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  1. After the Cataclysm
    Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights)

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
  2. Are These the Keystone Cops?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The CIA owes its vaunted reputation to one source: Hollywood’s movie studios. The way the movies portray America's clandestine services goes so far beyond mere "exaggeration" or embellishment, it verges on outright hero worship, stubbornly confusing James Woolsey with James Bond. Alas, if our intel-gathering networks were a fraction as accomplished as Hollywood portrays them to be, we wouldn’t have been mired in Vietnam or Iraq.
  3. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
    Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
  4. Canadian News Synthesis Project - September 1974
    Volume II Number 9

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
  5. Canadian News Synthesis Supplement: The CIA in Chile
    Volume II Number 9 (supplement)

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    Supplement to Canadian News Synthesis Project Volume II, Number 9 (September 1974). The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America. Special in-depth issue on the presence of the Central Intelligence Agency in Chile.
  6. Canadian News Synthesis Project - January 1975
    Volume III Number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975
    The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
  7. 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.
  8. The CIA: A Forgotten History
    U.S. Global Interventions Since World War II

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This book tells the remarkable story of the multifarious US/CIA interventions in more than fifty foreign countries. Here are all the details of these exploits, the operations behind the overthrow of governments, suppression of revolutions, perversions of elections, assassination of leaders, manipulation of trade unions and other organizations. Here is the account of each of the most significant American interventions.
  9. The CIA and Questions of Torture
    Against The Current vol. 131

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Alfred W. McCoy's A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror is a chilling, eerily fascinating account of how the CIA used physical and psychological torture as a method of interrogation.
  10. The CIA and the "Peace Process" - Interview
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    A controversial feature of the torturously negotiated and implemented "Wye Plantation Agreement" is the direct, overt role assigned to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in monitoring Palestinian Authority (PA) implementation of the "security provisions."
  11. The CIA and the Art of the "Un-Cover-Up"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2014
    Down the decades the CIA has approached perfection in the art of the "un-cover-up". The "uncover-up" is a process whereby, with all due delay, the agency first denies with passion then concedes in profoundly muffled tones charges leveled against it. One familiar feature in the "uncover-up" paradigm is the frequently made statement by CIA-friendly journalists that "no smoking gun" has been detected in whatever probe is under review.
  12. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974   Published: 1975
  13. The CIA and the Drones
    How the Agency Became "One Hell of a Killing Machine"

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  14. CIA Chief Declares War on Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Mike Pompeo made it clear that he has little regard for truth, for personal decency, or for the Constitutional protections for free speech or for the free exercise of religion. It was an altogether chilling debut for a spy agency head in a country that still imagines itself enjoying some basic freedoms.
  15. CIA Experiments in Torture
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  16. The CIA in Ukraine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Edited excerpt from "The CIA as Organized Crime", by Douglas Valentine, detailing the CIA's activities in Ukraine and influence on political movements there.
  17. 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.
  18. CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The CIA took naked photographs of people it sent to its foreign partners for torture, the Guardian can reveal. A former US official who had seen some of the photographs described them as “very gruesome”.
  19. The CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIA’s Propaganda Network
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Last week, the Washington Post published a scurrilous piece by a heretofore obscure technology reporter named Craig Timberg, alleging without the faintest evidence that Russian intelligence was using more than 200 independent news sites to pump out pro-Putin and anti-Clinton propaganda during the election campaign.
  20. The CIA Reads French Theory
    On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A recently unclassifed CIA documents reveals that in the 1980s, the agency had its analysts devote substantial time and resources to studying trends in French theory, and specifically, the work that writers like Michel Foucault, Jacques, and Roland Barthes were doing in undermining the Marxist left. The CIA saw this trend as beneficial to the maintenance of American power, and capitalism generally, because it undermind the idea that there could or should be fundamental revolutionary change.
  21. CIA set up Mandela
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
  22. CIA sneak undetectable 'malicious' implants onto Windows OS - WikiLeaks
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Windows machines are targeted by the CIA under 'Angelfire,' according to the latest release from WikiLeaks' 'Vault7' series. The documents detail an implant that can allow Windows machines to create undetectable libraries.
  23. CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Over 60 inmates at New York's Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
  24. CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Over 60 inmates at New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
  25. The CIA's Death Machine at Work (book review)
    Against The Current vol. 156

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    In compelling detail, two leading civil rights attorneys — both leaders of the Center for Constitutional Rights (New York) — recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world’s most popular revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara. Using internal U.S. governmental documentation, only recently released, the authors use their forensic skills to analyze the evidence of the CIA’s involvement in the execution of a war prisoner captured alive.
  26. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
  27. The CIA's Memory Prison
    A Perverse Logic

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The U.S. government has ruled that the prisoners kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. cannot talk about their experiences because those experiences are the property of the U.S. government, which has classified them as secret national security information. This means the prisoners’ personal stories, recollections and experiences cannot be told in any open court, recounted to journalists or human rights groups, nor can they be heard by international bodies like the United Nations.
  28. The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
  29. The CIA's 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    In this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence," Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author and co-founder of Guernica magazine.Whitney's new book, "Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers," explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled major news agencies and respected literary publications.
  30. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  31. The Complicity of Psychologists in CIA Torture
    What the APA Knew

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen are two psychologists who played central roles in designing and implementing the CIA’s torture program. Now we also know how lucrative that work was for Mitchell and Jessen: their company was paid over $80 million by the CIA.
  32. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  33. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  34. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  35. The Coup
    1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    In 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency organized the overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next 26, the U.S. backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped a share of Iran’s oil wealth. The blowback was almost inevitable, as this new and revealing history of the coup and its consequences shows.
  36. Cuba 1959 to 1980s
    The Unforgivable Revolution

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
  37. Declassified Documents Now Reveal There Were Two CIA Torture Programs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Declassified documents expose new info about the CIA's detention and interrogation operations. This article looks at their history going back to MKUltra in the 1950s.
  38. The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    There is a real danger here that this maneuver could harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him. If any of the significant claims in this “dossier” turn out to be provably false -- such as Cohen’s trip to Prague -- many people will conclude, with Trump’s encouragement, that large media outlets (CNN and BuzzFeed) and anti-Trump factions inside the government (CIA) are deploying "Fake News" to destroy him. In the eyes of many people, that will forever discredit -- render impotent -- future journalistic exposés that are based on actual, corroborated wrongdoing.
  39. 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.
  40. Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA's Efforts to Overthrow Syria's Government
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    FAIR has noted before how America's well-documented clandestine activities in Syria have been routinely ignored when the corporate media discuss the Obama administration's "hands-off" approach to the four-and-a-half-year-long conflict.
  41. Ecuador 1960-1963
    A Textbook of Dirty Tricks

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA-backed coups in Ecuador of 1960-1963.
  42. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
  43. The Forgotten Coup
    How the Same Godfather Rules from Canberra to Kiev

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Washington’s role in the fascist putsch against an elected government in Ukraine will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore the historical record. Since 1945, dozens of governments, many of them democracies, have met a similar fate, usually with bloodshed.
  44. The Forgotten Coup
    How America and Britain Crushed the Government of Their "Ally" Australia

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died. His achievements are recognised, if grudgingly, his mistakes noted in false sorrow. But a critical reason for his extraordinary political demise will, they hope, be buried with him.
  45. The Fourth Branch
    How the CIA infiltrated student politics

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Article about the CIA's influence and control over the National Student Association, a relationship that was kept secret for years.
  46. Gary Webb "It Was Outrageous But It Was True"
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2014
    Part one in a series featuring Gary Webb in his own words. The interview was conducted and filmed by the Guerrilla News Network, scholars, and professors at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism.
  47. Gary Webb: Vindicated
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Family Members of the Intrepid Investigative Journalist — Soon To Be Immortalized By An Upcoming Hollywood Movie — Share Their Story With The World.
  48. Gina Haspel's CIA nomination demands the United States account for its history of torture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA has stirred objections from many quarters. Dorfman recounts the impact of state sanctioned torture in Chile.
  49. Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
  50. Hegemony or Survival 
    America's Quest for Global Dominance

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
    Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
  51. Hidden Agendas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
  52. Hollywood's Gary Webb Movie and the Message that Big Media Couldn't Kill
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Gary's email arrived quite by surprise. I knew about his Dark Alliance series, five years prior, documenting the CIA's trafficking of cocaine to fund paramilitary squads in Central America. I also knew he had been pummeled by corporate media and had lost his job over it. "They're trying to turn you into me," he said, “but you can win because you don't have a boss who can sell you out."
  53. Hunting the CIA's Keystone Kommandos
    On the Trail of Agency Kidnappers

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    You cannot overstate the CIA’s capacity to bungle things. Sheer incompetence explains far more of America’s espionage fiascos than most of us might think. The other point is the importance of hubris in CIA history—the idea that the CIA operates in such a different universe, is so far above the law, that its people often feel they can’t possibly get caught, and that if they do, they couldn’t possibly be punished.
  54. Impeachment, Brought to You by the CIA
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Despite occasional warm gas passed in a leftish direction, establishment Democrats never had any intention of allowing a left political program to move forward. After four decades of asserting that they 'believe' climate science, the moment has arrived when the only political path forward is to take on their donors.
  55. 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.
  56. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
  57. Indonesia 1957-1958
    War and Pornography

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
  58. Inside the Company: CIA Diary
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  59. 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.
  60. Killing Hope 
    U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
  61. 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.
  62. Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As Facts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, 2017, "C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed," misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the American presidential election but that it is a settled fact that the CIA was in possession of hard evidence to that effect.
  63. 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."
  64. 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.
  65. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
    Destabilization and Regime Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
  66. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
    Public Transit

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
  67. Passionate Declarations
    Essays on War and Justice

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990   Published: 2003
    Essays looking at American political ideology.
  68. Press for Conversion #43
    December 2000

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
  69. Profits of War
    Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  70. 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
  71. 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.
  72. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
  73. 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.
  74. Rogue State 
    A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
  75. SDS 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
  76. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
  77. Silent Coup
    How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back Onto American University Campuses

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
  78. '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.
  79. Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    This report is an effort to document something about corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations. Law enforcement should prioritize investigating and prosecuting corporate espionage against nonprofits.
  80. Torture Report Reveals CIA's Manipulation of US Media
    Agency Used Classified Information As Currency For Deception

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In essence, the CIA operated as a propaganda machine, utilizing classified information as part of a larger effort to deceive the American public about the shortcomings of its torture program.
  81. Torture and the Violence of Organized Forgetting
    A Form of Moral Paralysis

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    With the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture, it becomes clear that in the aftermath of the loathsome terrorist attack of 9/11, the United States entered into a new and barbarous stage in its history, one in which acts of violence and moral depravity were not only embraced but celebrated.
  82. 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.
  83. 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.
  84. Uruguay 1964-1970
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
  85. The War on Democracy 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    This film by John Pilger explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
  86. The War on Democracy in Latin America: Interview with John Pilger
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Journalist, writer and filmmaker John Pilger granted this exclusive interview where he talks about the US war on democracy in Latin America. "Modern era imperialism is a war on democracy. Genuine democracy is a threat to unfettered power and cannot be tolerated", he says.
  87. A War Plan Scuttled?
    Against The Current vol. 133

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    As the Bush era draws to a close, there been increasing speculation on whether or not the United States will attack Iran. Spurred by the posturing and rhetoric coming from the White House and a subservient media, much of that discussion has narrowly focused on Iran potential nuclear threat and the character of the current administrations in Washington and Tehran.
  88. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
    The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    Chomsky and Herman demonstrate, with devasting logic and overwhelming documentation, that the purpose of U.S. global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by U.S. corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throught the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy and human rights.
  89. 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.
  90. Where's the Evidence?
    The CIA-FBI-NSA report on the hacking of the 2016 election is pure baloney

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    We are told from the outset that the actual evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC and John Podesta's emails as part of a wide-ranging campaign to put Donald Trump in the White House cannot be revealed: "source and methods" must be kept secret. This in spite of DNI director James Clapper's pledge that he would declassify as much of the evidence as possible in the interests of transparency: but then again, Clapper is an admitted liar.
  91. The Whistleblower's Tale
    How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA — and Lost Everything

    Resource Type: Article
    A CIA officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for whistleblowing and filing lawsuits of racial discrimination against the CIA. This is a story of a man who was beaten down and stood back up just to be beaten down again.
  92. The Whistleblower's Tale
    How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA-- and Lost Everything

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    This is how it ended for Jeffrey Sterling. A former covert officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, Sterling sat down in a federal courtroom with a lawyer on either side, looking up at a judge who would announce in a few moments whether he would go to prison for the next 20 years.
  93. Who to Believe: The CIA and Corporate Media or WikiLeaks?
    Without Substantiation, Media Integrity Suffers

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Imagine if justice were administered mainly on hearsay (ignoring the fact that justice is too often lacking in society). It is a cardinal rule of justice that rendering a decision of guilty must only be done when such guilt is beyond a reasonable doubt. Medical schools state they follow evidence-based practices. Nursing schools do the same. Science progresses through the scientific method which demands evidence. When observations and experimental results contravene theory, the theory is tossed. There is academia, and then there is politics and the corporate media. Politics and its corporate media has long since become risible within the sphere of serious contemplation.
  94. WikiLeaks Vault 7 Reveals CIA Cyberwar and the Battleground of Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    WikiLeaks dropped a bombshell on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7”, the whistleblowing site began releasing the largest publication of confidential documents that have come from the top secret security network at the Cyber Intelligence Center.
  95. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
  96. 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.

Experts on US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Sources Directory

  1. Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
  2. Wikileaks

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