- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015
The Kingpin Strategy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The "kingpin strategy" refers to the elimination of the kingpins dominating cartels. Cockburn analyzes how this method was used by the U.S. government, how it failed to work in the "drug war," and how its adoption, in the form of targeted assassinations in the "war on terror," has similarly been a failure.
- Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2003
'Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror' was screened six months after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and two years after the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. The film dissects the truth and lies behind the 'War on Terror', investigating the discrepancies between American and British justification for 'war' and the facts on the ground in Afghanistan and Washington DC.
- Canada's Proposed Anti-Terrorism Law
An Assessment
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A Statement to the Standing Committee on National Security & Public Safety regarding the dangers Bill C-51 poses to many of Canada's democratic freedoms.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- CIA Torture Architect Breaks Silence to Defend 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The psychologist regarded as the architect of the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” program has broken a seven-year silence to defend the use of torture techniques against al-Qaida terror suspects in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- The Cowards' Wars
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The condemnation of Radovan Karadzic to forty years of imprisonment by the International Crime Tribunal-Yugoslavia occasions these reflections.
- Dark Days
The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
An exposé of Canadian national security investigations, Kerry Pither's Dark Days exposes a disturbing record of human-rights abuses, both at home and abroad, and ultimately questions our notion of the "Just Society".
- Decoding Harper's Terror Game beneath the Masks and Diversions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Stephen Harper is the most deeply reviled Prime Minister in Canada's history. On the world stage, he is the servant of Big Oil boiling oil out of tar-sands to destroy major river systems and pollute the planet with dirty oil, while his attack dog John Baird leads the warmongering and bullying of nations like Iran and Syria.
- Destroying the Commons
How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
- 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.
- The Everyday Activist
365 Ways to Change the World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
- The Global War on Tribes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The point is not that all tribal peoples pose an egalitarian alternative to neoliberal capitalism. Some (such as Indigenous peoples) certainly do have strong egalitarian principles, but many other tribal peoples -- such as in the new conflict zones -- certainly do not (particularly toward women). The salient point is not that all tribal cultures are paradise, but that they are not capitalist, and neoliberal capitalism cannot stand anything other than Total Control.
- 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.
- How They Sold the Iraq War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold: it was a propaganda war, a war of perception management.
- Information Terrorists?
The Vile Campaign Against Julian Assange and Wikileaks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
WikiLeaks is under concerted attack from the US government. Also under attack by the US government is the whole idea of freedom of thought and of information. It needs to be clearly understood that the attacks on WikiLeaks by the US government could as easily be used against news organizations and political organizations.
- An investigation into the serious abuses of the 'War on Terror' is imperative
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders asks that the new Obama administration lead an investigation into the destruction of interrogation videotapes at secret prisons.
- Journalists Welcome European Call to Review Anti-Terrorism Laws
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Ministers of the human rights network of the Council of Europe have called on their governments to review anti-terrorism laws in the face of strong criticism from journalists that some laws are in practice limiting free expression and press rights.
- The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Revelations about the long-term global, intrusive spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other allied intelligence apparatuses have provoked widespread protests and indignation and threatened ties between erstwhile imperial allies.
- 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.
- 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.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box
The Incarceration of John Walker Lindh
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Clemency for John Walker Lindh would open up to public scrutiny an outrageous injustice that high officials in the Bush administration deliberately perpetrated on an American citizen after the 9/11 attacks. It would expose how they covered up their illegalities by betraying the legal professionalism of the Justice Department and by imprisoning their victim behind prison walls for half his life.
- Obama's Liberty Problem
Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees which have built up over the years to protect each one of us.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015
Workers' Health and Safety
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
The topic of the week is Workers' Health and Safety. Articles on why environmentalists should support working class struggles; whistleblowers; the appalling death rate from U.S. drone strikes; the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris; and what humanity could learn from Bonobos. The feature from the archives is Traces of Magma. The International Labor Rights Forum is the group of the week, and Silkwood is the film of the week.
- The Police State is Real
It Has Happened Here
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document.
- Predicting Torture
The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture.
- Prisoners of the War on Terror
Time to Give up "Hope" and Think About Active Change
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Status of prisoners of war in Guantanamo.
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2008
- Recalling the Hundreds of Thousands of Civilian Victims of America's Endless 'War on Terror'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
According to very conservative estimates, as reported by the "Costs of War" project of Brown University’s Watson Institute on International and Public Affairs, nearly 250,000 civilians have been killed during the 8 years since September 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan in wars or attacks that were instigated by the United States.
- The Representation of Torture in the 'War on Terror'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A nation cannot claim to act to promote democracy and human rights whilst it kidnaps citizens the world over, places them in secret detention and tortures them.
- Rogue State
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
- The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
- Towers of Deception
The Media Cover-Up of 9/11
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- Trump's War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Although precise numbers are difficult to obtain, there seems little question that the number of civilians being killed by the U.S. in Iraq and Syria -- already quite high under Obama -- has increased precipitously during the first two months of the Trump administration.
- Unlawful Dissent
New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
- The War on Terrorism ... or Whatever
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A brief survey of the War on Terrorism, a war that has become increasingly difficult to sell to the American public as one of pro-democracy "moderates" locked in a good-guy-versus-bad-guy struggle with an evil dictator, although in actuality the United States has fought on the same side as al Qaeda on repeated occasions before Syria.
- Why Do Jihadis Seem So Evil?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The day before the Paris carnage, two suicide bombers killed at least 40 people in a Shia district of Beirut. The week after, two suicide bombings of street markets in Nigeria killed 49 people. Faced with such atrocities, we can often do little but reach for adjectives such as 'barbarous', 'depraved', or even 'evil'. But what is it that makes people act in such depraved, evil ways?
- 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.
- Why the War on Terror Went Wrong
Al Qaeda's Second Act
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Al-Qa’ida-type organisations, with beliefs and methods of operating similar to those who carried out the 9/11 attacks, have become a lethally powerful force from the Tigris to the Mediterranean in the past three years.
- Barrie Zwicker
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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