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  1. The Anarchists
    The men who shocked an era

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    The history and ideology of anarchism.
  2. 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.
  3. Beyond Sovereignty
    Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition)

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
  4. Buda's Wagon
    A Brief History of the Car Bomb

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  6. The Case Against Israel
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
  7. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  8. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
  9. 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.
  10. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
  11. Cuba's Prisoner Release
    Surprise! Mainstream Media Omits Context and Key Facts

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Double standards and hypocrisy abound in American media coverage of Cuba's recent prisoner release. For example, the U.S. government holds more political prisoners on Cuban soil than the Cuban government does.
  12. 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.
  13. Dirty Wars
    Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Historian Mark Curtis, presents the history of the British government's sponsorship of radical Islamic terrorism, from Iran, Afghanistan and Libya to the July 7 bombings.
  14. Domestic Terrorism
    Notes on the State System of Oppression

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1999
    Starting with the curious events in Detroit 1971 associated with the Socialist Worker's party, Chomsky investigates FBI disruption programs, their consequences and meaning. He defines this systematic contamination as a sort of domestic terrorism.
  15. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
  16. Everyday Life in the Modern World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1971
  17. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
  18. 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.
  19. Front de libération du Québec
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A organization that used propaganda and terrorism to promote the emergence of an independent Québec.
  20. Guantanamo North
    Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    After September 11, 2001, Canadian governments made significant changes to the law so that non-citizens with suspected links to terrorism could be held indefinitely with no due process. The Courts held that these and other changes including "judicial interrogations" and "convictions for terrorism without intent" are consistent with the Charter of Rights. The range of state secrecy extends now to everything related to national security. Diab contends that these measures are unnecessary and contrary to human rights and freedom.
  21. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
  22. Human Rights: in a time of terror
    New Internationalist January/February 2008

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at human rights in various countries including women's and sex rights.
  23. International Terrorism
    Image and Reality - In Alexander George (ed.), Western State Terrorism

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Chomsky identifies two approaches to evaluating terrorism: the literal and propagandistic. He further explores various cases, factors and forms of terrorism according to literal analysis, yet concludes by admitting that in order to understand the phenomenon in the context of reality, one must abandon the literal for the propagandistic approach.
  24. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  25. Islamic Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1994
    There is not the slightest real and legitimate relationship between the appalling calamities that have befallen the Jewish people in this century and the suppression and crimes committed by the extremist right wing government in Israel against the Palestinians. There is not the slightest real and justified relationship between the sufferings of the deprived people of Palestine and the terrorism of Islamic or non-Islamic organisations attributed to these people.
  26. Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1994
    If Jews in France were required to carry identification cards designating them Jews, could not acquire land or buy or rent homes in most of the country, were not eligible for service in the armed forces, and French law banned any political party or legislation calling for equal rights for Jews, would France be widely praised in the United States as a “symbol of human decency” and paragon of democracy?
  27. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
  28. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
  29. 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.
  30. Loss of Faith
    How the Air India Bombers Got Away with Murder

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    An account of the Air India Bombing trial and investigations.
  31. The lying silence of those who know
    Holocaust Denied

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    In every war, Israel has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft or more and more land.
  32. Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. The Most Wanted List, International Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Revealing the difference between America's use of the term "the world" and the conception which would actually include the entire globe, Chomsky demonstrates that if the "world's" voice were heeded, other terrorist concerns would likely top the agenda.
  37. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  38. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  39. The Other Israel
    Voices of Refusal and Dissent

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    A compilation of essays written by Israelis who oppose Israel's occupation of Palestine.
  40. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
  41. Palestinian farmers face settler terror
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    Jewish settlers have a long history of terrorising olive farmers, and they are now increasingly resorting to a worrying tactic: poisoning Palestinian water sources.
  42. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  43. Power and Terror
    Post 9-11 talks and interviews

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky presents his latest thinking on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, and the meaning and true impact of militarism in the world today. Beginning with the fundamental principle that the exercise of violence against civilian populations is terror, regardless of whether the perpetrator is an underground network of Muslim extremists or the most powerful state in the world, Chomsky, in stark and uncompromising terms, challenges the United States to apply to itself the moral standards it demands of others.
  44. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
  45. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
  46. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
  50. Rights and Freedoms State Fear The Global attack on rights
    New Internationalist March 2005

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    A look into rights and freedoms, the connection to occupation, and their state in different parts of the world.
  51. The Semantics of Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    A mental construct has been created in which the State of Israel is an entity that is under constant attack. By terrorists. Who, irrefutably, must be eradicated. Their actions are somewhat irrelevant. Whether they are school children, passing through checkpoints, or citizens from other countries bringing medicine and food to Gaza, Israel will garner an astonishing degree of unconditional national and international support for harming them if they call them terrorists.
  52. Terror and Just Response
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    Chomsky explores different interpretations of the question regarding the proper response to terrorist crimes and of the broader problem of determining their nature.
  53. Terror in Italy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1980
    I have known Toni Negri since 1964, when we met at the University of Padua. I have many disagreements with his theories and his formulations. But I am certain that he is innocent of any complicity with the Moro assassination and/or the Red Brigades. And I am also certain that he deserves a trial that is fairer than the Italian government seems to be willing to give him.
  54. Terror Takeover
    The monstrous march of the security state

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2009
    Has our panic over terrorism given permission for unchecked abuse? The fear of terrorism has been used to curtail our liberties and violate human rights.
  55. Terrorism & Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1969
  56. Terrorism and Communism
    A Contribution to the Natural History of Revolution

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1919
  57. Terrorism in Palestine
    Are the Terrorists Anti-Imperialist?

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1946
    Terrorist activity in Palestine has been revived on a larger scale than formerly, calling the attention of the entire press to the organisations of the Hagana, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Stern Gang and their activities. Socialist internationalists must answer the question: what is the character of these organisations? Are they an anti-imperialist factor in the liberatory struggles of the colonial peoples?
  58. Terrorizing the Neighborhood
    American Foreign Policy in the post-Cold War Era

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  59. The Third Camp
    Against U.S. militarism and Islamic terrorism

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    We must stand up with all our power to the US government’s and its allies’ bullying. We must put an end to the crimes of the opposite pole, i.e. Islamic terrorism. We must help the people of Islam-stricken countries to get rid of the menace of Islamic terrorist states and forces. American militarism and Islamic terrorism have brutalised the world. Neither of them has a solution to the present crisis and its resulting problems. Rather, they are themselves the cause of this crisis and its aggravation. Civilised humanity must rise up against both these poles and the suffering that they have imposed on the world.
  60. Twin Terrors
    New Internationalist November 2001

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    An in-depth look at the events of the 9/11 disaster.
  61. Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
  62. Wars of Terror
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky explores the nature of terrorism, focusing on four main questions posed by the 9/11 tragedy.
  63. Web of Hate
    Inside Canada's Far Right Network

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Kinsella asserts that some 40 groups are more dangerous than commonly perceived because of their violence and aggressive recruitment.
  64. Who are the Global Terrorists?
    in Booth & Tim Dunne (eds.), Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    In light of President George Bush's declaration of "war against terrorism", Chomsky attempts to determine who the opponents are and what the appropriate response to their crimes would be.
  65. You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship 
    The Anarchist Case Against Terrorism

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1981
    An Australian socialist-libertarian response to terrorism in the aftermath of the 1978 Sidney Hilton bombing, and a meditation on the inferior logic of terrorist-based politics.

Experts on Terrorism in the Sources Directory

  1. Central American Integration System
  2. Commonwealth of Independent States
  3. Council of Europe
  4. Omar Ha-Redeye
  5. Professor Randall Hansen
  6. International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)
  7. The Mackenzie Institute
  8. Marxists Internet Archive
  9. NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  10. NameBase Book Index
  11. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
  12. Organization of American States
  13. Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
  14. Science for Peace
  15. Simon Fraser University
  16. United Nations Human Rights Council
  17. World Customs Organization
  18. Barrie Zwicker



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