Regarding the Food Industry and Food Safety (Documents and Interviews)
  1.  Fresh_Air [2001-01-22]_Schlosser_Fast_Food_Nation.htm  also excerpts from ``60 Minutes'' and ``Good Morning, America"
  2. Atlantic Monthly [2000-12-14] Eric Schlosser on Fast Food Nation
  3. The_Atlantic_[2002-01]_Schlosser_on_McDonalds.html   (also available at http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/01/schlosser.htm.)
  4. FreshAir_Michael_Pollon_on_beef_industry,_hormones,_antibiotics.html in cattle feed ,



NAFTA, FTAA, Chapter 11, international trade agreements
 Bill_Moyers,_Wm_Greider_on_NAFTA_Chapter_11.html
 Fast_track_HR_3005.htm
 The following website (http://www.naftaclaims.com/) has information on how the NAFTA claim process works.   The website is maintained by a lawyer (Todd Weiler) who files NAFTA claims.  The website also has significantly detailed information about the status of various claims such as the Methanex claim, etc. A cached copy is kept here.
 


Civil Liberties, Military Tribunals, legislation sponsored by Specter and Durbin
  Durbin_reply_on_civil_liberties.html
 articles_on_military_tribunals.html several articles on military tribunals and the Military Commission Procedures Act (S. 1937), sponsored by Arlen Specter and Dick Durbin

US National Security
 
  1. "The White House cut 93 percent of a recent request by the secretary of energy for money to improve the security of nuclear weapons and waste, according to a letter from the secretary." NYT_[2002-04-23] White_House_cuts_93_percent_of_funds_sought_to_guard_atomic_arms.html
  2. "...the Bush administration effectively killed the proposed enforcement mechanism for the 1975 Biological Weapons Convention. The Bush administration opposed it because the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries had argued that facility inspections might expose industrial secrets of U.S. companies."
  3. "After the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it should be clear that there are few higher priorities than keeping terrorists abroad from going nuclear. But it doesn't seem obvious to the Bush administration. It proposed a $100 million cut in the U.S. program intended to help Moscow keep control of its materials and scientists."--Steve Chapman, "What could be worse than this?" Chicago Tribune, September 16, 2001  Tribune article
  4. "A top leader of Al Qaeda now in custody has told American interrogators that the terrorist group is close to building a crude nuclear device and may try to smuggle one into the United States, officials said tonight...Intelligence officials have reported for years that Al Qaeda has sought to buy nuclear materials, especially from the nations of the former Soviet Union, and to train its members into fashioning the material into crude bombs by wrapping it around traditional easy-to-obtainexplosives."   NYT_[2002-04-23]_Qaeda_leader_said_to_report_A-bomb_plans.html



GAO
The General Accounting Office is the research arm of Congress.  It produces reports on a regular basis about many issues relevant to Congress.  They were in the news most recently because of their request to get documents regarding Vice-President Cheney's work on the Bush Administration's Energy Plan and meetings with Enron executives.  Their website is at: http://www.gao.gov .   One can do full text searches of the GAO's archives and their many documents at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces160.shtml

General Accounting Office (GAO) on Depleted Uranium (DU)  GAO_on_DU_and_health.htm