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The Web Inquirer

"The First International Investigative Magazine on the Web."

The Magazine The "mouse that roared" will deliver a copy to your screen - but first may I invite you down to the Inquirer library and meeting place?



Welcome to our Library


This library, the home of the Web Inquirer, is a public web resource constructed by Jan Roberts, a woman who works internationally as an investigative journalist and author. The library operates from a boat shaped from oak and cedar, built in the 1930s in the Elco yard on Rhode Island, US, but now moored by the River Thames in London, UK -thus the water picture gallery- a place to relax after wading through documents.

Jan writes for major papers, has lived for years with Australian Aborigines and has authored several books on their struggle in Australia. She learnt much from the Aboriginal Elders with whom she worked and travelled widely in the outback. She has written on human rights, medical negligence, the international diamond trade, intelligence operations and the arms trade, on RTZ and other mining companies. Some of this work is in this library - together with selections from other writers.

The aim of the library is to support with research and other materials the efforts of friends who are fighting to make this a more just, sustainable and balanced world.

It is also to support those who are seeking spiritual wisdom, a meeting place for those who believe we share a common Parent, who wonder at the marvels of the world we inhabit and treasure it as a precious gift.

The Library is also dedicated to those fighting for personal freedom, for the end to discrimination and to sexism, and especially to those who find in pain they were assigned to the wrong gender. Find out how this could happen. Read also how a journalist tackled a personal demon much more frightening for her than any investigation she undertook for the BBC. Read the story of the "cowardly lioness."

It is also for the vaccine damaged, their parents and friends, for those worried about 'mad-cow' disease, for all those damaged by careless medicine, factory farming, pesticides and other pollutants.

This library contains something of what its creator has learnt of life, some of the background documentation behind her written or television work - and some of sources she have found valuable. Hope you find them useful!

There is also a "coffee-shop", a room making new friends - with links to their home pages or mail-boxes.


The Inquirer Mouse will take you to our viewer's letters.


Permanent Exhibitions

These library rooms are dedicated to particular subject matters. You will find them all listed below. A click will deliver you magically into which ever room you chose. Let your finger do the walking!

A Guide to the Library There are many rooms to her Library - and new wings and storage areas may appear at any time - building plans will take a lifetime to complete. Please feel free to wander and to copy anything. Only commercial publishing is not allowed without written permission

Now - just let your finger do the walking.... click on the room you want to enter.

The MagazineClick on the Mouse for the Library's Magazine.


CIMRA - Colonialism and Indigenous Minorities s Research Action

CIMRA was founded in 1977 to raise support for colonised minorities, to help to make their voice heard. It's particular expertise has been in researching the exploitation by transnational corporations of these ill-protected people's lands. Today it works for all who are relatively powerless in the face of the greed of major corporations.Please Click Here for recent CIMRA research and for sister groups.

If you would like to contact the author, click on her name, Jan Roberts ©1996 -
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