NameBase, a unique database on the web:
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http://www.pir.org/ (NameBase + essays and cartoons)
http://www.namebase.org/ (NameBase only)
It offers Internet access to a database of 110,000 names of groups
and individuals, compiled from over 600 investigative books published
since 1962, and thousands of pages from periodicals since 1973.
Areas covered include the international intelligence community,
political elites from the Right and Left, the U.S. foreign policy
establishment, assassination theory, Latin America, big business,
and organized crime.
NameBase is best known as the only database that does cumulative
name indexing of books. These 600+ books represent some of the
best of investigative nonfiction over the past generation. Due to
historical (the nature of book publishing) and legal (copyright)
reasons, this rich heritage may never show up in searchable digital
form, apart from what is available in NameBase. Even if all
publishers agreed to place everything in the public domain, the
problem of scanning text and resolving name-authority issues does
not lend itself to automation.
Our sites offer name searching, phonetic searching, country and
time-frame searching, proximity searches with data mining and
data visualization (using multi-dimensional scaling on social network
diagrams), and online document scans. Check it out today!
