Political Links

News Events

• What Really Happened
A challenging web site offering an alternative view on current events and the reasons for them.

Not Afraid
• We're not Afraid!
Link: www.werenotafraid.com
Site created in the wake of th 7/7/05 London Bombings

Putting a Different Slant on Things

• Are you an anarchist?
Quote from the Anti-Capitalist Convergence site: "Chances are you have already heard something about who anarchists are and what they are supposed to believe. Chances are almost everything you have heard about them is nonsense. Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction, that they oppose all forms of order and organization, that they are crazed nihilists who just want to blow everything up. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. It's a very simple notion, really. But it's the one notion that rich and powerful people have always found the most alarming." Am I an anarchist? Does it matter?

• machination.org
A once in a while running personal project in presenting contrasting media reports, independent media links, and an eclectic collection of commentary and links on world affairs, dissent, free speech, social issues, the internet, technology in general and often personal computing on the Macintosh.
Added: 17/4/02

• The Situationist Archives
The Situationist International archives. Is there an echo in here?

Commentators
• George Monbiot
Author George Monbiot was born in 1963. He's the author of Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain, and the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper and has been involved in protests against road building, mahogany imports and genetic engineering. He helped to found the landrights campaign The Land is Ours.

• John Pilger
Campaigning journalist who has covered conflists from Cambodia to Iraq.If you're an American you'll probably hate this site and what he has to say. He's not so nice about the British government, either!

Human Rights
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have." -- Harry Emerson Fosdick

• Amnesty International

• Cyber Rights and Liberties
A non profit organisation

US: The Center for the Study of Human Rights
The Center for the Study of Human Rights, The School of Journalism and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning at Columbia University recently announced the launch of HR@CU, a new media portal and Web sites for human rights teaching and learning.
The portal links human rights-related resources, such as case studies, course Web sites, a multimedia edition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human rights publications and links to human rights centres and institutes around the globe.

UK: Liberty
In an attempt to combat threats to society like terrorism and crime, governments often rush to create new laws. They give themselves new powers - without stopping to sufficiently consider the impact on our civil liberties and human rights. Sometimes they end up sacrificing the very freedoms these laws are intended to protect. Often this process is too gradual to notice - until the moment we're affected ourselves. Then we realise that our lives are not as private or as free as we thought.

US: Money in Politics
Who's funding the major parties and why are they doing it...

UK: StateWatch
Monitoring the state and civil liberties in the European Union. Brilliant resource -- and scary, too.

Taking Action
• BlueGreen Earth
BLUE is looking for short fiction, extracts of novels, poetry, lyrics, polemics, opinions, eyewitness accounts, news, features, information and arts in any form relating to eco cultural- social- spiritual issues, events and activites (creative and political).

Terrorism
Why would I have links on my site to these sites? Because it's just one aspect of writing on a variety of subjects, including humankind's baser side.

• Terrorist Attack Hoaxwatch

• World in Crisis, Media in Conflict
A special report from The Media Channel: Go

• Canadian Dept of National Defence Information


Biological Weapons
• US Centers for Disease Control Anthrax Information Site

• Anthrax: pre-publication and special issue [.pdf]
This special topics page from Nature contains two pre-publication research papers and a collection of articles, news stories, and commentary from the magazine's archive.


Afghanistan
• The Institue for Afghan Studies
The Institute for Afghan Studies (IAS) is a non-profit, non-political and independent organization, founded and run by young Afghan scholars from around the globe.  The mission of the Institute is to be a center for research and a credible source of information about Afghanistan.