1. Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   A series of essays on the Abu Ghraib prison and the political climate surrounding the Bush Administration's intervention into Iraq.
2. Bloggers Name and Shame Torturers in Egypt
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   Egyptian bloggers use the Internet to expose police abuse and torture.
3. Canadian Centre for Investigation and Prevention of Torture
   Organization profile published 1984
   Resource Type: Organization
   First Published: 1984
   Inactive/Defunct Organization
   
4. Chile Report
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1975
   Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
5. China admits torture
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1990
   
6. Chomsky.Info 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
7. CIA Experiments in Torture
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   Over the last year there have been an increasing number of accounts suggesting that, along with the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” torture program, there was a related program experimenting with and researching the application of the torture.
8. The CIA's Greatest Hits
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1994
   Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
9. Convict Labor in America
   Book review
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1998
   Convict labour, like antebellum slavery, was an American way of life, a cultural practice that tied northern capitalists, plantation owners, university-trained social reformers, federal officials and advocates of "good roads" together in a powerful alliance.
10. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
11. 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.
12. 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)."
13. 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.
14. Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
15. Imperial Crusades
    Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.
16. 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.
17. 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?
18. Israeli Doctors Collude in Torture
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli human rights groups charge that Israel’s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture.
19. 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.
    
20. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
21. The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
    
22. Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1981
    The story of Timmerman's 30 months as a political prisoner under the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s.
23. The Professor of Torture
    Dershowitz for the Defense -- of Waterboarding
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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".
    
24. A Question of Torture
    CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Chronicles the US government's use of terror as a political instrument
25. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
    
26. 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.
27. A Reply to B’nai Brith’s Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario’s Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
28. The Shock Doctrine
    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
29. States of Denial
    Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    
30. The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
31. 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.
32. Torture by Taser
    When police abuse their newest “nonlethal” toy, people die.
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    
33. The Torture Memos
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Chomsky comments on the revelations of and reactions to the White House report. He examines the proposed justifications and reasserts that despite the idea of "American exceptionalism", allowing instances of torture to be forgotten lays the foundation for future crime.
    
34. Torture - never forget
    New Internationalist September 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
35. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
36. Uruguay 1964-1970
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
37. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
    The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    
38. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
39. Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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. Electronic Intifada
2. Omar Ha-Redeye
3. United Nations Human Rights Council