Archive: War on Terror The Social Wars (courtesy Le Monde Diplomatique) From the archive (2002): Ramonet in Le Monde Diplomatique — the era’s real wars were social, not civilisational; the framing that predicted more, preserved.
Identity: Community Islam attracts Rwanda survivors (courtesy MSNBC) RUHENGERI, Rwanda, Sept. 23 – The villagers with their forest green head wraps and forest green Korans arrived at the mosque on a rainy Sunday afternoon for a lecture for new converts. There was one main topic: jihad. THEY FOUND their seats and flipped to the right page. Hands flew in
Self-Reliance: Economics Foreign Investors Turning Cautious on Spending in U.S. From the archive (2002): foreign capital cooling on the US — capital flows as sentiment with a settlement date, and the case for foundations that don’t depend on them.
Archive: Geopolitics S. Africa Buries Remains of 'Sarah' From the archive (2002): Sarah Baartman buried at last — dignity restored through decades of institutional persistence.
Institutions: International Order U.S. Ties Military Aid to Peacekeepers' Immunity From the archive (2002): aid conditioned on ICC immunity — a precise record of how international institutions are weakened by leverage, not argument.
Self-Reliance: Technology MS Windows, the FBI and Open Source A 2002 QeRN piece on the FBI's 'Magic Lantern', Windows backdoors and open source — an early version of what is now the AI-sovereignty argument.
Archive: Palestine Israeli Army Chief to Punish Conscientious Objectors From the archive (2002): Israeli reservists refusing service and the army’s response — conscience exercised inside an institution, preserved as part of the record.
Self-Reliance: Economics Picket Outside The Waldorf , Barbara Garson The WEF (World Economic Forum is meeting at the Waldorf in New York from Jan 31 to Feb 5. Barbara Garson adds some perspective on why some decisions made there will force other people to drink unhealthy water. I own shares in a few companies that are members of the
Institutions: Governance Hampshire College Condemns War From the archive (2002): Hampshire College’s all-community vote against the war — a small institution using its proper forms to speak, a case study in institutional voice.
Institutions: Civil Society Federal Bureau of Intimidation From the archive (2002): Zinn on the FBI — know your history, keep your records, mind your rights; institutional self-defence that transfers.
Archive: Afghanistan Did the US go to war for oil? Yes and No, Eric Margolis From the archive (2001): Eric Margolis on oil and the Afghan war — the questions independent columnists asked from the start, preserved as part of the record.
Archive: Iraq The Massacre at Qala-i-Jangi - Guardian UK From the archive (2001): the Guardian’s Qala-i-Jangi investigation — atrocity reporting as institutional capability, preserved since publication.
Archive: War on Terror U.S. COMMANDOS WOUNDED, REPORT SAYS From the archive (2001): casualties acknowledged weeks late — a small case study in wartime information management, and in reading official communication critically.
Archive: Afghanistan Usama bin Laden's statement on Nov. 3, 2001 From the archive (2001): a primary-source translation published so readers could judge the words themselves — archival practice before it was standard.
Archive: War on Terror Venezuela President Chavez against US attack and US Bullying From the archive (2001): Venezuela’s early non-aligned stance — endorsing the fight against terror while criticising its conduct, and what that position costs.
Archive: Iraq Can we allow the West to define Islam? From the archive (2001): who gets to define Islam? The question has sharpened — the definers now include AI systems, and the answer is institutional presence.
Theology: Comparative Religion Terrorism since 1492 From the archive (2001): a crowd-sourced ledger of state terror since 1492 — the urge to widen the lens, whose serious form is the discipline of history.
Archive: Afghanistan AlJazeera - US planes attack civilians and fleeing refugees From the archive (2001): translated AlJazeera reporting on air strikes and fleeing refugees — real-time documentation from a translation series this site ran during the Afghan war.
Archive: Afghanistan AlJazeera - UN confirms hospital casualties - 93 more casualties From the archive (2001): translated AlJazeera reporting on civilian casualties in Afghanistan — part of an early translation series documenting what larger outlets did not.
Archive: Pakistan AlJazeera: Pakistan keeps borders closed to thousands From the archive (2001): a translated AlJazeera dispatch on Afghan refugees at the Pakistani border — early citizen translation filling a reporting gap, years before social media.
Archive: Afghanistan A vacation in Afghanistan ....! From the archive (2001): a mock travel brochure for wartime Kabul — dark satire as the processing of the unprocessable, preserved as an artefact.
