Perspectives on the Iraq War

Blogs make communication a possibilitility for just about anyone and enable bloggers to escape the censorship practiced in traditional commercial media. Of course, anyone can blog, so truth as well as falsehood may be dessiminated more easily than through major commerical channels. For information on the Iraq war see Paul S. Piper and Miguel Ramos, "Blogs of War," Searcher 13, no. 2 (February 2005): 15-22. Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/default.shtml. Articles are also accessible through sources identified using BISON's Electronic Journals search engine http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/ft.html.

Indexes to consult for non-standard perspectives are Alternative Press Index http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/api.html and Left Index http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/leftindex.html. For the perspectives of other nations use World News Connection http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/wnc.html. Complement these sources with the list available at http://www.world-newspapers.com/alternative-news.html. WNC “covers news broadcasts [and print media] from throughout the world. The Central Intelligence Agency and its contractors translate this information into English. Emphasis is upon popular, newsworthy topics that deal with political, social, and economic issues throughout the world.” For links to international news sources try News Sources http://www.antiwar.com/sources.html. Note “antiwar” in the URL. For the specific perspective of the U.S. Defense Department go to http://www.defenselink.mil/news/other.html. Among sources prepared at the University is a guide to terrorism resources http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/terrorism.html. For general news sources try Current Events/News http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/infotree/resourcesbysubject.asp?subject=Current+Events+/+News.