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- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991 Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book Published: 1984
- Authorities ramp up pressure on media over banking disclosures
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission has imposed fines of up to 80,000 euros each on several newspapers for disclosing information about the banking sector. Reporters Without Borders deplores this political attempt to silence news organizations
- Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About Resource Type: Article Published: 1995 An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
- Bulgarian fascists run nightly patrols targeting immigrants
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 In the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, groups of fascists in paramilitary uniforms are conducting what they describe as civil patrols. The purpose of the patrols is to stop people in the street and then demand to see their identification or immigration documentation.
- Connexions Library: Europe Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Europe.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- An end to Balkan national states
Independence for Kosovo: The Domino Effect Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 If the Kosovo region declares indepence from Serbia, how will ethnic communities agitate to have the borders of Balkan countries redrawn to reflect and include their ethnic makeups? Will this only further the Balkan legacy of nationalist revenge and retaliation?
- Europe no longer so exemplary, Russian tragedy deepens
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 For the first time since 2002, the press freedom indexâ##s top 20 is not quite so European. Only 15 of the 20 leading countries are from the Old Continent, compared with 18 in 2008.
- Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
- IJV condemns bus bombing, calls for negotiations with Iran to stop the violence
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Instead of pursuing a strategy of escalation in its relations with Iran, both Israel and Canada should be promoting negotiations without preconditions in order to defuse the situation.
- In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times
Perspective to lift the blinders of our cultural moment Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Maria Popova has found solace in taking a more telescopic view - not merely on the short human timescale of her own life, looking back on having lived through a Communist dictatorship and having seen poems composed and scientific advances made under such tyrannical circumstances, but on far vaster scales of space and time.
- Killing Hope
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II Resource Type: Book 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
Its not a pretty picture. Its enough to give imperialism a bad name."
- News website harassed for investigating banking sector
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the proceedings that four banks have initiated through the Bulgarian National Bank against the news website Bivol.bg over an article about alleged bad practices by certain banks.
- One Europe - 100 Nations
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978
- WAZ-IFJ Prize for Courage in Journalism Awarded to Bulgarian Journalist
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Lidiya Pavlova to receive the prize for her courageous report on violence and corruption. Award is presented for the first time.
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