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Month: December 2001 (page 9 of 18)

Here’s an amazing time-lapse photo of an attack by an AC-130 aircraft.

The Web Standards Project is going on hiatus.

The New York Times has an interesting article on studies of the causes of hate crime and terrorism that lead to different conclusions than one might think.

CNN transcript of the Osama bin Laden video.

The loathesome Dick Armey is retiring at the end of his current term, unfortunately leaving the loathesome Tom DeLay to pick up where he left off as House majority leader. Hopefully after next year’s elections, DeLay will be the House minority leader. The best article I’ve seen recapping Armey’s career and the events that led to his retirement is Jake Tapper’s at Salon. Unfortunately, it’s Premium only.

As expected, the US has pulled out of the 1972 ABM treaty, with nothing to replace it. Whether China and Russia are going to buy into our argument that it’s not designed to be used against them, but rather against “rogue states” and terrorists remains to be seen.

Gregg Easterbrook has an interesting look at our military capabilities that refutes the conventional wisdom that our cold war military is outdated when it comes to the types of conflicts that we’re facing these days.

Settlers: Claiming the ‘Promised Land’ is a BBC article on Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Despite the fact that the settlements contravene international law, the Israeli government subsidizes on home purchases in settlements. I don’t condone violence toward Israelis by Palestinian militants, but I don’t condone people moving into captured land that will put them in direct conflict with the people who reside there, either. One act is no less belligerent than the other.

How is it that I always find out about things too late? There was a massive international piracy ring and I didn’t find out about them until they got busted. It looks like they had a website at drinkordie.com, so they probably weren’t too covert.

Kofi Annan’s Nobel lecture is an amazing piece of oratory. He lays out a vision for the future that anyone should be able to get behind. The speech is full of wonderful passages, but this one was the most powerful:

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blockquote> A genocide begins with the killing of one man

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