- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991 Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- American Power and the New Mandarins
Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
- Bill to stifle flow of information poised to pass in Japan
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned by a new state secrets bill before the Japanese parliament, which, if passed, would broaden the government's power to determine which information can be kept secret.
- Breadking the Grid, Making Our Class
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Yang provides a reading of E.P. Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class" through the lens of contemporary and historical working-class revolutions and struggles.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976 The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Principles of Economic Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1984 Jacobs argues that virtually all economic life, no matter how geographically remote from cities, depends on cities to maintain it or change it.
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- Encyclopeida of Asian History
Resource Type: Book
- Ethnic issues in Japan
Resource Type: Article Details the various racial minorities within the Japanese population, as well as historical and recent issues faced by these groups.
- 50 Years of Bretton Woods Institutions
Enough Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 This is an analysis of the IMF and World Bank's policies since its inception 50 years ago, and resistance campaigns towards them.
- For Reasons of State
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
- Gatekeeper
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2016 In 2015, there were 24.025 documented suicides in Japan. A retired police detective dedicates his life to preventing deaths at Japan's suicide cliffs, providing emergency assistance and counseling even as tourists flock to the site, attracted by its notoriety as a popular suicide destination.
- How Fukushima gave rise to a new anti-racism movement
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Shaw examines the rise in anti-discrimination social activism in Japan after the environmental disasters in 2011 and lack of support from the government towards its non-Japanese citizens.
- Japan Is Getting An Anonymous Whistleblowing Platform, But Will Journalists Use it?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 In a country with a strong anti-whistleblower sentiment and strict state-secret laws, a university professor has created an annoymous whilstleblower website.
- Japan's post-Fukushima 'secrecy' clampdown
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Japan's secrecy law, just passed by parliament, gives the government carte blanche to designate state secrets - and restrict information about anything it likes.
- Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
Resource Type: Book
- A Marxist History of the World part 58: The Meiji Restoration
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 An event which would shape the history of the Far East until 1945, Japans bourgeois revolution from above is explored by Neil Faulkner in this week's Marxist History.
- The Okinawa missiles of October
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 John Bordne, a resident of Blakeslee, Pennsylvania, had to keep a personal history to himself for more than five decades. Only recently has the US Air Force given him permission to tell the tale, which, if borne out as true, would constitute a terrifying addition to the lengthy and already frightening list of mistakes and malfunctions that have nearly plunged the world into nuclear war.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
Depression and Joy Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
- RWB supports legal action against secrets law
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Reporters Without Borders regrets that on 10 December, 2014, when the entire world was celebrating the 66th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Japanese government allowed a draconian law on state secrets, one that violates the constitution and limits media freedom, to take effect.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- Socialist Register 1992
Volume 28: New World Order? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Socialist Register 1996
Volume 32: Are There Alternatives? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1996
- Tokyo National Museum
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Towards a New Cold War
Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There Resource Type: Book Published: 1982 A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
- Uyoku dantai
Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Uyoku dantai are Japanese nationalist right-wing groups. Uyoku dantai are well known for their highly visible propaganda vehicles converted vans, trucks and buses fitted with loudspeakers and prominently marked with the name of the group and propaganda slogans.
- World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
- 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.
- The Young Man Was
Part 1: United Red Army Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2012 The start of a film trilogy that traces 1970s ultra left movements' turn to violence; Part One is based on the negotiations of the 1977 JAL hijacking, between the Japanese Red Army members on board the plane and the Dhaka control tower in Bangladesh.
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