1. America's Complicity in Evil
   Barbarism on the High Seas
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   Once again the US government has permitted the Israeli state to murder good people known for their moral conscience. The Israeli state has declared that anyone with a moral conscience is an enemy of Israel.
2. And Then They Came For Me
   Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
3. The Capital Punishment Debate 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1984
   The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
4. Chiapas Murder Draws Criticism of Canadian Mining in Mexico
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   The recent murder of Chiapan anti-mining organizer Mariano Abarca Roblero has drawn sharp criticism of Canadian mining in Mexico.
5. The court does not sympathize
   The moral depravity of the Israeli legal system
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   The blood of Palestinians is cheap in this country. No one has ever been punished for killing Palestinians – children, adults, newborns, old people. The murderers are all walking among us, free and happy.
6. The Cover-Ups That Exploded
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   
7. Eyes With Legs
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace activists on the Freedom Flotilla. The U.S. never condemns these crimes because it’s Israel’s biggest supporter, and also because it does the same.
8. From Klinghoffer to the Gaza Flotilla
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   Under the Rome Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation of 1988, it is an international crime for any person to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, and also a crime to injure or kill any person in the process. The treaty necessarily adopts a strict approach. One cannot attack a ship and then claim self-defense if the people on board resist the unlawful use of violence. In other words, according to international law, the actions of the Israeli military were beyond the law and those involved should be treated no differently than, say, the Somali pirates who are also in the habit of boarding ships by force.
9. Guatemala: Murders of Women Recall Counterinsurgency Techniques
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   The worst waves of brutal, unsolved murders of women in Latin America have been seen in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico’s northern border, where close to 400 killings have been reported since 1993, and Guatemala, where 527 women were killed last year alone.
10. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
11. How America Gets Away With Murder
    Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Michael Mandel offers a critical account of America's illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted America's leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.
12. How they shot those campus bums
    Review of The Truth About Kent State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
13. Journalists Killed since 1992
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
14. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
15. The Massacre and the Cover-Up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Without much stronger international pressure than the international community has applied to date, there is every reason to expect Israeli massacres to steadily become more severe, their PR rationales more outlandish. Mild diplomatic rebukes will not sway them. Unless serious costs are imposed for such crimes, much worse is yet to come.
16. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
17. On Cowardice and Violence
    Reflections by a Former US Marine on the Mavi Marmara
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    On the morning of the attack I was directly involved in the disarming of two Israeli Commandos. This was a forcible, non-negotiable, separation of weapons from commandos who had already murdered two brothers that I had seen that day.
18. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
    
19. Shot in the Back
    Did the IDF Execute Mavi Marmara Victims?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    In the Israeli commando assault on the Gaza aid flotilla, if victims were shot in the back or in the back of the head, then one is left really with only two possible conclusions: either the shooters, who were the Israeli commandos (according to Israel, no Israeli soldiers were themselves shot, plus all the recovered bullets were 9 mm, the type of shells in the Israeli weapons, making it clear who had the guns), fired at people who were fleeing from them, or alternatively they shot people from the front, and later executed them with shots to the back of the head, which is maybe even worse (certainly a war crime).
20. The Truth About Kent State
    A Challenge to the American Conscience
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
21. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
22. Who Killed Chea Vichea?
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    Chea Vichea served as president of Cambodia's garment workers' union until he was gunned down on the street in 2004. Filmed over four years, it explores motives for Vichea's assassination and unravels a police plot that framed two men, who were sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Experts on Murder in the Sources Directory

1. Lenny Hochberg - Hochberg, MacGregor LL.B.