families around the world
Physicians for Human Rights

Culture
Cultural Survival
Cultures on the Edge
Development Gateway
Indigenous Languages Institute
Indigenous Media Network
OneWorld
Survival International -- for tribal peoples

Media
Adbusters Magazine
Committee to Protect Journalists
FAIR -- Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Index on Censorship
Institute for Public Accuracy
Media Channel
Media Transparency
PR Watch
Project Syndicate
Reporters Without Borders
Planetwire.org

Society/Politics
Center for Responsive Politics
CorpWatch
Doctors Without Borders
Flashpoints Radio
Global Exchange
Global Issues
Globalize This
GLOBE International
Idealist.org
MoveOn -- working to bring ordinary people back into politics
Interhemispheric Resource Center
Institute for Policy Studies
North American Congress Latin America
OneWorld
Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network
Physicians for Social Responsibility
The Independent Institute
The World Revolution
Union of Concerned Scientists
World Policy Institute
Worldwatch Institute

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::  World News

Agence France-Presse
BBC News
Christian Science Monitor
Google News
Independent Media Center
Inter Press Service
International Herald Tribune
Oneworld News
Pacific News Service
World News
World Press Review
Yellow Times

Africa
Africa Daily
Al-Ahram (Egypt)
AllAfrica
Mail & Guardian(South Africa)
Independent Online: Africa
Zimbabwe Indymedia

Americas
Argentina Post
Brazil Post
Chiapas IndyMedia
Colombia Report
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
Los Angeles Times
New York Times
The News Mexico
South America Daily
Venezuelanalysis
Washington Post

Asia
Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
Asia Daily
Asia Pacific News
Asia Times
Daily Star (Lebanon)
Daily Yomiuri (Japan)
DAWN (Pakistan)
Haaretz (Israel)
Inside China Today
Iraq Daily
Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
Japan Times
Jordan Times
Kashmir News
Kurdish Media
Palestine Daily
Philippines Post
South China Morning Post (HK)
Syria Daily
Tehran Globe
East Timor News
Times of India

Europe
Balkans News
Budapest Sun (Hungary)
Chechnya News
Europe Daily
German Times
Guardian (UK)
Independent (UK)
Irish Times
Italia Daily
Le Monde (France)
The Prague Post (Czech)
Pravda (Russia)
Radio Netherlands
Scandinavia News
Scotsman
Telegraph (UK)
Turkey Post

Oceania
Aborigine News
The Age (Australia)
New Zealand Herald
Polynesia Post
Sydney Morning Herald

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::  Dailies/Periodicals

AlterNet
The American Prospect
Atlantic Monthly
Bad Subjects
Colombia Journalism Review
Common Dreams
CounterPunch
Cursor
Disinformation
Earth Island Journal
Ecologist
In These Times
MediaLens
Mother Jones
The Nation
New Statesman
The New Yorker
Online Journalism Review
OpenDemocracy
The Progressive
Red Pepper
Salon
Tikkun
TomPaine.com
Transitions
Utne Reader
Village Voice
World Socialist
Z Mag

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