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  1. Afghanistan 1979-1992
    America's Jihad

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    An account of CIA and American involvement in Afghanistan since 1979
  2. 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.
  3. Against the Current
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
    Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
  4. The Algiers Accords: Decades of Violations and Silence
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    This week marks the 37th anniversary of a pledge made by the United States in 1981:
    The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs.
    This week also marks 37 continuous years of the United States failing to uphold its pledge: the 1981 Algiers Accords.
  5. America in Decline
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
  6. The American Connection
    Volume 1: State Terror and Popular Resistance in El Salvador

    Resource Type: Book
    McClintock reveals the U.S. role in introducing new strategies of state terror and counter-insurgency in Central America since the 1960s. Against a backdrop of longstanding class and land ownership patterns the author shows how U.S. refusal to tolerate social reform and its support for brutal security apparatuses have led not only to the current wars in Central America, but inextricably involved the U.S.
  7. The American Connection
    Volume 2: State Terror and Popular Resistance in Guatemala

    Resource Type: Book
    The author who is now a senior researcher with Amnesty International spent several years unravelling the development of counter-insurgency forces and the role of the U.S. in creating them. This book details how the U.S. notion of counter-insurgency, when applied under highly authoritarian regimes, ultimately converts almost the entire civilian population into the enemy.
  8. American Decline in Perspective
    Empire and Its Discontents

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  9. The American Imperium
    Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    With the present-day US military overextended throughout the globe, this essay takes a look at past American military policy and actions in overseas conflicts, and how these events of the past century affect public perceptions and ultimately how the military continues to be used.
  10. American Power and the New Mandarins
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
  11. America's Baleful Worldwide Pressure
    The Way the Wind Blows

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The overweening arrogance of the United States in conduct of its foreign relations is evident throughout the world.
  12. America's Deadliest Export: Democracy
    The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Since World War II, the world has believed that US foreign policy means well, and that America’s motives in spreading democracy are honorable, even noble. William Blum, a leading non-mainstream chronicler of American foreign policy, argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Moreover, unless this fallacy is unlearned, and until people understand fully the worldwide suffering American policy has caused, we will never be able to stop the monster.
  13. America's Deceptive Model for Aggression
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Since NATO's 1999 war on Serbia, U.S. officials have followed a script demonizing targeted foreign leaders, calling ultimatums "diplomacy," lying about "war as a last resort" and selling aggression as humanitarianism.
  14. America's Last Chance
    One Against the Empire

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The United States is rapidly being turned into a police state.
  15. Another Immoral Adventure
    US Troops to Uganda

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    When we support brutal governments in foreign countries – be it through aid, training, or troops on the ground – there are real and lasting consequences for the people who live there. There are many reasons to oppose the US incursion into Uganda (the risk of blowback, the chance of escalation, the furtherance of the imperial presidency, the financial cost, the practical fact that we can’t intervene everywhere, and so on), but the most important argument is moral.
  16. Another Successful American Propaganda Effort
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    American political figures like to talk about "American Democracy". The truth is, there is no "American Democracy", it is something that our rulers like to foist upon the World stage much like parents like to tell their children about Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. It's fiction made in order to keep their "children" in line.
  17. Another Vote on Washington's Anti-Cuba Policy at the United Nations
    The Politics of Isolation

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Resolution A/68/L.6, sponsored by Cuba, passed this year, for the 22nd year in a row, with Washington once again in humiliating political loneliness. The vote this year was 188-2 in favor, with 3 abstentions. Washington’s formal political isolation over its anti-Cuba policy can hardly be more complete. Is it possible to imagine any significant political issue in world politics uniting so many disparate entities often in significant conflict with each other.
  18. The Anti-Empire Report #132
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Each of you I’m sure has met many people who support American foreign policy, with whom you’ve argued and argued. You point out one horror after another, from Vietnam to Iraq. From god-awful bombings and invasions to violations of international law and torture. And nothing helps. Nothing moves this person. Now why is that? Are these people just stupid? I think a better answer is that they have certain preconceptions. Consciously or unconsciously, they have certain basic beliefs about the United States and its foreign policy, and if you don’t deal with these basic beliefs you may as well be talking to a stone wall. The most basic of these basic beliefs, I think, is a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the United States does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well.
  19. An Awkward Silence - Burying The Hersh Revelations of Obama's Syrian Deceit
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    All governments lie, the US journalist I.F. Stone once noted, with Iraq the most blatant example in modern times. But Syria is another recent criminal example of Stone's dictum.
  20. Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (American Empire Project)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Examination of the perils of American military bases overseas.
  21. Basta! No Mandate for War
    A Pledge of Resistance Handbook

    Resource Type: Book
    More than 65,000 Americans have now pledged to protest any escalation in U.S. foreign and/or military intervention in Central America. This handbook offers a brief guide to the situation in Nicaragua and El Salvador, information about the Pledge of Resistance campaign, selections on nonviolent resistance, and preparation and training materials for nonviolent action. Includes agenda, resources, and checklists for planning and working locally.
  22. The Battle of the Titans
    Who is Pulling the Strings?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    This is not merely a fight between Israel and the US. Nor is it only a fight between the White House and Congress. It is also a battle between intellectual titans. Intellectual theories can seldom be put to a laboratory test. But this one can. It is happening now. Between Israel and the US a crisis has developed, and it has come into the open.
  23. Beating Uncle Sam at His Own Game
    The Skirmish in the Spratlys

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Washington has thrown down the gauntlet in the South China Sea. If Beijing wants to preserve its independence and surpass the US as the world's biggest economy, it's going to have to meet the challenge, prepare for a long struggle, and beat Uncle Sam at his own game. It won’t be easy, but it can be done.
  24. Beginning a New Era
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Obama may succeed where previous U.S. administrations -- such as Nixon's and especially Carter's -- failed in their attempts at reestablishing diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba.
  25. Bill Clinton's Most Abominable Freedom Fighters Uncloaked
    Return to Kosovo

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Unfortunately, Bill Clinton will never be held liable for killing innocent Serbs or for helping body-snatchers take over a nation the size of Connecticut. Clinton is reportedly being paid up to $500,000 for each speech he gives nowadays. Perhaps some of the well-heeled attendees could flourish artificial arms and legs in the air to showcase Clinton’s actual legacy.
  26. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Pulitzer prize-winning book about the origin of ISIS.
  27. Blackwater
    The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army

    Resource Type: Book
  28. Bolivia: WikiLeaks Expose US Conspiracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Recently released United States embassy cables from Bolivia have provided additional insight to the events leading up to the September 2008 coup attempt against the Andean country’s first indigenous president.
  29. Brainless in Washington
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Washington's IQ follows the Fed's interest rate -- it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations. Washington's failures are everywhere visible. We can see the failures in Washington's wars and in Washington's approach to China and Russia.
  30. 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
  31. Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
    Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
  32. The Case for Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
  33. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
  37. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  38. Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world.
    The Anti-Empire Report #145

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The first Cold War performed a lobotomy on Americans, replacing brain matter with anti-communist viral matter, producing more than 70 years of functional national stupidity. For all of you who missed this fun event there's good news: Cold War Two is here, as big and as stupid as ever. Russia and Vladimir Putin are repeatedly, and automatically, blamed for all manner of bad things.
  39. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
  40. Comparing evils
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Al-Qaeda is willing to kill large numbers of innocent people, including children, in pursuit of its goals, and the U.S. is willing to kill large numbers of innocent people, including children, in pursuit of its goals. By what standard of morality are they not morally equivalent?
  41. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982

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

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  43. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  44. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  45. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  46. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  47. Connexions Library: USA Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the United States of America.
  48. Containing the United States
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    With Hillary Clinton about to be elected and some advanced cadres of the war party preparing to take charge, who is going to contain the United States? The U.S. political system has failed its populace and the world and has imposed no brakes on the war machine. The UN and EU are still too much under the U.S. thumb. Russia and China are too weak and with too flimsy an alliance system to threaten U.S. hegemony and do more than make direct U.S. aggression against themselves very costly.
  49. The Corporations and the State
    Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Essays discussing modern U.S. capitalism and imperialism. Each chapter tries to delineate the relationship between 'economic' and 'political' processes, or at least recognize the unity between them. The unifying them is the role of the large corporations in U.S. society and the world eonomy, and the relationship between these corporations and the capitalist state.
  50. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
  51. The Coup of Coups
    Putting the Shah of Shahs on the Peacock Throne

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
  52. The Crimes of Seal Team 6
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of the U.S. military's special mission units. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of "revenge ops," unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities -- a pattern of criminal violence that emerged soon after the Afghan war began and was tolerated and covered up by the command's leadership.
  53. Cuba 1959 to 1980s
    The Unforgivable Revolution

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
  54. The Cultivation of Hate
    The Lies Grow More Audacious

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts.
  55. 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.
  56. December 17: Sources, Results & Prospects
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    After 50 years, Washington has had to recognize that if it wants any influence in Latin America, the road to Latin America leads through Havana, not around it.
  57. Deterring Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  58. The Economic War Against Cuba: A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Salim Lamrani explains the U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba: their origins, their provisions, how they contravene international law, and how they affect the lives of Cubans.
  59. Empire and Its Discontents
    "Losing" the World

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  60. Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
    Resource Type: Book
  61. The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Engelhardt explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the administration of younger George Bush brought "victory culture" roaring back as part of its Global War on Terror and its rush to invade Saddam Husseins's Iraq. Further, he analyzes how, from its "Mission Accomplished" moment on, its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land.
  62. Endless Atrocities: The US Role In Creating The North Korean Fortress-State
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    An overview of the history that informs North Korea's relations with the United States and "drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat".
  63. Everyone Washington Supports, by Definition, Is a Moderate Centrist
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Many right-wing movements and leaders are described as moderate or even left-leaning by politicians and corporate media. In these cases the terms no longer have a political definition but is a way to convey approval.
  64. Evil Takes the High Road
    Wrapping a Policy of Global Domination in the American Flag

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    No heavens for those who live in one of the Muslim countries in which the United States is waging its preemptive global “war on terrorism.”
  65. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
  66. Fair Play for Cuba Committee
    Connexipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
  67. The Fallujah Option for East Ukraine
    The Real Reason Washington Feels Threatened by Moscow

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Washington needs a war in Ukraine to achieve its strategic objectives.
  68. 'Flooding the Zone' with Bullshit on Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has been embarked on a massive propaganda campaign they call “flooding the zone.” We hope to provide the most direct and systematic refutation of the Administration’s case for war in Syria.
  69. The Fog of Intelligence
    Or How to Be Eternally "Caught Off Guard" in the Greater Middle East

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The phrase "the fog of war" stands in for the inability of commanders to truly grasp what's happening in the chaos that is any battlefield. Perhaps it's time to introduce a companion phrase: the fog of intelligence.
  70. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
  71. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
  72. From Wikileaks to TSA
    Anti-Empire Report

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    We have to remind the American people of what they once knew but seem to have forgotten: that they don't want BIG government, or SMALL government; they don't want MORE government, or LESS government; they want government ON THEIR SIDE.
  73. Fueling the Fire
    U.S. Policy and the Western Sahara Conflict

    Resource Type: Book
    This essay describes and analyzes the role of the United States in the Western Sahara conflict. It is not a happy record, but one of malice and conspiracy, in which the various administrations of the United States abandoned the broader principles of justice and support for the right to self-determination. Instead, they decided to back a brutal war against the Sahrawi people in support of Morocco's illegal occupation of the territory.
  74. The Fun of Empire: Fighting on All Sides of a War in Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Now the Obama administration and American political class is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the failed “Bomb Assad!” campaign by starting a new campaign to bomb those fighting against Assad – the very same side the U.S. has been arming over the last two years.
  75. Globalization vs. Empire: Can Trump Contain the Growing Split?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A brief history of US policy supporting globalization and the growing divide it has created between US hegemony and global capitalism, and criticism of the Trump administrations capability to deal with the impacts of this divide.
  76. The Great Libya War Fraud
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Coming so soon after the incomplete but still damning exposure of the Iraq deception - with the bloodbath still warm - the media's deep conformity and wilful gullibility on the 2011 Libyan war left even jaundiced observers aghast. It was clear that we were faced with a pathological system of propaganda on Perpetual War autopilot.
  77. 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.
  78. Help or Hindrance?
    United States Economic Aid in Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Help or Hindrance? uncovers why the economic crisis in Central America has worsened as U.S. aid has skyrocketed in the 1980s. This report shows how security and military related aid, hidden under the rubric "economic aid," has far surpassed assistance for economic development, and argues that the positions of the fiscal conservatives, seeking to save U.S. taxpayers' money, and humanitarians, seeking to help the poor, are not necessarily in opposition.
  79. "A Hideous Atrocity": Noam Chomsky on Israel's Assault on Gaza & U.S. Support for the Occupation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Hideous. Sadistic. Vicious. Murderous. That is how Noam Chomsky describes Israel’s 29-day offensive in Gaza that killed nearly 1,900 people and left almost 10,000 people injured. Chomsky has written extensively about the Israel/Palestine conflict for decades.
  80. Hilary Clinton: Candidate of War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The U.S. political/media establishment only permits the propaganda version of the Syrian conflict -- and Hillary Clinton fully embraced it in her belligerent comments in the second presidential debate.
  81. History and Hypocrisy: Why the Korean War Matters in the Age of Trump
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The DPRK's recent missile test is a "provocation" according to US state sources. A provocation indeed. Firing things into the air that go bang is clearly not a nice thing to do. People really should ease up on things that explode. I mean somebody could get hurt.
  82. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
  83. How Russia Became "Our Adversary" Again
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    How did Russia, which has been a capitalist state for a querter of a century, become "our adversary" to the United States?
  84. How the NSA Helped Turkey Kill Kurdish Rebels
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    On a December night in 2011, a terrible thing happened on Mount Cudi, near the Turkish-Iraqi border. One side described it as a massacre; the other called it an accident.
  85. Humanity Imperiled: The Path To Disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence.
  86. IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaks
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free speech after it put pressure on the website's host.
  87. 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.
  88. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
  89. 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.
  90. Iraq 1990-1991
    Desert Holocaust

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    An account of the American invasion of Iraq (Desert Shield) in 1990-91.
  91. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Mearsheimer and Walt describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argue that this support cannot be fully explained in either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. Mearsheimer and Walt contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America's posture throughout the Middle East and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America's national interest nor Israel's long-term interest.
  92. The Issue is Not Trump, It is Us
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Until real politics return to people's lives, the enemy is not Trump, it is ourselves.
  93. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
  94. 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 … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
  95. 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.
  96. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  97. Lurching to War
    Introduction to the October 15, 2016 issue of Other Voices

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Capitalism hates competition, and the U.S., the world's dominant capitalist power, has never tolerated competitors, rivals, or leaders who dare to put their own country ahead of U.S. interests.
  98. The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    A detailed account of US-backed groups that positioned Juan Guaidó to declare himself president of Venezuela.
  99. A Marxist History of the World part 104: 2001: 9/11, the War on Terror, and the New Imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The Al-Qaida terror attacks allowed the great powers to justify new imperialist wars to safeguard the interests of global capital.
  100. Massacres Under the Looking Glass
    The ICC and Colombia

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The International Criminal Court (ICC) just published its Interim Report on Colombia. In the Report, the ICC explains that Colombia has been under preliminary examination by the ICC since June 2004. The military carried out its most notorious violations while under the ICC’s Clouseau-like scrutiny.
  101. Mercenaries on the make
    Iraq is now awash with unaccountable 'security contractors'

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    Contracted mercenaries now outnumber American troops in Iraq. These contractors are immune to prosecution for any wrongdoing in Iraq thanks to provisional laws that came into effect after the invasion. Most of these contractors are not American, the war is being outsourced.
  102. The Nagorno-Karabakh Story the US Does Not Want You to Know
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    In the early morning hours of April 1-2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched a major military offensive into the disputed region Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) that's been controlled and defended by NK Armenian forces since the Russian brokered truce ended a bloody three year war in 1994. While Azeri President Ilham Aliyev was flying back to Baku after meeting 24 hours earlier with John Kerry in Washington who claimed "an ultimate resolution" had been reached, Azerbaijan was already once again at war with the NK Armenians.
  103. The National Security State Cops a Feel
    Taking Off the Gloves (Then Everything Else)

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    It's finally coming into focus, and it’s not even a difficult equation to grasp. It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your "safety" will mean your humiliation, your degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of your country, too.
  104. The New Cold War Policy Has Backfired
    How the US Created Its Own Worst Nightmare

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The world’s geopolitics, major trade patterns and military alliances have changed radically in the past month. Russia has re-oriented its gas and oil trade, and also its trade in military technology, away from Europe toward Eurasia. The result is the opposite of America’s hope for the past half-century of dividing and conquering Eurasia: setting Russia against China, isolating Iran, and preventing India, the Near East and other Asian countries from joining together to create an alternative to the U.S. dollar area.
  105. New World Order
    A postwar analysis

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
  106. The Next War on Washington's Agenda
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    It could not be more obvious that Washington’s war preparations against Iran have nothing to do with deterring Iran from a nuclear weapon. So, what are the war preparations about?
  107. No Ban! No Wall! No War?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The corporate media avoids connecting our wars to Trump's ban because war and empire is a matter of agreement among the political elites, an elite that the corporate media is very much a part of.
  108. No Easy Victories
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In today's "new Middle East" with its cauldron of Arab upheavals and the likelihood of longterm revolutionary processes, the United States cannot dictate terms unilaterally.
  109. No matter how it appears, Trump isn't getting out of Syria and Afghanistan
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Syria don't reflect a large change in US foreign policy. US troops are only a small part of the forces currently deployed there and they will probably be replaced with mercenaries paid for by oil monarchies.
  110. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
  111. Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The U.S. has been warring with the Islamic State (IS) for more than a year now. The centerpiece of that war has been an ongoing campaign of bombings and air strikes in Syria and Iraq, thousands upon thousands of them.
  112. The NYT's Love Letter to Death Squads
    Hymns to the Silence

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    It is, I confess, beyond all my imagining that a national leader so deeply immersed in murdering people would trumpet his atrocity so openly, so gleefully - and so deliberately, sending his top aides out to collude in a major story in the nation's leading newspaper, to ensure maximum exposure of his killing spree.
  113. Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The U.S. continues to massacre Yemeni civilians, both directly and through its tyrannical Saudi partners.
  114. Obama Launches an Illegal War in Syria
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2014
    President Obama’s decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, and the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
  115. Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  116. Obama's Double-Standard On Russia: He Attacks Russia, Then Condemn's Putin For Defending Russia From His Attack
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Obama overthrew the legal Government, and replaced it by this illegal one. But now he criticizes Putin as if he were the aggressor instead of the defender here. And Obama demands that the Soviet dictator's forced transfer of Crimea to Ukraine be legal and that Putin's defense of Crimeans' democratic self-determination in response to that coup be considered illegal.
  117. Obama's House of Cards
    Will Russia and China Hold Their Fire Until War Is the Only Alternative?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Barak Obama's September 24 speech at the UN is the most absurd thing I have heard in my entire life. It is absolutely amazing that the president of the United States would stand before the entire world and tell what everyone knows are blatant lies while simultaneously demonstrating Washington's double standards and belief that Washington alone, because the US is exceptional and indispensable, has the right to violate all law.
  118. Obama's Hypocritical Crusade Against Extremism
    Will the Feds Soon be Targeting People With a "Bad Attitude"?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In his speech last month to the United Nations, President Obama summoned foreign leaders to join his "campaign against extremism." Obama has repeatedly invoked the "extremist" threat to justify attacking abroad and seizing more power at home since taking office in 2009. But the president's own record makes it tricky for him to pirouette as the World Savior of Moderation.
  119. Official Enemies
    Introduction to the August 27, 2017 issue of Other Voices

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    We are never left in any doubt about who our enemies are. The word goes out from the United States that a certain country is a dictatorship which abuses human rights, supports terrorism, and poses a terrible threat to the U.S. and to the world. The mainstream media then swing into action with military precision and flood us with stories, images, and commentary about how dreadful country 'X' is.
  120. On Oil and Quicksand
    Against The Current vol. 114

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
  121. On Power and Ideology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Five lectures on U.S. international and security policy.
  122. On Syria Crisis and Prospects
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    This article speculates and considers the probable outcomes and consequences that could result if a U.S. bombing campaign against Syria takes place.
  123. The Other 9/11
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Whether or not activists will ever mount a serious threat to U.S. hegemony and propaganda remains to be seen. One thing is certain, however: Without such organizing, action, and sacrifice, there will be many more wars and interventions and many more lies told to obscure the truth about them.
  124. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
    Lurching to War

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pursued a hyper-aggressive strategy of surrounding Russia with hostile military forces and missiles aimed at the Russian heartland.
  125. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
    Climate Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2014
    The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
  126. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
    Ukraine

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
  127. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
    Urban agriculture and local food production

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
  128. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
    Destabilization and Regime Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
  129. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
    Fake News

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    "Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
  130. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
    Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
  131. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
    Resisting Injustice

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
  132. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
    Official Enemies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
  133. 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.
  134. Overwrought Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the twentieth century. You could say that they experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism -- think of it as the real “American Century” -- from World War I to the end of the Cold War, with time off for a destructive stalemate in Korea and a defeat in Vietnam too shocking to absorb or shake off.
  135. Panama invasion protest
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
  136. Passionate Declarations
    Essays on War and Justice

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Essays looking at American political ideology.
  137. Peace Mom
    A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    An American mother loses her 24-year-old soldier son, killed in action in Iraq, and leads her to become a prominent US anti-war activist.
  138. Pentagon Trained Terrorists In Nevada To Use Against Iran
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The Pentagon trained members of the dissident Iranian terrorist group M.E.K. in Nevada starting in 2005, after which they returned to Iran and may have engaged in covert activities, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh reports.
  139. 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.
  140. PFC Bradley Manning, Patriot
    Why Manning was Within His Rights to Give Secrets to Wikileaks

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
  141. Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
  142. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
  143. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  144. The Press and the Cold War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  145. Press for Conversion #43
    December 2000

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2000
  146. Press for Conversion #51
    May 2003

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2003
    Why is the U.S. government reviled by so many people in the Middle East and North Africa? This issue looks at the past 50 years of wars and regime changes in the region and unveils a consistent pattern of U.S. involvement.
  147. Pretensions to Empire
    Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Delves into the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush, and makes the case for impeachment.
  148. 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.
  149. Propaganda Techniques of Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Washington’s quest for perpetual world power is underwritten by systematic and perpetual propaganda wars. Every major and minor war has been preceded, accompanied and followed by unremitting government propaganda designed to secure public approval, exploit victims, slander critics, dehumanize targeted adversaries and justify its allies’ collaboration. In this paper Petras discusses the most common recent techniques used to support ongoing imperial wars.
  150. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
  151. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2000
  152. The real first casualty of war
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
  153. 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.
  154. The Realpolitik of President Jimmy Carter
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
  155. 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.
  156. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
  157. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Essays by Dave Dellinger

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
  158. The Revolving Door at Human Rights Watch
    An Open Letter to Kenneth Roth

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
  159. Robots Kill, But The Blood Is On Our Hands
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Killing individuals (and whoever is near them) has become the primary substitute in U.S. public policy for capture/imprisonment/torture. Torturing someone to death is not what former CIA General Counsel John Rizzo calls "clean." Blowing them and anyone near them into little bits is "clean." As Medea Benjamin documents, the United States has avoided detaining people, only to murder them with a drone days later.
  160. 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.
  161. The Roots of American Foreign Policy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Kolko outlines the nature of American power and interest in the modern world and provides an assessment of who gains and who loses as a result of the policies Washington pursues.
  162. The Samson Option
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Hersh, the investigative journalist who exposed the Mai Lai massacre, documents how Israel acquired nuclear weapons with U.S. connivance.
  163. Secret Armies, Shadow Wars, Silent Unaccountability
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    We live today in an era of postmodern war. It's a two-front war -- the first being the virtual front of threats, posturing, and arms buildups we persist in waging, Cold War-style, against state-based mirror-images of ourselves (Russia and China); the second being the dirty front we wage in the shadows against irregular, non-state thugs and pygmy tyrants who use their weaknesses as strengths, asymmetrically, to turn our strengths into weaknesses.
  164. The Servility of the Satellites
    The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Recent revelations confirm the completion of the transformation of the "Western democracies" into something else, an entity that as yet has no recognized name. The outrage against the Bolivian President confirmed that this trans-Atlantic entity has absolutely no respect for international law, even though its leaders will make use of it when it suits them. But respect it, allow it to impede their actions in any way? Certainly not. And this disrespect for the law is linked to a more basic institutional change: the destruction of effective democracy at the national level.
  165. Six Facts from Sudden Justice, A New History of the Drone War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars, a new book by London-based investigative journalist Chris Woods, traces the intertwined technological, legal and political history of drones as they evolved on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the covert U.S. targeted killing campaign.
  166. The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On October 2, 2015, President Barack Obama, alluding to Russia's decision to launch air strikes in Syria, told reporters at the White House that for Russia to view the forces targeted "from the perspective they're all terrorists [is] a recipe for disaster, and it's one that I reject."
  167. The Socialist Register 1974
    Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
  168. Socialist Register 1994
    Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
  169. "Sovereign" Deportations: The Dominican Republic deportations cannot occur without US blessing
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    People born to undocumented Haitian parents in the Dominican Republic have left under threat of violence. "Voluntary" deportations have had a strong US influence given the political and economic power that the North American country exerts on the island.
  170. The struggle of Venezuela against 'a common enemy'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    John Pilger discusses the reasons that the United States continues to work continuously to overthrow Venezuela's left-learning government. The U.S. government makes absurd claims that Venezuela poses a grave 'threat' to the United States, but the truth is the opposite: the U.S. government poses a grave threat to Venezuela and its people.
  171. Stuxnet and the Bomb
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Over the past decade, US experts have strenuously warned about the ominous possibility of other nations, rogue states, or even terrorist groups attacking US infrastructure through the Internet. As it happens, however, it is the United States itself that has developed malicious software in secrecy and launched it against another country.
  172. Stuxnet on the Loose
    Security for the One Percent

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Suspicions that the Stuxnet computer worm was indeed developed by the United States and Israel has once again exposed American exceptionalism. Espionage and sabotage are presented as intolerable criminal transgressions, normally causing our elected officials and military leaders to erupt in fits of righteous indignation. That is, unless the United States is doing the spying and the sabotaging.
  173. Target Africa
    The U.S. military's expanding footprint in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The U.S. military has engaged in a largely covert effort to extend across Africa with a network of low-profile camps. These facilities allow U.S. forces to surveil and operate on large areas of the continent and to strike targets with drones and manned aircraft.
  174. Thank God for the Revolution
    A Journey through Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    Coxsedge compares daily life in Nicaragua after the revolution with El Salvador at that time, warning of the dangers to the region of US policies.
  175. Tomorrow's Battlefield
    U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    U.S. military is fighting shadow wars in Africa and claims that Africa is the "battlefield of tomorrow".
  176. 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.
  177. Trump threat to cut Palestine aid could 'unravel Oslo'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) would deprive Washington of its influence on the body, and could cause the Oslo accords to unravel, analysts say.
  178. Trump's Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old 'U.S. Values' and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Donald Trump's statement that the US would continue business and diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi may be blunter than people are used to but it is standard operating procedure of American policy.
  179. Trump's Muslim Ban Will Only Spark More Terrorist Attacks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and visitors from seven Muslim countries entering the US makes a terrorist attack on Americans at home or abroad more rather than less likely. It does so because one of the main purposes of al-Qaeda and Isis in carrying out atrocities is to provoke an over-reaction directed against Muslim communities and states.
  180. Understanding Power
    The Indispensable Chomsky

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
  181. U.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of "homegrown" terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to "radicalization," concluding that it remained near impossible to predict future violent acts.
  182. The U.S. Pushed North Korea to Build Nukes: Yes or No?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Washington's policy toward North Korea for the last 64 years entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force.
  183. U.S. Sponsored Low Intensity Conflict in the Philippines
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  184. Unspeakable: the Black Book of Imperial Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    American "mainstream" journalists who want to keep their paychecks flowing and their status afloat know they must report current events in a way that respects the taboo status of the nation's underlying inequality and oppression structures and its savage and relentless imperial criminality.
  185. Untold History of the United States
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    A 2012 documentary series directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone. The ten-part series is supplemented by a 750-page companion book, The Untold History of the United States, also written by Stone and Kuznick, released on Oct 30, 2012.
  186. The US arming of Ukraine and the danger of World War III
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Obama administration wants to arm the right-wing regime in Ukraine with billions of dollars in advanced weaponry, which may spark a direct conflict between the US and Russia, two nuclear-armed powers, and ignite a Third World War.
  187. The US coup in Venezuela: New attempt to eradicate the Chavista Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    The coup in Venezuela is the latest in a long history of US attempts to undermine and overthrow progressive governments in Latin America. American progressives must do more to stop this aggression.
  188. The U.S. Embargo against Venezuela
    The State Department's Mock Indignation Gives a Bad Name to U.S. Diplomacy

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    A discussion of the 2006 U.S. arms embargo against Venezuela.
  189. U.S. Government Assassination Plots
    An appendiex to Killing Hope, by William Blum

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    A list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War.
  190. US Negotiations: Masters of Defeats
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    A summary of several US attempts at diplomacy that have failed due to their unwillingness to make any concessions to the other party.
  191. The US war on China's economic model
    The growing hostility of Western governments to China is more about the interests of Western investors than legitimate security fears

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    China poses no military threat to the US but is still considered a top threat to the US. Although this perceived threat is economic that may not stop the US from military intervention.
  192. US was 'key player in cyber-attacks on Iran's nuclear programme'
    Obama reported to have approved bid to target Tehran's nuclear efforts

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Fresh light is shed on the rapid development of US cyberwarfare capability and reveal its willingness to use cyber weapons offensively to achieve policies.
  193. Venezuela: US, elite launch new attacks on democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Venezuela is facing new attempts to subvert its democracy and roll-back the pro-poor process of social change known as the Bolivarian revolution.
  194. A Victory and Some Risks
    Statement from the Fourth International

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    It is necessary to create the conditions of democratic debate in all the popular organizations in Cuba.
  195. VOW Condemns Decision to Recognize Jerusalem as Israel's Capital
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Canadian Voice of Women for Peace strongly opposes the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and begin the process of relocating its embassy to Jerusalem. VOW believes that the world’s governments should no
  196. VOW Demands Peaceful Resolution for the Crisis in North Korea
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Re: Worsening humanitarian and human rights impacts of UN sanctions on the DPRK. To Honourable Members of UN 1718 Sanctions Committee (DPRK). This letter comes to you from the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) and
  197. The War on Democracy
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2007
    This film by John Pilger explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
  198. The War on Democracy in Latin America: Interview with John Pilger
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Journalist, writer and filmmaker John Pilger granted this exclusive interview where he talks about the US war on democracy in Latin America. "Modern era imperialism is a war on democracy. Genuine democracy is a threat to unfettered power and cannot be tolerated", he says.
  199. 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.
  200. Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.
  201. Washington Plays Russian Roulette
    Seeing Red

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The propaganda attack against Putin equating him with Hitler is so extreme that you have to think that the Russians cannot believe their ears and cannot trust the United States anymore under any circumstances.
  202. Washington Threatens The World
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The consequence of Washington’s reckless and irresponsible political and military interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been to unleash evil. The various sects that lived in peace under the rule of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad are butchering one another, and a new group, ISIS, is in the process of creating a new state out of parts of Iraq and Syria.
  203. Washington’s Frozen War Against Russia
    Frack the EU!

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    For over a year, the United States has played out a scenario designed to (1) reassert U.S. control over Europe by blocking E.U. trade with Russia, (2) bankrupt Russia, and (3) get rid of Vladimir Putin and replace him with an American puppet, like the late drunk, Boris Yeltsin.
  204. Washington’s Secret Agendas
    Imperial Rot

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    One might think that by now even Americans would have caught on to the constant stream of false alarms that Washington sounds in order to deceive the people into supporting its hidden agendas.
  205. We Own the World
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    The whole debate about the Iranian 'interference' in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
  206. We're facing a new Cold War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes.
  207. 'What can I Do?'
    Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  208. What Corporate Media Never Tells You about North Korea
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    There is a great deal of propaganda and deliberate misinformation about North Korea, which the public should know. While neocons, a cheering corporate media, and Deep State, rush to war with North Korea, information is the ultimate weapon. For example, did you know that North Korea, China, and India, are the only three nations who have committed to a "no nuclear first" policy.
  209. What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    Noam Chomsky reverses roles and questions how America would respond if a threatening invader took over Canada or Mexico in a "liberation" attempt. Would America stand by quietly?
  210. What the Media Won't Tell You About the Venezuelan Coup
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Calling Venezuela's election illegitimate is false and is also a familiar tactic for US interference in a country's government.
  211. 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.
  212. Where the conspiracies are real
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    US expansionism in Latin America, sometimes violent, sometimes discreet, played such a large role in shaping the history of the continent that many still see the "black hand" of Washington behind every obstacle faced by progressive governments.
  213. Who Supported the Khmer Rouge?
    How the US Backed a Regime of Unrivaled Barbarism

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    With the conviction of former Khmer Rouge officials Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea for crimes against humanity, the subject of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 received a small amount of attention in the Western mass media. What the media failed to mention was how the Khmer Rouge was maintained as a military and political force long after its fall from power.
  214. Why "Coercive Diplomacy" is a Dangerous Farce
    Offering to talk while threatening military force hasn't worked in 30 years.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    In the context of rising tensions between the USA and North Korea 2017-2018, historian and journalist Gareth Porter, details the history of failure of "Coercive Diplomacy" as a tool in US foreign policy.
  215. Why Pro-War Pundits Are Always Wrong
    Always Erasing the Victims

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    There is no shortage of men and women – but mostly men, typically white – willing to write 800- to 1,000-word editorials on the need for Decisive Action or Continued Resolve in Whereverthehellistan. Some of these people are historians, some are journalists, but all have attained material success in the field of arguing about war without ever once having to go through the trouble of being right.
  216. Why the rise of fascism is again the issue
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism.
  217. Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault
    The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU's expansion eastward and the West's backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical elements, too.
  218. WikiLeaks appeals for help as attacks are stepped up
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    As the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks comes under mounting cyber-attacks and as hosting companies continue to withdraw their services, it is appealing to its supporters around the world to create mirror sites.
  219. The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    A compilation of contributions from WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, WikiLeaks section editor Sarah Harrison, and a team of journalists, professors, and writers. The book is full of eye-opening scholarly analysis of the diplomatic cables made public by the WikiLeaks group, focusing on the 2010 - 2011 'Cablegate' disclosures. It takes on a huge amount of data and delivers a thorough introduction to the narratives of U.S. policy that the cables reveal.
  220. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
  221. A World War is Beckoning
    Break the Silence

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis”, as if the truth “never happened even while it was happening”.
  222. Would You Believe That the United States Tried to do Something That was Not Nice Against Hugo Chávez?
    The Plan to Destabilize Venesuela

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Wikileaks releases documents on U.S. efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
  223. 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.
  224. The Zero-Sum Game of Perpetual War
    Why the Deep State Always Wins

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Readers with a morbid sense of curiosity can visit a web site called NukeMap that allows visitors to witness the devastation caused by nuclear weapons of varying yields on a city of their choosing.

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