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  1. After the Cataclysm
    Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Right:s)

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  2. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1952
  3. America’s last taboo
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
  4. Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2006
    Israeli director Avi Mograbi documents what he calls the "culture of death" in the psychology of Israel the occupier.
  5. The Best of The Nation
    Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    An anthology of articles from The Nation.
  6. Between the Lines
    How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  7. Blaming The Victims
    Spurious Scholarship And The Palestinian Question

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Demonstrates with cold precision how the consistent denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. Controversial, forceful, and—above all—honest, it attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational political future in Palestine possible. Searing essays from Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, G. W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim and Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mumammad Hallaj, Elia Zureik, and Rashid Khalidi.
  8. Burma: Ripe for change
    New Internationalist May 2008

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at Burma's attempts to speak out against political injustice.
  9. Carter's Inconvenient Truths
    An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At least 90% of Americans, if they know anything at all of the issue, know only the Israeli propaganda line. Israel has been able to control the explanation, because the powerful Israel Lobby brands every critic of Israeli policy as an anti-semite who favors a second holocaust of the Jews.
  10. The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
    Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
  11. Chomsky on MisEducation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
  12. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  13. Chronicles of Dissent
    Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  14. The CIA
    A Forgotten History

    Resource Type: Book
    Describes the CIA's role in overthrowing governments, rigging elections, assassinating leaders, and manufacturing "news" in over 50 countries.
  15. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
  16. Climate Cover-Up
    The Crusade to Deny Global Warming

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Tracking the global warming denial movement from its inception, public relations advisor James Hoggan (working with journalist Richard Littlemore), reveals the details of those early plans and then tracks their execution, naming names and exposing tactics in what has become a full-blown attack on the integrity of the public conversation.
  17. The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening.
  18. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  19. Contested Truths
    Keywords in American Politics since Independence

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  20. Counter-Rhetoric 
    Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security’ argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantra’s and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
  21. Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
  22. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
  23. The Culture of Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Chomsky argues that the United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips.
  24. Designing Pacifist Films 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1961
  25. Deterring Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  26. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
  27. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
  28. Eight Men Speak
    And Other Plays from the Canadian Workers' Theatre

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Eight plays presented by the Canadian Worker's Theatre in the 1930s.
  29. Four Trends That Scare the Hell Out of Me
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    To paraphrase H.G. Wells, modern history has become a race between education and miseducation. There are very few people around who really don't know anything, but there are multitudes who know many things that don't happen to be true.
  30. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
  31. The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    It may yet be the case that, as in the anti-apartheid struggle, the shift in the relation of forces in the Palestinians' favour will occur not through diplomacy or as a result of armed resistance, but on the symbolic battlefield of legitimacy that has become global in scope.
  32. Hasbara
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Sourcewatch's analysis of 'Hasbara' -- the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.
  33. Hitler's Propaganda Machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  34. How low will Israel stoop to win the propaganda war?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israel Project’s training manual is an unpleasant piece of work. It recycles many of the discredited techniques used by the advertising industry. And it serves to undermine with clever words the inalienable rights pledged by the UN and the world’s civilized nations to all peoples, including the Palestinians.
  35. Independent Groups Debunk Israeli War Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organizations.
  36. Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Keeping the media safe for big business.
  37. Intellectual Cleansing: Part 2
    Former Guardian and Observer Journalist Jonathan Cook Responds

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Most ambitious journalists start out on a daily local newspaper owned by one of a handful of large media groups. There one quickly feels all sorts of institutional constraints on one's reporting. As a young journalist, if you know no better, you simply come to accept that journalism is done in a certain kind of way, that certain stories are suitable and others unsuitable.
  38. Intellectual Cleansing: Part 3
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The tendency to self-deception appears to be greatly increased when we join as part of a group. Groups create a sense of belonging, a "we-feeling", which can provide even greater incentives to reject painful truths.
  39. Intellectual Self-Defense
    Find Your Inner Chomsky

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2008
    What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from mysticism to news reporting.
  40. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
  41. Inventing Tax Rage
    Misinformation in the National Post

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    How the National Post created an agenda for the tax cuts that mostly benefits the wealthy.
  42. Inventing Tax Rage (excerpt)
    Misinformation in the National Post

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004   Published: 2005
    The propaganda campaign to invent "tax rage".
  43. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  44. Israel’s 'left’ apologists 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism.
  45. Israel's New Strategy: "Sabotage" And "Attack" The Global Justice Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Reut's analysis vindicates the effectiveness of the Boycot Divestment Sanctions strategy. As Israeli elites increasingly fear for the long-term prospects of the Zionist project they are likely to be more ruthless, unscrupulous and desperate than ever.
  46. Jonathan Cook - Response to Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    However grateful we should be to the tiny minority of dissident writers, their relegation to the margins of the commentary pages of Britain’s “leftwing” media serves a useful purpose for corporate interests. It helps define the “character” of the British media as provocative, pluralistic and free-thinking – when in truth they are anything but. It is a vital component in maintaining the fiction that a professional media is a diverse media.
  47. Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    While it is often the case that the majority of Americans do see the light—about the need for healthcare reform, a new energy policy or affordable, high-quality day care—the dominant journalistic practices, especially in broadcast and cable news, dim the light in favor of noise. Far-right Republicans understand, almost instinctively, this preference for noise. And they appreciate—and know how to cultivate—the greatest bias in electronic journalism right now: the laziness bias. The laziness bias means you feature sensation over substance, provocative sound bites over investigative reporting, misinformation over fact.
  48. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
  49. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  50. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
  51. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics in Michael Nickerson's book. By using the example of Kerela, a state in India with a population comparable to Canada's he shows how a society by working together can become car free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
  52. Mainstream Media And The Propaganda Machine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Mainstream media, especially the American media plays a vital role in shaping the world public opinion.
  53. The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
  54. Manufacturing Consent 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1992
    A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
  55. 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.
  56. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  57. Media Lies And The War Drive Against Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Iran’s crime is its independence. Having thrown out the US’s favourite tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran remains the only resource-rich Muslim state beyond US control. As only Israel has a “right to exist” in the Middle East, the US goal is to cripple the Islamic Republic. This will allow Israel to divide and dominate the region on Washington’s behalf, undeterred by a confident neighbour.
  58. 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.
  59. Medialens
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media.
    MediaLens is a response based on our conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. We are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable.
    In seeking to understand the basis and operation of this systematic distortion, we flatly reject all conspiracy theories and point instead to the inevitably corrupting effects of free market forces operating on and through media corporations seeking profit in a society dominated by corporate power.
  60. Necessary Illusions 
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
  61. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
  62. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  63. Newspapers and the Workers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1916
    The worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his.
  64. Newspeak in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
  65. The not-so-hidden persuaders
    The Israel lobby’s global propaganda manual

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A major public relations manual for Israel lobbyists teaches pro-Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions.
  66. Nuclear Deceit: The Times and Iran
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Is the Times engaged in reporting or propaganda in its coverage of Iran's nuclear program?
  67. On Power and Ideology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  68. One Market Under God
    Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  69. Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
  70. The Organizer's Manual
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
  71. Orwell
    The War Broadcasts

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  72. Palestine Media Watch
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    PMWATCH was established to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories. Includes tools and suggestions for action on media bias.
  73. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  74. The Politics Of Anti-Semitism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians? This is the question considered in these 18 essays (by nine Jews and nine Gentiles), including Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Lenni Brenner, and Uri Avnery.
  75. The Poster in History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  76. The Power of Persuation
    The Politics of the New Right in Ontario

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Kozolanka looks at how the New Right government of former Ontario Premier Mike Harris came to power by using successful strategies from other countries to gain public consent for its neo-conservative policies. Relying on evidence drawn from literature, interviews and content analysis, she argues that this trajectory was "neither haphazard nor narrowly constructed."
  77. A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
  78. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
  79. Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
  80. Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    The Scientists Are The Bad Guys.
  81. Radical Digressions 6
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2009
  82. Radical Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
  83. Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alternative" views are not necessarily credible or true. The cliimate change deniers' arguments are no less articles of faith than those of the creationists. In the case of the former, the faith is not in a god but in the free market and capitalism. Almost without exception, those who are in staunch denial are those connected to, involved in or supportive of the traditional capitalist model of economic growth, and by implication opposed to anything that might constrain this model.
  84. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
  85. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  86. Revolution in the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  87. Seven Answers To Climate Contrarian Nonsense
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Within the community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic climate change, those deny climate change are commonly referred to as contrarians, naysayers and denialists. Not everyone who questions climate change science fits that description, of course — some people are genuinely unaware of the facts or honestly disagree about their interpretation. What distinguishes the true naysayers is an unwavering dedication to denying the need for action on the problem, often with weak and long-disproved arguments about supposed weaknesses in the science behind global warming.
  88. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  89. Six Red Months in Russia
    An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918
    Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
  90. Society of the Spectacle 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 2005
    An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
  91. Some of my best comrades are friends
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    The left’s sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
  92. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
  93. Sultans of Sleaze
    Public Relations and the Media

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Reveals the extent to which we have been deceived by public relations firms on behalf of their unscrupulous clients -- the corporations and governments that control our society.
  94. Tactics of Desperation: Using false accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ - Arabic text
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
  95. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
  96. La tactique du désespoir : Utilisant de fausses accusations de l'antisémitisme comme arme pour faire taire toute critique sur le comportement d'Israël.
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
  97. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy 
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 1997
    The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
  98. Taser Company Uses Facebook, Blogs to Improve Image Amidst Lawsuits
    Stun-gun maker Taser blogs to beat bad buz

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The company, whose main product is a lightning rod for criticism, is increasingly using blogs and social networks to promote new products and dispel anxieties about them.
  99. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
  100. Ten Health Care Myths 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
  101. Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government’s line on the Middle East conflict.
  102. We Own the World
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007   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.
  103. Weapons of Mass Persuasion
    Marketing the War Against Iraq

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
  104. We're Winning -- Don't Ask Where!
    Roll Over George Orwell, And Give Goebbels the News!

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
  105. Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT “recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state” 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
  106. William Morris
    From Romantic to Revolutionary

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1977
  107. Words have failed
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
  108. Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
  109. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.

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  3. The Mackenzie Institute
  4. Marxists Internet Archive



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For experts and media spokespersons also see the Sources directory and the comprehensive Sources Subject Index.
Links Selected Internet resources featuring information about alternatives.
Calendar Events from across Canada. Also see: Sources Calendar and news releases.
Publicity and Media Resources, publications and articles to help you get publicity and raise awareness. Plus Media Names & Numbers Canadian media directory, the Parliamentary Names & Numbers Canadian government directory, and mailing lists.
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Mission Connexions exists to support individuals and groups working for freedom and social justice. We work to maintain and make available a record of the theory and practice of people struggling against oppression and for social change. We believe that the more we know about the struggles, victories, and defeats of the past, and about those who took part in them, the better equipped we will be to bring a new world into being. Connexions maintains a physical archive of books and documents, and is engaged in an ongoing project to build and expand an indexed digital archive of documents. We try to feature a wide variety of resources reflecting a diversity of viewpoints and approaches to social change within our overall mandate of support for democracy, civil liberties, freedom of expression, universal human rights, secularism, equality, economic justice, environmental responsibility, and the creation and preservation of community. We are internationalist in our orientation, but as a Canadian-based project we feature an especially extensive collection of Canadian documents and profiles of Canadian activist organizations.