Big Brother
Information control
Perpetual war
Doublespeak

Link to assignment description

Big Brother:

• Edward Denison. 2009. The architectural photographer as terrorist. April 21, Open Democracy. Online at www.opendemocracy.net/article/the-architectural-photographer-as-terrorist
• Alex Lantier. 2009. Torture and Washington's policy of aggressive war. Apr 27, Op-Ed News. Online at www.opednews.com/articles/Torture-and-Washington-s-P-by-Alex-Lantier-090427-936.html
• Warren Richey. 2008. Whose at fault for harsh interrogation tactics? Dec. 9, Christian Science Monitor. Online at www.truthout.org/120908C
• Joby Warrick. 2008. CIA tactics endorsed in secret memos. October 15, Washingtpon Post. Online at www.truthout.org/101508B
• Kari Lyderson. 2008. Unfolding crisis in wake of Mississippi ICE raids. Sept 19, In These Times. Online at www.inthesetimes.com/article/3928/an_unfolding_crisis_in_the_wake_of_mississippi_ice_raid
• Liliana Segura. 2009. Whistleblower levels shocking allegations at Bush's spying programs. Jan 24, Alternet. Online at www.alternet.org/rights/122234/whistleblower_levels_shocking_allegations_at_bush%27s_spying_programs/
• Keith Olbermann. 2009. NSA spied on journalists? Whistleblower reveals surveillance target. Feb 5, MSNBC. Online at www.commondreams.org/video/nsa-spied-journalists
• Kim Zetter. 2009. NSA whistleblower: Wiretaps were combined with credit card records of US citizens. Jan 23, Wired. Online at www.truthout.org/012309S
• Ryan Singel. 2008. Bush spy revelations anticipated when Obama is sworn in. Nov. 9, Truthout. Online at www.truthout.org/111008S
• Greg Miller. 2009. Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool. Feb 1, Los Angeles Times. Online at http://www.truthout.org/020109A
• Lisa Rein. 2008. Maryland police put activsts' names on terror lists. October 8, Washington Post. Online at www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/08
• Bob Drogin. 2008. Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns. Dec 7, Los Angeles Times. Online at www.truthout.org/120708Y
• Richard B. Schmitt. 2008. Domestic spying far outpaces terrorism prosecutions. May 12, Los Angeles Times. Online at www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/12/8892/
• Siobhan Gorman. 2008. NSA's domestic spying grows as agency sweeps up data. Wall Street Journal, Mar 10. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031108B.shtml
• Tom Hodgkinson. 2008. With friends like these . . . . Jan 17, The Guardian/UK. Online at www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/17/6444/
• Matthew Rothschild. 2008. FBI deputizes business. The Progressive, Feb 7. Online at www.progressive.org/mag_rothschild0308
• Jonathan Landay. 2008. Did US Government snoop on Americans' phone calls? Oct 9, McClatchy Newspapers. Online at www.truthout.org/101008J
• Bill Quigley. 2007. Priests jailed for protesting Fort Huachuca torture training. Oct 24. Truthout. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407S.shtml
• Chalmers Johnson. 2007. Evil empire. TomDispatch.com, May 15. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051607D.shtml
• Greg Miller. 2008. Three were waterboarded, CIA chief confirms. LA Times, Feb 6. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020608A.shtml
• Scott Shane, David Johnston, James Risen. 2007. Secret US endorsement of severe interrogations. New York Times. Oct 4. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100407J.shtml
• Michael Rogers. 2006. Department of Defense admits to wider surveillance of don't ask don't tell groups. June 26. PageOne.com. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/61/20774
• Agence France-Presse. 2007. More than 755,000 on US terror watchlist. Oct 25. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102507A.shtml
• Jane Mayer. 2006. The hidden power. July 3, New Yorker Magazine. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/62/20925
• Justin Rood. 2007. FBI terror watch list 'out of control.' June 13, ABC News. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061307D.shtml
• Clara Jeffery. 2005. The watched. Nov/Dec, Mother Jones. Online at www.motherjones.com/news/exhibit/2005/11/the_watched.html
• Frank Morales. 2006. Bush moves toward martial law. Toward Freedom, Oct 26. Online at www.towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911
• Maher Arar. 2006. The horrors of extraordinary rendition: A personal account. Counterpunch, Oct 27/29. Online at www.counterpunch.org/arar10272006.html
• Peter Phillips. 2007. Migrants used to justify homeland security police state. April 24, Truthout. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042407C.shtml
• Brian Ross and Vic Walter. 2007. Report says FBI violated Patriot Act guidelines. March 8, ABCNews. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030907J.shtml
• Macon Telegraph. 2007. Congress should axe Bush's new martial law powers. Feb 20, online at www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/opinion/16735751.htm
• Mike Whitney. 2005. Operation Falcon: 10,000 swept up. Counterpunch, May 18. Online at http://counterpunch.org/whitney05182005.html
• Bradley Graham. 2005. Military expands homeland efforts. Washington Post, Jul 6. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/05/AR2005070501669.html
• WXIA TV. 2006. ACLU releases government photos. Jan 27. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012706A.shtml
• John Friedman. 2005. Spying on the protestors. Sept 19, The Nation. Online at www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050919&s=friedman
• Eric Lichtblau and Mark Mazzetti. 2007. Pentagon expanding its intelligence role in the US. Jan 14, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011407A.shtml
• Jonathan Krim. 2005. Pentagon creating student database. Washington Post, Jun 23. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/22/AR2005062202305.html?referrer=emailarticle
• Walter Pincus. 2007. Protestors found in database. Jan 17, Washington Post. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011707P.shtml
• Three articles on the FBI's spying on journalists and government workers (from ABC, the Nation, and AP--they're short, treat them as one)
• Nick Turse. 2006. American prison planet. Nov 2, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/article/nick-turse-american-prison-planet
• Amy Goodman. 2006. They track journalists, don't they? May 16, Democracy Now! Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051706C.shtml
• Roger Sideman. 2006. Pentagon ordered to expedite handover of UC spying records. May 28, Santa Cruz Sentinel. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053006M.shtml.
• Joel Bleifuss. 2006. FBI, DoD, NSA: All spying on you. Jan 6, In These Times. Online at www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2474/
• Seymour Hersh. 2006. National Security Agency: Listening in. May 29, The New Yorker. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052206K.shtml
• Elena Lappin. 2004. Welcome to America. The Guardian, June 5. Online at www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1231089,00.html
• Eric Lichtblaue and Mark Mazzetti. 2006. Military documents hold tips on anti-war activists. Nov 21, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112106Z.shtml
• Eric Lichtblau and James Risen. 2006. US taps vast banking database in secret antiterror program, officials say. June 22, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062306Z.shtml
• Eric Lichtblau. 2003. US uses terror law to pursue crimes from drugs to swindling. Sept 28, NY Times. Online at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00EFDC103DF93BA1575AC0A9659C8B63&scp=3&sq=justice&st=nyt
• Leslie Cauley. 2006. NSA has massive database of Americans' Phone calls. May 11, USA Today. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106J.shtml
• Siobhan Gorman. 2006. NSA killed system that filtered phone data legally. May 17, Baltimore Sun. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051906K.shtml (it's the second article on the page).
• Adam Liptak. 2006. In leak cases, new pressure on journalists. April 30, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/043006B.shtml
• Robert Parry. 2006. Bush brandishes jail time at critics. April 23, Consortium News. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042406M.shtml
• Will Dunham. 2006. Pentagon admits to more spying on peace activists. April 5, Reuters Newswire. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040606Z.shtml
• Jane Mayer. 2005. Outsourcing torture. Feb 15, The New Yorker. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/38/8876
• Amnesty International. 2006. Amnesty releases new Gitmo torture testimony. Jan 10, Amnesty International. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011106Z.shtml.
• Truthout. 2006. Torture school protestors face six months in prison. Jan 27, Truthout. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012706S.shtml.
• Jonathan Landay. 2006. FBI documents raise new questions about extent of surveillance. Mar 16, Knight Ridder Newspapers. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031506D.shtml.
• Tom Englehart. 2006. Shark and awe: From the annals of full-spectrum dominance. Mar 8, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.commondreams.org/views06/0308-25.htm
• William Fisher. 2006. Son of Gitmo. Mar 2, Truthout. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206Z.shtml
• Charles Babbington and Dan Eggen. 2006. Gonzales seeks to clarify testimony on spying. Mar 1, Washington Post. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030106E.shtml
• Roberto Lovato. 2003. Big liberty is watching. In These Times, July 7. Online at www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=254_0_1_0_C?id=254_0_1_0_C
• U.S. Department of Defense. 2003. September Sanchez memo (on torture techniques). Sept 14, Dept. of Defense. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/10098.
• Josh White. 2005. New Reports of Abuse of Detainees Surface Mistreatment Was Routine, Group Is Told. Sept 24, Washington Post. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092405Z.shtml.
• Matthew Moore. 2006. The photos America doesn't want seen. Feb 15, Sidney Morning Herald. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021506K.shtml.
• Sam Cage. 2006. UN calls Guantanamo a U.S. torture camp. Feb 16, Associated Press. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021606S.shtml.
• Doug Struck. 2006. Torture in Iraq still routine, Report says. Jan 25, Washington Post. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_05/012605Z.shtml
• Nat Parry. 2006. Bush's mysterious 'new programs.' Feb 21, Consortium News. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022306C.shtml
• Mark Clayton. 2006. U.S. plans massive data sweep. Feb 9, Christian Science Monitor. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0209-09.htm
• Leslie Weise. 2005. A volunteer police state. Salon.com, Apr 25. Online at www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/04/25/denver_incident/
• United Press International. 2006. Whistleblower says NSA violations bigger. February 14. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021506A.shtml
• John Markoff. 2006. Taking spying to higher level, agencies look for more ways to mine data. Feb 23, New York Times. Online at www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/technology/25data.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
• Dan Eggen. 2005. Protesters subjected to 'pretext' interviews. Washington Post, May 18. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/17/AR2005051701240.html?referrer=emailarticle
• Jim VandeHei. 2005. GOP volunteer probed on role at president's speech. Washington Post, April 23. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10420-2005Apr22.html?referrer=emailarticle
• Eric Lichtblau and James Risen. 2005. Spy agency mined vast data trove, officials say. Dec 24, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122205Y.shtml
• William Arkin. 2005. The Pentagon breaks the law. Dec 22, Washington Post. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122205Y.shtml
• Lisa Myers, Douglas Pasternak, and Rich Gardella. 2005. Is the Pentagon spying on Americans? MSNBC.com. Dec 13. ONline at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121405Z.shtml
• Declan McCullagh. 2004. Security officials to spy on chat rooms. CNET News, Nov 24. Online at http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-5466140.html
• Jim Dwyer. 2006. Police officers sue over police surveillance of their protests. Feb 3, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020306O.shtml#
• James Bovard. 2004. The Neocon war on peace and freedom. antiwar.com. Online at www.antiwar.com/orig2/bovard022104.html
• ARDA (Advanced research and development activity). 2005. The Information Exploitation Thrust. Online at www.ic-arda.org/InfoExploit/index.html (this is a website you'll have to look through).
• James Bamford. 2005. NSA, the agency that could be Big Brother. Dec 25, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122505Y.shtml
• Andy Sullivan. 2004. Govt computer surveillance rings alarm bells. May 27, Reuters. Online at www.commondreams.org/news2004/0415-09.htm
• Michael Powell and Michelle Garcia. 2004. Arrests at GOP Convention are criticized. Sept 20, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34245-2004Sep19.html?referrer=emailarticle
• Dana Milbank. 2004. Secret service not coddling hecklers. Sept 10, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9703-2004Sep9.html?referrer=emailarticle
• Dan Eggen. 2004. Policing is aggressive at Bush events. Oct 28, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3695-2004Oct27.html?referrer=emailarticle
• Bridget Hall Grummet and Colleen Jenkins. 2004. A George Bush kind of bash. October 20, St. Petersburg Times. Online at www.sptimes.com/2004/10/20/Decision2004/A_George_Bush_kind_of.shtml
• Darryl Fears. 2004. Report is bleak for whistleblowers. March 11, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A47997-2004Mar10&notFound=true
• Jane Mayer. 2005. Outsourcing torture. Feb 2, New Yorker. Online at www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050214fa_fact6
• Ray McGovern. 2005. Torture in our name. Truthout.org, Nov. 4. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110405Y.shtml
• Charles Hanley. 2006. Documents show Army seized wives as tactic. Associated Press, Jan 27. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012706Q.shtml
• Ryan Foley. 2004. Feds win right to war protesters' records. Feb 8, Associated Press. Online at www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/7901637.htm?1c
• Christopher Brauchli. 2004. Protecting the president from dissent. August 30, The Daily Camera. Online at www.commondreams.org/views04/0520-05.htm
• Progressive Newswire. Emerging 'surveillance industrial-complex' is turbocharging government monitoring, ACLU warns in report. Online at www.commondreams.org/views04/0520-05.htm
• James Ridgeway. 2003. An informed citizenry. Villagevoice.com. Online at http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0324/mondo1.php
• Matthew Rothschild. 2004. Denied entrace to Bush event in Dubuque. May 20, The Progressive. Online at www.commondreams.org/views04/0520-05.htm
• Defense Advanced REsearch Projects Agency. 2003. Report to Congress Regarding the Terrorism Information Awareness Program. DARPA website. Report download available at http://www.darpa.mil/body/tia/tia_report_page.htm
• Edward Lazarus. 2005. Warrantless Wiretapping: Why It Seriously Imperils the Separation of Powers, And Continues the Executive's Sapping of Power From Congress and the Courts. Findlaw.com, Dec 22. http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/lazarus/20051222.html
• Edward Lazarus. 2001. The Bush Administration and secrecy: Limiting What We Can Know About The Government, While Expanding What It Can Know About Us. Findlaw.com, November 21. Online at http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20011127.html
• Eric Lichtblau. 2003. U.S. Uses Terror Law to Pursue Crimes From Drugs to Swindling. New York Times, September 28. Abstrat online at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/politics/28LEGA.html?ex=1065736222&ei=1&en=898389928b5d9b64. Article link here.
• Declan McCullagh. 2002. RFID tags: Big brother in small packages. cnet news.com. Online at http://news.com.com/2010-1069-980325.html
• Eric Lichtblau. 2003. FBI scrutinizes anti-war rallies. New York Times, November 22. Find it here.
• ACLU. 2003. ACLU Slams Classified FBI Memorandum Directing Law Enforcement to Engage in Protest Suppression Tactics. ACLU, November 23. Online at http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=14450&c=206
• William Safire. 2002. You are a suspect. New York Times, November 22. Online at http://truthout.com/docs_02/11.16F.safire.you.htm
• Scott Granneman. 2003. RFID chips are here. The Register, June 27. Online at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31461.html
• Patrick Tylor. 2002. Spy wars begin at home. New York Times, Nov 5. Online at http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=4392
• Department of Defense briefing. 2002. Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Foundation of American Scientists. Online at http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2002/10/dod102502.htm
• U.S. Department of Justice. 2003. Neighborhood Watch Programs. Online at http://www.dojgov.net/tips_neighborhood_watch_program.pdf
• Jeremy Lott. 2002. Volunteerism goes undercover. American Prospect, Jul 31. Online at http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/07/lott-j-07-31.html
• American Civil Liberties Union. 2003. Answers to frequently asked questions about Echelon. Online at http://archive.aclu.org/echelonwatch/faq.html
• Jason Halperin. 2003. Patriot raid. Alternet.org, Apr 29. Online at http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15770
• David Lindorf. 2002. The no-fly list: Is a federal agency systematically harassing travelers for their political beliefs?In These Times, Nov 22. Online at http://www.inthesetimes.org/issue/27/02/feature3.shtml
• David Cole. 2003. Patriot act's big brother. The Nation, March 17. Online at http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20030317&s=cole
• Bill Berkowitz. 2002. The campus crusades. zmag. Online at http://www.zmag.org/ZMagSite/Nov2002/Berkowitz1102.htm
• Major Garrett. 2002. Pentagon to track American consumer purchases. Foxnews, Nov 21. Online at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,70992,00.html
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 2003. Total Information Awareness. DARPA website. Online at http://www.darpa.mil/iao/TIASystems.htm
• Carl Takei. 2003. Building a nation of snoops. Boston Globe, May 14. Online at http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0514-04.htm
• Jerry Langdon. 2003. Big Brother is watching you--at work. USA Today, Apr 26. Online at http://www.usatoday.com/careers/news/2001-04-26-monitor.htm
• keyloggers.com. 2003. The Big (Brother) list of computer spy products and tools. Online at http://www.keyloggers.com/bigbrother.html
• Noah Schachtman. 2003. A spy machine of DARPA's dreams. Wired, May 20. Online at http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58909,00.html

Information control

• David Barstow. 2008. The generals' revolt: How the Pentagon spread its message (interactive version). Apr 20, New York Times. Online at www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/04/20/washington/20080419_RUMSFELD.html
• Liliana Segura. 2008. Private military contractors writing the news? The Pentagon's propaganda at its worst. Oct 17, Alternet. Online at www.truthout.org/101708T
• Kevin Bogardus and Rebecca Brown. 2008. Cheney gets last laugh. June 19, The Hill. Online at www.truthout.org/article/cheneys-secrecy-prevails
• David Barstow. 2008. Behind TV analysts, Pentagon's hidden hand. Apr 20, New York Times. Online at www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=1
• Charles Homans. 2008. Last secrets of the Bush Administration. Dec 3, Washington Monthly. Online at www.truthout.org/120308D
• Michelle Chen. 2008. Cheney's office declares exemption from secrecy oversight. Jun 7, TheNewStandard. Online at www.truthout.org/article/cheneys-office-declares-exemption-from-secrecy-oversight
• Bill Moyers. 2008. Is the fourth estate a fifth column? Jul 11, In These Times. Online at www.truthout.org/article/is-fourth-estate-a-fifth-column
• James Bamford. 2008. The shadow factory. Oct 14, Democracy Now! Online at www.democracynow.org/2008/10/14/james_bamford_the_shadow_factory_the
• Richard Garner. 2008. British teachers told to rewrite history of the Iraq War. The Independent, Mar 14. Online at www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/14/7697/
• Warren Strobel. 2008. Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaeda. McClatchy Newspapers, Mar 10. Online www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031108K.shtml
• Nick Davies. 2008. How the spooks took over the news. The Independent, Feb 11. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021208M.shtml
• Associated Press. 2007. Iraq corruption whistleblowers face penalties. Aug. 24. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082507Z.shtml
• William Fisher. 2007. Executive privilege used to expand government secrecy. Jul 31, Truthout. Online at www.truthout.org/article/executive-privilege-used-expand-government-secrecy
• Dan Eggan. 2006. White House trains efforts on media leaks. March 5, Washington Post. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/47/18158
• Elizabeth Williamson and Dan Eggen. 2008. White House said it routinely overwrote email tapes from 2001-2003. Jan 17, Washington Post. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011708K.shtml
• David Gritten. 2006. Iraqi civilian deaths shrouded in secrecy. Mar 22, BBC News. Online at www.truthout.org/article/iraqi-civilian-deaths-shrouded-secrecy
• Mark Silva. 2006. Bush team imposes thick veil of secrecy. April 30, Chicago Tribune. Online at www.truthout.org/article/bush-team-imposes-thick-veil-secrecy
• Richard Willing. 2006. Tax dollars fund study on restricting public data. USA Today, July 5. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/62/20953
• Gina Holland. 2006. High court limits whistleblower lawsuits. Associated Press, May 30. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/60/20140 (this on whistleblowing from Sourcewatch).
• Nancy Chandross. 2007. Woodruff: turning personal injury into public inquiry. ABC News, Feb 26. Online at http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=2904214. (more context here).
• Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest. 2004. The lie factory. Mother Jones, Jan 1. Online at www.motherjones.com/cgi-bin/print_article.pl?url=http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html
• Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. 2003. How Bush's campaign for war was a victory for spin. San Francisco Chronicle, July 27. Online at www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/27/RV155399.DTL
• Christopher Lee. 2005. Prepackaged news gets GAO rebuke. Washington Post, Feb. 21. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40318-2005Feb20.html?referrer=emailarticle
• Amanda Griscom Little. 2004. Just Put Your Lips Together: Bush admin tries to take the whistle away from potential blowers at the EPA. The Daily Grist, Oct 8. Online at www.grist.org/news/muck/2004/10/08/griscom-whistle/
• Henry Waxman. 2006. Bush Administration Spent Over $1.6 Billion on Advertising and Public Relations Contracts Since 2003, GAO Finds Feb 13, Common Dreams. Online at www.commondreams.org/news2006/0213-03.htm.
• Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound. 2003. Scathing new report on White House secrecy. Dec 12, US News and World Report. Online at www.truthout.org/article/scathing-new-report-white-house-secrecy
• U.S. House Judiciary Committee (Democratic Staff). 2005. Preserving democracy: What went wrong in Ohio. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605Y.shtml
• James Rosen . 2006. National security whistleblowers allege retaliation. Feb 15, Sacramento Bee. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0215-12.htm.
• Nick Turse. 2005. Fallen legion: The casualties of the Bush Administration. TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/printer_101405P.shtml
• Nick Turse. 2005. Bush's burgeoning body count: Fallen legion 2. Nov 25, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805N.shtml
• Nick Turse. 2006. The bureaucracy strikes back: Fallen legions 3. Feb 12, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021306P.shtml
• Rory O'Connor and William Scott Malone. 2006. The 9-11 story that got away. May 18, Alternet. Online at http://alternet.org/story/36388/
• Agence France Press. 2006. U.S. propaganda aimed at foreigners reaches public: Pentagon Document. Jan 27, Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012706B.shtml
• William Fisher. 2004. Activists crawl through web to untangle US secrecy. Nov 29, Inter Press Services. Online at www.truthout.org/article/activists-crawl-through-web-untangle-us-secrecy
• Bob Fitrakas. 2004. Diebold, electronic voting, and the vast right-wing conspiracy. Feb 25, Free Press. Online at www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
• Camille Tiaira. 2005. Censored! Sept 7-13, San Francisco Bay Guardian. www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805S.shtml
• Christopher Lee. 2005. Administration rejects rules on PR videos. Washington Post, Mar 15. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35010-2005Mar14.html?referrer=emailarticle
• Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward Pound. 2003. Keeping secrets. Dec 12, US News & World Report. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_03/121403A.shtml.
• David Axe. 2006. Editor who ran afoul of military in Iraq reflects on his experiences. Feb 27, Editor & Publisher. Online at www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002074810
• Nicholas J.S. Davies. 2006. Burying the lancet report. Feb, Z Magazine. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206D.shtml
• Scott Shane. 2005. Increase in the number of documents classified by the government. July 3, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070305B.shtml.
• Gayle MacDonald. 2001. Media fears censorhip as Bush requests caution. Oct 11, Toronto Globa and Mail. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1011-02.htm
• Patrick J. Sloyan. 2003. How the Mass Slaughter of a Group of Iraqis Went Unreported. Feb 14, The Guardian UK. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/1/47/printer
• Michael Messing. 2004. Iraq, the press, and the elections. Dec 16, New York Review of Books. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_04/120904J.shtml.
• Mark Lewellyn-Biddle. 2004. Voting machines gone wild. Jan, Third World Traveler. Online at www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Election_Reform/Voting_Machines_Wild.html.
• Gary Kamiya. 2005. Iraq: The unseen war. Aug 23, Salon.com. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082305O.shtml
• Dahr Jamail. 2005. Censorship. Jun 23, Iraq Dispatches. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/38/12135
• Christopher Brauchli. 2004. Protecting the president from dissent. Daily Camera, Aug 30. Online at www.commondreams.org/views04/0830-09.htm
• Dana Priest. 2004. A clash on classified documents. March 31, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A37357-2004Mar30&notFound=true
• Adam Clymer. 2003. Government openness at issue as Bush holds on to records. Jan 3, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_02/010403A.wh.secrecy.htm
• Matthew Yglesias. 2004. Credibility gap. March 30, The American Prospect. Online at www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/03/yglesias-m-03-30.html
• Memory Hole. 2003. Media Misquote and Excise Bush Comment About "Scripted" Press Conference. Online at www.thememoryhole.com/media/scripted-scrub.htm
• Associated Press. 2004. Images of U.S. soldiers' coffins released. April 22. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0422-11.htm
• Linda McQuaig. 2003. 9/11 movie paints Bush as hero. June 1. Toronto Star. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-05.htm
• Rebecca Carr. 2004. Government secrecy growing since Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. March 14, Palm Beach Post. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-05.htm
• Karen Kwiatkowski. 2004. The new Pentagon papers. Salon.com, Mar 10. Online at www.commondreams.org/views04/0310-09.htm
• Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest. 2004. The lie factory. Jan/Feb, Mother Jones. Online at www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html
• Dana Milbank. 2004. The administration v the administration. June 29, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13200-2004Jun28.html?referrer=emailarticle
• Scott Sonner. 2004. Old Forest Service photos raise flap. April 13, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A6413-2004Apr12&notFound=true
• Ed Garvey. 2004. Right wing now hijacking PBS by moving to control content. June 9, Madison Times. Online at www.commondreams.org/news2004/0415-09.htm
• Mike Allen. 2004. Pentagon deleted Rumsfeld comment. April 21, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A28729-2004Apr20&notFound=true
• Edward Lazarus. 2001. The Bush Administration and secrecy: Limiting what we can know about the government, while expanding what it can know about us. Findlaw.com, Nov. 27. Online at http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20011127.html
• Blaine Harden. 2004. What you don't see at Olympic Park. June 21, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56373-2004Jun20.html?referrer=emailarticle
• theMemoryhole.org. 2003. White House alters web pages about Iraq combat. Memoryhole.org. Online at http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/iraq-combat/
• Progressive Newswire. 2004. CNN to Al Jazeera: Why report civilian deaths? Online at www.commondreams.org/news2004/0415-09.htm
• Robert Dreyfuss. 2002. The Pentagon muzzles the CIA. American Prospect 13(22). Online at http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/22/dreyfuss-r.html
• Union of Concerned Scientists. 2004. Scientific integrity in policymaking: An investigation into the Bush Administration's misuse of science. UCUSA.org. Executive Summary online at http://www2.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/page.cfm?pageID=1322
• Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball. 2003. The secrets of September 11. Newsweek. Online at http://www.msnbc.com/news/907379.asp
• FAIR. 2002. The office of strategic influence is gone, but are its programs in place? Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Online at http://www.fair.org/press-releases/osi-followup.html
• Andrew C. Revkin and Katharine Q. Seelye. 2003. Report by the EPA leaves out data on climate change. New York Times, June 19. Link to article.
• George Lardner, jr. 2001. Bush clamping down on presidential papers. Nov 1, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20731-2001Oct31
• Robert Bryce. 2002. The loyal lieutenants: Bush applies litmus test of allegiance in choosing inner circle. Weeklywire.com. Online at http://weeklywire.com/ww/03-20-00/austin_pols_feature.html
• David Ray Griffin. 2005. The 9/11 Commission report: A 571-page lie. 911truth.org. Online at www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050523112738404
• Abid Aslam. 2006. Incomes fall, hunger worsens as Bush says we're 'doing fine.' Feb 28, OneWorld.net. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022806D.shtml
• Federation of American Scientists. 2003. Remarks by Vice President Dick Cheney to the American Society of News Editors. fas.org, April 9. Online at http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2003/04/vp040903.html
• Federation of American Scientists. 2003. Project on Government Secrecy. Online at http://www.fas.org/sgp/index.html
• Charles Lewis. 2003. Even in wartime, stealth and democracy do not mix. Center for Public Integrity. Online at http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=506&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0
• The Propaganda Remix project. Online at http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html
• Paul Boutin. 2003. Grand old protest. slate.com, Jan 24. Online at http://slate.msn.com/id/2077553/
• Dennis Roddy. 2003. Bush-backing letters to editor eerily similar. post-gazette.com, Jan 25. Online at http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20030125roddy102col2p2.asp
• Elizabeth Bumiller. 2003. Keepers of Bush image lift stagecraft to new heights. New York Times, May 16. Online at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/politics/16IMAG.html?tntemail1=&pagewanted=print&position=

Perpetual war

• Norman Solomon. 2009. Where the money goes. Feb 26, San Francisco Chronicle. Online at www.truthout.org/022609A
• Michael Reagan. 2008. US military recruits children: 'America's Army' video game violates international law. July 23, Truthout. Online at www.truthout.org/article/us-military-recruits-children
• Frida Berrigan. 2008. Military industrial complex 2.0: Cubicle mercenaries, subcontracting warriors, and other phenomena of a privatizing Pentagon. Sept 14, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/article/military-industrial-complex-20
• Amy Goodman. 2009. Seymour Hersh. Secret US forces carried out assassinations in "a lot of countries,' including Latin America. March 31, DemocracyNow!. Online at www.truthout.org/040109K?print
• Tom Englehardt. 2008. The Pentagon's argument of last resort on Iraq. Nov 20, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/112008U
• Norman Solomon. 2008. Silent winter of escalation. Dec 9, Truthout. Online at www.truthout.org/120908A
• Andrew Bacevich. 2008. Expanding war, contracting meaning: The next president and the global war on terror. Oct 30, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/103008U
• David Barstow. 2008. One man's industrial-military-media complex. Nov 29, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/113008Z
• Nick Turse. 2008. Billion dollar babies: Five stealth Pentagon defense contractors reaping billions of tax dollars. Jun 24, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/article/billion-dollar-babies
• Nick Turse. 2008. The real matrix: The Pentagon invades your life. April 24, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/article/nick-turse-the-real-matrix-the-pentagon-invades-your-life
• Thom Shanker. 2008. Obama's thoughts evolve on US troops in Iraq. Dec 4, International Herald Tribune. Online at www.truthout.org/120508L
• Henry Giroux. 2008. Against the militarized academy. Nov 20, Truthout. Online at www.truthout.org/112008J
• Robert Parry. 2007. Bush's global 'dirty war.' Consortium News, Oct 1. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100207B.shtml
• Nick Turse. 2007. How the Pentagon came to own the earth, sea and skies. July 7, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/article/nick-turse-how-pentagon-came-own-earth-seas-and-skies
• Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer. 2005. Pushing the limits of wartime powers. Dec 18, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121701233_pf.html
• Connor Freff Cochran. 2004. The coming draft. March 25, Alternet.org. Online at www.alternet.org/story/18225
• Nicholas Turse. 2004. The wild weapons of DARPA. Mar. 4, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.commondreams.org/views04/0305-01.htm
• Wayne Madsen. 2005. Al Qaeda: The database. November 18, Wayne Madsen Report. Online at www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3836
• Pamela Hess. 2006. Rumsfeld pushes Gingrich long war strategy. March 6, United Press International. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030706O.shtml
• Simon Tisdall. 2006. Washington digs in for 'long war,' as Rumsfeld issues global call to arms. Guardian, Feb 7. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0207-05.htm
• Michael Isikoff. 2004. 2001 memo reveals push for broader presidential powers. Dec 18, Newsweek. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_04/122004Z.shtml
• Associated Press. 2006. Security issue kills domestic spying probe. May 11, Associated Press. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106Z.shtml
• Josh White and Ann Scott Tyson. 2006. Rumsfeld offers strategy for current war. Feb 3, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/02/AR2006020202296_pf.html
• Katherine Lemons, Patricia Purtschert and Yves Winter. 2003. Feeding fear: The new security culture. Alternet.org. Online at http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17316
• Rational Enquirer. 2006. The Perpetual War Portfolio. Online at www.rationalenquirer.org/features/portfolio/
• New York Times. 2003. Invoking war to ease rules. New York Times, March 22. Online at http://www.defenders.org/habitat/dod/pdf/nyt.pdf
• Michiko Kakutani. 2006. Personality, ideology, and Bush's terror wars. June 20, New York Times. Online at www2.eou.edu/~socmedia/articles/suskind1percent.htm
• Karen Van Wolferen. 2002. To keep a population in line, wage perpetual war against a vague enemy. Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 10. Online at http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0310-01.htm
• Henry McDonald. 2002. This perpetual war. The Observer. Online at http://www.observer.co.uk/arnoldkemp/story/0,12431,792513,00.html
• Rationalenquirer. 2003. The perpetual war portfolio. Online at http://www.rationalenquirer.org/features/portfolio//
• Ted Rall. 2002. Why Bush is addicted to perpetual war. alternet.org. Online at http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12654
• Wikipedia. 2006. War on terrorism. Online at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism
• Nancy Snow. 2002. Opinion Control on the Next War in Iraq: Freedom to Fear, Freedom From Thinking. nancysnow.com. Online at http://www.nancysnow.com/infowar_excerpt.htm
• Susan Sontag. 2002. Real battles and empty metaphors. Online at http://dwij.org/forum/statesperson/sontag.htm
• Ivan Eland. 2002. War against terror expands excessively. Cato Institute, Feb 8. Online at http://www.cato.org/dailys/02-08-02.html
• Chris White. 2003. Is war still a racket? Counterpunch.org. January 9. Online at http://www.counterpunch.org/white01092003.html
• Center for Cooperative Research. 2003. Ideological rationalizations (good source of quotes). Cooperativeresearch.org. Online at http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/ideological_rationalizations.htm

Doublespeak

• Tom Englehardt. 2005. Entries for a devil's dictionary of the Bush era. Mar 28, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/article/tom-engelhardt-entries-a-devils-dictionary-bush-era
• Tom Englehardt. 2005. Are we in World War IV? Mar 10, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/article/tom-engelhardt-are-we-world-war-iv
• Ann Flaherty. 2008. Banning military propaganda could be hard to do. Jun 3, Associated Press. Online at www.truthout.org/article/banning-military-propaganda-could-be-hard-do
• Tom McNally. 2008. How anti-intellectualism is destroying America. Aug 15, Alternet. Online at www.truthout.org/article/how-anti-intellectualism-is-destroying-america
• Katrina Vanden Huevel. 2005. Dictionary of republicanisms. The Nation, Dec 12. Online at www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20051212&s=kvh
• Frank Luntz. 2005. 14 words never to use. Excerpted from 'Learning from 2004; winning in 2006.' Luntz Research Companies. Online at www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001208.php#1208
• Chris Mooney. 2004. Beware 'sound science:' It's doublespeak for trouble. Feb 29, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13994-2004Feb27?language=printer
• Barbara Ehrenreich. 2004. Feminism's assumptions upended. May 16, Los Angeles Times. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-05.htm
• Arundhati Roy. 2001. New world disorder. In These Times, Oct 26. Online at www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/26/feature1.shtml
• Sourcewatch. Doublespeak. Online at www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Doublespeak
• James Fallows. 2004. Annotated version of President Bush's 2004 State of the Union Address. TheAtlantic.com, Jan 23. Online at http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/01/sotu-address.htm
• Daniel Okrent. 2005. War of words: Dispatch from the front lines. New York Times Magazine. Online at www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/weekinreview/06bott.html?ei=5070&en=b9ebc54bd3f98a1d&ex=1138424400&pagewanted=print&position=
• William Lutz. Life under the Chief Doublespeak Officer. Online at www.dt.org/html/Doublespeak.html
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. 2003. Bush Administration's Orwellian Logic: Anti-Gay Discrimination is "Civil Rights and Religious Liberty". Commondreams.org. Online at http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/0625-09.htm
• National Council of Teachers of English. 2003. Doublespeak awards, 1975-2003. Online at http://www.ncte.org/about/awards/council/jrnl/106868.htm
• Susan Sontag. 2002. Real battles and empty metaphors. New York Times, September 10. Online at http://www.globalpolicy.org/wtc/analysis/2002/0910sontag.htm
• Students for an Orwellian Society. Online at http://studentsfororwell.org/
• Unquietmind.com. 1998. 17Aug98: What Clinton Said / What Clinton Meant. Online at http://unquietmind.com/clintons_speech.html
• Ruth Rosen. 2003. Bush doublespeak. Commondreams.org. Online at http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0714-10.htm
• Jacob Levich. 2001. Happy New Year: It's 1984. commondreams.org, September 22. Online at http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0922-07.htm
• Robert Burns. 2003. Rumsfeld: Iraqis Free to Form Own Gov't as Long as It is Not an Iranian-Style Theocracy. Associated Press, April 24. Online at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-11.htm
• Damronplanet. 2003. Doublespeak. Online at http://www.damronplanet.com/doublespeak/
• Wayne Grytting. 2003. The Orwell Awards. American newspeak. Online at http://www.scn.org/newspeak/
• Bill Grigsby. 2004. What would Orwell say? April 15, Scoop. Online at www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0404/S00127.htm
• Richard Moore. 1996. Doublespeak and the new world order. New Dawn Magazine (Mar-Apr). Online at http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles/Doublespeak%20and%20the%20New%20World%20Order.html
• David Espo. 2002. GOP preps candidates for dems' attack ads. Detroit News, August 9. Online at http://www.detnews.com/2002/politics/0208/11/a06-557948.htm
• Stephen Zunes. 2003. An annotated review of the foreign policy segments of President George W. Bush's state of the union address. Commondreams, Jan 29. Online at http://commondreams.org/views03/0129-09.htm