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

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
  2. Beyond Sovereignty
    Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition)

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
  3. Brock University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Pilot Copy, February 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
    The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
  5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977

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

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

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  9. Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) sends Young women peacemakers to United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Five young women who attended the VOW's first Peacemaker Summer Camps in 2012 thanks to a generous grant from the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW ) have arrived in New York to take part in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
  10. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  11. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
  12. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  13. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  14. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  15. Content Magazine - Number 57
    November 1975

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1975
  16. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
  17. Eryl Court
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  18. Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    An account of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
  19. 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.
  20. Disappeared!
    Technique of Terror

    Resource Type: Book
    During 1985, the United Nations reported on cases ofdisappearance in 36 countries in all parts of the world. This Report looks at the psychological, legal, and political context of disappearances. It proposes improvements in the procedures and means at the disposal of the international bodies dealing with this issue, and urges sanctions against governments guilty of this abuse of human rights.
  21. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
  22. 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  23. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
  24. Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements
    Resource Type: Book
  25. The Ethiopian Famine
    Resource Type: Book
    This story is the greatest single peacetime mobilization of the international community this century, told by the man who masterminded it. Jansson argues that despite some shortcomings, the UN system led to a largely effective operation which saved millions of lives. Harris and Penrose provide information essential to this and show conclusively that the eleventh hour intervention could have been avoided if the warning signals had been heeded.
  26. Fantasy technology won't stop climate change
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Climate negotiators are promising 'negative emissions' using a risky and unproven technology called BECSS. It's the wrong way to go.
  27. Greenwash
    The Reality Behind Corporate Environmentalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  28. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance

    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  29. IFJ Presses UN for Action on Media Killings after Violence Claims 106 Lives of Journalists and Media Staff in 2011
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The International Federation of Journalists urges UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to take drastic action against governments of the most dangerous countries for media after it published its annual list of 106 journalists and media personnel killed
  30. IFJ Safety Summit in Nuremberg Debates Media Safety Crisis
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The challenge of making journalism safer in the face of ever increasing violence targeting journalists and media workers has been addressed at a high-level IFJ event.
  31. IFJ Urges UN Human Rights Council to Act on Journalists' Summary Killings Report
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    IFJ says recommendations by Special Rapporteur on extra judicial killings and summary executions to the United Nations Human Rights Council are a step in the right direction but urged the Council to hold states to their international obligations.
  32. 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.
  33. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
  34. 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.
  35. Israel's attack on the UN post in Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Israel's leaders could care less about world outrage. Israel's superpower patron, the United States, supports everything Israel does and keeps supplying money and arms, while the U.S. and Canadian media provide uncritical support.
  36. Jewish human rights group condemns Harper government's position on UN Palestine vote
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Some Canadian Jews are adamantly opposed to the Harper government's unquestioning support for what Israel is doing.
  37. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  38. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
  39. National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  40. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies

    Resource Type: Book
    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."
  41. The North-South Institute
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  42. The OIC does not speak for Muslims
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Tarek Fatah says that "To suggest that any criticism of Islamism, the political ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Ayatollahs, is anti-Islamic is a bogus and fraudulent position. I would contend that my religion Islam demands that I stand up to these bullies and take away from their right to put padlocks on poetry and chastity belts on independent thinking."
  43. Orphans of the Storm
    Peacebuilding for Children of War

    Resource Type: Book
  44. Our Generation
    Volume 3 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1964
  45. Our Generation
    Volume 18 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  46. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
  47. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  48. Perspectives On Power
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
  49. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  50. The Press and the Cold War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  51. Principles of Nuremberg
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1950
  52. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
  53. Race Against Time
    Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    This book is a compilation of the 2005 Massey Lectures on the topic of the Millennium Development Goals, with a special focus on AIDS in Africa. Lewis' lectures are personal and passionate in their denunciation of the international community's response to the AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa.
  54. Reflections on the 7th Special Session of the U.N. General Assemly
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1975
    Overview and critique of the U.N. conference dealing with the New International Economic Order.
  55. 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.
  56. The Socialist Register 1976
    Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
  57. 'Strong evidence' of genocide in Myanmar
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Al Jazeera investigation reveals government triggered deadly communal violence for political gain.
  58. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
  59. The UN did NOT create Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    UN General Assembly Resolution 181, the Partition Plan, was a recommendation that was to go to the Security Council. The resolution requested that the Security Council take it up. This never happened, and the partition plan has no force of law. Israeli propagandists, however, perpetrated the myth that the UN created Israel, and this interpretation was then been repeated by numerous others.
  60. UN General Assembly in One Voice (Almost) Rejects U.S. Cuban Blockade
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The United Nations General Assembly on October 27, 2015 voted on a Cuban resolution calling for "an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba." Approval was all but unanimous: 191 nations voted in favour and two voted against, the United States and Israel. There were no abstentions for the first time since the voting on the resolution began in 1992.
  61. UN 'Travesty': Resolutions Of Mass Destruction - Part 1
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Far from bringing an end to the violence, UN Resolution 1973 unleashed overwhelming Western force in pursuit of regime change, in a war that was fought to the bitter end. To ensure the right outcome, Western and other powers supplied special forces and weapons, simply ignoring the resolution's call for 'strict implementation of the arms embargo' and 'excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory'. In short, the resolution resulted in a massive escalation in violence.
  62. United Nations Observances
    Resource Type: Website
    Lists International Days, Internationat Weeks, International Years, International Decades.
  63. United Nations urged to insist on respect for media freedom
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders urges the UN Human Rights Council and other international bodies to pay close attention to the press freedom situation in Côte d’Ivoire.
  64. University of Winnipeg
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  65. UNRWA suspends food distribution in Gaza
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Food distribution for both emergency and regular programs in Gaza will be suspended from 18 December until further notice. All crossings for goods into the Strip are closed and no humanitarian supplies, fuel and other needed commodities are being all
  66. UN's 1947 Partition Plan made Palestine a deal it had to refuse
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Weinroth analyzes the reasons behind Palestinians' refusal of the Partition Plan, reasons that have been largely dismissed in favour of casting their actions in an unfavourable light and thereby justifying Israeli colonization.
  67. 'What can I Do?'
    Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  68. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  69. Who do we try to rescue today?
    Canada under corporate rule

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
  70. Wilfrid Laurier University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  71. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
  72. Year 501
    The Conquest Continues

    Resource Type: Book
    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.


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