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You can view the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Web site at www.darpa.mil. For more about Poindexter, DARPA, and the Policy Analysis Market, see Floyd Norris, “Betting on Terror: What Markets Can Reveal,” New York Times, August 3, 2003; Stephen J. Hedges, “Poindexter to quit over terror futures plan,” Chicago Tribune, August 1, 2003; Peter Behr, “U.S. files new Enron complaints,” Washington Post, March 13, 2003; and Allison Stevens, “Senators want ‘Terrorism’ futures market closed,” Congressional Quarterly Daily Monitor, July 28, 2003.
If you would like to learn more about the situation at Guantanamo Bay, see “Imbalance of Power: How changes to U.S. law and policy since 9/11 erode human rights and civil liberties,” from the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, as well as Matthew Hay Brown, “At Camp Iquana, the enemies are children,” Hartford Courant, July 20, 2003; Paisley Dodds, “Detainees giving information for incentives, general says,” Chicago Tribune, July 25, 2003.
Reports on government abuses under the Patriot Act can be found in Philip Shenon, “Report on U.S. antiterrorism law alleges violations of civil rights,” New York Times, July 21, 2003; “Code-red cartoonists,” USA Today, July 24, 2003; and Tom Brune, “Rights abuses probed,” Newsday, July 22, 2003.
John Clarke recounted his story of interrogation as he tried to reenter America from Canada in “Interrogation at the U.S. border,” Counterpunch, February 25, 2002; Many of the other stories of a government out of control come from Neil Mackay, “Rage. Mistrust. Hatred. Fear. Uncle Sam’s enemies within,” Sunday Herald, June 29, 2003. Also see, “Judge steps down after admitting ethnic slur,” Associated Press, June 18, 2003; “Six French journalists stopped in L.A., refused admission to U.S.,” Associated Press, May 21, 2003; “Cop photographs class projects during 1:30 AM visit,” Associated Press, May 5, 2003; Matthew Rothschild, “Enforced conformity,” The Progressive, July 1, 2003; Dave Lindorff, “The Government’s air passenger blacklist,” New Haven Advocate; Matthew Norman, “Comment & Analysis,” The Guardian, March 19, 2002; “Show doesn’t make evil man sympathetic,” USA Today, May 18, 2003; “Principal bans Oscar-winning documentary,” Hartford Courant, April 6, 2003.
Ari Fleischer’s Big Brother admonition to Americans can be found at www.whitehouse.gov, and was widely reported.
For more on the INS visas for terrorists debacle, see Bill Saporito, et al., “Deporting the INS: Granting visas for terrorists after 9/11 could be the last gaffe for the Immigration Service,” Time Magazine, March 25, 2002.
5. How to Stop Terrorism? Stop Being Terrorists!
William Blum’s Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II offers accounts of the U.S.-engineered coups in Chile, Guatemala, and Indonesia. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated is an important collection of essays by Gore Vidal (as a bonus, get a handy twenty-page chart chronicling U.S. military interventions around the world since 1948). For a critical look at current U.S. foreign policy log onto Foreign Policy In Focus’ Web site: www.foreign policy-infocus.org.
Israel is one of the United States’s largest arms importers. In the last decade, the United States has sold Israel $7.2 billion in weaponry and military equipment, $762 million through Direct Commercial Sales (DCS), more than $6.5 billion through the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program (William D. Hartung and Frida Berrigan “An Arms Trade Resource Center Fact Sheet,” May 2002). The Middle East Research and Information Project has a primer on the current uprising in Palestine and a primer on Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: www.merip.org. Peace Now, the Israeli peace organization, believes that “only peace will bring security to Israel and ensure the future of our people.” It presses the Israeli government to seek