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  1. Agent provocateur
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A person employed by the police or other entity to act undercover to entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act.
  2. Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing Down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
    Capital, Volume One: Chapter 28

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1867
    Agricultural people: first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system.
  3. 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.
  4. Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
  5. The court does not sympathize
    The moral depravity of the Israeli legal system

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The blood of Palestinians is cheap in this country. No one has ever been punished for killing Palestinians – children, adults, newborns, old people. The murderers are all walking among us, free and happy.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
  9. Frames of War
    When Is Life Grievable?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Butler explores the media's portrayal of war and its effect on audiences' understandings of human life. Such portrayals, Butler argues lead to the rationalization of modern warfare and state violence.
  10. Hitler's Propaganda Machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  11. Israeli army’s attitude: Regret, but no real enquiries and certainly no one punished
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    The issue of the security of journalists working in the Occupied Territories cloaks another major political issue, that of the restrictions which the Israeli army imposes in the name of security on journalists working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, especially Palestinians. Israeli officials are unstinting in their criticism of the way the foreign press covers the conflict. The foreign press rejects the criticism and accuses the Israeli authorities of trying to restrict access to information and to influence the way it is treated. Some go so far as to accuse the Israeli army of deliberately targeting journalists.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. The myth of Israeli morality
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Israel has consistently reacted with repression or even extreme violence to cultural and political manifestations of Palestinian identity.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. On Palestinian Civil Disobedience
    The Google Matrix

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Human rights organizations have documented the forms of repression Israel deploys against villages that resist the annexation of their land. Once a village decides to struggle against the annexation barrier the entire community is punished. In addition to home demolitions, curfews and other forms of movement restriction, the Israeli occupation forces consistently uses violence against the protestors — and most often targets the youth -- beating, tear-gassing, as well as deploying both lethal and “non-lethal” ammunition against them.
  19. Palestinian Children and Israeli State Violence
    Resource Type: Book
  20. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
  21. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Strike! 
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
  25. The Truth About Kent State
    A Challenge to the American Conscience

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  26. 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
  27. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
  28. 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.
  29. The White Cop and the Black Professor
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Police are trained to act as authoritarian thugs when they are dealing with people who are not obviously of, or loyal to, the very wealthy elite who rule the nation. The police are trained to enforce law and order in an unjust and unequal society, and a big part of doing this requires that they make ordinary people obey them out of fear.
  30. Why Israel? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    A routine strategy of Israel’s defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of “humanitarian interventions” that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council – sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.

Experts on State-sponsored Violence in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadians for Genocide Education
  2. Marxists Internet Archive
  3. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum



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