Sources Experts & Spokespersons
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IFIC PROPOSES EXCLUDING CANADIAN FUNDS FROM PFIC RULES2013-04-16
The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC)
Toronto, Ontario - April 16, 2013 - IFIC has made a submission to members of the U.S. Congress to propose that Canadian mutual funds be excluded from the Passive Foreign Investment Company (PFIC) rule...
IFJ Condemns U.S. Justice Dept for Secretly Gathering Associated Press Records2013-05-20
International Federation of Journalists
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 Pr...
Journalist fights the Obama administration over its sources2011-10-20
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is asking the Department of Justice to withdraw the appeal it issued yesterday against New York Times reporter James Risen to force him to testify about his confidential sour...
Seizure of AP phone records condemned as 'grave violation'2013-05-20
Reporters without Borders
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."
Sources Select Resources
Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every DaySwanson, David
Article
2017
Counterpunch
Swanson calls into question the US government-driven media accusations that the Russian government had direct involvement in swaying the 2016 US election for Trump, and exames the motivations behind t...
Biodiversity is the best defence against corn pestsLundgren, Jonathan; Fausti, Scott
Article
2015
Ecologist
Farmers' first line of defence against pests is the ecosystem in and around their fields. With widespread or indiscriminate use of pesticides essential biodiversity is lost - and the result is more fr...
The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's SoldiersBook Review
Hynes, H. Patricia
Article
2017
Antiwar
A review of the book, "The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers" by Joseph Hickman.
Connexions Library: USA FocusWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the United States of America.
Deranging AmericaDrugged, Indebted, Armed-to-the-Teeth
Dinh, Linh
Article
2013
CounterPunch
A question worth asking: Who benefit from a more compulsive, hence more violent, population? Well, if you’re pushing eternal warfare, which we are, you’ll need a pool of nutcases who are willing to sh...
IFJ Condemns U.S. Justice Dept for Secretly Gathering Associated Press RecordsSources News Release
Article
2013
International Federation of Journalists
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 Pr...
Ignorance and Courage in the Age of Lady GagaBageant, Joe
Article
2010
CounterPunch
It can be safely said that cultural ignorance consists of the rational, sensible questions that never get asked. But it also includes the weird ones that are. For instance, one of the questions asked ...
Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education Williams, Jeffrey, J.
Article
2016
Dissent
Williams discusses why American universities' current trend of advocating innovation ends up prioritizing corporate interests over the gola of accessible education.
Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'Arbuthnot, Felicity
Article
2016
The Ecologist
As if Iraq has not suffered enough under Saddam Hussein, the vicious UN sanctions regime, the US-UK occupation and the depradations of Daesh, a new threat looms that could kill a million people or mor...
Jeremy Corbyn Accused of Being Russian 'Collaborator' for Questioning NATO Troop Build-Up on BorderGreenwald, Glenn
Article
2017
The Intercept
The armed forces minister for Britain's right-wing government, Mike Penning, accused Corbyn of being a collaborator with the Kremlin.
Journalist fights the Obama administration over its sourcesSources News Release
Article
2011
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is asking the Department of Justice to withdraw the appeal it issued yesterday against New York Times reporter James Risen to force him to testify about his confidential sour...
Journalists allege threat of drone execution by USParvaz, D
Article
2017
Aljazeera
Fearing assassination, Al Jazeera's Ahmad Zaidan and independent journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem file US legal complaint.
Just When You Thought 'Russiagate' Couldn't Get Any Sillier Knapp, Thomas
Article
2018
Counterpunch
The lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks is simply the latest version of what the DNC has been doing since 2016, which is trying to fob blame for its loss of an ele...
Living Wage Campaigns, Part 2: Challenges Facing the MovementLuce, Stephanie
Article
1998
Against the Current
IN THE PREVIOUS article (see ATC 76), I discussed the basic concepts, advocates and goals behind living wage campaigns, as well as some of the movement's successes. These include a positive ideologica...
London, Jack - Writings - IndexLondon, Jack
Article
Writings of Jack London (1876-1916).
The Looting Machine Called CapitalismRoberts, Paul Craig
Article
2017
CounterPunch
I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment....
A Marxist History of the World part 46: The American RevolutionFaulkner, Neil
Article
2011
Counterfire
In 1764, Americans thought of themselves as British subjects of King George III. By 1788, they would, by their own decisions and actions, have made themselves the free citizens of a new republic forge...
A Marxist History of the World part 91: The Cold WarFaulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.
A Marxist History of the World part 98: The Vietnam WarFaulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
How an army of peasant guerrillas managed to defeat US imperialism in a full-scale war.
A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep endsFaulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world.
Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As FactsPeppe, Matt
Article
2017
CounterPunch
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 Nation is Not Divided and Still Prefers Bernie SandersHarms, Gregory
Article
2016
CounterPunch
The reportage of the presidential primaries has been heavy on personalities and the latest numbers, and light on information useful to voters. Comparisons to a horse race are apt. Were the news to tak...
Noam Chomsky: US Is the "Most Dangerous Country in the World" Falcone, Dan
Article
2017
Truth Out
Nuclear proliferation and climate change are subjects of acute concern in the current moment, driven into an all-out state of emergency by the new Trump administration. In this interview, Noam Chomsk...
Pentagon's War on the EarthHastings, Tom H
Article
2016
CounterPunch
We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces -- and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, b...
The Police State is RealIt 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...
Political Prisoners in the USAArticle
2013
http://afgj.org
A list of political prisoners in the USA (with links to support websites).
Protesters cast shadow over US billionaires' rally in the sunKoch brothers to host rightwing politicians and business leaders to discuss how to influence politics
Pilkington, Ed
Article
2011
The Guardian
The Koch brothers' annual rally of rich Americans and rightwing media figures was hosted to raise money for anti-government think tanks and climate change denial. This year a counter rally was orgnai...
Random Shots: Great World Leaders on ParadeKampfer, R.F.
Article
1998
Against the Current
Comments on world leaders
Retired GM worker speaks on three years of the Flint water crisisPorter, Lawrence
Unclassified
2017
World Socialist Website
The poisoning of the city of Flint continues three long years after the decision was made by politicians and financial speculators to switch city residents to Flint River water. As the world now knows...
The Russian Dossier Reminds Me of the Row Over Saddam's WMDsCockburn, Patrick
Article
2017
CounterPunch
The conclusions reached in the Trump dossier claim to be based on multiple sources of information where, in the nature of things, they are unlikely to exist.
Seizure of AP phone records condemned as 'grave violation'Sources News Release
Article
2013
Reporters without Borders
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."
Senate Dem Seeks Investigation of RT for Being Russian-FundedDitz, Jason
Article
2017
AntiWar.com
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D – NH) is pushing a bill that would seek a Justice Department investigation of whether television station RT America is "coordinating with the Russian government."
Sources HotLink - June 30, 2016Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Sources
Articles about the FBI and the information it gathers, Donald Trump and the media, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in suppressing information.
The U.S. Army Lost Track of 27 Ballistic MissilesMilitary didn't know old Lance rockets were in storage igloos in Alabama
Axe, David
Article
2015
War Is Boring
For 30 years starting in 1962, the U.S. Army deployed Lance ballistic missiles in Europe. Twenty feet long and weighing a ton and a half, an atomic-tipped Lance could zoom 75 miles at Mach 3 and explo...
US military taps 'sock puppets'Fake personas on social websites to manipulate and influence opinion
Fielding, Nick; Cobain, Ian; Rushe, Dominic
Article
2011
The Guardian
A new $2.76 million dollar 'counter-terrorism' initiative to create a pro-America online presence using fake online personas is underway. These interventions will not be conducted in English or on Ame...
US was 'key player in cyber-attacks on Iran's nuclear programme'Obama reported to have approved bid to target Tehran's nuclear efforts
Beaumont, Peter; Hopkins, Peter
Article
2012
The Guardian
Fresh light is shed on the rapid development of US cyberwarfare capability and reveal its willingness to use cyber weapons offensively to achieve policies.
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Rural PovertyGurley, Lauren
Article
2017
In These Times
Gurly analyzes the institutional reasons behind widespread poverty, depopulation, and unemployment in Jefferson County, Mississippi.
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?The Anti-Empire Report
Blum, William
Article
2013
KillingHope
The double edged sword of declaring war and fighting "terrorism".
Who the Hell is Supporting Donald Trump?Blazak, Randy
Article
2016
CounterPunch
Somehow the Trump shell game has gained followers. So the question is now, who the hell are these people voting for Trump?
Sources Bookshelf
Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And WhyThe 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
Jensen, Carl, and Project Censored. Introduction by Michael Crichton. Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow.
Book
1996
Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
Communication for and Against DemocracyRaboy, Marc and Bruck, Peter A. (ed.)
Book
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.
Culture of ComplaintThe Fraying of America
Hughes, Robert
Book
1993
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasan...
The Empire God BuiltInside Pat Robertson's media machine
Foege, Alec
Book
1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
Made in AmericaAn Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Bryson, Bill
Book
1994
A history of American English.
Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970Stone, I.F.
Book
1972
An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
The Radical CameraNew York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Klein, Mason
Book
2011
Artists in 'the Photo League', active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life.
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