REL 223 Links                                                             rev. 3/10/09

 

A link to an MLA-style paper showing  parenthetical documentation: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/pdf/mla.pdf

MLA referencing and other handouts from the University of North Carolina -- quite good, but detailed!

            http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/index.html

MLA style for academic papers, from Purdue U.:

            http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html#formatemplates

            See esp.links “Sample Paper: MLA Style” and “MLA Parenthetical Documentation.”

 

“Education within the Benedictine Wisdom Tradition” (by Association of Benedictine Colleges and Universities):

http://abcu.nonprofitoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={94EFD1ED-B758-49CE-A3EA-1688AFFC9AC7}&DE={47641124-0236-45D2-9FD4-2B0617CC3C1A}  

 

Dictionary:  http://www.m-w.com/

A Protestant review of the New American Bible: http://www.bibletexts.com/reviews/bibles/nab.htm

 

Current cultural situation: “economism” and a “culture of death.””

            John Paul II’s encyclicals are available here:

                        http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/index.htm

                        “Economism and materialism” are discussed by John Paul II in his encyclical

                                    Laborem exercens (1981); see n. 13 (i.e., section 13).

                                    “The priority of labor” is discussed in n. 12. Abraham Lincoln earlier

                                    said much the same thing in his 1859 Address to the Wisconsin State

                                    Agricultural Society: “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.”

                                    That speech is available here:

                                                http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/fair.htm

                        “Culture of death” (vs. the gospel of life) is discussed in Evangelium vitae (1995),

                                    n. 21.

 

Benedict XVI (via the CDF – the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith -- before Vatican II [1962-1965] “The Holy Office of the Inquisition”) on the Catholic Church as the true church:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070629_responsa-quaestiones_en.html

 

Roger Williams and freedom of conscience: http://www.auok.org/roger_williams_&_bay_colony.htm

 

Alternative news and views:

            National Public Radio: http://www.npr.org

            From the political right, the Cato Institute: http://www.cato.org

                        Use “search” to find material on Iraq.

            From the political left, Truthout: http://www.truthout.org

 

 

Current News

            NBC: http://www.nightly.msnbc.com

            Brian Williams’ blog: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8045532/

 

Current political affairs: the November 2008 election.

            John McCain: http://www.johnmccain.com

            Barack Obama: http://www.barackobama.com/index.php

 

For information on conservative political positions, good sources on campus are: prof. Marco Rimanelli, Prof. Hudson Reynolds, and Fr. Anthony Kissel, and a student, Jonathan Till.

 

 

The New Catholic Encyclopedia:

     Directions from the Library: Online Library Resources>>eBooks and eReference Resources>>Gale Virtual Reference Library. When you get to the Gale interface you’ll see it’s set to the advanced search option.  In the middle of the screen you can choose “To Subject Area”.  You’ll want “Religion” to get to the New Catholic Encyclopedia.

 

Harvard Pluralism Project.  A big site; lots of info here: http://www.pluralism.org

 

Western Gallery of Art; good pix: http://www.wga.hu/

History of Art Resources on the Web: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks3.html

Cave art: http://www.hominids.com/donsmaps/cavepaintings3.html

World religion images: http://www.worldreligions.co.uk/islam.html

 

General:

Look up any Bible passages: http://www.biblegateway.com/

Religion: http://www.beliefnet.com

Encyclopedia of Religion and Society: http://www.hartfordinstitute.org/ency/

A general site. Uneven but some useful information: http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

 

National Museum of the American Indian (opened 9/21/04): http://www.nmai.si.edu/

Indians.org: http://www.indians.org

General links: http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/tribes.html

Crazy Horse: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/crazyhorse.htm

Native American Art: http://www.native-languages.org/art.htm

Ojibway (“Chippewa”):

            Basic facts: http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/chippewa_kids.htm

            Ojibwe links: http://www.nativetech.org/shinob/

            Dakota Ojibway: http://www.dotc.mb.ca/

            A Minnesota band: http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/mn/millelac.htm

Mayans

         Did the Mayans know the Apocalypse was coming in 2012?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01worldt.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=8ca521c6f6716ba0&ex=1183953600&emc=eta1#

Mississippian culture at Cahokia, IL. (abandoned between 1250 and 1400).

            Largest structure in North America before 20th c. Human sacrifice and mass burials:

                        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

            Virtual Tour: http://www.cahokiamounds.com/virtual_tour.html

 

Santeria: http://sparta.rice.edu/~maryc/Santeria

 

Ancient Cultures – Near East, Egypt, etc.: http://eawc.evansville.edu/nepage.htm

 

Mesopotamia (mostly Iraq)

By the British Museum, interactive, superior site: http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk

Epic of Gilgamesh: The earliest written epic account of the rise of civilization (before 2000 BCE) is Sumerian, The Epic

of Gilgamesh. Here a woman, a temple prostitute, is a critical civilizing force. A summary from SparkNotes (Tablet I [drop-down window] tells of Enkidu and the woman):

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gilgamesh/context.html

Enuma elish, earliest written creation myth Babylonian (Sumerian ancestry):

            http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/stc/index.htm

Biblical “Nineveh” was in Iraq too – across the river from Mosul! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineveh

 

Religion and science (relevant for Genesis, etc.):

            John Paul II on evolution (1996): http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_jp02tc.htm

            11/7/05 story, Cardinal Paul Poupard: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174489,00.html

Astronomy

            Ancient people charted the moon’s phases: http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonphase/

 

Jewish Virtual Library. Much good material here, both on ancient Israel and the modern State of Israel:

             http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/index.html  

            Ark of the Covenant: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/ark.html

Judaism 101 (by a woman and Conservative Jew): http://www.jewfaq.org/index.htm

Bris; Brith; Brit; Bris Milah [= “covenant to cut”] circumcision ceremony:

 http://www.torahview.com/bris/html/the_bris.html

Pidyon Ha’ben (Redemption of the Son; Numbers 18:15-16; [Exodus 13;13]):

            Wiki:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidyon_HaBen

            Judaism 101: http://www.jewfaq.org/birth.htm

High Holy Days: http://www.holidays.net/highholydays/

Elie Wiesel: http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/

            Bio: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wie0bio-1

A site defending FDR against the claim that he did not take Jewish suffering seriously enough:

            http://newdeal.feri.org/feri/wvh.htm

Fritz Stern’s speech on receiving the Leo Baeck Medal 2004: German intellectuals were against liberalism and

            tolerance. Hitler’s first radio address after becoming chancellor talked up Christianity and family values!:

            http://www.lbi.org/fritzstern.html

Vatican formed a Concordat with the Nazi gov’t in 1933: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichskonkordat

Simon Wiesenthal hunted Nazis and brought them to trial:

            http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=242023

Jews forgiving Nazis?

            http://www.remember.org/imagine/limits/w_cooley.htm

            http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/repentence.html

 

Mysticism

Merkavah Mysticism

            An early form may have been practiced by some Jewish mystics at the time of Jesus:

            http://www.geocities.com/alex_sumner/merkavah.htm

 

Contemporary Kabbalah

            Jewish mysticism, adapted for Hollywood types, like Madonna, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher:

                        Good encyclopedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah_Centre

                        http://www.kabbalah.com/kabbalah/

                        http://www.kabbalah.com/k/index.php/p=about/masters/michael

            Story in the Jewish Post: http://www.jewishpost.com/jp1003/jpn1003l.htm

Reconstructionist Judaism (in addition to Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative Judaism):

            http://www.jrf.org/

Charles Arnade, who has taught here, as child met Hitler: http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/arnade.htm

The Israeli lobby’s influence in US politics. John Mearsheimer is at U. of Chicago and Stephen Walt is at

            Harvard: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html

Yeshayahu  Ben Aharon, a prophetic Israeli with a spiritually-inspired vision for Israel:

            http://www.civilsociety.co.il/eng/Yediot%20A'haronot%20interview.pdf

Christian Zionism

                John Hagee interviewed on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6097362

                BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5193092.stm

                Hagee’s San Antonio Cornerstone Church: http://www.sacornerstone.com

 

Iran/Persia

            Persian Empire: http://web.utk.edu/~persian/benevolent.htm

            A general site by students and others at UT Knoxville: http://web.utk.edu/~persian/default.htm

            President Ahmadinejad’s Letter to Bush, May 2006:

                        http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050900878.html

Zoroastrianism

            Note Mary Boyce’s quotes here (also a site for the scriptures, the Avesta):.

                        http://www.avesta.org/avesta.html

            What is Zoroastrianism? Same site: http://www.avesta.org/zfaq.html

            Zoroastrian site: http://www.zoroaster.net/indexe.htm

 

Marcus Borg: http://www.united.edu/portrait/borg.shtml 

 

John Dominic Crossan on Jesus, Paul, peace and imperialism:

            http://www.beliefnet.com/story/158/story_15820.html

            Interview with Crossan: violence was an important problem then and now (not easy):

                        http://www.philosophyandscripture.org/Issue2-1/JD_Crossan/jd_crossan.html

 

How the text of the New Testament was formed:

            Here’s a YouTube video of Bart Ehrman’s lecture at Stanford. In the first video (there are others, in ten minute segments), he is introduced and doesn’t start talking until about minute 4:11 of 10:00. The second video picks up right away with the lecture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cK3Ry_icJo

 

Kissing in early Xty: http://www.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/quarterly/spr06/kissing.pdf 

 

Archaeology

Early churches, before Constantine (4th c), 9-10/2007:

            http://www.archaeology.org/0709/abstracts/churches.html

Paul’s tomb? (12/06) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061211-saint-paul.html

Jewish and Xian catacombs together? (7/05)

            http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0720_050720_christianity.html

 

Destruction of the Library at Alexandria (ca. 391 C.E.), during Augustine’s day:

            http://www.answers.com/topic/library-of-alexandria

 

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America:  http://www.goarch.org/

 

Messianic Jews – Jews who believe Jesus is the Messiah: http://www.therefinersfire.org/index.htm

 

Religion and Science

            Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. (evolution):

                        http://www.teilharddechardin.org

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin 

            John Paul II on evolution (1996): http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_jp02tc.htm

            11/7/05 story, Cardinal Paul Poupard: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174489,00.html

            Werner Heisenberg (discovered “Indeterminacy Principle”) on “Science and Religion”:

                        http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/heisenberg07/heisenberg07_index.html

 

Christianity and politics:

            Vatican II (1965) encouraged an ecumenical attitude toward Jews.  A large number of the Christian right do not share this attitude.

Some of the white evangelical support (they voted in large numbers for Bush and McCain) for the State of Israel has to do with beliefs about the

 Anti-Christ returning to Jerusalem and the consequent need for Jews to be there. McCain sought the support of Rev.John Hagee. Here’s a video giving

some of John Hagee’s remarks about Jews. Hagee’s comments come shortly after the 10-minute mark of this video:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7706179979766534830

 

            Christian Coalition: http://www.cc.org/

                        Pat Roberston says (8/22/05) kill Chavez of Venezuela!

                                       http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1061711

            US soldier beaten at Guantanamo:                                             http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=1891343&nav=EQlpNN9R

            Sojourners magazine: http://www.sojo.net/

                        Jim Wallis’ article on Bush’s “theology of empire”:

                        http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0309&article=030910

            New American Empire: http://www.newamericanempire.org/statement/

              -- a serious spoof of: http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

 

            Kevin Phillips, an adviser to Richard Nixon:

 on “Theocons and Theocrats”: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060501/phillips

on the Christian Right: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/01/AR2006040100004.html

            George W. Bush and religion: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/121/story_12112_1.html

            Christian Reconstructionism/Dominionist Theology and the White House:

                        http://www.theocracywatch.org/bush2.htm :

Sarah Morrow on Dominion theology and the Christian Right:

                        http://zena.secureforum.com/Znet/zmag/articles/feb95diamond.htm

            Presbyterian Church USA and divestment: http://www.pcusa.org/ga216/news/ga04121.htm

                        End the Occupation likes it: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=378

 

C.S. Lewis: http://www.scriptorum.org/l.html

 

Cistercian and Benedictine sites: http://www.mepkinabbey.org/surfing.htm

Abbey of the Genesee: http://www.geneseeabbey.org/index.html

Skellig Michael, Irish (6th-12th c):

            http://www.sacredsites.com/europe/ireland/skellig_michael.html

http://www.kerrypoet.utvinternet.com/monastic/kerry/skellig.html

 

Dominican Ashram in Wisconsin: http://www.op.org/ashram/default.htm

Contemplative Benedictines:

Brother David Steindl-Rast, OSB:  http://www.gratefulness.org/index.htm 

Brother David is associated with Sky Farm Hermitage. Bro. Francis and Sister Michaela

both had experience with Bede Griffiths in India: http://www.skyfarm.org/aboutus.htm

            New Camaldoli: http://www.contemplation.com/Hermitage

            Bro. David is a member of Mt. Saviour: http://www.msaviour.org

            Sisters near Boulder, CO: http://www.walburga.org

Osage Monastery, Oklahoma: http://www.laycontemplative.org/thesites/osage.htm

Carmelite

Nada Hermitage in Colorado: Nada Hermitage, Carmelite, in Colorado:

            http://www.spirituallifeinstitute.org/Nada.html

 

 

John of the Cross (1542-1592).

            Sketch of the Ascent of Mt. Carmel: http://www.icspublications.org/images/Drawings1.html

 

An ecumenical monastery, the Monastery of Bose in Northern Italy:

            http://www-1.monasterodibose.it/su-bose/bose-en.html

 

Meditation:

            Christian Meditation: http://www.wccm.org

            Centering Prayer: http://www.centeringprayer.com

Cloud of Unknowing (14th c. English): http://www.ccel.org/ccel/anonymous2/cloud.xiii.html

            Ecumenical site: http://www.contemplativemind.org/practices/tree.html

 

Catholic news: http://www.natcath.com/

Mary:   http://www.udayton.edu/mary/

Benedict XVI on the Catholic Church as the true church:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070629_responsa-quaestiones_en.html

 

Ecumenical community:

            Taize Community in France: http://www.taize.ch/temp/en

 

Emerging Church Movement

            Ikon Community, Belfast, Ireland: http://wiki.ikon.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Ikon:About

 

Mormons

            Official LDS site: http://www.lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg

            “Mormon Inquisition” and Elder Boyd Packer, 1993 article: http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no85.htm

Joseph Smith was a “money digger”: http://www.bibletopics.com/biblestudy/162-4.htm

            And used a “peep stone”: http://mormonstories.org/top10toughissues/peepstones.html

JS married the wives of other men: http://www.mormonismi.info/jamesdavid/menwives.htm

Lots of material here, esp. on “celestial marriage” (plural marriage):

            http://www.i4m.com/think/intro

            Plural marriage could be against the wife’s will; many women were unhappy with it:

                        http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/polygamy_sex.htm

God the Father had a wife, a Heavenly Mother, a goddess:

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess_%28Mormonism%29

God the Father perhaps had a plurality of wives. Only those with plural wives can become gods:

            http://www.irr.org/MIT/WDIST/wdist-polygamy.html

Polygamy.

            Polygamist site: http://www.4thefamily.us

            Is it easy? “ Big Love,” TV show: http://www.slate.com/id/2140312/#but

            Richard Neuhaus, a Catholic theologian, discusses Mormonism:

                        http://www.irr.org/mit/neuhaus.html

 

Islam.

The Qur’an

            Qur’an  Explorer. In English, with Arabic recitation/chant. 

                        At the top, select the Sura/Chapter that you want. (e.g, 19 Maryam, 2 The Heifer, etc.).

            Muslim site on Quran: http://quranicteachings.co.uk/index.htm

 

Interview with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf:

             http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/muslims/interviews/feisal.html

Islam Online. Lots of material. Has a section on Iraq. http://www.islam-online.net/English/index.shtml

            Was Islam spread by the sword?

            http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?cid=1158658493752&pagename=IslamOnline-English-AAbout_Islam/AskAboutIslamE/AskAboutIslamE

Site tries to correct misconceptions about Islam : Why Islam?

This is a conservative Muslim site dedicated to answering Xian objections:

            http://www.answering-christianity.com/que6.htm

Islamic Society of North America. Scholarly, comments on current situations: http://www.isna.net/

Another general link to texts; this particular one is to menstruation:

            http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/law/fiqhussunnah/fus1_05.html

About the Quran: http://www.quran.org.uk/ 

                           http://submission.org/quran/

Sufis

            Overview of various kinds of Sufis: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/Sufism.html

            The Sufi Order International was inspired by Muslim Sufis but is not itself Muslim:

                        http://www.sufiorder.org/

            Akbar (r. 1556-1605), a celebrated Moghul emperor, influenced by Sufis:

                        http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MUGHAL/AKBAR.HTM 

            PBS show on “Rumi Returning”: http://www.rumireturning.com

            Khidr initiates some Sufis: http://khidr.org/khidr.htm

 

Aljazeerah home page: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E4D19123-9DD3-11D1-B44E-006097071264.htm

            And: http://www.aljazeerah.info/Islam/Islam.htm

 

Muslims and Science: http://www.meforum.org/article/306

Slavery in Islam

            http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/Pages/islamandslavery.html

 

Catholic-Islamic issues.

            Pope Benedict XVI’s speech at the University of Regensberg 9/12/06:

                        http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=46474

 

American Muslims:

            Hamza Yusuf  (Mark Hanson, a convert): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza_Yusuf

            Laura Poyner, also a convert; blog name al Muhajabah (“Veiled One”); software company:

                        http://www.muhajabah.com/index.htm

 

Conservative American criticism of Islam:

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Spencer

Iraq:

            PBS site on the war: http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1010

            “The Marlboro Marine”: iconic photo, traumatized life:

                        http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/marlboromarine

            Archaeology:

                        Hatra, Iraq. Opening scene of the Exorcist was filmed here. Aramaic, Jesus' language, inscribed on

                                    some temples.http://www.atlastours.net/iraq/hatra.html

                        Good general site: http://www.ancientneareast.net/iraq.html

            Saddam Hussein and the famous Kurd leader, Saladin were from Tikrit located in

                        Iraq’s Salah ad Din province: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikrit

            Bush’s prisoner, the chief Iraqi scientist, Amer al-Saadi (he told the truth about WMD!).

                        http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/justify/2004/0505wmdright.htm

            Site on Iraq and the war: www.electroniciraq.net

Voices in the Wilderness – a Christian peacemaking team in Iraq: http://www.vitw.org/

            Christians in Iraq.

                        Iraqi Catholics (and others): http://www.byzantines.net/epiphany/chaldean.htm

                         http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1E5FAE56-8F8B-496E-86BB-136D2BBD0999.htm

            Fallujah and “Whiskey Pete” (white phosphorous gas; 27 min. video):

                        http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video/fallujah_ING.wmv

 

 

Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007):

            http://www.mohsinhamid.com/about.html

            He uses the metaphor of a “janissary.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary

The Alhambra in Granada: http://www.islamicart.com/main/architecture/sites1.html

Aga Khan: http://www.akdn.org/

The Sudan;

The “junjaweed”: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/sudan0504/

Moderate Islam

            Sudanese reformer and moderate Muslim, Mahmoud Mohamed Taha:

                        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Mohamed_Taha

            Reza Aslan, an American: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/aslan.html

  

Women:

Mary has importance in Islam:

            A Quranic verse pertaining to Mary is often in the mihrab or prayer niche in a mosque:

                        http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/foca/foca.html

Virgin Mary Mosque in Australia; http://australianetwork.com/focus/s2015868.htm

            The Meryama (Mary’s House) is in a Muslim state and is a pilgrimage site for both

Muslims and Christians:

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/ephesus-house-of-the-virgin.htm

            Article by a Muslim woman:

http://southernmuslimah.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/great-women-in-islam-maryam-mary-mother-of-jesus

Women in general in Islam:

Women in the Qur’an: http://www.amaana.org/womensd.htm

            Women in Islam: http://www.ezsoftech.com/akram/women.asp

            Mukhtaran Bibi (gang-raped and protested it; Glamour Magazine’s “Woman of the Year” 2005!):

                        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukhtaran_Bibi

            Women and veiling (Greeks and Romans did it too).

                        General article on veiling: http://www.suppressedhistories.net/articles/veil.html

            Veiling was common in ancient Greece after 900:

                        Short note on a book: http://www.ex.ac.uk/news/newsveil.shtml

                        Review of the book: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-06-09.html

Iran

            Islamic Republic News Agency: http://www.irna.ir/en

            President Mahmood Ahmadinejad’s May 9, 2006 Letter to Bush:

                        http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050900878.html

            CIA documents show US behind coup to overthrow elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh

                        in 1953: http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html

            This site opposes the current gov’t: http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_13102.shtml

Palestinians

If Americans Only Knew, an American site: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

June 2007, reflection on 40 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza since the 1967 war:

            http://www.merip.org/mero/mero060607.html

Harold Pinter (a Jew) and others on Israel’s 2006 attack on Lebanon: http://www.chomsky.info/letters/20060719.htm

Electronic Intifada:  http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml

End the Occupation: http://www.endtheoccupation.org/

Summary of Arab-Israeli conflict:

             http://www.merip.org/palestine-israel_primer/brit-mandate-pal-isr-prime.html

T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) – Arabs follow the lead of a Briton (but are betrayed by Britain):

            http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/lawrencete.htm

            Lawrence fact file: http://www.lawrenceofarabia.info/

A Muslim view of who outkills whom:

            http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/29464

 1956 Suez War: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/egypt2.htm

 

Ethics

Global Ethic: http://www.weltethos.org/dat-english/03-declaration.htm

War, Peace, Conscience.

JP II and Bush’s ambassador to the Vatican: http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=6906&eng=y

War Crimes?

Mark Twain’s war prayer:http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/warprayer.html

Daniel Elsberg, former Marine commandant and Pentagon official, released the Pentagon Papers (1971), showing

                        gov't deception about Vietnam. Elsberg’s son is a Catholic convert and the editor of Orbis Publications.

                         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg

Howard Zinn thinks that war is not a solution for terrorism:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09/02/war_is_not_a_solution_for_terrorism/  

War Powers Act (1973): http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/warpow.html

Torture, treatment of prisoners

Geneva Conventions (1949), note esp. parts c and d in Article 3:

            http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm

Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for Truth about 9/11: http://mujca.com/newbook.htm

Michael Scheuer on US foreign policy. He is a Catholic and was head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit:

            http://harpers.org/sb-seven-michael-scheuer-1156277744.html

Moral issues related to life and death:

            The Hastings Center specializes in bioethics and has links: http://www.thehastingscenter.org/default.asp

Vegetarianism:

            Jesus a vegetarian? http://www.slate.com/id/91229

            A Xian (evangelical?) vegetarian group: http://www.all-creatures.org/cva

            (Note: Jesus and his companions ate fish. And unlike the Torah, early Xians didn’t prohibit any specific foods

            for Gentile Xians. Rule of Benedict allows meat for the sick; prohibits meat of four-footed animals.)

GLBTQ issues --

(Note: the Vatican says homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 2357.)

A site for those with religious affiliations: http://www.lgbtran.org/index.htm

Christian Right group, Focus on the Family, is against homosexual living: “search” gay rights, etc. on this

            site; lots of info (“you don’t have to be homosexual,” etc.): http://www.family.org/

Quakers: http://www.afsc.org/pacificnw/glbtq.htm

GLBTQ Encyclopedia: http://www.glbtq.com/

New England youth site: http://outright.org/

Teen site -- by teens, for teens: http://www.sxetc.org/index.php?topic=GLBTQ

Soulforce v. So. Baptists: http://www.soulforce.org/sbc0603/response.shtml

Rainbow Alliance at St. Norbert College:http://www.snc.edu/rainbow/links.htm

 

John Roberts, 17th Chief Justice: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-usa-court-roberts.html

US politics:

The White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/

            Bush on National Security: http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html

The New American Empire: Administration thinkers like Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld,

            and Jeb Bush on June 1997 (way before W was elected) signed this Statement of Principles of

            the Project for a New American Century:

                        http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

Francis Fukuyama is another signer of PNAC’s Statement. He traces his interest in “self-esteem” and

            honor, recognition, etc. back to the part of the should Plato called thymos.

            FF and Wolfowitz were undergrads at Cornell and on the faculty at Johns Hopkins. Unlike Wolfie, FF was

            against the invasion of Iraq. Here’s his home page: http://www.sais-jhu.edu/faculty/fukuyama/

Grover Norquist is a strong Bush supporter. He wants to “starve the beast” of domestic spending (health care,

            social security, etc.) by cutting taxes. If we raise gov’t spending for wars while cutting taxes, eventually

            something will have to be cut from the budget – domestic spending! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist

Ronald Reagan: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/

Richard Nixon (a fave of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s)

            The archives (a big site): http://nixon.archives.gov/index.php

            The Nixon library: http://www.nixonfoundation.org/

Terrorism

General site: http://www.globalterroralert.com/

An American convert to Islam urges people to convert and to join al Qaida:

            http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/02/zawahiri.tape/

War Powers Act: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/warpow.html

War Crimes?

Here’s the Pentagon’s website: http://www.pentagon.mil/ . If you “search” for “full-spectrum global strike” or “global strike capability” a lot shows up. There’s also a site for photos, etc.

Fascism has to do with business and those focusing on the national interests using the military to further those interests.

The US has a history of fascist interest.

Fascism, Nazi-sympathizers:

German-American Bund: http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/text/x08/xm0805.html

Founder: Fritz Kuhn: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005684

America First Committee (Charles Lindbergh was a member):

            http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfirstC.htm

            Gerald L.K. Smith – called “the Minister of Hate” – wrote the introduction to “The International Jew”:

                        http://www.posse-comitatus.org/IntJew/Intro.htm

Some have objected to US policies.

Bob Marley: http://www.bobmarley.com/

Che Guevara: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8702/che.html

Salvador Allende, popularly elected Marxist president of Chile, assassinated with US support

            9/11/73: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm

            Auguste Pinochet is the monster who led the coup and replaced Allende.

Zapatistas.

            Subcomandante Marcos in Chiapas: http://www.zmag.org/chiapas1/

            Electronic sources from University of Texas:

                        http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/zapsincyber.html

Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela: http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1207

 

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