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An investigation into the serious abuses of the 'War on Terror' is imperative
2009-03-06
Reporters without Borders
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
2009-06-01
International Federation of Journalists
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 pra...

Sources Select Resources

Assange and Posada in the Propaganda System
Mixed Media
Herman, Edward S.; Peterson, David
Article
2011
CounterPunch
Posada's case is a dramatic illustration of the fraudulence of the so-called "War on Terror" and highlights the U.S. refusal to abide by the rule of law. Assange's case shows well the U.S. establishme...
Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015
The Kingpin Strategy
Cockburn, Andrew
Article
2015
CounterPunch
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...
Canada's Proposed Anti-Terrorism Law
An Assessment
Roach, Kent; Forcese, Craig
Article
2015
AntiTerrorLaw.ca
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.
CIA Torture Architect Breaks Silence to Defend 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Leopold, Jason
Article
2014
The Guardian
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...
The Cowards' Wars
Bohne, Luciana
Article
2016
CounterPunch
The condemnation of Radovan Karadzic to forty years of imprisonment by the International Crime Tribunal-Yugoslavia occasions these reflections.
Destroying the Commons
How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Chomsky, Noam
Article
2012
TomDispatch
Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
How They Sold the Iraq War
St. Clair, Jeffrey
Article
2018
CounterPunch
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
Lindorff, Dave
Article
2010
CounterPunch
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 th...
An investigation into the serious abuses of the 'War on Terror' is imperative
Sources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
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
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
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 pra...
The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
Petras, James
Article
2013
Dissident Voice
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 threat...
Lurching to War
Introduction to the October 15, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2016
Connexions
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
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
The Al-Qaida terror attacks allowed the great powers to justify new imperialist wars to safeguard the interests of global capital.
Obama's Liberty Problem
Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
Quigley, Bill; Warren, Vince
Article
2010
CounterPunch
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 wh...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015
Workers' Health and Safety
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
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 mur...
The Police State is Real
It Has Happened Here
Roberts, Paul Craig
Article
2013
CounterPunch
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 concen...
Predicting Torture
The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
Van Bergen, Jennifer
Article
2010
CounterPunch
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
Bello, Judy
Article
2013
Counterpunch
Status of prisoners of war in Guantanamo.
The Representation of Torture in the 'War on Terror'
Watts, Josh
Article
2013
News Unspun
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.
Unlawful Dissent
New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
Warnke, Brett
Article
2012
CounterPunch
The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
The War on Terrorism ... or Whatever
Blum, William
Article
2013
Counter Punch
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 wit...
Why Do Jihadis Seem So Evil?
Malik, Kenan
Article
2015
Kenan Malik
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 ...
Why the War on Terror Went Wrong
Al Qaeda's Second Act
Cockburn, Patrick
Article
2014
CounterPunch
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...

Sources Bookshelf

Towers of Deception
The Media Cover-Up of 9/11
Zwicker, Barrie
Book
2006


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