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  1. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  2. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  3. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
  4. The Culture of Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  5. 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)."
  6. Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
  7. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2006
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  8. Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
  9. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  10. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  11. The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
  12. The Professor of Torture
    Dershowitz for the Defense -- of Waterboarding

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Whitney exposes the hypocrisy of Alan Dershowitz, who claims to support civil liberties while advocating the use of torture. Dershowitz seems to believe that he should be considered a liberal because he says that prisoners should only be tortured by "nonlethal means, such as sterile needles, being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain wthout endangering life." Whitney characterizes this as "barbarism".
  13. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  14. A Reply to B’nai Brith’s Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario’s Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  15. 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'.
  16. States of Denial
    Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  17. The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  18. Torture - never forget
    New Internationalist September 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2000
    The importance of listening to victims of torture and bringing their stories to the world stage. Articles include an expose of the trade in torture weapons, a look at the torturers themselves, torture in Tibet and Harold Pinter on the U.S. penal system.
  19. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  20. Uruguay 1964-1970
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
  21. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
    The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  22. Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    If singling out South Africa for an international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid regime.

Experts on Torture in the Sources Directory

  1. Amnesty International, Canadian Section

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