Links Information

(alphabetical by topic)

• Afghanistan
• Afghanistan under the Taliban, in a late 1990s re-visit by Vollmann.  (Archived).
• Africa
• CNN special report on Clinton’s March 1998 visit, with articles on Botswana, Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda.
• Animal products
• Mad Cow disease article includes information on animal farming in the U.S.
• Country Listing from the CIA World Factbook.
• Economics
• Corporate globalization and Bush giveaways exposed, citing Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman.
• Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.
• Geography
• How far is it? provides the latitude and longitude of a city (or vice versa) and the shortest distance between two points over the surface of the earth.
• Health
• Fixing a fat nation: Why diets and gyms won't save us from the obesity epidemic, by Tom Farley and Deborah Cohen, explains the importance of healthy weight, the difficulty of cure, the necessity of prevention, the environmental factors that lead to overweightness, and the need to change the places in which we live, what we have access to, and the incentives that face us: in short, the need to solve obesity through collective and not individual action, with the historical parallel of infectious diseases.

• History
• Boondocksnet.com: excellent source of primary source documents (good writing from the past) and essays on history, primarily America around the turn of the (previous) century.
• Internet
• World Wide Web
• NSAC Web Information
• Judges
• Massachusetts Trial Court Judges.
• Keyboards
• Dvorak Keyboard in Hebrew.
• Labor
• LRA Online: News and Analysis from the Labor Research Association.
• Law information in plain English: be your own lawyer.
• MapQuest provides simple little maps of wherever in North America or Europe you need.
• Money
• Money Facts
• Music
• Greenback Dollar by the Kingston Trio
• Roger Miller lyrics
• Press
• The Media Criticism of Upton Sinclair
• Black Press Resources and Links from PBS’ “Soldiers Without Swords”
• Geoff Nyarota, editor of the Daily News (Zimbabwe), interview with (2001 June).
• See also Press Organizations links
• Propaganda
• Bonner & Associates fakes a fax to trick leading supporters of affordable medicine laws into signing a petition against the laws for the pharmaceutical industry.
• Nuclear Power
• Nuclear Power Deception: U.S. Nuclear Mythology from Electricity “Too Cheap to Meter” to “Inherently Safe” Reactors (IEER Report)
• Ropes, knots, and pulleys
• Knots and how to tie them, by Troop 9, with animations
• Rumors and Urban Legends
• Scopes, or “Urban Legends Reference Pages,” tries to determine the truth of bits of information widely circulated in the media or on the internet.
• Social Welfare
• Abe Bortz Lecture on the History of Social Security, from the first historian employed by the SSA.
• Time
• Present time, Eastern time zone “Accurate within 0.4 seconds” from www.time.gov.
• Daylight Savings Time
• Gregorian Calendar
• Transportation
• Some EV History / History of Electric Cars and other Vehicles
• United States Government and Politics
• Citizens for Legitimate Government focus on the stolen 2000 election.  Check their links to news articles.  Also, excellent background coup d’etats, particularly by the Bush family, at Lumpen: Coup2K by John Dee.
• Electoral college including election results.
• War
• War on Afghanistan
• Media coverage of
• Wealth
• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (Book One only)