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| Definition Readings |
| Torture CASES Hersh on rape at Abu Ghraib ***Abu Ghraib story*** (first story on case) Man beneath the Hood Speaks Out Wikipedia excerpts on Taguba Report Wikipedia: Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse Salon's Abu Ghraib Files (links to most pics & reports) Military detains wives More Hersh on Abu Ghraib White House Aides Micro-managed Torture BACKGROUND CIA Torture Research Brits & US use sex torture Torture’s Dirty Secret: It Works DEFINITIONS The Torture Memos UN Convention Against Torture Part 1 Articles 1-3 Date Rape CASES Kobe Bryant in a nutshell William Kennedy Smith Katie Koestner 1 Katie Koestner 2 BACKGROUND Male Animal Erasing Rape:Media Hype Roiphe DEFINITIONS military definition Antioch College definition |
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Sources |
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Wikipedia 1 Wikipedia 2 Fallacy Files Nizkor Mission Critical (scroll down to fallacies section. This one has some interactive exercises) |
| Propaganda Readings |
| Fascism Test How vulnerable are you to propaganda? Take this test and find out. There are but two
powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword
is always beaten by the mind.
Napoleon
Bonaparte
"Through clever and
constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise
as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched
sort of life as paradise."
Adolf
Hitler, Mein Kampf, part I
chapter X
In
view of the primitive simplicity of their minds they more easily
fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves
lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big.
Such a
falsehood will never enter their heads and they will not be able to
believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous
misrepresentation in others; yes, even when enlightened on the subject,
they will long doubt and waver, and continue to accept at least one of
these causes as true. Adolf
Hitler, Mein Kampf, part I
chapter X
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's
propaganda
minister
I
shall give a propagandist cause for
starting the war never mind whether it be plausible or not. The victor
shall not be asked later on whether we told the truth or not.
Adolf
Hitler, speech to inner circle, Aug. 22, 1939
Hitler's "War Propaganda" Herman Goering on selling war Edward Bernays Propaganda Army Propaganda Manual Hitler Examples Poland Hitler's proclamation on need to invade Poland **Hitler's speech on victory in Poland** real reasons for invading Poland Jews excerpts from Mein Kampf Excerpt from Hitler's Second Book Links to more anti-Jewish Nazi documents United States America as a Perversion of European Culture Goebbels on FDR Hitler declares war on America this is a long speech, so hit control F and search for "America." The relevant porton starts at the second mention ****** FDR's vice president on fascism What fascism really is scary stuff USA examples Andrew Jackson **Indian Removal** FDR Pearl Harbor Address **"Arsenal of Democracy"** (warm up for war with Hitler) Reagan **Lebanon & Grenada** Bush examples speeches & such **President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat** Bush's ultimatum to Saddam Hussein President Bush declares victory on board aircraft carrier PR (fake events) rent WAG THE DOG at you local video store Real reasons for Iraq War The Hidden 2001 Plan to Carve-up Iraq Peak Oil: the real reason for war in Iraq |
| Research Readings |
Everyone
is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.
Sen. Daniel
Patrick Moynihan
General Research Help SMC
Topic Helper
FINDING STATISTICS ***Bureau of Justice Statistics*** Statistical Resources on the Web Daycare Daycare Debate (a good starting point, discusses issues and some links) Media Censorship/Consolidation/Bias Outfoxed funny and offensive especially why there aren't more black cops Bush Ireland Interview White House transcript MP3 audio of Bush Ireland Interview VIDEO Lie or Cut Story Critical of Advertiser Columbia
Journalism Review fact checks and analyzes primarily right wing sources FAIR Sourcewatch right wing media monitor. look them up on Sourcewatch Media Research Center Disinfopedia an encyclopedia of propaganda, PR, and political BS "viral marketing" is worth a paper by itself Urban Legends
Reference Pages PR Watch a good example of how PR fakes the news
Council of Public Relations Firms
Spinsanity.org emphasis on political ads at the moment Media
Channel Free
Press Media Reform The
Center for Public Integrity Institute
for Public Accuracy
FRONTLINE
on Healthcare Election 2000 2004 vote suppression in Florida BBC Florida 2004 BBC TV News story on purge of black voters Diebold
Memos Disclose US
Commission on Civil Rights Examples
of Black Voters Criminal Investigation in Florida
Electronic Voting Newsweek on Electronic Voting Black
Box Voting.org University of Iowa Computer Science Department analysis of Diebold flaws Diebold head says he will do anything to get Bush re-elected Vietnam Vet ahead in polls loses by 13% on Diebold This is long, so here's a crucial excerpt: In Georgia, Republican
Saxby Chambliss repeatedly
questioned
the patriotism of Democratic incumbent and triple amputee war hero Max
Cleland during his campaign. Chambliss made the absurd claim that he
was
more patriotic than Cleland even though he had avoided service in the
Vietnam
war with a "medical deferment". A
Poll taken by the Atlanta Journal
Constitution
published on November 1st, just five days before the election, showed
support
for Georgia Democratic Senator Max Cleland at 49%, clearly 5% ahead of
Republican Saxby Chambliss at 44%. Many People in Georgia,
particularly
veterans, had been angered by the crude remarks made by Chambliss and
they
turned out in record numbers to vote for Cleland. When the 'Diebold'
Electronic
Voting tally was made public it stunned and confused the Georgia
voters.
Saxby Chambliss had won with 53% of the vote compared to Max Cleland's
46%. It represented a 13% pro-Republican swing that seemed to
materialize
out of cyberspace. The victories of Chambliss and Hagel, along
with the
tragic October 25, 2002 plane crash that killed Democratic Senator Paul
Wellstone, virtually guaranteed Republican control of the Senate.
More
example of odd results using touch screens (with links) how
the vote count can be manipulated
Primary
Documents on Foreign Policy Iraqi Threat "Allow
the president to invade a neighboring
nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion ... and
you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today he should choose to say
he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from
invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no
probability of the British invading us,' but he will say to you, 'Be
silent: I see it if you don't.'"
Congressman
Abraham
Lincoln, 1848
Frontline:
10/03 Iraq story links Retired
Pentagon Analyst Returned to Work After 9/11 British Cabinet Member Says Threat Faked Blair Knew Iraq not a Threat says his Foreign Minister Diplomats
& Military Commanders for Change
Intelligence Insiders Speak out on Iraq Interview
with Producer of UNCOVERED Cooperative
Research Iraq Bibliograghy Rumsfeld's
handshake with Saddam and What do we have for comparison? US Nukes Nuke Delivery systems
9/11: what did we know? TV show on WTC attack BEFORE 9/11 Retroactively
classified testimony ***9/11 Commission Report*** The
Man Who Knew Congressional
9/11 Report Cooperative
Research 9/11 Bibliograghy Causes of Terrorism Frontline: Interview with Osama bin Laden Library of Congress Country Studies Al
Jazeera Arab
News 9/11 Business & Intervention
"There is only one thing
in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money,
power and more power. All the rest is meaningless."
Napoleon
Bonaparte
Dollar
vs. Euro showdown in Middle East Intervention & democracy/nation building, etc. “There
is such a thirst
for gain [among military suppliers]…that it is enough to make one curse
their own Species, for possessing so little virtue and patriotism.”
President
George
Washington, 1778
“I
don’t want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States
as a result of this world disaster.”
President
Franklin D.
Roosevelt, during World War II
War
Is a Racket In
the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military
industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced
power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. ***US Military Interventions*** Great list that gives causes, propaganda, and inciting incident for wars. Somewhat biased, but mostly accurate Speeches and Eyewitnesses to Intervention ***Mark Twain on Philippines is great, and Lodge on need for expansion is very relevant New York Times Special Report: The CIA in Iran Israel ***Frontline: Battle for the Holy Land***
***How Will Israel Survive?*** DEATH PENALTY Death Penalty Information Center PBS: Frontline: "The Case for Innocence" DRUG WAR
What Is the Matter With Mary Jane? DRUG POLICY IN THE NETHERLANDS The
Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy Good for drugs and death penalty, might work for police brutality |
| Midterm Readings |
| Readings |
NEWS
The Guardian
(publicly funded paper in UK)
BBC
(a source the rest of the world trusts)
Al Jazeera
(like the BBC, but closer to the action)
Democracy Now!
90.7 FM
6-7 am, 9-10 am, M-F
The best hour of news
everyday it's on
Frontline
(documentary series on
PBS, lots of foreign policy,
corporate issues, etc.)
History News Network
should more accurately be
called history AND news.
Historians and experts
post articles on both.
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