LINKS AND RESOURCES

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More specific links regarding CESNUR, so-called "cult apologists" and Catholic fundamentalism, in Italy and around the world, can be found on this other page.

Fire, Towers and the Empire 

• Antiwar.com
  The most complete source on all the wars the Empire is running now, updated every day.
  
  
• Peace Palestine
  Mary Rizzo's site provides insight on the Israel-Palestine conflict
  
  
• Avigail Abarbanel
  "I want to reach Palestinian people in the hope of providing some comfort: I am a Jew and former Israeli who sees their suffering and acknowledges its origins. I want to reach Israelis in the hope that my views and feelings will perhaps help to free them from their trauma, enough to see the situation more clearly, and not only through the distorting lens of their fear."
  
  
• Gilad Atzmon
  Musician, novelist and thinker
  
  
• Peace Palestine
  Blog di Mary Rizzo sulla Palestina, in lingua inglese.
  
  
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Cults 

• Apologetics Index, Countercult Com and Religion News Blog
  Nearly fifteen thousand pages of very well organized and documented material on religious news and also on "cults", put together by Anton Hein in Amsterdam and updated on an almost daily basis.
  
  
• SIMPOS, information on occult tendencies' impact on society
  A good collection of links on cult related issues on the Net.
  
  
• Tilman Hausherr Homepage
  Good resource on the operations of the multinational corporation called "Scientology."
  
  
• Ontopsychology Critical Page
  Amusing debunking of a particularly pretentious group. The site was closed down by its first server after threats from the group, and has now been reopened by a more courageous server..
  
  
• Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
  "Devious Displays of Quackery, Fraud, Deceit and Deception -- the largest collection of medical chicanery and mayhem ever assembled under one roof."
  
  
• Mel Sembler and The Straights
  Everything about Mel Sembler, currently US ambassador to Italy, and his cult-lke "therapy" organization The Straights.
  
  
• Index of Cult Apologists
  Links to critical documents on cult apologists of various sizes and shapes... in French, but links are always easy to understand!
  
  
• The Unlikely Muslim
  The strange story of Massimo "Abdul Hadi" Palazzi and his "Association of Italian Muslims", with New Age gurus, Somali colonels and the Italian secret services.
  
  
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Western Extremism

• Christ Church Vicarage
  Reverend Stephen Sizer's richly documented critical site on Dispensationalism and American apocalyptic extremism.
  
  
• People United for Religious Freedom
  Exposing TV Evangelism and cultural colonialism.
  
  
• Watch on Fundamentalism
  Opposing the fundamentalists on their home ground, with interesting links.

"Alive, Despite them All": The genocide of the Kosovo Rom and other peoples

• Dom Research Center
  Resource on the Rom population of the Middle East and North Africa
  
  
• RomNews.com
  The best resource on the net for understanding the tragedy of the Rom without folklore frills
  
  
• The Voice of Roma
  Sani Rifati and Carol Bloom's courageous organization focusing on the tragedy of the Rom of Kosovo
  
  
• Hako: Incontro con le culture magico-visionarie
  In Italian, but we had to point out this unique resource on Native American cultures, which concedes nothing to either colonialist ideologies or New Age romanticism
  
  
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"Elburz rose in the Golden Horn": from Slovenia to the Euphrates...

• Amjad Jaimoukha's Home Page
  The unique world of Abkhaz, Chechens, Circassians, Ossetians and other peoples of the Northern Caucasus.
  
  
• Danubiana - Peoples of the Danube
  Nature and peoples of the Danubian world.
  
  
• The Fertile Crescent Home Page
  The gateway to Cyprus, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan.
  
  
• Palestine Net
  A portal to Palestine and its culture.
  
  
• Turkic Republics and Communities
  A vast collection of links and information from the Altaj mountains to the Balkans.
  
  
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Visions

• The Peter Sanders Photography Page
  Visions of the Islamic world. It is hard to conceive of better images to represent an imageless religion.
  
  
• Hymns from the Liturgical Tradition of the Orthodox Church
  Audio files.
  
  
• Riccardo Venturi
  English, Scottish and French Popular Ballads. Although not mentioned on this website, Riccardo Venturi also speaks nineteen languages, has written a gigantic Icelandic grammar and is an obstreperous leader of the Firenze football fans.
  
  
• Caltrap's Corner
  "A site where the curious, the scholar, the historian, the genealogist, the heraldist, the noble and ignoble may browse and/or contribute interesting, reverent and irreverent papers on genuine and whimsical kings, emperors, episcopi vagantes, nobles, titles, orders and other such subjects which are unlikely to have any influence on the world in which we live or on that which we are preparing for our children"
  
  
• Coptic Liturgy
  One of the most ancient surviving forms of Christianity, with its unique language descended directly from Ancient Egyptian.
  
  
• Separatist, Para-military, Military, Intelligence, and Aid Organizations
  Everything from private armies for hire, with nice names like "Rubicon International", to the Lenin Mausoleum Home Page and the Bougainville Freedom Movement. I am not quite sure these qualify as visions, but they do make for fascinating reading, and are commented in a commendably objective manner.
  
  
• Liturgia Romana
  The richly documented website of Father Anthony Chadwick on the Roman Catholic liturgy, Church music and the pipe organ, with a very interesting page on the history and of so-called "Catholic traditionalism", and an extensive series of links to a world of honest mystics, good souls, ruthless fanatics and raving lunatics. Father Chadwick is certainly a rare individual: a clear-thinking liturgical traditionalist who does not believe in the Illuminati Conspiracy.
  
  
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