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- Agreement on terms
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
- The Balance of Probabilities
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Unlike the famous chemical weapons "attack" portrayed by the BBC in Saving Syria's Children, it does appear that in the latest incident at Idlib there was real horror inflicted by chemical attack of some kind. The question is who did it and why?
- Burying the Typewriter
Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 Carmen Bugan reflects on what life was like growing up in Romania during the 1980's with a dissident father.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Chile Report
Resource Type: Article Published: 1975 Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Companies that cooperate with dictatorships must be sanctioned
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal cooperation that exists between many western companies, especially those operating in the new technology area, and authoritarian regimes.
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1980
- Easily Led
A History of Propaganda Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
- Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Fisk joins protesters atop a Cairo tank as the army shows signs of backing the people against Mubarak's regime.
- Escape from Camp 14
The first political prisoner born in a North Korean labour camp to make it past the fence and flee Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 An excerpt from a book of the same title narrating the harrowing experiences of Shin Dong-hyuk. He is believed to be the only camp-born person to have escaped the North Korean prison labor camps that detain up to two hundred-thousand political prisoners.
- Fanning the flames of intolerance
The burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
- 40 years ago: the grandeur and the limits of the Portuguese Revolution
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The Portuguese Revolution plunged its roots in the crisis of the Salazar regime. A fascist dictatorship based on a reactionary ideology which would serve as inspiration for the Vichy regime, the Estado novo (New State) presents original features in comparison with the fascist regimes of Mussolini and Hitler, features that help to explain both its longevity and its weakness at the moment of its crisis in the early 1970s.
- From Dictatorship to Democracy
Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 A short, serious introduction to nonviolent struggle, its applications, and strategic thinking. Based on pragmatic arguments, this piece presents nonviolent struggle as a realistic alternative to war and other violence in acute conflicts. It also contains a glossary of important terms and recommendations for further reading.
- The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
- IFJ and EFJ Condemn Azerbaijan Call for 'Public Hatred' towards Independent Media
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Condemning the call by the Azeri government for a show of public hatred' against independent media.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes Resource Type: Book Published: 1978 Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat Resource Type: Book Published: 1986 Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
- A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes until German power became overwhelming.
- More websites blocked at government's behest
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the directive issued by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to Internet Service Providers instructing them to block access to 6 web pages on the grounds they are "harmful for the integrity of the country."
- The Nazi Seizure of Power
The Experience of a Single German Town Resource Type: Book Published: 1965 A study of how the Nazi takeover took place in one German town.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy
Resource Type: Book Published: 2002 Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
- Odious Debts
Loose Lending, Corruption and the Thirld World's Environmental Legacy Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- On Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
- Our Generation
Volume 5 Number 3 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1967
- Peddling miracles and amnesia
Resource Type: Article Published: 1999 The shifting PR campaign to justify Chile's 'economic miracle' and to forgive its chief architect.
- Philippines: Walden Bello on fighting fascism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Walden Bello at the National Anti-Dictatorship Conference, University of the Philippines, outlines the key elements of an anti-dictatorship program.
- The Politics of Obedience
The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude Resource Type: Book Published: 1997
- Radical Digressions 3
Resource Type: Website Published: 2006
- Rendition ordeal raises new questions about secret trials
Fatima Bouchar's story reveals involvement of the British government Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Investigative reporting on the rendition (initiated by British intelligence officers) of Libyian Islamist militants who sought to oust Muammar Gaddafi.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World Resource Type: Book Published: 1967
- Socialist Register 1992
Volume 28: New World Order? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 Paul Preston charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all those who do not think as we do some 200,000 men, women and children across Spain.
- Ten Reasons to Oppose the Saudi Monarchy
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 During the discussion on the Iran nuclear deal, it has been strange to hear US politicians fiercely condemn Iranian human rights abuses while remaining silent about worse abuses by US ally Saudi Arabia. Not only is the Saudi regime repressive at home and abroad, but US weapons and US support for the regime make Americans complicit. So let's look at the regime the US government counts as its close friend.
- The Throes of Democracy
Brazil since 1989 Resource Type: Book Published: 2008
- A Turkey Divided by Erdogan Will Become Prey to Its Enemies
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 What critics claim is the openly fraudulent Turkish referendum ends parliamentary democracy in the country and gives President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dictatorial powers. The most unexpected aspect of the poll on Sunday was not the declared outcome, but that the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) allegedly found it necessary to fix the vote quite so blatantly.
- The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1 Resource Type: Book 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.
- Would as Many as 1 Million Be Alive if the Media Had Done Its Job
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 This is a transcript of John Pilger's contribution to a special edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Today' program, guest-edited by the artist and musician PJ Harvey.
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