Watch Your Web Neighbors Have you ever wanted to help keep tabs on potentially anti-government groups? Now you may have the chance thanks to an upcoming website to be called Insurgency Online being developed by Canadian political scientist Michael Dartnell. The Montreal professor has obtained a $45,000 grant from the U.S. Institute of Peace, described as a "non-partisan government-funded Washington-based think-tank" to help "increase international awareness of insurgency on the Internet." With that money he intends to build a permanent archive of anti-government groups like Mexico's Zapistsas, Peru's Shining Path or the Turkish Kurdish rebels, who all operate openly on the Internet, waging what he describes as "in-your-face" politics. Who knows, this could be the new model of the CIA, one vast website providing, ironically, one of the few remaining channels for citizen involvement... surveilliance. Be thinking ahead about who you could turn in. (Newsbytes 3/3/98) http://www.scn.org/newspeak/month.html Best regards, Martian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
