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| Date Added | Title | Description | Category |
| Monday, October 20, 2003 | |||
| Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business | Neil Postman's exploration of the possibility that "Huxley, not Orwell, was right." | A Propaganda Bibliography | |
| Sunday, October 12, 2003 | |||
| Imagining Big Numbers | Newly discovered web sites to help your students picture big numbers | How big is a billion? | |
| Saturday, October 4, 2003 | |||
| Propaganda Works! | If you have any doubts about the effectiveness of propaganda, you must look at this page. | At War with Iraq: the Propaganda Battles | |
| Wednesday, October 1, 2003 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Thursday, September 18, 2003 | |||
| The Global Rich List | Help your students put wealth into perspective. | Internet Sites with Interesting Numbers | |
| Friday, September 12, 2003 | |||
| What Can $87 Billion Buy? | A report from TomPaine.com on what the US might forego in order to fund George W. Bush's latest request for additional Iraqi war money. | How big is a billion? | |
| Sunday, August 31, 2003 | |||
| The Perfect Storm?: the American Media and Iraq | The American media’s coverage of the 2003 Iraq war reinforces the pattern established in the wake of 9/11: a combination of intimidation, collusion, inattention, and ethnocentrism. | At War with Iraq: the Propaganda Battles | |
| Monday, August 18, 2003 | |||
| the Supreme Court's Greatest Hits | MP3 files of oral arguments before the Supreme Court of the U.S. | Government | |
| Saturday, July 26, 2003 | |||
| Weapons of Mass Deception | a new book subtitled The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber (2003) | At War with Iraq: the Propaganda Battles | |
| Friday, July 25, 2003 | |||
| Fibonnaci Numbers and Nature | This is an absolutely stunning site. | Internet Sites with Interesting Numbers | |
| The Divine Proportion | At one time, mathematics and philosophy were one. Here is an attempt to reunite them. | Internet Sites with Interesting Numbers | |
| Sunday, July 20, 2003 | |||
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At War with Iraq: the Propaganda Battles | ||
| Tuesday, July 1, 2003 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
| Wednesday, May 28, 2003 | |||
| The White House Propaganda Machine | This is an excellent "behind-the-scenes" look at the extent to which the current White House goes in its effort to manipulate the image we see of George W. Bush. | Propaganda resources on the Web | |
| The Futures of Food | Michael Pollan's brilliant look at how our idea of what food will be like in the future has changed over the past 40 years. | What's That?! | |
| What a War Can Buy | Canadian Jeremy Ross looks at alternative ways $75 billion spent on making war against Iraq could be used. | How big is a billion? | |
| What the Bush tax cut could have bought | This is a Salon.com article describing how that $330 billion might have been used to meet pressing social needs. | How big is a billion? | |
| Friday, April 25, 2003 | |||
| At War with Iraq: the Propaganda Battles | Use propaganda from the most recent Gulf War as teaching tools. | Propaganda in the Classroom | |
| Friday, April 18, 2003 | |||
| Numbers at War | statistics update | Propaganda in the Classroom | |
| Monday, March 31, 2003 | |||
| Speeches from Gulf War II | This set of links to speeches by political leaders representing various perspectives on the conflict will give your students the opportunity to examine propaganda in action. | Propaganda resources on the Web | |
| Thursday, February 27, 2003 | |||
| Is Seeing Believing? | This page (from The Media Literacy Clearinghouse) presents a fine collection of links to information concerning digital manipulation of news photos. | What's Wrong With This Picture? | |
| Monday, February 24, 2003 | |||
| the Fake or Foto challenge | How good are you (or your students) at spotting digitally manipulated photographs? | What's Wrong With This Picture? | |
| Wednesday, January 22, 2003 | |||
| The Unseen Gulf War | This online presentation of Peter Turnley's photographs from the 1991 Gulf War shows the true face of war in the age of "smart" weapons and "bloodless" campaigns. | Faces of the Enemy | |
| Thursday, January 2, 2003 | |||
| How Much Do You Owe? | statistics update | Interesting Numbers | |
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