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  1. America in Decline
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
  2. The American Deep State
    Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Scott makes a compelling case for a hidden "deep state," a second order of government behind the public or constitutional state, that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies.
  3. Another reporter threatened with contempt for refusing to reveal sources
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter not to hold the journalist in contempt of court for refusing to identify confidential sources.
  4. Bring on the Crackup: Hoping for a Trump - Sanders Election
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    There is every reason to think that electoral "politics" in the United States (and most places) is bullshit. For people who yearn for a very different world to get involved in this "process" -- which is almost entirely scripted by people who absolutely do not yearn for a very different world -- is a big waste of energy and commitment. The arguments here are addressed to the yearners, who I will call "radicals" -- people who recognize that the only real solution to the many problems facing humanity today is a qualitative, even epoch-making, change. When I say "we," I mean those of us who yearn for and work for such a change.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. A Citizen's Guide to Combating Election Propaganda: Debunking Anti-Welfare Myths
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The goal moving forward must be to create a critical citizen consciousness, so the masses don't simply "accept what they're told" once every four years by the pretty faces running for office. What follows is a primer for readers to help in their conversations with friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and family, to fight back against the racist, classist propaganda so often employed against disadvantaged groups in the U.S.
  8. A Coalition of Scientists Keeps Watch on the U.S. Government's Climate Data
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Via memos leaked to the press, rogue tweets, and unnamed agency sources, the public learned of growing pressure on federal employees to avoid sharing their scientific work. Meanwhile, small but significant changes to federal web pages hinted at the demise of former president Barack Obama’s efforts to manage climate change.
  9. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  10. Connexions Library: USA Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the United States of America.
  11. The Constitutional Root of Racism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A look at how the US Constitution enables racism by affording power to the states.
  12. Empire Abroad, Empire At Home
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- that dooms democracy. As corporations have an insatiable drive for profit, empires have an insatiable drive for power.
  13. 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.
  14. Has Trump Stolen Philosophy's Critical Tools?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Williams analyzes how U.S. President Trump is able to exploit the post-modernist view of the subjectivity of truth in order to wield power over how Americans perceive their own reality.
  15. IFJ Condemns U.S. Justice Dept for Secretly Gathering Associated Press Records
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Newspaper Guild-CWA, in condemning the U.S. Justice Department for secretly gathering the phone records of Associated Press Journalists and called on the department
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. An Introduction: Capital's Global Turbulence
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    A JOYLESS IRONY of our time is that just as capitalism seemed all-triumphant and the sirens of neoliberalism had declared history to be at an end, the crisis rolling out of Asia has brought the self-regulating global market to its knees. Add to this that at the same time as Marxism as political doctrine has been declared dead, Marxist economics has never been better argued and empirically defended than today.
  19. The Invisibility of Fascism in the Postwar United States
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Vials examines the use of the term "fascism" in post-war United States politics since the Tea Party have twisted its meaning to denote a left-wing phenomenon.
  20. IRS seizes hundreds of perfectly legal bank accounts, refuses to give money back
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Internal Revenue Service has been seizing bank accounts belonging to small businesses and individuals who regularly made deposits of less than $10,000, but broke no laws. And the government is refusing to return all the money taken. The practice - called civil asset forfeiture - allows IRS agents to seize property they suspect of being tied to a crime, even if no charges are filed, and their agency is allowed to keep a share of whatever is forfeited.
  21. It's Time for the Left to Ask "What Are We For?"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Sarah Jaffe interviewed Maria Poblet. Maria Poblet has been working in base building and community organizing in the Bay Area for 18 years, building Causa Justa Just Cause, a democratically held grassroots organization where she is currently transitioning out of the role of executive director.
  22. Journalistic Integrity: Allan Nairn vs. Julian Assange
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    I've been really upset since the inauguration and trying to cope with the emotions I am encountering daily. It is pretty obvious that a successful meme has been implanted in the progressive mindset that will have as much impact as the claim Ralph Nader gave the 2000 election to Bush. By this I mean that people are extremely pissed off at me for having backed the Green Party and Jill Stein and seem to say with almost a psychic vitriol that it is somehow my fault that Trump got elected. Didn’t you throw your vote away on the Greens? Didn't you say awful things about Hillary?
  23. The Madder Trump Gets, the More Seriously the World Takes Him
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The more dangerous America's crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the lies, the fantasies and self-regard of this misogynist leader of the Western world appalled all of us. But the moment he went to war in Yemen, fired missiles at Syria and bombed Afghanistan, even the US media Trump had so ferociously condemned began to treat him with respect. And so did the rest of the world.
  24. 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.
  25. Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As Facts
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, 2017, "C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed," misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the American presidential election but that it is a settled fact that the CIA was in possession of hard evidence to that effect.
  26. "Mr. Boston": Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Interview with historian Gar Alperovitz. Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists the Pentagon Papers -- a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam.
  27. Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom.
  28. Noam Chomsky: Trump's First 100 Days Are Undermining Our Prospects for Survival
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    No recent US president has demonstrated such an overwhelming ignorance about governing as the current occupant of the White House. But is Trump's apparent inability to govern and conduct himself in a remotely conventional manner an innate character flaw or part of a well-conceived strategy aimed at a society that loves reality TV? In this exclusive Truthout interview, Noam Chomsky shares his views about the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
  29. Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    An unofficial record of the New York branch of the Occupy movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections.
  30. 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.
  31. The Other Police State
    Private Cops vs. the Public Good
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A revealing study on "Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits" written by Gary Ruskin confirms one’s worst suspicions about the ever-expanding two-headed U.S. security state. It details how some companies use the security apparatus, including questionable espionage tactics, against anyone who challenges their authority.
  32. Our Generation
    Volume 20 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  33. Passionate Declarations
    Essays on War and Justice
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Essays looking at American political ideology.
  34. 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.
  35. The Revisionaries
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    The Revisionaries follows the attempts of a creationist Board of Education member to revise the science and history curricula to better suit a white, Christian nation.
  36. 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.
  37. Running Government Like a Business is Bad for Citizens
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Donald Trump and Jared Kushner say that the government should be run like a business, but that would mean eliminating regulations and expenses that benefit the people.
  38. Russiagate and the Democratic Party are for Chumps
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Now Trump and the nation's 34 Republican governors get to wield the ever-expanding powers of the police state in a nation whose populace has lost faith in nearly every major U.S. institution but two: the military and the police. It's a militarized police-state the Democrats helped create.
  39. Seizure of AP phone records condemned as 'grave violation'
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Reporters Without Borders regards the US Department of Justice's seizure of the records of thousands of Associated Press phone calls as an "extremely grave violation of freedom of information."
  40. Shadow Facts About Shadow Government
    The Era of "Tiny Wars"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Tom Engelhardt keeps churning out great books by collecting his posts from TomDispatch.com. His latest book, Shadow Government, is essential reading.
  41. Shadow Government
    Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
  42. Trump and Clinton: Censoring the unpalatable
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A virulent if familiar censorship is about to descend on the US election campaign. As the cartoon brute, Donald Trump, seems almost certain to win the Republican Party's nomination, Hillary Clinton is being ordained both as the "women's candidate" and the champion of American liberalism in its heroic struggle with the Evil One.
  43. Trump Insults the Media, but Bush Bullied and Defanged It to Sell the Iraq War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Bush was anything but a friend of the press during his presidency. Maybe he didn’t demonize it as much as Trump does -- but he actively manipulated it and bullied it far worse and far more effectively than Trump has, much of it in the service of selling his marquee policy: the war in Iraq.
  44. Trump the Gardener
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    In an interview defending his Presidential candidate, Silicon Valley billionaire and undisguised self-interested Randian fanboy Peter Thiel assured the public that when Donald Trump asserted that he would build a mighty wall along the US Mexican border, what he really meant was that he would impose a 'saner, more sensible immigration policy'.
  45. Truth in Chains
    The Arrest of Julian Assange
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Tell a truth that discomforts power, that challenges its domination over our lives, our discourse, our very thoughts, and you will be destroyed. No institution, public or private, will stand with you; the most powerful entities, public and private, will be arrayed against you, backed up by overwhelming violent force. This is where we are now. This is what we are now.
  46. The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never Was
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    There is no contradiction or supposed loss of democracy because the United States simply never was one. This is a difficult reality for many people to confront, and they are likely more inclined to immediately dismiss such a claim as preposterous rather than take the time to scrutinize the material historical record in order to see for themselves
  47. US news media to be monitored to curb leaks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A series of leak leads U.S. officials to take additional measures to stop the public from learning about government secrets.
  48. Wag The Dog -- How Al Qaeda Played Donald Trump And The American Media
    Responsibility for the chemical event in Khan Sheikhoun is still very much in question.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Once upon a time, Donald J. Trump, the New York City businessman-turned-president, berated then-President Barack Obama, back in September 2013, about the fallacy of an American military strike against Syria. At that time, the United States was considering the use of force against Syria in response to allegations (since largely disproven) that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against civilians in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Trump, via tweet, declared "to our very foolish leader, do not attack Syria - if you do many very bad things will happen & from that fight the U.S. gets nothing!"
  49. We Are Wisconsin
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    When a Republican Governor’s bill threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate, six (extra)ordinary citizens join the growing protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and spend the next twenty-six days building a movement that not only challenges the bill, but the soul of a nation.
  50. Where the Anti-Russian Moral Panic is Leading Us
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    This is how the smear campaign scores points: you don't have to be on the Russian payroll -- you can be a "useful idiot" just because of your political views, which condemn you as an "unwitting" agent, as former CIA director Mike Morell described Trump. This is how the parameters of "respectable" opinion are policed: this is how the War Party criminalizes those who think that the cold war is over and shouldn't be revived.
  51. Why Sitting Bull was right about Washington's lack of integrity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    That integrity is a foreign land where Washington is concerned is an inarguable fact. In the latest example, the failure to complete the construction of a nuclear disposal plant agreed with Russia once again leaves Washington's credibility in tatters.
  52. 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.
  53. The WikiLeaks wake up call
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Will a backlash against the WikiLeaks phenomenon have significant implications for the future of the Internet?

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