Bookmarked: Arar Commission.

Bookmarked: Center for Media and Democracy and STATS.org.

Honesty, Scientific Integrity, and Damning Statistics . . .

STATS.org has an excellent critical analysis of the recent Lancent study that found the statistical mean number of excess post-invasion deaths in Iraq to be around 650,000. The methods used in the study are standard--used routinely and with accuracy by organazations ranging from the U.S. Center for Disease Control, Unicef and the United Nations, and countless government organizations and NGOs throughout the world--and they are pretty solid. (One interesting point that the STATS.org piece doesn't mention is the fact that locales in Iraq which were subjected to heavy or large scale military actions--like Faluja--were purposely excluded in the surveying procedures used in gathering field-data for the Lancet study; had information from such locations been fed into the statistical analysis, the numbers would have simply gone through the roof, as I understand, and what this indicates to me at least is that it is possible that even the highest number of deaths indicated within the study's range is less than the number of excess deaths which have in fact occurred.)

"The Science of Counting the Dead" by Rebecca Goldin, Ph.D.

Bookmarked: "Progressive U is an interesting website which bills itself as "The new media voice for students."

English

"Noble Prize for controversial liberal writer" by Alkan Chaglar in English at the Turkish-language toplumpostasi.net.

"'My Name is Rachel Corrie' Opens in New York" at Democracy Now!

"New Report Finds Election Problems Still Unresolved" by Tyler Lewis at civilrights.org.

"Bush Betrays Democracy and Truth in Signing Military Commissions Act" by Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive.

"Duly troubled by a president and vice president who have launched wars without congressional declarations, who have spied without warrants, who have disregarded and disdained the Constitution, citizens across the country have put themselves to the task of preserving self-government by raising the call for impeachment. Dozens of communities have considered resolutions calling on Congress to act, and this fall's referendums will raise the volume." Thus John Nichols at The Nation on "Voting for Impeachment."