Subject: Andy's political update for evening of 22 October
Howdy all,
This evening's update provides a resource, two articles, and a cartoon bank...
Andy
Middle East Primer
Here's a collection of basic readings on Alternet, as pointed to by the Working Assets website:
http://alternet.org/issues/index.html?IssueAreaID=28
Fisk: We'll blame someone else
Robert Fisk is a veteran Middle East reporter for the Independent Daily in the UK. He has won many awards, including British International Journalist of the Year seven times. Here's his commentary in Tuesday's Independent:
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=100895
Feds to use torture next?
Did you see this one? The Washington Post reports some FBI and Justice Department investigators as saying "traditional" civil liberties may have to be cast aside in our war on terrorism. "Among the alternative strategies under discussion are using drugs or...extraditing suspects to allied countries where security services sometimes employ threats to family members or resort to torture."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27748-2001Oct20.html
On the lighter side
Great cartoons by Tom Tomorrow at http://www.thismodernworld.com/
Go to the 2001 archives.
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