(in no particular order….)
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies
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The Council on Foreign Relations has lots
of material on Iraq, and a Middle East page;
they also have a page of Iraq-related
links.
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The United States Institute of Peace has a variety
of publications, check their
various categories.
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The Federation of American Scientists
keeps many documents and reports on their hot documents page.
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The MidEastWeb includes a lot of Middle East media, has
a page on the Iraq Crisis,
lots of useful background information.
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The Foundation for Middle East Peace has many
documents, maps, links to all sorts of organizations about Israel, Palestine,
and neighbors. They support a
two-state situation.
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Our own United for Peace of Pierce County has many
peace-related topics.
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The National Security Advisors blog is written
by some people who are very good on the topic.
·
The Strategic Studies
Institute, at the US Army War College, publishes many interesting
studies.
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The Washington Center for
Middle East Policy has a reputation as a solid, bipartisan analysis.
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The SITE
institute used to translate many non-English web pages used by violent groups. Read
about it in the New Yorker.
Since then some of its people created the SITE Intelligence
Group, similar focus.
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The Middle East
Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, is a
translator of Middle East websites.
See also the MEMRI
blog. A ongoing public debate
over their particular slant produces criticism (very pro-Israel) and praise
(lots of coverage, and their founder worked for both Labor and Likud
governments). They also have a project to monitor
more violent Islamist Websites.
They do focus on the nastiest sources, a point of frequent
criticism. Know it going in.
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The US Military
Academy at West Point has a Combating
Terrorism Center.
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Global Security pays attention to
WMD, homeland security, military issues
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Brookings has pages on Iraq, on Afghanistan,
and on Pakistan. They keep a good deal of data in the
form of the
Iraq Index, a collection of indicators about the situation in Iraq.
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The Carnegie Endowment has a page on Middle
East issues. They did a report on
postwar policy, oh so many years ago.
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DEBKA is an
Israeli organization that keeps track of military and intelligence stories in
the region. It has been the
subject of some controversy, running several stories before the war that
contained false information about WMD.
But on that ground one would avoid the NYT, too. The site contains military details that
few other sources describe, and many critics repeat assertions that Mossad officials are regular contributors.
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Stratfor offers
some of its products to the general public.
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If you are
interested in Defense Spending, see the Center for Strategic and
Budgetary Assessments.
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The journalist Robert Fisk,
who writes for the Independent.
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The Human Rights First group keeps a
page on court
documents on the cases of Jose Padilla.
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The Center for Defense
Information has a page on Iraq, although not maintained for years.
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The Foundation for Defense of Democracies
is a conservative group that is interested in terrorism issues.
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The Center for Security Policy
is another conservative group that is interested in terrorism issues. They are the guys that gave Dick Cheney
the “keeper of the flame” award and call him “our Churchill.” Cheney in the same category as the Guy
Who Saved Civilization?
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The organization Reprieve represents, among others,
prisoners held at Guantanamo.
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The Cato Institute has a
page on Middle East affairs
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The Project for a New American Century
advocated regime change in Iraq a decade ago.
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The Rocky
Mountain Peace and Justice Center has a page
of international links, chiefly about goings on in Iraq, Iran, and Israel
& Palestine.