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  1. Against Capitalism
    The European Left on the March
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
  2. Blackwater
    The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army
    Resource Type: Book
  3. Bound By Power
    Intended Consequences
    Resource Type: Book
    These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
  4. Buda's Wagon
    A Brief History of the Car Bomb
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies - particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan - in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
  5. Bush Fights For Another Clean Shot In The War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    The perversity of Bush's agenda.
  6. Captivity
    118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    An account of a peace activist kidnapped while leading a peace delegation in Iraq.
  7. Chasing a Mirage
    The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
  8. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  9. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
  10. Complete testimony of George Galloway
    Resource Type: Article
    Testimony of British M.P George Galloway before the U.S. Senate.
  11. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  12. Connexions Library: Middle East Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Middle East.
  13. Countercurrents
    Resource Type: Website
    An alternative news site based in India. "We bring out what the mainstream media fails to tell you, or hides from you. These are the things that really matter. The things which may determine the fate of planet earth! The future of our children! In a word, the survival of the species!"
  14. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
  15. The Cynicism and the Slaughter
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    IMPEACHMENT. BOMBING. ELECTION. Impeachment. Bombing. Perhaps by now, the scandal-witchhunt-Cruise missile cycle has become so predictable that it's hard to respond with appropriate outrage to the latest round. We all knew, after all, that it was going to happen. Yet outrage is absolutely necessary, even at a moment when atrocity follows atrocity and world-class crimes against humanity virtually crowd each other out of attention.
  16. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
  17. Empire's Workshop
    Latin America, the United States and the Rise of the New Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Looks at U.S. foreign policy post 9/11 and its antecedents.
  18. The Fog of Intelligence
    Or How to Be Eternally "Caught Off Guard" in the Greater Middle East
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The phrase "the fog of war" stands in for the inability of commanders to truly grasp what's happening in the chaos that is any battlefield. Perhaps it's time to introduce a companion phrase: the fog of intelligence.
  19. From Sykes-Picot to "Islamic State": Imperialism's Bloody Wreckage
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    When the Jihadist group Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) changed its name and declared the establishment of the Caliphate, it did so with the release of a promotional video entitled "The End of Sykes-Picot." This was a reference to the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that marked the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of two zones of influence, British and French.
  20. From the Editor: Green Living
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    To satiate North America's addiction to high energy consumption, the popular solution is war.
  21. Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
  22. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
  23. Hekmat, Mansoor - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Mansoor Hekmat (1951-2002).
  24. A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
  25. The IFJ and Article 19 Support The Guardian in Court Battle for Journalists Rights in Iraq
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    ARTICLE 19, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Iraqi Union of Journalists today called on the Iraqi authorities to drop charges of defamation against the British newspaper The Guardian and its journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
  26. IFJ Condemns Jail Term for Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has protested over the disproportionate decision of an Iraqi court which sentenced television journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi to three years in jail for throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush.
  27. IFJ Demands Overhaul of Repressive Media Laws in the Middle East
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Launching its â##Breaking the Chains' annual report into press freedom violations in the Arab World and Iran, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for a radical overhaul of media laws in the Middle East.
  28. IFJ Demands Probe into Iraq Media Deaths After US Army Film Exposes Killing of Unarmed civilians and Journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Call for an investigation into the actions of the United States army which has been implicated in killings of journalists in Iraq following the release of a shocking video film of a helicopter gunship attack on civilians including two media staff.
  29. IFJ Holds Three Days Safety Training for Journalists in Kurdistan Region of Iraq
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its local affiliate the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate are organizing a three day safety training for local journalists in the city of Shikhan of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
  30. IFJ Launches New Campaign in Iraq, Pakistan and Russia to End Impunity for Violence in Journalism
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    With International Day against Impunity one month away, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today written to the leaders of Iraq, Russia and Pakistan to urge them and their governments to address the issue of impunity for violence.
  31. The IFJ mourns the killing of two journalists in Iraq
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional affiliate the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate (IJS) have today condemned the killing of the Iraqi photographer Adnan Abdul Razzaq, allegedly murdered by the Islamic State (IS) in Mosul.
  32. Imperial Crusades
    Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.
  33. In Remembrance of Things Lost
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    It’s astonishing that I actually have to make an argument (and a losing one at that) against murdering children, but this is the reality we ourselves have given birth to.
  34. International Crisis Group
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  35. Iraq 1990-1991
    Desert Holocaust
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    An account of the American invasion of Iraq (Desert Shield) in 1990-91.
  36. The Iraq Crisis in Context
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
  37. Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent media
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
  38. Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    As if Iraq has not suffered enough under Saddam Hussein, the vicious UN sanctions regime, the US-UK occupation and the depradations of Daesh, a new threat looms that could kill a million people or more, and destroy Baghdad and a string of other cities along the Tigris river. The porous rocks beneath the Mosul dam are dissolving away and the entire edifice could collapse at any moment, releasing 11 cubic kilometres of water.
  39. ISIS Thrives on the Disunity of Its Enemies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The aftermath of terrorist attacks such as the massacre in Paris are a bad time to produce new policies, but they provide ideal political conditions for a government to take radical, if ill-thought-out, initiatives. Leaders are carried away by a heady sense of empowerment as a worried or frightened public demands that something be done in response to calamity and to prevent it happening again. The moment of greatest risk is not when the bombs explode or the guns fire, but when governments react to these atrocities.
  40. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  41. JohnPilger.com
    Resource Type: Website
    The journalism of John Pilger.
  42. Killing Hope
    U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
  43. The Kurdish Crisis in Iraq and Syria
    Against the Current vol. 192
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    In discussion of right of self-determination for the between 28 and 35 million Kurdish people in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, the author considers the current polticial landscape.
  44. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
  45. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  46. Lifting the Iraq Embargo After Almost 2 Million Deaths
    What Have We Learned From the Embargo's Lessons?
    Resource Type: Article
    A summary of the 1991-2003 Iraq Embargo, and its devastating attack on the Iraqi civilian population.
  47. Look at shoe tossing in context: union
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Canada's largest media union is calling for the release of the reporter who threw shoes at U.S. President George Bush.
  48. Lying to Ourselves About the Air War
    The Killers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Most US citizens have never been subjected to an air raid. They have never heard the roar of planes flying high above them while an air raid siren wails, its whine competing with the planes’ roar and piercing the audio centers of the brain making sequential thought difficult if not impossible. Nor have they heard the sound of bombs — canisters filled with high explosives and fire — whistling as they fall through the air toward their targets on the ground. Nor have most US citizens ever sat in a bomb shelter wondering if their homes will survive the aerial assault they are hoping to survive themselves.
  49. Made in the USA: Report Shows ISIS Using US Arms from 'Syria Rebels'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    From the moment the US began sending lethal arms to Syrian rebel factions, there was a chorus of people expressing fears that those arms would end up in the “wrong hands,” and US officials insisted they were going to carefully vet everyone who got those weapons.
  50. The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on "The Highway of Death"
    Excerpted from the book War Crimes: A report on United States war crimes against Iraq
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
    I want to give testimony on what are called the "highways of death." These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with UN resolutions. U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot. The horror is still there to see.
  51. Mercenaries on the make
    Iraq is now awash with unaccountable 'security contractors'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    Contracted mercenaries now outnumber American troops in Iraq. These contractors are immune to prosecution for any wrongdoing in Iraq thanks to provisional laws that came into effect after the invasion. Most of these contractors are not American, the war is being outsourced.
  52. Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86th) and Lebanon (61st).
  53. Mr. Bush's truthfulness
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    The truthfulness-challenged President.
  54. New Internationalist
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
  55. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  56. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
  57. 1950–51 Baghdad bombings
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1950
    1950–1951 Baghdad bombings refers to the bombing of Jewish targets in Baghdad, Iraq, between April 1950 and June 1951. It is widely believed that the bombings were carried out by Zionist agents seeking to cause terror in among Iraqi Jews in order to impel them to leave Iraq for Israel.
  58. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
  59. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
  60. The oil war
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Declassified documents now reveal what everybody, especially the Iraqis, always knew: the US invaded Iraq to secure its oil supplies for US and allied companies. It hasn't quite worked out as planned.
  61. On Imperialist Barbarism & the Need for World Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    Four articles in Ideas & Action #16 (Fall 1991):
    1. The Destruction of Iraq: Why?
    2. The Rise and Decline of the American Empire
    3. Every Nation-State is Imperialist by Nature
    4. For National Autonomy within a World-wide Democracy
  62. On Oil and Quicksand
    Against The Current vol. 114
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
  63. The Only House Left Standing
    The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    A journey through the life and thoughts of the late Tom Hurndall, a British photojournalist fatally wounded in Gaza in April 2003.
  64. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
  65. Peace Mom
    A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    An American mother loses her 24-year-old soldier son, killed in action in Iraq, and leads her to become a prominent US anti-war activist.
  66. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  67. Photographer Ibrahim Jassam freed after US Army held him for 17 months without explanation
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release today of Iraqi photographer, Ibrahim Jassam, of Reuters, who had been held by the US military since his arrest on 1st September 2008.
  68. Press for Conversion #43
    December 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2000
  69. Press for Conversion #51
    May 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2003
    Why is the U.S. government reviled by so many people in the Middle East and North Africa? This issue looks at the past 50 years of wars and regime changes in the region and unveils a consistent pattern of U.S. involvement.
  70. Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies
    The Diabolical Business of Global Public Relations Firms
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The PRP industry has experienced phenomenal growth since 2001. In 2015, three publicly traded mega PR firms -- Omnicom, WPP, and Interpublic Group -- together employed 214,000 people across 170 countries, collecting $35 billion in combined revenue. Not only do these firms control massive wealth, they also possess a network of connections in powerful international institutions with direct links to national governments, multi-national corporations, global policy-making bodies, and the corporate media.
  71. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2000
  72. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2006
  73. The reliable tyrant
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    The solution to the Iraq debacle is within the Americans' grasp.
  74. Report: Hundreds of Civilians Killed by U.S.-Led Bombing of ISIS in Iraq and Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A new report from a group of journalists and researchers says that hundreds of civilians have died during airstrikes by the U.S. and other nations fighting the Islamic State, a marked contrast to the Pentagon’s official admission of just two civilian deaths.
  75. Reuters photographer begins second year in US military detention
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing American refusal to release Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam, who today begins his second year of detention by the US military in Iraq.
  76. Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents.
  77. Rogue State
    A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
  78. Saddam's Alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    If Saddam Hussein really had weapons of mass destruction, he would certainly use them now with the U.S. poised to invade.
  79. A Shameful Silence: Where is the Outrage Over the Slaughter of Civilians in Mosul?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The catastrophic number of civilian casualties in Mosul is receiving little attention internationally from politicians and journalists. This is in sharp contrast to the outrage expressed worldwide over the bombardment of east Aleppo by Syrian government and Russian forces at the end of 2016.
  80. The Shock Doctrine
    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
  81. The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On October 2, 2015, President Barack Obama, alluding to Russia's decision to launch air strikes in Syria, told reporters at the White House that for Russia to view the forces targeted "from the perspective they're all terrorists [is] a recipe for disaster, and it's one that I reject."
  82. This is why everything you’ve read about the wars in Syria and Iraq could be wrong
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A description of how much of the coverage of the wars in Syria and Iraq is second-hand reporting, due to the dangers posed, and subject to political bias and propaganda.
  83. Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
  84. Towers of Deception
    The Media Cover-Up of 9/11
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
  85. Trump's War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Although precise numbers are difficult to obtain, there seems little question that the number of civilians being killed by the U.S. in Iraq and Syria -- already quite high under Obama -- has increased precipitously during the first two months of the Trump administration.
  86. War Crimes
    Resource Type: Article
    Corporate media can't ignore photos the way they ignored protests. The real reign of terror we face is much closer to home than we dare to think.
  87. War in the Gulf
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
  88. War in the Gulf
    An Environmental Perspective
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  89. We Own the World
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    The whole debate about the Iranian 'interference' in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
  90. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
  91. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
  92. Year 501
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
  93. Young Iraqis hope the Written Word can Reinvigorate a New Generation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    An informal lending library uses literary heritage to remind young Baghdadis they don't need to emigrate to escape daily travails.
  94. Zanj Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A series of revolts by some 500,000 slaves against their Muslim owners and rulers, 869-883 AD.
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