File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2001/postcolonial.0109, message 237


Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:55:14 -0400
From: Mark LeVine <mark.levine-AT-iue.it>
Subject: hard data on evil...


now that we're about to rid the world of evildoers, does anyone have any
suggestions of where one can quickly find accessible information, on the web
(preferred) or in print, that can be used for interviews, writing editorials,
referring friends and relatives to, on issues such as:

1. US arms sales to the ME by country during the last five decades,
2. poverty rates and other measures of development for the region, and how it
relates to imf/wb aid
3. our history of using 'unsavory characters' which congress is now suggesting
the CIA should 'return' to using (what's bin laden, then?)
4. number of people killed and made refugees in wars in the middle east
5. numbers of civilians killed by the us military or its allies in the region,
and in other conflicts as well--panama, cambodia/vietnam, etc.
6. US foreign-assistance to countries in the region and how it breaks
down--military, 'civilian', etc.

i think it's is crucial that we arm ourselves with the facts before our
government finishes arming itself for our new war...

mark

--
Mark LeVine, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of History
University of California, Irvine

Contact information, Summer-Fall 2001:

32-22 204th Street
Bayside, NY 11361, USA
718 423 7357
718 423 2229 - fax
<mark.levine-AT-iue.it>






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