Picture/Poems Featured Links:
Archive 2001/2007


III.22.2007

BLACKWATER:
THE RISE OF THE
WORLD'S MOST
POWERFUL
MERCENARY ARMY

II.3.2007

The Starker Lecture Series: Dr. David Orr

XI.1.2006

The Starker Lecture Series: John Perlin

100 Years of Forestry in the Pacific Northwest:
A Critical Look Back, A Fresh Look Forward
a series of eight lectures presented in online

webcasts in RealAudio

XI.1.2006

The New Scientist

V.1.2006

Cathy Berberian

IV.1.2006

The Wheel of Time

III.6.2006

Elliott Carter

I.9.2006

Arnold Schönberg Center

I.2.2006

Historic Recordings


XII.16.2005

Beyond Vietnam

XI.15.2004

Operation Truth

X.14.2004

Disappearing Glaciers . . .

VIII.9.2004

American Mavericks

VIII.2.2004

MSF Out of Afghanistan

VII.1.2004

Historic Recordings
Archived On Internet

VI.1.2004

The Falcon's Target

II.8.2004

Monarch and Ackerlof

VII.28.2003

Lawn Chemicals


IV.5.2003

Political Profiling


IV.28.2003

The Monk in the Lab


IV.21.2003

Arctic Oil


III.17.2003

Web Against War (5)

A Picture/Poem collection
of links to contemporary voices
of protest


II.3.2003

Web Against War (4)

A Picture/Poem collection
of links to contemporary voices
of protest

XII.2.2002

Security vs. Privacy

A Picture/Poem collection
of links to contemporary voices
of protest

XI.11.2002

Web Against War (3)

A Picture/Poem collection
of links to contemporary voices
of protest

X.7.2002

Web Against War (2)

A Picture/Poem collection
of links to contemporary voices
of protest

IX.30.2002

Web Against War (1)

A Picture/Poem collection
of links to contemporary voices
of protest

(full report)   



VII.29.2002

Metaphor and War

An excerpt from a seminal essay
by the linguist, George Lakoff

"The use of a metaphor with a set of
definitions becomes pernicious when
it hides realities in a harmful way."    

(full report)         



VII.29.2002

Living Planet
Report 2002

Humans running up huge
'overdraft' with the planet
says new WWF report

"The Living Planet Report is
WWF's periodic update on the
state of the world's ecosystems."

(full report)



VII.8.2002

The Songbird
Foundation

A website devoted to Songbirds
and the protection of their habitats
by helping people make sustainable
choices to preserve them

"One of the greatest threats to migratory
songbirds is the surge in aggressive
sun-grown coffee."

(full report)



VII.1.2002

The Man Who Cracked
The Code to Everything ...

a recent article in Wired
magazine by Steven Levy

"But first it cracked him. The inside story
of how Stephen Wolfram went from boy
genius to recluse to science renegade."

(full report)



VI.3.2002

Amnesty International
report 2002

the yearly report on
human rights worldwide

"Amnesty International's message
throughout was "Justice not revenge".

(full report)



V.27.2002

India, Pakistan
and the Bomb

A timely feature article from the                
December issue of
Scientific American

"The Indian subcontinent is the
most likely place in the world
for a nuclear war"

(full report)



V.20.2002

An Interview with Permaculture
founder Bill Mollison:
[in two parts]

by Scott Vlaun and the Seeds
of Change eNewsletter

"conscious design and maintenance of
agriculturally productive ecosystems
which have the diversity, stability,
and resilience of natural ecosystems."

(full report)



V.13.2002

When Markets Go Mad
PHYSICISTS TRY TO PREDICT
WHEN STOCK PRICES WILL
CRASH by David Appell

featured at sciam.com

"About $4 trillion in market wealth
vanished between the April 2000
bursting of the Nasdaq bubble and
its recent stabilization
at lower levels."

(full report)



V.6.2002

The grim toll of attacks
on press freedom

Three weeks of Israeli occupation
of Palestinian towns: a report from
RSF / RWB [Reporters Sans Frontières /
Reporters Without Borders]

" a massive, deliberate and conscious
violation of press freedom and an
unprecedented low in the history
of Israel."

(full report)



IV.15.2002

STATE OF THE WORLD:
MORE CONNECTED, LESS STABLE

summary of the Woldwatch's 19th
annual report: State of the World
2002

"Ten years after the Rio Earth Summit, we
are still far from ending the economic and
environmental marginalization that afflict
billions of people,"

(full report)



IV.8.2002

Television Addiction
Is No Mere Metaphor

a featured article in
Scientific American

"Perhaps the most ironic aspect
of the struggle for survival is how
easily organisms can be harmed by that
which they desire."

(full report)



II.25.2002

Deep Ecology

from NewDimensions.org

"Deep Ecology has many roots, which
can be traced to the ecocentric religions
and ways of life of primal peoples around
the world and to many other ancient
and modern sources."

(full report)



I.28.2002

Selection From
On War and Peace
by Krishnamurti

a remarkable historic document
featured on the Krishnamurti
Foundation of America website

"Question: How can I as an individual meet,
overcome and resolve the growing tension
and war-fever between India and Pakistan?"
(Bombay, India: 1950)

(full report)



I.7.2002

The Failure of War

An essay by Wendell Berry
featured in the new issue of
Yes! Magazine

"How many deaths of other people's
children by bombing or starvation are
we willing to accept in order that we
may be free, affluent, and
(supposedly) at peace?"

(full report)




XII.31.2001

Economics of Waste

A report from Lynn Landes
of Zero Waste America

"We are living in a false economy
where the price of goods and services does
not include the cost of waste and pollution."

(full report)



XII.17.2001

Weatherman Draw

featured on the Sacredland.org
website

"This isn't just some place on a hill;
this is a living spiritual center.
The church is alive here."

(full report)



XII.10.2001

ACTA launches the
Defense of Civilization
Fund

featured on the ACTA
website

...the state of freedom of speech
and expression in North America
anno 2001...

(full report)



 XII.3.2001

Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge

featured onthe Sierra Club
website

"...the last place in North America where the
full spectrum of arctic life is protected in
one seamless expanse."

(full report)



XI.26.2001

India, Pakistan
and the Bomb

A timely feature article from the
December issue of
Scientific American

"The Indian subcontinent is the most likely
place in the world for a nuclear war"

(full report)



XI.19.2001

A Just Cause,
Not a Just War

An essay by Howard Zinn
featured in the new issue of
The Progressive magazine

"We might examine the idea of pacifism
in the light of what is going on right now."

(full report)



XI.12.2001

Great Lakes
Radio Consortium

A special report: EPA WAVERS
OVER ONLINE INFORMATION
Producer: Lester Graham

"Some federal agencies
and laboratories have restricted access to
information. The government fears terrorists
could use some information to plan attacks
against the U.S. Following the terrorist attacks
on September 11th, the federal government
has been re-thinking its website policies."

(full report)



XI.5.2001

Code Red: Worm
Assault on the Web

A recent feature in
Scientific American,
by Carolyn Meinel

"On July 19, 2001, the Code Red
worm infected hundreds of thousands
of computers in less than 14 hours,
overloading the Net's capacity."

(full report)



X.28.2001

Thoughts in the
Presence of Fear
by Wendell Berry

"The time will soon come when we will not be
able to remember the horrors of September 11
without remembering also the unquestioning
technological and economic optimism that
ended on that day."

(full report)


X.15.2001

A New Marshall Plan?

By Dick Bell and Michael Renner
of The Worldwatch Institute

"...weapons alone cannot buy us a lasting
peace in a world of extreme inequality,
injustice, and deprivation for billions of
our fellow human beings."

(full report)


X.8.2001

Metaphor and War

An excerpt from a seminal essay
by the linguist, George Lakoff

"The use of a metaphor with a set of
definitions becomes pernicious when
it hides realities in a harmful way."

(full report)



X.1.2001

KRISHNAMURTI
ON WAR

An excerpt from the text of
The First and Last Freedom

"As long as each one of us is seeking
psychological security, the physiological
security we need—food, clothing and shelter
—is destroyed."

(full report)



IX.24.2001

JUSTICE NOT WAR

The Hague Appeal for Peace urges the US
administration to use the greatest possible
restraint

"It is dangerous to call terrorism by non state
actors, no matter how horrendous, an act
of war that triggers a war like reaction,"

(full report)



VIII.13.2001

Virtually There

A recent article by Jaron Lanier
published in Scientific American

"Three-dimensional tele-immersion may
eventually bring the world to your desk"

(full report)



VII.29.2001

Star Wars is Back

A report by Gar Smith
Earth Island Journal

"The Bush-Cheney team has made it clear
that they consider the National Missile
Defense (NMD) "an essential part of our
strategic system."

(full report)



VII.16.2001

The G8 Genoa summit—
time for a New Deal
on Debt

Information on the upcoming
summit in Italy

"Welcome to the Drop the Debt
in Genoa webpage!
...check this page for the latest
news, stories, pictures and analysis
from Genoa and around the world."

(full report)



VII.9.2001

50th Anniversary
First Commercial
Computer

Three new interesting Computer
History reports from wired.com

"Little did Unisys know how much fear
and loathing the Universal Automatic
Computer would generate half a century
later."

(full report)



VI.11.2001

The Semantic
Web

An Internet report from
sciam.com, the website of
Scientific American

"By augmenting Web pages with data
targeted at computers and by adding
documents solely for computers, we will
transform the Web into the Semantic Web. "

(full report)



V.21.2001

LIFESAVERS FOR
PRESIDENT BUSH

An announcement from
the Friends of the Earth

"Friends of the Earth Netherlands
calls on US to stick to its climate
promises"

(full report)



IV.16.2001

Earth Day 2001:
Saturday, April 22

An announcement from
the Earth Day Net

"Earth Day, which occurs annually on
April 22, involves tens of thousands of
events, from rallies and teach-outs to
concerts and earth fairs. You'll find
them everywhere..."

(full report)



IV.2.2001

Cuba Not So
Libre
With the Net

A news report from
wired.com

"Internet and e-mail access in Cuba
is as jealously guarded as Fidel Castro's
chokehold on power. But that hasn't
stopped enterprising Cubans from finding
ways to flout government restrictions."

(full report)



III.26.2001

PBS airs trade
secrets of chemical
industry

A news report from ENN,
the Environmental News
Network

"On March 26 PBS will air "Trade Secrets,"
a report on the chemical industry produced
by the Peabody Award-winning duo of
Bill Moyers and Sherry Jones."

(full report)



III.12.2001

While no one
was looking

A new report from the March/April
issue of the Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists

"...how the United States should renew
its supply of tritium, the radioactive
isotope [...] needed to turn an A-bomb
into an H-bomb."

(full report)



II.26.2001

The Quiet Campaign
for Genetically
Engineered Humans

A new report from the
Spring 2001 Journal of the 
Earth Island Institute

"There is little public awareness of the
full implications of the new human
genetic engineering (HGE) technologies
or of the campaign to promote them."

(full report)



II.12.2001

COMMENTARY: THE
DISPOSAL
OF PUBLIC OPINION

A new report from the
Great Lakes Radio
Consortium

"The production of toxic waste
has been an unwanted by-product
of the Industrial Revolution"

(full report)


II.5.2001

Population and the
Environment: The
Global Challenge

An important new report from
the Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health

"As we humans exploit nature to
meet present needs, are we
destroying resources needed
for the future?"

(full report)


I.29.2001

Global Environment
Reaches Dangerous
Crossroads

The yearly report from the
World Watch Institute,
online at worldwatch.org

"Global environmental trends have
reached a dangerous crossroads
as the new century begins, according
to State of the World 2001..."

(full report)


I.22.2001

INTERNET_ANONYMITY
Speech without Accountability

A CyberView report from
sciam.com, the website of
Scientific American

"New software makes it nearly
impossible to remove illegal
material from the Web--or to
find out who put it there."

(full report)


I.15.2001

"US/EU clash over
environment"

A report from ENN, the
Environmental News Network

"...a clarion call to save the environment,
including a threat to extend the
controversial "precautionary
principle" to the chemical industry..."

(full report)


I.8.2001

"Echoes of
Vietnam"

By Rachel's Environment and
Health News 

"...Glyphosate, they said, kills more
than drug crops -- it also kills food 5df
crops that many rural Colombians
depend on for survival."

(full report)


I.1.2001

Oldest lunar
calendar identified

By BBC News Online

"What could be the oldest lunar
calendar ever created has been
identified on the walls of the famous,
prehistoric caves at Lascaux in France."