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  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. American Methods
    Torture and the Logic of Domination

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A damning audit of the US record in underwriting human rights violations around the globe and at home, and about the centrality of rape, racism, and conquest to both the state and US national culture.
  3. The American Way of Torture
    CounterPunch Diary

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  4. The American Way of Torture
    The Rule of Law Went and Never Returned

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians.
  5. Amnesty International Canadian Medical Group
    Organization profile published 1979 (May)

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1979
  6. Bloggers Name and Shame Torturers in Egypt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Egyptian bloggers use the Internet to expose police abuse and torture.
  7. Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Selective Outrage
    What about the Others?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Calls attention to the widespread use of solitary confinement with Bradley Manning as a specific example.
  8. Bradley Manning's Torture Commonplace In U.S. Prisons
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The corrosive, solitary confinement being inflicted upon PFC Bradley Manning in the Quantico, Va., brig is no exceptional torture devised exclusively for him. Across the length and breadth of the Great American Prison State, the world's largest, with its 2.4-million captives stuffed into 5,000 overcrowded lock-ups, some 25,000 other inmates are suffering a like fate of sadistic isolation in so-called supermax prisons.
  9. Canadian Centre for Investigation and Prevention of Torture
    Organization profile published 1984

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1984
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
  11. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  12. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  13. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  14. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  15. Chile Report
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975
    Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
  16. China admits torture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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”.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  26. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  27. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  28. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  29. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  30. Convict Labor in America
    Book review

    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.
  33. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Website
    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)."
  34. Empire of Lies and Torture
    Against The Current vol. 111

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    The prohibition of torture in international conventions is absolute. There are no exceptions for so-called "ticking bombs," for "high-value terrorists" or "illegal enemy combatants" or similar improvised fictions—or for extraterritorial prison camps (Guantanamo) where the jailers exercise absolute power but somehow disclaim the legal responsibilities of "sovereignty."
  35. 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.
  36. Fascism, American-Style
    One-Step from the Third Reich?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Unbeknownst to most Americans the United States is presently under thirty presidential declared states of emergency. They confer vast powers on the Executive Branch including the ability to financially incapacitate any person or organization in the United States, seize control of the nation’s communications infrastructure, mobilize military forces, expand the permissible size of the military without congressional authorization, and extend tours of duty without consent from service personnel.
  37. Force-Feeding a Suffragette
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1915
    A description of the brutal force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes in England.
  38. 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.
  39. GovernmentSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    A portal with information about government, Canadian and international, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  40. Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
  41. The Humiliation of Bradley Manning
    Kangaroos Missing

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    It is a bitter irony that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, whose conscience compelled him to leak evidence about the U.S. military brass ignoring evidence of torture in Iraq, was himself the victim of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment while other military officers privately took note but did nothing.
  42. 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.
  43. Incarcerated Inside Israel
    Palestinians Tortured and Isolated

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care, such is the Israeli judicial system and prison confinement experienced by Palestinian men, women and indeed children.
  44. Insouciant Americans
    Blinding Hypocrisy

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Hypocrisy in America is now so commonplace it is no longer noticed.
  45. An Interview With Noam Chomsky on Obama's Human Rights Record
    Nothing Can Justify Torture

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    America's human rights record under the administration of President Obama and the military intervention policies that have seen increased use during the Arab Spring.
  46. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2014
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  47. Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article
    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?
  48. Israeli Doctors Collude in Torture
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  49. Israeli torture of Palestinian children 'institutional'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Investigation of the practice of torture by Shin Bet interrogators, revealing the practice as systematic.
  50. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims

    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  51. Letters to My Torturer
    Love, Revolution, and Imprisonment in Iran

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    In these letters, Asadi confronts the man who tortured him while he was held prisoner in Iran.
  52. The Logic of Torture
    It's About Domination, Not Intelligence

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Torture seems to have been as bureaucratic as any other government program, with the interrogators more obsessed about memos and ass covering and obscure turf wars than stopping the progress of ticking time bombs. Like all the other Beltway drones, the CIA’s team kissed up and kicked down, sucking up to their superiors while they tortured men to death.
  53. The Man Who Was Chemically Tortured
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The torture of David Hicks at Guantanamo.
  54. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 15
    Marx and Engels 1856 - 1858

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1858
    Mainly articles about Europe, colonialism, and India.
  55. 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.
  56. One Thousand Years of Solitude
    Life in the SHU

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Indefinite solitary confinement: a large-scale experiment in sensory deprivation and social isolation.
  57. Patricia Isasa's Quest for Justice
    Against The Current vol. 137

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Patricia Isasa turned 16 on April 24, 1976 in her home town of Santa Fe, Argentina. She was an honor student, a delegate of her school and a member of a Catholic group in support of the poor - all completely open and legal activities.
  58. Police Torture and the Real Militarization of Society
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    What rights can we still say we have, if we find ourselves trapped in a military structure? A person has the right to remain silent if arrested, but one does not have the right to remain silent if approached by the police on the street with the demand that one respond. That would constitute being "uncooperative." Neither does one have the right to protect one's property from the police.
  59. Predicting Torture
    The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture.
  60. Prison Nation 
    The Warehousing of America's Poor

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Essays on the cruelty and inhumanity of the American prison system.
  61. 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.
  62. The Professor of Torture
    Dershowitz for the Defense -- of Waterboarding

    Resource Type: Article
    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".
  63. Proposed Torture Ban Includes New Transparency and Oversight Mechanisms
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The US senate has approved the ban for government torture. Along with this move, they have also implemented transparency and oversight policies into government agencies like the NSA and FBI.
  64. Psychologists' Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions
    The Status Quo of Torture

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
  65. Putting the Arms Industry on Trial
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Sean Douglas and other activists are prosecuting two companies that promoted torture equipment in the UK.
  66. 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
  67. Questions for the APA Board Regarding Claims in James Risen's Book "Pay Any Price"
    Colluding With the CIA on Torture?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In his new book Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, James Risen, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, documents apparent collaboration between (American Psychological Association) APA leadership and the CIA to support psychologist participation in torture.
  68. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
  69. The Real Costs of Empire
    Against The Current vol. 123

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Vietnam all over again? Yes, it is. The massacres by United States military forces of unarmed civilians in Haditha and, as is finally being revealed despite official lies and coverup, numerous other Iraqi towns, are showing tens of millions of Americans what this war is, and part of what it really costs. The highest costs obviously are borne by the ordinary people of Iraq; but American society will pay for decades as well for this dirty conflict -- and worse is yet to come.
  70. 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.
  71. 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.
  72. A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
  73. The Representation of Torture in the 'War on Terror'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A nation cannot claim to act to promote democracy and human rights whilst it kidnaps citizens the world over, places them in secret detention and tortures them.
  74. Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents.
  75. 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.
  76. 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'.
  77. The State of the World Atlas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  78. States of Denial
    Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  79. The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
    Resource Type: Article
  80. 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.
  81. Torture by Taser
    When police abuse their newest 'nonlethal' toy, people die.

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
  82. Torture, Democracy and Memory in Argentina
    No Sugarplums for Christmas

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
  83. The Torture Memos
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  84. 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.
  85. The Torture Report
    What the Documents Say About America's Post-9/11 Torture Program

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    Sometimes the truth is buried in front of us. That is the case with more than 140,000 government documents relating to abuse of prisoners by U.S. forces during the "war on terror," brought to light by Freedom of Information Act litigation. As the lead author of the ACLU's report on these documents, Larry Siems is in a unique position to chronicle who did what, to whom and when. This book serves as a tragic reminder of what happens when commitments to law, common sense, and human dignity are cast aside, when it becomes difficult to discern the difference between two groups intent on perpetrating extreme violence on their fellow human beings.

    Divided into three sections, The Torture Report presents a stunning array of eyewitness and first-person reports—by victims, perpetrators, dissenters, and investigators—of the CIA’s White House-orchestrated interrogations in illegal, secret prisons around the world; the Pentagon’s “special projects,” in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; plots real and imagined, and much more.
  86. 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.
  87. Torture: Thou shalt not bear honest witness
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    To date, only one person has been jailed in connection to the US torture program - the man who blew the whistle. His sentence must now be quashed and this true American hero set free and compensated.
  88. 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.
  89. The Torturer as Feminist: From Abu Ghraib to Zero Dark Thirty
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    How “feminism” is used in service of the American empire.
  90. Torturing and Jailing Palestinian Children
    Nightmare in the Occupied Territories

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    About 500-700 children are arrested by the Israeli occupation every year, according to Defense for Children International-Palestine. These children face a policy designed to kill their spirit and shut them down. It targets them physically and psychologically.
  91. Torturing the Rule of Law at Obama's Gitmo
    Obama Bravely Takes on a Tortured Child Soldier

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Give our government credit for breaking new ground: no nation has tried a child soldier for war crimes since World War II, and the decision to prosecute Khadr has drawn protests from UNICEF, headed by a former U.S. national security adviser, as well as every major human-rights group.
  92. 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.
  93. The United States and Torture
    We Tortured Some People and Probably Still Are....

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Two of the things that governments tend to cover-up or lie about the most are assassinations and torture, both of which are widely looked upon as exceedingly immoral and unlawful, even uncivilized. Since the end of the Second World War the United States has attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders and has led the world in torture; not only the torture performed directly by Americans upon foreigners, but providing torture equipment, torture manuals, lists of people to be tortured, and in-person guidance and encouragement by American instructors, particularly in Latin America.
  94. Unlocking Uncle Sam's House of Horrors
    Smashing Plato's Cave

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The effects of Wikileaks in showing the public what is really happening.
  95. Uruguay 1964-1970
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
  96. US Still Seeks Jail for 'Fighter' Captured at 15 in Afghanistan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The good news is that a judge in Canada has had the courage and good sense to uphold the release from jail on bail of Omar Khadr, a native of Canada who was captured as a child soldier at the age of 15 in Afghanistan by US forces back in 2002.The bad news is that Khadr, who spent 13 years in captivity, most of them in America's Guantanamo hellhole, should never have been imprisoned in the first place.
  97. War and the Culture of Violence
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Last year I had the opportunity to see “Winter Soldier,” a rarely shown 1971 documentary based on the testimony of over 100 soldiers recently back from Vietnam. It was filmed during a three-day hearing on war crimes that Vietnam Vets against the War organized in Detroit. Young soldiers spoke about atrocities they had committed in the name of freedom and democracy: throwing suspects out of planes, torching villages, raping women, killing civilians. Of course the Nixon administration attempted to discredit the soldiers and their stories.
  98. 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.
  99. The Water Cure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    A look back at the use of the torture method known as the 'water cure', which was employed by the United States on citizens of the Philippines during its occupation at the turn of the century. The article specifically examines the subsequent investigation, trial and testimonies, as well as the moral and political implications during this period.
  100. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  101. Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified 
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  102. Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
    The Anti-Empire Report

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  103. With My Heart in Yambo
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    Twenty-four years ago director Fernanda Restrepo's two teenage brothers disappeared. A year later, the family finally learned the worst possible news: the brothers had been kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the Ecuadorean police, and then dumped. Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story, and documents yet one more search in Lake Yambo, where the boys’ bodies were dumped.

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  2. United Nations Human Rights Council

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Mission Connexions exists to support individuals and groups working for freedom and social justice. We work to maintain and make available a record of the theory and practice of people struggling against oppression and for social change. We believe that the more we know about the struggles, victories, and defeats of the past, and about those who took part in them, the better equipped we will be to bring a new world into being. Connexions maintains a physical archive of books and documents, and is engaged in an ongoing project to build and expand an indexed digital archive of documents. We try to feature a wide variety of resources reflecting a diversity of viewpoints and approaches to social change within our overall mandate of support for democracy, civil liberties, freedom of expression, universal human rights, secularism, equality, economic justice, environmental responsibility, and the creation and preservation of community. We are internationalist in our orientation, but as a Canadian-based project we feature an especially extensive collection of Canadian documents and profiles of Canadian activist organizations.