Reference Sources
Readers may have noticed that I am no longer including my references within the written body of Agitate. This should not raise concerns about the fact based standards of the commentary. My standards for evidence are just as high as they've ever been. However, I've decided to take a new direction for citing my sources. Including a citations page allows for more flexibility and greater access to information. Below you will find references for Agitate commentaries starting from March 2009 as well as blogs, and other statements that appear on the Journal of a Mad Sociologist. Where possible, links are included to allow the reader easy access to the information provided.
When possible, the theoretical perspective that informs the claims made in the Journal will be included.
On the website features, such as the Mad Sociologist Blog, I will include links in the body of the work. If I do so, then I will not double my labor by including them here.
What Nobel Peace Prize? (Agitate December 2009)
Obama Approves Afghanistan Troop Increase CNN 2/18/09Obama: Nobel Peace Prize is a Call to Action CNN 10/9/09
Obama's Afghanistan Decisions Huffington Post 11/24/09
The Secret US War in Pakistan The Nation 12/07/09
Obama Backs Bush on Bagram Detainees Huffington Post 2/20/09
A Nation Challenged: The Afghans The New York Times10/3/01
The Hamburg Connection BBC News 8/19/05
Afghanistan Election Fraud and the High Price of Empire The Nation 9/10/2009
Brother of Afghan Leader Said to be Paid by CIA New York Times 10/28/2009
How the US Funds the Taliban The Nation 11/11/2009
Assessment of Government Corruption in Afghanistan PDF
President Obama's Acceptance Speech to the Nobel Committee 12/10/09
For the famous chart of US Military operations since World War II See Gore Vidal's Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
The Right to Health Care: (Agitate October 2009)
The Right to Health CareDeaths Attributed to Lack of Health Care
The Right to Health Care...Now
Dalrymple: "Is There a Right to Health Care?" The Wall Street Journal
A Larger Fishbowl!: (Agitate May 2009)
OpenSecrets.org
DARPA website
Surveillance and Society
A Classic Sociological Question: Are Human Beings Naturally Warlike (Mad Sociologist Blog, July 15, 2009)
Environmental Apostasy: (April 2009 Agitate)
michaelcrichton.comMichael Crichton on YouTube
The Truth About the Destructive Religion of Environmentalism
Forum on Religion and Ecology
Environmentalist Evangelicals
Evangelical Environmental Network
Old Testament Ecology
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life
The Alliance of Religions and Conservation
Anti-global Warming Surge on the Way
Real Climate
Graphs on Global Warming
Industry Ignored its Scientists on Climate
Some Like it Hot: Mother Jones
Junkscience.com
Heritage Foundation: Blurb for Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming
Whistleblower Magazine: Hysteria
Environmentalists Pick Up Where Communism Left Off
Ludwig von Mises Institute: Environmentalism is Recycled Communism and Nazism
Christopher Horner on the Daily Show
Gallup: Increased Number Think Global Warming is Exaggerated
Framing an Activist Judge: (Mad Sociologist Blog June 7, 2009)
Legalzoom.comRachel Maddow Show May 28, 2009
Reflecting on Torture: But Nothing More (March 2009 Agitate)
Obama's Tortured Turn
The Torture Memos: Obama and the Banality of Evil
The Rachel Maddow Show: The Truth About Torture (Search under torture: Maddow is one of the few mainstream, liberal commentators who is addressing this issue head on)
New York Times: Obama Moves to Bar Release of Detainee Abuse Photos
Politico.com: Obama: Memo Release a Weighty Decision
Washington Post: Waterboarding Historically Controversial
The Rachel Maddow Show: Use the link above and enter search for Jay Bybee
John Yoo Berkeley Home Page
Torture Memos
US Code 113c
Chomsky: American Amnesia
William Domhoff: Who Rules America
Tortured Logic: Agitate March 2008
Ron Suskind
ACLU factsheet on Extraordinary Rendition
Theoretical Perspectives:
C. Wright Mills William Domhoff