- The American Way of Torture
The Rule of Law Went and Never Returned
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians.
- Amnesty International, Canadian Section
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Chile Report
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
- China admits torture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured
Resource Type: Article
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”.
- CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert support'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Report finds at least 54 countries co-operated with global kidnap, detention and torture operation mounted after 9/11 attacks.
- CIA Torture Architect Breaks Silence to Defend 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The psychologist regarded as the architect of the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” program has broken a seven-year silence to defend the use of torture techniques against al-Qaida terror suspects in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
- CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
Resource Type: Article
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.
- CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
Resource Type: Article
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.
- CIA's dirty little secrets exposed
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
Investigative reporting into the interrogation techniques used by the US Military on captured terrorism suspects. The author exposes the CIA secret detention centers abroad where interrogation occurs and US due process does not apply.
- The CIA's Greatest Hits
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
- The CIA's Memory Prison
A Perverse Logic
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Complicity of Psychologists in CIA Torture
What the APA Knew
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Concern about blogger's condition after second flogging postponed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is relieved that the Saudi authorities have postponed blogger Raif Badawiâ's second session of 50 lashes on medical grounds but is very concerned about his health and urges the authorities to abandon this barbaric punishment altogether.
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- The Culture of Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Decision not file charges in CIA video destruction deals new setback to right to information
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The decision not to file charges against any of the CIA officers who destroyed 92 videos of interrogations in secret CIA prisons has dealt a new blow to the search for truth in a matter of public interest and to the public’s right of access.
- Declassified Documents Now Reveal There Were Two CIA Torture Programs
Resource Type: Article
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.
- EU Fails Human Rights Victims
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The European Union#s decision today to lift the arms embargo against Uzbekistan despite its atrocious human rights record is an unconscionable abdication of responsibility toward Uzbek victims of abuse.
- The Everyday Activist
365 Ways to Change the World
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Fascism, American-Style
One-Step from the Third Reich?
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Focus on Honduran crisis, Haiti and more in the July-August issue of FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
This edition draws together analysts, policy-makers and development practitioners to look into current issues in Honduras, Haiti and Central America among others on themes such as democracy, energy, trade and multilateralism.
- Force-Feeding a Suffragette
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1915
A description of the brutal force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes in England.
- Gina Haspel's CIA nomination demands the United States account for its history of torture
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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.
- Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
- Omar Ha-Redeye
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Humiliation of Bradley Manning
Kangaroos Missing
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Imperial Crusades
Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Incarcerated Inside Israel
Palestinians Tortured and Isolated
Resource Type: Article
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.
- An Interview With Noam Chomsky on Obama's Human Rights Record
Nothing Can Justify Torture
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Website
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.
- Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
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?
- Israeli torture of Palestinian children 'institutional'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Investigation of the practice of torture by Shin Bet interrogators, revealing the practice as systematic.
- Leader and Vassal
Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Logic of Torture
It's About Domination, Not Intelligence
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Man Who Was Chemically Tortured
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The torture of David Hicks at Guantanamo.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 15
Marx and Engels 1856 - 1858
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1858
Mainly articles about Europe, colonialism, and India.
- The mass graves of Kashmir
India's dirty war unmasked
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
- One Thousand Years of Solitude
Life in the SHU
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Indefinite solitary confinement: a large-scale experiment in sensory deprivation and social isolation.
- Police Torture and the Real Militarization of Society
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Predicting Torture
The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
The story of Timmerman's 30 months as a political prisoner under the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s.
- The Professor of Torture
Dershowitz for the Defense -- of Waterboarding
Resource Type: Article
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".
- Proposed Torture Ban Includes New Transparency and Oversight Mechanisms
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Psychologists' Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions
The Status Quo of Torture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- Putting the Arms Industry on Trial
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Sean Douglas and other activists are prosecuting two companies that promoted torture equipment in the UK.
- Questions for the APA Board Regarding Claims in James Risen's Book "Pay Any Price"
Colluding With the CIA on Torture?
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2008
- The Real Terror Network
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
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.
- 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.
- A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
- The Representation of Torture in the 'War on Terror'
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Rights activist arrested over tweet about prison torture
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns renewed efforts by the Bahraini authorities to censor online information, including leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab's latest arrest on 2 April and attempts to suppress information about the mistreatment
- Rogue State
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
- The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
- Solidarity groups denounce Dershowitz appearance in Vancouver
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Groups criticize Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver for inviting Dershowitz as fundraiser
- Sources welcomes Omar Ha-Redeye
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Omar Ha-Redeye. Omar Ha-Redeye is frequently interviewed by the media on subjects relating to health, security, law, politics, social media, disasters, minority rights and multiculturalism.
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- States of Denial
Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
Resource Type: Article
- 10 most shocking facts we found in CIA torture report
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The so-called "torture report" released by the U.S. Senate this week contains only a fraction of the findings on how the CIA aimed to gather intelligence from detainees through interrogation. Still, it contains more than a few shocking revelations.
- 10 most shocking facts we found in CIA torture report
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The so-called "torture report" released by the U.S. Senate this week contains only a fraction of the findings on how the CIA aimed to gather intelligence from detainees through interrogation. Still, it contains more than a few shocking revelations.
- Torture, Democracy and Memory in Argentina
No Sugarplums for Christmas
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
- The Torture Report
What the Documents Say About America's Post-9/11 Torture Program
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Torture Report Reveals CIA's Manipulation of US Media
Agency Used Classified Information As Currency For Deception
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Torture: Thou shalt not bear honest witness
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Torture and the Violence of Organized Forgetting
A Form of Moral Paralysis
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Torturer as Feminist: From Abu Ghraib to Zero Dark Thirty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
How “feminism” is used in service of the American empire.
- Torturing and Jailing Palestinian Children
Nightmare in the Occupied Territories
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Uncivil Obedience
The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
How to push for social change without breaking the law.
- The United States and Torture
We Tortured Some People and Probably Still Are....
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Uruguay 1964-1970
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
- US Still Seeks Jail for 'Fighter' Captured at 15 in Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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.
- The Water Cure
Resource Type: Article
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.
- We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Well-known Syrian cartoonist died in detention after being tortured
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is stunned to learn that well-known Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan died in detention in 2013, less than a year after his arrest in October 2012, and that his death was almost certainly the result of having been tortured by t
- Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
The Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- With My Heart in Yambo
Resource Type: Film/Video
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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