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George Lakoff, "Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Gulf." Open Letter from George Lakoff to the Internet, reprinted parts I and II.
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Scholarly/Lakoff_Gulf_Metaphor_1.html

Judith Rodin,. "Civilize Public Dialogue and Shape a Better World." Christian Science Monitor. July 30, 1998.
http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/getasciiarchive?script/98/07/30/073098.opin.opin.2

Edward Said, "Collective Passion." Al-Ahram Weekly. Sept. 20-26.
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/552/op2.htm NOTE: Al-Ahram Archives are down--evidently being worked on--so we can't access this reading right now (Monday morning). Check back later!

"Are There Alternative Media?" AlterNet Discussion--click on the question at the left.
http://forums.alternet.org/guest/motet?show+-uda0vI+MediaCulture+7+1

Julian Dibbell's other writings about the on line life of a writer: http://www.levity.com/julian/personal/

Susan Sontag,. "Talk of the town." New Yorker. September 24, 2001. (Scroll down for the Sontag piece.)
http://www.newyorker.com/THE_TALK_OF_THE_TOWN/CONTENT/?010924ta_talk_wtc

David Talbot, "Interview with Susan Sontag." Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/10/16/susans/index_np.html

Barbara Ehrenreich, "Christian Wahhabists." The Progressive
www.progressive.org/0901/ehr0102.html

Responses to Ehrenreich's article: www.progressive.org/talkback/talk1201.html
Peter Newton's response: www.progressive.org/talkback/talk1215c.html

Russell Schoch, "A Conversation with Beshara Doumani." California Monthly Feb. 2001.
http://www.alumni.berkeley.edu/Alumni/Cal_Monthly/February_2001/Q_and_A_with_Beshara_Doumani.asp

John Miller, "May 1998 Interview with Osama Bin Laden."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/

Reuel Marc Gerecht, Interview. The Atlantic Monthly. December 28, 2001.
www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2001-12-28.htm

State Departments' Background Information on Terrorist Groups
http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/1999report/appb.html

Rebecca Mead, "A Women's Prerogative," New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/THE_TALK_OF_THE_TOWN/CONTENT/?020107ta_talk_mead

Salon.com's Afghanistan articles.
http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/afghanistan/index.html

Tamim Ansary, "bomb Afghanistan to Stone Age? It's Been Done" Salon.com, Sept. 9, 2001.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/14/afghanistan/index.html

The Middle East Research and Information Project
http://www.merip.org/miscellaneous/globe.html