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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. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
    Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
  3. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. CIA Off Campus
    Building the Movement Against Agency Recruitment and Research

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1999
    Mills describes campus organizing against the CIA's recruiting and research programs on campus. She also describes how to detect secret CIA activities and how to combat them. She gives voice to the multiple reasons why so many academics have opposed the presence of the CIA on university campuses: reasons that ranged from the recognition of secrecy’s antithetical relationship to academic freedom, to political objections to the CIA’s use of torture and assassination, to efforts on campuses to recruit professors and students, and the CIA’s longstanding role in undermining democratic movements around the world.
  7. CIA set up Mandela
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
  8. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
  9. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  10. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
  11. Cuba 1959 to 1980s
    The Unforgivable Revolution

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
  12. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
  13. Ecuador 1960-1963
    A Textbook of Dirty Tricks

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA-backed coups in Ecuador of 1960-1963.
  14. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
  15. Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
  16. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
  17. 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.
  18. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  19. Indonesia 1957-1958
    War and Pornography

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
  20. Inside the Company: CIA Diary
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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."
  24. 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.
  25. Profits of War
    Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  26. 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
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. SDS 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
  30. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
  31. Silent Coup
    How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back Onto American University Campuses

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
  32. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  33. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
  34. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
  35. Uruguay 1964-1970
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
  36. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
    The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  37. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
  38. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  39. 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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