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  1. Agreement on terms
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
  2. The Balance of Probabilities
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Unlike the famous chemical weapons "attack" portrayed by the BBC in Saving Syria's Children, it does appear that in the latest incident at Idlib there was real horror inflicted by chemical attack of some kind. The question is who did it and why?
  3. Burying the Typewriter
    Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Carmen Bugan reflects on what life was like growing up in Romania during the 1980's with a dissident father.
  4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  5. Chile Report
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1975
    Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
  6. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  7. Companies that cooperate with dictatorships must be sanctioned
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal cooperation that exists between many western companies, especially those operating in the new technology area, and authoritarian regimes.
  8. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  9. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
  10. Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Fisk joins protesters atop a Cairo tank as the army shows signs of backing the people against Mubarak's regime.
  11. Escape from Camp 14
    The first political prisoner born in a North Korean labour camp to make it past the fence and flee

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    An excerpt from a book of the same title narrating the harrowing experiences of Shin Dong-hyuk. He is believed to be the only camp-born person to have escaped the North Korean prison labor camps that detain up to two hundred-thousand political prisoners.
  12. Fanning the flames of intolerance
    The burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
  13. 40 years ago: the grandeur and the limits of the Portuguese Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Portuguese Revolution plunged its roots in the crisis of the Salazar regime. A fascist dictatorship based on a reactionary ideology which would serve as inspiration for the Vichy regime, the Estado novo (“New State”) presents original features in comparison with the fascist regimes of Mussolini and Hitler, features that help to explain both its longevity and its weakness at the moment of its crisis in the early 1970s.
  14. From Dictatorship to Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    A short, serious introduction to nonviolent struggle, its applications, and strategic thinking. Based on pragmatic arguments, this piece presents nonviolent struggle as a realistic alternative to war and other violence in acute conflicts. It also contains a glossary of important terms and recommendations for further reading.
  15. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
  16. IFJ and EFJ Condemn Azerbaijan Call for 'Public Hatred' towards Independent Media
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Condemning the call by the Azeri government for a show of ‘public hatred' against independent media.
  17. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
  18. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
  19. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
  20. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
  21. A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
  22. More websites blocked at government's behest
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the directive issued by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to Internet Service Providers instructing them to block access to 6 web pages on the grounds they are "harmful for the integrity of the country."
  23. The Nazi Seizure of Power
    The Experience of a Single German Town

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    A study of how the Nazi takeover took place in one German town.
  24. The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
  25. Odious Debts
    Loose Lending, Corruption and the Thirld World's Environmental Legacy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  26. On Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
  27. Our Generation
    Volume 5 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1967
  28. Peddling miracles and amnesia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    The shifting PR campaign to justify Chile's 'economic miracle' and to forgive its chief architect.
  29. Philippines: Walden Bello on fighting fascism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Walden Bello at the National Anti-Dictatorship Conference, University of the Philippines, outlines the key elements of an anti-dictatorship program.
  30. The Politics of Obedience
    The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  31. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2006
  32. Rendition ordeal raises new questions about secret trials
    Fatima Bouchar's story reveals involvement of the British government

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Investigative reporting on the rendition (initiated by British intelligence officers) of Libyian Islamist militants who sought to oust Muammar Gaddafi.
  33. Rosa Luxemburg
    Selected Political Writings

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
  34. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
    Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
  35. Socialist Register 1992
    Volume 28: New World Order?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  36. The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Paul Preston charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all ‘those who do not think as we do’ – some 200,000 men, women and children across Spain.
  37. Ten Reasons to Oppose the Saudi Monarchy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    During the discussion on the Iran nuclear deal, it has been strange to hear US politicians fiercely condemn Iranian human rights abuses while remaining silent about worse abuses by US ally Saudi Arabia. Not only is the Saudi regime repressive at home and abroad, but US weapons and US support for the regime make Americans complicit. So let's look at the regime the US government counts as its close friend.
  38. The Throes of Democracy
    Brazil since 1989

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  39. A Turkey Divided by Erdogan Will Become Prey to Its Enemies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    What critics claim is the openly fraudulent Turkish referendum ends parliamentary democracy in the country and gives President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dictatorial powers. The most unexpected aspect of the poll on Sunday was not the declared outcome, but that the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) allegedly found it necessary to fix the vote quite so blatantly.
  40. 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.
  41. Would as Many as 1 Million Be Alive if the Media Had Done Its Job
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    This is a transcript of John Pilger's contribution to a special edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Today' program, guest-edited by the artist and musician PJ Harvey.

Experts on Dictatorship in the Sources Directory

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