community weblog - [ Blogroll and Links ]

Aviation Databases/Links

Center for Cooperative Research, a committed collector with good timelines on key issues

International Crisis Group

John Robb's Blog, technology, security, intelligence, geopolitics

Kevins Sites blog, CNN front line war reporter

Live from Baghdad, Green Zone adventures

South Asia Intelligence Review, K.P.S. Gill, an Indian and South Asia view

Southern Poverty Law Center, hate groups

Switchboard, search for telephone & address

TranslatorsCafe Forums, scroll down to language specific areas

Gordon Housworth

Filter, Cynthia Webb, colation of technology news feeds

Mitretek, Toxicology and risk assessment, other areas

New Scientist

Resources for the Future, originally for the cost-benefit analysis issue

TechNews from ACM, wide-ranging

TechWorld (UK), infrastructure & networking

Technology Review (MIT)

Asia Business Intelligence, Richard Kuslan

Chicago Boyz, republican but not fanatical, note the intrade futures contracts for various political events on page right

East View Cartographic, former Soviet and other nations maps and charts, digital geospatial data, Russian satellite imagery (sub-meter), Ikonos and IRS imagery from Space Imaging, OrbView imagery from OrbImage and declassified historical US imagery. Fee based, but a good one-stop shop.

FRONTLINE, public affairs

On the Media, good analysis on the tools of reporting

Talking Points Memo, Joshua Micah Marshall

Washington Note, Steve Clemons

White House Briefing, Dan Froomkin, feed of White House-related items, president and staff, policy by implication

World Bank

YaleGlobal Online, from Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

ArabNews, first Saudi English-language daily newspaper, launched in 1975 by Saudi Research & Publishing Co. (SRPC)

Asia Times, generally excellent and quite useful that escapes the myopia of US highstreet press

China Digital News, sited at Berkeley CA

CitizenLab  Version 4.0, intersection of digital media and world civic politics

MOSNEWS, partner project of The Moscow News and Gazeta.RU

NewsDirectory, global newspapers & magazines, US TV stations

Project Syndicate, global association of newspapers, interesting monthy series in a variety of subjects

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

TIDES World Press Reports, DARPA, news, translations, videos

Transitions Online, coverage of 28 post-communist countries

Washington Technology, government IT systems integrators, News, Archives

Worldpress, news/views around the world, sections for Africa Americas Asia Europe Middle East

CodeBlueBlog, medical blog

RangelMD.com, medical blog

China Law Blog

Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS)

Financial Cryptography

FindLaw, generic; FindLaw Special Coverage, topical issues

International Journal of Digital Evidence (IJDE), Current issue, Archives, theory, research, policy, and practice of digital evidence

National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)

Reddy's Forensic Page, Reddy Chamakura, forensic scientist with Police Laboratory, NYPD

Zeno's Forensic Site, forensic evidence (Zeno Geradts, forensic scientist at Netherlands Forensic Institute of the Ministry of Justice)

Gordon Housworth

Black Hat archives, hackers, crackers

Crypto-Gram Newsletter, Bruce Schneier

George Ou, network and server architecture and security

Infosyssec, portal for information security (useful but tries to tie you to the portal)

Internet Storm Center - SANS

Ipsec trace tools

Sam Spade, trace tools

SecurityFocus

Gordon Housworth

BoingBoing, gadgets

Engadget, gadgets

GIZMODO, gadgets

Gordon Housworth

Alexander's Gas & Oil

Energy Bulletin, energy and peak oil news

Gordon Housworth

Applied Sciences and Analytics [Click on newsletter archive], NBC defense, disarmament and verification, emergency and disaster medical planning

Arms and influence, political uses of violence

Center for Defense Information (CDI)

Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) Monterey

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP), technology and policy, CTNSP Defense Horizons

Counter-deception Blog

Counterterrorism Blog

Defense and the National Interest, Military in society, Strategy & force employment

Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM), Journals

Foreign Affairs, US foreign policy and international affairs

Global Guerrillas, John Robb, networked organizations, infrastructure disruption, and the emerging marketplace of violence

Global Security

Henry L. Stimson Center, international peace and security

International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), political-military conflict

Medical NBC Information Server, from U.S. Army Surgeon General

Militarily Critical Technologies (MCT)

Militarily Critical Technologies List (Revised)

Developing Science and Technologies List (DSTL)

National Defense, NDIA business & tech, Archives

PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly

Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) Depart of State, security related information (note that accessing Constituent Services requires registration and approval)

RAND Policy Research

Strategic Insights (Center for Contemporary Conflict)

Strategic Security Blog, Hans Kristensen on nuclear weapons, with Federation of American Scientists & Natural Resources Defense Council

Terrorism: Q & A, Council on Foreign Relations

Virtual Information Center (VIC) Pacific Command, NE, SE, S Asia, and Oceania, conducts research among public domain materials for the CDR U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM), complex but useful site

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

About Intellectual Property, IP with China focus

All Roads Lead to China, business in China

Asia Business Intelligence, Rich Kuslan

Asia Business Law, Asian legal issues

Asia Pundit, irreverent look at cultural and business affairs

Beijing Review, Beijing Review Archives

Chief Asia Inspector, practical matters, large and small

China Confidential, Chinese geopolitical issues

China Digital Times, wide reporting on Chinese political, security and diplomatic actions

China Economic Review

China Intel, geopolitical risk

China IPR Law

China Law Blog

Chinese Law Working Group, Chinese-Central European business relations

Chosun (Korea) national/political, english

Danwei, Chinese media & advertizing

EastSouthWestNorth

IP Dragon

Jamestown Foundation, security trends in Eurasia, from Russia to China

North Korea and Iran Nuclear Crisis Tracker

Pan Asian Biz, commercial issues in East Asia from Russia to Japan

PLA Monitor, focus on People's Liberation Army activities

View From Taiwan

VoxPI, French IP site, perspective outside the US

Gordon Housworth

Al-Ahram Weekly On-line, Weekly english version of the Arabic daily version Al-Ahram Daily

Al Jazeera

Global Terror ALert

United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), UNAMI has taken over material formerly at Humanitarian Information Center (HIC)/Iraq, providing a variety of archived maps, documents and resources for the Iraq assistance community. See UNAMI's Map Centre

IMRA, Independent Media Review Analysis, Israeli and Palestinian views

Informed Comment, Juan Cole, Middle East, History, and Religion

Iraq Warblog Tracker

Militant Islam Monitor

Muslim American Society, news clips & mirrors

North Africa Journal

Northeast Intelligence Network (NEIN), Douglas Hagmann et al, useful for translations of Al Battar and Voice of Jihad, other Arab/Muslim items

UNAMI, UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, portal for UN agencies and NGOs working in Iraq, Press clippings, News & events