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1. a Quadrature du Net and Reporters Without Borders: Recommendations on the right to be forgotten
   Published: 2014
   On the problems for the protection of freedom of expression and the right to information posed by the right to be removed from search engine results and, more broadly, the right to be forgotten. Privacy and freedom of expression are fundamental rights of equal value. Whenever one conflicts with the other, a balance must be reached under a judge’s authority because, as a matter of principle, one cannot be given more importance than the other.
2. Aaronson, Trevor: Even the FBI Agrees: When Undercover Agents Pose as Journalists, It Hurts Real Journalists' Work
   Published: 2018
   The FBI doesn't want the public to know more about how its agents pose as journalists during undercover investigations.The government acknowledged in a court filing that FBI agents who pretend to be journalists create a chilling effect, making it harder for real journalists to gain trust and cooperation from sources.
3. Aaronson, Trevor: The Sting: How the FBI Created a Terrorist
   Published: 2015
   Informant-led sting operations are central to the FBI’s counterterrorism program. Of 508 defendants prosecuted in federal terrorism-related cases in the decade after 9/11, 243 were involved with an FBI informant, while 158 were the targets of sting operations.
4. Abbas, Ziad: Torturing and Jailing Palestinian Children
   Nightmare in the Occupied Territories
   Published: 2013
   About 500-700 children are arrested by the Israeli occupation every year, according to Defense for Children International-Palestine. These children face a policy designed to kill their spirit and shut them down. It targets them physically and psychologically.
5. Abbdelhadi, Magdi: Some popular fallacies about Islamism
   Published: 2015
   Al-Qaeda and its most recent clone, the so-called "Islamic State" group, did not come about as a result of the invasion of Iraq or the civil war in Syria. It was born out of the unholy alliance between America and the Wahhabi zealots of Saudi Arabia to defeat communism and bring down the Soviet Union.
6. Abbott, Dr. Lyman; Dickenson, Asa Don et. al.: The Guide to Reading
   Published: 1922
   In every home there ought to be books that are friends. In every day, at least in every week, there ought to be some time which can be spent in cultivating their friendship.
7. Abbott, Jeff: Honduras: Garifuna communities resist eviction and theft of land
   Published: 2015
   Pristine beaches, clear Caribbean waters, coral reefs, fertile land ... such is the homeland of the Garifuna people, writes Jeff Abbott. It's so lovely that outsiders are desperate to seize ever more of their territory to develop for mass tourism, oil palm plantations, illicit drug production ... and the land grabs have the full support of Honduras military government, backed to the hilt by Uncle Sam.
8. Abbott, Jeff: Indigenous Communities in Guatemala Fight Against the Privatization of Sacred Sites
   Published: 2016
   In recent years, the popular tourist attraction of Semuc Champey in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz has become a point of social conflict for the indigenous Q'eqchi' Mayan communities surrounding the site. On February 8, tensions erupted and led to the occupation of the municipality building of Lanquín by over 200 members of the communities near the tourist attraction. Community members demanded the recuperation of the site. Since that day, residents have maintained management of the park.
9. Abbott, Jeff: Indigenous Community Wins Land Rights Victory in Guatemala After 200 Years of Struggle
   Published: 2015
   Success is rare among indigenous peoples' struggles for land rights in Guatemala. But the nearly 300 Poqomchi' Maya families that make up the Primavera communities in the department of Alta Verapaz have just won a significant victory.
10. Abelvik-Lawson, Helle: Batteries and renewables - believe the hype!
    Published: 2015
    Discusses one of the biggest technological developments of our climate-stressed times: the large-scale storage of renewable energy.
11. Abernethy, Richard: Rosa Luxemburg's Birds
    Published: 2020
    
12. Abley, Mark: 'It's like bombing the Louvre'
    Published: 2008
    Marie Smith Jones was the world's last Eyak speaker - by the time she died last week, she could use her mother tongue only in her dreams. But the loss of a language is not just a personal tragedy, it is a cultural disaster
13. Abma, Sandra: Exhuming history: censored Jewish text brought to light by Library and Archives Canada
    Published: 2016
    Words that were once lost to history have been brought into the light by book conservationists at Library and Archives Canada. The 16th-century collection of sermons were by a rabbi and philosopher who sought to keep the faith alive during a dark era of persecution and censorship, when Jews were facing possible expulsion from their homes if they did not convert to Christianity.
14. Aboukhater, Hekmat: That's militainment! Big Hollywood succumbs to the Pentagon Borg
    Published: 2024
    
15. Abraham: Here's What Shakespeare's Plays Sounded Like With Their Original English Accent
    Published: 2011
    In this short documentary, linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal, look at the differences between English pronunciation now and how it was spoken 400 years ago. They answer the most basic question you probably have right now — How do you know what it sounded like back then? — and they discuss the value of performing Shakespeare’s plays in the original accent…
16. Abraham, Nabeel: Crossing Lines for Justice
    Against The Current vol. 107
    Published: 2003
    The dreaded knock on the door came at mid-day when a colleague brought the news -- Edward Said died last night. For those who knew him, we lived with his illness for a dozen years the way a family lives with a doomed relative. The day would arrive when Edward's inimitable and redoubtable voice would be heard no more. It was a shock all the same.
17. Abraham, Sara: Bhopal's Fight for Memory
    Published: 2015
    In December, 1984, unknown poisonous gases burst out from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located in a vicinity of the city of Bhopal in central India. The plant, scheduled for possible closure, was understaffed, not maintained adequately, and had already seen prior deaths from exposure to leaks.
18. Abraham, Sara: Global Justice, What We Eat, Who We Are
    Against The Current vol. 92
    Published: 2001
    Sara Abraham interviews Harriet Friedmann, who has devoted more than two decades to understanding the international politics of food and agriculture and to building local food systems that can be sustainable, polycultural in all senses, and enhancing of democratic, participatory communities.
19. Abraham, Yuval: 'A mass assassination factory': Inside Israel's calculated bombing of Gaza
    Published: 2023
    Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals.
20. Abrahms, Lindsay: Fracking company teams up with Susan G. Komen, introduces pink drill bits "for the cure"
    Published: 2014
    
21. Abrams, DI: Integrating cannabis into clinical cancer care
    Published: 2016
    Literature review of contemporary (2016) understanding of the efficacy of cannabis and cannabis derived drugs in treating cancer symptoms.
22. Abrougui, Afef: Human Rights Protections Weaken as Tunisia Fights Terror
    Published: 2015
    The Tunisian government is cracking down on civil and political rights as it fights a rise in Islamist insurgency, in the aftermath of the deadliest terror attack in the country's history.
23. Abu Sneineh, Mustafa: Revealed: The Saudi death squad MBS uses to silence dissent
    Published: 2018
    The MEE reveals information from a Saudi source with intimate knowledge of the Saudi intelligence services, about a death squad that operates under the guidance and supervision of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
24. Abu-Jamal, Mumia: Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
    Published: 2016
    If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever. In April, 2014, the state-appointed emergency manager, in order to save money, ordered that the city's water source be changed from Lake Huron to the notoriously polluted Flint River.
25. Abubacker, Ershad: Mainstream Media And The Propaganda Machine
    Published: 2009
    Mainstream media, especially the American media plays a vital role in shaping the world public opinion.
26. Abuimah, Ali: Censorship? Haaretz Deletes Amira Hass Article On Surging Settler Violence
    Published: 2012
    Israel’s Haaretz has mysteriously deleted a powerful article by Amira Hass headlined “The anti-Semitism that goes unreported,” about an unchecked upsurge in violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers.
27. Abujbara, Amira: Why does the language of journalism fail indigenous people?
    A journalist with indigenous roots reflects on the making of We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska.
    Published: 2018
    A journalist with Indigenous roots reflects on the difficulty of doing justice to the community she is filming a documentary about. Historical misrepresentation due to lack of cross-cultural understanding has led to a distrust of the media.
28. Abulhawa , Susan: On Israel's colonial narrative
    Published: 2015
    Analysis: Palestinian novelist Susan Abulhawa deconstructs Israel's insidious language of power.
29. Abulhawa, Susan: Israel's 'nation-state law' parallels the Nazi Nuremberg Laws
    Published: 2018
    Israel's new 'nation-state' law follows in the footsteps of Jim Crow, the Indian Removal Act and the Nuremberg Laws.
30. Abulhawa, Susan: Marc Lamont Hill's Detractors are the True Anti-Semites
    Published: 2018
    Temple University's administration announced the unsurprising news that it has found no grounds to punish or investigate Professor Marc Lamont Hill for his speech on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Yet, the university's Board of Trustees felt compelled, nonetheless, to issue a statement further maligning Dr Hill, albeit indirectly this time.
31. Abunimah, Ali: "Gaza is a graveyard," sing joyful Israeli youths
    Published: 2014
    This video shows an Israeli mob actually singing in celebration of children’s deaths in the style of a soccer fans’ song: “In Gaza there’s no studying, No children are left there, Olé, olé, olé-olé-olé.”
32. Abunimah, Ali: Gaza medic killed by Israel as she rescued injured
    Published: 2018
    Israeli occupation forces shot dead a volunteer medic and injured dozens of people as they continued their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza for the 10th consecutive Friday. Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar, 21, was helping treat and evacuate wounded protesters east of Khan Younis when she was fatally shot on Friday evening. She was about 100 meters away from the boundary fence with Israel at the moment she was shot and was wearing clothing clearly identifying her as a medic.
33. Abunimah, Ali: Israeli minister threatens to destroy Gaza "once and for all"
    Published: 2018
    As Israel bombed it dozens of times in the past day, a senior Israeli minister has incited the total destruction of Gaza.
34. Abunimah, Ali: PayPal censors journalists who criticize Israel
    Published: 2018
    Under apparent influence from Benjamin Weinthal, PayPal chose to close down the account of the French online publication Agence Media Palestine. Such a move constitutes censorship as it denies journalists the means to raise money for their work and freedom to express ideas.
35. Abunimah, Ali: Video shows unprovoked, cold-blooded killing of Palestinian boys by Israeli forces
    Published: 2014
    This shocking video shows the unprovoked, cold-blooded killings of two Palestinian teenagers, 17-year-old Nadim Siam Nuwara, and 16-year-old Muhammad Mahmoud Odeh Abu al-Thahir on 15 May near Ofer military prison in the occupied West Bank city of Beitunia. Both boys were fatally shot with live ammunition.
36. Abunimah, Ali: Why Is Benjamin Netanyahu Trying To Whitewash Hitler?
    Published: 2015
    Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly asserted that Adolf Hitler had no intention of exterminating Europe's Jews until a Palestinian persuaded him to do it.
37. Abunimah, Ali; Nassar, Tamara: "Today we are Nazis," says member of Israeli Jewish extremist group
    Published: 2021
    Israeli Jewish extremists used instant messaging services to organize armed militias to attack Palestinian citizens of Israel. Voice messages, texts and other communications indicate they coordinated attacks in cities where Palestinians live in close proximity to Jews – including Haifa, Bat Yam and Tiberias in the north, and Ramla and Lydd – Lod in Hebrew – in the center, to Beersheba in southern Israel. In many cases, extremist organizers said they relied on either the active or passive support of Israeli authorities.
38. Abunimah, Ali; Sheen, David: Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says
    Published: 2023
    The Electronic Intifada is now able to publish the entire interview with Yasmin Porat, the Kibbutz Be'eri survivor who told Israeli radio that Israeli security forces 'undoubtedly' killed a large number of their own civilians following the Hamas assault on 7 October 2023.
39. Abusalama, Shahd: Watch: Al Jazeera’s "Massacre at Dawn" Gives Glimpse of Horror in Shujaiya
    Published: 2014
    Thinking that the footage contained in Massacre at Dawn is just a fraction of the horror makes it even worse. No wonder Israel prevented media from covering the brutality that our people endured there.
40. Abushama, Hashem: On Western media and the erasure of Palestine
    Published: 2023
    The Palestinian struggle brings to the forefront the colonial relations that underpin today's world, and that the West, and its media, work tirelessly to hide.
41. Achanta, Pushpa: India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commons
    Published: 2015
    India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations. But tribal communities are rising up to resist the takeover, which is not only morally reprehensible but violates India's own laws and international human rights obligations.
42. Acharya, Madhavi: Net's one place to go when you need to know
    Published: 1998
    Use the Internet to find information - but don't use it as your only source, and don't automatically trust everything you read.
43. Achebe, Chinua: Chinua Achebe Quotes
    
44. Ackerman, Seth: American Jacobins
    Published: 2012
    In a recent broadside against the Occupy movement, Alexander Cockburn assailed, among other things, “the enormous arrogance which prompted the Occupiers to claim that they were indeed the most important radical surge in living memory. Where was the knowledge of, let alone the respect for, the past?”
45. Ackerman, Seth: The Red and the Black
    Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?
    Published: 2012
    In this essay, I start from the common socialist assumption that capitalism’s central defects arise from the conflict between the pursuit of private profit and the satisfaction of human needs. Then I sketch some of the considerations that would have to be taken into account in any attempt to remedy those defects.
46. Ackerman, Spencer; Ball, James: Optic Nerve
    Millions of Yahoo Webcam Images Intercepted by GCHQ
    Published: 2014
    Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.
47. Ackerman, Spencer; Roberts, Dan: Obama defiant over NSA revelations ahead of summit with Chinese premier
    Published: 2013
    President says oversight of NSA surveillance programme should be left to Congress in comments criticising media 'hype.'
48. Ackerman, Spencer; Stafford, Zach; Guarino, Mark;Laughland, Oliver: "Gestapo" tactics at US police 'black site' ring alarm from Chicago to Washington
    Published: 2015
    Politicians and rights groups call for inquiries into interrogations at Homan Square. Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces questions as top supporters examine abuse.
49. ACRES U.S.A.: GMOs, Glyphosate & Tomorrow
    Published: 2011
    Any time you have a single gene in so many different crops, especially a gene that impacts the normal resistance and defense mechanism in the plant, and you spread that same vulnerability across so many plants, you should anticipate a high level of vulnerability.
50. Acton, Lord: Lord Acton Quotes
    
51. Acuna, Rodolfo: Criticism: An Abandoned Process
    Blame the Greeks!
    Published: 2013
    The art of criticism is yet another casualty of television, the Internet and individualism. The objective of criticism should be to improve something. That is the only way that changes and transformations take place. Formal and informal criticisms have been the centerpiece of every advanced society.
52. Acuna, Rodolfo: Lessons From the Working Class
    Published: 2013
    Acuna tries not to romanticize the working class, but he considers them his teachers.
53. Acuna, Rodolfo: Why History Makes Us Important
    Back to Bachima
    Published: 2014
    History has been important to me for as long as I can remember. As a child I loved hearing my relatives tell stories about the past. However, it was not until I was older that I realized that the stories meant something; they were key to understanding the present; and why we are what we are. As my awareness increased, I became serious about the past so serious that it often got me into trouble.
54. Adam, Brad: Media Freedom
    You will be harrassed and detained
    Published: 2007
    This report analyzes how the Chinese government is failing to fulfill its commitments to respect the reporting freedom of foreign correspondents during the period of the temporary regulations and is instead continuing to subject foreign reporters to detention, harassment, and intimidation. It also examines how the Chinese government maintains a stranglehold on the activities of domestic journalists.
55. Adams, Alexander: Creating a 'Brave New World': Rather than guarding Britain's national treasures, woke museum curators want to dispose of them
    Published: 2021
    Museum curators are no longer the devoted custodians and investigators of artefacts; they are more likely to be schooled in post-modernism and to loathe those artefacts, seeing them as tainted by a history of oppression. Rather than guarding Britains national treasures, curators are lobbying to dispose of them.
56. Adams, Nalisha: 'A Turtle is Worth More Alive Than Dead'
    Published: 2018
    Various participants at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Kenya discuss ways they can sustainably economically benefit from the local environment.
57. Adams, Tim: Collectors on the edge
    The influence of Kew Gardens reaches far. In the heart of Botswana, meet the leaders of the Millenium Seed Bank Project
    Published: 2009
    The Millenium Seed Bank Project is an international botanical project to collect and study 10% of the world's plant species.
58. Adams, Tim: Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph
    Published: 2013
    An interview with the current head of Google Search, discussing some of the thought processes behind the current functionality of 'search' and some of its possibilites for the future.
59. Adams, Tim: Jamie Oliver: 'Tell me Mr Gove, Mr Lansley. How can we stop Britain being the most unhealthy country in Europe?'
    In the 10 years since opening his Fifteen restaurant, Jamie Oliver's campaigns have gone global. But his passion to improve British schools
    Published: 2012
    Jaime Oliver continues in his challenge to the educate people on healthy eating, with or without the British government's aid.
60. Adams, Tim: Look back in joy: the power of nostalgia
    Published: 2014
    Long considered a disorder, nostalgia is now recognised as a powerful tool in the battle against anxiety and depression. Researchers prove that looking back can improve the outlook for today and tomorrow.
61. Adams, Tim: Why anger is all the rage
    The internet has made critics of us all. But why do so many commenters exploit the anonymity of chatrooms to promote hatred.
    Published: 2011
    Anonymity in the online community has its proponents and detractors, the author interviews the founder of wikipedia and a facebook employee about the importance of moderation in social media. He comes to the conclusion that many of the extremist opinions espoused online would not be published if their authors had to attach them to their names.
62. Adetunji, Jo: The chemical dangers in food packaging
    Published: 2014
    The long-term effects of synthetic chemicals used in packaging, food storage and processing food could be damaging our health, scientists have warned.
63. Adil, Hafsa: 'Modi is God's gift to Pakistan security establishment'
    Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif talks about shrinking freedoms, liberal voices and human rights in Balochistan.
    Published: 2017
    Mohammed Hanif is a Pakistani journalist and writer. In an interview with Al Jazeera he talks about the shrinking freedoms in mainstream and social media in Pakistan, the role of liberal voices and the state of human rights in Balochistan.
64. Adithya, M.K.: RIP Liu Xiaobo: Nobel Peace Awardee Who Supported All Wars Unleashed By US Imperialiasm
    Published: 2017
    
65. Adler, Ben: What America can learn from Europe's high-speed trains
    Published: 2015
    Adler examines the lagging state of high-speed rail technology in America while analyzing Germany's approach to transit and urban planning as a model for improvement.
66. Adler-Bolton, Beatrice: "Right to Try" Is a Cruel Farce
    Published: 2018
    Drug companies want you to think they're providing glimmers of hope to terminally ill patients. Don't believe them.
67. Adorney, Julian: The Pseudoscience of Critical Race Theory
    Published: 2023
    Critical Race Theory is not a hard science. It's not even a soft science.
68. Adorno, Theodor: Theodor Adorno Quotes
    
69. Adriaensens, Dirk: 2013: Another Year Of Slaughter In Iraq Claims The Lives Of At Least 21 Media Professionals
    Published: 2014
    In Iraq , at least 404 media professionals have been killed since the US invasion in 2003, among them 374 Iraqis, according to The B Russell Tribunal statistics. The impunity in Iraq is far worse than anywhere else in the world.
70. Aeschylus: Aeschylus Quotes
    
71. Aesop: Aesop Quotes
    
72. Aga, Aniket; Choudhury, Chitrangada: 'Cotton has now become a headache'
    A chemical-intensive Bt cotton monoculture is spreading through Odisha’s Rayagada district – harming health, deepening debt, irreversibly er
    Published: 2019
    Kunari's account reflects a dependence brought about by cotton cultivation that is taking root across the ecologically sensitive highland tracts of Odisha's Rayagada district, with deep implications for its rich store of biodiversity, farmers' distress and food security (See Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha).
73. Aga, Aniket; Choudhury, Chitrangada: Sowing the seeds of climate crisis in Odisha
    Published: 2019
    In Rayagada, Bt cotton acreage has risen by 5,200 per cent in 16 years. The result: this biodiversity hotspot, rich in indigenous millets, rice varieties and forest foods, is seeing an alarming ecological shift.
74. Agence France-Presse: Outrage as plant bosses acquitted over fatal toxic spill in Hungary
    Published: 2016
    Prosecutors had demanded prison terms for those on trial after alumina works disaster killed 10 and wrecked villages.
75. Agorist, Matt: Police Taser and Beat Innocent Disabled Vet, Hold Quadriplegic Wife at Gunpoint, Demand She Stand
    Published: 2015
    Mr. and Mrs. Hayes filed a lawsuit against the Delaware state police for raiding their home. Officers were looking for their nephews, who faced a charge for possession of the drug paraphernalia.
76. Agren, David: In Mexico, reporters struggle to cover unrest over missing students
    Published: 2015
    Students have been kidnapped and mass graves have been uncovered but, with all the self-censorship of domestic journalists, Mexico will soon forget.
77. Aguirre, Carmen: Steven Galloway is Innocent Until Proven Guilty
    Everyone is owed due process
    Published: 2015
    Yes, far too often women who are sexually assaulted are disbelieved. Which is why I understand and see the reasoning behind the "I Believe Women" slogan. It is a powerful statement. It is a strong political position. It is a rhetorical tool, but is not an actual, automatic truth. If we see it as such, it is an inherently tyrannical position that has historically been used to imprison and murder poor men of colour and Indigenous men. For these reasons I much prefer "I Listen to Women."
78. Ahmed, Nafeez: Armed robbery in Gaza - Israel, US, UK carve up the spoils of Palestine's stolen gas
    Published: 2014
    Israel desperately covets Gaza's gas as a 'cheap stop-gap' yielding revenues of $6-7 billion a year, writes Nafeez Ahmed. But first Hamas must be 'uprooted' from Gaza, and Fatah bullied into cutting off its talks with Russia's Gazprom.
79. Ahmed, Nafeez: Gaza: Israel's $4 billion gas grab
    Published: 2014
    The purpose of Israel's escalating assault on Gaza is to control the Territory's 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas - and so keep Palestine poor and weak, gain massive export revenues, and avert its own domestic energy crisis. If Palestinians develop their own gas resources, the resulting economic transformation could in turn fundamentally increase Palestinian clout.
80. Ahmed, Nafeez: Global water crisis causing failed harvests, hunger, war and terrorism
    Published: 2015
    The world is already experiencing water scarcity driven by over-use, poor land management and climate change. If we fail to respond to the warnings before us, major food and power shortages will soon afflict large parts of the globe.
81. Ahmed, Nafeez: How the CIA made Google
    Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet - Part 1
    Published: 2015
    How the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain "information superiority.'
82. Ahmed, Nafeez: nerve agent case for 'action' on Russia
    Official claim that 'Novichok' points solely to Russia discredited
    Published: 2018
    The case against Russia using the nerve agent Novichok is undermined by earlier reports by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which previously declared that they have no evidence for the existence of a Russian Novichok programme.
83. Ahmed, Nafeez: Palestine is not an environment story
    How I was censored by The Guardian for writing about Israel's war for Gaza's gas
    Published: 2014
    After writing for The Guardian for over a year, my contract was unilaterally terminated because I wrote a piece on Gaza that was beyond the pale.
84. Ahmed, Nafeez: Up to Six Million People
    The Unrecorded Fatalities of the 'War on Terror'
    Published: 2021
    Nafeez Ahmed examines the direct and indirect deaths of the post 9/11 era, as a new kind of state-sanctioned mass violence became globalised and normalised.
85. Ahmed, Nafeez: War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure
    Published: 2015
    The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya. Since then, the country's water infrastructure has only deteriorated further.
86. Aima, Khosa: Women and the Pakistani Left: Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?
    Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new and more concrete basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?
    Published: 2014
    We condemn the co-option of the question of women’s emancipation by neo-liberal forces through the de-contextualized celebration of Women’s Day as another opportunity to further the neo-liberal development agenda.
87. Ainger, Katharine: In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
    Published: 2013
    The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
88. Aitchison,John: Connecting with nature through wildlife, place and memory
    Published: 2016
    Some of us are fortunate enough to have close relationships with the nature around us. But what about everyone else? We must find ways to make people feel like old friends with wildife near and far, and feel that their wild homes and habitats are extensions of our own. And hence, that they are as deserving of our care as human neighbours - if not more so.
89. Akkeila, Sami A.: Three phones go silent
    Published: 2024
    When the Israeli genocide in Gaza began more than a year ago, the three elderly al-Ghalayini sisters — Maysoun, 80, Rofida, 65, and Arwa, 61, decided they would not leave their house in al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City. In January, Israeli soldiers surrounded their home and ordered them to move to southern Gaza. When they did not comply, the soldiers threw a firebomb.
90. Al Ali, Sondos; Awad, Nazik: Women's stories from the frontline of Sudan's revolution must be told
    Published: 2019
    Women are leading Sudan's revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent backlash.
91. Al Hussaini, Amira: Bahrain Court Upholds Six Month Sentence Against Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab Over Tweet
    Published: 2015
    Nabeel Rajaba has been sentenced to prison for a tweet accusing the Bahrain security agencies for incubating ISIS combatants.
92. Al Jazeera: Why Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel
    Published: 2017
    No country in the world recognises Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, with the exception of Russia.
93. Al Musawi, Batool: Bahrain's Government Continues to Strangle Dissent Five Years After Uprising Began
    Published: 2016
    Five years after the eruption of what came to be known as the "Arab Spring" protests that spilled over from Tunisia, Bahrain's regime continues to lock up opposition leaders, sending a message of its refusal to reform or change.
94. al-Gharbi, Musa; McNeil, St: 'Flooding the Zone' with Bullshit on Syria
    Published: 2013
    In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has been embarked on a massive propaganda campaign they call “flooding the zone.” We hope to provide the most direct and systematic refutation of the Administration’s case for war in Syria.
95. Al-Jurf, Soha: The Semantics of Terrorism
    Published: 2010
    A mental construct has been created in which the State of Israel is an entity that is under constant attack. By terrorists. Who, irrefutably, must be eradicated. Their actions are somewhat irrelevant. Whether they are school children, passing through checkpoints, or citizens from other countries bringing medicine and food to Gaza, Israel will garner an astonishing degree of unconditional national and international support for harming them if they call them terrorists.
96. Al-Khalili, Jim: Remember what we owe to Arab science
    It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton
    Published: 2008
    In an era of intolerance, the West needs to appreciate the fertile scholarship that flowered with Islam.
97. al-Qedra, Fedaa: Palestinian 'geeks' code their way to a better future in Gaza
    Published: 2018
    Coding is empowering a new generation of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and helping many find work.
98. al-Saftawi, Jehad: The Gaza I Grew Up In
    Published: 2020
    Palestinian journalist Jehad al-Saftawi speaks on his experience working in Gaza; walking a tightrope, seen as suspect by the rulers and residents of Gaza and the Israeli army.
99. Alam, Shahidul: Dearest Arundhati Roy: Shahidul Alam reflects on his time in prison
    Published: 2019
    The Bangladeshi photographer was charged with criticising his country on Facebook and spent more than 100 days behind bars. Now freed, he replies to the Indian novelist who wrote to him in jail.
100. Albanese, Francesca: The deafening silence around the Hamas proposal for a 10-year truce
     Published: 2014
     The Western media have ignored the proposal from Hamas and Islamic Jihad for a 10-year-truce on the basis of 10 - very reasonable - conditions.
101. Alberro, Ana; Montero, Gloria: The immigrant Woman
     Published: 1976
     Published in Women in the Canadian Mosaic, edited by Gwen Matheson.
102. Albert, Michael: What Makes Alternative Media Alternative?
     Published: 1997
     Having avidly consumed and helped conceive and produce alternative media for decades, I
     am tired of how vague we are on these issues.
103. Alberts, Rev. William: The Militarization of Empathy
     Published: 2019
     Surprise reunions between returning soldiers and their families are a major spectacle in US media. But these heartwarming scenes serve as a distraction from the activities of the soldiers while they are overseas.
104. ALBERTS, Rev. Williams: Evil Takes the High Road
     Wrapping a Policy of Global Domination in the American Flag
     Published: 2013
     No heavens for those who live in one of the Muslim countries in which the United States is waging its preemptive global “war on terrorism.”
105. Alcenat, Westenley: The Case for Haitian Reparations
     Published: 2017
     A history of France's exploitation of colonial Haiti, the aftermath of Haiti's independence, and the lasting social and environmental impacts, arguing for Haiti's recent demands of reparations from the French government.
106. Aldabbour, Belal: Israel spraying toxins over Palestinian crops in Gaza
     Published: 2016
     Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - On January 7, 2016, a low-flying agricultural aircraft sprayed herbicides on to Palestinian farmlands along the eastern border, eradicating or damaging up to 162 hectares of crops and farmland along the Israeli border fence. The sprayed areas belong to Israel's unilaterally imposed and poorly delineated "buffer" or "no-go zone".
107. Aleaziz, Hamed: Families "Are Scared To Death" After A Massive ICE Operation Swept Up Hundreds Of People
     About 680 suspected undocumented workers were arrested in Mississippi in one of the largest worksite operations ever conducted by ICE agents
     Published: 2019
     A massive arrest of undocumented workers in Mississippi had people scrambling to care for kids whose parents were detained and traumatized the community.
108. Alexander, Anne: ISIS and counter-revolution: towards a Marxist analysis
     Published: 2015
     The article analyzes ISIS from a Marxist perspective and explores the Iraqi context in which ISIS first set down roots. Alexander further examines the interaction between the defeat of the Syrian Revolution and the consolidation of Nouri al-Maliki's authoritarian rule in Iraq.
109. Alexander, Samuel: Radical Simplicity And The Middle Class
     Published: 2012
     A description of what a life of radical simplicity might look like suggesting radical simplicity is appealing, provided that the transition was anticipated and widely negotiated.
110. Alexandrov, Nick: Honduras and Mexico: Open Season for Journalists
     Published: 2014
     Washington has long been at the forefront of an effort to promote cultural devastation, targeting journalists, artists, and independent thinkers more generally. This cultural ruin is a predictable consequence of U.S. support for repressive regimes.
111. Alexandrov, Nick: The Pentagon's New Plan to Confront Latin America's Pink Tide
     Panetta Down South
     Published: 2012
     U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was in Uruguay recently, where he spoke of the need to strengthen the southern hemisphere’s police forces. This proposed policy has a precedent, almost unknown in this country, but potentially indicative of what awaits Latin American governments willing to cooperate with their northern neighbor’s defense establishment.
112. Alexandrov, Nick: Should Russia Attack Colombia?
     Another Case for Military Action
     Published: 2013
     Debating the case on whether Putin should or should not attack Columbia. Will Russia follow the example of the US?
113. Alexandrov, Nick: U.S. Elites
     The Original Gangsters
     Published: 2016
     Donald Trump is at home in the underworld. Tom Robbins writes that the de facto GOP nominee "has encountered a steady stream of mob-tainted offers that he apparently couldn't refuse" in his decades in business. He "worked with mob-controlled companies and unions" while building his empire, the Washington Post reports. So the man has presidential cred. U.S. elites, since the colonial era, have shown contempt for the law: if they weren't ignoring their own codes, they were violating those of other nations or international statutes, or partnering with avowed outlaws. It's not clear, in other words, what distinguishes politicians and businessmen from career criminals.
114. Ali, Ayaan Hirsi: Critical Race Theory's new disguise
     Published: 2021
     Implementing a grievance model into our youth education curriculum will not fix the problems it purports to solve. There is, after all, a dearth of evidence suggesting that DEI programmes advance diversity, equity or inclusion.
115. Ali, Marium; Duggal, Hanna; Salhani, Justin: Are you chatting with a pro-Israeli AI-powered superbot?
     Published: 2024
     Smart bots have emerged as an unexpected weapon in Israel's war on Gaza.
116. Ali, Muhammed: Muhammed Ali Quotes
     
117. Ali, Tariq: Hugo Chávez and me
     Published: 2013
     Tariq Ali's thoughts on how Hugo Chavez, the late president of Venezuela, will be remembered by his supporters as a lover of literature, a fiery speaker and a man who fought for his people and won.
118. Ali, Tariq: Maximum Horror
     Where One Feeds on the Other
     Published: 2015
     It was a horrific event. It was condemned in most parts of the world and most poignantly by many cartoonists. Those who planned the atrocity chose their target carefully. They knew that such an act would create the maximum horror. It was quality, not quantity they were after. The response will not have surprised or displeased them.
119. Ali, Tariq: On Buddhist Fundamentalism
     Hollywood, Please Take Note
     Published: 2013
     Four years after the brutal assault on the Tamil population and the killing of between 8—10,000 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army, there is trouble again. The saffron-robed fanatics, led by the BBS — Bodu Bala Sena: the most active and pernicious of Buddhist fundamentalist groups that have sprouted in Sinhala strongholds throughout the island— are on the rampage again.
120. Ali, Tariq: Where has all the rage gone?
     Published: 2008
     In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.
121. Ali, Tariq; Creston, Davis: Greece and the Future of European Democracy
     Disfunction in the Eurozone
     Published: 2015
     Interview with Tariq Ali, author of "The Extreme Center: A Warning". Discussion addresses the current economic situation in Greece and the European Union's role in it.
122. Alighieri, Dante: Dante Alighieri Quotes
     
123. Alimardani, Mahsa: Iranians Coordinate a Global Event to Support the Iranian Nuclear Deal
     Published: 2015
     A group of ten to fifteen people dressed in Israeli Defence Force (IDF) t-shirts and waving Canadian, Israeli and IDF flags slowly encircled a large group of Iranians holding posters reading "#SupportIranDeal" and "we choose peace".
124. Alimardani, Mahsa: Stuxnet-Like Digital Attack on Iran Nuclear Talks May Have Come from Israel, Security Researchers Say
     Published: 2015
     Moscow-based technical security company Kaspersky Lab last week revealed evidence of a new cyber attack on both its own network and those of several European hotels that hosted nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 (US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) last year.
125. Allam, Hisham: Why I quit my job as an investigations editor in Egypt
     Published: 2013
     Hisham Allam is an award-winning investigative reporter based in Cairo. He was an investigative editor for the El-Watan newspaper, but the recent crackdown on the Egyptian press has taken a toll on his freedom to report the truth. In this Secrets of the Masters interview, he describes his groundbreaking coverage of the Egyptian revolution and explains why he recently quit his job.
126. Allam, Zaheer: Fighting King Coal in Indian Ocean paradise
     Published: 2014
     A $395 million coal fired power station is planned for Mauritius - bulldozed aver the wishes of the population, official advice and the environment ministry.
127. Allan , Susan: Utopia: A confronting but politically flawed documentary
     Published: 2014
     Utopia, the latest documentary by veteran journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has shown at selected venues across Australia with a television screening on SBS. The feature-length work, which exposes shocking social conditions in Australia’s remote indigenous communities, opened last November in Britain to mostly praiseworthy reviews.
128. Allardice, Lisa: A reputation built on quiet regret
     A rare interview with William Trevor
     Published: 2009
     Interview with the short story writer William Trever on the themes of guilt, regret, sadness and faith in his oeuvre.
129. Allen, Gene: Ribbon of Type
     Making National News: A History of Canadian Press
     Published: 2013
     Thanks to the books of Pierre Berton, the nineteenth-century struggle to build a railway to the Pacific and unite a new nation is well-known. Making National News explores a nation-building exercise that was perhaps even more crucial -- the establishment of a wire service to deliver news from coast to coast.
130. Allington, Jenny: Grenfell Tower fire: anger rising
     Published: 2017
     Four days after the raging inferno that criminally took the innocent lives of so many, survivors and friends and families of the missing are still not only without the support from the authorities that they need, but are suffering an unacceptable lack of information and coordination. It is fair to say, that despite the Tory insistence that all is hand and all that can be done is being done, in reality, all that is being done, is being done by community brothers and sisters and a wider volunteer force. Lacking a central command, people are being fed, clothed and comforted from within the community, organised by those of the community. And while the community has so far largely remained peaceful, united by loss and grief, anger is bubbling.
131. Allsup, Kim: Share if You Think Every School Should Have a Year-Round Organic Gardening Program!
     Published: 2016
     A few years ago the children at our school grew, harvested and, ultimately, ate a giant, two-pound carrot. Our organic gardening program at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod has come a long way since then. We now have a unheated hoop house and a program where middle school gardeners lead first through fifth graders as they learn to build soil, plant, transplant, tend, water and harvest food year round. Our harvests are transformed by our school chef into amazing meals served at lunch.
132. Almeyra, Guillermo: Hugo Chávez and the Crisis of the Dependent Countries: Nationalism, Populism & Democracy
     Published: 1999
     THE SMASHING ELECTORAL triumph of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chávez, previously imprisoned because of his participation in a failed military coup against the government of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez provoked diverse reactions and much confusion.
133. Alpervitz, Gar; Flanders, Laura: Laura Flanders talks to Gar Alperovitz about What Then Must We Do?
     Published: 2013
     Alperovitz says we may be witnessing the prehistory of the next American Revolution.
134. Alsaafin, Linah: The colour-coded Israeli ID system for Palestinians
     Israel's control over the Palestinian population is based on a system of colour-coded IDs in the occupied territories
     Published: 2017
     A look at the colour-coded system of Palestinian population control that has remained in place in Israel for five decades; it still affects everything from freedom of movement to family unity.
135. Alsaafin, Linah: Digital occupation: What's behind Israel's social media in Arabic
     Published: 2018
     Israeli social media accounts in Arabic aim to normalise Israel's occupation and whitewash its image, Palestinians say.
136. Alsaafin, Linah: Gaza girl awaiting surgery reunited with her mother in West Bank
     Published: 2018
     After getting an Israeli-issued medical permit, Inam al-Attar traveled without her parents from Gaza Strip to West Bank.
137. Alsaafin, Linah: Musta'ribeen, Israel's agents who pose as Palestinians
     Published: 2017
     Musta'ribeen, or mista'arvim in Hebrew, is a word that is derived from the Arabic "musta'rib", or one that is specialised in Arabic language and culture. In Israeli security terms, the word denotes security forces who disguise themselves as Arabs and carry out missions in the heart of Palestinian societies or other Arab countries.
138. Altalebi, Lamees: Google's upcoming Allo messaging app is 'dangerous', Edward Snowden claims
     Published: 2016
     Using Google's upcoming messaging app is "dangerous", according to Edward Snowden. In a tweet, the whistleblower advised against using Allo, the search giant’s latest app, saying: "Google's decision to disable end-to-end encryption by default in its new Allo chat app is dangerous, and makes it unsafe. Avoid it for now."
139. Alter, Alexandra: An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author
     Published: 2017
     Despite the voluminous literature produced in prisons very little contemporary prison literature is released by major publishing houses, which are wary of the controversial and ethical pitfalls associated with publishing works by convicts.
140. Alter, Alexandra: An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author
     Published: 2017
     The novel "The Graybar Hotel" has received significant praise, yet its release has also raised difficult questions and challenges for the publisher as it tries to win over booksellers and critics to support a work written by a convicted murderer.
141. Alternative Information Center (AIC): Palestinians' access to water in 2015
     Published: 2016
     Thirsting for Justice finds that Palestinians' access to water was worse in 2015 than in 1995 due to Israel’s discriminatory water regime.
142. Altman, Sam: 100 Trump voters explain why they voted for him even though they think he 'could destroy the whole world'
     Published: 2017
     After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country. I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online.
143. Alumni for Responsible Speech (Ulli Diemer): Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
     Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
     Published: 2008
     While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
144. Alvarez, Max, Walsh, David: A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez
     How the #MeToo campaign echoes the McCarthyite witch hunt of the 1940s and 1950s
     Published: 2018
     Clearly, this is not as organized a political campaign as the one that took place in the 1940s and 1950s, but the climate is chillingly similar in terms of the massive capitulation and conformity in the entertainment industry.
145. Amandla!: Nelson Mandela
     Published: 2013
     Mandela was not alone. The struggle to liberate South Africa was a collective effort. Moreover it was the power of the most downtrodden, the workers in the factories, the poor in the community, working class women and youth that brought the Apartheid government, if not completely to its knees – at least to negotiate the terms of the end of their racist system.
146. Amer, Ruwaida: The olive tree, symbol of Palestine and mute victim of Israel’s war on Gaza
     Published: 2024
     The loss of these steadfast companions has left deep scars on the hearts of many Palestinians in Gaza.
147. Ames, Michael: The Awakening
     Ron Paul's generational movement
     Published: 2013
     Article on the upsurge of THE movement that Ron Paul (from the Republican Party) initiated. This 'Awakening' is characterized for its emphasis on peace and liberty.
148. Ames, Michael: Captive Market
     Why we won't get prison reform
     Published: 2015
     The American prison system isn't broken; it's working exactly as designed. Seven million people may find their lives constrained, but according to the metrics that make America hum, their time served is also value added. Critics who mistake mass incarceration for a failure of social justice are oblivious to a stronger governing principle: Criminal justice is a business, and business is good.
149. Amir, Hussain: Pakistan / Gilgit-Baltistan: Advocate Ehsan Ali, a symbol of political sanity
     Published: 2018
     In Gilgit-Baltistan, one of the most politically sensitive regions of Pakistan, the author explains why it is important to recognize and support people like Ehsan Ali, who is a vocal human rights activist and a symbol of interfaith harmony.
150. Amireh, Amal: Arab Women Writers' Problems and Prospects
     Published: 1997
     Arab critics, particularly those situated in the Arab world, are viewed with suspicion, especially when they are men writing about women. If they don't write about Arab women writers, they are chastised for ignoring them. If they do, they are accused of attempting to "contain" and "marginalize" them.
151. Amnesty International: Iran: Compulsory veiling is abusive, discriminatory and humiliating; end the persecution of women for peacefully protesting against it
     Published: 2018
     Amnesty International criticizes Iran's compulsory veiling laws, arguing that they are not only harmful to women, but fundamentally unconstitutional.
152. Anangwa, Eugene: Media freedom must include access to information
     Published: 2009
     Journalists can't do their work if they are prevented from accessing information, including attending public events involving important officials, writes Eugene Anagwa in The New Times. Government officials are too quick to censor the information by refusing to co-operate with journalists.
153. Andersen, Kip; Kuhn, Keegan: Cowspiracy
     Published: 2014
     An examination of the livestock industry and how it contributes to animal extinctions, greenhouse gasses, and deforestation.
154. Anderson, Drew: Irregular votes, panicked moves, kiosks
     Insiders detail the last days of Jason Kenney's campaign to be leader of Alberta's United Conservative Party
     Published: 2019
     A CBC News investigation lifts the veil on what happened inside voting kiosks set up by the Kenney campaign. It’s part of a larger story about allegations of wrongdoing by the team behind Alberta's current premier that one longtime conservative operative says is the focus of an ongoing RCMP investigation and an expert says undermines the credibility of Canada’s democratic system.
155. Anderson, Elizabeth: Studio D's Imagined Community
     From Development (1974) to Realignment (1986-1990)
     Published: 1999
     Published in In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, Kay Armitage et al., eds. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1999
156. Anderson, Kevin: Conspiracy Theories and the Canadians who Love Them
     Published: 2020
     Anderson explores Canada's conspiratorial heritage, a heritage that continues to engage with transnational currents attempting to explain the modern world. He focuses on two Canadian figures, Social Credit MP John Blackmore and writer William Guy Carr, to argue that they are not isolated fringe figures in Canadian history, but that they exist within widespread national and transnational networks.
157. Anderson, Kevin: Talks in the city of light generate more heat
     Published: 2015
     Rather than relying on far-off negative-emissions technologies, Paris needed to deliver a low-carbon road map for today.
158. Anderson, Mitchell: Harper's Worst Offense against Refugees May Be His Climate Record
     Published: 2015
     The Middle East drought between 2006 and 2011 was without precedent since modern record keeping, killing over 80 per cent of livestock and driving up local food prices. Already poor populations had to contend with higher temperatures that dried soil and failed rains during the normally wet season due to weaker winds from the Mediterranean. A key long-term driver of this unfolding humanitarian catastrophe is climate change. And on that front, Canada’s record of contributing to this crisis is far more significant than our wretched record so far in resettling Syrian refugees.
159. Anderson, Mitchell: Wildly Underestimated Oilsands Emissions Latest Blow to Alberta's Dubious Climate Claims
     As disaster looms, petro province lets industry call the shots.
     Published: 2019
     The oilsand industry's own measurements of their carbon output fall far short of that reported by Environment Canada's and others' research. This could deal a blow to the industry's PR efforts.
160. Anderson, Sarah: On the First Workday of the New Year, the Average CEO Will Make More Than an Average Workers Earns in an Entire Year
     Published: 2022
     If the typical CEO of a large U.S. corporation clocks in at 9 am on January 2, by 3:37 pm that afternoon he'll have earned $58,260 - the average annual salary for all U.S. occupations.In other words, in less than seven hours on the first workday of the New Year, that CEO will have made as much as the average U.S. worker will make all year.
161. Anderson, Tim: Hypocrisy over Cuba's 'political prisoners'
     Published: 2009
     Political prisoners and Cuba can be a confusing mix, in our time of mass propaganda. Three groups have attracted international attention over the past decade.
162. Anderson, William L.: The Railroading of Tonya Craft
     A New Wave of Prosecutorial Hysteria
     Published: 2010
     As we have seen countless times before, the media always is ready to run over the cliff with the prosecutors, and no matter how many times the prosecution is discredited, there always is another reporter ready to serve as a PR mouthpiece for a dishonest state official. And it always will be that way, for like the Bourbons, the media learn nothing, and they forget nothing.
163. Andersson, Hilary: Uganda's lost innocents
     Published: 2003
     
164. Andersson, Ruben: Time to Unfence our view of Migration
     Published: 2014
     Instead of pretending that fence-building will solve anything, it is high time that we 'unfence' our views of migration. On the one hand, this means seeking other, more humane responses to human movement, including orderly refugee resettlement. On the other, it means not seeing migration as a self-contained 'problem' in need of a security response - but rather as an intrinsic part of a world inexorably on the move.
165. Andre, Aletta: Being African in India: 'We are seen as demons'
     Published: 2016
     After a year in India, Zaharaddeen Muhammed, 27, knows enough Hindi to understand what bander means. Monkey. But it isn't even the daily derogatory comments that make him doubt his decision to swap his university in Nigeria for a two-year master's degree programme in chemistry at Noida International University. Nor is it the questions about personal hygiene, the unsolicited touching of his hair or the endless staring. It is his failure to interact with Indian people on a deeper level.
166. Anfinson, Graeme: A Short History of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
     Challenging the Two Parties of Capital
     Published: 2014
     Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party was the most successful labor party in United States history. The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Association, a grouping of associated unions and farmers, provided the organic connection between labor and the party.
167. angela_b117: Linoleum Block Printing
     In this Instructable I will be going step-by-step through the process of printmaking using a linoleum block. I will tell you what tools you need, and for what purpose and I will go through the process of designing the print in which you will be carving, transferring the design onto the block, carving the block, proofing the block and finally, printing the block.
168. Angiwn, Julia; McGinty, Tom: Sites Feed Personal Details To New Tracking Industry
     Published: 2010
     The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time. The tracking files are the leading edge of a new industry of data-gatherers who are in effect establishing a new business model for the Internet: one based on intensive surveillance of people to sell data about, and predictions of, their interests and activities, in real time.
169. Angola 3 News: Razor Wire, Prison Cells, And Black Panther Robert H. King's Life of Resistance
     Published: 2014
     An interview with filmmaker Ron Harpelle.
170. Angola 3 News: Terrorism, COINTELPRO, And The Black Panther Party
     Published: 2014
     
171. Angus, Ian: Fantasy technology won't stop climate change
     Published: 2015
     Climate negotiators are promising 'negative emissions' using a risky and unproven technology called BECSS. It's the wrong way to go.
172. Angus, Ian: Five Challenges for Ecosocialists in 2008
     Published: 2007
     Ecosocialism is not separate from the existing left and green movements, and it is not a structured movement on its own. Rather, it is a current of thought within existing socialist and green-left movements, seeking to win ecology activists to socialism and to convince socialists of the vital importance of ecological issues and struggles.
173. Angus, Ian: Global inequality, illustrated, described, explained
     Published: 2014
     Global inequality depitcted through images and quotes.
174. Angus, Ian: Global Wealth Inequality, Illustrated
     Published: 2013
     A video for those who think capitalism is the way to end poverty.
175. Angus, Ian: Heatwave frequency rises twice as fast in the poorest countries
     New research proves that the countries least responsible for global warming, those least able to adapt, have already been hit much harder by
     Published: 2017
     A feature of most statements about climate change is the use of the future tense: the poorest countries will be worse-hit than the rich ones. But new research shows that the predicted unequal climate future has actually been with us for decades. The poorest countries have already experienced twice as great an increase in extreme temperatures as the rich ones, and the gap has been widening for more than thirty years.
176. Angus, Ian: Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 1
     Commodity cod & factory ships
     Published: 2021
     Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.
177. Angus, Ian: Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth's life support systems
     Part One of a discussion of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself.
     Published: 2019
     The rift in the nitrogen cycle is a major threat to the stability of the Earth System. This and subsequent articles will discuss how the natural cycle works and how it has been disrupted in the Anthropocene.
178. Angus, Ian: The Omega Principle: A vicious circle of fish, cattle and capitalism (Book review)
     Published: 2018
     A review of Paul Greenberg's book "The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet", which examines how the fishing industry that plunders the seas for tiny fish is supporting unsustainable industrial agriculture.
179. Angus, Ian: Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together
     Published: 2016
     Liberal environmentalists insist that we are all passengers on Spaceship Earth, sharing a common fate and a common responsibility for the ship's safety. In reality, a handful of Spaceship Earth's passengers travel first-class, in plush air-conditioned cabins with every safety feature, including reserved seats in the very best lifeboats. The majority are herded into steerage, exposed to the elements, with no lifeboats at all. Armed guards keep them in their place.
180. Angus, Ian: Recovering our history: 'Eco-Socialism in a Nutshell'
     Published: 2013
     A pamphlet that introduced the coming together of greens and reds in comic strip form.
181. Angus, Ian: Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene?
     Published: 2015
     To judge by many accounts of climate change, the twenty-first century will gradually become a warmer, stormier, and less biodiverse version of the twentieth. There's an unspoken assumption that the Anthropocene will be less pleasant than the Holocene, but not fundamentally different, and that the transition will be smooth.
182. Angus, Ian; Riddell, John: Key to the Leap: Leave the oil in the soil
     Movement Building
     Published: 2016
     Ian Angus and John Riddell argue that using the Leap Manifesto as the basis for building a new socialist movement in Canada must include confronting the climate crisis and the power of Big Oil.
183. Angwin, Julia: An Online Tracking Device That’s Virtually Impossible to Block
     Published: 2014
     A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
184. Angwin,Julia; Tigas,Mike: Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can’t Kill
     Published: 2015
     An online ad company called Turn is using tracking cookies that come back to life after Verizon users have deleted them. The information retrieved contains customers' habits on their smartphones and tablets.
185. Annis, Rogber: Shedding Light on Who, Exactly, is Responsible for the War in Ukraine
     Published: 2022
     It is necessary to understand not only what Russia is doing with its intervention in Ukraine but also what alternative existed to stop Ukrainian aggression against Donbas and to assure Russia's national security.
186. Annis, Roger: Calls By Western Socialists For A Russian Retreat From Ukraine Amount To De Facto Support For NATO Aggression
     Published: 2022
     NATO socialists dismiss or ignore altogether the concerns of Russia over the expansionism, militarism and sanctions of the NATO alliance. In reality, Russian diplomatic efforts to push back against NATO's aggression - and NATO's use of Ukraine for its aggression - have gone on for several decades.
187. Annis, Roger: The Canadian Election and the Global Climate Crisis
     Published: 2015
     The environmental stands of all the main parties in this election amount to climate change denial.
188. Annis, Roger: Federal police and New Brunswick government assault First Nations anti-fracking protest
     Published: 2013
     The RCMP launched a violent assault on a blockade protest against shale gas fracking in New Brunswick.
189. Annis, Roger: Letter to editors of FAIR.org on 'annexationists' and 'secessionists' in Crimea and Donbass
     Published: 2022
     The duly elected government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea staged a democratic referendum on March 16, 2014 to secede from the new, right-wing Ukraine referendum and rejoin the Russian Federation.
190. Annis, Roger: New headaches for tar sands pipeline proponents as oil fouls Vancouver harbour
     Published: 2015
     A bad turn of events for the local environment and for some of the oil barons targeting their entire planet in their climate-wrecking plans. That's an apt summary of the oil spill that has fouled the beaches and harbour of Vancouver BC beginning on April 8, 2015.
191. Annis, Roger: State of Emergency in Crimea
     Published: 2015
     Late on November 21, 2015, right-wing extremists in Ukraine severed the four electricity lines which transmit electricity from Ukraine to Crimea. The terrorist attacks, using explosives, cut domestic electricity service to much of Crimea's population of 2.3 million.
192. Annis, Roger: Toronto Star Supports the Perpetrators of War Crimes in Ukraine
     Crazed Warmongers
     Published: 2015
     Toronto Star has distinguished itself for supporting the fundraising projects of Ukraine's extreme-right parties and militias.
193. Annis, Roger: Western Media Responds to Latest Ukrainian Sabotage of Crimea
     Published: 2016
     Western governments and media have a problem with the right-wing regime that is governing Ukraine. The country's economy is a shambles. Even the regime's own backers in the West acknowledge the country and its economy are hopelessly mired in corruption.
194. Anonymous: Anonymous Quotes
     
195. Anonymous: Decision from an Unknown Body: On blocking websites in Egypt
     Published: 2017
     Report by AFTE on state censorship and the monitoring and blocking of websites in Egypt.
196. Anonymous: Rallying to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
     Against The Current vol. 163
     Published: 2013
     Despite uncomfortably cold weather in Washington, DC the February 17 mobilization to stop the Keystone XL Alberta-U.S. tar sands pipeline drew a crowd conservatively estimated at over 20,000.
197. Anthony, Leslie; phnotos by Walter Portrebka: Snakes on a Plain
     Article in the Marc-April 2024 issue of Canadian Geographic - Vol. 144, No. 2
     Published: 2024
     About the garter snakes of Narcisse in Manitoba.
198. Antoaneta Bezlova: CHINA: News of Ethnic Strife Skirts Chinese Censors
     Published: 2009
     The story of ethnic strife engulfing Xinjiang may have been relegated to the inner pages of the country#s state-controlled newspapers, but this time, the government could barely suppress the outflow of information.
199. Anwar, Yasmin: Lower classes quicker to show compassion in the face of suffering
     Published: 2011
     Researchers have found that people in the lower socio-economic classes are more physiologically attuned to suffering, and quicker to express compassion than their more affluent counterparts. By comparison, individuals in the upper middle and upper classes were less able to detect and respond to the distress signals of others.
200. Appelbaum, Eileen: The PR Campaign to Hide the Real Cause of those Sky-High Surprise Medical Bills
     Published: 2019
     Since 2010, an increasing number of hospitals have outsourced their emergency rooms, radiology, anesthesiology, and other specialized services to physician staffing firms. Patients who need these critical services may inadvertently receive care from a doctor outside of their insurance network and find that they owe thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in surprise medical bills.
201. Appleton, Josie: Freedom of speech, assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powers
     Published: 2015
     UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.
202. Appleton, Josie: Public space - we must defend our freedoms!
     Published: 2014
     Laws handing sweeping new powers to police and private security to restrict access to Britain's public space will extinguish the diversity of civic life. Time for us to rediscover and defend our freedoms.
203. Araby,Al: Netanyahu goes nuclear ... now wait for the fallout
     Published: 2015
     Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has spent years trying to convince the international community and Israelis that Tehran is racing towards building a nuclear bomb, when evidence presented by his own spies show the opposite.
204. Araujo, Rui: There are no bad sources, only incompetent reporters
     Published: 2012
     There is no democracy without efficient institutions and too many journalists passively accept this state, says Portuguese investigative journalist and "troublemaker" Rui Araujo.
205. Arbuckle, Alex Q: 1904-1924: 'The North American Indian'
     One man's vision of a continent of cultures
     Published: 2015
     With J. P. Morgan's funding, Edward Sheriff Curtis spent more than 20 years crisscrossing North America, creating over 40,000 images of more than 80 different tribes. They conceived a 20-volume series, called The North American Indian.
206. Arbuckle, Alex Q.: 1965-1975 Another Vietnam
     Unseen images of the war from the winning side
     Published: 2016
     Many famous images of the war were taken by Western photographers and news agencies, working alongside American or South Vietnamese troops.But the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong had hundreds of photographers of their own, who documented every facet of the war under the most dangerous conditions.
207. Arbuthnot, Felicity: The Hijacking of the Marianne by "The Pirates of the Mediterranean"
     Published: 2015
     In the early hours of the morning (local time) of June 29th, three Israeli Navy ships intercepted and hijacked a Swedish flagged ship, the Marianne av Göteborg on route to Gaza in the State of Palestine.
208. Arbuthnot, Felicity: Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'
     Published: 2016
     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 more, and destroy Baghdad and a string of other cities along the Tigris river. The porous rocks beneath the Mosul dam are dissolving away and the entire edifice could collapse at any moment, releasing 11 cubic kilometres of water.
209. Arbuthnot, Felicity: Russia's Fantasy "Stray Missiles," America's Real Ones
     Published: 2015
     Even to those who do not watch closely it has to be apparent that Washington's vast disinformation machine is finally out of control, seriously awry, or desperate.
210. Archer, Mike: Ordering the vegetarian meal? There's more animal blood on your hands
     Published: 2011
     The author contends that published figures suggest that, in Australia, producing wheat and other grains results in: at least 25 times more sentient animals being killed per kilogram of useable protein, more environmental damage, and a great deal more animal cruelty than does farming red meat.
211. Arewa, Olufunmilayo: Africa: Cultural Appropriation - When 'Borrowing' Becomes Exploitation
     Published: 2016
     The idea of "cultural appropriation" has recently entered mainstream debates about the ways in which African cultural creations are used, borrowed and imitated by others. In fashion, art, music and beyond, some people now argue that certain African cultural symbols and products are off-limits to non-Africans.
212. Arguedas Ortiz, Diego: Costa Rica's Energy Nearly 100 Percent Clean
     Published: 2015
     Arguedas Ortiz describes how Cost Rica's energy supply is based almost totally on clean sources.
213. Arkin, M. William: Loitering With Intent
     Published: 2015
     Government propaganda, the news media, and Hollywood movies characterize drones almost exclusively as high-flying hunter-killers and all-seeing information machines. In fact, more than 90 percent of the world's drones are small, short-range, and unarmed. Only about 5 percent of the drones operated by the U.S. government are as large as manned airplanes. Predators, which garner so much of the public’s attention, make up an even smaller subset -- there are just a few hundred worldwide.
214. Arkin, William M.: Inside The Military's Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government
     Published: 2020
     Even as President Trump says he tested negative for coronavirus, the COVID-19 pandemic raises the fear that huge swaths of the executive branch or even Congress and the Supreme Court could also be disabled, forcing the implementation of "continuity of government" plans that include evacuating Washington and "devolving" leadership to second-tier officials in remote and quarantined locations.
215. Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph: Labor Organizing in a Lean World: Workers of the World Unite? - Book Review
     Published: 1999
     Workers in A Lean World. Unions in the International Economy by Kim Moody (Verso, 1997). Paperback $20.
216. Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph: A Rejoinder
     Published: 1999
     I ENJOYED READING Kim Moody's reply and hope that other folks get involved in this crucial debate. My own viewpoint is that "globalization" has dramatically undermined the leverage and bargaining position of workers and labor unions in developed and developing nations.
217. Armentano, Paul: 5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis
     Published: 2009
     Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you won't hear it in the corporate media.
218. Armstrong, Karen: The spread of Wahhabism, and the West's responsibility to the world
     Published: 2015
     In 2013, the European Union declared Wahhabism the main source of global terrorism. But it's not just a "Middle East problem"; it is our problem, too.
219. Aronoff, Kate: Making Green Jobs Good Jobs
     Unions organize the clean energy sector
     Published: 2016
     Jobs versus the environment -- it's an old dilemma that pits unions seeking work for their members against activists rallying against projects like the Keystone XL. An expanding renewable energy sector might provide a way out of this quandary. Solar and wind energy projects can put people to work without imperiling the planet. But will these jobs be friendly to workers, as well as the environment?
220. Arraf, Jane: Young Iraqis hope the Written Word can Reinvigorate a New Generation
     Published: 2014
     An informal lending library uses literary heritage to remind young Baghdadis they don't need to emigrate to escape daily travails.
221. Arria, Michael: 21 States Will Take Away Your Driver's License If You Can't Pay Your College Loans, But Activists Are Fighting Back
     A grassroots project in Montana is a blueprint for activism across the country
     Published: 2015
     Thanks to the work of local organizers pressuring lawmakers, Montana residents will no longer have their drivers licenses suspended if they fall behind on their student loan payments. This April, a Montana law that allowed the state to revoke licenses for that infraction was scrapped. However, in at least 21 states, similar laws remain on the books.
222. Artema, Ahmed Abu: Letter From the Gazan Prison
     Gaza Is a Prison Under Siege. This Is My Letter to the World Outside.
     Published: 2023
     Ahmed Abu Artema, a founder of the Great March of Return, on facing Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza.
223. Arthur, Charles: Facebook forces Instagram users to allow it to sell their uploaded photos
     Published: 2012
     Move means pictures could be used in advertising, with all payments going to social media giant.
224. Arthur, Charles: Hackers stole personal information of up to 70 million people, says Target
     Published: 2014
     Theives may have stolen customers' credit and debit card information and made unauthorized charges over the holiday season.
225. Arthur, Charles: Why do the Tories want to hide who owns British land?
     Selling off the Land Registry could lead to an increase in house prices as a private monopoly hoards information on property sales
     Published: 2016
     Like an embarrassed child trying to hide a broken lamp behind a curtain, Sajid Javid last Thursday, hours before the Easter break, sneaked out the news that the government wants to privatise the Land Registry. Perhaps he hoped nobody would notice.
226. Article 19: ARTICLE 19 to UN Watchdog: Whistleblowers and Journalists' Sources must be protected
     Published: 2015
     ARTICLE 19 has responded to the call for comment on the protection of journalists' sources and whistleblowers, made by the UN special rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression.
227. Article 19: On Atena Farghadani and the longstanding repression of artistic expression in Iran
     Published: 2015
     It all started with a harmless political cartoon posted on Facebook. What followed was extreme retaliation to say the least; imprisonment, and physical abuse. Unfortunately, this is not an extraordinary story for artists in Iran.
228. Artists for Palestine UK: Chomsky clarifies position on the cultural boycott of Israel
     Published: 2017
     Prof. Noam Chomsky makes the essential point: the presence of international artists in Israel is used by the government to cover up its occupation and human rights abuses.
229. Ash, Timothy Garton: The Stasi could only dream of such data
     Britain, the birthplace of liberalism, has become the database state
     Published: 2008
     As technology increases the flow of stored data about individual actions, assurances of the "right to informational self-determination" must be hard won from governments. Government surveillance of citizens has become an accepted 'counter-terrorism' measure.
230. Ashly, Jaclynn: Drowning in the waste of Israeli settlers
     Published: 2017
     Several decades ago, the al-Matwa spring in Salfit city would often be crowded with Palestinians hiking in the valley and families picnicking alongside the clear, flowing stream. Now, however, the sewage flowing through the spring, the rancid smell that engulfs the valley, and the mosquitoes swarming the area have left the valley largely deserted.
231. Asosiasaun Jornalista Timor Lorosa’e: Media freedom and regulation in Timor Leste
     Published: 2015
     While free speech and press is legally free in East-Timor, every journalist knows that true freedom is nowhere to be seen. Journalists are regularly beaten, intimidated and regulated by the upper class.
232. Aspden, Rachel: Generation Revolution
     How Egypt's military state betrayed its youth
     Published: 2016
     An account of the violent end of the Islamic youth uprising in Cairo and the treatment of the movement by the military and populace in its aftermath.
233. Assange, Julian: The CIA director is waging war on truth-tellers like WikiLeaks
     Published: 2017
     Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as director of the CIA, chose to declare war on free speech rather than on the United States’ actual adversaries.
234. Assange, Julian: The Truth Will Always Win
     Published: 2010
     In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.
235. Associated Press: Louisiana prisoner released after 41 years in solitary
     Published: 2013
     Herman Wallace, who is dying of cancer, endured long legal battles after his 1972 murder conviction.
236. Associated Press: 1965-1966: Files Reveal US had Detailed Knowledge of Indonesia's Anti-Communist Purge
     Published: 2017
     Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge of and support for an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anti-communist hysteria in the mid-1960s.
237. Asséo, Henriette: Gypsies who went nowhere
     Published: 2012
     The EU misclassification of Roma as inherently itinerant has done considerable, and continuing, damage to groups of often deeply rooted people.
238. Astephen,Lynaya: How do you stop a pipeline when one family owns both the oil and the media?
     Published: 2015
     Pipeline opponent’s op-ed rejected by Irving-owned newspaper in New Brunswick.
239. Astley, Rick; Kolomor, Emil; Marshall, John: Free Bleecker
     Published: 1974
     A documentary on the "redevelopment" of the South St. Jamestown neighbourhood in Toronto.
240. Astore, William: America's Forever Wars Have Come Home
     Published: 2020
     Talk about America’s wars coming home! George Floyd’s recent killing is both a long way, and yet not far at all, from the police shooting of the unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.
241. Astore, William: War as an 'Investment': The Bizarre Business-Speak of Mass Killing
     Published: 2023
     Did you know the Russia-Ukraine War is a great 'investment' for the United States? A terrific opportunity to kill lots of Russians and to destroy lots of their military equipment at a relatively cheap cost to us? War as an 'investment' truly symbolizes the moral bankruptcy of conventional discourse in the U.S. political mainstream. Instead of war being a calamity, a catastrophe, a realm of death and destruction, dare I say even a mortal sin of grievous evil, we're told that instead it's an investment that's paying dividends, especially in that growth stock known as Ukraine.
242. Atkin, Emily: Enbridge is "funding and incentivizing" Minnesota police
     Published: 2021
     Line 3's mostly female, indigenous opponents say they're being harassed by local cops bankrolled by the Canadian oil giant.
243. Atkin, Ross: Stop replacing London's phone boxes with corporate surveillance
     New connected kiosks are replacing London's payphones. Every time you use them, you're allowing Google, BT and Primesight to track you
     Published: 2018
     Concerns over privacy in London, UK, as Google, BT and Primesight provide free wifi and phone charging in exchange for allowing the consortium to identify users and track their movements through the city.
244. Attenborough, David; Hughes, Jonnie: Life on Our Planet
     Published: 2020
     David Attenborough shares his predictions for the planet's future, and methods to prevent the worst outcomes.
245. Atwood, Margaret: Am I a bad feminist?
     Published: 2018
     My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do I believe that women are children, incapable of agency or of making moral decisions.
246. Auerbach, Daniel; Clark, Brett: The Internet and Monopoly Capitalism
     Published: 2016
     A review of Robert W. McChesney's Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet against Democracy.
247. Auger, Martin: The HARIKARI Club: German Prisoners of Warand the Mass Escape Scare of 1944-45 atInternment Camp Grande Ligne, Quebec
     Published: 2004
     
248. Aurelian: France Saves Europe
     Published: 2024
     We are now in the degenerate phase of the Ukrainian crisis, and more especially in the sorry and pathetic story of the West's collective attempts to manage it. Western political leaders are in zombie mode, staggering forward in various states of disrepair, blundering on because they have no real idea what to do, completely overmatched by events that they did not see coming, and cannot now understand.
249. Aurelian: The Revolt of the Outer Party
     Published: 2024
     We never bother with the question "why educate people?" today. The need is tacitly taken for granted, and if a justification were ever needed it would be that a complex society like ours would collapse if people were not educated to help run it. That's true as far as it goes, but it doesn't explain why education was necessary in the first place. To call it a "human right" is meaningless, since anything can be called a human right if enough powerful actors are able to force its acceptance as such. You can also argue that education is necessary for economic growth, but, as Ha-Joon Chang points out, that relationship is not a simple one: more education does not necessarily mean higher economic growth.
250. Aurelian: Things Don't Always Get Better.
     And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
     Published: 2024
     
251. Austin, Helen E.: Canadian Lies
     Published: 2015
     A parody song aimed at Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
252. Austin, Martin: How to spot hazardous 'rip currents' at the beach -- before you get in the water
     Published: 2016
     Five men tragically died this week at Camber Sands in East Sussex, making holiday makers are increasingly fearful of the dangers of sea bathing. One of the biggest dangers comes from so-called 'rip tides' which carry swimmers out to sea on fast-moving 'rivers' of water, writes MARTIN AUSTIN. So here's how to recognise the dangers - before you even get in the water.
253. Austin, Susan: Carbon trading: privatising the world's forests
     Published: 2009
     The World Bank sponsored carbon offset program has faced widespread criticism for, in effect, privatising forests and allowing rich nations to evade responsibility for cutting emissions themselves.
254. Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network: Venezuela Threatened by Far-right Violence
     Published: 2014
     A statement by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network condemning the recent violent actions instigated by far-right sections of the opposition in various cities across Venezuela.
255. Averny, Uri: There is No Such Thing as International Terrorism
     Published: 2015
     To declare war on "international terrorism" is nonsense. Politicians who do so are either fools or cynics, and probably both.
256. Avery, John Scales: Are We Being Driven Like Cattle?
     Published: 2014
     As we stand in line for security checks at airports, we may have the distinct feeling that we are being herded like cattle. The purpose of the charade is not so much to prevent airliners from being sabotaged as it is to keep the idea of terrorism fresh in our minds.
257. Avila, Eduardo: A Network of Indigenous Language Digital Activists in Mexico
     Published: 2014
     The Internet has emerged as a space where many in Mexico can communicate online using indigenous languages, as well as to create new digital content instead of being just consumers of content.
258. Avnery, Uri: Eyeless in Gaza
     Locked in an Embrace
     Published: 2014
     The trouble with war is that it has two sides. Everything would be so much easier if war had only one side. Ours, of course.
259. Avnery, Uri: How Did It Start?
     Published: 2017
     Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: "When did it start?" Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.
260. Avnery, Uri: Israeli War Crimes? Who, Us??
     Published: 2015
     The concept of "war crimes" is dubious. The biggest crime is starting the war in the first place. This is not the business of soldiers, but of political leaders. Yet they are rarely indicted.These philosophical musings came to me in the wake of the recent UN report on the last Gaza war.
261. Avnery, Uri: Israelis Just Keep Killing People, Stealing Land
     Published: 2018
     The recent killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by Israeli sharpshooters following the "The Great March of Return" is outlined, as well as the ongoing futility of Israel's policy and actions against the self-governing Palestinian territory whose population are forced to live under dire conditions.
262. Avnery, Uri: The Most Moral Army?
     Published: 2017
     War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?
263. Avnery, Uri: The myth of one Jewish nation
     Published: 2017
     Zionism is an anti-Semitic creed. It was so right from the beginning. Already the founding father, Theodor Herzl, a Viennese writer, penned some pieces with a clear anti-Semitic slant. For him, Zionism was not just a geographical transplantation, but also a means of turning the despicable commercial Jew of the diaspora into an upright, industrious human being.
264. Avnery, Uri: Netanyahu's Operation Stupidity
     Who is Winning in Gaza?
     Published: 2014
     Who is Winning in Gaza? Which must be answered, the Jewish way, with another question: how to judge?
265. Avnery, Uri: The Pope at Herzl's Grave
     Patagonian Dreams
     Published: 2014
     During his short visit to Israel, Pope Francis laid a wreath on the grave of Theodor Herzl.
     That was not a usual gesture. Foreign heads of state are obliged to visit Yad Vashem, as did the pope, but not the grave of Herzl.
266. Avnery, Uri: When the Unimaginable Happened
     Mandela: the Movie
     Published: 2013
     Mandela: the Movie is a very accurate film, depicting what actually happened in South Africa, and one cannot help thinking about it again and again.
267. Avnery, Uri: Without Fear, Without Favor
     The Future of Journalism
     Published: 2013
     The Words “lifetime achievement” have a certain undertone. There is a hint that the work is finished.
268. Awan Family Support Committee: In refuge on Refugee Rights Day: The Awan family story
     Published: 2014
     On a day where we remember migrant and refugee struggles for freedom, dignity and security and recommit to fighting ongoing injustice, we highlight the struggle of the Awan family.
269. Axe, David: The U.S. Army Lost Track of 27 Ballistic Missiles
     Military didn't know old Lance rockets were in storage igloos in Alabama
     Published: 2015
     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 explode with a force of up to 100 kilotons of TNT. The Army retired its last Lances in 1992 … and ultimately lost track of 27 of them at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
270. Ayed, Nahlah; Wolfe-Wylie, William: Unprecedented data trove maps China's growing global reach and self-interest of its aid
     China and U.S. 'neck and neck' in foreign assistance spending
     Published: 2017
     The new data on more than 4,300 projects of China in 150 countries indicate those contributions -- if not the means -- have in total, almost matched those of the world's largest foreign aid donor, the United States.
271. Aziz, Barbara Nimri: Beware Liberals: Ridicule Will Backfire
     Published: 2016
     What a year for political satire. It's nourishing; it lowers our stress level; it breaks taboos. Every democracy needs satire but one wonders how much it will count when it comes to votes on November 8th.

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1. B'Tselem: War crime? Israel destroys Gaza crops with aerial herbicide spraying
   Published: 2016
   Gaza farmers have lost 187 hectares of crops to aerial spraying of herbicides by Israel hundreds of meters within the territory's borders. The action, carried out in the name of 'security', further undermines Gaza's ability to feed itself and may permanently deprive farmers of their livelihoods. It may also represent a war crime under the 1977 Protocol to the Geneva Conventions.
2. Babcock, Charles R.: Prying Eyes? Sovereign Has You Covered
   Published: 2015
   Got a few million bucks you want to protect from the tax man, a nosey spouse or a greedy business acquaintance? Sovereign Management & Legal Ltd. says it has the answers.
3. Bacevich, Andrew and Turse, Nick: What Obsessing About Trump Causes Us To Miss
   Published: 2017
   Since the late eighteenth century, the United States has been involved in an almost ceaseless string of wars, interventions, punitive expeditions, and other types of military ventures abroad – from fighting the British and Mexicans to the Filipinos and Koreans to the Vietnamese and Laotians to the Afghans and Iraqis. The country has formally declared war 11 times and has often engaged in undeclared conflicts with some form of congressional authorization, as with the post-9/11 "wars" that rage on today.
4. Bacevich, Andrew J.: The American Imperium
   Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war
   Published: 2016
   With the present-day US military overextended throughout the globe, this essay takes a look at past American military policy and actions in overseas conflicts, and how these events of the past century affect public perceptions and ultimately how the military continues to be used.
5. Bacevich, Andrew J.: Sound & Fury
   Just What Does Brexit Signify?
   Published: 2016
   Not since Y2K thretened to plunge the planet into chaos has a story provoked overwrought handwringing comparable to that triggered by Britons voting to withdraw from the European Union. By common assessment, Brexit signifies something profound. History itself has seemingly gone off the rails. Darkness threatens to cover the earth.
6. Bacher, K.: 205 Arguments and Observations in Support of Naturism
   Published: 2001
   Arguments in favour of naturism backed up by research and writings from various sources.
7. Badger, Emily: Justifying What You Know Can't Be True
   Published: 2009
   Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
8. Bageant, Joe: Ignorance and Courage in the Age of Lady Gaga
   Published: 2010
   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 regarding tasering school kids is: What is the allowable weight range of a child to be tased? (Taser manufacturers say 60 pounds.) Somehow, by this geezer’s prehistoric reasoning, that sounds like the wrong question.
9. Bah, Abdoulaye: A Century Later, Namibia Demands Justice From Germany for Its First Holocaust
   Published: 2017
   Between 1904 and 1908, German colonialists committed a holocaust against the Herero and the Nama, exterminating as many as 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama. Now Namibia is demanding reparations.
10. Bahour, Sam: America's Intifada Must Dig Deeper
    Published: 2020
    Palestinians’ sustained struggle for freedom and independence offers many lessons
11. Bahour, Sam: Diaspora Jews Must Speak Out
    Law in the Service of Discrimination
    Published: 2013
    No democracy, in today’s world, should have the “right” to speak for persons who are not its citizens, live thousands of miles away, and have not given their direct consent to be spoken for or “represented.”
12. Bahseer, Zainab Wael: Gaza City, an unusual beauty
    To see the beauty in Gaza, all one has to do is see and appreciate the small details. They reveal it to be the most wonderful city in the world. Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.
13. Baig, Anila: Uk needs modern mosques
    The third generation of British Muslims still don't have mosques that teach compassion and citizenship
    Published: 2011
    An Islamic woman's opinion column mourns the lack of modern mosques in England. She discusses her search for a place where her children could learn Arabic and how to read the Qu'ran without facing violence or being forced to cover their faces or change their hair.
14. Bailes, Jon: Catherine Rottenberg's Neoliberal Feminism
    Book Review
    Published: 2019
    An interview with Catherine Rottenberg, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018).
15. Bailey, Cameron: A Cinema of Duty
    The Films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva
    Published: 1999
    Published in In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, et al. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Tronto Press, 1999
16. Bailey, Eric: An Interview With Noam Chomsky on Obama's Human Rights Record
    Nothing Can Justify Torture
    Published: 2012
    America's human rights record under the administration of President Obama and the military intervention policies that have seen increased use during the Arab Spring.
17. Bains, Hardial: Thinking about the Sixties
    1960-1967
    Published: 2006
    
18. Baker, Catherine; Rothchild, Alice: Writing while expecting to die
    Published: 2023
    "Can you kindly publish the attached stories if I die?" This is what we have been hearing from the young writers we work with from Gaza in the We Are Not Numbers project.
19. Baker, Dean: Can Coronavirus Force Policy Types to Think Clearly About Intellectual Property?
    Published: 2020
    While there are researchers all over the world working on developing a COVID-19 vaccine, they are to a large extent working in competition. Each team wants to be the first to develop a vaccine so that they can secure a patent and get immensely rich.
20. Baker, Dean: Diverting Class War Into Generational War, Again
    Published: 2018
    Dean Baker provieds a counter argument to a New York Times article titled "65 or Older? Here's What We Owe Our Kids" by Glenn Kramon, which directs blame at Social Security and Medicare for the current struggles of the younger generation.
21. Baker, Dean: For NYT, US Labor Abuses Abroad Are a Thing of Decades Past
    Published: 2015
    Does foreign investment make the US economy more vulnerable? Apparently the New York Times believes it does.
22. Baker, Dean: The Great Spreadsheet Blunder
    Reinhart and Rogoff: One Year Later
    Published: 2014
    It has been a bit more than a year since the Excel Spreadsheet error that shook the world. For those who may have missed it, in April of 2013, Thomas Herndon, a University of Massachusetts graduate student in economics, found an error in the calculations of Harvard Professors Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff on the relationship between government debt and economic growth.
23. Baker, Dean: How Financial Transaction Taxes Make the Economy More Efficient
    Published: 2017
    The efforts to implement a financial transactions tax (FTT) within the European Union (EU) seem to be finally coming to a head. While the EU is far from unanimous in support of a FTT, an effort to implement a joint FTT has been moving forward for the last six years under a provision that allows ten or more countries to act collectively.
24. Baker, Dean: Jeff Bezos' Quest to Find America's Dumbest Mayor
    Published: 2018
    Baker questions the wisdom of cities offering online-retailer Amazon tax and infrastructure incentives to host the company's second head quarters.
25. Baker, Dean: Media Panic Over the Stock Market Plunge
    Published: 2018
    The media continue to be in a panic over the drop in the stock market over the last few weeks. Fortunately for political pundits, there is no expectation that they have any clue about the subjects on which they opine. For those more interested in economics than hysterics, the drop in the market is not a big deal.
26. Baker, Dean: The Solution to the Country's Debt and Deficit Problem
    Published: 2019
    For most people, the country's national debt and annual deficit are not major concerns. However, for a substantial portion of the policy types who make, write, and talk about economic and budget policy, debt and deficits are really big deals. And, the fact that our budget deficit and debt are both large by historic standards, and growing rapidly, is an especially big deal.
27. Baker, Dean: Taxing Financial Transactions Is More Strategic Than Taxing High Wealth
    Published: 2019
    
28. Baker, Dean: To Readers, $X Billion Just Means 'a Whole Lot of Money'
    Published: 2019
    A call for media to put numbers in context, e.g., food stamps cost of $70 billion a year is just 0.4 percent of the budget.
29. Baker, Dean: Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers
    Published: 2019
    Past trade deals were about making it easier to trade manufactured goods, making it as easy as possible for corporations to take advantage of low-cost labor in the developing world. This has the predicted and actual effect of putting downward pressure on the wages of less-educated workers.
30. Baker, Dean: Why Aren't the Democrats Talking About Ending Patent Financed Drug Research?
    Published: 2019
    Presenting a case for replacing government-granted patent monopoly financing of pharmaceutical research to make drugs available at free market prices.
31. Baker, Kevin: The Death of a Once Great City
    The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence
    Published: 2018
    Kevin Baker takes a close look at the changes to his home city of New York over the past forty years. He notes that while some of the more undesirable aspects of New York in the 1970's have improved, such as crime, dirt, garbage- the new and more gentrified city masks significant problems, the most notable being a growing housing crisis.
32. Baker, Kevin: 21st Century Limited
    The lost glory of America's railroads
    Published: 201
    An essay on Armtrak's railroads gradual decline due to the Republican politicization of train travel.
33. Baker, Kevin: Where Our New World Begins
    Politics, power, and the Green New Deal
    Published: 2019
    We find ourselves today in much the same place, confronted by an array of emergencies -- seemingly disparate, but in fact closely connected - that threatens to destroy us. Braced against them is a set of ideas put forward in a congressional resolution by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (the notorious AOC), a twenty-nine-year-old freshman congresswoman, and her young, ad hoc brain trust.
34. Baker, Nicholson: Wrong Answer
    The case against Algebra II
    Published: 2013
    Why force all students to take algebra, which most of them will never use in their future lives? Why not let those students who like math, take math?
35. Bakunin, Mikhail: Confession to Tsar Nicholas I
    An excerpt from the 'confession' Mikhail Bakunin wrote in prison to explain his revolutionary goals and his ideas about how to organize a revolution. He writes: "I wanted to transform all Bohemia into a revolutionary camp, to create a force there capable not only of defending the revolution within the country, but also of taking the offensive outside Bohemia....
    
    All clubs, newspapers, and all manifestations of an anarchy of mere talk were to be abolished, all submitted to one dictatorial power; the young people and all able-bodied men divided into categories according to their character, ability, and inclination were to be sent throughout the country to provide a provisional revolutionary and military organization. The secret society directing the revolution was to consist of three groups, independent of and unknown to each other: one for the townspeople, another for the youth, and a third for the peasants.
    
    Each of these societies was to adapt its action to the social character of the locality to which it was assigned. Each was to be organized on strict hierarchical lines, and under absolute discipline, These three societies were to be directed by a secret central committee composed of three or, at the most, five persons. In case the revolution was successful, the secret societies were not to be liquidated; on the contrary, they were to be strengthened and expanded, to take their place in the ranks of the revolutionary hierarchy."
36. Bakx, Kyle; Normand, Geneviève: More than 100 First Nations could purchase the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline
    Published: 2019
    Dozens of First Nations leaders are meeting to discuss a plan that could make them the next owners of the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline. Indigenous leaders will debate which financial model is ideal if they are able to purchase the pipeline project, which would boost the amount of oilsands bitumen shipped from Alberta to the B.C. coast. The Indian Resource Council (IRC) is optimistic it will be able to present a proposal to Ottawa to acquire the pipeline project in the coming months. The IRC represents 134 First Nations that have oil and gas resources on their land.
37. Balderson, Bill; Begin, Claudette: Campaigning for A Millionaires Tax
    Against The Current vol. 158
    Published: 2012
    In February 2012, the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) launched a simple, clear initiative to raise taxes on Californians with incomes greater than $1,000,000 per year. The folding of this campaign for the Millionaires Tax (MT), following a compromise with the governor, has been felt as a seismic shock for many activists in California.
38. Bale, Rachael; Knudson, Tom: Shot and gassed: Thousands of protected birds killed annually
    Published: 2015
    Reveal has obtained never-before-released data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service showing more than 300 species of migratory birds -- from red-tailed hawks to American kestrels, turkey vultures to mallard ducks -- have been killed legally across the United States since 2011 to protect a wide range of business activities and public facilities under what’s called the "depredation permit" program.
39. Balkwill, Jack: America's Capitalist Religion has Little Room for Science
    Published: 2015
    The US mainstream press accuse the Pope of being leftist. Evidence? Well, they make the claim that he is leftist because he supports the theory of global warming. My guess is that the Pope also supports the theory of gravity, which, like global warming, has a great body of scientific evidence to support it. But is science now a part of the leftist realm of influence?
40. Balkwill, Jack: My Journey from Racism
    And how we can best end it
    Published: 2015
    A white individual's experience of racism growing up in America in the 1940's and 1950's.
41. Ball, James: Richard O'Dwyer: living with the threat of extradition
    Student who set up website posting links to TV and film content fears being used as a guinea pig by Hollywood giants
    Published: 2012
    Richard O'Dwyer's web-linking site would place him at the heart of the titanic running battle between the Hollywood giants – struggling to keep their beleaguered business model intact in the online era – and a new digital generation unwilling to play by the old rules.
42. Ball, James; Schneier, Bruce; Greenwald, Glenn: NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
    Published: 2013
    The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself.
43. Balles, Paul J.: The not-so-hidden persuaders
    The Israel lobby's global propaganda manual
    Published: 2009
    A major public relations manual for Israel lobbyists teaches pro-Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions.
44. Balthaser, Benjamin: Labor Organizing Across Israel's Apartheid Line: An Interview with Israeli Labor Activist Yoav Tamir
    Published: 2016
    Yoav Tamir is an organizer with the new Israeli labour union, Workers Advice Center, or WAC-MANN. WAC-MAAN was founded in the late 1990s as (as its name might suggest) a workers' advice center, and began organizing unions and negotiating contracts in 2010. A product of both deepening austerity within Israel as well as the wave of uprisings in the Arab world in 2011, WAC-MAAN organizes both across the racial line and across the Green Line, doing what no other labor organization in Israel or Palestine's history has done: create a multi-ethnic, bi-national workers' movement.
45. Balule, Dr. Badala Tachilsa; Louw, Raymond;Kandjii, Kaitira: Undue Restriction
    Laws Impacting on Media Freedom in SADC
    Published: 2004
    
46. Banerjee, Subhankar: An Ode To Seasons For Peter Matthiessen
    Published: 2014
    When human survival is continuously being threatened by varieties of anthropogenic injuries (ecological, economic, social), our capacity to think about the non-human animal become very limited indeed. Nevertheless, it is our ethical obligation to also consider their survival as well.
47. Banerjee, Subhankar: One of the Best Ways to Protect Biodiversity is to Preserve Indigenous Languages
    Published: 2020
    Is there a connection between loss of biodiversity and loss of Indigenous languages? Or, to put another way, what significance protecting Indigenous languages might have for protecting biodiversity?
48. Bangash, Jimmy: Islamic Homophobia is Empowered by Leftist Silence
    Published: 2021
    This piece scrutinizes homophobia in the Muslim community and explores the left's reluctance to criticize it in a consistent and productive manner.It argues that the word Islamophobia is a deliberate conflation that blends criticism of an ideology (Islam) with criticism of a people (Muslims). This allows the silencing of any critics of Islam through the accusation of Islamophobia, which carries an inferred accusation of hatred against Muslims – something which would be far better described as Muslimophobia or anti-Muslim bigotry. Due to this conflation, the fear of being accused of Islamophobia makes individuals hesitant to highlight the abhorrent nature of Islamic homophobia, its theological roots, and the corresponding Islamic jurisprudence that results in the ongoing persecution of LGBT people.
49. Banks-Smith, Nancy: Nancy Banks-Smith Quotes
    
50. Bankston, Kevin: CDT and Allies Take Aim at Government's Secret Protocol For Wireless Shutdowns
    Published: 2012
    The U.S. government has a secret emergency protocol for initiating citywide shutdowns of cell phone networks? The CDT states that "The government should not have the secret, unchecked authority to turn off the networks through which we all communicate every day."
51. Banning, Kass: Conjugating Three Moments in Black Canadian Cinema
    Published: 2002
    Published in In North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980, edited by William Beard and Jerry White. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002
52. Bannoura, Saed: Army Detonates Two Homes In Hebron, Seals One With Concrete Blocs
    Published: 2014
    Israeli soldiers wired and detonated two Palestinian homes in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and sealed the home of a third Palestinian with concrete. A Palestinian home was also demolished in occupied East Jerusalem.
53. Bannoura, Saed: Israeli airline pilots and crews trained to give talks promoting Israel in US cities
    Published: 2011
    The main Israeli-owned airline, El Al, in collaboration with the Jewish Agency, the group 'Stand With Us', and the Israeli Foreign Ministry, has launched a campaign to send Israeli pilots and flight crews to speak in US cities promoting Israel.
54. Baraka, Ajamu: Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence
    Published: 2018
    On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" that resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the theft of their lands, homes, and even their household possessions, the message today was clear: the Israeli state is prepared to maintain its apartheid state by any means necessary. The catastrophe for the Palestinians was the birth of Israel and was celebrated by the Israeli state with tear gas, bullets and the blood of Palestinians.
55. Baraka, Ajamu: Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump Diversion
    Published: 2018
    Baraka warns against enthusiastic embrace of the FBI as a "neutral political force populated by people of unreproachable character" in light of their well documented history of politically motivated targetting of civil rights activists.
56. Baraka, Amaju: The U.S. Press and Repression in the Obama Era
    A New Awakening or Political Theater?
    Published: 2013
    The Obama administration’s is expanding its use of executive powers to intimidate and crush dissent had turned its focus on the U.S. press.
57. Barbagallo, Camille: How Greens and Labor can Win ... Together
    Published: 2014
    A review of Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activists and the New South Wales Labourers Federation by Meredith and Verity Burgmann (UNSW Press, 1998).
58. Barber, David: A Hard Rain Fell
    SDS and Why it failed
    Published: 2008
    
59. Barber, Johnny: Crossing Rafah
    Heading to Gaza
    Published: 2015
    
60. Barcan, Ruth: Nudity & Nudism -- Two Essays
    Published: 2013
    Nudity is paradoxical - a bodily state that is seen as so banal or matter of fact that it is rarely given sustained conceptual or academic treatment, while all the while most societies subject it to intense regulation via customs, taboos, and laws. Nudity is customarily imagined as a “natural” state - since we are all born naked-and yet its powerful social and cultural regulation means that it is anything but simple or natural.
61. Bardosh, Kevin et. al.: The Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Vaccine Policy
    Why Mandates, Passports, and Segregated Lockdowns May Cause more Harm than Good
    Published: 2022
    
62. Barker, Michael: Why the CIA Cares About Marxism
    Published: 2017
    Abundant evidence of course exists of the CIA's complex cultural interventions into French intellectual affairs -- but it is critical to recognise that it was the political shortcomings of communist organizations themselves (i.e., Stalinists) that had the determinant impact on the obscurantist trajectory of left-wing academic ideas.
63. Barker, Micheal: Silence in NGO Discourse
    Published: 2017
    Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) maintain a ubiquitous presence in most peoples lives (whether they realize it or not). It therefore should be a commonsense act that we scrutinize NGO activities to ascertain their exact political function within the "our" neoliberal world order.
64. Barkham, Patrick: Tasers: 'If officers have a new toy, they like using it'
    Tasers in the Line of Fire
    Published: 2011
    Tasers are part of the modern police's arsenal. But how safe are they and why are the guidelines for their use so vague? By 2011, Amnesty International had recorded 450 deaths after a Taser firing.
65. Barlovac,Bojana: Major powers tailored Serbian media legislation for 'Balkan CNN'
    Published: 2014
    Regardless of different EU policies on the issue among different EU member states, the Serbian media practice to date does not leave room for optimism.
66. Barlow, Maude: Blue Betrayal
    The Harper government's assault on Canada's freshwater
    Published: 2015
    Canadians have long taken their water heritage for granted. This is largely due to the myth that there is an abundance of water. While it is true that compared to many other parts of the world Canada is blessed with water, it is false that there is water to waste or sell.
67. Barlow, Maude: EU-Canada CETA trade deal is a back door for US to sue EU - even if TTIP fails
    Published: 2015
    There's been a big fuss about the 'ISDS' clauses in the TTIP trade deal that would allow US corporations to sue the EU and its member states for 'lost profits', writes Maude Barlow. But ISDS is already in CETA, the already negotiated EU-Canada trade deal - and nothing would be easier than for US companies to use it as their 'back door'. We must make sure CETA is rejected at its final hurdle.
68. Barlow, Maude: Millions of people yearning for a "Brexit" from destructive trade deals
    Published: 2016
    While the votes for Brexit, and the support for Trump, may not always choose the best political framing, politicians and elites would be arrogant to dismiss the widespread discontent with the status quo.
69. Barlow, Maude: Nestlé: Malevolent Corporation Capitalizes on Global Water Crisis
    Published: 2012
    Demand for water is outstripping supply at an accelerating rate. Nestlé’s goal is to shift government policy away from providing public municipal water supplies to people, and toward a dependency on bottled water to provide basic drinking water.
70. Barmak, Sarah: A picture and a thousand words
    Published: 2007
    The approximately 27-metre-tall Humewood elm is among perhaps only 30 big elms in Toronto that remain unscathed by Dutch elm disease, the deadly fungus that has almost wiped out North America's elm trees.Over the roughly seven decades since the disease arrived on the continent, the Humewood elm has, inexplicably, stayed standing.How it escaped the scourge, no one knows. Maybe that's why many in its heritage-conscious St. Clair and Bathurst neighbourhood see it as something of a miracle.
71. Barnes, Julian: My life as a bibliophile
    Published: 2012
    From school prizes to writing his own novels, the author reflects on his lifelong bibliomania and explains why, despite e-readers and Amazon, he believes the physical book and bookshops will survive.
72. Barnett, David: Draw and you'll go to jail': the fight to save comics from the censor
    Published: 2016
    From worried parents to policemen with built-in 'Satan detectors', underground comics have never lacked enemies. And for 30 years Neil Gaiman and his friends have fought back in the name of free speech.
73. Barnett, Jerry: Porn, Women's Rights and the Left
    A Response to Gail Dines
    Published: 2014
    I believe that government belongs in health, education, welfare, social services, environmental protection and transport; but I do not believe that it belongs in our bedrooms.
74. Barnett, Katherine: Are Israel's spies stealing your data?
    Published: 2019
    Many Israeli spies go into careers in surveillance software bringing techniques that are used to violate the privacy of Palestinians into everyday commercial software.
75. Baron, Sherry Dr.: Claudia Clark's "Radium Girls" - Book Review
    Published: 1999
    Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935. by Claudia Clark. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 289 pp, notes and bibliography. $17.95 paper.
    AT THE BEGINNING of this century a group of young women workers who, while licking their brushes to make a fine point, applied radium-laden paint to the faces of watches and instruments, began to sicken, and in many cases to die.
76. Baroud, Ramzy: Arab Media on the Brink
    The Age of TV Jokers
    Published: 2014
    In the last year or so in Egypt, much of what has been achieved in terms of carving space for alternative voices in the Egyptian media was quickly and decisively reversed.
77. Baroud, Ramzy: Beyond Awards and Accolades: Why Gaza Journalists are the Best in the World
    Why Gaza Journalists are the Best in the World
    Published: 2024
    By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli war on Gaza, UNESCO has acknowledged a historic truth.
78. Baroud, Ramzy: The Boomerang Effect: How Netanyahu Made Israel an American Issue, and Lost
    Published: 2018
    Trends in US opinion polls indicate that Israel is not just losing support and overall appeal among large sections of American society but also among the newer generation of American Jews, a worrying change in US public opinion for the Israeli government.
79. Baroud, Ramzy: Cruelty of Language -- the NYT's Leaked Gaza Memo
    Published: 2024
    Ramzy Baroud responds to revelations about The New York Times "guidance" on language about the Israeli mass slaughter in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
80. Baroud, Ramzy: How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
    Published: 2016
    Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming development has been taking place for weeks, since Israel’s national water company, "Mekorot", decided to cut off – or significantly reduce – its water supply to Jenin, Salfit and many villages around Nablus, among other regions. Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians.
81. Baroud, Ramzy: Journalism, History and War: Sit, Type and Bleed
    Published: 2017
    There are millions of victims throughout the Middle East region, that cannot be understood or expressed through typical media narration: a gripping headline, couple of quotes and a paragraph or two by way of providing context.The price is too high for this kind of lazy journalism.
82. Baroud, Ramzy: The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World
    Published: 2016
    "Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question," said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision, killed a wounded Palestinian man in al-Khalil (Hebron). The protesting Jewish man described Palestinians as 'barbaric', 'bestial', who should not be perceived as people.
83. Baroud, Ramzy: Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost
    Published: 2019
    It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally alarming is the complete polarization of public opinion as a result of self-serving media and, bankrolled by rich Arab countries, whose only goal is to serve their specific, often sinister, agendas.
84. Baroud, Ramzy: Omar and the Checkpoint
    The Essential Story that is Rarely Told
    Published: 2014
    Omar is a 7-year-old boy from Gaza. His family managed to obtain the necessary permits that allowed him to cross the Erez checkpoint to Jerusalem, through the West Bank, in order to undergo surgery. He was accompanied by his father. On the way back, the boy and his father were stopped at the Qalanidya checkpoint, separating occupied East Jerusalem from the West Bank. The father needed another permit from the Israeli military to take his son, whose wounds were still fresh hours after the surgery, back to the strip. But the soldiers were in no obliging mood.
85. Baroud, Ramzy: Palestine's 'Prayer for Rain': How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
    Published: 2016
    Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians, according to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah. The irony is that the water provided by "Mekorot' is actually Palestinian water, usurped from West Bank aquifers. While Israelis, including illegal West Bank settlements, use the vast majority of it, Palestinians are sold their own water back at high prices.
86. Baroud, Ramzy: Palestinian, Jewish Voices Music Jointly Challenge Israel's Past
    Published: 2017
    Baroud analyzes how Israel has appropriated the Palestinian narrative of Al-Nakba to rewrite history and place the occupation of Palestine in a positive light.
87. Baroud, Ramzy: Perpetuating the Abu Ghraib Culture
    The Harrowing Abuse of Iraqi Women
    Published: 2014
    The phenomenon of kidnapping, torturing, raping, and executing women is shockingly widespread within the Iraqi criminal justice systm, which continues the policies of the US miliary administration. If such a reality were to exist in a different political context, the global outrage would have been profound.
88. Baroud, Ramzy: Photographing Tragedy
    What Victims Actually Want
    Published: 2013
    What is the use of a photo when the human conscience has grown numb, and barely appreciates the artistic expression of the photo, not the moral and political crisis it represents?
89. Baroud, Ramzy: The Prisoners' Revolt: The Real Reasons behind the Palestinian Hunger Strike
    Published: 2017
    Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected to varied degrees of military restrictions. At some level, they are all prisoners.
90. Baroud, Ramzy: Recruiting To Kill - It Is Not Just An Israeli War On Gaza
    Published: 2014
    To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during a Cairo visit on 25 July about a ceasefire between Israel and resisting Palestinian fighters in Gaza. But behind his measured diplomatic language, there is a truth not even America's top diplomat can easily hide. His country is very much involved in fighting this dirty war on Gaza that has killed over 1,050, injured thousands more, and destroyed much of an already poor, dilapidated space that is barely inhabitable to begin with.
91. Baroud, Ramzy: Seven Points Not on the Arab Media Agenda – What Is There to Celebrate?
    Published: 2015
    As media experts plan to establish an 'Arab Media Day', Baroud criticizes in seven points the censorship and repression of Arab journalism and media.
92. Baroud, Ramzy: Time to End the 'Hasbara': Palestinian Media and the Search for a Common Story
    Published: 2016
    Merely being in the company of hundreds of Palestinian journalists and other media professionals from all over the world has been an uplifting experience. For many years, Palestinian media has been on the defensive, unable to articulate a coherent message, torn between factions and desperately trying to fend off the Israeli media campaign, along with its falsifications and unending propaganda or 'hasbara'.
93. Baroud, Ramzy: The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget
    Published: 2018
    A look at some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s views beyond those emphasized by the mainstream media, where he pushed beyond 'liberal' America and his strong anti-war and global solidarity values were unapologetically linked to the fight against racism and poverty.
94. Baroud, Ramzy: Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
    All the News That's Fit to Slant
    Published: 2012
    In Al Jazeera’s early days in the mid and late 1990s, the channel took on taboo subjects and proudly challenged the status quo. In recent months, however, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics.
95. Baroud, Ramzy: Why do Palestinian children throw stones?
    Published: 2022
    Children of my Gaza refugee camp were rarely afraid of monsters but of Israeli soldiers. This is all that we talked about before going to bed. Unlike imaginary monsters in the closet or under the bed, Israeli soldiers are real, and they could show up any minute – at the door, on the roof or, as was often the case, right in the middle of the house.
96. Baroud, Rmazy: The Genocidal Language Behind Israel's Intent in Gaza
    Published: 2023
    Long before October 7, 2023, the Zionist-Israeli discourse was always that of racism, dehumanization, erasure and, at times, outright genocide.
97. Barrera, Jorge: Indigenous population growing rapidly, languages surging: census
    Data also reveals on-reserve First Nation housing getting worse
    Published: 2017
    The Indigenous population in Canada continues to rapidly outpace the growth of the rest of the country while Indigenous languages are showing a strong resurgence, according to census data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.
98. Barrera, Jorge: Lost Children
    Published: 2021
    The threat of death was part of life at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. So why is it so hard to determine how many children died there?
99. Barrett, Paul: Why Everyone Is Wrong about the Censorship Fight at Universities
    Published: 2018
    The silencing of part-time instructors is the real free speech crisis
100. Barrickman, Nick: Lack of regulation behind West Virginia water disaster
     Published: 2014
     A chemical spill at the Etowah River Terminal, near Charleston, West Virginia, resulted in nearly 300,000 people in the state losing access to drinkable water. Since then, several reports have been released detailing the decades-long lack of regulation by state or federal agencies of the site responsible.
101. Barrickman, Nick: Ryan Coogler's Black Panther: A hollow "defining moment" cloaked in identity politics
     A review of the film 'Black Panther'
     Published: 2018
     A conventional Hollywood "blockbuster," chock full of action sequences, explosions and the rest.
102. Barrickman, Nick: Thousands imprisoned, some executed, based on false FBI lab reports
     Published: 2014
     A major inquiry conducted by the US Justice Department (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has found hundreds instances in which FBI forensic units charged with gathering data on cases involving violent crimes provided false information. The doctored FBI lab reports led to the imprisonment of thousands of innocent people, some of whom were executed, according to a report in the Washington Post.
103. Barron, Simon: Google can't be trusted to look after our books
     Published: 2011
     The author warns that Google's lack of accountability to the public could put its digital collection in jeopardy should it become too expensive to maintain. He argues that the protection of cultural resources should be in the hands of the public sector.
104. Barrows-Friedman, Nora: Israel's first trans officer helps with ethnic cleansing
     Published: 2017
     Queer and transgender activists protested an event featuring an Israeli soldier in Seattle on 5 April.The event was supported by the LGBTQ Commission, a body that advises city leaders on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.Two commissioners resigned in protest just days earlier, criticizing the group’s participation as an act of pinkwashing. Pinkwashing is a public relations strategy that deploys Israel's supposed enlightenment toward LGBTQ issues to deflect criticism from its human rights abuses and war crimes and as a means to build up support for Israel among Western liberals and progressives.
105. Barry, Tom: America is a Smuggler Nation
     Why Legal Trade is a Greater Threat to National Security
     Published: 2013
     Smuggler Nation is not the oft told, routinely taught story of America’s emergence as a major nation and a global power, rather we come to see U.S. history as “the story of how smuggling – and the attempts to police it – have made and remade America, from the illicit molasses trade in colonial times to drug trafficking today,” as Peter Andreas observes in the book’s introduction.
106. Barrymore, John: John Barrymore Quotes
     
107. Barsocchini, Robert J.: American Rape of Vietnamese Women was Considered "Standard Operating Procedure"
     Published: 2017
     Comparing testimony from Vietnamese women and American soldiers, Gina Marie Weaver, in her book Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in The Vietnam War, finds that rape of Vietnamese women by American troops during the US invasion of Vietnam was a "widespread", "everyday occurrence" that was essentially "condoned", even encouraged, by the military, and had its foundation in military training and US culture.
108. Barth, Brian: Curitiba: the Greenest city on Earth
     Published: 2014
     Eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brazil's seventh largest city for decades.
109. Bartlett, Eva: Actual reality is infinitely preferable to the dystopian augmented reality of the Metaverse
     Published: 2022
     After isolating lockdowns and other absurd anti-science measures that have made life hell for many for the past year-and-a-half, people are thirsty for real life interactions, not Zoom calls or other digital meet-ups.
110. Bartlett, Eva: Bolton calls on Al-Qaeda to stage more chemical attacks in Syria
     Published: 2018
     The latest statements from the US, France and UK warning against the use of chemical weapons in Syria leave many skeptical and disbelieving of the alarm cries, having seen this song and dance before. Chemical weapons accusations are among the most overused war propaganda tactic used by the West during the war on Syria.
111. Bartlett, Eva: Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces are Defending their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism
     Published: 2022
     
112. Bartlett, Eva: Organ theft, staged attacks: UN panel details White Helmets' criminal activities, media yawns
     Published: 2018
     
113. Bartlett, Rob: Chicago Teachers Strike Back
     Against The Current vol. 161
     Published: 2012
     Chicago Teachers Union stage a walkout that leads to an improved contract.
114. Bartlett, Rob: Chicago Teachers' Strike Looms
     Against The Current vol. 160
     Published: 2012
     Whether or not the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) will strike this September is an open question. But the issues they raise are gaining national attention.
115. Bartlett, Rob: Update: Chicago's School War
     Published: 2013
     Chicago Public Schools took a hit on May 22, 2013 as the appointed Board of Education of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) voted to close 50 schools, of the 54 originally targeted for shutdown -- in the largest closing of public schools in U.S. history. This was done despite an outpouring of opposition, expressed by thousands of parents in more than 100 meetings mandated by state law to allow parental and community input into the process.
116. Bartosiewicz, Petra: Before the Deluge
     How Washington sealed Puerto Rico's fate
     Published: 2018
     A look at the problems facing Puerto Rico prior to Hurricane Maria, which was already a plundered and mis-managed society with crumbling infrastructure long before the hurricane struck.
117. Bassey, Nnimmo; Shiva, Vandana: Stemming the tide together: Soil, not oil
     Published: 2015
     We are living in a rapidly changing world. The changes that we are witnessing have not come about by accident; they have been carefully orchestrated and the price has been dire. Today, a handful of corporations and entities control the global supply of food, water and other resources. They operate without any sense of responsibility and the space for people to seek redress is becoming continually more constricted.
118. Basso, Gustavo: In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
     Published: 2019
     The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
119. Basu, Brishti: Ontario doctor suspended, his address published after pro-Palestinian social media posts
     Published: 2023
     An Ontario doctor has been suspended from his job, threatened and had his address shared online after he posted pro-Palestinian views on social media.
120. Bateman, Milford: The Microfinance Delusion
     Marred by Wall Street-Style Greed, Profiteering, Client Abuse, and Market Chaos
     Published: 2012
     By celebrating self-help and individual entrepreneurship, and by implicitly discrediting all forms of collective effort, such as trade unions, social movements, cooperatives, public spending, a pro-poor ‘developmental state’ and – most of all – collective moves to ensure a more equitable redistribution of wealth and power, microfinance fits in well with the ideology of neoliberal policy-makers.
121. Bateman, Milford: The Power of a Dollar
     Published: 2015
     Microcredit is nothing more than a socially validated way for financial elites to exploit the poor.
122. Batou, Jean: Amnesia and the Armenian Genocide
     Published: 2015
     A century after the methodically planned, organized, and executed destruction of the Anatolian Armenians, this article revisits the causes of this genocide and recognizes its importance for understanding the present.
123. Baud, Jacques: Ukraine between war and peace
     Published: 2024
     Interview with Ret. Col. Jacques Baud.
124. Baum, Dan: Legalize it All
     How to win the war on drugs
     Published: 2016
     Arguing for complete legalization as a means of dealing with substance problems in America.
125. Baur, Estar: A Farewell and Tribute: Rose Lesnik, 1924-1998
     Published: 1999
     ROSE LESNIK, LIFELONG socialist, activist and humanist, died of pancreatic cancer on August 1, 1998. Rose, born in 1924, grew up in a socialist household.
     Her father, Harry Gold, and her brother joined the Trotskyist movement in 1938. Rose followed their example and at the age of 17 joined the Socialist Workers Party. Then in 1953 she became a member of the Socialist Union (publishers of American Socialist).
126. Bayer, Fern: The Search for the Spirit
     General Idea 1968-1975
     Published: 1997
     
127. Bayley, Ed: The Clicks That Bind: Ways Users "Agree" to Online Terms of Service
     Published: 2009
     “I Agree.” We have all, at some point while online, clicked on a button bearing these words. Whether it is registering for a new social media account or just trying to get to our bank statements, one almost cannot visit a website today without eventually being asked to agree a listed set of "Terms and Conditions." But by clicking on such boxes, or even in some cases just by using the website, we as online users may be binding ourselves to legally enforceable contracts with the online service provider.
128. Beachy, Ben: Let's Just Pretend
     We Didn’t Offshore Manufacturing?
     Published: 2014
     Is an iPhone made in China and exported to Europe a U.S. export? Is an Apple executive a manufacturing worker? Yes, and yes. At least those could become the answers if a new proposal afoot among some in the administration is allowed to take effect. Federal agencies grouped under the bland-sounding Economic Classification Policy Committee (ECPC) are proposing to radically redefine U.S. manufacturing and trade statistics. The proposal would deceptively deflate the size of reported, but not actual, U.S. manufacturing trade deficits, while artificially inflating the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs overnight.
129. Beattie, Samantha ; Hristova, Bobby: Ontario NDP kicks Hamilton MPP Sarah Jama from caucus after controversial Gaza comments
     Published: 2023
     Ontario New Democrats have kicked Hamilton Centre MPP Sarah Jama out of caucus, nearly two weeks after she posted a controversial statement in support of Palestinians. NDP Leader Marit Stiles said in a statement Monday that while the caucus allows different viewpoints, some of Jama's actions since making her comments "have contributed to unsafe work environments for staff."
130. Beaumont, Hilary: Inside the US push to uncover Indigenous boarding school graves
     Published: 2021
     Researchers say unmarked graves likely will be found at majority of boarding schools for Indigenous children across US.
131. Beaumont, Peter; Hopkins, Peter: US was 'key player in cyber-attacks on Iran's nuclear programme'
     Obama reported to have approved bid to target Tehran's nuclear efforts
     Published: 2012
     Fresh light is shed on the rapid development of US cyberwarfare capability and reveal its willingness to use cyber weapons offensively to achieve policies.
132. Beaumont, Peter; Kingsley, Patrick: Devil and the deep blue sea: how Mediterranean migrant disaster unfolded
     Published: 2014
     Desperate migrants from Gaza and Syria tell how they put themselves at the mercy of people smugglers in their voyage to cross the Mediterranean.
133. Bebout, Rick: Blight and the Brave New World
     Rural estates to urban renewal: Moss Park, Trefann Court and Corktown
     Published: 2001
     A history of, and observations and reflections on the Moss Park, Trefann Court and Corktown areas of Toronto.
134. Bebout, Rick: Government's house and housing the governed
     Parliament Street: Regent Park, Cabbagetown (old and "Old") and St James Town
     Published: 2001
     A recent history of the neighborhoods around Parliament Street in Toronto, with a focus on the planning challenges and the function of mixed-income communities.
135. Bebout, Rick: Landscapes lost, and found
     Garrison Creek; downtown's other streams & ravines: reclaiming the life beneath our feet
     Published: 2002
     A history of the Garrison Creek path in Toronto and how the creek shapes the surrounding landscape and environment, reflecting on the cities relationship with public natural spaces and parks.
136. Bebout, Rick: Master builders meet citizen activists
     Trefann Court and beyond: from "urban renewal" to true civic life
     Published: 2001
     Examining former Toronto Mayor John Sewell's role as a community organizer and advocate during the urban renewal of the Trefann Court neighborhood and the importance of community self-determination in urban planning.
137. Bebout, Rick: Not at liberty
     Jails (and gaols), Central Prison, the Mercer Reformatory, and the Asylum
     Published: 2002
     A history of prisons, reformatories, asylums and mental health facilities in Toronto and their relationship with the populace, detailing and criticizing the implications of attitudes and approaches to mental health by the cities institutions.
138. Bebout, Rick: Of time and the river
     The Don: salmon to sludge to concrete; in time, to life revived
     Published: 2001
     A history of the Don River in Toronto and reflections on its relationship with the city and citizenship as a natural space, and its decline and renewal.
139. Bebout, Rick: Passing Stories
     Tales from a wander so far without end
     Published: 2002
     A collection of stories based around experiences and observations from walking Toronto's Queen Street, considering the requirements and rewards of urban citizenship.
140. Bebout, Rick: Private property; public life
     The city indoors: The Eaton Centre and "Toronto's Downtown Walkway"
     Published: 2001
     A history of, and observations on, Toronto's Eaton Centre mall and PATH walkway and preceding indoor private-owned and publically accessible spaces.
141. Bebout, Rick: Roncesvalles
     Spanish name, Polish downtown; one avenue, many stories
     Published: 2002
     A history of the immigrant populations in the Roncesvalles area of Toronto, with observations on the communities who have lived there told through monuments and landmarks.
142. Bebout, Rick: Text crimes
     The very long & contentious career of "Men loving boy loving men"
     Published: 2003
     Rick Bebout on journalism and freedom and the Body Politic newspaper.
143. Bebout, Rick: Urban amenities; erotic anxieties
     Baths, lavatories, and the YMCA: The politics of bodies in civic space
     Published: 2002
     A history of public baths, in particular public baths and similar spaces in Toronto in the last century, and the changing perceptions and uses of such spaces by the public, in particular the treatment of private acts within public spaces.
144. Beccaria, Laurent; de Saint-Exupéry, Patrick; Cullen, John (trans.): Content and Its Discontents
     Published: 2013
     On the negatively changing nature of journalism and the press in the digital age, including four potential pillars of a reformed press that will restore the exchange value between news publications and their readers.
145. Becerra, Diana C. Sierra: Colombian Workers Injured and Fired
     Against The Current vol. 163
     Published: 2013
     The General Motors subsidiary in Colombia, Colmotores, fired over 200 workers who were injured on the job, ranging from spinal fractures to cancer.
146. Becker, Mark: Ecuador's New Indigenous Uprising
     Published: 2015
     Ecuador's Indigenous movements have launched an uprising to challenge the government's opposition to bilingual education and its support for an extractive-based economy.
147. Becker, Markus: Factory and Lab: Israel's War Business
     Published: 2014
     Israel invests more money in research than most other countries -- and in no other place are research institutes, the defense industry, the army and politics as interwoven. The result is a high-tech weapons factory that successfully exports its goods globally.
148. Beckett, Andy: The dark side of the internet
     Published: 2009
     Search engines access only a very small fraction of the deep web, which is estimated to be five hundred times as big as the surface web.
149. Beckett, Andy: A user's guide to artspeak
     Published: 2013
     There is now a name for the pompous prose used by art galleries: International Art Speak. You need to speak it to be a part of art culture.
150. Beder, Sharon: Turning Children Into Consumers
     Published: 2009
     Children are naïve about advertising and can easily be manipulated and exploited by marketers to want and demand their products. Corporate marketers believe that over time they can be shaped into lifelong consumers with brand loyalties and that can be profitable for decades to come.
151. Beeby, Dean: Before Parliament Hill attack, RCMP got 3 warnings, reduced patrols
     Documents show Mounties reduced patrols prior to shootings, despite 3 separate warnings
     Published: 2015
     Mounties received at least three warnings of potential terrorist attacks on uniformed officers before last year's shootings on Parliament Hill, yet the RCMP wound down extra patrols around the parliamentary precinct just days before the tragedy, newly disclosed documents show.
152. Beeley, Vanessa: 'Reporters Without Scruples' fails to derail revelatory conference on White Helmets
     Published: 2017
     The Geneva Press Club (GPC) announced an event that would present the darker side of the Oscar-winning, multi-million-dollar internationally funded White Helmets, operating in Syria alongside Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front) and other US Coalition-armed & financed terrorist groups.The event was entitled "They Don't Care About Us – White Helmets True Agenda."
153. Beelman, Maud: Be careful of the "master narrative"
     Published: 2012
     Maud Beelman, founding director of ICIJ and now deputy managing editor for investigations and enterprise at The Dallas Morning News, has a strategic four-part checklist which helps her prioritize which stories to go after. She shares them here, as well as the most important lessons learned over the years, and how to make the most of the limited time and resources you are given.
154. Beeman, Angie: Gig Economy or Odd Jobs: What May Seem Trendy to Privileged City Dwellers and Suburbanites is as Old as Poverty
     Published: 2017
     The rise of precarious employment is not a stimulus to "creativity" but a long-established way of explloiting the poor.
155. Beers, David; and Tyee Staff and Contributors: Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled
     The Tyee's full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law.
     Published: 2015
     Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have racked up dozens of serious abuses of power since forming government in 2006. From scams to smears, monkey-wrenching opponents to intimidating public servants like an Orwellian gorilla, some offences are criminal, others just offend human decency. Here are 70 instances of abuse of power by the Stephen Harper government.
156. Beggs, Mike: Debt: The First 500 Pages
     Published: 2012
     We need more grand histories, but 5,000 years of anecdotes is no substitute for real political economy.
157. Begley, Josh: A Visual Glossary
     Decoding the language of covert warfare
     Published: 2015
     Along with illustrations, Begley explains some of the terminology employed in the drone warfare.
158. Behnam, Ali: Six Key Digital Marketing Resolutions for 2014: Unified Marketing, Data Activism, More...
     Published: 2014
     This is a short guide (6 aspects) to digital marketing. The article puts heavy emphasis on the use of digital analytic tools and big data management.
159. Behrens, Matthew: The God that fails: C-51, review committees and the dangers of window dressing
     Published: 2016
     Among the Harper era's most destructive legacies is a toxic stew of repressive "anti-terror" laws that, in building on similarly repressive measures brought in under Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, extended major new powers to Canadian state security agencies Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the RCMP, among numerous others.
160. Behrens, Matthew: Reflections on a violent day in Ottawa
     Published: 2014
     After a long day focused on these gripping events in the nation's capital, I have to wonder if this direct experience of fear and trauma will force us to examine our own addiction to violence as the solution to conflict. Last week's events provide us with an opportunity to reflect on our insidious contribution to the climate of hate, and the chance to disengage from our increasingly militarized culture.
161. Behrens, Matthew: Rest in Power, Frank
     Published: 2022
     Short biography of Frank Showler, an anti-capitalist and pacifist who died at the age of 102.
162. Behrens, Matthew: Taking liberties: When elite representatives define 'national security'
     Published: 2011
     Most reporters assigned to the national security beat are not physically embedded within the RCMP and CSIS in the way those covering the occupation of Afghanistan seem to become stenographers for the Canadian military. But they tend to write as if they were, buying the assumptions created and sustained by those who benefit most from them while generally ignoring the fact that these agencies have a historical profile that reads "pathological liar."
163. Behrent, Megan: The enduring relevance of Victor Hugo
     Published: 2013
     To understand the significance of Victor Hugo, one must begin at the end, with his death on May 22, 1885. His funeral attracted more than two million people, one of the largest mass mobilizations ever seen in Paris and more than the city's total population at the time.
164. Beiler, Ryan Roderick: Hebron Activist Who Died of Tear Gas Showed Israel's Crimes to the World
     Published: 2015
     Hebron resident and anti-occupation activist Hashem al-Azzeh died Wednesday after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces.
165. Beinart, Peter: Debunking The Myth That Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic
     Published: 2019
     Looks at some of the cases of Anti-Semitism and Zionism as mutually held beliefs, as well as other contradictions, to argue that Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are not the same.
166. Beiser, Elana: Syria, Iraq, Egypt most deadly nations for journalists
     Published: 2013
     The conflict in Syria, a spike in Iraqi bloodshed, and political violence in Egypt accounted for the high number of journalists killed on the job in 2013.
167. Bell, Beverly: Agroecology as a Tool for Liberation: Transforming Industrial Agribusiness in El Salvador
     Published: 2015
     "We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter. We see it as a tool to transform farmers''social and economic conditions. We see it as a tool of liberation from the unsustainable capitalist agricultural model that oppresses farmers."
168. Bello, Judy: Prisoners of the War on Terror
     Time to Give up "Hope" and Think About Active Change
     Published: 2013
     Status of prisoners of war in Guantanamo.
169. Bello, Muhammed: The 'hanging libraries' of Nigeria: How a book drive is exciting pupils
     Published: 2023
     The quality of basic education is on a decline in Nigerian public schools. One volunteer book drive wants to halt that.
170. Bello, Walden: Slavery, Genocide, Abuse: The Dark Side of Asia's 'Tiger Economies'
     Published: 2015
     From declining worker protections to violent labour trafficking and ethnic cleansing, the dark underbelly of Southeast Asia's "tiger economies" is on full display this year.
171. Bello, Walden: Trump: the Ultimate Blowback for American Foreign Policy?
     Published: 2016
     When the late Chalmers Johnson introduced the word "blowback" to describe the adverse consequences of Washington’s actions in the world, he wasn't referring simply to the victims of U.S. imperial interventions striking back on American soil. More importantly, he saw the resulting destabilization of the American democratic process as the most dangerous blowback of all.
172. Bellware, Kim: Grace Lee Boggs, Legendary Activist, Dead At 100
     Published: 2015
     Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.
173. Ben Fogel: Book Review: African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions
     Published: 2012
     Conspicuously absent from the renewed and resurgent discourse amongst anti-capitalist forces and the popular imagination was sub-Saharan Africa, “black Africa,” the Africa of the eternal cycle of dictators, corruption, famine, “bad governance” and debt. African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions ambitiously sets out to remedy this and place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
174. Ben-Zeev, Aaron: The Look of Love
     Published: 2011
     
175. Bender, Peter Urs: Don't neglect your presentation skills
     Published: 1999
     Do not wait until you are about to present. It's not worth the stress, or to risk looking like a fool. Take time to prepare.
176. Bender, Peter Urs: Secrets of a worthwhile presentation
     Published: 1998
     Preparation is the key to a successful presentation.
177. Bender, Peter Urs: Seven golden rules for more effective speaking
     Published: 2001
     Tips to be a more powerful, memorable and successful speaker.
178. Bender, Peter Urs: 7 Tips for Effective Speeches
     Published: 1996
     How to make your speeches more effective.
179. Benedict, Kennette: Stuxnet and the Bomb
     Published: 2012
     Over the past decade, US experts have strenuously warned about the ominous possibility of other nations, rogue states, or even terrorist groups attacking US infrastructure through the Internet. As it happens, however, it is the United States itself that has developed malicious software in secrecy and launched it against another country.
180. Benger, Robin: The Great Canadian Tax Dodge
     Published: 2015
     It is estimated that between 100 and 170 billion dollars leaves Canada every year, untaxed. Much of it is siphoned off to Canadian-made offshore tax havens. "The Great Canadian Tax Dodge" documents the birth of the Canadian Tax Fairness movement and examines the issue of tax avoidance, exposing the sophisticated corporate strategies and tax loopholes commonly used to legally avoid tax.
181. Bengtsson, Verenice: Berta Cáceres: her fight for human rights in Honduras continues
     Published: 2016
     Last week the environmental and human rights activist Berta Cáceres was murdered by gunmen in an early morning attack on her home which may have been carried out by or in collusion with state agents. Now her friend and colleague Gustavo Castro, himself wounded in the attack and the only witness to Berta's murder, has been detained for questioning.
182. Benilde, Marie: Ads are coming to get you
     Billions of pieces of data crunched to target your screen.
     Published: 2013
     The amount of personal information we donate to the Internet giants, and their ability to monitor our every move, are now being fed to ad exchange sites that bid within milliseconds for the space on our screens.
183. Benjamin, Medea: Is Saudi Women's Vote a Step Forward?
     Published: 2015
     The global press has been heralding the December 13, 2015, vote in Saudi Arabia as a breakthrough for women, since it's the first time in history that Saudi women have been allowed to vote. But is this vote really a significant step forward?
184. Benjamin, Medea: Putting the Fox in Charge: What's Fair About the Fair Labor Association?
     Published: 1999
     AFTER THE EXPOSÉS in the early 1990s of horrendous conditions in sweatshops producing clothing and shoes for some of the largest U.S. companies, the fight against sweatshops has come a long way. Companies that once refused to acknowledge responsibility for factory conditions by alleging they were “only the buyers” now have codes of conduct, undertake more serious internal monitoring of the factories they buy from, and several companies have begun experimenting with different forms...
185. Benjamin, Medea: RE/MAX Cashes in on Israel's Illegal Settlements
     End the sale of Settlement Properties
     Published: 2014
     The Israeli government’s recent announcement that it had authorized the building of another 1,000 settlement homes in East Jerusalem left the US government seeing red, with State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki calling the settlement activity 'illegitimate' and 'incompatible with the pursuit of peace.' But the announcement must have left the US-based real estate giant RE/MAX “seeing green,” ready to cash in on the sale and rental of more illegal settlement homes.
186. Benjamin, Medea: South Korean Activists' Extraordinary Struggle to Save Jeju Island
     Published: 2015
     South Korea's Jeju Island is a popular tourist destination full of spas, resorts, golf courses, sandy beaches, waterfalls and hiking trails. But if you really want to get rejuvenated, skip the tourist hotspots and go directly to the village of Gangjeong to support the extraordinary community that has been opposing the building of a naval base since 2007.
187. Benjamin, Medea: Ten Reasons to Oppose the Saudi Monarchy
     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.
188. Benjamin, Medea and Pam Bailey: It's Time to Put an End to Israel's "Don't ask-don't tell" Nuclear Policy
     Published: 2013
     Israel and its allies in the U.S. Congress continue to lobby against a deal that would meet Iran in the middle, insisting on a “zero-enrichment” policy that is a deal-breaker for Iran.
189. Benjamin, Medea; Davies, Nicolas J. S.: Venezuela: The U.S.'s 68th Regime Change Disaster
     Published: 2019
     The US's sanctions and political interference in Venezuela are part of a long history of foreign meddling that brings strife to the affected country.
190. Bennett, Steve: How Embarassing when your messages unravel
     The Emperor's New Speak
     Published: 2001
     Analyze your messages to make sure their will hold up to critical scrutiny.
191. Bennett, Steve: Oh, the Mistakes Spokespeople Make: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Blow an Interview
     Published: 2000
     Mistakes to avoid when being interviewed by the media.
192. Bennett, Steve: When Bad Things Happen to Good Spokespeople: Handling Tough Interviews
     Published: 2000
     How to handle problems that arise in a media interview.
193. Bennis, Phyllis: Obama Launches an Illegal War in Syria
     Published: 2014
     President Obama’s decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, as well as the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
194. Bentley, Paul: A Little Crooked House: Trudeau, Morneau, BMO & KPMG Inc
     Published: 2017
     Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau has recently reinvigorated his promise to crack down on tax evasion schemes, but how can we trust him when he is himself named in the Panama Papers?
195. Benvenuto, Francesca M.: Fighting impunity, but only in some cases
     Is the International Criminal Court too Politicized?
     Published: 2013
     So far all the 20 prosecutions in the 11 years of the ICC’s existence have been brought over African conflicts. The US, China, Russia and Israel haven’t even signed up to the court, and actively seek exemption from it.
196. Berezovsky, Georgiy: 'Africa is fighting, Africa will win': How Soviet art supported the decolonization of the 'Dark Continent'
     Published: 2023
     The liberation of Africa from the oppression of Western colonizers in the 1960s became one of the main themes of Soviet propaganda posters.
197. Berg, Jeff: A Grim Very Tale: The Kehoe Paradigm
     Published: 2015
     In the 1920s two employees of GM working in the research lab discovered that the addition of tetraethyllead - TEL - to gasoline would reduce engine 'knock'. It would take sixty years to stop industry from adding TEL to gasoline. During that time the lead contamination in the environment - globally - was raised by hundreds of times. Billions of tons of lead was dispersed into the environment.
198. Bergareche,Borja: Why Spain's new gag law is threat to free flow of information
     Published: 2015
     Spain plans to ban demonstrations in front of government buildings on the basis of 'disturbing public safety'. The people of Spain refuse to accept this censorship and move to repeal the law by the end of the year.
199. Berger, Greg; Olivera, Oscar: Community Police in Guerrero's Costa Chica Region to Celebrate 19 Years of a Better Way to Combat Crime and Corruption
     Published: 2014
     The same southern Mexican state where 43 students were disappeared is also home to a grassroots movement that shows how people can police themselves when the state becomes criminal.
200. Berger, Gregory: How I Became a "Recovering Documentary Filmmaker" and Learned to Reach a Wider Public
     The School of Authentic Journalism Saved My Life: Your Donations Make It Possible
     Published: 2012
     A look into the way that the The School of Authentic Journalism guides journalists and organizers to reach wider audiences.
201. Berger, John: The Nature of Mass Demonstrations
     Published: 2017
     John Berger analyses the social dynamics and strengths of mass demonstrations.
202. Berggren, David: Time to Call US Aid to Africa by Its True Name: Bribery
     Published: 2016
     Aid, what is it good for? While many Bono-loving, bleeding heart liberals would be appalled at the very thought of questioning the importance of giving money to charity or to the less fortunate, such a belief is rooted in pure fiction. In fact, the seemingly innocuous act of transferring money abroad in voluntary Robin Hood fashion is at the root of most political problems wreaking havoc across the developing world.
203. Berglund, Birgitta; Lindvall, Thomas: Community Noise
     Published: 1995
     Critically reviews the adverse effects of community noise, including interference with communication, noise-induced hearing loss, annoyance responses, and effects on sleep, the cardiovascular and psychophysiological systems, performance, productivity, and social behaviour.
204. Berkowitz, Edwars D: Something Happened
     A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies
     Published: 2006
     
205. Berlatsky, Noah: Hashtag Activism Isn't a Cop-Out
     Published: 2015
     Using twitter is not just 'lazy activism'. It projects the voices of the small and it shows governments what the people truely support.
206. Berlet, Chip: Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories
     Published: 2009
     Even before Obama was sworn in as the 44th President, the internet was seething with lurid theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.
207. Berman, Paul: A Tale of Two Utopias
     The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
     Published: 1997
     
208. Bernick, Thomas: Violence and the Newspaper Strike
     Published: 1997
     To those who still allow their anti-union biases and their exposure to employer misinformation to cloud their perception of reality, I would pose the following question: If the employer and its supporters are really the victimized peace-loving martyrs that they pretend to be, why are the union members the ones who always end up in the hospital?
209. Bernish, Claire: Land of the Free? Harvard Study Ranks America Worst in the West for Fair Elections
     Published: 2016
     According to the EIP, U.S. elections scored lower than Argentina, South Africa, Tunisia, and Rwanda -- and strikingly lower than even Brazil. Specifically compared to Western democracies, U.S. elections scored the lowest, slightly worse than the U.K., while Denmark and Finland topped the list.
210. Bernstein, Carl: THE CIA AND THE MEDIA
     How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up
     Published: 1977
     Bernstein's 1977 Rolling Stone story covering the CIA and it's relationship to the press.
211. Bernstein, Dennis: The Destabilization of Haiti
     Published: 2004
     A short summary of the illegal and suppressed details of American intervention in Haiti during the 1990's and early 2000's.
212. Bernstein, Dennis: Fighting Secrecy and the National Security State
     An Interview With Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Co-Producer of WikiLeaks's "Collateral Murder" Video
     Published: 2013
     An interview with Iceland Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir of the Pirate Party on the status of the international struggle against government secrecy and surveillance.
213. Berra, Yogi: Yogi Berra Quotes
     
214. Berry, Lorraine: For bibliomaniacs, there is no cure
     Literary hoarders were once seen as antiscocial but historians thank them now
     Published: 2017
     An essayist looks into the curious pastime of book collecting, as well as her own lifelong passion to grow her collection.
215. Berry, Lorraine: 'I really want to find it before I die': why are we so fascinated by lost books?
     From the Book of Kells to Walter Benjamin, literary history is marked with tantalising absences – which two bibliophiles have made it their
     Published: 2018
     Essay on the allure of rare and lost books, inspired by Giorgio van Straten's recent work, " In Search of Lost Books".
216. Berry, Wendell: Wendell Berry Quotes
     
217. Bertelli, Michele; Lil, Felix; Pedriel, Genciano; Saurus, Javier: Mothers and Children First
     Published: 2017
     An interactive report on mothers and child bearing in Bolivia where deaths are highest among indigenous populations. This report looks at the efforts by doctors, indigenous midwives and healers who are collaborating in what is being called 'intercultural health care'.
218. Berton, Pierre: Cuts, Canadian Culture and the CBC
     Published: 1986
     Canadian drams gives us a sense of community.
219. Berwick, Carly: Zeroing out Zero Tolerance
     Published: 2015
     Urban districts are increasingly doing away with harsh, no-excuses discipline -- a tactic that was once seen as the only way to address misconduct at big, high-poverty schools.
220. Beslav, Lina: Five Revealing Facts About Homeless Youth
     Published: 2016
     The federal government has set a goal of ending youth homelessness by 2020 with Opening Doors, a strategic plan released in 2010. But as the plan acknowledges, figuring out how many youth are homeless is no easy task.
221. Besliu, Raluca: Romania's 'occupy forests' movement demands clampdown on corporate crime
     Published: 2015
     A growing protest movement is demanding strong controls on international investors and logging companies buying up Romania's forests. In its sights is Austria-based Schweighofer, which stands accused of criminal malpractice and accepting illegal timber shipments. The popular outrage stirred up by corporate misdeeds is now stimulating a wider democratic revival.
222. Best, Xavier: Crimea, El Salvador & the Fight Against Public Participation
     Policing "Irresponsibility"
     Published: 2014
     On the Obama administration's disregard for democracy and public participation. Examples include the administration's silence on the coup against democratically-elected Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych and its threats to withhold development aid from El Salvador unless the winner of its presidential elections, the FMLN’s Sánchez Cerén, adopts right-wing economic and social policies.
223. Beurq, Julia: Bucharest's housing crisis: post-Communist restitution victimises Roma
     Published: 2016
     Twenty-five Roma families were evicted from an apartment block in Vulturilor Street, Bucharest, in 2014, turned out of homes they had rented from the state for nearly 20 years. The entrance to their alleyway was sealed off with a metal sheet.
224. Bey, Daniel: How The Guardian Undermines Jeremy Corbyn and the Left
     Published: 2016
     teleSUR spoke to David Cromwell and David Edwards, co-editors of Media Lens, about The Guardian and corporate media's bias against Labour party leader Jeremy Cobyn.
225. Beyerstein, Barry: Why Bogus Therapies Seem to Work
     At least ten kinds of errors and biases can convince intelligent, honest people
     Published: 1997
     At least ten kinds of errors and biases can convince intelligent, honest people that cures have been achieved when they have not.
226. Bhasin, Anuradha: Bringing the Israeli model to Kashmir
     Published: 2020
     
227. Bhatti, Saqib: "The Children," James Baldwin Wrote, "Are Always Ours, Every Single One of Them"
     Published: 2024
     Saqib Bhatti laments the unbearable task of parenting during genocide -- from the United States to Gaza.
228. Bialystok, Franklin: Neo-Nazis in Toronto
     The Allan Gardens Riot
     Published: 1996
     Published in Canadian Jewish Studies, 4.5 (1996-7)
229. Bianco, Marcie: One Group Has a Higher Domestic Violence Rate Than Everyone Else - And It's Not the NFL
     Published: 2014
     In families of police officers, domestic violence is two-to-four times more likely than in the general population -- from stalking and harassment to sexual assault and even homicide.
230. Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Johnathan: Profit by Fiat
     Published: 2012
     The current bond rigging scandal, in which banks colluded to rig bids on municipal bonds, was a scam that the banks learned from the mafia, who in turn learned it from the Rockfellers and tehri partners in crime.
231. Bick, Carolyn: America's hidden homeless: Life in the Starlight Motel
     Published: 2016
     A motel in Massachusetts reveals the extent of the US' hidden homelessness problem. Residents share their stories.
232. Biddle, Sam: Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built on Facial Recognition
     Published: 2019
     Amazon's plan to create proactive "watch lists" based on supposed suspicious activity - including facial recognition software - seen by their Ring cameras should alarm anyone who cares about privacy.
233. Biddle, Sam: Apple Logs Your iMessage Contacts - and May Share Them With Police
     Published: 2016
     Apple promises that your iMessage conversations are safe and out of reach from anyone other than you and your friends. But according to a document obtained by The Intercept, your blue-bubbled texts do leave behind a log of which phone numbers you are poised to contact and shares this (and other potentially sensitive metadata) with law enforcement when compelled by court order.
234. Biddle, Sam: Long-Secret Stingray Manuals Detail How Police Can Spy on Phones
     Published: 2016
     Harris Corp.'s Stingray surveillance device has been one of the most closely guarded secrets in law enforcement for more than 15 years. The company and its police clients across the United States have fought to keep information about the mobile phone-monitoring boxes from the public against which they are used. The Intercept has obtained several Harris instruction manuals spanning roughly 200 pages and meticulously detailing how to create a cellular surveillance dragnet.
235. Biddle, Sam: Privacy Experts Say Responsible Coronavirus Surveillance Is Possible
     Published: 2020
     Data collected to fight the pandemic should not be used for other purposes and should only be requested from health officials.
236. Biddle, Sam: This Israeli Presentation on How to Make Drone Strikes More "Efficient" Disturbed Its Audience
     Published: 2017
     Research backed by the U.S. and Israeli military scandalized a conference near Tel Aviv earlier this year after a presentation showed how the findings would help drone operators more easily locate people -- including targets -- fleeing their strikes and better navigate areas rendered unrecognizable by prior destruction.
237. Biehl, Janet: The Flowers of Rojava: A Feminist Revolution in Northern Syria
     Published: 2016
     Janet Biehl speaks about her recent visit to Rojava, Kurdistan where Kurdish men and women have organized themselves into a democratic autonomous region.
238. Biel, Robert: Emulating the circle of life
     We need to rethink efficiency in our food system.
     Published: 2019
     Developing food systems that simulate the processes found in nature can make food production more sustainable.
239. Bienkowski, Brian: Health experts question handling of songbird-killing Superfund site
     Published: 2014
     Health experts are questioning the Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan state officials for their decades-long delays in cleanup of a Superfund site that is killing songbirds in yards, possibly leaving people at risk, too.
240. Bienkowski, Brian: Mass murder by botulism: Surge in Great Lakes bird deaths driven by invaders
     Published: 2014
     The botulism bacterium "is the most toxic natural substance on Earth. Just one gram could kill off like two million people. And for these birds it's essentially just widespread food poisoning."
241. Bienkowski, Brian: Songbirds dying from DDT in Michigan yards; Superfund site blamed
     Published: 2014
     The neighbourhood's songbirds are being poisoned by DDT, a pesticide that was banned in the United States more than 40 years ago. Lethal concentrations were found in the birds' brains, as well as in the worms they eat.
242. Bienkowski, Brian: Toxic gulls: Quebec's contaminated bird colony offers clues about flame retardants
     Published: 2014
     Research on Deslauriers and in Canadian laboratories indicates that flame retardants are altering birds’ thyroid hormones, reducing their clutch sizes, damaging their eggs, changing their behavior, shifting their gender ratio toward males and weakening their bones.
243. Bierce, Ambrose: The Devil's Dictionary
     Published: 1906
     
244. Bilton, Michael: Be sure this way of life is something you are keen on, because it will eat up your time
     Published: 2012
     The riches contained in this questionnaire with multi-award-winning investigative journalist Michael Bilton. Read on to learn details about his research methodology, and why a significant investment of time is the most critical component of each investigative report.
245. Bindel, Julie: Surrogacy: Human right, or just wrong?
     Published: 2023
     Whether it is altruistic or for-profit, surrogacy is exploitation -- it turns the female body into a commodity for hire. Those gushing about the joy surrogacy brings to the lives of commissioning parents, and claiming it is a 'human right' to have a biological child, should take some time to consider the many wrongs being done to the women used as surrogates.
246. Birch, Simon: Tree-top vigil highlights destruction of Tasmanian forest
     Miranda Gibson hopes to bring international attention to the unprotected status of the ancient forests that are threatened by logging
     Published: 2012
     For more than three months, 30-year-old Gibson has been living high above the canopy floor that is the home to some of Australia's most threatened indigenous wildlife, including the Tasmanian devil and spotted-tail quolls.
247. Bird, John; Fortune, John: Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis
     Published: 2008
     The Subprime mortgage crisis explained. John Bird and John Fortune (the Long Johns) brilliantly, and accurately, describing the mindset of the investment banking community in this satirical interview.
248. Birkhold, Matthew: Living by the Clock of the World: Grace Lee Boggs' Call for Visionary Organizing
     Published: 2012
     Grace Lee Boggs recently argued that activists should spend less time on protest organizing because it "leads you more and more to defensive operations" and "Do visionary organizing" because it "gives you the opportunity to encourage the creative capacity in people and it’s very fulfilling."
249. Birnbauer, Bill: Be annoying, and don't give up
     Published: 2012
     Bill Birnbauer, Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Monash University in Australia, shares the methodology and techniques which have served him best as an investigative journalist.
250. Birney, Ewan; Raff, Jennifer; Rutherford, Adam; Scally, Aylwyn: Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer
     Published: 2019
     A small number of researchers, mostly well outside of the scientific mainstream, have seized upon some of the new findings and methods in human genetics, and are part of a social-media cottage-industry that disseminates and amplifies low-quality or distorted science, sometimes in the form of scientific papers, sometimes as internet memes – under the guise of euphemisms such as 'race realism' or ‘human biodiversity'. Their arguments, which focus on racial groupings and often on the alleged genetically-based intelligence differences between them, have the semblance of science, with technical-seeming tables, graphs, and charts.
251. Biron, Carey L.: Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private Equity
     Published: 2014
     An estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the United States will likely change hands over the coming two decades as older farmers retire, even as new evidence indicates this land is being strongly pursued by private equity investors. In the long term, this dynamic could speed up the already fast-consolidating U.S. food industry, with broad ramifications for both human and environmental health.
252. Bisharat, George: 'The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended
     Published: 2018
     As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian reflects on the Nakba, where 750,000 were driven from their homes or fled in terror following massacres of Palestinian civilians by Jewish militias.
253. Bishop, Amanda: Archives donation paints picture of local union's rich community history
     Published: 2023
     A donation of historical materials from Unifor Local 199 to Brock’s Archives and Special Collections is now available for students and researchers to explore in the James A. Gibson Library. The fonds of Unifor Local 199, which was previously the Canadian Auto Workers Local 199 and, before that, the United Auto Workers Local 199, includes records and ephemera dating back to 1937.
254. Black, Bob: Anarchy After Leftism
     Published: 1997
     
255. Black, Debra: Peace messages are wrapped in quilt
     Published: 2001
     Sima Elizabeth Shefrin wanted to do something to contribute to peace in the Middle East. And she wanted to do something that would draw the world's eyes to a just peace for both Arab and Jew.
256. Black, Ian: Saudi Arabia's foreign labour crackdown drives out 2m migrants
     Published: 2013
     Ethiopian workers face hostility amid 'Saudisation' campaign to control foreign labour and get more Saudi citizens into work.
257. Blades, Johnny: Who owns Papua New Guinea's Resources Boom?
     Where tribes own the land
     Published: 2011
     Tribal people in Papua New Guinea fight to retain control of their communal lands in the face of 'development'.
258. Blair, Laurence: In Paraguay's remote north guerrillas are still at large, armed and dangerous
     Published: 2015
     In the heart of South America, a relative latecomer to armed struggle is running rings around the authorities – provoking dark mutterings that the state itself is complicit in the group's existence. The Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) have killed more than 50 people in the last two years but some wonder if the government is really trying to defeat them.
259. Blake, Debra: Chicano Art vs. Censorship
     Against The Current vol. 157
     Published: 2012
     Chicana feminist artists have experienced protests, verbal attacks and even death threats for their reimaginings of the Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe since the 1970s.
260. Blake, Evan: California drought: agribusiness, fracking untouched by water rationing
     Published: 2015
     California has responded to the drought by rationing water, with $500 fines for domestic 'water wasters'. But agribusiness and water-intensive industries like fracking remain untouched by the restrictions, even though they consume over 90% of the state's water.
261. Blake, Morrison: Black Day for the Blue Pencil
     Published: 2005
     Once they were key figures in literary publishing, respected by writers who acknowledged their contribution to shaping books. But, argues Blake Morrison, editors are now an endangered species.The editorial tradition, first of all, is for self-effacement. As human beings, editors may be far from self-effacing, but as workers their contribution goes largely unacknowledged - a nod in the preface or a thank-you from the author at the launch party and that's it. They're the ghosts in the machine, the secret sharers, the anonymous power behind the throne.
262. Blake, William: William Blake Quotes
     
263. Blakemore, Erin: The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II
     In the name of safety, Aleuts were held against their will under intolerable conditions in internment camps
     Published: 2017
     A brief history of the internment of the Aleut people of Alaska during WWII.
264. Blako, Radley: Shedding light on the use of SWAT teams
     Published: 2014
     A new bill in Utah that would require the state's police agencies to report statistics about how and how often they use their SWAT and tactical teams has just unanimously passed a committee in the state's senate. The bill is part of a larger, fascinating police reform movement currently under way in Utah.
265. Blanch, Vanessa: History boxes bring national museum to life for rural N.B. students
     Published: 2022
     University students and Grade 1 class explore 'sacred stuff' together with help of Canadian Museum of History. As the school year wraps up, university and elementary students in the small town of Sackville, N.B., are reflecting on some important discoveries they have made with the help of one another, and a big black box filled with 25 Canadian artifacts.
266. Blatchfor, Christie: Thought police strike again as Wilfrid Laurier grad student is chastised for showing Jordan Peterson video
     Published: 2017
     A Wilfrid Laurier University teaching assistant has been identified as “transphobic” and sanctioned for last week showing her class an excerpt of a video debate involving the controversial University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson. In fact, her supervising professor, Nathan Rambukkana, told her that by showing the video to her “Canadian Communication in Context” class, “it basically was like … neutrally playing a speech by Hitler …”
267. Blatchford, Christie: If gender identity debate at U of T was about free speech, then the battle is truly lost
     Published: 2016
     A recounting and criticism of the public debate over Bill C-16 and the Ontario Human Rights code, held in response to the remarks of University of a University of Toronto professor about transgender pronouns.
268. Blatchford, Christie: Tearful Liberal MP should accept James Bezan's fifth apology and move on
     Published: 2017
     Comes a time to draw the line, to note that not all remarks of a sexual nature are actually sexual in nature, that not all talk that is debatably inappropriate must be censored, that sometimes a bad line is just a bad line and that the #metoo movement does not require every woman to recall and publicize every slight, real or imagined, ever inflicted upon her by every man in the world.
269. Blatchford, Christie: What happened to Brown is fundamentally wrong. Every man in the world is now vulnerable
     Published: 2018
     For all the other moments #MeToo has wrought, the Patrick Brown story is seminal: A political leader is cut down like a sapling in the forest in a matter of hours, and none of his colleagues, in and outside of the Ontario Conservative party, and including the Ontario premier and the prime minister of Canada, have one word to say in the defence of fair play or the presumption of innocence.
270. Blau, Uri: Israeli Company 'Doing Good' Using Luxembourg Outpost
     Published: 2014
     The international business and philanthropic group led by Israel's richest woman includes a Luxembourg subsidiary that shares its address with more than 1200 other companies, and uses complex financial structures like internal loans and hybrid tools, according to analysis of secret tax documents by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
271. Blazak, Randy: Who the Hell is Supporting Donald Trump?
     Published: 2016
     Somehow the Trump shell game has gained followers. So the question is now, who the hell are these people voting for Trump?
272. Blejman, Mariano: Nine tips for talking with potential investors
     Published: 2014
     Tips on how journalists, or teams of journalists can generate interest from venture capital are provided.
273. Bliss, Laura: A Comprehensive Map of American Lynchings
     Published: 2017
     A look at the practice of lynching in the United States through to the 1960's, where thousands of non-white Americans, mostly black, were killed in public acts of terror. A new map project called 'Monroe Work Today', named after the pioneering sociologist, shows that lynching was not limited to the southern states.
274. Bliss, Michael: Writing History: A Professor's Life
     Published: 2011
     
275. Block, Diana: No To Preventive Detention: From Palestine, to Guantanamo, to U.S. Jails!
     Published: 2022
     On administrative detention of 500 Palestinians when they announced a boycott of Israeli military courts.
276. Block, Elizabeth: If Canada were a Christian state
     What would Canada be like if it were a Christian state in the same sense that Israel is a Jewish state?
     Published: 2022
     What apartheid looks like in Israel, and what it would like in Canada.
277. Block, Susan: Cucks, Cuckolding and Campaign Management
     Published: 2018
     Talk about a bunch of sad sacks that really stink in the sack. The Trumpocalypse is ruining sex for the rest of us.
278. Block, Susan: Deep Throat Does LA: 50 Years of Sex, Cinema, Politics & Controversy
     Published: 2023
     
279. Block, Susan: Make 2015 the Year of the Bonobo!
     Published: 2015
     We humans have much to learn from our kissing cousins, the peaceful, empathic, playful, sensual and highly sexual Bonobo. Rather than play out the myth of ancestral 'killer apes', better follow the 'Bonobo Way', and extend our love to all living beings and Earth herself.
280. Block, Susan: RIP Betty Dodson, Sex Revolutionary
     Published: 2020
     The great sex revolutionary and Godmother of Masturbation, Dr. Betty Dodson (1929-2020), one of my most beloved mentors, died on the Blue Moon of Halloween night.
281. Block, Susan: Secret Sexual Fantasies
     The Erotic Theater of the Mind
     Published: 2013
     Your fantasies are always with you, playing hide-and-seek with your perceived realities, whispering wild ideas into your inner ear, showing movies in your mind, stirring your passions mysteriously, yet so powerfully. If you are imprisoned in any way–by your work, your family, your education, your religion, your government–your fantasies become your freedom. Sometimes your ability to fantasize is the only freedom you have.
282. Blomberg, Les: Noise, Sovereignty, and Civility
     Noise is caused by people and businesses claiming rights, usually property rights, to emit noise into the air, and by people who do not possess the civility to be good neighbors. While its effects are an environmental health issue, its causes are tied to the issues of sovereignty (who owns the air?) and civility (how should we treat our neighbors?).
283. Bloom, Steve: Movement Grows to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal
     Published: 1999
     IN OCTOBER, MUMIA Abu-Jamal-Black activist and award-winning journalist who has been on Pennsylvania's death row since 1982-had his appeal for a new trial turned down by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (see ATC 78).
284. Bloom, Steve: Mumia Abu-Jamal: Awaiting the Decision
     Published: 1998
     AT PRESS TIME internationally renowned author and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal still waits on Pennsylvania's death row for the state Supreme Court to issue a verdict on his appeal for a new trial. There are at least five ways the court can rule:
285. Bloom, Steve: PA Supreme Court Rejects New Trial for Mumia
     Published: 1999
     THE OCTOBER 29 ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, turning down Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new trial, is one more proof that the U.S. criminal court system has very little interest in justice. Justice demands, at the very least, a new trial in this case. The seven judges of Pennsylvania's highest court, however, have clearly demonstrated that they are simply one more cog in a government machine of death which is determined to take Mumia's life—not because he is guilty of any...
286. Bloomberg News: Racists and xenophobes find fertile ground in violent online world
     Published: 2017
     Spend enough time hunting terrorists or wandering dystopian wastelands in online games and you're bound to come across players hurling xenophobic and racist taunts at each other -- from the openly Islamophobic in Europe to Korean and Japanese gamers bickering over disputed islands.
287. Blue Pilgrimage: How Israel Abuses Africans
     Published: 2012
     Part 2 of 3 - interview with community activist Rami Gudovitch about state-sponsored Israeli racism towards non-Jewish Africah asylum-seekers.
288. Blue Pilgrimage: Israel's War on Africans
     Published: 2014
     72-minute slideshow about Israel's treatment of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers, given at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada on March 9, 2014.
289. Blum, Jordan: The Complete History of Nudism and Nudity
     Published: 2014
     One version of the history of nudism, combining a detailed account of the modern period (post-1900) with extremely dubious notions about ancient history.
290. Blum, William: Afghanistan 1979-1992
     America's Jihad
     Published: 1995
     An account of CIA and American involvement in Afghanistan since 1979
291. Blum, William: AIPAC's Doomsday Conference
     It's the End of the World Again
     Published: 2013
     Iran, Israel, and the improbability of nuclear attack.
292. Blum, William: American Exceptionalism: The Naked Truth
     Published: 2018
     A large number of Americans hold a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the US does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well. American leaders may make mistakes, they may blunder, they may lie, they may even on many occasions cause more harm than good, but they do mean well. Their intentions are always honorable, even noble. Of that the great majority of Americans are certain.And Americans genuinely wonder why the rest of the world can’t see how benevolent and self-sacrificing America has been. Even many people who take part in the anti-war movement have a hard time shaking off some of this mindset; they march to spur America -- the America they love and worship and trust -- they march to spur this noble America back onto its path of goodness.
293. Blum, William: The Anti-Empire Report #153
     Cold War Number One: 70 years of daily national stupidity. Cold War Number Two: Still in its youth, but just as
     Published: 2017
     A comentary on current events in Russian and US relations which may be entering a new Cold War, as well as a look back at events through the Cold War period from 1948 to the 1980's.
294. Blum, William: The Berlin Wall: Another Cold War Myth
     A Response to Economic Sabotage
     Published: 2014
     November 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. The extravagant hoopla began months ago in Berlin. In the United States we can expect all the Cold War clichés about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny to be trotted out.
295. Blum, William: A Brief History of Superpowers
     The Neck Irons of Empire
     Published: 2012
     From the Congress of Vienna of 1815 to the Congress of Berlin in 1878 to the “Allies” invasion of Russia in 1918 to the formation of what became the European Union in the 1950s, the great powers of Europe and the world have gotten together in grand meeting halls and on the field of battle to set the ground rules for imperialist exploitation of Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, to Christianize and ‘civilize’, to remake the maps, and to suppress revolutions and other threats to great-power hegemony.
296. Blum, William: Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
     Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About
     Published: 1995
     An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
297. Blum, William: Cuba 1959 to 1980s
     The Unforgivable Revolution
     Published: 1995
     An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
298. Blum, William: Eavesdropping on the Planet
     The Inalienable Right to Snoop?
     Published: 2013
     Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky, the National Security Agency (NSA) sucks it all up: home phone, office phone, cellular phone, email, fax, telex … satellite transmissions, fiber-optic communications traffic, microwave links … voice, text, images … captured by satellites continuously orbiting the earth, then processed by high-powered computers … if it runs on electromagnetic energy, NSA is there, with high high tech. Twenty-four hours a day. Perhaps billions of messages sucked up each day. No one escapes. Not presidents, prime ministers, the UN Secretary-General, the pope, the Queen of England, embassies, transnational corporation CEOs, friend, foe, your Aunt Lena …
299. Blum, William: Ecuador 1960-1963
     A Textbook of Dirty Tricks
     Published: 1995
     An account of the CIA-backed coups in Ecuador of 1960-1963.
300. Blum, William: From Portugal to Egypt: a Cautionary Tale
     The Anti-Empire Report
     Published: 2011
     The events in Egypt cannot help but remind me of Portugal. Here, there, and everywhere, now and before, the United States of America, as always, is petrified of anything genuinely progressive or socialist, or even too democratic, for that carries the danger of allowing god-knows what kind of non-America-believer taking office.
301. Blum, William: Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
     Published: 1995
     An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
302. Blum, William: Haiti: An Example of Fake News by Omission
     Published: 2018
     The main problem with the mainstream media today, as in the past, is not 'fake news' but what is left out of articles dealing with controversial issues.
303. Blum, William: Hypocrisy Reigns
     Don't Forsake the Struggle
     Published: 2010
     When Israel labels as "terrorists" the ship passengers who offered some resistance to the Israeli invaders, who points out that the passengers who resisted the 9-11 highjackers on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania are called "heroes"?
304. Blum, William: Indonesia 1957-1958
     War and Pornography
     Published: 1995
     An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
305. Blum, William: Iraq 1990-1991
     Desert Holocaust
     Published: 1995
     An account of the American invasion of Iraq (Desert Shield) in 1990-91.
306. Blum, William: It Doesn't Matter to Them If It's Untrue. It's a Higher Truth.
     The Anti-Empire Report
     Published: 2011
     The lies used to justify the US/NATO attack on Libya.
307. Blum, William: Killing Hope
     U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
     Published: 2008
     Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
308. Blum, William: Libya and the World We Live In
     The Holy Triumvirate
     Published: 2011
     The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO and the European Union — recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that it can do whatever it wants in the world, to whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, and call it whatever it wants, like “humanitarian”.
309. Blum, William: Osama Bin Laden, Bradley Manning and Me
     Published: 2013
     As far as can be deduced, the government believes that the documents and videos that Bradley Manning gave to Wikileaks, which Wikileaks then widely distributed to international media, aided the enemy because it put US foreign policy in a very bad light.
310. Blum, William: Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List
     Published: 2013
     Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
311. Blum, William: Putting Syria Into Some Perspective
     Published: 2012
     The 19th- and 20th-century colonialist-imperialist mentality is alive and well in the West.
312. Blum, William: Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy
     The NED, like the CIA before it, calls what it does supporting democracy. The governments and movements whom the NED targets call it destabilization.
313. Blum, William: The United States and Torture
     We Tortured Some People and Probably Still Are....
     Published: 2014
     Two of the things that governments tend to cover-up or lie about the most are assassinations and torture, both of which are widely looked upon as exceedingly immoral and unlawful, even uncivilized. Since the end of the Second World War the United States has attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders and has led the world in torture; not only the torture performed directly by Americans upon foreigners, but providing torture equipment, torture manuals, lists of people to be tortured, and in-person guidance and encouragement by American instructors, particularly in Latin America.
314. Blum, William: Uruguay 1964-1970
     Published: 1995
     An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
315. Blum, William: The War on Terrorism ... or Whatever
     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.
316. Blum, William: What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?
     Published: 2003
     Which is the more remarkable -- that the United States can openly announce to the world its determination to invade a sovereign nation and overthrow its government in the absence of any attack or threat of attack from the intended target? Or that for an entire year the world has been striving to figure out what the superpower's real intentions are?
317. Blum, William: Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
     The Anti-Empire Report
     Published: 2013
     The double edged sword of declaring war and fighting "terrorism".
318. Blum, William: Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
     The Anti-Empire Report
     Published: 2011
     
319. Blum, William: Would You Believe That the United States Tried to do Something That was Not Nice Against Hugo Chávez?
     The Plan to Destabilize Venesuela
     Published: 2013
     Wikileaks releases documents on U.S. efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
320. Blum, Willian: Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world.
     The Anti-Empire Report #145
     Published: 2016
     The first Cold War performed a lobotomy on Americans, replacing brain matter with anti-communist viral matter, producing more than 70 years of functional national stupidity. For all of you who missed this fun event there's good news: Cold War Two is here, as big and as stupid as ever. Russia and Vladimir Putin are repeatedly, and automatically, blamed for all manner of bad things.
321. Blum, Willian: From Wikileaks to TSA
     Anti-Empire Report
     Published: 2010
     We have to remind the American people of what they once knew but seem to have forgotten: that they don't want BIG government, or SMALL government; they don't want MORE government, or LESS government; they want government ON THEIR SIDE.
322. Blum, Willian: U.S. Government Assassination Plots
     An appendiex to Killing Hope, by William Blum
     Published: 2011
     A list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War.
323. Blumberg, Andrew J.; Eckersley, Peter: On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever
     Published: 2009
     Over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people's movements through public space will be woven inextricably into the fabric of everyday life. We are already starting to see such systems now, and there will be many more in the near future.
324. Blumental, Max: Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
     Published: 2013
     About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as "infiltrators" by right-wing politicians and activists.
325. Blumenthal, Max: "Al Qaeda's MASH Unit": How the Syrian American Medical Society Is Selling Regime Change and Driving the US to War
     Published: 2018
     The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is not merely a group of Syrian doctors tending to the wounded in war torn areas, nor is it an objective and relaibale source on chemical attacks and other atrocities. This article explains that SAMS is actually a politically enaged organization that has for years been actively seeking to overthrow the Syrian government.
326. Blumenthal, Max: BBC correspondent-fixer shaping Ukraine war coverage is PR operative involved in 'war-messaging tool'
     BBC reports on the suspicious destruction of a theatre in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol were co-authored by a Ukrainian PR agent tied to a firm at the forefront of her country's information warfare efforts.
327. Blumenthal, Max: British police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone
     Published: 2023
     British 'counter-terror' police detained journalist Kit Klarenberg upon his arrival at London's Luton airport and subjected him to an extended interrogation about his political views and reporting for The Grayzone.
328. Blumenthal, Max: CIA helped shape ‘Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan' series into bigoted Venezuela regime change fantasy
     Published: 2019
     In a new video analysis of the show (embedded at the end of this article), researcher Tom Secker exposed the show as straightforward US imperial propaganda which was produced in direct collaboration with the CIA and Pentagon.
329. Blumenthal, Max: Germany criminalizes journalist for exposing Ukrainian war crimes
     Published: 2022
     Independent Donetsk-based journalist Alina Lipp of Germany details her prosecution by the German state for violating new speech codes through her reporting in the Donetsk People’s Republic. As the only German reporter on the ground in Donetsk, Lipp has exposed Ukrainian forces shelling civilians, attacking a maternity ward, mining harbors, and bombing a granary filled with corn for export. She faces three years in prison if she returns to her home country.
330. Blumenthal, Max: Gofundme freezes Grayzone fundraiser 'due to some external concerns'
     Published: 2023
     Another attack on left media.
331. Blumenthal, Max: Honored Nazi Exposes Canada's Longstanding Ukraine Policy
     Published: 2023
     By celebrating a Waffen-SS volunteer as a 'hero,' Canada's Liberal Party highlighted a longstanding policy that has seen Ottawa train fascist militants in Ukraine while welcoming in thousands of post-war Nazi SS veterans.
332. Blumenthal, Max: How NATO states sponsored ICC prosecutor's Putin arrest warrant
     Published: 2023
     ICC prosecutor general Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the way, he won powerful friends in Washington, London, Kiev - and Hollywood.
333. Blumenthal, Max: How the White Helmets Became International Heroes While Pushing U.S. Military Intervention and Regime Change in Syria
     Published: 2016
     Created by Western governments and popularized by a top PR firm, the White Helmets are saving civilians while lobbying for airstrikes.
334. Blumenthal, Max: Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That's Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
     Published: 2016
     Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government.
335. Blumenthal, Max: "Killing Gaza" captures culture of resistance
     Published: 2018
     Watch Killing Gaza, absorb the atmosphere of siege and listen to the testimonies of the trapped. You might then understand why so many chose to rush the gates.
336. Blumenthal, Max: October 7 testimonies reveal Israel's military 'shelling' Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles
     Published: 2023
     Israel's military received orders to shell Israeli homes and even their own bases as they were overwhelmed by Hamas militants on October 7. How many Israeli citizens said to have been 'burned alive' were actually killed by friendly fire?
337. Blumenthal, Max: Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to "weaken Russia," leaked docs reveal
     Published: 2021
     New leaked documents show Reuters' and the BBC's involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect "attitudinal change" and “weaken the Russian state's influence," alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat.
338. Blumenthal, Max: US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as 'Watershed Event' for 'Galvanizing Public Unrest'
     Published: 2019
     A 2010 memo from Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) seems to be playing out as planned in 2019.
339. Blumenthal, Max: A window to hell in Gaza
     Published: 2015
     Spending the day of 17 August in Khuzaa was like peering through a window to hell. But what we witnessed in the landscape of apocalyptic oblivion paled in comparison to the experience described to me by two Palestine Red Crescent volunteers who had attempted to break through the Israeli military cordon during the siege of the town.
340. Blumenthal, Max, Krishnaswamy: "One less traitor": Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition
     Published: 2022
     While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals' arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.
341. Blumenthal, Max; Cohen, Dan: The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
     Published: 2019
     A detailed account of US-backed groups that positioned Juan Guaidó to declare himself president of Venezuela.
342. Blumenthal, Max; Krishnaswamy, Esha: Zelensky's Hardline Internal Purge
     Published: 2022
     Ukraine's 'pro-democracy' president has outlawed his opposition, ordered rivals arrested and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents.
343. Blunden, Bill: The FBI Can Bypass Encryption
     Why Cyber Security is a Magic Act
     Published: 2014
     
344. Blunden, Bill: Mass Surveillance is Driven by the Private Sector
     The Lesson of Hacking Team's Malware
     Published: 2015
     A report published by Privacy International as well as an article posted by Vice Motherboard clearly show that both the DEA and the United States Army have long-standing relationships with Hacking Team, an Italian company that’s notorious for selling malware to any number of unsavory characters.
345. Blunden, Bill: The NSA's Corporate Collaborators
     Willing Accomplices
     Published: 2014
     Emails published by Al Jazeera America, in addition to showing hi-tech executives and senior intelligence officials interacting on a casual first-name basis, reference a government program referred to as the Enduring Security Framework (ESF).
346. Blunden, Bill: Stuxnet on the Loose
     Security for the One Percent
     Published: 2012
     Suspicions that the Stuxnet computer worm was indeed developed by the United States and Israel has once again exposed American exceptionalism. Espionage and sabotage are presented as intolerable criminal transgressions, normally causing our elected officials and military leaders to erupt in fits of righteous indignation. That is, unless the United States is doing the spying and the sabotaging.
347. Blunden, Bill: Volkswagen and the Quandary of Hidden Code
     Published: 2015
     After Volkswagen's emissions-rigging scandal, Blunden states that this company is not the only one engaging in the practice of secretly modifying technology. Rather, systematic hidden codes are embedded in society and promoted by both companies and governments.
348. Blunden, Bill: When Deep States Collide
     Turkey's Hesitancy Exposes Its Agenda
     Published: 2014
     It's no secret that members of the so-called coalition against ISIS have been less than enthusiastic about substantive military action as the bulk of the airstrikes so far have been executed by the United States.
349. Blunden, Bill: The Zero-Sum Game of Perpetual War
     Why the Deep State Always Wins
     Published: 2014
     Readers with a morbid sense of curiosity can visit a web site called NukeMap that allows visitors to witness the devastation caused by nuclear weapons of varying yields on a city of their choosing.
350. Blunden, William A: Darknet Sweep Casts Doubt on Tor
     Published: 2014
     When news broke of Silk Road 2.0’s seizure by law enforcement a lot of people probably wrote it off as an isolated incident. Silk Road 2.0 was the successor to the original Silk Road web site and like its predecessor it was an underground bazaar for narcotics, fueled by more than $8 million in Bitcoin transactions and operated as a hidden service on the Tor anonymity network.
351. Blunden, William A.: The Media's Emphasis on Russian Hacking is a Diversion
     Published: 2016
     It's highly likely that the flurry of reports on alleged Russian hacking has more to do with a rejection of the status quo than with the act of clandestine meddling.
352. Blythman, Joanna: Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions - and are fighting to export them
     Published: 2009
     Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes - even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce - and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
353. BoardmAN, William: CIA Chief Declares War on Truth
     Published: 2017
     Mike Pompeo made it clear that he has little regard for truth, for personal decency, or for the Constitutional protections for free speech or for the free exercise of religion. It was an altogether chilling debut for a spy agency head in a country that still imagines itself enjoying some basic freedoms.
354. Boardman, William: Police Unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic
     Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
     Published: 2015
     Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).
355. Boarini, Silvia: Unrecognized in the Negev
     The Plight of Israel's Bedouin Citizens
     Published: 2014
     At the break of dawn on 27th July 2010, the unrecognized village of Al Araqib was surrounded by 1,500 police officers clad in riot gear. Helicopters circled overhead as bulldozers razed homes and animal pens to the ground. It took 4 hours to demolish a village that was home to around 300 people, hundreds of sheep, dozens of goose, hens, pigeons and horses.
356. Bodine, Alison: The U.S.' Refusal of Entry to Arnold August Is a Dangerous Precedent for All Activists
     Published: 2019
     The US's refusal of entry to August is part of a long history of targeting people at the borders. This limits our democratic rights to organize and express political views peacefully.
357. Bodkin, Henry: Power naps and eating on the wing - how common swifts set 10-month flight record en route from Britain to southern Africa
     Published: 2016
     The common swift stays constantly airborne for up to ten months at a time, new research reveals. The bird, ubiquitous in the UK and Europe, conserves energy by riding currents of hot air and taking “power naps” as it slowly glides from high altitudes.
358. Boehlert, Eric: Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including Kids
     Published: 2009
     The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
359. Boehm, Eric: This School District Threatened To Take Kids Away From Parents Over Lunch Debt. Then It Refused a Businessman's Offer to Pay Those Debts
     Published: 2019
     A Pennsylvania school district sent letters to parents who owed lunch money informing them that they could lose custody of their children due to their lunch money debt.
360. Boffey, Daniel: Tory right-to-buy plan threatens mass selloff of council homes
     Published: 2015
     Speculators circle as London councils could be forced to sell every new house they build, warns housing expert.
361. Bogado, Aura: The Disappeared
     Published: 2020
     On the fifth floor of the tall glass federal building in Portland, Oregon, the immigration court hums in hushed tones, an air of reverence coming from a dozen or so fidgety children and teenagers. They sit in two long pews that line the back of the room, facing the elevated bench of the immigration judge.
362. Bogado, David; Rodriguez, Katitza: The Peruvian "Stalker Law" Will Be Reviewed By Congress, We Can Still Stop It
     Published: 2015
     Bogado and Rodriguez discuss the new decree in Peru known as "Ley Acosadora", or "the Stalker Law", allows warrantless access to Peruvians' location data and creates a new power for the government to track the movements of vulnerable mobile and Internet users.
363. Boggs, Carl: The Grand Illusion
     Published: 2019
     As the ecological crisis deepens, nearing the infamous Tipping Point – taking us closer to planetary catastrophe – we are being led to believe that an imminent "greening" of the world economy will deliver us from a very dark future. Somehow, against all logic, we have adopted a collective faith in the willingness of ruling governments and corporations to do the right thing.
364. Boggs, Carl: Russia and the War Party
     Published: 2018
     A critical look at the book "Russian Roulette", by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, which examines alleged Russian interference in the 2017 U.S. election.
365. Boggs, Carl: The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of 'Free Speech'
     Published: 2017
     Despite a well-cultivated radical image, Antifa rarely focuses on the growing ultra-nationalism, militarism, and imperialism that lies at the very core of American politics – tendencies in fact more dangerous than the rhetoric of Yiannopoulos, Coulter, and Shapiro. Beneath its ultra-leftism is a modus operandi riddled with the worst of identity politics. And since its violent tactics are not aligned with any popular movement, its opposition to fascism (such as it is) turns hollow, empty. The irony is that while the FSM and its heirs did everything possible to expand the realm of free speech, new social forces – extreme identity groups, Antifa – want to restrict or deny freedoms.
366. Boggs, Carl: The War That Never Ends
     Published: 2019
     North Korean denuclearization is unlikely without concessions (such as sanctions relief) from the US side. How likely is the Trump administration to make such a deal?
367. Boghosian, Heidi; Fernandez, Johanna: Mumia on COINTELPRO Activists and Other Ordinary Heroes
     The Linear Ancestors of Edward Snowden
     Published: 2014
     Mumia Abu-Jamal was one of hundreds of journalists who received in the mail a packet of covertly-copied COINTELPRO documents. They were sent by eight activists who broke into FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania in 1971—and whose identities just became known last week. The papers detailed names and activities of individuals he knew well for years, living and working closely together in communal spaces, who were FBI informants.
368. Bohannon, John: Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
     In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website
     Published: 2016
     Researchers are increasingly turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest largest 'pirate' website for scholarly literature. Sci-Hub is becoming the world's de facto open-access research library.
369. Bohne, Luciana: America's Recruitment of Nazis -- Then and Now
     Any bastard, so long as he's anti-communist
     Published: 2014
     The most prominent feature of the Nazi political philosophy was extreme anticommunism and particularly fanatic hatred of the USSR. That hatred set the world ablaze, and, yet, after the war, the Nazi administrators, chief intelligence officers, generals, police chiefs, and intellectuals of that regime of hatred and war were recruited to continue their work in the bosom of our secret National Security State, advising, influencing, and promoting our foreign policy in the Cold War. Did that policy change with the fall of the Berlin Wall? No, it intensified -- still absolutist, still aggressive, still dedicated to political warfare. Russia is still in our crosshairs.
370. Bohne, Luciana: The Cowards' Wars
     Published: 2016
     The condemnation of Radovan Karadzic to forty years of imprisonment by the International Crime Tribunal-Yugoslavia occasions these reflections.
371. Bohr, Niels: Niels Bohr Quotes
     
372. Bois, Marcel: Hitler Wasn't Inevitable
     Published: 2015
     The 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials is cause to reflect on the forces that failed to halt Nazism’s rise.
373. Boisvert, Nick: When a hurricane swept through Toronto, this firefighter made the heartbreaking first rescue attempt
     Hurricane Hazel caused 81 deaths and more than $1B in damages in 2017 dollars
     Published: 2017
     On the wet and windy evening of Oct. 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel was bearing down on the city. The fire department was to take no unnecessary risks in the storm, which had already claimed more than 400 lives in Haiti and close to 100 in the United States. As it spiralled towards Canada, Hazel merged with a cold front, intensifying the system.
374. Boklage, Evgeniya: Journalistic Autonomy in Denmark. A Study
     Published: 2014
     A new study that looks at the subject of autonomy in the Danish media found that journalists in Denmark feel they have nearly complete freedom to make important choices concerning their work and the content they produce.
375. Boland, Barbara: The Chilling Censorship of the Christchurch Shooting
     Rather than expunging information about the killer, we should be confronting evil head on.
     Published: 2019
     Attempts to censor details of the Christchurch shooting may have the opposite of the intended effect by enabling denial and conspiracy theories.
376. Bolender, Keith: Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba
     Published: 2019
     Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution. Using extensive examples, including pre-revolutionary historic coverage, journalist Keith Bolender reveals how the national press has established an anti-Cuba chronicle in adherence to Washington's unrelenting regime change policies.
377. Bollier, David: Why The Language of the Commons Matters
     Published: 2012
     Our very language for identifying problems and imagining solutions has been compromised. We may have many unattractive human traits fueled by individual fears and ego, but we are also creatures entirely capable of self-organization, cooperation, a concern for fairness and social justice, and sacrifice for the larger good and future generations.
378. Bollinger, Michelle: Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
     Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
     Published: 2009
     Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
379. Bond, Monica: Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive
     Published: 2015
     Bond exposes three prevailing falsehoods about logging that the U.S. Forest Service disseminates.
380. Bond, Patrick: Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting
     Published: 2018
     A World Bank report indicates a massive depletion of Africa's natural wealth by transnational corporations (TNC). There are two ways to address TNC capture of African wealth: bottom-up through direct action that blocks extraction, or top-down through significant reform.
381. Bond, Patrick: Beckoning Committed Climate Activists
     Extreme Weather and Even More Extreme Greenhouse Gas Emissions
     Published: 2013
     It is evident the climate crisis is far more severe than most scientists had anticipated.
382. Bond, Patrick: The Mandela Years in Power
     Did He Jump or Was He Pushed?
     Published: 2013
     South Africa's democratization was profoundly compromised by an intra-elite economic deal that, for most people, worsened poverty, unemployment, inequality and ecological degradation, while also exacerbating many racial, gender and geographical differences.
383. BondGraham, Darwin: Israeli Company Targeted by Oakland Blockade Imports Ammunition Into US
     Published: 2014
     Israeli-owned shipping company Zim, the target of recent port blockades organized by Palestinian solidarity activists in California, is importing millions of rounds of small arms ammunition into the United States each year.
384. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
     
385. Boni, Stephen: Making Money Off of Green Debt: Cory Morningstar Finds Corporate Wolves Behind Environmental Sheep
     Published: 2019
     Building through the privatization-friendly Reagan-Bush era of the 1980s, ramping up significantly with Bill Clinton's signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the 1990s, and solidified through the de facto repeal of the post-Great Depression separation between investment and commercial banks at the end of Clinton’s scandal-plagued final term in office at the turn of the millenium, the United States went through a very noticeable shift in how its economy functioned.
386. Bonilla, Isadora; Giordano, Al: In Mexico, Finally, a Revolt Against the Media
     Published: 2012
     The summer will determine if the “I Am 132” moment becomes a movement and that’s why “Mexican Spring” is a poor choice of words for it.
387. Bonilla, Mayte G.: The work of authentic journalists is the most important thing for social movements
     How Mercedes Osuna became a rebel with a cause
     Published: 2013
     Not an activist, social organizer nor a defender: Mercedes Osuna would rather define her work as human labor, something that she has dedicated an entire life to. She was born in a place were true words are heard with the heart and she lived out her convictions at a young age.
388. Bonneau, Joseph: A Technical Perspective on the Apple iPhone Case
     Published: 2016
     The legal dispute between Apple and the FBI might prove pivotal in the long-running battle to protect users' privacy and right to use uncompromised encryption. The case has captured the public imagination. Of course, EFF supports Apple's efforts to protect its users. The case is complicated technically, and there is a lot of misinformation and speculation. This post will offer a technical overview, based on information gleaned from the FBI's court motion and Apple's security documentation.
389. Bonnefoy, Pascale: A Chilean Ex-Soldier Guiltily Recalls His Unit's Atrocities
     Published: 2016
     Guillermo Padilla was part of a commando unit that spent months combing towns and remote outposts in southern Chile in late 1973, searching for suspected opponents of the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and for weapons. The unit raided homes, arrested and tortured suspects, and killed at least 30 people, he said. He admitted to participating in several executions as part of a firing squad.
390. Bonner, Allan: Keeping Current
     Published: 2006
     With a blog, a piece in the Globe or an appearance on a cable show that only two percent of the population watches, you can get a bounce or multiplier effect. Mainstream networks and cable news shows are reading blogs on the air to viewers, thus giving them legs.
391. Bonner, Allan: Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
     Published: 2004
     What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
392. Bonner, Allan: Top Ten Positive Gestures
     Published: 2008
     
393. Bonner, Allan: Top Ten Questions to Ask When a Reporter Calls You
     Published: 2006
     When you're respoding to a reporter's call, take time to think and ask yourself these questions.
394. Bonner, Allan: Top Ten Strategies for Appearing on a TV Talk Show
     Published: 2006
     Prepare yourself to appear on a TV talk show.
395. Bonner, Allan: Top Ten Things to do Before a Radio Talk Show
     Published: 2006
     Be prepared when you go on a talk show.
396. Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Misconceptions About the Media
     Published: 2006
     
397. Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Rules of Crisis Management
     Published: 2006
     
398. Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Rules of Risk Communication
     Published: 2006
     
399. Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Strategies for an Appearance in Front of an Editorial Board
     Published: 2006
     
400. Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Things to do Before a Presentation or Speech
     Published: 2006
     
401. Bonner, Dr. Allan: Top Ten Ways to Calm Down During Tense Negotiations or Mediations
     Published: 2006
     
402. Bonogofsky, Alexis: I Was Sick for a Year After an Oil Spill. Five Years Later, Pipeline Accidents Are Worsening
     Published: 2016
     Early in the morning on July 2, 2011, I walked down the gravel road on our Montana farm to let the goats out to graze for the day. I found an oily rainbow sheen on the Yellowstone River flowing through our hay fields and pasture, plus large clumps of crude oil sticking to trees, cattails and brush. The oily water was in our sloughs, our pond and the creek that runs along the eastern edge of the farm. I checked the local news on my phone and found that an Exxon oil pipeline had ruptured underneath the Yellowstone River upstream. More than 300 people upstream from us were evacuated, but no one had thought to notify those of us further from the spill. The smell of hydrocarbons was overwhelming. In the end, more than 63,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Yellowstone River from what we later learned was a "guillotine cut" in Exxon's Silvertip pipeline, which lay in a trench only four to five feet under the Yellowstone River.
403. Bonomo, Robert: What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
     They Made Them Do It....
     Published: 2014
     Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after years of conflict, all that was left of Israel was the Gaza strip. Assume for a moment that instead of Palestinians, over 1.8 million Jews were crammed into the 11 mile Gaza strip and the state of Palestine, subsidized and supported by a superpower, was administering the calories to the Jews in Gaza, keeping them to a limit of 2,300 a day.
404. Boone, Barri: California Burning, PG&E Bankrupt
     Published: 2019
     A synopsis of PG&E's history of negligence and corruption which has caused wildfire disasters. The company tries to escape consequences but others are demanding change.
405. Boone, Barri: Left Out History - review
     Against The Current vol. 162
     Published: 2013
     A review of 'Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power' by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy.
406. Boone, Barri: Joyce Maupin, 1914-1998
     Published: 1999
     JOYCE MAUPIN, A long-time revolutionary activist and writer and a founder of Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality), died last September 14. Joyce loved to recount the story about “women in line to pee” leading to the formation of Union WAGE, the organization they spent a decade building. Her friend, Jean Maddox (ex-Communist Party) attended a March, 1971 conference on Women's Day at UCB (Berkeley) called by NOW. Standing in line for the bathroom, Jean chatted with Anne...
407. Boone, Barri: PG&E Bankruptcy
     Published: 2019
     A short news item about Pacific Gas & Electric's bankruptcy case.
408. Boone, Jon: The Saints Go Marching Out as the Face of Islam Hardens in Pakistan
     Published: 2014
     The Sufi-influenced tradition of Barelvism, with its shrines, music and meditation, is reeling under an ideological assault from severe, Saudi-funded Wahhabism, religious leaders warn.
409. booooooom staff: Good News of the Day: Army of 1,000 Ducks Used as Brilliant Pesticide Alternative
     Published: 2016
     South Africa's Vergenoegd vineyard in Stellenbosch keeps a flock of over 800 Indian Runner ducks to help combat tiny white dune snails that would otherwise destroy the budding vines. The ducks' upright and slender posture allow them to navigate the rows of plants, clearing up to a hectare a day.
410. Booth, Katie: Wellness Cures
     Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?
     Published: 2018
     The Deaf regularly move through the medical system without agency or dignity -- not because they cannot hear but because they are not given the opportunity to communicate. The onus for change is put on the Deaf themselves, often in terms of changing their own bodies to accommodate the hearing majority. What if, instead, the Deaf were consulted about what changes they would like, or how they would like for them to happen? What if they were invited to take part in shaping the next generation of doctors?
411. Boots, Joey: Arrested For Being Legally Topless in NYC
     Published: 2012
     In New York City it is completely legal for women to be topless. Meet Moira Johnston - she walks around the Union Square area topless to exercise her legal right to be equal.
412. Borger, Julian: GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance
     Published: 2013
     Edward Snowden papers unmask close technical cooperation and loose alliance between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish spy agencies.
413. Borger, Julian: NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files
     Published: 2013
     A threat of legal action by the government that could have stopped reporting on the files leaked by Edward Snowden led to a symbolic act at the Guardian's offices in London.
414. Borger, Julian: War is Over - Now Serbs and Bosniaks Fight to Win Control of a Brutal History
     Published: 2014
     Serb nationalists are striving to suppress reminders of atrocities committed in the name of separatism, mostly against the country's Muslims (known as Bosniaks) and to construct an alternative history in which Serbs were the principal victims. Many Bosniaks and outside observers fear that this refusal to come to terms with the past means there are few guarantees that such acts will not be repeated.
415. Borgstrom, Daniel: Remembering a Vietnam Veteran
     The Death of Sgt. Van Dale Todd
     Published: 2013
     
416. Borgstrom, Daniel: Report from the Pvt. Manning Contingent at SF Pride, June 2015
     Published: 2015
     Sunday, June 28th started out cloudy, as one might expect in San Francisco, but the sun eventually came out, making it a good day for the Gay Pride event -- and a good day to honor Whistleblower Chelsea Manning. There was to be a parade, and one of the units would be the Pvt. Manning Contingent.
417. Borrell, Rachel: Land Day 2017: Israel's relentless land grab continues
     Published: 2017
     As Israel resumes its settlement expansion with impunity, Palestinians have plenty to protest at this year's Land Day.
418. Bose, Purnima: Inside the Corporate University
     Published: 2013
     Recent corporate transformation of the university, the profit-driven research orientation and the direction of instruction to the requirements of the private sector discourages faculty from finding common cause with other constituencies. The article looks into problems of neoliberal university and how to help create a genuine university community.
419. Bossin, Bob: Only one bear in a hundred bites, but they don't come in order
     Published: 2017
     Bob Bossin talked about oil tanks in a Youtube video
420. Bottari, Mary: GOP Creates Perverse Online Voter Registration, Making It Harder for People to Vote
     Published: 2015
     The bill will ultimately reduce voting by senior citizens, people with disabilities and minorities.
421. Bouguerra, Mohamed Larbi: Toxic spills threaten marine ecosystem
     Published: 2023
     The X-Press Pearl sank off Sri Lanka two years ago, releasing a toxic cocktail of chemicals and plastics into the sea, the biggest disaster. Only tough regulations can prevent a repeat.
422. Bouk, Dan: Insurance and the orgin of big data
     Between the ledger and the computer was the card index - the basis of the mass commodification of personal insurance
     Published: 2015
     A historical look at the origins of 'Big Data' and the collection of personal information by corporate America in the early 20th century.
423. Boura, Malcolm: Big business censorship
     Published: 2011
     Big business is almost entirely unaccountable. Some of the worst offenders are US corporations exporting harmful attitudes from the USA to the rest of the world. We suspect that some of them are driven by religious prejudices largely alien to Europe.
424. Bovard, James: Bill Clinton's Most Abominable Freedom Fighters Uncloaked
     Return to Kosovo
     Published: 2014
     Unfortunately, Bill Clinton will never be held liable for killing innocent Serbs or for helping body-snatchers take over a nation the size of Connecticut. Clinton is reportedly being paid up to $500,000 for each speech he gives nowadays. Perhaps some of the well-heeled attendees could flourish artificial arms and legs in the air to showcase Clinton’s actual legacy.
425. Bovard, James: The FBI's Forgotten Criminal History
     Published: 2017
     The FBI has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that "the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others." This has practically been the Bureau's motif since its creation in 1908.
426. Bovard, James: How Drug Courier Profiles Begot Terrorism Watch Lists
     The Drug War and the Fourth Amendment
     Published: 2013
     More than a million names are now included on the catch-all terrorist watch list maintained by U.S. government agencies.
427. Bovard, James: Obama food aid ravages Third World farmers
     Despite uplifting rhetoric, Obama is perpetuating a program that sabotages foreigners' self-sufficiency
     Published: 2014
     The US taxpayers who finance foreign food aid surely believe they are feeding starving people. But the truth is the reverse - it is undermining indigenous agriculture in recipient countries - creating famine and chronic malnutrition, while sabotaging self-sufficiency.
428. Bovard, James: Obamas Sordid Record on Censorship and Secrecy
     Blindfolding the Republic
     Published: 2015
     Obama’s failure to attend the Charlie Hebdo march in Paris and the condemnations of this press freedom omission.
429. Bovard, James: Washington's Biggest Fairy Tale: 'Truth Will Out'
     Published: 2019
     The idea that the truth will eventually be exposed may be comforting to people that think we live in a transparent democracy. But this investigative journalist discusses how hard it is to get information from the government.
430. Bovard, James: Where's the Body Count from Shootings by the Police?
     Protecting Killer Cops
     Published: 2013
     It estimated that in the United States in 2011 police shot more than 1,100 people, killing 607. However, the government refuses to keep track of the killings, so the exact number is unknown, and may well be higher.
431. Bovard, Jim: The Most Massive Attack Against Free Speech in United States History
     Published: 2023
     Sometime since January 2021, Biden administration policymakers decided that they were infallible -- or a 'close enough for government work' level of infallible. They claimed a divine right to suppress the online posts and comments of conservatives and anyone else who had a bad attitude towards federal power.
432. Bow, James: The Parliament Streetcar (Deceased)
     Published: 2015
     A history of the Parliament streetcar route in Toronto, including the eventual closure of the route.
433. Bowcott, Owen: Hundreds of Scottish Orphanage Children Allegedly Buried in Mass Grave
     High infant mortality rate and allegations of abuse raise suspicions of Smyllum Park in Lanark, once run by Catholic nuns
     Published: 2017
     The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to investigate claims that the bodies of at least 400 children from an orphanage once run by Catholic nuns are buried in an unmarked mass grave.The Smyllum Park orphanage in Lanark operated from 1864 to 1981.
434. Bower, Bruce: One of the oldest known cave paintings has been found in Indonesia
     Published: 2021
     Pig art on the island of Sulawesi dates to at least 45,500 years ago.
435. Bowerman, Glyn: The Countdown Clock Law is Ridiculous, and so is the Police Pedestrian Blitz
     The pedestrian countdown clock law shows what's wrong with Toronto's approach to road issues.
     Published: 2016
     The Highway Traffic Act is a foolish law, and this crackdown is antithetical to council’s stated goals. Rather than wasting police resources on enforcing it, we should be appealing to the province to scrap it altogether, as they did in New York City.
436. Bowes, Clay: Zelensky's terror team: Why the West looks the other way when Ukraine's secret murder squad kills journalists and activists
     Published: 2023
     Threats and tactics that would be instantly labeled unacceptable against any other country get a pass when applied to Russians.
437. Boxely, Simon: The meaning of the school testing obsession
     Published: 2016
     This article focuses on the new frontiers for the calculation of human productivity in its earliest forms, in early years education in Britain; but the general points are applicable across continents and educational age-phases. It will be argued that the English baseline test is just one example of the policing of capital's interests in our classrooms, but a particularly pernicious one for the way it reaches deep into the experience of the youngest children.
438. Boyd-Barrett, Oliver: The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
     Published: 2022
     
439. Boyer, Pascal: Why is Religion Natural?
     Published: 2003
     Is religious belief a mere leap into irrationality as many skeptics assume? Psychology suggests that there may be more to belief than the suspension of reason.
440. Boyle, Kevin et al.: Unveiled
     Art and Censorship in Iran
     Published: 2006
     This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and individual expression.
441. Bradbeer, Janice: Sci-fi author Judith Merril and the very real story of Toronto's Spaced Out Library
     A prolific author and pioneer Merril's donation of 5,000 items started the Toronto Public Library's massive speculative fiction collection.
     Published: 2018
     The story of Judith Merril's work promoting and developing Science-fiction writing in Canada, and the founding of the Rochdale Library, which later became the Spaced Out Library.
442. Bradburn, Jamie: A Village Grows on Markham Street
     Published: 2010
     
443. Braga, Matthew: If you're going to blame a cyberattack on North Korea, you'd better show your work
     Published: 2018
     Transit operator Metrolinx says it was hit by North Korean hackers. Experts want evidence
444. Bragg, Melvyn: Readings from the Peasants' Revolt
     Published: 2002
     Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at six critical moments across the last 1,000 years.
445. Bragman, Bob: Turn on tune in - hippie photos unseen for decades
     Published: 2016
     A recent visit to the Chronicle's basement archives to look for hippie-related photos paid off with some wonderful images that have not been seen in several decades. Many of them were taken in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
446. Bramhall, Stuart Jeanne: Farming Without Machines: A Revolutionary Agricultural Technology
     Published: 2012
     Originally published in 1974, How to Grow More Vegetables, Eighth Edition: (And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land than You Can Imagine1 remains a vital resource for farmers, agricultural researchers and planners, sustainability activists and home gardeners.
447. Bramhall, Stuart Jeanne: Private Banks: Creating Money Out of Thin Air
     Published: 2016
     In his book The Joy of Tax: How a Fair Tax System Can Create a Better Society, Richard Murphy, UK Tax Justice Network co-founder, offers a radically pioneering approach to tax and fiscal policy. Murphy is one of the first economists to link tax policy to the 400- year-old reality that nearly all money is created by private banks out of thin air.
448. Branfman, Fred: When Chomsky Wept
     Published: 2012
     A portrait of Noam Chomsky.
449. Branigan, Tania: Champion of Chinese Farmers' Rights Jailed for Forging Official Documents
     Published: 2014
     Villagers pack the court to applaud woman given two years in prison for trying to prevent land grabs and illegal demolition.
450. Branigan, Tania: Chinese shrine seeks stock-market path to financial nirvana
     Zhejiang's Mount Putuo is latest sacred site to contemplate listing, prompting alarm over commercialisation of Chinese culture
     Published: 2012
     Mount Putuo in Zhejiang is the latest of several religious sites whose administrators have announced plans for a multimillion-pound stock-market flotation.
451. Brasch, Walter: Arsenic-Laced Coffee is Good for You
     Would You Like Sugar With That?
     Published: 2014
     The Environmental Protection Agency, in 2013, identified about 1,000 chemicals that the oil and gas industry uses in fracking operations, most of them carcinogens at the strengths they shove into the earth.
452. Brasch, Walter: Citizen-Journalist Fined for Telling the Truth
     Published: 2015
     The story of an injunction against against a journalist who dared to tell the truth.
453. Brasch, Walter: A Nation of Millennial Entitlements
     Published: 2015
     A student twice sued Misericordia College because she failed a nursing class. Why do significant numbers of people believe they are entitled to get the credentials they want even if they don't have the qualifications required?
454. Bratich, Jack Z.: The Twitterest Pill
     Policing Dissent in the Information Age
     Published: 2009
     Who judges the legitimate and illegitimate uses of communications technology in social movements? Which networked alliances have State-sponsorship, and which ones face criminalization and State-crackdown? Social media are relying on open network access, but this openness too easily sugarcoats itself in democratic notions (participation, interactivity, freedom). At the same historic moment, we are also witnessing an expansion, integration, and refinement of sovereign police power. When the two converge we begin to see an increase in repressive intervention into, and pre-emption of, information use.
455. BRAUCHLI , Christopher: And the Secret Word Is
     The Deep Meaning of "Relevant"
     Published: 2013
     Senators Mark Udall and Tom Wyden's secret about the operations of the N.S.A. was an interpretation of one word "relevant" in the Patriot Act by the FISA Court.
456. Brauchli, Christopher: Criminalizing First-Graders
     Arrested and Handcuffed for Tantrums
     Published: 2010
     All across the nation, schools have adopted draconian zero-tolerance policies that treat children like criminals and turn schools into prison-like environments.
457. Brauchli, Christopher: Intolerance, Saudi-Style
     With Friends Like These...
     Published: 2015
     What all of those victims of the Saudi criminal justice system have in common is that their offenses related strictly to intellectual activities and not physical violence.
458. Brauchli, Christopher: Invitation to a Hanging
     Pity the Executioner
     Published: 2013
     A recently filed lawsuit suggests Texas execution officials were forced to engage in illegal activities in order to obtain a death dealing drug.
459. Brauchli, Christopher: Privatizing the IRS
     Published: 2018
     The headline in the New York Times on January 10, 2018, a few short days before Congress decided it was easier to shut down the government than to legislate, announced that the I.R.S. "paid $20 million to collect $6.7 million in Tax Debts." At first blush the reader assumed this was a story that had somehow crept into the newspaper by mistake and escaped the attention of the articles editor. The reader who thought that could be forgiven for being surprised at seeing the story. That is because that story had appeared in the New York Times and other publications on two earlier occasions.
460. Braun, Constantin; Klatt, Jöran: Karriere mit links
     Warum die Krise der Linkspartei auch eine Krise des Parteiensystems ist
     Published: 2023
     
461. Breaon, Robin: Black Theatre Canada
     A Short History
     Published: 2004
     Published in Canadian Theatre Review# (Spring 2004)
462. Brecher, Gary: How many dead Yemenis does it take to equal one Washington Post contributor?
     Published: 2020
     The War Nerd dissects reporting on Saudi Arabia to show how the corporate media cares more about a dead Washington Post columnist than a quarter of a million Yemenis killed in a Western-backed war.
463. Brecher, Jeremy: Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American Labor
     Published: 2016
     As United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the tribe began an escalating campaign against the pipeline.
464. Brecher, Jeremy: How to Promote a Just Transition and Break out of the jobs vs. environment trap
     A Superfund for Workers
     Published: 2015
     A strategy has been emerging to protect workers and communities whose livelihoods may be threatened by climate protection policies. Protecting those who lose their jobs due to necessary environmental policies has often been referred to as a "just transition."
465. Brecher, Jeremy: Jobs for Climate and Justice: A Worker Alternative to the Trump Agenda
     A working paper from the Labor Network for Sustainability
     Published: 2017
     Jobs for Climate and Justice exposes and challenges the Trump agenda and proposes the kind of economic program we must fight for. It also offers examples of the great organizing efforts around the country – led by working people – that provide the foundation for the a transition to a just and climate-safe economy.
466. Brecher, Jeremy: Making the Promises Real: Labor and the Paris Climate Agreement
     Published: 2016
     As nearly 200 nations gathered in Paris approved the UN Climate Change Agreement, the AFL-CIO issued a statement that broke new ground on climate. While the AFL-CIO opposed the Kyoto climate agreement and never supported the failed Copenhagen agreement, it applauded the Paris climate change agreement as "a landmark achievement in international cooperation" and called on America "to make the promises real."
467. Brecher, Jeremy: A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
     Published: 2016
     Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
468. Brecher, Jeremy: This is What Insurgency Looks Like
     Published: 2016
     The call to Break Free from Fossil Fuels envisioned "tens of thousands of people around the world rising up" to take back control of their own destiny; "sitting down" to "block the business of government and industry that threaten our future"; conducting "peaceful defense of our right to clean energy." That's just what happened.
469. Breeze, Nick: Climate litigation looms
     Interview
     Published: 2018
     Nick Breeze interviews Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), who explains why we must stay below 1.5C, and why loss and damage compensation, and litigation, are the next big agenda items at COP24.
470. Brenner, Johanna: Feminism's March from Nation to Home - interview
     Against The Current vol. 163
     Published: 2013
     Johanna Brenner interviews Ninotchka Rosca.
471. Brenner, Michael: Crime or Punishment Why Wall Street Elites Don't Do Time
     Published: 2016
     Illicit financial behavior has been decriminalized in the United States -- for all practical purposes. Despite the revelations of massive misconduct by banks and other financial services businesses, criminal investigations are rare, indictments exceptional and guilty judgments extraordinary. Most potentially culpable actions are overlooked by authorities, slighted, reduced from criminal to civil status when pursued, individuals evade penalties much less punishment, and the appeals courts take extreme liberties in exonerating culprits when and if the odd conviction reaches them. The last mentioned are establishing new frontiers in the formulation of ingeniously sophistic arguments to justify letting financial malefactors off the hook.
472. Brenner, Michael: Plutocracy in America
     Runaway Exploitation
     Published: 2013
     Arguments for categorizing America as a plutocracy (a government of the rich and for the rich).
473. Brenner, Michael: War, Conflict & Enemies of Truth
     Published: 2022
     The frenzy engendered by the Ukraine conflict reinforces a herd mentality that cries out for critical thinking.
474. Brenner, Robert: The Looming Crisis of World Capitalism
     Published: 1998
     MARXIST ECONOMISTS ARE famous for having accurately predicted seven out of the last one international economic crisis. Perhaps for that reason, many in recent times have been unusually cautious about once again "crying wolf," even as the evidence of international economic dislocation has mounted around them. Today, however, prediction is no longer necessary. The international economy, outside of the United States and Europe—perhaps 50% of the world—is already experiencing...
475. Breville, Benoit: Mobile homes can't move on
     Trailers are the cheapest available homes in the US, but thire owner - tenants are always at risk
     Published: 2015
     The challenges and vulnerabilities facing mobile home owners and tenants is examined.
476. Brewer, Helen: Here's how we stopped a brutal, inhumane and barely legal charter flight
     Published: 2018
     Helen Brewer describes how she, and 14 other activists, broke into Stansted Airport on the 28th of March 2017, and blocked a mass deportation charter flight due to send 60 people to Nigeria and Ghana -- a forced removal which threatened to place migrants in extreme danger.
477. Brewer, Joe; Lakoff, George: Why Voters Aren't Motivated by a Laundry List of Positions on Issues
     An introduction to cognitive policy – the values, frames, and arguments that make sense of the political process.
478. Bricker, Kristin: Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
     Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities
     Published: 2009
     Mariano Abarca Roblero, one of Mexico's most prominent anti-mining organizers, was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. The incident comes just days after Abarca filed charges against two Blackfire employees, Ciro Roblero Perez and Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, for threatening to shoot him if he didn't stop organizing against Canadian mining company Blackfire's barium mine in Chicomuselo.
479. Brickhill, Daisy: 'Women are the strongest pillar'
     Meet the female fishmongers in Liberia fighting for healthy fisheries.
     Published: 2020
     On the landing beaches of Liberia fishing canoes crowd the shallows, the bright colour schemes and fluttering flags showing the pride the fishermen take in their work. But although the men haul the nets this is an industry underpinned by women.
480. Bricmont, Jean: Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left
     Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End
     Published: 2012
     Ever since the 1990s, and especially since the Kosovo war in 1999, anyone who opposes armed interventions by Western powers and NATO has to confront what may be called an anti-anti-war left (including its far left segment).
481. Bricmont, Jean: Trump and the Liberal Intelligentsia: a View from Europe
     Published: 2016
     A new specter haunts the American elites: the candidacy of Donald Trump in the US President election and his success so far in the Republican primaries. The Republican establishment itself hopes to block his rise, even as he is drawing huge crowds into the party. As for the Democrats, they are hoping that his repugnant image will make the election of Hillary Clinton that much easier.
482. Bricmont, Jean: The Trump Phenomenon, as Seen From Europe
     Published: 2016
     Trump is berated as the latest incarnation of Evil (after Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, the Brexiters): racist, sexist, Islamophobe, a friend of dictators, etc., in short the embodiment of all that arouses the righteous indignation of the human rights defenders. I would like to suggest a different way of seeing Trump. He is above all a capitalist, almost a caricature of the sort of man capitalism produces, encourages and celebrates. He makes money and is proud of it. For him, the bottom line is cost-benefit. Everything comes down to that ratio. Defend the Baltic States? What does it cost, what do we gain? Defend Japan? What does it cost, what do we gain?
483. Bridge, Robert: Aleppo boy versus ‘Mosul girl’: How the Western MSM peddles war propaganda
     Published: 2017
     While much of the developed world knows of 'Aleppo boy' Omran Daqneesh, how many have heard of an equally tragic story involving a five-year-old girl named Hawraa, the sole survivor of a US-coordinated airstrike on her home in Mosul?
484. Bridge, Robert: Assange revolutionized journalism, and the elite will never forgive him
     Published: 2019
     Julian Assange's treatment by governments and mainstream media shows how he is a threat to the former and shames the latter.
485. Bridge, Robert: Democracy denied: A sinister force controls the US presidential debates
     Published: 2023
     A commission run by the Republicans and the Democrats gatekeeps third-party and independent runners from the public eye.
486. Bridge, Robert: How to steal a billion-dollar American election with a pocketful of rubles
     Published: 2017
     On the absurdity of the narrative that claims that nameless Russians stole the multi-billion-dollar American election with pocket change.
487. Bridge, Robert: Is Russiagate dead? Paul Manafort & Kiev caught up in FBI dragnet, Kremlin not mentioned
     Published: 2017
     
488. Bridge, Robert: Welcome to 1984: Big Brother Google now watching your every political move
     Published: 2017
     Google has taken the unprecedented step of burying material, mostly from websites on the political right, that it has deemed to be inappropriate. The problem, however, is that the world's largest search engine is a left-leaning company with an ax to grind.
489. Briemberg, Mordecai: A Journey from Satire to Legal Suite to Defense of Democratic Rights
     Published: 2008
     An account of CanWest's lawsuit arising out of a parody satirizing the Vancouver Sun's biased reporting on Israel and Palestine.
490. Briggs, Laura: Digital Disconnect and its adverse impact on how (or whether) we engage with nature
     Published: 2016
     As the Digital Schoolhouse programme starts a national roll out to schools across the UK, scientists warn that digital disconnect can mean caring less - for each other and the environment.
491. Briski, Zana; Kauffman, Ross: Born into Brothels
     Calcutta's Red Light Kids
     Published: 2004
     The chronicling of two documentary filmmakers and their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
492. Britell, Jim: "Zone Defense:" a New Way To Stop ATV’s in Wilderness Areas
     Published: 2019
     In 2002, a new method of organizing was used by 20 organizations in a rural area of southwest Oregon to successfully confront an ATV threat in an area where no national, regional or local group had enough members to do much by itself. The nature of the campaign required numbers of people to turn out on short notice to meetings in sparsely populated areas for which little advance notice could be expected.
493. Brittain, Victoria: The Jordan Valley: stolen land, stolen childhood
     Published: 2014
     The Jordan Valley in the Palestinian West Bank is under active annexation to Israel - in breach of the 4th Geneva Convention. Victoria Brittain went there to explore what this means for the people of the Valley.
494. Britton-Purdy, Jedediah: The Only Treatment for Coronavirus Is Solidarity
     Published: 2020
     We live in an interwoven, interconnected world where an injury to one is truly an injury to all. We must confront the coronavirus with solidarity and fight for a society where the health of all is more important than profits for a few.
495. Brockes, Emma: Susan Sarandon: 'I thought Hillary was very dangerous. If she'd won, we'd be at war'
     Published: 2017
     An article about actress Susan Sarandon who discusses politics, sexism in Hollywood, female empowerment and her career.
496. Brodkin, Jon: Huawei fires back, points to US' history of spying on phone networks
     Huawei denies having secret access to phone networks, calls it "impossible."
     Published: 2020
     Chinese vendor Huawei has provided a longer response to US allegations of spying, claiming that it doesn't have the spying capability alleged by the US and pointing out that the US itself has a long history of spying on phone networks.
497. Brody, Richard: Why Does It Matter If Heidegger Was Anti-Semitic?
     Published: 2014
     The publication of the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s “Schwarzen Hefte” (“Black Notebooks”), written between 1931 and the early nineteen-seventies, is likely to cause an uproar.
498. Brodzinsky, Sibylla: Colombian farmers risk death to reclaim lost land
     Published: 2013
     The government wants to correct decades of 'land reform in reverse'. But powerful criminal, armed and business interests are ranged against the country's displaced peasants.
499. Bromwich, David: What Are We Allowed to Say?
     Published: 2016
     Free speech is an aberration -- it is best to begin by admitting that. In most societies throughout history and in all societies some of the time, censorship has been the means by which a ruling group or a visible majority cleanses the channels of communication to ensure that certain conventional practices will go on operating undisturbed. It is not only traditional cultures that see the point of taboos on speech and expressive action. Even in societies where faith in progress is part of a common creed, censorship is often taken to be a necessary means to effect improvements that will convey a better life to all. Meanwhile, since the fall of Soviet communism, liberal bureaucrats in the North Atlantic democracies have kept busy constructing speech codes and guidelines on civility to soften the impact of unpleasant ideas.
500. Bromwich, David; Greenwell, Garth; Abdurraqib, H.; Clancy, Kelly; Lalami, L.; Denzel Smith, M.: The Minds of Others
     The art of persuasion in the age of Trump
     Published: 2018
     In a divided America, seven writers explore the ways that persuasion operates in our lives- from the intimate to the far-reaching, and ultimately how we can pursuade others to see things the way we do.
501. Bronskill, Jim: Library and Archives Canada service cuts hindering research, historians complain
     Published: 2021
     Researchers say recent service cuts at Canada's national archives are making their work - already hampered by COVID-19 - even more challenging.
502. Brooke, Bryan: Case study: a closer look at community partnerships
     Published: 2012
     
503. Brooke, Heather: How the US government secretly reads your email
     Published: 2011
     Secret orders forcing Google and Sonic to release a WikiLeaks volunteer's email reveal the scale of US government snooping.
504. Brooks, Bonny: Buy Banned Books
     Published: 2018
     The article takes a look at 'banned books' in the social media era, where the 'imagination police' dominate and a form of 'fictional aparteid' is taking place, and moreover why we have a duty to buy them.
505. Brooks, Chris: After Barr Ordered FBI to "Identify Criminal Organizers," Activists Were Intimidated at Home and at Work
     Published: 2020
     Four people in Cookeville, Tennessee were questioned about antifa after posting about Black Lives Matter rallies on social media.
506. Brooks, Jeff: Yoda fundraising for Luke Skywalker donors
     Published: 2012
     Here's a wonderful TEDx talk by Nancy Duarte. It's about giving presentations, but you'll see how it applies to fundraising too. Early on, she makes a point that's so very important for presenters: You are not Luke Skywalker. You are Yoda.That is, you aren't the hero in the room. The people you're talking to are the heroes. You're the little wise-man who equips the hero to be a hero.
507. Brown, Alleen: A Coalition of Scientists Keeps Watch on the U.S. Government's Climate Data
     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.
508. Brown, Alleen: How a Christian Nonprofit Helped a Controversial Minnesota Mining Company Buy Gear for Local Police
     Published: 2019
     A Christian non-profit called Shield616 that donates gear to police forces has received donations from mining companies. This sparks concerns of a conflict of interest among residents that are protesting these mines.
509. Brown, Alleen: Huge Pipeline Company Kinder Morgan Hired Off-Duty Cops to 'Deter Protests' in Pennsylvania
     Published: 2015
     Kinder Morgan, the self-proclaimed "largest energy infrastructure company in North America," paid $50,000 for off-duty police officers from a Pennsylvania department to patrol a controversial gas pipeline construction site. The hiring came after a request from the corporation for uniformed officers that could "deter protests and prevent delays."
510. Brown, Alleen; Parrish, Will; Speri, Alice: Dakota Access-Style Policing Moves to Pennsylvania's Mariner East 2 Pipeline
     Published: 2017
     Examination of the troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
511. Brown, Alleen; Parrish, Will; Speri, Alice: Oil and Water
     Published: 2017
     A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
512. Brown, Barrett: This London Firm Helps the Wealthy Hide Assets - or Steal Them. Luckily We Have 15 Years of Their Client Communications
     Published: 2019
     A London firm that helps the rich hide or steal money has had 15 years' worth of communications leaked. These are being made available to hopefully help return stolen money.
513. Brown, Ellen: Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
     Published: 2015
     If you’re an ordinary saver with your money in the bank, you may soon be paying the bank to hold your funds rather than the reverse.
514. Brown, Ellen: If China Can Fund Infrastructure With Its Own Credit, So Can We
     Published: 2017
     What the US could learn from China about funding infrastructure initiatives.
515. Brown, Ellen: Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance
     Putting Profits Before Populations
     Published: 2013
     Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be in the hands of transnational corporations.
516. Brown, Ellen: Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match In China
     Published: 2019
     Unless China starts playing by neoliberal rules Trump's economic war with them will lead the US to a race to the bottom or isolation from international markets.
517. Brown, Ellen: Richmond and Eminent Domaine
     The Stone That Brings Down Goliath?
     Published: 2014
     In a nearly $13 billion settlement with the US Justice Department in November 2013, JPMorganChase admitted that it, along with every other large US bank, had engaged in mortgage fraud as a routine business practice, sowing the seeds of the mortgage meltdown.
518. Brown, Ellen: The War on Savings: the Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
     Published: 2016
     The bombshell publication of the "Panama Papers," leaked from a Panama law firm specializing in shell companies, has triggered both outrage and skepticism. In an April 3, 2016 article titled "Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak," UK blogger Craig Murray writes that the whistleblower no doubt had good intentions; but he made the mistake of leaking his 11.5 million documents to the corporate-controlled Western media, which released only those few documents incriminating opponents of Western financial interests.
519. Brown, Ellen: Why Do Banks Really Want Our Deposits?
     Hint: It's Not to Finance Loans
     Published: 2014
     Many authorities have said it: banks do not lend their deposits. They create the money they lend on their books.
520. Brown, Ellen: Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to monetary imperialism
     Published: 2016
     What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.
521. Brown, J Pat; Maass, Dave: How California police are tracking your biometric data in the field
     Agencies are using mobile fingerprint scanners, tattoo and facial recognition software
     Published: 2015
     EFF and MuckRock got together to reveal how state and local law enforcement agencies are using mobile biometric technology in the field by filing public records requests around the country. Thousands of pages of documents were obtained from more than 30 agencies.
522. Brown, Jeff J.: Flu Deaths: US 6,600 — China 25
     Published: 2020
     Western countries just let their people die. It's called "free markets" and the cold-blooded "cost of doing business".
523. Brown, Jeff J.: Huawei Sting Operation Exposed
     Published: 2020
     December 1, 2020 is the second anniversary of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s arrest — or kidnapping, depending on your point of view — in Vancouver, Canada. If you work for the U.S.’s Departments of Justice, Treasury and State, with the CIA/NSA cheering from the galleries, it is just a simple extradition request to "carry out the law." If, however, you are company executive Frédéric Pierucci, Meng was kidnapped by the U.S., just as he was in 2013, whereupon he was imprisoned for two years on similar — he would say trumped-up — charges. His seizure was used to extort France’s flagship Alstom Corporation to pay $772 million in fines (ransom according to Pierucci) and sell off its most valuable portfolios to General Electric (GE), its U.S. competitor — all to gain his release.
524. Brown, Jeffrey: Internet history is fragile. This archive is making sure it doesn't disappear
     Published: 2017
     A report on the Internet Archive (archive.org) including an interview with its founder, Brewster Kahle.
525. Brown, Jenny: Enough With the Just In Time Schedules, Say Retail Workers
     Published: 2012
     Employers increasingly use part-time scheduling to decrease costs and crush attempts at worker organizing. Scheduling software now cuts shifts into chunks as small as 15-minutes. Last-minute schedule changes result when the software predicts customer traffic based on the weather forecast or recent sales patterns. Most retail workers now don't know their schedules a week ahead of time, and often have shifts added or cancelled at the last minute. Erratic scheduling can also make it impossible for parttime workers to hold two jobs, because they never know when they will be available.
526. Brown, Jesse: The Sad Story of Canadian Geographic
     Former employees say the nature magazine became a paid mouthpiece for oil companies and others.
     Published: 2015
     Staff at Canadian Geographic magazine report that it publishes articles financed and vetted by companies without disclosing it as sponsored content.
527. Brown, Lorne; Taylor, Doug: The Birth of Medicare
     From Saskatchewan's breakthrough to Canada-wide coverage
     Published: 2012
     An account of the history of medicare in Canada, from its birth in Saskatchewan to its adoption nation-wide.
528. Brown, Mark: Google a great painting
     Project allows users to get a close-up view of works from 17 museums
     Published: 2011
     Google's Art Project allows viewers to browse works from 17 museums including the Metropolitcan Museum, MoMA, The National Gallery, Tate Britain and others in super-high resolution.
529. Brown, Mark: Neighbors joining together to block Trump deportations
     Published: 2017
     In neighborhoods across Chicago with large immigrant populations, people are banding together to form rapid response networks to support their neighbors in the event of expected deportation raids by President Donald Trump's administration. In the 35th Ward on the city's Northwest Side, Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa has started what he calls the Community Defense Committee.
530. Brown, Valerie and Grossman, Elizabeth: Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market
     Published: 2015
     Scientists are trained to express themselves rationally. They avoid personal attacks when they disagree. But some scientific arguments become so polarized that tempers fray.
531. Browne, Harry: 'Factivism' and Other Fairytales from Bono
     The 'Inner Nerd' Gets It Wrong, Again
     Published: 2013
     A rebuttal to U2 singer Bono's claims regarding the 'imminent eradication of extreme poverty'.
532. Browne, Norman G.: Expressway would destroy 71 homes in Riverdale
     Published: 1974
     Proposed expressway would result in pollution, noise, destruction of homes and businesses.
533. Browne, Norman G.; Weitz, Grace: Who Killed Grace Bates...?
     Published: 1976
     Grace Bates, a long-time resident of Cabbagetown, was 63 years of age when she died in the early morning of July 19 [1976] at Nellie’s Hostel on Broadview. She had been taken to Nellie’s Hostel the previous night by a Hostel volunteer after an anonymous phone call stated that she had spent the three previous days and nights alone in wheel chair in Allan Gardens. As a result of the media publicity on her death, an inquest was held.
534. Brubaker, Rogers: The Uproar Over 'Transracialism'
     Published: 2017
     Discusses 'transracialism' in relation to gender identity and self identification.
535. Bruder, Jessica; Maharidge, Dale: Snowden's Box
     The human network behind the biggest leak of all
     Published: 2017
     Edward Snowden's disclosure of NSA secrets to the press as reported by the two journalists who literally had Snowden material mailed to them in a cardboard box. The article describes their experiences with encryption, codewords, government surveillance and extreme paranoia. The journalists also reveal that they were not the only people to have received Snowden's files.
536. Bruenig, Elizabeth: Laura Ingraham's advertisers aren't really staging a boycott. It's a capital strike
     Published: 2018
     There are no regulations or laws preventing or even restricting capital strikes in the form of corporate activism, therefore social and political aspirations of capital always have an effective instrument on hand; yet the same cannot be said for labour.
537. Bruenig, Matt: Don't Believe the Hype: Paying for Medicare for All Is Simple
     Published: 2019
     Debunking recent arguments that Medicare for All will require reducing spending in other areas.
538. Brulliard, Karin: After the Arab spring, the struggle continues on a university campus
     A dispute between a secular academic and conservative Islamists threatens the peace at a Tunisian university
     Published: 2012
     A university administrator takes a stand against religious extremism.
539. Brumback, Gary: Corporate America Unmasked
     Published: 2017
     While US public views seem generally favourable about American corporations, an extensive study by psychologist Dr. Gary Brumback concludes that leadership, particularly in large corporations, is found to be morally depraved and their organizations often dysfunctional.
540. Brunger, Karen: Public Speaking: Overcoming The Fear
     Published: 2010
     Tips for overcoming anxiety.
541. Brunhuber, Kim: This e-waste evangelist got into a battle involving Microsoft - and is going to prison for it
     Published: 2018
     Recycling entrepreneur pleaded guilty, sentenced for copyright infringement dealing with computer discs.
542. Brunner, Benny (director): The Great Book Robbery
     Published: 2012
     As Palestinians were expelled from their land in 1948, librarians from Israel’s National Library followed the militias as they forced their way into Palestinian homes. Their mission was to collect as many valuable books, manuscripts, photographs and artworks as possible – an estimated 70,000 books were seized.
543. Brunner, Keith: The Rise of Vermont's Fracked Gas Battle: Communities Organize Against Pipeline Plans
     Published: 2014
     Nate and Jane Palmer's farm sits in a clay plain basin adjacent to one of the many wetlands in Monkton, a rural Vermont community known for, among other things, its annual salamander migrations and amphibian road crossings.
544. Brunton, Finn: A Short History of Spam
     Coming to an Inbox Near You
     Published: 2014
     Objects can talk in cartoons and fairy tales: toys tell their stories. Now our domestic appliances have begun to speak, and they would like to sell us pills and porn, and for us to give them our bank details.
545. Bryan, Kim: Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven!
     Published: 2009
     With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise - climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round.
546. Bryant, Chris: How the aristocracy preserved their power
     Published: 2017
     After democracy finally shunted aside hereditary lords, they found new means to protect their extravagant riches. For all the modern tales of noble poverty and leaking ancestral homes, their private wealth and influence remain phenomenal.
547. Bryant, Lee: Ocean 'dead zones' are spreading - and that spells disaster for fish
     Published: 2015
     Oxygen levels in our oceans are falling, producing growing 'dead zones' where only the hardiest organisms can survive. The causes are simple: pollution with nutrient-rich wastes, and global warming. But the only solution is to stop it happening - or wait for 1,000 years.
548. Bryant, Nick: Ordeal of Australia's child migrants
     Published: 2009
     The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect.
549. Brygo, Julien: Filipino Maids for Export
     'Always be Punctual and Don't Count the Work You are Doing'
     Published: 2011
     Twelve percent of the Philippines’ GDP comes as remittances from nationals abroad. Many of those are maids, sent all over the world into domestic service to support their children back home. The Philippines government is even training them in servitude.
550. Bréville,Benoît; Bulard,Martine: The injustice industry
     Published: 2014
     There is a major legal business in corporate lawsuits against governments, seeking either a change in proposed legislation to suit corporate demands, or compensation. Under TTIP, European governments could face the same claims.
551. Brümmer, Stefaans: I'm still waiting for my first car chase
     Published: 2013
     Stefaans Brümmer is the co-founder and managing partner of the M&G Centre for Investigative Journalism in South Africa. The M&G Centre, which is nicknamed amaBhungane, isiZulu for "the dung beetles,” is a nonprofit that produces public interest investigative reporting. In this interview, Brümmer discusses his groundbreaking corruption probe that culminated in the arrest of a national police commissioner, and the challenges he confronted in investigating a powerful law enforcement official.
552. Bucaro, Leanne: Creating your Key Messages - Part One
     Published: 2010
     Key messages are phrases of different lengths that provide a description of your company in very succinct understandable terms.
553. Bucaro, Leanne: Creating your Key Messages - Part Two
     Published: 2010
     Nobody knows your business better than you - so you, as the business owner or CEO, are in the best position to develop or lead the project to develop the key messages for your company.
554. Bucaro, Leanne: How To Get Personality Into Your Growing Business
     Published: 2010
     Most people associate the word personality with individuals. But businesses can have personalities too, and the image and feeling of a more distinctive business are likely to remain with customers.
555. Bucaro, Leanne: Managing your Brand in an Insecure World
     Published: 2010
     Brand value is determined in part by your brand and related company activities such as public relations, customer service experiences, as well as successes and failures in the market.
556. Bucaro, Leanne: Pitching the Media
     Published: 2010
     When pitching a story idea to a reporter, remember that they don't really care. Your job is to make them care. A well thought-out, concise pitch will ensure you don't strike out.
557. Bucaro, Leanne: So why PR?
     Published: 2010
     Public Relations (PR) includes on-going activities to ensure that a company has a strong public image. PR activities include helping the public to understand the company and its products.
558. Bucaro, Leanne: Starting your PR Plan
     Published: 2010
     It doesn't matter if you are "Joe's Bike Shop" or a multi-national conglomerate - almost every business has a story to tell. It is never too early to start a PR Plan.
559. Bucaro, Leanne: Using Social Media To Build Your Brand
     Published: 2010
     Social media is the fastest growing medium to market your product and communicate with your audience. And when it comes to branding your product it just might be the simplest and cheapest way to create awareness to potential clients.
560. Bucaro, Leanne: Using Trade Shows As A PR Opportunity
     Published: 2010
     Trade shows are a wonderful opportunity to enhance your brand. Every chance you get to be in front of your target audience and/or the media is a great opportunity.
561. Bucheit, Paul: Three Big Lies of the Super-Rich
     Why Being in the Highest Class Doesn't Mean You're a High Class Person
     Published: 2012
     The conservative spin of the media is designed to protect the rich from challenge.
562. Buchheit, Paul: Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Big Government
     The Real Welfare Kings and Queens
     Published: 2012
     Taxes represent payment for society’s many benefits, which get bigger and better as people get richer.
563. Buczynski, Beth: Do Vegetarians Kill More Animals Than Meat Eaters?
     Published: 2013
     A recent article published by an Australian scientist, however, contends that those who choose to eat all-plant diets are actually responsible for the death of more animals than those who eat them.
564. Bufe, Chaz: Poles 'n holes: Working in the porn biz
     Published: 1986
     Pornography worker Chaz Bufe on work, sexuality and censorship in America.
565. Bulard, Martine: China's villages revive
     A few migrants have begun to return from China's cities to its neglected countryside, and have been joined by artists and advocates of
     Published: 2015
     A look at a movement towards rural reconstruction in China, which has gained fresh impetus from an economic slowdown as well as poorer urban living conditions and pollution.
566. Bullough,Oliver: Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe
     Published: 2015
     While the conflict with Russia heats up in the east, life for most Ukrainians is marred by corruption so endemic that even hospitals appear to be infected.
567. Buncombe, Andrew: Israeli intervention in US elections overwhelms anything Russia has done, claims Chomsky
     The 89-year-old said the media was largely ignoring vital issues such as climate change
     Published: 2019
     Chomsky on the brazen interference of Israel in US politics to which supposed Russian meddling in the US election pales in comparison.
568. Bunsha, Dionne: Modi in Canada
     What Canadians Should Know About Harper's New Guest
     Published: 2015
     When Stephen Harper hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Canada this week, they will be greeted with both adoring fans and with protests. Modi, an extremist Hindu nationalist, has a strong support base within a section of the Indian community. But his past comes back to haunt him. A human rights organization called Sikhs for Justice has appealed to the Canadian government to prosecute Modi for the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat.
569. Bunting, Madeleine: Heeding nature to understand ourselves
     A new genre of writing is putting centre stage the interconnectedness between human beings and the wilderness
     Published: 2007
     A new literary tendency in the nature writing genre is to point out the interconnectedness between humans and their environment. Rather than study nature as a thing apart from man, these books challenge their readers to engage with the other species in their immediate surroundings.
570. Burch, Mark: Voluntary Simplicity And The Steady-State Economy
     Published: 2014
     Voluntary simplicity is most basically characterized by the practices of mindfulness and material sufficiency. Through bringing mindfulness to our daily lives, we seek the maximum of well-being achievable through the minimum of material consumption. Well-being applies to all life forms on Earth, not just people.
571. Burgess, Anika: Vintage Photos of Traveling Libraries
     Published: 2017
     Photo essay.
572. Burgess, Anika: The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books
     Published: 2017
     They were known as the "book women." They would saddle up, usually at dawn, to pick their way along snowy hillsides and through muddy creeks with a simple goal: to deliver reading material to Kentucky's isolated mountain communities.
573. Burke, Jason; Sahariah, Sutirtha: India's acid attack victims unite against the horror of their past
     Published: 2015
     Last year, 349 people in India, mostly women, had acid thrown on them in deliberate assaults. A groundbreaking cafe allows some of them a new start. Sheroes (run by an NGO in the city of Agra, home of the Taj Mahal) is a rare beacon of hope where the aim is to help change perceptions of the survivors of acid attacks and to allow them to regain some confidence.
574. Burr, William: SAC Nuclear Planning for 1959
     U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
     Published: 2015
     The SAC [Strategic Air Command] Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956, published December 22, 2015. According to the Plan, H-Bombs were to be used against priority "Air Power" targets in the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe
     Major cities in Soviet Bloc, including East Berlin, were high priorities in "Systematic Destruction" for atomic bombings. Plans to target people (“Population”) violated international legal norms.
575. Burrowes, Robert J: Why Are All Those Racists So Terrified?
     Published: 2017
     Past efforts, whatever personnel, resources and strategies have been devoted to them, have done nothing to address the underlying cause of racism and so their impact must be superficial and temporary. As the record demonstrates.
576. Burrowes, Robert J.: A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat the US Coup Attempt in Venezuela
     To the People of Venezuela
     Published: 2019
     An open letter to the people of Venezuela regarding the US coup and with support for how they can resist.
577. Burrowes, Robert J.: Starving and Bombed Children of Yemen Seek Entrapment in Flooded Thai Cave
     Published: 2018
     While the world was gripped by media coverage of trapped Thai boys in a flooded cave, hundreds of thousands of children were killed and suffering in other parts of the world -- yet received little or no attention. This article examines what this tells us about ourselves and geopolitics.
578. Burrowes, Robert J.: Violence Against Women: Why The UN Secretary-General Got It Wrong
     Published: 2017
     Burrowes argues that efforts to resolve violence aganist women are futile unless the focus shifts to preventing emotional and physical violence against children, with particular emphasis on boys.
579. Burtch, Andrew Paul: Give Me Shelter
     The Failure of Canada's Cold War Civil Defence
     Published: 2012
     
580. Burtenshaw, Ronan: The Media Against Jeremy Corbyn
     The British media has launched an unprecedented campaign of disinformation against Jeremy Corbyn
     Published: 2016
     The British media has never had much time for Jeremy Corbyn. Within a week of his election as Labour Party leader in September, it was engaging in a campaign the Media Reform Coalition characterized as an attempt to "systematically undermine" his position. In an avalanche of negative coverage 60 percent of all articles which appeared in the mainstream press about Corbyn were negative with only 13 percent positive. The newsroom, ostensibly the objective arm of the media, had an even worse record: 62 percent negative with only 9 percent positive.
581. Buruma, Ian: A Polite Coup
     Why one of Asia's most open societies keeps turning to military rule
     Published: 2015
     As military coups go, Thailand's putsch on May 22, 2014, was rather polite -- no mass imprisonments, no stadiums full of students tortured and shot. The toppled prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was detained for only three days. Before the coup, there had been months of street clashes between loyalist "red shirts" and opposition "yellow shirts," and now General Prayuth Chan-ocha's junta promised to "restore happiness to the people."
582. Bush, David: Debating Syria Productively
     Published: 2016
     A collection of remarks on how the debate, within the left, over the Syrian conflict has been lacking and could be made more productive.
583. Bustelo, Joaquin: Immigration Reform: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
     Against The Current vol. 163
     Published: 2013
     The introduction of “immigration reform” legislation is a tribute first and foremost to the heroic activism of proud “Undocumented and Afraid” youth coming forward to demand their rights and refusing to live in the shadows.
584. Butler, Patrick: Privatise Child Protection Services, Department for Education Proposes
     Published: 2014
     Experts sound alarm over UK proposal to outsource children's services to private firms.
585. Butler, Shiuan: Should women have the right to go topless in public?
     An Interview With NYC's Topless Activist
     Published: 2012
     Moira Johnston wants to "expand the vocabulary and definition" of breasts: "They can be non-sexual in any culture."
586. Butler, Simon: Climate politics must be as radical as the climate crisis
     Published: 2013
     If the climate action movement allows its goals to be shaped by what is permissible in a capitalist economy then it has already failed. To respond to the climate emergency, our politics must be as radical as our reality. Revolutionary changes needed for humankind to survive and thrive.
587. Butler, Simon: Corporations profiting out of food crisis
     Published: 2012
     The small group of food multinationals that monopolise the world food market are positioning themselves to take full advantage of the crisis: the latest food price hikes threaten to drive more people back into hunger.
588. Butler, Simon: Marxism as if the planet mattered
     A Return to Marx's Ecological Critique
     Published: 2013
     Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels held that capitalism inevitably tears apart the natural conditions that sustain life. They argued capitalism's exploitation of working people, and the unsustainable exploitation of nature, were linked and part of the same process.
589. Buttar, Shahid: The hubris of investigators
     Published: 2016
     A now-vacated hearing over whether to require Apple to undermine the security of its users prompted an ongoing controversy over government access to encrypted devices. While the court in San Bernardino may never rule on the flood of arguments supporting Apple's defense of user security, observers-- especially members of Congress-- should pay close attention to a few themes that have emerged in the public debate.
590. Button, Gregory: The Flint Water Crisis is Not Without Parallel in Michigan History
     Published: 2016
     In the days, weeks, and months following a disaster people feel uncertain about real and perceived risks. The parties directly involved a disaster as well as other organizations such as public agencies, governmental bodies, corporations, the media, and environmental groups release a cacophony of information and disputations that the affected population and the general public see as conflicting and confusing. In the process victims and the general public struggle to gain credible sources of information in an attempt to make sense of an event and unpack the truth in order to assign, meaning, blame, and responsibility as well as develop coping strategies and effective remedies. This informational uncertainty can also result in the lack of an effective response between responding governmental agencies on all levels as witnessed in the ongoing crisis in Flint, Michigan.
591. Buxbaum, Jessica: Censoring Palestine: Swarms of Israeli Bots Are Crippling Pro-Palestinian Twitter Account
     Published: 2022
     The Israeli government's targeting of Palestinian digital content is well-documented. According to 7amleh, The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, the Israeli Ministry of Justice Cyber Unit sends content-removal requests aimed at Palestinian content to social media companies such as Facebook, Google, and YouTube. The Justice Ministry has boasted these corporations comply with 95% of their requests. And Israeli governmental organizations and NGOs also encourage their citizens to flag Palestinian content for removal.
592. Buxbaum, Jessica: Israel's Latest Hasbara Scheme Enlists High School Students as Trolls Against Palestine
     Published: 2023
     In April, Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry launched a program training high school students to boost the country’s image online. However, as global awareness grows of Israel’s human rights violations, the government is turning teenagers into its own personal troll army to combat the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s efforts on social media.
593. Buxton, Nick; Brennan, Brid; Tognoni, Andrea; Aguiar, Diana: Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim and El Salvador's struggle against corporate impunity
     Published: 2014
     The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity.
594. Buyniski, Helen: Amazon Alexa wants to save you from uncomfortable Christmas dinner talk. Be careful what you wish for.
     Published: 2019
     Amazon has introduced a feature for Alexa to introduce conversation topics at Christmas family dinners. Given the history of privacy breaches people should wary.
595. Buyniski, Helen: Class war in the making? Coronavirus quarantines pit well-off hermits against serfs who supply them
     Published: 2020
     Coronavirus has exposed stark divides in US society as the wealthy hole up in their homes and the poor are reduced to delivering their supplies in often-unsafe conditions. With mass layoffs underway, is class war imminent?
596. Buyniski, Helen: Technology was supposed to make us more capable. Instead it has made us scarily dependent
     Published: 2019
     Technology has promised to make things easier and elevate the species. But much technology emerging today has only increased our dependence on technology by rendering obsolete many of the skills we once relied upon.
597. Byars, David Garrett: We The Power - The Future of Energy is Community Owned
     Published: 2021
     A journey into the citizen-led community-energy movement in Europe. An exploration of divesting power from large energy companies and placing that power of electricity in the hands of local communities. How can local activists create more financially empowering, environmentally beneficial, and healthier communities?
598. Byler, Eric; Park, Annabel: 9500 Liberty
     Published: 2009
     Prince William County, Virginia becomes ground zero in America's explosive battle over immigration policy when elected officials adopt a law requiring police officers to question people they have "probable cause" to suspect are undocumented immigrants.
599. Byron, Lord: Lord Byron Quotes
     
600. Bébout, Rick: On the Origins of The Body Politic
     The Genealogy, Conception, Birth, Coming Out, Baby Steps (& Babies of Canada's most vital voice of gay liberation 1971 - 1987.
601. Bøhn, Thomas; Cuhra, Marek: How "Extreme Levels" of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm
     Roundup Contamination of GMO Soybeans
     Published: 2014
     Surprisingly, almost no data exist in the scientific literature on herbicide residues in herbicide tolerant genetically modified (GM) plants, even after nearly 20 years on the market. The authors' research, however, demonstrates that roundup Ready GM-soy accumulates herbicide ingredient residues and also differs markedly in nutritional composition compared to soybeans from other agricultural practices, while organic soybean samples show a more healthy nutritional profile than both industrial conventional and GM soybeans.

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1. Cabanes, Jason; Corpus Ong, Jonathan: Disinformation: In the Philippines, political trolling is an industry - this is how it works
   Published: 2018
   In the Philippines, influential personalities and online 'trolls' are credited with winning Rodrigo Duterte the presidency in 2016. This article examines the chief architects of disinformation who continue to vociferously share 'fake news' and silence dissenters.
2. Cabra, Mar: Getting the most out of Offshore Leaks data
   Published: 2014
   Baltimore became the world’s capital of data journalism in March 2014 as the National Institute of Computer Assisted Reporting (NICAR) convened its annual conference. A team from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) gave several presentations at the conference. In one of them, we explained how we analyzed the leaked 2.5 million files that resulted in the Offshore Leaks investigation. In this post, we describe how journalists and other researchers can best use this data to yield maximum results for investigations.
3. Caccioppoli, Mike: Kill a Black Kid and Get Rich
   An American Disgrace
   Published: 2014
   This is America folks. Where you can kill a black kid and justified or not (NOT!) you will then become a millionaire through interviews and book deals and film rights. This is your capitalist system at work. No laws that make this illegal. A cop can actually kill someone on purpose if he wants, because cops get away with almost anything, with the knowledge that they can then quit their awful jobs and become rich.
4. Caccone, Sarah: This Artist Took 4,000 Portraits to Show the Range of Human Skin Color - and the Results Exceeded the Pantone Library
   Published: 2018
   "Using this scale, I am sure that nobody is 'black,' and absolutely nobody is 'white,'" says artist Angélica Dass.
5. Cadwalladr, Carole: Inside Avaaz - can online activism really change the world?
   Published: 2013
   With 30 million members, Avaaz is an organisation with ambitions to save us all through technology.
6. Cain, Patrick: Keystone Cops Sex Registry
   Published: 1998
   Washroom sex might show up on Ontario's new offender list, but real pedophiles will probably go free.
7. Cain, Susan; Mason, Mark: Rebel Without a Clue: Autonomy and Authority in the American Public School
   Published: 2018
   The high school dropout is a revolutionary without having recovered the sense of dignity of failure, in a system of authoritarian control. Blaming the dropout is to blame the victim of institutional abuse of power exercised within youth indoctrination centers carrying the misnomer, school. Is it possible that the problem is mainly systemic and not due to the personal faults of the dropout? Is it possible that the education system itself contributes to young people dropping out of high school? Is it possible that capitalism is the root cause?
8. CAJ: Concern regarding the brutality of Montréal police against journalists
   Published: 2015
   CJFE and the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) are deeply concerned by the brutal actions taken by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) to impede the work of journalists in the city over the last three years. The assault, detention, and arrest of reporters by the Montréal police is in violation of freedom of the press, as cited in Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as Section 3 of the Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. To address these issues, CJFE and CAJ would like to arrange a meeting with you and SPVM Chief Marc Parent to discuss police policy on journalists covering protests in order to come up with a solution to end the existing practices.
9. Callwood, June: The doctors who care
   Published: 1985
   An article about the Medical Reform Group of Ontario (MRG), a group of progressive doctors who are challenging the medical establishment and who take the position that their profession has a responsibility to be active in all matters which contribute to ill-health, whether or not it is politically popular. MRG members Michael Rachlis, Fran Scott, Debby Copes and Miriam Garfinkle are quoted.
10. Camara, Dom Helder: Dom Helder Camara Quotes
    
11. Camejo, Peter: The Great Bull Market vs. Looming Crisis: On Brenner's Theory of Crisis
    Published: 1999
    The United States is experiencing the greatest bull market in the stock market.
12. Cammaerts, Emile; Illustrated by Louis Raemaekers: Through the Iron Bars
    Two years of German occupation in Belgium
    Published: 1917
    
13. Camp, Lee: Amazon wants surveillance robots in every home
    Published: 2022
    Amazon's new home robot is charged with privacy violations in line with the Roomba and the Ring.
14. Camp, Lee: Connecting the Dates - US Media Used To Stop The 'Threat' of Peace
    Published: 2020
    This is not a column defending Donald Trump. Across my career I have said more positive words about the scolex family of intestinal tapeworms than I have said about Donald Trump. (Scolex have been shown to read more.)
15. Campanales, Sara; Rhoades, Hannibal: Undermining the watercycle
    A critical appraisal of the mining industry's contributions to the global water crisis.
    Published: 2019
    The mining industry is often overlooked as a cause of the global water crisis. This article examines recent history of mining disasters and how the industry PR greenwashes its image.
16. Campbell, Beatrix: Stolen Lives
    The 'sisters' who are challenging Australia to admit to its forced separation of Aboriginal families
    Published: 2001
    The issue of Austaralia's stolen children.
17. Campbell, Gordon: Gordon Campbell on the Vanuatu cyclone and media 'disaster porn'
    Published: 2015
    Campbell discusses the Vanuatu cyclone and how it has become a 'disaster porn,'a process that occurs when media exploits someone else's misery so that it look attractive as a form of entertainment.
18. Campbell, Horace G.: Counter-Terrorism and Imperial Hypocrisy
    Lessons from the Kidnapping of Abu Anas al-Libi in Tripoli
    Published: 2013
    Western governments word closely with 'terrorists' when it suits them, and then turn on them when the wind shifts.
19. Campbell, Horace G.: The Menace of Boko Haram and Fundamentalism in Nigeria
    Sexual Slavery, Sexual Terrorism and the Context of the Kidnapping
    Published: 2014
    ‘I will sell your girls in the market.’ - Abubakar Shekau. From time to time in the life of a society, one episode or a series of episodes shock the social system and brings to the fore long festering sores that need resolution. The kidnapping of over 200 young girls and the depravity of those who proclaimed that these youths would be sold into sexual slavery are one of such episodes. The statement about selling the girls in the market brought out the deep contradictions of Nigerian society and called for firm and clear resolution of the questions of slavery, exploitation, sexual violence, male oppression and the manipulation of religion to serve the needs of particular sections of the looters and zealots of Nigeria.
20. Campbell, Monica: In Brad Will killing, report fuels questions, controversy
    Published: 2009
    Continuing questions about journalist's murder in Oaxaca in 2006.
21. Campbell, Scott: Mexico's Fake RCMP Report Backfires
    Published: 2009
    Murders committed by police are deemed not to have happened, or to have been justifiable force.
22. Camus, Jean-Yves: Not Your Father's Far Right
    Populist Radical Versus Traditional Extremism
    Published: 2014
    All over Europe, the new, populist far-right parties have become part of the political scene. They're not defined, as the old far-righters used to be, by what they want, but by what they don't want.
23. Canadian Journalists for Free Expression: Quebecers' right to protest restricted after 2012 "Maple Spring" in Canada
    Published: 2013
    In 2012, a massive student strike over tuition fee increases rocked Quebec and thousands took to the streets, marching in protest. In the aftermath, Montreal residents find that their ability to protest has been restricted, as the police employ increased powers to arrest and fine demonstrators.
24. Canetti, Elias: Elias Canetti Quotes
    
25. Cantú, Aaron: How "Hate Crimes Against Police" Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes
    Published: 2015
    Hate crime legislation lent legitimacy to a 40-year carceral program that has wrought immense damage on communities of colour. In an ironic twist, the police - who've been the main enforcers of this program - now want to invoke these laws for their protection.
26. Capablanca, Jose: Chess Fundamentals
    Published: 1934
    
27. Caplan, Gerald: The hidden history of Bob Rae's government in Ontario
    Published: 2010
    
28. Caplan-Bricker, Nora: Preservation Acts
    Toward an ethical archive of the web
    Published: 2018
    But they began to wonder what it meant to take an ephemeral object -- destined, after days and weeks, to sink to the bottom of an ever-shifting pile -- and render it permanent. It wasn't hard to see how an archive of civil disobedience could become a tool of government surveillance.
29. Caprio, Charlene: Dirty Fossil Fuel 'Business-As-Usual' Tactics Spew Out Of The International Maritime Organization At COP22
    Published: 2016
    The shipping industry needs to clean up its CO2 emissions now. The IMO's own Third IMO Greenhouse Gas Study 2014 report stated that by 2050, CO2 emissions from international shipping could grow by between 50 percent and 250 percent, depending on future economic growth and energy developments.
30. Caramel, Laurence: Line in the sand: Africa's 'green wall' aims to stop desert's growth
    Villagers will help establish 15km-wide swath of trees as a nature reserve
    Published: 2011
    The Great Green Wall is a pan-African plan to halt desertification through reforestation.
31. Carayol, Rémi: Mali disintegrates
    ‘People are rejecting injustice’
    Published: 2018
    Mali’s general election this month looks uncertain, with rebels -- partly inspired by Islamist jihadism -- offering an alternative source of law and order in the central regions.
32. Carbajosa, Ana: Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel! Gaza youth offers up a cry of despair
    Rapid global reaction to cyber-manifesto surprises its drafters
    Published: 2011
    A group of Palestinian youth put out a manifesto that calls for an end to divisive party politics in Gaza and the West Bank. The youth want peace and freedom.
33. Carden, James: Turkey's Double Game and the US's Double Standards
    What the bombings in Ankara tell us about Turkey's true motives in Syria.
    Published: 2015
    On Saturday morning, in the Turkish capital of Ankara, two suicide bombers targeted a Kurdish-Turkish trade union peace march, killing over a hundred civilians and wounding hundreds more.
34. Cardona, Luis: A Journalist’s Death in Oaxaca
    The Murder of Crime Reporter Alberto López Bello
    Published: 2014
    Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the Americas to practice journalism.
35. Cardozo, Nate: Beyond Implementation: Policy Considerations for Secure Messengers
    Published: 2018
    The importance of secure Messenger tools goes beyond just reliable technology, it must be developed and have its infrastructure maintained by a trustworthy group with a history of responsible stewardship.
36. Cardwell, Emma: Selling the Silver
    The Enclosure of the UK's Fisheries
    Published: 2014
    Fishing quotas were meant to conserve stocks and support fishing communities. But they have achieved the reverse - rewarding the most rapacious fishing enterprises and leaving small scale fisherfolk with nothing.
37. Cariboni, Diana: Argentina: lack of ID leaves hundreds of thousands living in the shadows
    Published: 2015
    A survey conducted between October and December 2011 found that the births of 1.6% of children under 17 (168,000) were not registered. The survey was conducted by the Catholic University Social Debt Observatory and the Instituto abierto para el desarrollo y estudio de políticas públicas (Iadepp), a group dedicated to the analysis of public policies.
    Birth registration is a hurdle for many families in marginalised communities even though documents are needed to access healthcare, justice and education.
38. Carletti, Fabiola: Know Your Digital Rights, Photographers
    Published: 2010
    
39. Carlin, George: George Carlin Quotes
    
40. Carlin, George: George Carlin sums up class structure and the purpose media of divisiveness
    Published: 2012
    
41. Carlin, George: Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners
    
42. Carlin, Norah: The roots of gay oppression
    Published: 2007
    Marxists, since Marx and Engels themselves, have always believed that only a socialist revolution could open the way to sexual freedom and equality. The history of same-sex relations suggests that the most basic human activities, including sexuality, are collectively constructed in human society.
43. Carlisle, Vanessa: Police Violence and Media Coverup
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Published: 2012
    Among many tactics used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ) to disorient, dishearten, and divide members of Occupy Los Angeles during our detention at city jails, one of the more insidious was denying us access to the news.
44. Carlsen, Laura: How Private Prisons Profit From the Criminalization of Immigrants
    Lobbying for Lock-Up
    Published: 2012
    How a nation uses its power to deny a person’s freedom has always been a critical measure of authoritarian rule. Massive incarceration based on race, ethnic origin or nationality, political beliefs, class, sexual orientation, age or other inherent characteristics is a form of tyranny. Yet few people realize that this is happening on an enormous scale in the United States.
45. Carlsen, Laura: How the NSA Infiltrated Mexico's Computers
    A Cyber Invasion
    Published: 2014
    NSA internal information provided by former security consultant and whistleblower Edward Snowden once again shows that Mexico features prominently as a target for massive U.S. espionage.
46. Carlsen, Laura: The NSA's Spying Operation on Mexico
    Systematic Eavesdropping on the Government
    Published: 2013
    The American NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. Three major programs constitute a massive espionage operation against Mexico.
47. Carmichael, Franklin: Franklin Carmichael Quotes
    
48. Carney, William Wray: Advice on Hiring a Media Trainer
    Published: 2002
    Media training is highly recommended for any media spokesperson, whether a novice or a veteran.
49. Carney, William Wray: In Times of Crisis
    Published: 2003
    As anyone facing a crowded room of reporters during an emergency will tell you, effective crisis communications is paramount in overcoming the predicament.
50. Carney, William Wray: Video News Releases
    Published: 2003
    Video News Releases (VNRs) are just that: broadcast-quality videos intended for release to television stations. They typically contain a "story" in television format, complete with reporter, just as a news release imitates a news story.
51. Carney, William Wray: What Makes a Good Story?
    Published: 2002
    What makes a story interesting is often a combination of the interests of the audience, the interests and abilities of the reporter, and a long history of journalistic tradition.
52. Carp, Jonathan: Cops Are Now Less Cautious Than Soldiers In Iraq
    Shooting Mirian Carey
    Published: 2013
    Police militarization is a hot topic lately, but American police are beyond anything contemplated by the American military. American police today appear unwilling to accept any risk whatsoever and seem willing to kill anyone and anything that could possibly be seen as a threat.
53. Carp, Jonathan: Direct Action Gets Results
    Taking on the Enemy Directly
    Published: 2014
    We are conditioned to think of "activism" as getting someone else to do something. We plead with elected officials and bureaucrats, prodding them to take action. But the best and most effective activism is when we take matters into our own hands and solve our problems -- or strike at our enemies -- ourselves.
54. Carpenter, Ted Galen: Will Ukraine's Western Apologists Finally Admit the Truth?
    Published: 2023
    Western political leaders and their media sycophants ignore mounting evidence about the corrupt, brutal, and authoritarian nature of Ukraine's government. Ukraine is now a 'democracy' in which the press is strictly censored, opposition media banned entirely, opposition political parties are outlawed, a longstanding major church is being harassed and silenced, and torture and assassinations have become routine.
55. Carpenter, Ted Galen: Yes, the Press Helps Start Wars
    Published: 2018
    History shows that a jingoistic media can whip up support for hardline policies, as Trump rightly pointed out.
56. Carr, David Matthew: Review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
    Published: 2014
    A book review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. Vivek Chibber challenges the post-Marxist framework of the Subaltern Studies group.
57. Carrington, Damian: Neonicotinoids are Poisoning Entire Farmland Ecosystems
    Published: 2014
    The widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides is causing a neurotoxic overload afflicting entire farm ecosystems from earthworms to bees, other pollinators and birds. A collapse in food production may inevitably follow.
58. Carrington,Damian: Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF
    Published: 2015
    Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, equivalent to $10m a minute every day.
59. Carroll, Jim: Use Internet as public relations tool
    Published: 1999
    Establish an online presence to complement your other PR tools.
60. Carroll, Jim; Broadhead, Rick: Get a Digital Life
    An Internet Reality Check
    Published: 2001
    
61. Carroll, Robert: Pranks, Frauds, and Hoaxes from Around the World
    Published: 2004
    It's pretty easy to hoax people. We all want to be deceived, but only up to a point. Some hoaxes are fun and pleasant, others malicious and unpleasant. We'd like a way to tell the difference.
62. Carroll, Rory: Rumble in the jungle
    Published: 2009
    Could Peru's uncontacted Amazonian tribes be wiped out by oil giants? Not if they don't exist.
63. Carson, Kevin: Agri-Terrorists Accuse Seed Bank of Agri-Terrorism
    The Terror of GMOs
    Published: 2014
    Since their beginnings, the USDA and state departments of agriculture have heavily subsidized, and acted as the enforcement arm of, the corporate agribusiness crime syndicate, terrorizing people who presume to feed themselves without paying tribute to their corporate crime lords.
64. Carson, Kevin: Attacking Gun Culture at Its Source
    No Justice, No Peace
    Published: 2012
    When you rob people of their self-respect and sense of control over their own lives, use them as means to your own ends, and treat them like garbage, don’t be surprised if you don’t like the destructive methods they choose to assert their sense of self. By all means let’s feel sympathy for the innocent victims when the worm turns — but let’s also never forget who set things in motion.
65. Carson, Kevin: 15 Benefits of the War on Drugs
    Training Your Kid to be a Snitch (Against You)
    Published: 2013
    Mocking the government's 'War on Drugs'.
66. Carson, Kevin: On Translating Securityspeak into English
    In the Land of False Cognates
    Published: 2012
    The Security State has its own language: Securityspeak. Like Newspeak, the ideologically refashioned successor to English in Orwell’s “1984,” Securityspeak is designed to obscure meaning and conceal truth, rather than convey them.
67. Carson, Kevin: Public Enemy Number One: the Public
    Keeping Us in the Dark and Under Watch
    Published: 2013
    Those in power use language to obscure meaning more often than to convey it. Their power depends on keeping us — the enemy — in the dark.
68. Carson, Kevin: State Law Breakers
    Violating the Law While Enforcing the Law
    Published: 2013
    Police routinely break the law under the pretext of enforcing the law.
69. Carson, Neil: Harlequin in Hogtown
    George Luscombe and Toronto Workshop Productions
    Published: 1995
    
70. Carter, Adam: Hamilton anarchist space, The Tower, has been vandalized
    Published: 2018
    The city's local anarchist social centre, The Tower, has been vandalized. The damage comes days after a masked mob that dubbed itself "The Ungovernables" caused $100,000 in damage during a vandalism spree on Locke Street.
71. Carter, Adam: Ten of the best union songs of all time
    Published: 2017
    From Woodie Guthrie to Buce Springsteen, ten great songs written about workers or the union movement.
72. Carter, Lawrence; McClenaghan, Maeve: Climate 'academics for hire' conceal fossil fuel funding
    Published: 2015
    Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding.
73. Casanova, Giacomo Girolamo: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt1725-1798
    Published: 1894
    The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, by Arthur Symons.
74. Case, Kristen: The Other Public Humanities
    Published: 2014
    Among the conclusions frequently drawn about the heavily reported "crisis in the humanities" is that humanities departments are woefully out of touch with today's students, with the new economy, with the public at large.
75. Casey, Liam: Peter Rosenthal’s passions for law and math make for a beautiful, if different, life
    At 72, lawyer and professor is still in love with his two jobs and says he plans to work until he dies.
    Published: 2014
    Peter Rosenthal has died several times. Once he died in court when his heart stopped. Each time doctors brought him back. Now he is dying a different death in front of a University of Toronto math class.
76. Casey, Ruairi: Palestinian artists targeted in Germany ahead of major art event
    Published: 2022
    Exhibition space for Kassel's documenta 15 art festival vandalised, as threats to Palestinian artists in Germany escalate.
77. Casey, Ruairi: South Sudan: Volunteers Gather Names of South Sudan's Uncounted War Dead
    Published: 2017
    The names of 5,000 victims of violence appear in the "Remembering the Ones We Lost" project, a memorial to people who have died in seven decades of conflict.The project invites witnesses to submit details of killings or disappearances through an online form or by text message, the information is then collated by volunteers.
78. Cashman, Kevin: Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars
    Published: 2016
    In the near future, it is likely that cities will come under intense pressure to sacrifice public transportation in favor of new, private, car-dependent alternatives, even at a time when city planners are suggesting reducing or even eliminating car use in cities.The article looks into the benefits of the new technologies, as well as benefits of public transit.
79. Cashore, Harvey: CRA signs secret settlement with wealthy KPMG clients involved in offshore tax scheme
    Watchdog group accuses the Liberals of covering up the KPMG affair
    Published: 2019
    The Canada Revenue Agency has settled out of court and off the record with large tax avoiders. This follows years of promises to crack down on tax evasion and have more transparency at the CRA.
80. Cassel, Elaine: What's Driving Got to Do With It? How the DMV is Conscripted to Do the Dirty Work of the Criminal Justice System
    Published: 2016
    In the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri protests of the death of Michael Brown in 2014, articles were written about the exorbitant fines assessed against residents of Ferguson, mostly minorities, and how these fines both led to and exacerbated a cycle of incarceration and poverty.
81. Castro, Daniel: The Truce
    How the United States helped spoil a plan to end gang violence in El Salvador
    Published: 2019
    For over twenty years, Mijango argues, the overwhelming influence of the United States on Salvadoran law enforcement has led to tremendous mistakes in security policy. Mijango believes that the United States pressured the Salvadoran attorney general’s office to prosecute him because it had opposed the negotiations from the beginning.
82. Catterall, Peter Paul: Green nationalism? How the far right could learn to love the environment
    Published: 2017
    Myths of a pagan past in harmony with nature have been a feature of green nationalism, from its beginnings through to the Anastasia ecovillages in contemporary Russia where - unlike their equivalent hippy communes found in the West - sustainable living is combined with a 'reactionary eco-nationalism'. Could it happen here too?
83. Cayley, David: Concerning Life
    An Open Letter to Jean- Pierre Dupuy and Wolfgang Palaver
    Published: 2021
    "Saving lives" has justified every policy adopted to counteract the pandemic during the last year, and life is likely to continue as the sacred sign in which the revised social order that emerges from the pandemic will root its legitimacy. Accordingly, it seems important to seek some clarity on what is now meant by this word.
84. Cayley, David: The Prognosis
    Looking the consequences in the eye
    Published: 2020
    What has impressed me about the coronavirus is the extent to which its fearsome reputation has eclipsed and occasionally exceeded its actual effects. This is not to deny that some of these effects have been, in places, quite terrible. It is only to point out that the myth of the pandemic -- the story that already clothed it upon arrival -- has sometimes had more influence on policy than the facts of the matter, which are more difficult to ascertain.
85. CBC News: Banks got $114B from governments during recession
    Published: 2012
    Canada's biggest banks accepted tens of billions in government funds during the recession, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
86. CBC News: Delta says 740 flights cancelled after worldwide system outage
    Flights already en route operating normally, U.S. airline says
    Published: 2016
    Delta Air Lines says it has cancelled 740 flights after a power outage that began overnight knocked out its computer systems and operations worldwide.
87. CBC News: Hackers can record everything you type on certain wireless keyboards
    Some low-end wireless keyboards send keystrokes to your computer completely unencrypted, say researchers
    Published: 2016
    A computer security research team has identified a weakness in several brands of low-cost wireless keyboards that could allow hackers to view and record every word, number and password typed by a user from up to about 75 metres away. According to Bastille, an Atlanta-based research team, eight wireless keyboards made by companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Radio Shack and Toshiba send keystroke data from the board to the USB dongle that connects to your computer without the encryption needed to mask what someone is typing.
88. Ceccarelli, Salvatore: The Centrality of Seed: Building Agricultural Resilience Through Plant Breeding
    Published: 2016
    Five of the global issues most frequently debated today are the decline of biodiversity in general and of agrobiodiversity in particular, climate change, hunger and malnutrition, poverty and water. Seed is central to all five issues. The way in which seed is produced has been arguably their major cause. But it can also be the solution to all these issues.
89. Celikates, Robin: Heidegger and National Socialism
    New Contributions to an Old Debate - Reviewed by Robin Celikates
    Published: 2006
    
90. Centeno, Jimmy: Death of an Activist in Venezuela: In Memory of Orlando Figueroa
    Published: 2017
    Highlighting the death of a political activist in Venezuala by the utra-right, which uses brutality, murder and ecological destruction to pursue their goal of recuperating control over the oil producing nation.
91. Certo, Peter: Trump's Worst Collusion Isn't With Russia -- It's With Corporations
    Published: 2017
    Many leading liberals suspect that Trump worked with Russia to win his election, but we've long known that huge corporations and wealthy individuals threw their weight behind the billionaire.
92. Cervantes, Miguel de: Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
    
93. Chaballa, Jeanette: South Africa: Former Pharmacist Runs Children's Library Out of Shipping Container
    Published: 2017
    Reporting on the work of Muzi Nkosi, a South African former pharmacist who runs a library for children.
94. Chacos, Brad: Microsoft accuses Microsoft of copyright infringement, asks Google to scrub search links
    Published: 2013
    Over the past year, copyright holders such as Microsoft, the Recording Industry Association of America, NBC, Walt Disney, and others have started blasting Google with vast numbers of takedown requests. Copyright holders hit the search engine with 3.5 to 4.5 million takedown requests each and every week. Between January and July 2013, Google erased more than 100 million links from the web as a result of DMCA takedown requests.
95. Chacón, Justin Akers: ICE: The making of an American Gestapo
    Published: 2018
    Justin Akers Chacón, author of Radicals in the Barrio and co-author with Mike Davis of No One Is Illegal, takes an in-depth look at the troubling history and practices of a government agency that more and more people are calling to be abolished.
96. Chai, Jing: Under the Dome
    Published: 2015
    A self-financed Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing, a former China Central Television journalist, concerning air pollution in China. It is narrated by Chai, who presents the results of her year-long research mostly in the form of a lecture.
97. Chait, Jonathan: How Hitler's Rise to Power Explains Why Republications Accept Donald Trump
    Published: 2016
    To watch Donald Trump rant and rave uncontrollably on the stump and on Twitter -- praising Saddam Hussein for his disregard for civil liberties, insisting the anti-Semitic propaganda he inadvertently borrowed from neo-Nazis is as innocent as a Disney poster -- is to ponder the psychology of a party that would entrust supreme executive authority to a racist, nationalistic, power-worshiping demagogue.
    
    To be perfectly clear, Trump is not Hitler or a Nazi. Trump’s racism is not of the genocidal variety, and he is committed neither to a program of Darwinian racial conquest nor the principled imposition of one-party rule. If President Trump does start a world war, it would probably be as a result of blundering rather than a long-term master plan. But the two figures do have certain traits in common relative to the political environments they inhabit.
98. Chakrabortty, Aditya: I'm Bengali and I'm black - in the same way that my parents were
    Published: 2014
    Asians may be seen as a distinct today but in the 1980s they and other immigrants identified as Black due to common struggles with racism and discrimination.
99. Chandler, Bill: Voter Suppression Hits Mississippi
    Against The Current vol. 163
    Published: 2013
    Concerns regarding the polarization of voting in Mississippi between classses and actions taken with the apparent goal of suppressing the non-white opposition.
100. Chandler, David; Landrigan, India: Journalist's Guide to Covering Bioterrorism
     Second Edition
     Published: 2004
     The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation has published "A Journalist's Guide to Covering Bioterrorism" to help reporters and producers tackle these stories. Among this guide's features:
     - Specific information on biological weapons, including when they've been used in the past, how an attack might unfold and what countries have them
     - Details about possible bioweapons, including information about infection, prevalence and treatment
     - A list of national and local contacts
     - A glossary of terms
101. Chang, Mayu: Chevron Wins Ecuador Arbitration But Money May Go To Amazon Communities
     Published: 2014
     The Dutch Supreme Court recently upheld an arbitration tribunal judgment requiring the Ecuadorean government to pay Chevron $106 million for breach of contract. Ironically, activists say Ecuador is now free to hand this money to indigenous communities who have sued the oil giant for pollution in an unrelated case.
102. Chapman, Dave: The Hydroponic Threat to Organic Food
     Published: 2019
     The US Department of Agriculture is approving methods as "Certified Organic" which are contrary to the principles of organic, sustainable agriculture. This is done mostly to comply with the demands of large agribusiness companies.
103. Charumbria, Ruramisai: I Am Definitely Not Leaving without A Degree
     A View from the Crossroads of Informal and Formal Learning - The Transitional Year Program at the University of Toronto
     Published: 2001
     Published in Toronto: OISE Research Report, 2001
104. Charvet, Shelle Rose: Words That Work
     Published: 2010
     Despite sea change in customer attitudes, companies are still talking down to their clientele. All it takes is a subtle shift in your marketing language to produce noticeable results.
105. Chatterjee, Pratap: Bangladeshi Tribals Evicted For Tea Plantation Expansion
     Published: 2015
     A Bangladeshi company has been accused of using armed men to evict ethnic minority communities in order to expand a tea plantation in Sreemangal in northeastern Bangladesh.
106. Chatterjee, Pratap: Data Secrecy Company Accused of Sharing Information with Media and Military
     Published: 2014
     Whisper -- a new social network that claims to provide anonymity -- has been accused of secretly tracking users. The allegations were made by the Guardian newspaper, provoking renewed scrutiny of a multitude of data privacy claims made by software companies.
107. Chatterjee, Pratap: Ernst & Young Pays $10 Million To Settle Lehman Brothers Audit Failure Lawsuit
     Published: 2015
     Ernst & Young, one of the Big Four auditing firms, has agreed to pay a $10 million to New York state to settle a lawsuit for overlooking accounting gimmicks by Lehman Brothers, the defunct Wall Street bank. The scheme allowed Lehman to hide billions of dollars in bad deals.
108. Chatterjee, Pratap: EuroZone Profiteers: How German and French Banks Helped Bankrupt Greece
     Published: 2015
     We should be clear: almost none of the huge amount of money loaned to Greece has actually gone there, says Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and a Nobel Prize winner in economics. It has gone to pay out private-sector creditors – including German and French banks.
109. Chatterjee, Pratap: Failed Cuban "Twitter" Project Designed By U.S. Government Contractors
     Published: 2014
     ZunZuneo - a now defunct social media platform similar to Twitter – was designed to undermine the Cuban government by two private contractors: Creative Associates International (CAI) from Washington DC and Mobile Accord, a Denver based company.
110. Chatterjee, Pratap: G4S To End Israel Prison Contracts Following Protests
     Published: 2014
     G4S, the Anglo-Danish security contractor, has agreed to withdraw from prison work in Israel after activists disrupted the company annual general meeting for the second year in a row. The company is also under fire for ill-treatment of detainees in the UK, including the death of an Angolan man.
111. Chatterjee, Pratap: Navajo Diné Fight Uranium Resources Inc. Mining Permits In New Mexico
     Published: 2016
     The Navajo Diné community have notched up a victory over Uranium Resources Inc. decades old plan to dig for uranium at Crownpoint and Churchrock, New Mexico, by successfully appealing a state permit for the Colorado company to dump waste into the Westwater Canyon aquifer.
112. Chatterjee, Pratap: Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed
     Published: 2015
     Reporters have named eleven companies that have won millions of dollars in contracts to plug a shortage in personnel needed to analyze the thousands of hours of streaming video gathered daily from the remotely piloted aircraft that hover over war zones around the world.
113. Chatterjee, Pratap: Selling your Secrets
     The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters
     Published: 2014
     The documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the world of NSA mass surveillance involves close partnerships with a series of companies most of us have never heard of that design or probe the software we all take for granted to help keep our digital lives humming along.
114. Chatterjee, Pratap: Smartphone Game Data Targeted by NSA
     Angry Birds Cited
     Published: 2014
     Millennial Media, a Baltimore based ad company, creates “intrusive” profiles of users of smartphone applications and games like Angry Birds, according to documents leaked to the media by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Such profiles have been exploited by intelligence authorities like the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), say investigative journalists.
115. Chatterjee, Pratap: Uber Plans to Track Users Should Not Be Allowed, Says Privacy Group
     Published: 2015
     A formal complaint has been filed against Uber, the car ride company, by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a non-profit advocacy group. The NGO says Uber plans to use their smart phone app to access user's locations at all times, and to send advertisements to user's contact lists.
116. Chatterjee, Pratap: Uber Used Clandestine Technology Tool To Thwart Police Raids
     Published: 2018
     Uber uses a number of technological tools for tax evasion, undermining competition and monitoring customers and drivers.
117. Chatterjee, Pratap: U.S. Government Buys Surveillance Technology To Track Drivers in Real Time
     Published: 2015
     Local government officials have the ability to track individual drivers in the U.S. in real time and take pictures of the occupants of their vehicles, with new "truly Orwellian" technology purchased from companies like Vigilant Solutions, according to new documents uncovered by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
118. Chatterjee, Pratap: World Bank Orders Venezuela To Pay Crystallex $1.4 Billion For Gold Mine
     Published: 2016
     The World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has ordered the government of Venezuela to pay $1.386 billion to Crystallex, a bankrupt Canadian gold mining company, for canceling a 2002 permit to mine for gold in the Imataca Forest Reserve.
119. Chatterjee,Pratap: Deutsche Bank Pays $2.5 Billion Fine For Interest Rate Rigging
     Published: 2015
     Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay out $2.5 billion fine to settle U.K. and U.S. government investigations into allegations of fixing global interest rates, months after 6 other banks paid out $4.3 billion on similar charges. Activists say that the banks should have faced criminal charges.
120. Chatterji, Angana: For Dissent Against Hindu Extremism
     Published: 2002
     The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Bajrang Dal, and other Hindu extremist organisations, collectively known as the Sangh Parivar (Hindu fundamentalist family of organisations), are utilising religion to foment communal violence toward organising ultra right, non-secular and undemocratic nationalism in India.
121. Chaudhury, Aadita: Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike
     White supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the 'Aryan race'.
     Published: 2018
     Many members of the so-called "alt-right" - a loosely knit coalition of populists, white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis - turned to India to find historic and current justifications for their racist, xenophobic and divisive views.
122. Chaufan, Claudia: Why U.S.-Style Health Reform Does Not Work and What to Do about It
     Published: 2015
     Ending the corporate domination of healthcare is part of breaking the domination of the corporate class over our government and our lives. The task is to organize a mass movement that refuses to treat healthcare as a commodity.
123. Chauvier, Jean-Marie: Russia's other October revolution
     How did we get from perestroika to Putin?
     Published: 2014
     Explaining contemporary Russia as the product of Boris Yeltsin's insistence to enforce a neoliberal economy.
124. Chaver, Yael: Anti-Yiddish Riots: September 27, 1930
     Published: 2012
     A mob of several thousand Jews protested outside the Mograbi Theater in Tel Aviv on this date in 1930 against the screening of one of the first feature-length Yiddish-language talkie movies,“My Jewish Mother”.
125. Chavez, Cesar: Cesar Chavez Quotes
     
126. Chavkin, Sasha: How to unearth public records: a global guide
     Published: 2013
     Among the most basic building blocks of powerful investigative reporting are public records – government documents that provide bulletproof evidence of anything from a change in water quality to the ownership of a company or tract of land. In the United States, Freedom of Information laws date back nearly half a century, and although there are growing obstacles, journalists generally operate under a presumption of the right to access. In most of the world, however, Freedom of Information laws are less than two decades old.
127. Chavkin, Sasha: Lobbyists for the havens: ICIJ's guide to the offshore system's defenders
     Published: 2013
     Across the world, tax havens are under attack. Leading global organizations like the G20 and OECD have put cracking down on offshore tax avoidance at the top of their agendas. Ambitious plans for automatic sharing of tax data between countries are in the works.
128. Chavkin, Sasha: Tax havens face crisis in wake of Offshore Leaks, report says
     Published: 2013
     ICIJ’s “Offshore Leaks” investigation has created a “crisis of confidence” for tax havens, damaging the offshore industry’s bottom line and its prospects for growth, a new report by a leading offshore services firm says.
129. Chavkin, Sasha; Greene, Ronnie; ICIJ: Island of the Widows
     Published: 2011
     Mysterious kidney disease in Central America.
130. Chavkin, Sasha; Hallman, Ben; Hudson, Michael, Schilis-Gallego, Cecile; Shifflett, Shane: How the World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor
     Published: 2015
     The World Bank has broken its promise. Over the past decade, the bank has regularly failed to enforce its rules, with devastating consequences for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet, an investigation has found.
131. Checker, Melissa: Double Jeopardy: Carbon Offsets and Human Rights Abuses
     Published: 2009
     Whether you're a climate change denier or doomsayer, an avid recycler or rabid consumer of plastic bottles, there is one very good but little-known reason to oppose carbon offsets: their immediate and dire human costs.
132. Chediac, Joyce: The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on "The Highway of Death"
     Excerpted from the book War Crimes: A report on United States war crimes against Iraq
     Published: 1992
     I want to give testimony on what are called the "highways of death." These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with UN resolutions. U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot. The horror is still there to see.
133. Chekhov, Anton: Anton Chekhov Quotes
     
134. Chelala, Cesar: Bringing Books and Seeking Peace in Colombia
     Bringing Peace to a Beleaguered Country
     Published: 2014
     A teacher, two donkeys, and a big pile of books are working to enrich the lives of the children in a small community in Colombia.
135. Chelala, Cesar: Destruction of Palestinian olive trees is a monstrous crime
     Published: 2015
     The uprooting and cutting down of over a million olive and fruit trees in occupied Palestine since 1967 is an attack on a symbol of life, and on Palestinian culture and survival. A grave crime under international humantarian law, the arboricide is also contrary to Jewish religious teachings.
136. Chelala, Cesar: The Drug Companies' Expansion Into Emerging Markets
     Profit, Drugs, and International Markets
     Published: 2013
     Faced with declining prescription drug sales in the U.S., and having lost patent protection for many profitable drugs, the drug industry is relying increasingly in new markets such as China and other fast developing countries, such as those in Africa. That expansion, however, is oftentimes tainted by unsavory commercial practices.
137. Chelala, Cesar: Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from Israel
     Published: 2018
     In spite of a systemic policy of demonization, Israeli journalist and human rights activist Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government and the crimes against Palestinians.
138. Chemin, Anne: France Remains Faithful to Food as Meals Continue to be a Collective Affair
     Published: 2014
     In France, life is dominated by three shared meals, and it's taboo to break the ritual, writes Anne Chemin.
139. Chemin, Anne: Norway lets fathers do their share
     Paternity leave law has helped to create a quiet revolution in childcare
     Published: 2011
     In Norway, twelve weeks of the forty six weeks of paid parental leave is reserved for the father. If he chooses not to take the leave the time and money is forfeit. The legislation is designed to promote equality in the household as well as the job market and has been adopted in Iceland, Germany and Portugal.
140. Cheney, Glenn: Promised Land
     Will Brazil's rural poor ever inherit the earth?
     Published: 2013
     Article on the historical rural poverty of the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
141. Cheong, Ian Miles: Archaeology is under attack from wokeness
     Published: 2022
     Identifying the sex of ancient remains must stop, woke academics are demanding. If they have their way, it will be a scientific disaster.
142. Chery, Dady: Antarctica's Accelerating Ice Collapse
     Massive Sea Level Rise in Decades
     Published: 2014
     Imagine Antarctica. Imagine an island, with mountains, peaks, ridges, and valleys. Imagine further that a thick layer of ice covers, not only the surface of the island that lies above the sea but also an extensive portion of the perimeter that is beneath the sea. The peaks are higher above sea level than on any continent. In winter, the sea freezes because temperatures drop to less than -80 degrees Celsius (-112 degrees Farenheight), and the island’s area grows to about 10 million square miles. In summer when some of the ice melts, the ice cover remains on average more than a mile thick, although the overall surface area of the island shrinks to about five million square miles. Even in summer, however, the island is still larger than Europe or Australia. It is Antarctica, and it is impossible to imagine.
143. Chesnaux, Romain: In northeastern BC, over 10% of oil and gas wells are leaking methane
     There is no monitoring program for abandoned wells, so they can leak for a long time before emissions are detected and repaired.
     Published: 2020
     Northeastern British Columbia has been a major centre of conventional oil and gas production since the 1960s. More recently, the shale gas sector has also targeted the region.
144. Chester,Jeffrey: Under the Radar, Big Media Internet Giants Get Massive Access to Everything About You
     Published: 2015
     The Internet and digital media are becoming a pervasive and manipulative interactive surveillance system. U.S. online companies, while claiming to be supporters of a democratic Internet, are working to have an unlimited and unchecked power to "shadow" us online.
145. Chibber, Vivek: Postcolonial Thought's Blind Alley
     Published: 2014
     Throughout the 20th century, the anchor for anti-colonial movements was, at least for the left, a belief that oppression was wrong wherever it was practised, because it was an affront to basic human needs for dignity, liberty, wellbeing. But now, in the name of anti-Eurocentrism, postcolonial theory has resurrected the cultural essentialism that progressives rightly viewed as the ideological justification for imperial domination. What better excuse to deny peoples their rights than to impugn the idea of rights, and universal interests, as culturally biased? No revival of an international and democratic left is possible unless we clear away these ideas, affirming the universalism of our common humanity, and of the threat to it from a universalising capitalism.
146. Chibber, Vivek; Kalek, Rania; Gosztola, Kevin: Clinton Manipulates Language of Intersectionality to Preserve Support from Minority Voters
     Published: 2016
     The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has been a master class in how to divorce economic issues from issues of race and gender by pushing the language of "intersectionality," which enables the political class to head off threats to their power and protect the status quo.
147. Chicherio, Barbara: Transpacific Partnership and Monsanto
     Published: 2013
     The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has the potential to become the biggest regional Free Trade Agreement in history, both in economic size and the ability to quietly add more countries in addition to those originally included.
148. Chideya, Farai: The Devil Is In the Details: How Patients' Mental Health Data Is At Risk
     Published: 2015
     It seems like "Patient doctor confidentiality" doesn’t apply to other doctors. Overly diligent doctors are free to snoop around in the psychiatric medical records of their patients. As if that weren't bad enough, non-psychiatric doctors can highlight this psychiatric history on their patient's medical records. For Julia, doctors will only ever know her as the "woman with bipolar disorder". Not the "mother with a master’s degree".
149. Chideya, Farai: Medical Privacy Under Threat in the Age of Big Data
     Published: 2015
     Medical privacy is a high-stakes game, in both human and financial terms, given the growing multibillion-dollar legal market for anonymized medical data. The threats to individuals seeking to protect their medical data can come externally, from data breaches; internally, from "rogue employees" and others with access; or through loopholes in regulations.
150. Chideya, Farai: No Child Left Un-Mined? Student Privacy at Risk in the Age of Big Data
     Published: 2015
     Chideya discusses the implications of the compilation of big data trails containing information about children's performance in school.
151. Chilvers, Simon: Why the penis is having a moment in men's fashion
     Published: 2015
     Fashion has found a new obsession: nude men, specifically men with their penises out.
152. Chimienti, Adam: Rafael Correa, the Press, and Whistleblowers
     Corporate Control and Double Standards
     Published: 2013
     There are claims of hypocrisy because of Correa providing asylum to whistleblowers however also passing a Communications Bill that detractors claim is a major blow to a free press.
153. Chipman, John: Corporate Canada pays low taxes but contributes in 'lots of other ways'
     Canada's corporate tax rate has been repeatedly cut for more than a decade
     Published: 2014
     Canadians for Tax Fairness did an analysis of the top 60 companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and found only four companies paid the full corporate rate. More than half paid less than 10 per cent, and 13 firms paid less than five per cent. Corporate shills claim that's OK because they contribute in 'other ways.'
154. Chis, Alex: Recording the Face of Daily Life - Book Review
     Published: 1998
     Humble Work and Mad Wanderings, Street Life in the Machine Age by Ken Appollo (Carl Mautz Publishing, Nevada City, CA, 1997) 108 pages, 61 duotone images, $34.95. Order from Carl Mautz Publishing, 228 Commercial Street, Suite 522, Nevada City, CA, 95959. Shipping $3.50 first book, $1.00 each additional, CA residents add sales tax.
155. Chittum, Ryan: Diamond Dealers in Deep Trouble as Bank Documents Shine Light on Secret Ways
     Published: 2015
     Belgium, centre of the world diamond trade, charges HSBC's Swiss Private Bank with fraud; many dealers under investigation around the world.
156. Chivers, Danny: Tools That Might Help Us
     Published: 2012
     A list of ideas that different groups and social movements have suggested for inclusion in the Rio+20 Final Declaration. At the time of writing, only two -- Planetary Boundaries and the Ombudsperson for Future Generations -- appear to have much chance of getting into the official text.
157. Cho, Jan: Why It’s Ethical to Eat Meat
     Published: 2012
     Eating meat in specific circumstances is ethical; eating meat raised in other circumstances is unethical.
158. Chomsky, Noam: Ceasefires in Which Violations Never Cease
     What's Next for Israel, Hamas, and Gaza?
     Published: 2014
     On August 26th, 2014, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) both accepted a ceasefire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes of destruction behind. The agreement calls for an end to military action by both Israel and Hamas, as well as an easing of the Israeli siege that has strangled Gaza for many years.
159. Chomsky, Noam: Chomsky and His Critics
     Published: 2015
     Noam Chomsky on ISIS, his foreign policy critics, and why socialist ideas are "never far below the surface."
160. Chomsky, Noam: Noam Chomsky Quotes
     
161. Chomsky, Noam: Chomsky on Post-Modernism
     Published: 1995
     What I find in the writings of the post-modernists is extremely pretentious, but on examination, a lot of it is simply illiterate, based on extraordinary misreading of texts that I know well (sometimes, that I have written), argument that is appalling in its casual lack of elementary self-criticism, lots of statements that are trivial (though dressed up in complicated verbiage) or false; and a good deal of plain gibberish.
162. Chomsky, Noam: Destroying the Commons
     How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
     Published: 2012
     Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
163. Chomsky, Noam: Gaza's Torment, Israel's Crimes, Our Responsibilities
     Published: 2014
     It is important to understand what life is like in Gaza when Israel’s behavior is “restrained,” in between the regular manufactured crises like this one. When Israel is on “good behavior,” more than two Palestinian children are killed every week, a pattern that goes back over 14 years. The underlying cause is the criminal occupation and the programs to reduce Palestinian life to bare survival in Gaza, while Palestinians are restricted to unviable cantons in the West Bank and Israel takes over what it wants, all in gross violation of international law and explicit Security Council resolutions, not to speak of minimal decency.
164. Chomsky, Noam: His Right to Say It
     Published: 1981
     Chomsky takes the opportunity to clarify the details of the so-called Faurisson Affair in which he played a catalytic role by signing a controversial petition. He defends his involvement by reiterating and exploring the principle of self-expression irrespective of content.
165. Chomsky, Noam: Human Rights Week 2002
     Published: 2003
     Chomsky details the meaning behind Human Rights Week, despite the lack of enthusiasm in North America. He highlights, in particular, the achievements of the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP).
166. Chomsky, Noam: Humanity Imperiled: The Path To Disaster
     Published: 2013
     For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence.
167. Chomsky, Noam: Humanity Once Came to the Cliff's Edge of Total Self-Annihilation -- Let's Make Sure It Never Happens Again
     Revisiting the catastrophe that almost was
     Published: 2012
     The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the crisis was officially ended -- though unknown to the public, only officially.
168. Chomsky, Noam: Impressions of Gaza
     Published: 2012
     Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison, where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror and arbitrary punishment.
169. Chomsky, Noam: Introduction: Project Censored 25th Anniversary
     In Peter Phillips (ed.), Project Censored 2001
     Published: 2001
     Chomsky examines "Project Censored" and its contents, revealing a telling pattern: the stories all appeal to public rather corporate-state interests. Such an observation poses questions of media ownership and censorship in relationship to democracy.
170. Chomsky, Noam: Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid
     Published: 2012
     With the quadrennial presidential election extravaganza reaching its peak, it’s useful to ask how the political campaigns are dealing with the most crucial issues we face. The simple answer is: badly, or not at all. If so, some important questions arise: why, and what can we do about it?
171. Chomsky, Noam: The Leading Terrorist State
     Published: 2014
     "It's official: The U.S. is the world's leading terrorist state, and proud of it." That should have been the headline for the lead story in The New York Times on Oct. 15, which was more politely titled "CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels."
172. Chomsky, Noam: The Manipulation of Fear
     Resort to Fear
     Published: 2005
     Chomsky discusses the effects of using fear as a control mechanism to manipulate the population.
173. Chomsky, Noam: Media Control and Indoctrination in the United States
     An Interview With Catherine Komp
     Published: 2013
     An excerpt from the just released 2nd edition of Noam Chomsky’s OCCUPY: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity.
174. Chomsky, Noam: The Menace of Liberal Scholarship
     Published: 1969
     Noam Chomsky builds upon Senator Fullbright's criticism of social science scholars which suggests that they have failed to act as independent critics of government policies and having instead become agents. Chomsky agrees with Fullbright that this phenomena betrays public trust and states that the subversion of scholarship is a threat to society as a whole. He reveals several causes of this subversion, for example the access to power, shared ideology, and professionalization. Through the presentation of the positions of numerous scholars, he explores this malady and points to the potential of the intellectual community to revolutionize this tradition of scholarship though a more humane, objective, and independent movement.
175. Chomsky, Noam: Noam Chomsky: Palestine 2012 - Gaza and the UN resolution
     Published: 2012
     An analysis of the political context of Gaza since the first free elections in the Middle East were held.
176. Chomsky, Noam: On Academic Labor
     How Higher Education Ought to Be
     Published: 2014
     An edited transcript of remarks given by Noam Chomsky on 4 February 2014 to a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, PA.
177. Chomsky, Noam: The Paranoia of The Superrich And Superpowerful
     Published: 2013
     The United States is in favor of stability. But you have to remember what stability means. Stability means conformity to U.S. orders. We “stabilize” countries when we invade them and destroy them.
178. Chomsky, Noam: Rationality/Science
     Published: 1995
     Chomsky writes: "It strikes me as remarkable that the left today should seek to deprive oppressed people not only of the joys of understanding and insight, but also of tools of emancipation, informing us that the "project of the Enlightenment" is dead, that we must abandon the "illusions" of science and rationality--a message that will gladden the hearts of the powerful, delighted to monopolize these instruments for their own use."
179. Chomsky, Noam: A Review of NATO's War over Kosovo
     Published: 2001
     In wake of the end of the Kosovo conflict, Chomsky attempts a dispassionate analysis of the crisis, differentiating between two approaches available to the international community in such situations.
180. Chomsky, Noam: The Sledgehammer Worldview
     Published: 2014
     The U.S.-U.K. invasion of Iraq was a textbook example of aggression. Apologists invoke noble intentions, which would be irrelevant even if the pleas were sustainable. The destructive consequences of such aggression are clear, as evidenced in numerous historical examples of violent imperialism.
181. Chomsky, Noam: Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
     Published: 1980
     It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
182. Chomsky, Noam: Somebody Else's Atrocities
     Published: 2012
     Atrocities commited by official enemies are routinely condemned, but atrocities for which our own country is responsible are rarely mentioned.
183. Chomsky, Noam: US Approach to Ukraine and Russia Has Left the Domain of Rational Discourse
     Published: 2022
     
184. Chomsky, Noam: US-Haiti
     Published: 2004
     By examining the role of the USA in the tragedy of Haiti, Chomsky highlights the democracy deficit and failure of the American state. He calls for those concerned to take on the task at home of paying reparations and restoring the substance of democracy.
185. Chomsky, Noam: We Are All – Fill in the Blank
     Published: 2015
     We should condemn violence and terror, and defend freedom of the press. We should do so on the basis of consistent principles -- in contrast to the mainstream media and politicians, who condemn acts directed at 'us' but condone or ignore crimes committed by 'our side'.
186. Chomsky, Noam: We're facing a new Cold War
     Published: 2015
     The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes.
187. Chomsky, Noam: What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
     Published: 2007
     Noam Chomsky reverses roles and questions how America would respond if a threatening invader took over Canada or Mexico in a "liberation" attempt. Would America stand by quietly?
188. Chomsky, Noam: What Is the Common Good?
     Published: 2014
     Humans are social beings, and the kind of creature that a person becomes depends crucially on the social, cultural and institutional circumstances of his life. We are therefore led to inquire into the social arrangements that are conducive to people's rights and welfare, and to fulfilling their just aspirations - in brief, the common good.
189. Chomsky, Noam: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
     Published: 1997
     Noam Chomsky shares his approach to analyzing media and reveals the meaning and consequence of the strategic design of communication.
190. Chomsky, Noam: What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel
     The savage punishment of Gaza traces back to decades ago.
     Published: 2012
     An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.”
191. Chomsky, Noam; Goodman, Amy: Chomsky on Trump's Climate Denialism
     He wants us to march toward the destruction of the species
     Published: 2016
     Transcript of an interview with Noam Chomsky discussing Donald Trump's denial of climate change and the dangers it poses.
192. Chomsky, Noam; Goodman, Amy; Mate, Aaron: Why Israel's Netanyahu Is So Desperate to Prevent Peace with Iran
     The distinguished professor lays bare Israel's motives
     Published: 2015
     For both Prime Minister Netanyahu and the hawks in Congress, the primary goal is to undermine any potential negotiation that might settle whatever issue there is with Iran, says Noam Chomsky.
193. Chomsky, Noam; Herman, Edward S.: Distortions at Fourth Hand
     Published: 1977
     Chomsky addresses the issue of "freedom of the press". He points out that while publications that shun eyewitness accounts of the situation in post-war Vietnam have a daily circulation of approx. 250 000, smaller publications which rely on these firsthand testimonies reach a limited audience. In this fashion, Chomsky warns of the dangers of accepting only what filters through to the American public, as it is "a seriously distorted version of the evidence available".
194. Chomsky, Noam; Polychroniou, C.J.: Horror Beyond Description: Noam Chomsky on the Latest Phase of the War on Terror
     An interview with Noam Chomsky
     Published: 2015
     Does the "war on terror" make sense? Is it an effective policy? And how different is the current phase of the "war on terror" from the two previous phases that occurred under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush's administrations, respectively? Moreover, who really benefits from the "war on terror"? And what's the link between the US military-industrial complex and war making?
195. Chonghaile, Clar Ni: Kenyan grafitti artists target vulture politicians
     Published: 2012
     A crew of Kenyan grafitti artists are making murals that urge citizens not to re-elect corrupt politicians who have a legacy of exploiting tribal differences to gain power.
196. Chossudovsky, Michel: Regime Change in Ukraine and the IMF's Bitter "Economic Medicine"
     Published: 2014
     In the days following the Ukraine coup d’Etat of February 23, 2014, leading to the ousting of a duly elected president, Wall Street and the IMF -- in liaison with the US Treasury and the European Commission in Brussels -- had already set the stage for the outright takeover of Ukraine's monetary system.
197. Chouinard, Vera: Challenging Law's Empire
     Rebellion, Incorporation, and Changing Geographies of Power in Ontario's Legal Clinic System
     Published: 1998
     Published in Studies in Political Economy 55 (Spring 1998)
198. Chouinard, Vera: State Formation and the Politics of Place
     The Case of Community Legal Aid Clinics
     Published: 1990
     Published in Political Geography Quarterly 9.1 (January 1990)
199. Chow,Heidi: Ghana's women farmers resist the G7 plan to grab Africa's seeds
     Published: 2015
     Sharing and saving seed is a crucial part of traditional farming all over Africa. Governments, backed by multinational seed companies, are imposing oppressive seed laws that attack the continent's main food producers and open the way to industrial agribusiness.
200. Chowdhury, Anis; Sundaram, Jomo Kwame: COVID-19: Vietnam Winning New War Against Invisible Enemy
     Published: 2020
     The World Economic Forum, the Financial Times and others laud Vietnam as a low cost Covid-19 success story to be emulated by poor countries with limited resources, say Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
201. Chowdhury, Farooque: Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom
     Published: 2013
     
202. Christensen, Christian: Why Opposing Islamophobia is not a Defense of Extremism
     Standing Up Against Knee-Jerk Discrimination and Xenophobia
     Published: 2012
     Recent events have generated a lot of debate about Islam, Muslims, free speech and Islamophobia. Unfortunately, much of that debate has fallen back upon rather tired arguments about not only what "Muslims are like" but also how those who oppose Islamophobia are somehow defending repression or appeasing extremists.
203. Christian Peacemaker Teams: Occupation captured
     Published: 2017
     Photos of Palestinian life and Israeli occupation in the West Bank city of Hebron.
204. Christina, Greta: Jealousy, Friendship, and Bisexual Chopped Liver
     Published: 2008
     According to this theory, bisexuals could never, ever have any friends at all. We couldn't be friends with gay men, straight men, straight women, lesbians. And we definitely couldn't be friends with other bisexuals. According to this theory, the fact that we're attracted to both women and men makes us ineligible to be friends with anybody, of any gender, ever.
205. Christoff, Stefan: Canadian hands involved in Gaza bombings
     Details on Canadian complicity in Israeli apartheid
     Published: 2014
     Aside from sustained Conservative diplomatic cheerleading for Israel, one key element of Canada's implication less in the public eye but very important, is the key role that many Canadian companies are playing in creating the military devices and technologies now involved in carrying out the deadly bombing raids in Gaza.
206. Christopher, Renny: Reading Red Women Writers
     Published: 1996
     Coiner makes a cogent case for class studies, decrying the way in which discussions of "race, class and gender" usually only actually deal with race and gender.
207. chuang: Dagong Diary, Part 1: Job Hunting
     Published: 2015
     Part 1 of a seven-part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year.
208. chuang: Dagong Diary, Part 2: Proper Hiring Begins
     Published: 2015
     The following is part 2 of a seven part series recording a short excursion into the lives of dagongzai and dagongmei at the beginning of China’s working year.
209. Chuckman, John: This Is What War Does
     Published: 2015
     Modern war is mass killing of civilians, always and everywhere, a practice which evolved in World War II and has done nothing but progress in that direction since. Even when they aren’t the actual targets, as in America’s nightmarish assassination-by-drone project, large numbers of dead or mangled civilians are the unavoidable consequence.
210. Chughtai, Alia: Pakistan's Women's March: Shaking patriarchy 'to its core'
     Young activists and their older counterparts explain why they are uniting to fight for women's rights in Pakistan.
     Published: 2020
     Thousands of women have marched across Pakistan's main urban centres to mark International Women's Day. 2020 is the third successive year that the Aurat March, women's march, has been held in the country.
211. Chung, Emily: Ancient bison fossils offer hints about 1st humans in southern Canada
     Published: 2016
     The fossils of bison that roamed near what is now Edmonton 13,000 years ago are helping solve the mystery of the earliest humans in southern Canada, including how and when they got there and where they came from.
212. Chung, Emily: Nest's move to stop supporting Revolv smart hub leaves customers with costly 'brick'
     Internet of Things customers need to be aware what will and will not work without internet
     Published: 2016
     Here's a major downside to the so-called Internet of Things -- companies can potentially disconnect your smart devices and leave them essentially useless at any time.
213. Church, Elizabeth: If you're a new Canadian, 'you go to university'
     Variety of social factors cause first-and second-generation Canadians to attend university far in excess of non-immigrant children
     Published: 2009
     An investigation into the factors that contribute to the very high university attendance rate for second generation immigrants and first generation immigrants who came to Canada as children as reported by Statistics Canada. The reporter found that strong family bonds and parental expectations are important factors.
214. Churchill, David S: Personal Ad Politics
     Race, Sexuality and Power at The Body Politic
     Published: 2003
     Published in Labour/Le Travail 8.2 (2003)
215. Churchill, David S: SUPA, Selma, and Stevenson
     The Politics of Solidarity in mid-1960s Toronto
     Published: 2010
     Published in Journal of Canadian Studies, 41 (Spring 2010)
216. Ciccarielle-Maher, George; King, Mike: American Blowback
     Cop-on-Cop Crime in LA
     Published: 2013
     
217. Ciccariello-Maher, George: The Ballot and the Bullet
     Election Diary, Venezuela
     Published: 2012
     The 2012 Venezuelan election, like Chávez himself, is the result of something far more profound that has been developing for decades, and which has accelerated considerably in recent years.
218. Ciccariello-Maher, George: Preparing for a Post-Chávez Venezuela
     Not One Step Backward, Ni Un Paso Atrás
     Published: 2013
     Hugo Chávez is no more, and yet the symbolic importance of the Venezuelan President that exceeded his physical persona in life, providing a condensation point around which popular struggles coalesced, will inevitably continue to function long after his death.
219. Clair, Jeffrey: Rage, Race and Violence on the Western Range
     The Origins of the Rancher Insurrection
     Published: 2014
     Ranchers have openly defied federal environmental regulations, built private roads and water structures on public lands and used bellicose tactics to hold off enforcement actions by rangers from the Forest Service and the BLM.
220. Claire: Sex, Gender, and the New Essentialism
     Published: 2017
     A series of essays on sex, gender, and sexuality.
221. Clanchy, Kate: How sensitivity readers corrupt literature
     Published: 2022
     They sullied my memoir to suit their agenda
222. Clark, Andrew: Handcuffed and herded
     My big Alpine adventure with Switzerland's police
     Published: 2011
     A journalist at the World Economic Forum Summit is detained and intimidated along with protestors by Swiss police.
223. Clark, Harry; Shahak, Israel: The CIA and the "Peace Process" - Interview
     Published: 1999
     A controversial feature of the torturously negotiated and implemented "Wye Plantation Agreement" is the direct, overt role assigned to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in monitoring Palestinian Authority (PA) implementation of the "security provisions."
224. Clark, Harry; Shahak, Israel: The Future of Israel and Palestine - Interview
     Published: 1999
     The first part of this interview with the Israeli human rights campaigner Professor Israel Shahak appeared in our previous issue ("The `Peace Process' and the CIA," ATC 78).
225. Clark, James: Occupy Everywhere
     Against The Current vol. 158
     Published: 2012
     The decision by Time magazine to name “the protester” its Person of the Year was largely a response to the two major events that bookended 2011: the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement.
226. Clark, Jennifer: Aborigines & Activisim
     Race, Aborigines & the Coming of the Sixties to Australia
     Published: 2008
     
227. Clark, Katrina: My Father Was an Anonymous Sperm Donor
     Published: 2006
     Those of us in the first documented generation of donor babies -- conceived in the late 1980s and early '90s, when sperm banks became more common and donor insemination began to flourish -- are coming of age, and we have something to say. I'm here to tell you that emotionally, many of us are not keeping up. We didn't ask to be born into this situation, with its limitations and confusion. It's hypocritical of parents and medical professionals to assume that biological roots won't matter to the "products" of the cryobanks' service, when the longing for a biological relationship is what brings customers to the banks in the first place. We offspring are recognizing the right that was stripped from us at birth -- the right to know who both our parents are.
228. Clark, Matthew: On the bookshelf: A matter of style (book review)
     Published: 2003
     
229. Clark, Neil: Banning The Conspiracist David Icke Is Wrong & Actually Strengthens His Case That We're Sleepwalking towards Dictatorship
     Published: 2020
     The banning of the former TV presenter from Facebook and YouTube is an assault on free speech and free expression which needs to be forcefully resisted, whatever your views are on Icke’s theories on world governance.
230. Clark, Neil: Don't watch RT!
     Published: 2014
     As RT UK launches, attacks on the channel in the British media have stepped up. The latest is a piece by Mr. Cyril Waugh-Monger, a very important newspaper columnist for the NeoCon Daily, a patron of the Senator Joe McCarthy Appreciation Society and author of 'Why the Iraq War was a Brilliant Idea' and 'The Humanitarian Case for Bombing Syria.'
231. Clark, Neil: 'Fake news' & 'post-truth' politics? What about those Iraqi WMDs?
     Published: 2016
     The people and the outlets warning of the dangers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' have been the biggest peddlers of 'fake news' and 'post-truth politics' out there. It's like receiving lectures on the immorality of bootlegging from Al Capone.
232. Clark, Neil: Milosevic exonerated, as the NATO war machine moves on
     Published: 2016
     When Slobodan Milosevic, the former Present of Yugoslavia, was put on trial in 2002 for alleged war crimes, the Western mainstream media went into full hue-and-cry mode in denouncing the man they called "The Butcher of the Balkans." Milosevic's guilt was taken as a given. Anyone who dared to challenge the NATO line was labeled a Milosevic apologist, or a genocide denier, Now, fourteen years later, and ten years after Milosevic died in a prison cell in The Hague without ever having been convicted of anything, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has quietly issued a report which states that, er, well actually, Milosevic was not guilty. That piece of news has been met with complete silence in the same media that trumpted Milosevic's guilt.
233. Clark, Neil: Repeat after me, protests in Venezuela good, protests in France bad!
     Published: 2019
     Anti-government protests in Venezuela and France are treated differently because of the interests the respective presidents - and their opposition - represent.
234. Clark, Neil: Soros & the £400k Question: What constitutes 'foreign interference' in democracy?
     Published: 2018
     The news that US billionaire Soros donated £400k to an anti-Brexit group came on the day that YouTube said they found no evidence of Russian interference in Brexit.
235. Clark, Neil: What if the world started using US logic in its relations with America?
     Published: 2018
     You're sanctioned! You’re bombed! You're invaded! The US has plenty of punishments lined up for states which it claims are doing things wrong. But what if the rest of the world held the US to the same standards?
236. Clark, Nick: How 'dark fishing' sails below the radar to plunder the oceans
     Billions of dollars in illegal and unregulated fish supplies are mixed with legal catches and smuggled into the market.
     Published: 2020
     In September 2019, the Greenpeace campaign ship Arctic Sunrise was scanning the mid-Atlantic ocean, thousands of kilometres from anywhere. On board, investigators were looking for vessels that were doing their best not to be found.
237. Clark, Warren: Goodbye Welfare, Hello Workfare
     Published: 2012
     The world’s richest countries are coercing their citizens to ‘donate’ their labour to big businesses and other organizations in return for welfare payments.
238. Clarke, Arthur C.: Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
     
239. Clarke, Ben: In new book, Ilan Pappé says settler colonialism and apartheid best explain Israeli-Palestinian conflict
     Published: 2016
     An analysis of Ilan Pappe's new book, Israel and South Africa - The Many Faces of Apartheid, and how Israel's settler colonization of Palestinians is similar to apartheid in South Africa.
240. Clarke, George Elliott: Odysseys Home
     Mapping African - Canadian Literature
     Published: 2002
     
241. Clarke, Joe Sandler: Scientists: protect vast Amazon peatland to avoid palm oil 'environmental disaster'
     A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under
     Published: 2017
     The peatland in Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin in northeast Peru - discovered in 2009 by Finnish scientist Outi Lähteenoja - is said to contain 3.14 gigatons of carbon, roughly equivalent to two years of CO2 emissions from the United States. Scientists have said that economic development in the region, like road-building and the arrival of commercial agriculture threatens the important ecosystem.
242. Clarke, Joe Sandler; Howard, Emma: US plastic waste is causing global environmental crisis
     Published: 2018
     A recent ban in China, which normally takes in the largest proportion of US plastic waste, has left the US dumping plastic in other over-burdened countries, while waste still continues to pile up in the States. US plastic scrap exports dropped by almost a third in the first six months of 2018, as waste firms struggled to find a home for their plastic scrap.
243. Claser, April: Campus Activism Against NSA Spying is Growing Fast
     Published: 2014
     EFF has been on the road, traveling to cities and towns across the country to bring our message of digital rights and reform to community and student groups. And while we had the tremendous opportunity to talk about our work and our two lawsuits against the NSA, the best part of the trip was learning about all of the inspiring and transformative activism happening everyday on the local level to combat government surveillance and defend our digital rights.
244. Clastres, Genevieve: Memory as paying business
     Getting a battlefield, the site of tragedy or a memorial museum onto Unesco's World Heritage List is now a shrewd way to increase tourist
     Published: 2015
     A look at how memorials and sites of great tragedy are now being exploited for financial gain as tourist destinations.
245. Claudio Laugeri: Bomb in hard disk sent to Italian newspaper journalist reporting on protests
     Published: 2013
     A bomb concealed as a hard disk could have killed someone: 120 grams of explosive powder were pressed inside a hard disk, which also had a small cable for connecting it to a computer. It was addressed to our colleague Massimo Numa, who has been reporting for some time on Susa Valley and No TAV [High Speed train] issues.
246. Clement, Dominique: The October Crisis of 1970
     Human Rights Abuses Under the War Measures Act
     Published: 2008
     Published in Journal of Canadian studies, 42.2 (Spring 2008)
247. Clements, Nicholas: Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember
     Published: 2017
     Tasmania’s Black War (1824-31) was the most intense frontier conflict in Australia's history. It was a clash between the most culturally and technologically dissimilar humans to have ever come into contact. At stake was nothing less than control of the country, and the survival of a people.
248. Cleveland, John W: New Left, not New Liberal
     1960s Movements in English Canada and Quebec
     Published: 2004
     Published in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 41 (February, 2004)
249. Clift, Elayne: War and Women's Rights
     What Does the Future Hold for Afghan Women?
     Published: 2014
     A discussion of the history, current status, and future of women's rights in Afghanistan.
250. Clifton, Sarah-Jayne: Argentina is Right to Stand up to Greedy US Vultures
     Published: 2014
     Although in a precarious position after a US court ruling on debt repayments, Argentina must put its economy and people first.
251. Climate and Energy: The new conquistadors making their presence felt at COP20 in Peru
     Published: 2014
     A new report released at COP20 by CEO, the Democracy Center and Transnational Institute shows how corporations causing social and environmental destruction in the Andes and Amazon are driving climate change, whilst enjoying influential seats at the climate-negotiating table.
252. Climate Smart Agriculture Concerns: No to 'Climate Smart Agriculture', yes to agroecology
     Published: 2015
     Climate Smart Agriculture sounds like a great idea. But in truth it's a PR front for international agribusiness to promote corporate agriculture, pesticides and fertilisers at COP21, with a heavy dose of greenwash. Countries must resist the siren calls - and give their support to true agroecology that sustains soil, health, life and climate.
253. Climehaga, David: Welcome to the Orwellian world of Wildrose, where keeping your promises makes you a liar
     Published: 2015
     Notwithstanding the unexpected election of a New Democratic Party majority government in Alberta last May 5, 2015, it's pretty obvious a lot of Albertans -- especially the business crowd in Calgary -- still don’t really get this democracy thing.
254. Climenhaga, David J.: Alberta has only itself to blame for bitumen problems
     Published: 2018
     The article explains why Alberta has primarily itself to blame for the low price of its bitumen, a situation built on years of mismanagement in government and poor industry advice.
255. Climenhaga, David J.: The view from different planets
     Connecting wildfires and climate change proscribed only on Planet Alberta
     Published: 2017
     The political discourse surrounding climate change and wildfires is almost nonexistent in Alberta.
256. Cloughe, Brian: Propaganda Feeds Fear and Loathing
     Published: 2017
     The disturbing and growing trend of misinformation in news reporting.
257. Cloughley, Brian: The Malevolent Hypocrisy of Selective Sanctions
     Published: 2018
     A look at why the US government is steadfast in its support of the Saudi dictatorship no matter what criminal excesses may be perpetrated by the Riyadh regime, while on the other hand it is determined to punish other countries like Cuba and Venezuela with severe economic sanctions.
258. Cloughley, Brian: NATO Prepares for War: Confrontation and Insanity
     Published: 2016
     The US-NATO military alliance is gearing up for war, and its meeting 8-9 July, 2016 is yet another step to nuclear confrontation and a gigantic leap backwards in world sanity. The gathering in Warsaw, capital of implacably anti-Russia Poland (NATO member since 1999, when the US-inspired military push towards Russia's borders gathered further momentum), is a symbol of Western determination to menace Moscow.
259. Cloughley, Brian: Russia Bashing: Hatred, Hysteria and Humbug
     A Tale of Three Aircraft Tragedies
     Published: 2014
     It’s OK for the US to shoot down an Iranian airliner and kill 290 people — there’s never been an apology to the Iranian people for that war crime — but when there’s an opportunity to claim, to shriek, to propagandise at cyclone-level, that a disaster has occurred in which there just might be the tiniest chance to blame Russia, then there is clamour for investigation.
260. CNN/WKMG: Florida grandmother outraged after 6-year-old arrested for "tantrum"
     Published: 2019
     A Florida grandmother was shocked to find out her 6-year-old granddaughter had been arrested Thursday for throwing a tantrum.
261. Coalition for ethical psychology: Questions for the APA Board Regarding Claims in James Risen's Book "Pay Any Price"
     Colluding With the CIA on Torture?
     Published: 2014
     In his new book Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, James Risen, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, documents apparent collaboration between (American Psychological Association) APA leadership and the CIA to support psychologist participation in torture.
262. Cobain, Ian: CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert support'
     Published: 2013
     Report finds at least 54 countries co-operated with global kidnap, detention and torture operation mounted after 9/11 attacks.
263. Cobain, Ian: Rendition ordeal raises new questions about secret trials
     Fatima Bouchar's story reveals involvement of the British government
     Published: 2012
     Investigative reporting on the rendition (initiated by British intelligence officers) of Libyian Islamist militants who sought to oust Muammar Gaddafi.
264. Cobain, Ian; Norton-Taylor, Richard: Files that may shed light on colonial crimes still kept secret by UK
     Published: 2013
     Secret government files from the final years of the British empire are still being concealed despite a pledge by William Hague, the foreign secretary, that they would be declassified and opened to the public.
265. Cobain, Ian; Ross, Alice: Revealed: The British government's covert propaganda campaign in Syria
     Published: 2020
     The British government covertly established a network of citizen journalists across Syria during the early years of the country's civil war in an attempt to shape perceptions of the conflict, frequently recruiting people who were unaware that they were being directed from London.
266. Cobb, Kurt: Eternity, nature, society and the absurd fantasies of the rich
     Published: 2018
     The wealthier they are, the more they fear that others will try to take their wealth. No wonder the super-rich are building bunkers to escape the apocalypse.
267. Coblenz, Michael: Police and the American Mind
     From "Broken Windows" to the "Thin Blue Line"
     Published: 2015
     Making sense of the events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, by understanding two concepts. Firstly, the police believing themselves to be the thin blue line between civilization and chaos. Secondly, the "broken windows" theory of policing.
268. Coburn, Jean: Media Exposure
     Published: 1997
     Promoting your magazine on a shoestring.
269. Coburn, Jean: Review: Your Guide to Public Speaking
     Published: 1997
     A no-nonsense guide to public speaking.
270. Coburn, Jean: A Step-by-Step Guide to Being a Successful Consultant
     Published: 1998
     A practical guide to becoming a successful consultant.
271. Cochrane, Kira: Rise of the naked female warriors
     Published: 2013
     Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
272. Cockburn, Alexander: The Hate Crimes Bill: How Not to Remember Matthew Shepard
     Published: 2009
     The problem with the Hate Crimes Prevention Act is that it creates a thought crime and also categories of crime victims for disparate treatment. Goodbye to equality under the law.
273. Cockburn, Alexander: The Lies of Alan Dershowitz
     Published: 1989
     
274. Cockburn, Alexander: Truth and Fiction in Elie Wiesel"s "Night"
     Published: 2016
     When in trouble, head for Auschwitz, preferably in the company of Elie Wiesel. It's as foolproof a character reference as is available today, at least within the Judeo-Christian sphere of moral influence.
275. Cockburn, Alexander ; St. Clair, Jeffrey: The American Way of Torture
     The Rule of Law Went and Never Returned
     Published: 2013
     Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians.
276. Cockburn, Alexander; St. Clair, Jeffrey: The CIA and the Art of the "Un-Cover-Up"
     Published: 2014
     Down the decades the CIA has approached perfection in the art of the "un-cover-up". The "uncover-up" is a process whereby, with all due delay, the agency first denies with passion then concedes in profoundly muffled tones charges leveled against it. One familiar feature in the "uncover-up" paradigm is the frequently made statement by CIA-friendly journalists that "no smoking gun" has been detected in whatever probe is under review.
277. Cockburn, Alexander; St. Clair, Jeffrey: The Good War, Revisited
     The Bombing of Pearl Harbor: What FDR Knew
     Published: 2013
     Each Pearl Harbor day offers a fresh opportunity for those who correctly believe that Franklin Roosevelt knew of an impending attack by the Japanese and welcomed it as a way of snookering the isolationists and getting America into the war.
278. cockburn, Alexander; St. Clair, Jeffrey: No-Fault Journalism at the New York Times
     The Case of Wen Ho Lee
     Published: 2014
     The New York Times,?without whose agency Wen Ho Lee would never have spent a day in a prison cell,?perhaps not even have lost his job, is now, with consummate effrontery, urging?that an investigation of the bungled prosecution take place.
279. Cockburn, Alexander; St. Clair, Jeffrey: 100 Best Non-Fiction Books (in Translation) of the 20th Century... and Beyond
     A CounterPunch Reading List
     Published: 2014
     As the clock clicked down on the arrival of the new millennium, Alex and I were bemused at the spate of “100 best of the century lists” pouring forth. The lists were predictable and not many of the entries remained on our groaning shelves. So we decided to compile our own catalogue of the best books written in English and, later translated into English, during the 20th Century. We spent weeks whittling it down to roughly 100 titles for each.
280. Cockburn, Alexander; St. Clair, Jeffrey: 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century (and Beyond) in English
     A CounterPunch Reading List
     Published: 2014
     CounterPunch editors' list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the 20th century,originally compiled in 2004.
281. Cockburn, Alexander; St.clair, Jeffrey: Venezuela and the Imperial Script, 2004 Edition
     The Coup Last Time
     Published: 2014
     The minute some halfway decent government in Latin America begins to reverse the order of things and give the have-nots a break from the grind of poverty and wretchedness, the usual suspects in El Norte rouse themselves from the slumber of indifference and start barking furiously about democratic norms. It happened in 1973 in Chile; we saw it again in Nicaragua in the 1980s; and here’s the same show on summer rerun in Venezuela, pending the August 15 recall referendum of President Hugo Chávez.
282. Cockburn, Andrew: Acceptable Losses
     Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen
     Published: 2016
     A close look at the crisis in Yemen, a country rife with povery and water shortages and further devastated by a prolonged campaign of bombing and military action.The military campaign, supported by the United States, is an effort by the Saudi governemnt to oust a tribal group in north Yemen who follow Zaidism, an off-shoot of Shia Islam.
283. Cockburn, Andrew: Agencies of Fear
     Published: 2016
     The article details an example of how little control the US administration can have over one of its agencies and the dangers and consequences of the situation.
284. Cockburn, Andrew: Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015
     The Kingpin Strategy
     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.
285. Cockburn, Andrew: Down the Tube
     Television, turnout, and the election-industrial complex
     Published: 2016
     Examining the election industry as comprised of media outlets and super PACs, and the diminishing effects of TV advertisements and coverage on voter turnout and engagement.
286. Cockburn, Andrew: Election Bias
     The new playbook for voter suppression
     Published: 2020
     On the systemic/bureaucratic voter suppression of People of Color (POC) and working class communties in the United States.
287. Cockburn, Andrew: How to Start a Nuclear War
     The increasingly direct road to ruin
     Published: 2018
     A chilling look at the security measures and processes behind the U.S. nuclear weapons system. The article examines how safeguards and procedures have evolved, including more recent efforts to curb the President's absolute authority to push the button.
288. Cockburn, Andrew: Mobbed Up
     How America boosts the Afghan opium trade
     Published: 2018
     Touted by the US as fueling terrosism, the author takes a closer look at the opium trade in Afghanistan and reveals a situation far more complex; notably drug lords manipulating US commanders and Western involvement ironically creating explosive opium growth.
289. Cockburn, Andrew: The New Red Scare
     Reviving the art of threat inflation
     Published: 2016
     An examination of miltary escalation through the Cold War, and how the United States continues to use 'threat inflation' as a means of increasing military spending by pointing towards China as well as renewing fears of Russia.
290. Cockburn, Andrew: Saving the Whale, Again
     The catastrophic incompetence of Citigroup
     Published: 2015
     Cockburn discusses the financial recklessness of Citigroup bank and the repercussions.
291. Cockburn, Andrew: Swap Meet
     Wall Street's war on the Volcker Rule
     Published: 2018
     A look at the opposition to the Volcker Rule, originally proposed by former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, which restricts US banks from making certain speculative investments that do not benefit customers.
292. Cockburn, Andrew: Tunnel Vision
     Will the Air Force kill its most effective weapon?
     Published: 2014
     Should the U.S. Air Force A-10 attack planes should be eliminated?
293. Cockburn, Andrew: A Very Perfect Instrument
     The ferocity and failure of America's sanctions apparatus
     Published: 2013
     Essay on the U.S. system of sanctions and its international negative repercussions.
294. Cockburn, Andrew: Victory Assured on the Military's Main Battlefield -- Washington
     Published: 2016
     When it comes to Pentagon weapons systems, have you ever heard of cost "underruns? I think not. Cost overruns? They turn out to be the unbreachable norm, as they seem to have been from time immemorial. In 1982, for example, the Pentagon announced that the cumulative cost of its 44 major weapons programs had experienced a "record" increase of $114.5 billion. Three decades later, in the spring of 2014, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the military’s major programs to develop new weapons systems -- by then 80 of them -- were a cumulative half-trillion dollars over their initial estimated price tags and on average more than two years delayed.
295. Cockburn, Andrew: Weed Whackers
     Monsanto, glyphosate, and the war on invasive species
     Published: 2015
     On a Friday evening in January, a thousand people at the annual California Native Plant Society conference in San Jose settled down to a banquet and a keynote speech delivered by an environmental historian named Jared Farmer. His chosen topic was the eucalyptus tree and its role in California's ecology and history. The address did not go well.
296. Cockburn, Patirck: The Bankruptcy of the West's Syrian Policy
     Factions on the Run
     Published: 2013
     The final bankruptcy of American and British policy in Syria came 10 days ago as Islamic Front, a Saudi-backed Sunni jihadi group, overran the headquarters of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) at Bab al-Hawa on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey.
297. Cockburn, Patrick: Austerity Has Weakened Our Ability To Fight The COVID-19 Pandemic
     Published: 2020
     "I have delivered food parcels to four families this morning," says Paula Spencer, who runs the community centre in Thanington, a deprived district on the outskirts of Canterbury. Two of the families had called for help because they had symptoms of the coronavirus, and two simply needed food to eat.
298. Cockburn, Patrick: Britain is a Parasite on Other Countries
     Published: 2021
     Britain deliberately trains far fewer doctors and nurses than it needs. It makes up the difference by recruiting great numbers of trained medical staff from impoverished countries where they are already in critically short supply.
299. Cockburn, Patrick: Britain Refuses to Accept How Terrorists Really Work
     Published: 2017
     Self-interest is motive for the British government's portrayal of terrorism as essentially home-grown cancers within the Muslim community.
300. Cockburn, Patrick: Calling Assange a Narcissist Misses the Point
     Published: 2019
     Personal attacks on Assange are used to discredit his work publicizing war crimes and the truth behind pro-war propaganda.
301. Cockburn, Patrick: Capitol Riots Were a Dark Day for American Journalism
     Published: 2021
     An article critical of the news coverage surrounding the January 6, 2021 invasion of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. Cockburn argues that exaggerating the violence of the event threatens the credibility of the media and could justify repression by the government.
302. Cockburn, Patrick: Catastrophes on Camera
     Why Media Coverage of Natural Disasters is Most So Bad
     Published: 2010
     The reporting of cataclysms or lesser disasters is often wildly misleading. Stereotyping is common: whichever the country involved, there are similar images of wrecked bridges, half-submerged houses and last-minute rescues. The scale of the disaster is difficult to assess from news coverage: are we seeing or reading about the worst examples of devastation, or are these the norm? Are victims in the hundreds or the millions?
303. Cockburn, Patrick: The Dangers of Embedded Journalism
     A Distorted View of War
     Published: 2010
     
304. Cockburn, Patrick: Despite Gaza Massacre, Israel Remains Immune From Criticism
     Published: 2018
     Imagine for a moment that it was not the two million Palestinian in Gaza, who are mostly refugees from 1948, but the six million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan who had staged a march to return to the homes that they have lost in Syria since 2011. Suppose that, as they approach the Syrian border, they were fired on by the Syrian army and hundreds of them were killed or injured. The international outcry against the murderous Syrian regime in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin would have echoed around the world.
305. Cockburn, Patrick: The Easter Rising, My Grandfather and the Untold Story of Sir Roger Casement
     Published: 2016
     The 100th anniversary of the Easter uprising of 1916 saw the beginnings of a deeper appreciation of the achievements of Sir Roger Casement who was hanged as a traitor in Pentonville prison on 3 August 1916. Over the following century he has never lacked for notoriety, famous as an Irish patriotic martyr, but discussion of his life has frequently focused on his sexuality and revolved around the "Black Diaries" that were covertly used by the British government to blacken Casement's name and sabotage the campaign against his execution.
306. Cockburn, Patrick: Focusing Purely on Injustices in China and Russia with a Cold War Mindset Damages Human Rights Everywhere
     Published: 2021
     The essence of human rights propaganda is not lies or even exaggeration, but selectivity.
307. Cockburn, Patrick: Gangsterism as Foreign Policy: Assassinations are Becoming the New Norm
     Published: 2020
     State-sponsored assassinations employ the methods of gangsterism and discredit and delegitimise those who use them.
308. Cockburn, Patrick: Grenfell Tower: the Tragic Price of the Rolled-Back State
     Published: 2017
     The British state used to be better organised and effective, but self-interested denigration of the state over the past 30 years has helped erode these strengths, leaving authorities less equiped to handle emergencies such as Grenfell tower disaster.
309. Cockburn, Patrick: The Hate Preachers Fueling Sectarianism
     Al Qaeda's Second Act
     Published: 2014
     On the public support systems, media presence, and propaganda of a second wave of fundamentalist jihadist organizations.
310. Cockburn, Patrick: How Israel Spins War Crimes
     The Secret Report That Helps Israelis Cover Atrocities
     Published: 2014
     Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas rocket and mortar fire. But on television and radio and in newspapers, Israeli government spokesmen such as Mark Regev appear slicker and less aggressive than their predecessors, who were often visibly indifferent to how many Palestinians were killed.
311. Cockburn, Patrick: How NGOs Failed Afghanistan
     "They Killed Every Incentive to Farm"
     Published: 2014
     On the failures, opportunities, and complications of international aid with a particular focus on Afghanistan. Includes a discussion of a successful canal-building effort in Lower Shabelle province, Somalia -- a project run not by NGOs but a local al-Qa'ida affiliate.
312. Cockburn, Patrick: How Syria's Secular Uprising Was Hijacked by Jihadists
     Al Qaeda's Second Act
     Published: 2014
     On Syria's descent into a sectarian civil war.
313. Cockburn, Patrick: How the West's Economic Sanctions are Inflicting Suffering on Ordinary Syrians
     Published: 2016
     The US and EU economic sanctions on Syria are causing huge suffering among ordinary Syrians and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid, according to a leaked UN internal report.
314. Cockburn, Patrick: In Middle East Wars It Pays to be Skeptical
     Published: 2018
     In the context of Western air strikes on alleged Syrian biological weapons sites on 14 April, 2018, the history of the bombing of the Abu Ghraib baby milk factory in 1991 underscores the need for permanent scepticism towards claims by U.S. and Western governments that they know exactly what is happening on the ground in Syria.
315. Cockburn, Patrick: ISIS Thrives on the Disunity of Its Enemies
     Published: 2015
     The aftermath of terrorist attacks such as the massacre in Paris are a bad time to produce new policies, but they provide ideal political conditions for a government to take radical, if ill-thought-out, initiatives. Leaders are carried away by a heady sense of empowerment as a worried or frightened public demands that something be done in response to calamity and to prevent it happening again. The moment of greatest risk is not when the bombs explode or the guns fire, but when governments react to these atrocities.
316. Cockburn, Patrick: It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
     Published: 2018
     Cockburn argues that economic sanctions impose collective punishment on the general population rather than targetting the people in power.
317. Cockburn, Patrick: Luring Doctors from Poorer Countries is the UK's Quiet Scandal
     Published: 2022
     The United Kingdom brings in medical professionals from poor and middle-income countries to make up for their shortage while disintergrating these countries' health systems.
318. Cockburn, Patrick: More Propaganda Than News Coming Out of Aleppo
     Published: 2016
     The dominance of propaganda over news in coverage of the war in Syria.
319. Cockburn, Patrick: The Nature of War Has Changed
     The Vicious Forces of Sectarian Strife
     Published: 2014
     A new kind of war is developing. It is very different from the mass conflict of the First World War when governments mobilised millions of men and vast industrial resources. Wars have got smaller, but are equally and, on occasions, more vicious than in the past.
320. Cockburn, Patrick: The Newsfakers
     Whose hands are behind those dramatic YouTube pictures?
     Published: 2012
     YouTube and blogs have made it easier than ever to fabricate events. The media are happy to run unsubstantiated reports and footage.
321. Cockburn, Patrick: A Plague of Rats: How Years of Austerity Prompted Many Britons to Vote for Brexit
     Published: 2019
     Many Britons in poor areas voted for Brexit even though they benefited financially from the EU. Though often blamed on fear of immigration it is also a result of discontent brought on by severe austerity and privatization.
322. Cockburn, Patrick: The Real Modi: Do the Killings of Muslims Represent India's Kristallnacht?
     Published: 2020
     On 23 February 2020 in Delhi, Hindu nationalist mobs roamed the streets burning and looting mosques together with Muslim homes, shops and businesses. They killed or burned alive Muslims who could not escape and the victims were largely unprotected by the police.
323. Cockburn, Patrick: Refugees Are in the Channel Thanks to the Actions of the West
     Published: 2019
     The outcome of Western military and economic interventions in the Middle East and North Africa have caused the outflow of refugees from zones of conflict.
324. Cockburn, Patrick: The Repression in Bahrain
     Published: 2016
     Bahrainis are calling their government's intensified repression of all opposition "the Egyptian strategy", believing that it is modelled on the ruthless campaign by the Egyptian security forces to crush even the smallest signs of dissent.
325. Cockburn, Patrick: Robert Fisk had True Independence of Mind, Which is Why He Angered Governments and Parts of the Media
     Published: 2020
     At the heart of Fisk's journalism was relentless and meticulous eyewitness reporting of events, a refusal to see complex conflicts in terms of black and white, while not surrendering to moral indifference and keeping a sense of outrage when confronted with real evil. Above all, perhaps, he showed an unbending refusal to back down when what he said was being denied, denounced or ignored by politicians and the media.
326. Cockburn, Patrick: Russia-Ukraine is an Information War, So Government Intelligence Needs More Scrutiny Than Ever
     Published: 2022
     
327. Cockburn, Patrick: The Russian Dossier Reminds Me of the Row Over Saddam's WMDs
     Published: 2017
     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.
328. Cockburn, Patrick: The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions
     Published: 2019
     Sanctions against Syria are having a disastrous effect on the population. Comparisons to Iraq during the 1990s by someone who was there show the historic failure and potential further consequences of sanctions.
329. Cockburn, Patrick: A Shameful Silence: Where is the Outrage Over the Slaughter of Civilians in Mosul?
     Published: 2017
     The catastrophic number of civilian casualties in Mosul is receiving little attention internationally from politicians and journalists. This is in sharp contrast to the outrage expressed worldwide over the bombardment of east Aleppo by Syrian government and Russian forces at the end of 2016.
330. Cockburn, Patrick: Syrian Minority Fear the End of Fighting More Than War Itself
     Persecution of the Christians
     Published: 2012
     If the opposition National Coalition, recognised by 130 countries as the legitimate government of Syria, does ultimately take power then its most effective fighting force will be Jadhat al-Nusra, with an ideology similar to al-Qa’ida. It is prospects like this that fill Syrian Christians with alarm.
331. Cockburn, Patrick: This is why everything you’ve read about the wars in Syria and Iraq could be wrong
     Published: 2016
     A description of how much of the coverage of the wars in Syria and Iraq is second-hand reporting, due to the dangers posed, and subject to political bias and propaganda.
332. Cockburn, Patrick: Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
     Published: 2010
     The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about the battle.
333. Cockburn, Patrick: Treating Mental Health Patients as Criminals
     Published: 2017
     The criminalisation of the mentally ill is one of the cruellest and most easily avoidable tragedies of our era.
334. Cockburn, Patrick: Trump Is the Only One Losing Out by Refusing to Certify the Iran Deal
     Published: 2017
     As President Trump withdraws certification of the nuclear agreement with Iran, commentators across the world struggled for words to adequately convey their outrage and contempt. A favourite term to describe Trump is as "a wrecking ball", but the phrase suggests a sense of direction and capacity to strike a target which Trump does not possess.
335. Cockburn, Patrick: Trump v. the Media: a Fight to the Death
     Published: 2017
     At present, this is a golden era in American journalism, because established media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post find themselves under unprecedented and open attacks from the powers that be. Richard Nixon may have felt persecuted by press and television, but he never counter-attacked with the same vigour and venom as Trump.
336. Cockburn, Patrick: Trump's Muslim Ban Will Only Spark More Terrorist Attacks
     Published: 2017
     Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and visitors from seven Muslim countries entering the US makes a terrorist attack on Americans at home or abroad more rather than less likely. It does so because one of the main purposes of al-Qaeda and Isis in carrying out atrocities is to provoke an over-reaction directed against Muslim communities and states.
337. Cockburn, Patrick: A Turkey Divided by Erdogan Will Become Prey to Its Enemies
     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.
338. Cockburn, Patrick: US, UK and France 'Inflicted Worst Destruction in Decades on Raqqa'
     Published: 2018
     Amnesty International reports that air and artillery strikes by the US and allies inflicted devastating loss of life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa. It is a report that contradicts claims by the US, Britain and France, that they precisely targeted Isis fighters and positions during the four month siege.
339. Cockburn, Patrick: We Know What Inspired the Manchester Attack, We Just Won't Admit It
     Published: 2017
     Not blaming Muslims in general but targeting "radicalisation" or simply "evil" may appear sensible and moderate, but in practice it makes the motivation of the killers in Manchester or the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015 appear vaguer and less identifiable than it really is.
340. Cockburn, Patrick: The West Failed to Learn the Most Important Lessons From the Rise and Fall of ISIS
     Published: 2019
     The attempted coup in Venezuela today is an example of imperial overreach western governments displayed in the Middle East.
341. Cockburn, Patrick: Where War Reporting Goes Wrong
     A Diary of Four Wars
     Published: 2013
     The four recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have been propaganda wars in which newspaper, television and radio journalists played a central role. In all wars there is a difference between reported news and what really happened, but during these four campaigns the outside world has been left with misconceptions even about the identity of the victors and the defeated.
342. Cockburn, Patrick: Why Do They Hate George Galloway So Much?
     Published: 2012
     The ferocity of the attacks on George Galloway by the British commentariat is one of the most revealing outcomes of his victory in the Bradford West by-election.
343. Cockburn, Patrick: Why ISIS Fighters are Being Thrown Off Buildings in Mosul
     Published: 2017
     The suspicion by Iraqi soldiers and militiamen that their own government is too corrupt to keep captured Isis fighters in detention is one reason why prisoners are being killed.
344. Cockburn, Patrick: Why the US is Persecuting Assange
     Published: 2019
     Governments don't like it when reporters disclose secrets that impede their preferred narrative. This article draws parallels between Assange and the work of Yemeni reporter Maad al-Zikry.
345. Cockburn, Patrick: Why the Vikings Were Feared
     Nazis of the North
     Published: 2014
     Journalism is said to be the first draft of history, but it is often disappointing to find that the second or third drafts, by historians, move little further in establishing the truth about what happened.
346. Cockburn, Patrick: Why the War on Terror Went Wrong
     Al Qaeda's Second Act
     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.
347. Cody, Anthony: The Gates Foundation's Leveraged Philanthropy
     Corporate Profit Versus Humanity on Three Fronts
     Published: 2012
     Gates' leveraged philanthropy model is a public-private partnership to improve the world, partly through targeted research support but principally through public advocacy and tax-free lobbying to influence government policy. The goal of these policies is often to explicitly support profitability for corporate investors, whose enterprises are seen by the Gates Foundation as advancing human good. However, maximum corporate profit and public good often clash when its projects are implemented.
348. Cohen, Abel: Thank Russia for Winning World War II
     Published: 2019
     Our Soviet allies barely held on alone for three years against Hitler, yet conventional wisdom is that we won the war because we equipped Soviets to die for us. This is propaganda – the USSR bore more than 90% of its own wartime industrial burden.
349. Cohen, Abel: Thank Russia for Winning World War II
     Published: 2019
     
350. Cohen, Dan: These are the Israeli leaders who want to destroy al-Aqsa
     Published: 2017
     The recent violence at the al-Aqsa temple and subsequent response by Israeli leadership underscores the belief that the intent is to replace the Muslim holy site as part of the broader agenda of Israeli sovereignty.
351. Cohen, Dan; Blumenthal, Max: Killing Gaza
     A documentary film about life under siege
     Published: 2018
     Independent journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen documented Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza during the war, and chronicled its horrific aftermath. As they waded through the rubble of Gaza’s destroyed border regions, they turned a camera onto the survivors of the slaughter and let them speak for themselves. Dan returned, week after week, to capture on film the daily struggles of the people of Gaza as they suffered through one of the worst winters in recorded history, and then weathered the sweltering summer heat without electricity and -- in many cases -- without homes. While giving voice to the pain of a people under siege, Cohen and Blumenthal also highlighted Gazans’ inspiring acts of creative resistance, from painting to break-dancing to literature, that allow them maintain their humanity in the face of deprivation and war. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors.
352. Cohen, Jeff: If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
     Snowden Coverage
     Published: 2013
     The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Many of the same outlets that missed the Wall Street meltdown and cheer-led the Iraq invasion have come to resemble state-controlled media outlets in their near-total identification with the government.
353. Cohen, Jeff: Mainstream Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear
     Published: 2019
     Mainstream media pundits undermine the chances of progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders despite the defeat of centrist politicians by the right.
354. Cohen, Jeff: What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission
     Published: 2019
     In the old George Carlin joke, the TV sportscaster announces: "Here's a partial score from the West Coast – Los Angeles 6." For a brilliant comedian like Carlin -- who skewered corporate power, class structure and political/media propaganda – that's one of his more innocuous jokes. But it's sharply relevant today as corporate TV news outlets serve up a series of partial scores. Call it 'propaganda by omission.'
355. Cohen, Jeff: What Indy Media Heroes Can Teach Us
     Published: 2008
     Independent journalists should not go silent or soft because of an election result or a change of parties in power.
356. Cohen, Jeff: When CNN Introduces Bernie-Bashers Only as "Former," CNN is Lying to You
     Published: 2020
     On Wednesday night, CNN's Don Lemon hosted ubiquitous Bernie Sanders-basher Jim Messina – solo, without an opposing view – to slam Sanders and his Medicare for All proposal. Messina was introduced and repeatedly identified only by his former positions: "Former Obama Campaign Manager" and "Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Obama Administration."
357. Cohen, Mitchel: A Tale of Two Citations: Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and Michael Harrington's "The Other America"
     Contrasting Lessons for Activists
     Published: 2019
     Looking at the forgotten, more radical aspects of Carson's "Silent Spring." Compares it with other, less radical works that were more easily co-opted by governments looking to appease new social and environmental movements.
358. Cohen, Noah: The Arrest and Detention of Amer Jubran
     This is Not News
     Published: 2014
     Amer Jubran might sit indefinitely in detention without charges. Or he may be brought up at any time and charged with “terrorism” before the State Security Court, a rubber stamp court. If so, his lawyer might be told the charges a day or two before the sham trial, which then leads to inevitable conviction–a mere formality. Only a concerted political campaign that gets widespread international attention can make any difference. It’s up to us to create enough visibility to make that possible.
359. Cohen, Rachel M.; Dayen, David: Amazon HQ2 Will Cost Taxpayers at Least $4.6 Billion, More Than Twice What the Company Claimed, New Study Shows
     Published: 2018
     In addition to the billions in local government subsidies Amazon stands to gain from Federal Opportunity Zones. Researchers who have studied opportunity zones find that these tax schemes rarely ever help cities, and often financially cripple them.
360. Cohen, Ran Ha: The Flotilla In The Israeli Press
     Published: 2010
     An analysis of Israeli media propaganda in the wake of Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
361. Cohen, Robert: British MPs won't get to see 'WitchHunt' in the House of Commons - the very place it needs to be shown
     Published: 2019
     A screening of a documentary - made by Jewish Labour party members - about charges of anti-semitism in the British Labour Party has been cancelled.
362. Cohen, Robert A.H: As Jews, We'll Never Address Racism While Clinging To Zionism
     Published: 2020
     If you can't make the connections, it’s best to keep quiet. If you can’t see how your own views on related matters may defeat your credibility, then say nothing. If you think someone else is being racist but you’re only concerned about security, you need to do some serious study and a bit of self-reflection. Otherwise, you end up looking disingenuous, or foolish, or both.
363. Cohen, Sheila: Glaberman and Faber's Working for Wages - Book Review
     Published: 1999
     Working for Wages: The Roots of Insurgency by Martin Glaberman and Seymour Faber (Dix Hills, NY: General Hall, Inc., 1998) $26.95 paperback. OVER THE LAST few years I have been privileged to teach a number of basic economics courses to trade unionists-"privileged" because in every case the students' experience, their awareness and critical understanding of what goes on in their lives, has provided a rich fund of knowledge of which I have become in my turn a grateful student.
364. Cohen, Sheila: How British Labor Declined: Cowley from the Inside - Book Review
     Published: 1998
     Inside Cowley: Trade Union Struggle in the 1970s by Alan Thornett (London: Porcupine Press, 1998) 407 pages, $20 paperback.*
365. Cohen, Stanley: In the Matter of the International Community v Israel
     Published: 2015
     In its first full week of a "new" get tough policy, almost 500 young Palestinian demonstrators were injured, shot and maimed, and at least three teens murdered in response to what Israel sees as a rising tide of "militant" resistance against the illegally occupied and, by now, almost completely annexed West Bank.
366. Cohen, Stanley L: Israel and Academic Freedom: a Closed Book
     Published: 2016
     It’s not by accident that free speech and association is under attack from coast to coast in ways unseen since the academic purges that targeted largely "radical" Jews of the 1950's brought to us by a guy named McCarthy. He too had this notion that good thought must necessarily adhere to a checklist of sanitized ideas. That safe speech and association demanded a line of logic dictated by the powerful and pervasive.
367. Cohen, Stanley L.: The Attack on Al Jazeera
     Published: 2017
     Since its genesis, Al-Jazeera has served as much more than a mere signpost of speech or thought... popular or otherwise. Its existence, alone, stands as a safety valve against those closed societies that embrace repression as so much a check against the light of day of which they fear. Al-Jazeera's availability throughout the Middle East changed its information landscape ... introducing a level of freedom of speech, on TV, that was previously unheard of in the region.
368. Cohen, Stanley L.: Guilty as Charged
     Published: 2024
     This is a hallmark crossroad: a generational test of time and purpose and a profound challenge for all those yet to come. In the presence of indisputable overwhelming evidence of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity, we are painfully, perhaps predictably, witness to collective inaction by the United Nations and other international bodies and tribunals that preach from on high while perched as little more than silent witness to unspeakable Israeli crimes.
369. Cohen, Stanley L.: Israeli Justice... a Futile Chase
     Published: 2020
     Seventeen years ago, 23 year old Rachel Corrie (a Washington State volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement) was crushed to death by an armoured military bulldozer as she stood on top of a mound of dirt trying to prevent the dozer from destroying a civilian home in the Southern Gaza Strip village of Rafa.
370. Cohen, Stanley L.: On Resistance: BDS and Israel's Declining Support Among Diaspora Jews
     Published: 2018
     Like its predecessor movement decades ago in South Africa, assessing the success of BDS against Israel today necessarily rubs up against the tension between Israeli Hasbara (propaganda) and its reality as an effective organizing tool against it throughout the world.
371. Cohen, Stephen F.: Washington's Dr. Strangeloves: Is plunging Russia into darkness really a good idea
     Published: 2019
     US cyber attacks on Russia's power grid, reportedly done without the president's knowledge, are part of a historic pattern of US/Russian relations being sabotaged US defense and intelligence agencies.
372. Cohn, Cindy: Stronger Locks, Better Security
     Published: 2015
     What if, in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris, or cybersecurity attacks on companies and government agencies, the FBI had come to the American people and said: In order to keep you safe, we need you to remove all the locks on your doors and windows and replace them with weaker ones. It's because, if you were a terrorist and we needed to get to your house, your locks might slow us down or block us entirely. So Americans, remove your locks! And American companies: stop making good locks!
373. Cohn, Cindy; Newitz, Annalee: Noncommercial Email Lists: Collateral Damage in the Fight Against Spam
     Published: 2004
     In their zeal to stop spam, many organizations and companies are blocking the delivery of wanted messages, especially those sent through email lists. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that most blocking processes are not transparent to the email sender or recipient, and email users are generally given little or no control over which emails are blocked.
374. Cohn, Marjorie: Assange Is Free: Here's What He’s Given Us
     Published: 2024
     Contrary to U.S. government claims, WikiLeaks’ revelations actually saved lives -- and drove demand for accountability from Washington.
375. Cohn, Marjorie: Assange's Indictment Treats Journalism as a Crime
     Published: 2019
     The charges against Assange send a message to journalists that they are in danger for doing their jobs. The UK can and should deny extradition of Assange to the US.
376. Cohn, Marjorie: BDS: Non-Violent Resistance to Israeli Occupation
     Is Israel Running Scared?
     Published: 2014
     An outline of the extent and support/opposition of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid, including a discussion of claims that the campaign is anti-Semitic.
377. Cohn, Marjorie; Moore, Jonathan: The Vietnam War is Not History for Victims of Agent Orange
     Published: 2017
     Nearly 58,000 Americans and 2 to 3 million Vietnamese, many of them civilians, were killed in the war. Untold numbers were wounded. Many US veterans of the war suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. More US Vietnam War vets have committed suicide than died in the war. However, those numbers do not begin to tell the complete story of the war.
378. Cohn, Martin Regg: Hudak's PCs play with fire by playing the 'foreign' card
     Published: 2011
     Tory Leader Tim Hudak has either tapped into a deep vein of voter resentment against recent immigrants, or taken a detour -- possibly a U-turn -- that has thrown his campaign off course after two years of meticulous preparations. I can't recall ever seeing the normally mild-mannered Hudak more impassioned than when he railed against "foreign workers' in stump speeches across Eastern Ontario. Speaking to relatively sparse crowds of predominantly white, rural, older Progressive Conservative supporters, he claimed they were being disadvantaged by a nefarious Liberal affirmative action scheme to help outsiders.... Yet after reaching out to cultural communities for two years, and boasting that he's translated his platform into 15 foreign languages, Hudak has changed his tune. He still extolls his own Slovak roots, but stresses that his grandfather arrived here without much English or money -- and never took handouts.
379. Colchester, Marcus: Palm Oil company plan to slow deforestation 'another land-grab'
     Published: 2014
     A palm oil company's 'forest conservation' programme in Indonesia has ended up being a second land grab, seizing resources from local communities' control.
380. Cole, Juan: IS and climate change - an inconvenient truth for Republicans
     Published: 2015
     US Democratic presidential contender Martin O’Malley sparked controversy last month by saying that the conditions for the rise of the so-called Islamic State (IS, also known as Isil, Isis or Da'esh) were set by the impact on Syria of climate change, which drove farmers from their land into slums around cities and created extreme poverty.
381. Cole, Teju: Unmournable Bodies
     Published: 2015
     More than a dozen people were killed by terrorists in Paris this week. The victims of these crimes are being mourned worldwide: they were human beings, beloved by their families and precious to their friends.
382. Coleen, Jose; Wall, Kim; Hinzel, Jan H.: This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste - and it's leaking
     Published: 2015
     The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cubic yards of debris to spill into the ocean.
383. Coleman, Lara Montesinos: Big Oil's Ethical Violence
     BP and the Armed Suppression of Dissent in Colombia
     Published: 2015
     To challenge impunity is not just to attempt to confine abuses to the past. It serves to expose crimes committed, to preserve memory of the past within the present, and to highlight contradictions between corporate recognition of rights and an economic model that has implied the systematic violation and dispossession of workers and populations around the oilfields. It is part of a process of re-building communities and social organisations wiped out by the violence.
384. Coleman, William: The Class Bases of Language Policy in Quebec, 1949 - 1975
     Published: 1980
     Published in Studies in Political Economy 3 (1980)
385. Coles, Nick: Climate Change as a Class Issue
     Published: 2013
     Protesting PNC Bank in Pittsburgh financing of mountain-top removal (MTR) coal mining across Appalachia. MTR causes increased cancer rates and birth defects, as well as massive environmental degradation.
386. Coles, T. J.: Infiltrating Antifa: the Feds and Their Long History of Subversion
     Published: 2020
     On May 31st, 2020, President Trump (or his people) tweeted: “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.” Attorney General, William Barr, said: “The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly.”
387. Coles, T. J.: A new generation of US-trained extremists is fighting Russia. Are we prepared for the blowback?
     Published: 2022
     US agencies have directly and indirectly trained and empowered Nazis and ultra-nationalists at home and abroad to fight Russians in Ukraine. This program follows the blueprint established by Western intelligence agencies in Afghanistan and Syria.
388. Coles, T.J.: The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
     Published: 2018
     A look at the reporting of 'fake news' by the BBC, which has no legal obligation to give its audience any information about its sources and seemingly has legal protection from scrutiny.
389. Coles, T.J.: How Much Do Humans Pollute? A Breakdown of Industrial, Vehicular and Household C02 Emissions
     Published: 2019
     Modified excerpt from author's new book, Privatized Planet: "Free Trade" as a Weapon Against Democracy, Healthcare and the Environment.
390. Coles, T.J.: Propaganda of omission: Britain's role in Rohingya genocide absent from UK reports
     Published: 2019
     The British military supports the Myanmar army with training. While coverage of Myanmar violence against innocent Rohingya is covered the media say little about British involvement and politicians find ways to excuse it.
391. Coles, T.J.: Robot Trolls on Amazon: How Fake Reviews Could Undermine Progressive Politics
     Published: 2019
     In the pursuit of profit, corporations appear to be using bots to undermine competitors on Amazon, as they do on Twitter and Facebook. This could have detrimental effects on progressive authors and filmmakers who, in the absence of major corporate backing, need the support of reviewers -- at least on Amazon -- in order to boost their marketability.
392. Collier, Victoria: Citizens Mobilize Against Corporate Water Grabs
     A Human Right, Not a Commodity
     Published: 2015
     New Jersey became the latest state to subvert democracy by authorizing the fast-track sale or lease of water utilities without public notice, comment, or approval. The controversial decision highlights the intensifying struggle over who owns, controls, and profits from the most precious - and threatened - resource on Earth.
393. Collier, Victoria: Citizens worldwide mobilize against corporate water grabs
     Published: 2015
     The US and other governments are pushing a failed model of water privatization, but water is a human right, not just a commodity to be traded for profit or monopolized by corporations. Citizens and communities are fighting back to reclaim their water commons.
394. Collins, Craig: Overlooking the Obvious With Naomi Klein
     Climate, Capitialism and the Left
     Published: 2014
     The lesson that Naomi Klein overlooks seems clear. Climate chaos is just one DEVASTATING symptom of our dysfunctional society. To survive catabolic capitalism and germinate an alternative, movement activists will have to anticipate and help people respond to multiple crises while organizing them to recognize and root out their source.
395. Collins, Michael: Radical chic' and the left's problem with race
     White, middle-class left-wingers are still in thrall to age-old prejudices.
     Published: 2022
     "If you believe that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards", Thomas Sowell has said, "that would have gotten you labelled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today".
396. Collyns, Dan: Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru's forest but timber finds global buyers
     Published: 2014
     State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum.
397. Comely Beattie, Missy: When Thoughtful People Think Illogically
     Published: 2016
     This man with whom I corresponded believes Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon were staged and that those involved, even the children, are "crisis actors" -- employed by a government whose aim is seizing guns, passing gun control laws, and creating a climate of fear. I asked about hospital staff, those who treat the injured and the spokesperson that provides information about a patient's condition. His answer, "Crisis actors."
398. Comittee to Protect Journalists: Al-Jazeera cameraman killed in shelling in Syria
     Published: 2015
     Al-Asfar was a 19 year old cameraman who was killed by artillery fire as he was covering the war in Syria. Whether or not he was deliberately targeted remains a mystery.
399. Comittee to Protect Journalists: Editor of Chinese website, missing for a month, arrested on anti-state charges
     Published: 2015
     An editor and secretary-general of a human rights group in China has been was abducted and charged with "inciting subversion of state power" by the Chinese government. The chinese government is infamous for using this charge to silence dissenting journalists.
400. Comittee to Protect Journalists: Hong Kong must identify, prosecute the mastermind of 2014 attack on journalist Kevin Lau
     Published: 2015
     The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Hong Kong to work quickly and efficiently to identify the mastermind of the February 2014 attack on newspaper editor Kevin Lau Chun-to and ensure there is full justice in the case. Two men identified as Yip Kim-wah and Wong Chi-wah were found guilty today of "causing grievous bodily harm and stealing a motorcycle" in the assault, but have refused to say who ordered the attack, reports said.
401. Comley Beattie, Missy: Say 'I Love You'
     Published: 2018
     A commentary on the issue of gun violence in schools in the United States, and the current lack of leadership which narrowly places blame on the shooter rather than tackle the more complex issues and policies which could make a difference.
402. Commins, Karen: Authors, Can You Afford to Produce an Audiobook?
     Published: 2016
     Karen Commins, a professional audiobook narrator,gives tips to authors who want to produce audiobooks.
403. Committee to Protect Journalists: Mastermind behind murder of human rights lawyer, journalist, sentenced to life in prison
     Published: 2015
     The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the sentencing to life in prison today of a Russian nationalist leader in connection with the 2009 fatal attack on human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, in which Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasiya Baburova was also killed.
404. Committee to Protect Journalists: Tunisia charges editor with complicity in terrorist attack
     Published: 2015
     Tunisian authorities should drop charges against an editor accused of complicity in the June 27 terrorist attack on Sousse beach that killed at least 39 people.
405. Commoner, Barry: Barry Commoner Quotes
     
406. Commoner, Barry: Ecology and Social Action
     Published: 1973
     That there is an important connection between ecology and social action is now self-evident. There seems little reason to doubt that there is some connection between what ecology tells us about the degraded quality of life and the social action needed to improve it.
407. Commoner, Barry: The Illusion of Consumer Sovereignty
     Published: 2010
     I tend to see the issue as social, economic, and political. I simply refuse to blame us consumers.
408. Commonwealth Press Union Media Trust; Inter American Press Association; et al.: Letter to the Lithuanian Government on Banning Russian Government-Controlled TV Channels
     Published: 2015
     This is an open letter to the Lithuanian government. While broadcasts from Russian-controlled television channels may be propagandistic, banning them would be a violation of basic human rights and ultimately ineffective.
409. Communist Party of Canada: Canada's Party of Socialism
     History of the Communist Party of Canada, 1921 - 1976
     Published: 1982
     
410. Conant, Jeff: The Dark Side Of The "Green Economy"
     Why some indigenous groups and environmentalists are saying no to the "green economy"
     Published: 2012
     Just a few years ago, the term "green economy" referred to economies that are locally based, climate friendly, and low-impact. But since the global economic meltdown began in 2007, the green economy has come to mean something more akin to the wholesale privatization of nature.
411. Confortini, Catia Cecilia: Intelligent Compassion
     Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
     Published: 2012
     
412. Confucius: Confucius Quotes
     
413. Conger, Kate; Cameron, Dell: Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
     Published: 2018
     Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firestorm among employees of the technology giant when they learned of Google's involvement.
414. Conley, Julia: Condemnation Grows for Bipartisan Attack on Free Speech Rights of BDS Supporters
     Lawmakers urged to reject bill that would punish Americans for supporting boycotts of Israel
     Published: 2017
     A pair of bipartisan bills targeting boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements appear to have widespread support in Congress, to the dismay of civil rights advocates who say the proposals are an attack on free speech.
415. Conley, Julia: 'Not a Good Answer': Privacy Advocates Reject Democratic Proposal for 'Technological Wall' With Expanded Border Surveillance
     'More surveillance' has become the default answer to far too many difficult policy questions
     Published: 2019
     Digital rights advocates called on Democratic lawmakers to expand their fight against the wall into a fight for all human and constitutional rights-instead of suggesting alternative "border security" proposals that would infringe on civil liberties.
416. Connolly, Christopher N: Pesticide safety research shouldn't be left to the pesticide companies
     If the research is to command public confidence, independent controls need to be maintained at every step.
     Published: 2014
     Pesticide companies are responsible for assessing the safety of their products - and this situation cannot continue. The research should be carried out independently, subjected to peer review, and published.
417. Connolly, James: James Connolly Quotes
     
418. Connolly, Kate: Berlin's oldest squatters in town defend threatened community centre
     Pensioners take a stand against development of their comunity centre
     Published: 2012
     Dozen of pensioners took over a community centre in the east Berlin suburb of Pankow last month after the local council said the building they had used as a community centre for 15 years had to make way for real estate development.
419. Connolly, Kate: Naked hikers face fines in Switzerland
     Canton aims to stop spread of 'indecent practice'
     Published: 2009
     The Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden aims to stop naturist walkers, also referred to as "boot-only hikers".
420. Conover, Ted: The Last Frontier
     Homesteaders on the margins of America
     Published: 2019
     The San Luis Valley in southern Colorado still looks much as it did one hundred, or even two hundred, years ago. Blanca Peak, at 14,345 feet the fourth-highest summit in the Rockies, overlooks a vast openness.
421. Conroy, Bill: Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War
     Big Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
     Published: 2012
     Man of the largest banks in the world have been accused of failing to comply with anti-money laundering laws — thereby enabling, collectively, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of suspicious transactions to move through the banking system absent adequate monitoring or oversight.
422. Conroy, Bill: Gary Webb: Vindicated
     Published: 2014
     Family Members of the Intrepid Investigative Journalist — Soon To Be Immortalized By An Upcoming Hollywood Movie — Share Their Story With The World.
423. Conroy, Bill: Mexican President Calderón Hires US Propaganda Firm
     Published: 2012
     Los Pinos retains Las Vegas-based R&R Partners to promote government’s successes as the bloody drug war rages on.
424. Conroy, Bill: Millions Missing From DEA Money-Laundering Operation
     Published: 2014
     At least $20 million went missing from money seizures by law enforcers, critical evidence was destroyed by a federal agency, a key informant was outed by a US prosecutor — contributing to her being kidnapped and nearly killed — and at the end of the day not a single narco-trafficker was prosecuted in this four-year-long DEA undercover operation gone awry.
425. Conroy, Bill: Torture Report Reveals CIA's Manipulation of US Media
     Agency Used Classified Information As Currency For Deception
     Published: 2014
     In essence, the CIA operated as a propaganda machine, utilizing classified information as part of a larger effort to deceive the American public about the shortcomings of its torture program.
426. Conroy, Bill: TSA Drug-Running Scandal Betrays Drug War’s Pretense
     Published: 2012
     The cost of bribing US border and airport security personnel is chump change in the narco-trafficking business.
427. Conroy, Bill: US Prosecutors Turned a Blind Eye to Drone Code Piracy
     They Chose Instead to Strap Digital Visionary Aaron Swartz to Their Buzzsaw
     Published: 2013
     Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old Internet activist and the co-developer of popular web tools like RSS feeds and Reddit, ended his life earlier this year at the end of a long battle with federal prosecutors in Boston — who had accused him of engaging in digital piracy.
428. Conroy, Bill: US-Sponsored Drug-Plane Operation Had Global Reach
     Published: 2014
     The ongoing investigation into the Gulfstream II jet that crashed in Mexico in the fall of 2007 with a cargo of 3.7 tons of cocaine onboard points to a corruption problem within the US bureaucracy and US intelligence agency complicity in the drug trade.
429. Contenta, Sandro: John Sewell proud of a lifetime of ruffling feathers
     Published: 2009
     John Sewell isn't the kind of guy who comes out of a life-threatening experience promising to do things differently. The former mayor still plays the role of watchdog for neighbourhoods, justice and the public interest in Goliath Toronto.
430. Convery, Padraic: US bombs continue to kill in Laos 50 years after Vietnam War
     US dropped two million tonnes of bombs on Laos at height of Vietnam War. Why are cluster munitions still killing?
     Published: 2018
     A look at the problem of unexploded US bombs in Laos which have killed tens of thousands of people since the end of the war, and continue to kill and maim dozens annually.
431. Cook, Johnathan: Antisemitism claims mask a reign of political and cultural terror across Europe
     Published: 2020
     Cook explores the "cultural, political and intellectual reign of terror" in European countries, primarily Germany, after the German parliament equated non-violent boycotts of Israel with antisemitism. He documents the hypocrisies of European countries who fight for free speech but outlaw criticism towards Israel, and the ways antisemitism has been weaponised.
432. Cook, Johnathan: The Disappearance of Palestine
     Published: 2013
     The idea that a financial lifeline – whether Kerry’s plan or Netanyahu’s economic peace – is going to smooth the path to the conflict’s end is an illusion. Peace, and prosperity, will come only when Palestinians are liberated from Israeli control.
433. Cook, Johnathan: The Evil of Humanitarian Wars
     Iraq, Libya, Syria: We have no right to play God
     Published: 2012
     The West’s duty is not to intervene more but to intervene far less. We already massively arm tyrannies such as those in the Gulf so that they can protect the oil that we consider our birthright; we offer military, financial and diplomatic cover for Israel’s continuing oppression of millions of Palestinians, a major cause of political instability in the Middle East; and we quietly support the Egyptian military, which is currently trying to reverse last year’s revolutionary gains.
434. Cook, Johnathan: Israel continues to sow the seeds of discontent
     Published: 2016
     Israel, it seems, has found a new weapon against Palestinian attacks -- the humble cucumber seed. Soldiers have been handing out seeds at checkpoints with advice to Palestinians -- a nation of farmers until their lands were swallowed up by Jewish settlements -- to stop their recent knife attacks on Israelis and invest in a peaceful future.
435. Cook, Johnathan: The Liberal Hounding of Julian Assange: From Alex Gibney to The Guardian
     Published: 2016
     At what point do we cry foul when we witness the abuse of a political dissident, one who dares to take on mighty vested interests? When his own state, the local legal system and the media all turn on him? When he is forced to seek sanctuary in a foreign embassy for many years, surrounded by state security forces threatening to arrest him if he leaves? When the world’s highest arbiter on the matter of his confinement, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, supports his case? When the state, legal authorities and the media ignore the ruling and continue to demand his arrest?
436. Cook, Johnathan: Lies about Assange and UN human rights jurists imperil us all
     Published: 2016
     The defence secretary, 'comedians' on BBC Radio's News Quiz, and the entire media commentariat have ganged up this weekend up to pour mockery and poisonous lies over Julian Assange and the UN's human rights jurists. As they attempt to fight off the UN's 'guilty' verdict against the British state, they are putting dissidents at risk everywhere.
437. Cook, Johnathan: Those Angry at Rushdie's stabbing have been missing in action over a far greater threat to our freedom
     Published: 2022
     Both Julian Assange and Salman Rushdie have been victims of violence, but sympathy was only given to Rushdie. Cook argues that although both men are prominent proponents for the freedom of speech, Rushie questions the authority of clerics and governments in far-off lands, and Assange speaks out against the crimes committed by Western governments.
438. Cook, Jonathan: Academics Who Serve as Israel's Useful Idiots
     Published: 2018
     How derisively would we have treated an academic - an expert in human rights, no less - who argued back in the 1980s that those who supported a boycott of apartheid South Africa must have been secretly anti-white or anti-Christian because they did not equally prioritise a boycott of Israel?
439. Cook, Jonathan: Americal Liberals Unleashed the Trump Monster
     Published: 2016
     Cook argues that Trump's victory was due to liberals losing rather than Trump winning.
440. Cook, Jonathan: The anti-semitism paradox damaging Labour
     Published: 2018
     A look at the damaging effect of anti-semitism for the political left, which is being exploited in a tactic to stifle class solidarity and subvert a genuinely progressive Labour leadership.
441. Cook, Jonathan: Antisemitism Claims have One Goal: To Stop Jeremy Corbyn Winning Power
     The Jewish community’s alienation from Labour has been years in the making
     Published: 2019
     A supposed antisemitism crisis in Britain's Labour party since Jeremy Corbyn became leader has erupted back into the headlines.
442. Cook, Jonathan: Apple and the Guardian: Partners in a Death Spiral
     Published: 2018
     This report on Apple CEO Tim Cook's visit to a UK school to promote the company's new coding curriculum for schoolchildren could hardly be a better illustration of the way the Guardian newspaper serves as a key propagandist for aggressive global corporate capitalism, helping to create for it a façade of humanitarianism.
443. Cook, Jonathan: Arab Jews vs. Palestinians: Israel's Refugee Pawns
     Published: 2012
     Israel's attempt to compare Arab Jews to Palestinian refugees.
444. Cook, Jonathan: 'Are we the baddies?'
     Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes
     Published: 2023
     The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel's crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that's been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades.
445. Cook, Jonathan: The Authoritarians Who Silence Syria Questions
     Published: 2018
     A look at the unchallenged western media narrative on Syria and notably recent commentary by Brian Whitaker, the Guardian's former Middle East editor, who is opposed to experts in the study of propaganda setting up a panel - the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media - which aims to "provide a source of reliable, informed and timely analysis for journalists, publics and policymakers" on Syria.
446. Cook, Jonathan: Behind Israel's campaign to vilify peace groups
     Published: 2016
     Far-right activists spying on Israeli human rights community received hidden funds from Netanyahu government.
447. Cook, Jonathan: The Birth of Agro-Resistance in Palestine
     Published: 2016
     Canaan Fiar Trade, a co-operative farming project with a model of self-sufficiency and dignity, has grown rapidly, and now assists some 2000 small-hold farmers in the West Bank, but it still receives little more than ambivalent support from the compromised Palestinian national leadership.
448. Cook, Jonathan: The Blood of Gaza Is on the West's Hands as Much as Israel's
     Published: 2023
     Israel is on the rampage again and Gaza's population is facing a quiet, slow path to erasure. The ones funding it and enabling it are the US and its European allies.
449. Cook, Jonathan: Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
     Published: 2018
     Jonathan Cook explains why the mainstream Western media prefer an extreme right-wing leader over one from the Left.
450. Cook, Jonathan: Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media
     Published: 2018
     Jonathan Cook explains why the plutocrats and the mainstream media spokespeople much prefer a far-right populist like Jair Bolsonaro, or Donald Trump, to a populist leader of the genuine left.
451. Cook, Jonathan: Britain's Chief Rabbi is Helping to Stoke antisemitism
     Published: 2019
     Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has not only misrepresented the known facts about Labour and its supposed antisemitism crisis. He has not only interfered in an overtly, politically partisan manner in the December 12, 2019 election campaign by suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn -- against all evidence -- is an antisemite.
452. Cook, Jonathan: Britain's Witchfinders are Ready to Burn Jeremy Corbyn
     Published: 2019
     The suspension of MP Chris Williamson for alleged anti-semitism is part of a smear campaign against Corbyn. It is also a by-product of all criticism of Israel being labelled anti-semitism.
453. Cook, Jonathan: British 'Watchdog' Journalists Unmasked as Lap Dogs for the Security State
     Published: 2022
     The cases of Carol Cadwalladr and Paul Mason reveal how readily celebrated media figures are recruited to the intelligence services’ covert information war against other journalists.
454. Cook, Jonathan: Clinton's Defeat and the Fake News Conspiracy
     Published: 2016
     Debunking the scapegoating of 'fake news' by the corporate media following the 2016 US elections as a tactic by the media and Democratic party establishment to avoid blame for Hillary Clinton's election loss.
455. Cook, Jonathan: A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak
     Published: 2009
     A comparative review of two recent books about the media, one a mainstream view, the other using the propaganda model of media control.
456. Cook, Jonathan: Jonathan Cook Quotes
     
457. Cook, Jonathan: Corbyn's Labour Party is Being Made to Fail - By Design
     Published: 2018
     The embattled Labour party is reportedly soon to adopt the four additional working "examples" of anti-semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The full adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism will be a victory for Israel and its apologists in Britain, who who have been seeking to curb all meaningful criticism of Israel.
458. Cook, Jonathan: The corporate media's world of illusions
     Published: 2018
     In fact, the Great Western Narrative has been developed and refined over centuries to preserve a tiny elite’s privileges and expand its power. The role of journalists like me was to keep feeding these illusions to readers so they would remain fearful, passive and deferential to this elite. It is not that journalists lie – or at least, not most of them – it is that they are as deeply wedded to the Great Western Narrative as everyone else.
459. Cook, Jonathan: Corporate power and the moulding of truth
     Published: 2016
     The corporate dominance of 'free' media in western democracies imposes deep structural constraints on what may be reported, and how. Syria is now the latest example of skewed reportage - and even journalists seeking to analyse the problem must carefully avoid the real reasons for it.
460. Cook, Jonathan: Craig Murray's jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
     Published: 2021
     Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge of "jigsaw identification".
461. Cook, Jonathan: Crippling the Left
     Published: 2022
     Whenever it truly matters, from Assange to Corbyn, Guardian George Monbiot journalist aligns with the corporate media herd.
462. Cook, Jonathan: The Crisis in Corbyn's Labour Party is Over Israel, Not Anti-Semitism
     Published: 2018
     If there is indeed an anti-semitism problem in the UK's Labour party, it is not in the places where the British corporate media have been directing our attention. What can be said with even more certainty is that there is rampant hatred expressed towards Jews in the same British media that is currently decrying the supposed anti-semitism of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
463. Cook, Jonathan: Criticising Monbiot isn't 'demonisation'. It’s a first step on the path to reclaiming our minds
     Published: 2020
     
464. Cook, Jonathan: The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian
     A Thought Police for the Internet Age
     Published: 2011
     The Guardian includes some fine reporting and occasionally insightful commentary. Possibly because it is farther from the heart of empire, it is able to provide a partial antidote to the craven coverage of the corporate-owned media in the US. Nonetheless, it would be unwise to believe that the Guardian is therefore a free market in progressive or dissident ideas on the left. In fact, quite the contrary: the paper strictly polices what can be said and who can say it in its pages, for cynical reasons we shall come to.
465. Cook, Jonathan: Don't Dismiss The Importance Of Toppling A Statue
     Published: 2020
     I did not expect to be returning to this issue so soon but I was surprised, to put it mildly, to discover that my last post on anti-racists toppling a statue of the notorious slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol proved to be the most polarising article I have ever written. Given the many controversial topics I have addressed over the years, that seems noteworthy in itself.
466. Cook, Jonathan: An Empire of Lies
     Why Our Media Betray Us
     Published: 2011
     Contrary to its avowed aim, mainstream journalism invariably diminishes the impact of new events when they threaten powerful elites.
467. Cook, Jonathan: Establishment journalists are piling on to smear Robert Fisk now he cannot answer back
     Published: 2020
     Leading journalist in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, but to pile in against him, using the most outrageous smears imaginable.
468. Cook, Jonathan: Every Israeli Missile Strike is a War Crime
     The Experts' Verdict
     Published: 2014
     When are going to hear Human Rights Watch or the United Nation’s Navi Pillay stop talking about proportionality or Israel’s potential war crimes, and admit Israel is committing war crimes by definition – right now, as you read this?
469. Cook, Jonathan: Eyeless in Gaza
     Israel's Deceptions
     Published: 2014
     A single incident at the weekend – the reported capture by Hamas on Friday of an Israeli soldier through a tunnel – illustrated in stark fashion the layers of deception Israel has successfully cast over its attack on Gaza.
470. Cook, Jonathan: Fathi Harb burnt himself to death in Gaza: Will the world notice?
     Published: 2018
     Self-immolation is more than suicide. That can be done quietly, out of sight, less gruesomely. In fact, figures suggest that suicide rates in Gaza have rocketed in recent years. But public self-immolation is associated with protest.
471. Cook, Jonathan: Fisk Puts to Test the Free-Press Myth in Douma
     Published: 2018
     Veteran Middle East corrrespondent Robert Fisk was the first western correspondent to arrive in Douma following the US, UK and French attacks on Syria. Based on first hand interviews Fisk's account is clearly honest about what he reported and certainly plausible, yet respected British newspapers like the Guardian gave his reports a cursory if not hostile treatment.
472. Cook, Jonathan: Forget liberating Ukraine - We first need to liberate our minds
     Published: 2022
     Because we in the West are the strongest tribe on the planet, we are also the most deluded, the most propagandized, and the most dangerous.
473. Cook, Jonathan: A 14-Year-Old Girl Forced Alone and at Night Into the Gaza Cage. Another Routine Mishap for Israel's Occupation
     Published: 2018
     How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials – alone, at night and without her parents being informed?The terrifying ordeal – a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one – is hard to contemplate for any parent.And yet for Israel's gargantuan bureaucratic structure that has ruled over Palestinians for five decades, this was just another routine error. One mishap among many that day.
474. Cook, Jonathan: From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
     Published: 2017
     Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the "democratic" west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly -- it outsources its dirty work to corporations.
475. Cook, Jonathan: Fury at Azaria Verdict is Israel's Trump Moment
     Published: 2017
     Examining the popular reaction to the conviction in military court of Elor Azaria for manslaughter as demonstrating a deep social divide in the vein of Trump's election in the US and the Brexit vote in the UK.
476. Cook, Jonathan: Fury at Israeli plan to build town on historic Muslim village
     Published: 2016
     Netanyahu government agrees to first new Palestinian community in 68 years -- exclusively for the Druze -- on refugees' land
477. Cook, Jonathan: Fury at Israeli plan to build town on historic Muslim village
     Published: 2016
     Netanyahu government agrees to first new Palestinian community in 68 years -- exclusively for the Druze -- on refugees' land.
478. Cook, Jonathan: Guardian front page channels Orwell's 1984
     Published: 2016
     Reading the "liberal" press has become a truly Orwellian experience. What was true yesterday is a lie today. What was black today will be white tomorrow. Two reports on today’s front page of the Guardian could easily be savage satire straight from the pages of the novel 1984.
479. Cook, Jonathan: Guardian Sells False Image of an Open Jerusalem
     Published: 2017
     A Guardian essay on a new Israeli open-rooftops project in Jerusalem, part of a Season of Culture, sadly falls into a standard trap for feelgood articles of this kind. It fails to provide the main context for Jerusalem: that the native Palestinians live under a belligerent Israeli occupation that is ultimately trying to evict them from the city.
480. Cook, Jonathan: Guardian sinks into gutter on Corbyn - again
     Published: 2016
     Jeremy Corbyn today launched a review into the Labour party's supposed "anti-semitism crisis" -- in fact, a crisis entirely confected by a toxic mix of the right, Israel supporters and the media. I have repeatedly pointed out that misleading claims of anti-semitism (along with much else) are being thrown at Corbyn to discredit him.
481. Cook, Jonathan: Guardian tries to silence Democrat Leak Scandal
     Published: 2016
     The Democratic National Convention had their emails leaked which proved their attempt at swinging the vote for Hillary Clinton. The Guardian newspaper seems to show bias for Hillary Clinton in their response.
482. Cook, Jonathan: The Guardian's 'Anti-Semitism' Incident
     Published: 2023
     With the row over its cartoon, the newspaper that helped oust Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party has briefly found that what you sow, you can reap.
483. Cook, Jonathan: Guilt of Anti-semitism Now Needs No Evidence
     Published: 2019
     Accusations of anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party make an effective smear in a corporate-contolled media that focuses on individual personalities.
484. Cook, Jonathan: Hamas 'mass rape' claim lacks evidence. But it's being used to justify genocide
     Published: 2023
     Claims of systematic rape on October 7 appeal to a racist trope of the savage, predatory Arab. Which is why western politicians and media are so unconcerned by the dearth of evidence.
485. Cook, Jonathan: Hersh's New Syria Revelations Buried From View
     Published: 2017
     A look at veteran journalist Seymour Herst's latest investigation, which questions whether Syrian President Assad was responsible for another alleged gas attack at Khan Sheikhoun.
486. Cook, Jonathan: Hiding an Ugly Truth About Israel
     Published: 2024
     Jonathan Cook on Tony Greenstein's exposure of a glaring omission in a new biography of Rudolf Vrba, the first Jew to escape Auschwitz and an intense critic of the Zionist movement.
487. Cook, Jonathan: A History of Silencing Israeli Army Whistleblowers: From 1948 Until Today
     Published: 2016
     One might expect that only historians would care to revisit the 1948 war that created Israel. And yet the debate about what constitutes truth and myth from that period still provokes raw emotions.
488. Cook, Jonathan: The Hollow Ethics of Israel's Liberals
     Published: 2018
     Although sympathetic to the plight of African immigrants, when it comes to the Palestinians most liberal Israelis sound little different from Netanyahu's supporters, both concerned with maintaining Israel as a fortress Jewish state.
489. Cook, Jonathan: The Holocaust, the BBC and antisemitism smears
     Published: 2020
     Senior BBC news reporter Orla Guerin has found herself in hot water of an increasingly familiar kind. During a report on preparations for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, she made a brief reference to Israel and an even briefer reference to the Palestinians.
490. Cook, Jonathan: How the 'free' media dupe us on climate change
     Published: 2018
     Commentary on a segment of Al Jazeera's programme The Listening Post on why climate scepticism persists only in what it terms the "Anglosphere media", that is, those in the United States, UK, Australia and Canada.
491. Cook, Jonathan: How Israel aims to redefine 'ethnic cleansing'
     Published: 2016
     Netanyahu’s controversial comments have thrown another obstacle in the way of Palestinian statehood, analysts say.
492. Cook, Jonathan: How Israel uses an AI genocide program to obliterate Gaza
     Published: 2023
     It should already have been evident from the scale of death and destruction inflicted on Gaza over the past eight weeks that Israel was implementing a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
493. Cook, Jonathan: How Israel wages its war on Palestinian history
     Published: 2020
     Israel’s archives are being hurriedly sealed up precisely to prevent any danger that records might confirm long-sidelined and discounted Palestinian history. Last month Israel’s state comptroller, a watchdog body, revealed that more than one million archived documents were still inaccessible, even though they had passed their declassification date. Nonetheless, some have slipped through the net.
494. Cook, Jonathan: How Israeli Apartheid is Coming Unstuck
     Big Racists vs Little Racists
     Published: 2013
     Segregation is enforced in all the main spheres of life for Jews and Arabs: land allocation and housing, citizenship rights, education, and employment.
495. Cook, Jonathan: How many British MPs are working for Israel?
     Published: 2017
     Investigating the revelations that UK embassy staff in Israel are cooperating with Israeli political parties to influence UK policy making.
496. Cook, Jonathan: How Most Aid to the Palestinians Ends up in Israel's Coffers
     Published: 2016
     While Europe may think of itself as part of an enlightened West, using aid to defend Palestinians' rights, the reality is less reassuring. The aid may actually be making things significantly worse.
497. Cook, Jonathan: How the Guardian aided the anti-semites
     Published: 2018
     Who do you help when you censor a cartoon depicting Israel's well-documented war crimes against Palestinians – and do so on the grounds that the criticism of Israel is anti-semitic?
     The answer is: you help anti-semites.
498. Cook, Jonathan: How the Guardian became the West's Pravda
     Published: 2018
     Cook says that the British newspaper The Guardian has become a mouthpiece for the establishment.
499. Cook, Jonathan: How the Hand of Israeli Spy Tech Reaches Deep into our Lives
     Israeli software used on Palestinians is producing new cyber weapons that are rapidly being incorporated into global digital platforms
     Published: 2019
     Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed for much wider applications – against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted.
500. Cook, Jonathan: How We Stay Blind to the Story of Power
     Published: 2020
     If one thing drives me to write, especially these blog posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything about our lives and our deaths. There is no more important issue. Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to liberation we can take as individuals, as societies, and as a species.
501. Cook, Jonathan: The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
     Published: 2018
     Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read? But here's a seditious idea. Would that be such a bad thing? Maybe it would better if we were far more wary of the corporate media and began to think of it chiefly as a sales platform – selling us an ideology harmful to our individual welfare and that of our societies.
502. Cook, Jonathan: The Ideal of a Free Media Died Long Ago
     Published: 2018
     Should the media include positive editorial content secretly paid for by major corporations, as London's Evening Standard newspaper has begun doing, according to new revelations?
     Most of us instantly recoil from any blurring between editorial and advertising in the media. How would we know if what was reported was factual, truthful and newsworthy or there simply as public relations spin? How could we trust anything we read?
503. Cook, Jonathan: If the 'product' is wrong, a rebrand won't help Israel
     Published: 2015
     Cook discusses Israel's attempt to rebrand itself. Specifically, he addresses "hasbara", translated as "public diplomacy", a campaign that calls for Israelis to justify and defend any policy regarding occupied territories.
504. Cook, Jonathan: In an endless war on terror, we are all doomed to become Palestinians
     Published: 2015
     Jeff Halper's new book sheds light on the arms industry, arguing that Israel is now the go-to nation for armies and police forces around the world.
505. Cook, Jonathan: In the US, money talks when it comes to Israel
     Published: 2016
     Investigates the 2016 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates and their allegiance to Israel.
506. Cook, Jonathan: Indeed, there is no comparison: Israel's crimes are far worse than Hamas's
     Published: 2024
     Benjamin Netanyahu is right to dismiss as 'absurd and false' the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by the two sides. Here's why.
507. Cook, Jonathan: Is it already too late to say goodbye?
     Published: 2022
     My blog posts once attracted tens of thousands of shares. Then, as the algorithms tightened, it became thousands. Now, as they throttle me further, shares can often be counted in the hundreds. "Going viral" is a distant memory.
508. Cook, Jonathan: Is this how western media would report Netanyahu's killing by Hezbollah?
     Published: 2024
     Western journalists claim to report the news objectively and fairly. If they really did, this is what coverage of Netanyahu’s assassination might look like…
509. Cook, Jonathan: Israel and its allies are repurposing the goals and lies of 1948 -- in Gaza in 2023
     Published: 2023
     
510. Cook, Jonathan: Israel hopes 'lost tribes' can boost Jewish numbers
     Published: 2015
     Facing Palestinian majority, Israeli officials seek way to loosen legal definition of 'Jew' so millions more can qualify for immigration.
511. Cook, Jonathan: 'Israel is a terrorist state'
     Published: 2015
     The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned. A wave of unrest has swept Palestinian towns in Israel over recent days, with repeated clashes with Israeli police in Nazareth, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Taibeh, Sakhnin, Rahat, Kfar Qassem and elsewhere. Dozens of protesters have been arrested.
512. Cook, Jonathan: Israel is a Terrorist State
     Published: 2015
     The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned.
513. Cook, Jonathan: Israel is caught lying time and again. And yet we never learn
     Published: 2023
     Disinformation over the blast at Gaza's al-Ahli hospital worked as planned, taking the focus off the victims and lifting pressure on Israel to stop its rampage.
514. Cook, Jonathan: Israel maintains robust arms trade with rogue regimes
     Published: 2017
     Israel's collusion with Myanmar's military is part of a pattern of military aid to rogue regimes that goes back decades, and reflects the importance of the arms trade to Israel's economy.
515. Cook, Jonathan: Israel Seeks 'Jewish' Non-Jews in Numbers Battle with Palestnians
     Published: 2017
     With a shortage of Jews to defeat the Palestinians demographically, the Netanyahu government is considering a revision to the traditional rabbinical injunction that a Jew must be born to a Jewish mother -- opening the doors to a new category of 'Jewish' non-Jews.
516. Cook, Jonathan: Israel Seeks Ways To Silence Human Rights Groups
     Published: 2009
     In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel's winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad.
517. Cook, Jonathan: Israel Targets Ha'aretz
     "A Shin Bet State"
     Published: 2010
     Israel uses police state tactics to crush journalists who expose crimes committed by the military.
518. Cook, Jonathan: The Israeli War Crime That Goes Unmentioned
     Published: 2015
     Here set out in black and white in the Israeli media is a moral conundrum that western politicians, diplomats and international human rights organisations are resolutely failing to address -- and one I have been highlighting since 2006.
519. Cook, Jonathan: Israelis have the Upper Hand when it Comes to Vengeance
     Published: 2014
     As Human Rights Watch warned, Israel’s recent actions – mass arrests; armed raids; the killing of Palestinians, including minors; lockdowns of cities, house demolitions; and air strikes – amounted to “collective punishment”, international law’s euphemism for revenge, against Palestinians. In the face of the enduring violence of Israel’s occupation, and the licence it provides soldiers to humiliate and oppress, ordinary Palestinians have a stark choice: to submit or resist. Ordinary Israelis, on the other hand, do not need to seek revenge on their own account. The Israeli state, military and courts are there every day doing it for them.
520. Cook, Jonathan: Israelis Shoot Motionless Arab Woman - Video
     Published: 2015
     In the age of phone cameras, we have become increasingly used to photos and videos of Palestinians in the West Bank being shot by soldiers in unjustifiable circumstances.
521. Cook, Jonathan: Israel's Bogus History Lesson
     Published: 2016
     It was presumably intended as an Israeli history lesson to the world. A video posted to social media by Israel's foreign ministry shows an everyday Jewish couple, Jacob and Rachel, in a home named the "Land of Israel". A series of knocks on the door brings 3,000 years of interruptions to their happiness. First it's the Assyrians, followed by the Babylonians, Hellenists, Arabs, Romans, Crusaders, Mamluks, and Ottomans – all straight out of Monty Python central casting. Jacob and Rachel are forced by the warring factions to relocate to ever smaller parts of their home until finally they have to pitch a tent in the garden. Their fortunes change only with the arrival of a servant of the British Empire, who returns the title deeds. A final knock disturbs their celebrations. On the doorstep are a penniless Palestinian couple, craning their necks to see what goodies await them inside.
522. Cook, Jonathan: Israel's crisis is about who gets to play tyrant: the generals or religious thugs
     Published: 2023
     Over the years, international human rights groups have slowly come to acknowledge this fundamental lack of democracy, too. They now describe Israel as what it always was: an apartheid state.
523. Cook, Jonathan: Israel’s cynical approach is feeding unrest
     Published: 2015
     Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.
524. Cook, Jonathan: Israel's education system peddles intolerance and lies
     Published: 2014
     John Kerry spent last week testing the waters with the Israelis and the Palestinians over his so-called framework agreement – designed to close the gaps between the two sides. But the issues he is trying to resolve appear more intractable by the day.
525. Cook, Jonathan: Israel's Efforts to Hide Palestinians From View No Longer Fools Young American Jews
     Published: 2017
     The denial of Palestinian history by Israel is no longer accepted by many young American Jews, a community that is increasingly polarized by the issue.
526. Cook, Jonathan: Israel's Ever-More Sadistic Reprisals Help Shore up a Sense of Victimhood
     Published: 2017
     Israel argues that a potential attacker can only be dissuaded by knowing his loved ones will suffer harsh retribution.
527. Cook, Jonathan: Israel's Gaza backlash targets Arab minority
     Published: 2014
     Israel's large Palestinian minority is facing an unprecedented backlash of incitement and violent reprisals as Israeli Jews rally behind the current military operations in Gaza, human rights groups and political activists have warned.
528. Cook, Jonathan: Israel's new 'attack on freedom of speech'
     Published: 2010
     The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a 'McCarthyite' campaign against human-rights groups.
529. Cook, Jonathan: Israel's New Land Law: Clearing the Path to Annexation
     Published: 2017
     The Israeli parliament passed the legalisation law on Monday night, widening the powers of Israeli officials to seize the final fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits.
530. Cook, Jonathan: Israel's new police chief emerges from shadowy world
     Published: 2015
     Palestinian minority in Israel worried by top cop's twin-track as interrogator for secret police and hardline settler.
531. Cook, Jonathan: Israel's starvation diet for Gaza
     Published: 2012
     Israel’s calculating of daily caloric needs shows how it manages the lives of Palestinians in Gaza in almost microscopic detail.
532. Cook, Jonathan: Israel’s cynical approach is feeding unrest
     Published: 2015
     Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.
533. Cook, Jonathan: Jonathan Cook - Response to Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
     Published: 2008
     However grateful we should be to the tiny minority of dissident writers, their relegation to the margins of the commentary pages of Britain's 'leftwing' media serves a useful purpose for corporate interests. It helps define the 'character' of the British media as provocative, pluralistic and free-thinking - when in truth they are anything but. It is a vital component in maintaining the fiction that a professional media is a diverse media.
534. Cook, Jonathan: Latest Corbyn Hit-Piece: He earns MP's Salary
     Published: 2016
     If I hadn’t seen for myself that this article "exposing" Jeremy Corbyn was published on the Daily Telegraph’s website, I would have assumed it was a spoof from The Onion – an even more preposterous one than normal.
535. Cook, Jonathan: Lawless in Gaza: Why the West Backs Israel No Matter What
     Published: 2023
     As Western politicians line up to cheer on Israel as it starves and bombs Gaza's civilians, it's important to understand how we reached this point -- and what it means for the future.
536. Cook, Jonathan: The left's contempt for bodily autonomy during the pandemic is a gift to the right
     Published: 2021
     When did parts of the left get so contemptuous of the principle of "bodily autonomy"? Answer: Just about the time they started fetishising vaccines as the only route out of the current pandemic.
537. Cook, Jonathan: Letter from Nazareth
     The forgotten Palestinians
     Published: 2015
     The city's Christians and Muslims continue to struggle against Israel's divide-and-rule policies
     At 26 metres, Nazareth's artificial Christmas tree is the tallest in the Middle East, or so city officials boast. Its glinting red, silver and golden baubles have brought a temporary, but much-needed cheer to the city of Jesus' childhood. Despite the festive mood, friends and neighbours in what is Israel's largest Palestinian city struggle to sound hopeful about the future. Even the inflatable Father Christmases hanging from shop awnings look forlorn.
538. Cook, Jonathan: Letter from Nazareth: The forgotten Palestinians
     Published: 2015
     The city's Christians and Muslims continue to struggle against Israel's divide-and-rule policies.
539. Cook, Jonathan: A Liberal Elite Still Luring Us Towards the Abyss
     Published: 2019
     A recent manifesto decrying "populism and nationalism" see today's problems as coming from the abandonment of liberal ideals when they are in fact caused by extreme adherence to them.
540. Cook, Jonathan: Like the Diana story, Meghan’s fight with the Royals will ensure nothing really changes
     Published: 2021
     Oprah Winfrey's interview with Meghan and Harry is a perfect case study of how an important political debate about the corrupting role of the monarchy on British life gets shunted aside yet again, not just by the endless Royal soap opera but by supposedly progressive identity politics.
541. Cook, Jonathan: Mark Field and the Danger of Getting Sidetracked
     Published: 2019
     The media's focus on British government minister Mark Field's assault on a climate change activist, is a smokescreen to draw attention away from people with money and power that effect real issues such as climate change.
542. Cook, Jonathan: The Media Kept Assange Behind Bars
     Published: 2024
     The establishment press acted in concert to assassinate the character of the WikiLeaks founder, making it respectable to hate him.
543. Cook, Jonathan: Monbiot Is a Hypocrite and a Bully
     Published: 2018
     It is time for George Monbiot’s legion of supporters to call him out. Not only is he a hypocrite, but he is becoming an increasingly dangerous one. Turning a blind eye to his behaviour, or worse excusing it, as too often happens, has only encouraged him to intensify his attacks on dissident writers, those who – whether right or wrong on any specific issue – are slowly helping us all to develop more critical perspectives on western foreign policy goals than has ever been possible before.
544. Cook, Jonathan: Monbiot Still Can't Admit Media's Core Problem
     Published: 2017
     After more than two decades at the Guardian, George Monbiot has finally written a column in which he concedes that the entire British media has a problem, including its supposedly left-liberal elements like the Guardian.
545. Cook, Jonathan: Nelson Mandela: A Dissenting Opinion
     Published: 2013
     It is an indication of what Mandela was up against that the man who fought so hard and long against a brutal apartheid regime was so completely defeated when he took power in South Africa. That was because he was no longer struggling against a rogue regime but against the existing order. As I suspect Mandela realised only too well, one cannot lead a revolution when there are no followers.
546. Cook, Jonathan: New report details 'brutal' Israeli policies
     Published: 2014
     The first bullet struck 16-year-old Samir Awad in his left leg. He staggered away as fast as he could, but was too slow. A second round slammed into his left shoulder, exiting from the right side of his chest. Then, moments later, a third bullet penetrated the back of his skull and exited from his forehead.
547. Cook, Jonathan: The news media offers wall-to-wall propaganda every day. We only notice when a royal dies
     Published: 2021
     If the BBC makes its editorial decisions based on what rightwing and far-right newspaper tycoons think is good both for the country and for the world, then how is the BBC not equally rightwing?
548. Cook, Jonathan: The Occupation's Dark Underbelly Exposed
     The Revelations of the Israeli Refuseniks
     Published: 2014
     A letter signed by 43 veterans of an elite Israeli military intelligence unit declaring their refusal to continue serving the occupation has sent shockwaves through Israeli society.
549. Cook, Jonathan: Our leaders are terrified. Not of the virus - of us
     Published: 2020
     
550. Cook, Jonathan: Palestine is a loud echo of Britain's colonial past - and a warning of the future
     Published: 2022
     In moving from Nazareth back to the UK, I have stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
551. Cook, Jonathan: Palestinians torn over contact with Israelis
     Published: 2014
     A Palestinian university’s decision to bar from its campus an Israeli journalist and outspoken critic of the occupation has exposed a growing rift among Palestinian activists about the merits of contact with Jewish Israelis.
552. Cook, Jonathan: Peterson unmasks stitch-up of TV interviews
     Published: 2018
     Jonathan Cook on Jordan Peterson’s recent interview with Channel 4’s Cathy Newman.
553. Cook, Jonathan: Professors for Israel try to Shut Down Lancet
     Published: 2015
     Some 400 medical professors are blackmailing Reed Elsevier, publishers of The Lancet, by threatening to boycott its publications unless the company sacks editor Richard Horton - or as they duplicitously phrase it, "enforce appropriate ethical standards of editorship".
554. Cook, Jonathan: Profiting from Loss: How Business in Illegal Israeli Settlements Continues Unchecked
     Published: 2020
     UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing, and exposing the hypocrisy of western states.
555. Cook, Jonathan: Publish It Not!
     Published: 2011
     How Israel controls the way the international 'liberal' media portray its illegal and vicious occupation of Palestine and why the media allow them to get away with it.
556. Cook, Jonathan: Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
     Published: 2016
     Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel's religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
557. Cook, Jonathan: Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
     Published: 2016
     Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel's religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
558. Cook, Jonathan: The Real Link Between Israel's Forest Fires and Muezzin Bill
     Published: 2016
     Examines and contextualizes the discriminatory 'muezzin bill', which would ban the broadcasting of Muslim calls to prayer in Israel.
559. Cook, Jonathan: Religious Zealots Ready for Takeover of Israeli Army
     Published: 2016
     In a surprise move, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week forced out his long-serving defence minister, Moshe Yaalon. As he stepped down, Yaalon warned: "Extremist and dangerous elements have taken over Israel." He was referring partly to his expected successor: Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, whose trademark outbursts have included demands to bomb Egypt and behead disloyal Palestinian citizens.
560. Cook, Jonathan: Robert Fisk's Douma Report Rips Away Excuses for Air Strike on Syria
     Published: 2018
     A report by respected journalist Robert Fisk shows that there is a highly credible alternative explanation for the aftermath of the alleged gas attack in Douma, Syria. His report, including an eyewitness account by a senior doctor, counters the video evidence used by the US to justify the air strikes on the region. It was an attack that should never have taken place before inspectors were able to investigate and report their findings.
561. Cook, Jonathan: Rules of Production
     A Critical Look at Two Recent Books on the British Media
     Published: 2009
     A review of two books: Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies, and Newspeak in the 21st Century, by David Edwards and David Cromwell.
562. Cook, Jonathan: Russia-Ukraine war: How the US paved the way to Moscow's invasion
     Published: 2023
     Nearly a year after Russia's invasion, the western narrative of an 'unprovoked' attack has become impossible to sustain.
563. Cook, Jonathan: Russia-Ukraine: Western media are acting as cheerleaders for war
     Published: 2022
     Journalists are cheering on the arming of militias and civilians making improvised explosives - acts they usually treat as terrorism
564. Cook, Jonathan: Second Nakba; Same Israeli Lies; Same Western Narrative
     Published: 2023
     Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing inside Gaza and yet, just as during the first 'Nakba,' Israel's lies and deceptions dominate the West's media and political narrative.
565. Cook, Jonathan: 7 easy steps to outlawing marches that call for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza
     Published: 2024
     The BBC and other media are willing co-conspirators in promoting the pro-genocide playbook of groups like the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
566. Cook, Jonathan: Shock and Awe in Gaza
     How the Media and Human Rights Groups Cover for Israeli War Crimes
     Published: 2014
     This assualt on Gaza, like the earlier ones, will leave hundres of Palestinians dead, a majority of them civilians. It will end neither the siege nor the resistance to it. It will outrage public opinion around the globe. But our elities will carry on giving Israel financial, military and diplomatic cover, as they have now done for more than six decades.
567. Cook, Jonathan: The shocking story of Israel's disappeared babies
     Published: 2016
     New information has come to light about thousands of mostly Yemeni children believed to have been abducted in the 1950s.
568. Cook, Jonathan: Social media giants allow hate speech against Russia but silence Israel's critics
     Published: 2022
     Silicon Valley's decision to allow anti-Russia threats reveals it as little more than a propaganda arm of the West.
569. Cook, Jonathan: Social media's erasure of Palestinians is a grim warning for our future
     Published: 2020
     Nowhere are ties between tech and state officials more evident than in their dealings with Israel. This has led to starkly different treatment of digital rights for Israelis and Palestinians.
570. Cook, Jonathan: Stakes rising for Israel as rockets reach airport
     Temporary air blockade of Israel reveals deeper issues to its citizens
     Published: 2014
     Israel’s effective loss of its only international airport for a couple of days last week — and the cloud of uncertainty that continues to hang over its operation in the future — has deeply unsettled Israelis.
571. Cook, Jonathan: Terror in a Christmas Tree
     Israel Tries to Ban Non-Jewish Celebrations
     Published: 2012
     Who would imagine that Israeli Jews could be so intimidated by the innocuous Christmas tree?
572. Cook, Jonathan: Those angry at Rushdie's stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom
     Published: 2022
     The Satanic Verses novelist is championed by western liberals not because he has bravely articulated difficult truths but because of who his enemies are.
573. Cook, Jonathan: Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry
     Published: 2019
     Important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump's camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.
574. Cook, Jonathan: Time to Confront the Media's Anti-Corbyn Bias
     Published: 2017
     Jeremy Corbyn has been subjected to unprecedented vilification by the British media. No one is surprised that the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Times have been relentless in their hatchet jobs on Corbyn. But it has been disconcerting for the left that the Guardian and BBC never gave him a chance either. He was in their gun-sights from day one.
575. Cook, Jonathan: Trump, fake news and the war on dissidents
     Published: 2017
     A rebuke to a recent Guardian article titled "If mainstream news wants to win back trust, it cannot silence dissident voices", where journalist Nick Robinson claims that the left and right are the peddlers of the same "fakery" in attacking the media.
576. Cook, Jonathan: Tucker Carlson's firing reveals how afraid the media is of independent journalists
     Published: 2023
     While the left is busy hating on Tucker Carlson, and not without reason, it is missing the bigger picture.
577. Cook, Jonathan: Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda
     Published: 2009
     Israel's foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government's line on the Middle East conflict.
578. Cook, Jonathan: 2018: When Orwell's 1984 Stopped Being Fiction
     Published: 2018
     A commentary on The Guardian's news story "Revealed: UK's push to strengthen anti-Russia alliance". Cook questions facts and the terminology used in the Guardian article, a form of 'journalistic fraud', which promotes the UK government's policy towards Russia.
579. Cook, Jonathan: UK and Israel: Has the fightback against weaponised antisemitism begun?
     Published: 2023
     Jews in the Labour party and academics are finally exposing the UK establishment’s smear campaign to silence criticism of Israel and destroy the left.
580. Cook, Jonathan: UN Battle to 'Shame' Israel Over Abuse of Children
     Published: 2015
     Palestinian solidarity groups have taken to social media to step up the pressure on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to include Israel for the first time on a "shame list" of serious violators of children's rights.
581. Cook, Jonathan: US Democrats Cultivated the Barbarism of Isis
     Published: 2019
     There is something profoundly deceitful in the Democratic Party and corporate media's framing of Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to like Trump or ignore the dangers posed to the Kurds, at least in the short term, by the sudden departure of US forces from northern Syria to understand that the coverage is being crafted in such a way as to entirely overlook the bigger picture.
582. Cook, Jonathan: US Lies and Excuses for Bombing Hospital
     Published: 2015
     Here is the US changing its story for the FOURTH time of why it launched an air strike on the Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan town of Kunduz at the weekend, massacring at least 22 patients and hospital staff.
583. Cook, Jonathan: Videos Challenge Israeli Police Account of Shootings
     Published: 2015
     It has been called the "smartphone intifada". After a sharp escalation in violence between Palestinians and Israelis in recent weeks, shocking scenes captured on video have spread across social media.
584. Cook, Jonathan: The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us
     Published: 2018
     Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
585. Cook, Jonathan: The War Machine Wants You to Condemn Hamas
     Published: 2023
     The act of condemnation has been cynically weaponised, writes Jonathan Cook. The aim is not to show solidarity with Israelis. It's to fan the flames of hatred to rationalise crimes against Palestinians.
586. Cook, Jonathan: Was there a Wuhan lab leak?
     An inquiry won’t dig out the truth. It will deepen the deception
     Published: 2021
     For many years, scientists at labs like Wuhan’s have conducted Frankenstein-type experiments on viruses. They have modified naturally occurring infective agents – often found in animals such as bats – to try to predict the worst-case scenarios for how viruses, especially coronaviruses, might evolve. The claimed purpose has been to ensure humankind gets a head start on any new pandemic, preparing strategies and vaccines in advance to cope.
587. Cook, Jonathan: We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism
     Published: 2021
     as journalists seek to liberate themselves from the strictures of the old corporate media, that same corporate media is working very hard to characterise the new technology as a threat to media freedoms. This self-serving argument should be treated with a great deal of scepticism. I want to use my own experiences to argue that quite the reverse is true. And that the real danger is allowing the corporate media to reassert its monopoly over narrating the world to us.
588. Cook, Jonathan: Welcome to Israel's version of apartheid
     Published: 2016
     Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off, three Israeli passengers took security into their own hands and demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel's Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. By the end of a 90-minute stand-off, dozens more Israeli Jews had joined the protest, refusing to take their seats.
589. Cook, Jonathan: Welcome to Israel's version of apartheid
     Published: 2016
     A small scene from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict unfolded last week on a Greek airport runway. Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off, three Israeli passengers took security into their own hands and demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel’s Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. By the end of a 90-minute stand-off, dozens more Israeli Jews had joined the protest, refusing to take their seats.
     Like a parable illustrating Europe's bottomless indulgence of Israel, Aegean staff caved in to the pressure and persuaded the two Palestinian men to disembark.
590. Cook, Jonathan: The West agonises over an 'atrocity upsurge' while backing Israel's genocide in Gaza
     Published: 2024
     The problem isn't 'global inaction' to prevent mass atrocities, as the Guardian claims. It's intense US and UK support for atrocities so long as they bolster their global power
591. Cook, Jonathan: The Western Media is Key to Syria Deceptions
     Published: 2019
     An analysis of why western media has failed to practice any scepticism regarding claims that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons.
592. Cook, Jonathan: Western media's parroting of official lies is paving way to genocide in Gaza
     Published: 2023
     Disinformation campaigns are one of the chief battlefields in any war - something any serious journalist is only too aware of. And western powers and their allies have an appalling track record of lying to their own medias.
593. Cook, Jonathan: West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre
     Published: 2018
     Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to commit further massacres in the future.
594. Cook, Jonathan: The West's Hands in Ukraine as Bloody as Putin's
     Published: 2022
     There is a discursive nervous tic all over social media at the moment, including from prominent journalists such as Guardian columnist George Monbiot. The demand is that everyone not only "condemn" Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, but do so without qualification.
595. Cook, Jonathan: The West's Support for Israel's Genocide Is Destroying the World as We Know It
     Published: 2024
     The old world is dying once again, but the US-Israel axis is wrong to suggest it is slaying monsters. It is the monster.
596. Cook, Jonathan: What the BBC fails to tell you about October 7 [2023]
     Published: 2023
     It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military's account of that day.
597. Cook, Jonathan: What the media forgets to tell you about Israel and Gaza
     Published: 2023
     Ignore the fake news. Israel isn't defending itself. It's enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
598. Cook, Jonathan: Who is the biggest climate change villain?
     Published: 2017
     Here is an exclusive the Guardian has held back from its readers for 26 years. It is finally published on its pages today.
599. Cook, Jonathan: Why Corbyn so terrifies the liberal elite
     Published: 2016
     Most Labour MPs would rather destroy their own party than let Jeremy Corbyn and his backers make it fit for its 21st century purpose.
600. Cook, Jonathan: Why Israel has silenced the 1948 story of Nazareth's survival
     Published: 2016
     A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth's survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Other cities, such as Jaffa, Lydd, Ramleh, Haifa and Acre, now have small Palestinian populations that mostly live in ghetto-like conditions in what have become Jewish cities. Still others, like Tiberias and Safad, have no Palestinians left in them at all.
     Nazareth was not only an anomaly; it was a mistake.
601. Cook, Jonathan: Why Israel has silenced the 1948 story of Nazareth’s survival
     Published: 2016
     A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth's survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Other cities, such as Jaffa, Lydd, Ramleh, Haifa and Acre, now have small Palestinian populations that mostly live in ghetto-like conditions in what have become Jewish cities. Still others, like Tiberias and Safad, have no Palestinians left in them at all.
602. Cook, Jonathan: Why Israel is blocking access to its archives
     Published: 2016
     Israel is concealing vital records to prevent darkest periods in its history from coming to light, academics say.
603. Cook, Jonathan: Why the Guardian axed Nafeez Ahmed's blog
     Published: 2014
     Nafeez Ahmed’s account of the sudden termination of his short-lived contract to write an environment blog for the Guardian is depressingly instructive – and accords with my own experiences as a journalist at the paper.
604. Cook, Jonathan: Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods
     Published: 2023
     There are reasons for Libya's 'chaotic', 'dysfunctional' response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home.
605. Cook, Jonathan: Why the news media's job is to groom us
     Published: 2024
     Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart. The media's differing treatment of these comparable events is the clue to what the media’s really there to do. As readers, we don't, as we imagine, 'consume' news. Rather, the news consumes us. Or put another way, the media uses the news to groom us, its audience. Properly understood, the relationship is one of abuser and abused.
606. Cook, Jonathan: Why the Washington Post Killed the Story of Murdoch’s Bid to Buy the US Presidency
     Carl Bernstein Caught in the Matrix
     Published: 2012
     
607. Cook, Jonathan: Why There are Few Christians Left in the Holy Town of Bethlehem
     Published: 2018
     This is the time of year when they have a chance to break out of an isolation enforced in concrete since Israel enclosed the town with a "separation wall" more than a decade ago.
608. Cook, Jonathan: Wonder Woman is a hero only the military-industrial complex could create
     Published: 2017
     The author peels back the layer of blockbuster comic book fun to reveal the film's disturbing and not-so-covert political and militaristic messages.
609. Cook, Jonathan: You Can’t Force-feed Occupation to those who Crave Freedom
     Published: 2014
     Israel wants to believe that through force of will it can keep the tide of accountability at bay in the occupied territories. But belligerent occupations – especially ones where no hope or end is in sight – engender evermore creative and costly forms of resistance. A physical act of resistance can be temporarily foiled. But the spirit behind it cannot be so easily subdued.
610. Cook, Jonathann: In Israel, an Ugly Tide sweeps over Palestinians
     Published: 2016
     In Israel's evermore tribal politics, there is no such thing as a "good" Arab -- and the worst failing in a Jew is to be unmasked as an "Arab lover". Or so was the message last week from Isaac Herzog, head of Israel's so-called peace camp.The shock waves of popular anger at the recent indictment of an Israeli army medic, Elor Azaria, on a charge of "negligent homicide" are being felt across Israel's political landscape.
611. Cook, Mark: Venezuela Coverage Takes Us Back to Golden Age of Lying About Latin America
     Published: 2019
     Corporate media has many stories about food and medicine shortages in Venezuela. These lies and others are debunked by someone who lives there.
612. Cook, William: Justice, Peace and the Israeli State
     Rule by Ruthless Force
     Published: 2012
     International Law and the creation of a world body to aid in the direction of nation states to live in peace and justice under defined conditions such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charters of the UN suggests that Israel must change, it must recognize that it is not the sole determiner of world events, that it has lifted its beliefs beyond those that exist elsewhere in the world and it must, therefore, reverse its direction to become one with its neighbors and all the nations of the UN.
613. Cook, William: The Politics of the Exodus Myth
     Pillar of Superstition
     Published: 2012
     Cook provides conclusions that would suggest that the Bible as the word of God is rather a fabrication created for the masses for political, religious and cultural reasons.
614. Cooke, Jennifer: How to Publish an E-Book: the Ultimate Guide
     Published: 2013
     Your definitive guide to formatting, uploading and publishing your long-form journalism as an e-book to the various digital marketplaces.
615. Coon Come, Matthew: Matthew Coon Come Quotes
     
616. Cooper, Ben: New map records sites of Australia's colonial massacres
     Published: 2017
     Map is the first to detail evidence of more than 150 massacres involving almost every aboriginal clan between 1788 and 1872.
617. Cooper, Marc: Remembering Pinochet's Coup: A Taste of Justice for Chile
     Published: 1999
     AS FORMER CHILEAN dictator Augusto Pinochet languished in British custody facing possible extradition to Spain, I have thought often of the democratically elected president he overthrew twenty-five years ago—Salvador Allende. At the time of the September 11, 1973 coup I was living in Chile and a translator for President Allende.
618. Cooper, Margaret: "We don't have films you can eat"
     Talking to the D.E.C. Films Collective
     Published: 1983
     An interview with members of DEC Films, a distributor of progressive films in English-speaking Canada.
619. Cooper, Quintin: Are Your Devices Hardwired For Betrayal?
     Published: 2015
     Firmware-based attacks are real and their numbers will only increase. Cooper discusses the potential consequences if we don't address this issue now.
620. Cooper, Ryan: Democrats have a better option than court packing
     Published: 2020
     The easiest way to defeat right-wing judicial tyranny is to ignore it
621. Cope, Alec: Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad
     Published: 2015
     
622. Copland, Simon; Riley, Benjamin: A queer take on Safe Schools and identity politics
     Published: 2016
     In recent weeks, the debate over the Safe Schools Coalition anti-bullying program has intensified, taking what is in many ways a bizarre turn. The brief suspension of program architect Roz Ward from her position at La Trobe University has reopened the debate about whether Safe Schools is 'cultural Marxism' by stealth, the program once again coming under fire from conservatives across the country. Even trans advocate and member of the ADF Catherine McGregor has weighed in. One of the more interesting elements of this, however, has been the debate it has created about the role gender and sexual politics can and should play within Marxism. Here enters Guy Rundle. In the pages of Crikey, Rundle penned a treatise on the program and what he considers the failures of 'queer theory'. Rundle believes Safe Schools (via queer theory) presents the view that 'gender and sexuality are infinitely fluid'. He argues, however, that such a view denies the material realities of sexuality and gender, not to mention his view that 'almost no-one really believes it -- and they certainly do not let it shape their lives'.
623. Coppola, Gabrielle; Welch, David: The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data
     Published: 2018
     As "smarter" vehicles provide storehouses of personal information, carmakers are building databases of consumer preferences that could be sold to outside vendors for marketing purposes, much like Google and Facebook.
624. Corbett, Thom; Diemer, Ulli: Major confrontation looms over rent controls removal
     Published: 1978
     Support for an end to rent controls is growing among government officials who say that apartments aren't being built because developers no longer find it profitable enough. Critics of this line of thinking agree that apartment construction isn't keeping up with demand, but argue that rent controls are not the cause. They point to similar apartment shortages in cities without rent controls, and note that the construction slowdown began before the controls were introduced.
625. Corbett, Tom: The Clarion: Toronto's new community paper
     Published: 1976
     Launch of the Toronto Clarion in October 1976.
626. Corbley, Andy: How Does the War on Terror Stack Up to Some of History's Most Infamous Genocides?
     Published: 2019
     A look at whether the US War on Terror can be classified as genocide. Comparisons to historical precedents are complicated since the War on Terror is not a systematic effort directed at one location.
627. Corbyn, Jeremy: The Iraq War Was an Act of Military Aggression Launched on a False Pretext: Remarks on the Chilcot Inquiry Report
     Published: 2016
     The following is a transcript of Jeremy Corbyn's remarks in the House of Commons.
628. Corbyn, Jeremy: We Must Be Brave Enough to Admit the War on Terror Simply Not Working
     Published: 2017
     Amid sorrow of Manchester bombing, UK Labour Party leader explains why actively building peace is requisite for ending such horrific and inexcusable carnage in the future.
629. Corcelli, John: Are Canada's Archives for Sale?
     Published: 1999
     
630. Cordall, Simon: Landmines still exacting a heavy toll on Vietnamese civilians
     Published: 2012
     37 years on, unexploded bombs continue to ruin lives in the former wartime frontline regions of Vietnam.
631. Cordozo, Nate: Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
     Published: 2015
     In the age of information, companies are hungry for your data. They want it - even if it means resorting to trickery.
632. Corleone, Vito: Vito Corleone Quotes
     
633. Cormack, W.E.: Report of Mr. W. E. Cormack's journey in search of the Red Indians in Newfoundland
     Published: 1828
     
634. Cormwell, David: The Illusion of Democracy
     Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions
     Published: 2012
     In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘weirding’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices?
635. Corn, David: When 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Go Bad
     Published: 2002
     Aren't these conspiracy theories too silly to address? That should be the case. But, sadly, they do attract people.
636. Cornell, Matt: The Torturer as Feminist: From Abu Ghraib to Zero Dark Thirty
     Published: 2013
     How “feminism” is used in service of the American empire.
637. Cornils, Ingo: The Struggle Continues
     Rudi Dutschke's Long March
     Published: 2014
     Published in In Student Protest: The sixties and After, edited by Gerald J, Degroot. New York and London: Routledge, 2014
638. Cornwell, Tim: Arab photography archive releases 22,000 historic images online
     Published: 2019
     Arab Image Foundation completes $255,000 digitisation initiative and will reopen its Beirut building this summer.
639. Coronel, Sheila: Capture the popular imagination
     Published: 2014
     Sheila Coronel is the director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Last month, she was named as the next academic dean of the journalism school, a position she will assume in July. Prior to joining Columbia, Coronel founded the Phillippine Center for Investigative Journalism, where her reporting on corruption and graft by then-President Joseph Estrada helped bring about his impeachment and subsequent resignation. She recently spoke with ICIJ for its "Secrets of the Masters" series.
640. Coronel, Sheila: How To Track Looted Wealth
     Published: 2012
     The ICIJ’s Sheila Coronel shares how to investigate illicit money trails ahead of her Tracking Corruption Internationally presentation at the 2012 IRE conference.
641. Coronel, Sheila: Revealing the Secret World of Private Companies
     Published: 2012
     You’d think that getting the names of the shareholders of a company would be fairly easy. Such information should be routinely available.To be sure, there’s a wealth of information on listed companies. But good luck researching a private firm.
642. Corporal, Lynette Lee: Asia: Amid Big Players, Smaller Media Outfits Keep Afloat
     Published: 2009
     Surrounded by the Goliaths in the media industry, can smaller outfits - little Davids # take good aim with their slingshots and smite their stronger competitors?
643. Corporal, Lynette Lee: Asia: Media Need to go Back to Basics
     Experts
     Published: 2009
     'Back to basics' in times of crisis is a message that the media should not only give out to the public but learn from as well. More cooperation, adaptability, learning from past mistakes, ethical practices and gaining public trust are just some of the messages journalists and media professionals heard...
644. Corporal, Lynette Lee: Media Still Struggling to Break Gender Barriers in Cambodia
     Published: 2009
     Cambodia's media organisations are a 'battleground' for old ways and new approaches when it comes to gender.
645. Corporal, Lynette Lee: New Media
     Online Propaganda War Heats Up
     Published: 2009
     For the past several years, extremist groups such as the Taliban, have been arming themselves with a different kind of weapon # new media. The news is they are getting highly creative at it.
646. Corporate Europe Observatory: Key evidence in EU's risk assessment of glyphosate must not remain 'trade secret'
     Published: 2016
     The chemical industry and the European Food Safety Authority are refusing to disclose key scientific evidence about glyphosate's risks, citing 'trade secrets' protection, writes Corporate Europe Observatory. They must be compelled to publish the 'mysterious three' scientific studies EFSA used to assess glyphosate as 'unlikely' to cause cancer to humans - contradicting the IARC's view.
647. Corporate Watch: International arms companies make a killing in Turkey: a case study of the Roboski Massacre
     Published: 2016
     Today, Turkey continues its brutality in its war against its Kurdish population. The state is imposing new curfews daily in the south-east of the country. Hundreds of citizens have been killed so far, whilst the western mainstream media and politicians remain largely silent about the massacres. Anti-militarist activists in the UK, however, are taking action against atrocities carried out by states such as Turkey.
648. Corradi, Richard B.: Psychiatry Professor: 'Transgenderism' Is Mass Hysteria Similar To 1980s-Era Junk Science
     Published: 2016
     While fair-minded people can agree that gays or people with gender confusion should not be discriminated against, the general public doesn’t appear to be ready to accept gender as simply a social construct or that people can be whatever gender they choose. These contentions, the conceptual foundation of transgenderism, fly in the face of reality: the biological difference between the sexes.
649. Corrales, Javier et all: Undermining Democracy
     21st Century Authoritarians
     Published: 2009
     Pivotal authoritarian regimes have adapted and modernized their repressive methods and are undermining democracy in updated, sophisticated, and well funded ways. The result is a disruptive and serious new challenge to the emergence of an international system based on the rule of law, human rights, and open expression.
650. Correia, David: Police Violence Against Native People
     Published: 2015
     In April 1974, three white high school students from Farmington, New Mexico murdered three Navajo men, Benjamin Benally, John Harvey, and David Ignacio. The brutal murders were nothing new in Farmington, where white high school students had been known to sever the fingers of inebriated Navajo men and display them proudly in their lockers at school.
651. Corrigan, Edward C.; Springmann, J. Michael: Google Bans Press TV
     Published: 2019
     Social media companies are banning media outlets in the name of alleged 'hate speech' but the companies' contacts and their targets make them instruments of government censorship.
652. Corry, Stephen: The myth of the 'brutal savage' and the mindset of conquest
     Published: 2016
     The 'brutal savage' meme has enjoyed a resurgence in popular culture and establishment narratives, despite abundant evidence that it's fundamentally wrong. But it suits today's dominant mindset of conquest, conflict and colonialism all too well, and serves to justify the ongoing genocide and expropriation of surviving Indigenous Peoples today.
653. Corry, Stephen: New Deal for Nature: Paying the Emperor to Fence the Wind
     Published: 2020
     The latest idea to be heavily promoted by big conservation NGOs is doubling the world's so-called "Protected Areas" (PAs) so that they cover thirty percent of the globe's lands and oceans. This is now their main rallying cry and response to two of the world's biggest problems -- climate chaos and loss of biodiversity. It sounds good: It's easy to grasp and has numbers that are supposed to be measurable, and advertisers do love numbers. What better answer to climate change and biodiversity loss than to ban human "interference" over huge areas? If, that is, you think "everybody" is guilty of causing both crises and that everything's solved by keeping them away. The idea's been around for years, but now governments and industries are promoting it to the tune of billions of dollars, so it'll be difficult to oppose. But it's actually dangerous nonsense which would have exactly the reverse effect to what we're told, and if we want to save our world, it must be stopped.
654. Cortright, Joe: The True Costs of Driving
     Published: 2015
     Cortright highlights the costs behind building and maintaining roads as well as what part of public taxes fund such an expensive venture.
655. Cosh, Alex: Why The 'Ok Boomer' phenomenon is short-sighted
     Millennials and Generation Zers have more in common with struggling boomers than wealthy elites our own age
     Published: 2019
     The "Ok Boomer" meme, which many young people are using online as a rebuttal against supposedly out-of-touch baby boomers, taps into frustrations disproportionately experienced by millennials and Generation Zers -- particularly in Canada's most unaffordable cities. Unfortunately, however, the meme also represents a discourse that ignores the many older people experiencing poverty, discrimination and hardship.
656. Cossar-Gilbert, Sam: We're not having it! $15bn KXL lawsuit shows what's wrong with 'trade deals'
     Published: 2016
     TransCanada has just made a big mistake by bringing its $15 billion lawsuit against the US government for refusing the Keystone XL pipeline, writes Sam Cossar-Gilbert. The move has exposed the real nature of 'trade deals' like TTIP and TPP - and why all democrats must rally to defeat them.
657. Costa, Jorge Duarte: Forty years after the portuguese Carnation Revolution
     Published: 2014
     On the eve of April 25, 1974, Portuguese society was smouldering from contradictions accumulated in half a century of dictatorship. At the heart of these contradictions was a war that lasted thirteen years, to hold on to the African colonies of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe. This conflict conditioned the whole of national life, because of the social suffering caused by the mobilization of two hundred thousand men, a tenth of the working population (a human cost equivalent to twice that of Vietnam), because of the wave of migration driven by hunger and the war, and because of the impossibility of a military solution, the only one contemplated by the regime.
658. Costandi, Moheb: Against neurodiversity
     Published: 2019
     The neurodiversity movement has good intentions, but it favours the high-functioning and overlooks those who struggle with severe autism.
659. Cottle, Eddie: Will ANC government ever prosecute South Africans in Israeli Army?
     Published: 2015
     When South African security services prevented a Cape Town girl from boarding a plane allegedly to join ISIS, many South Africans were pleased but at the same time surprised at how swift the reaction of our security services were. How come the same reaction is not applied to South African Zionist Jews serving in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF)?
660. Countercurrents: Metadata Is More Intrusive Than Direct Listening Of Phone Calls Says Snowden
     Published: 2014
     Government monitoring of “metadata” is more intrusive than directly listening to phone calls or reading emails.
661. Courtice, Ben; Bunting, Andrea: Restoring a safe climate: Impossible dream or dangerous distraction?
     Published: 2015
     Green house gases are at a level where drastic and far-reaching measures need
     to be implemented; however authors caution against invoking emergency measures
     that involve geo-engineering.
662. Cousins, Farron: Flint drinks lead-laden water; Republicans attack Clean Water Act
     Published: 2016
     To save a small amount of money residents of Flint, Michigan, have been forced to consume hazardous levels of lead in their drinking water. Just the moment for the Republican House Speaker to attack the Clean Water Act.
663. Cowan, Kirsten: Caveat Surfer: Beware When Using Electronic Communication
     Published: 2000
     Points about electronic communication and online security.
664. Cowan, Kirsten: The challenges of diversity (book review)
     Review of The Mass Media and Canadian Diversity
     Published: 2001
     
665. Cowan, Kirsten: Duping the public (book reviews)
     Reviews of Spin Wars and Easily Led
     Published: 2000
     
666. Cowan, Kirsten: A historical look at a sad decline (book review)
     Review of The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
     Published: 1998
     
667. Cowan, Kirsten: HotLink Resource Shelf: Going for Gold!
     Published: 2000
     Review of Going for Gold, a book on marketing strategies for speakers.
668. Cowan, Kirsten: The Princess and the Press
     How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball
     Published: 2005
     Your relationship with the press might not be a fairy tale, but it definitely doesn't have to be horror story: How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball.
669. Cowan, Kirsten: Review: Leadership from within
     Published: 1998
     An outline of skills and leadership techniques.
670. Cowan, Kirsten: Review: Secrets of Power Marketing
     Published: 1999
     A lively book, with a streak of practicality that reveals itself in an impatience with hoity-toity notions of marketing that have little impact on the bottom line.
671. Cowan, Kirsten: Solid overview of media studies (book review)
     Review of The Media Studies Reader
     Published: 1999
     
672. Cowan, Kirsten: Using the divine for corporate power
     Review of The Empire God Built
     Published: 1998
     
673. Cowan, Kirsten: What Does a Reporter Want?
     Published: 2001
     What does a reporter what when they interview you?
674. Cowan, Reed; Greenstreet, Steven: 8
     The Mormon Proposition
     Published: 2010
     A scorching indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against LGBT human rights.
675. Cowperthwaite, Gabriela: Blackfish
     An exploration of the mistreatment of marine life in captivity. Abuse and inexperience is highlighted through testimonials and archival footage.
676. Cox, Joseph: The FBI Blindly Hacked Computers in Russia, China, and Iran
     Published: 2017
     Recent court papers indicate that the FBI repeatedly broke into devices overseas as part of ordinary criminal investigations; in countries hostile to the U.S. this could have significant geopolitical fallout.
677. Cox, Stan: Fair Shares of Food
     Agriculture in an Age of Gadgets
     Published: 2013
     Concern over lagging production has prompted a search for technological tricks that might revolutionize food production.
678. Cox, Stan: The Vertical Farming Scam
     Wrong on So Many Levels
     Published: 2012
     Vertical farming would involve using the floorspace of tall urban buildings for growing food plants through largely hydroponic methods. This is envisioned as a way to integrate food production with dense human populations, increase production per unit of land area, protect crops against pests without the use of chemicals, and take vulnerable agricultural soils out of production by relocating crops to cities. It can, in fact, achieve none of these goals.
679. Coyne, Andrew: Sympathy for Stephen Harper: Imagine that everyone you trusted had lied to you
     Published: 2015
     You will be familiar with the picture we have created of him: suspicious, paranoid, controlling, a leader who trusts no one, leaves nothing to others, insists on taking a hand in even the smallest matter. Well, you'd be suspicious, paranoid and controlling, too, if everyone around you was lying to you all the time.
680. Crabtree, John; Condor-Vidal, Judith: Fair Trade gold mining in the highlands of Peru
     Published: 2015
     Most gold mining in Peru causes serious environmental damage, but there is one exception - a Fair Trade certified mine close to the world-famous Nazca Lines. Now it's up to us to demand Fair Trade gold from the jewellery trade, rewarding responsible producers and expanding the market for new Fair Trade gold miners.
681. Cram, Stephanie: Dark history of Canada's First Nations pass system uncovered in documentary
     Published: 2016
     Little known policy restricted people living on reserves, enforced for nearly 60 years.
682. Cramer, Mary Lynn: Why No Reporters in Suez?
     The Real Revolution Will Not Be Televised
     Published: 2011
     What is happening in Tahrir Square Cairo has been built on the backs of millions of Egyptian workers who waged 3,000 strikes over the past eight years.
683. Cretella, Michelle: I'm a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse.
     Published: 2017
     Professionals who question the unscientific party line of supporting gender transition therapy could find themselves out of a job.
684. Cribb, Robert: That rotten stench in the air? It’s the smell of deadly gas and secrecy
     Published: 2017
     Documents obtained through freedom-of-information requests and from whistleblowers, including internal correspondence and inspection reports, disclose serious infractions and failures in performance by oil and gas companies; yet regulatory standards remain largely unchanged and H2S incidents and risks remain hidden from the public.
685. Cribb, Robert: 'There's no sense in speaking up' despite deadly gas risks
     Published: 2017
     An investigation into oil industry in Saskatchewan reveals a culture of secrecy fuelled by oil industry money, the province's reliance on that money, and the threats and intimidation that have followed those who have spoken out.
686. Cribb, Robert; McIntosh, Emma; Jarvis, Carolyn: In Sarnia's Chemical Valley, is 'toxic soup' making people sick?
     Published: 2017
     Experts and documents cast doubts on whether industry and Ontario government are revealing levels of benzene in areas where residents live right near oil and gas facilities.
687. Crispin, Shawn: Widodo's lifting of ban on foreign media in Papua is step in right direction
     Published: 2015
     Journalists and citizens celebrate freedom of press and speech as a 50-year blackout of international media is lifted in Papua, Indonesia.
688. Crocker, Andrew: Oversight Report on FBI's Use of Patriot Act Highlights Need for Intelligence Reform at Crucial Moment
     Published: 2015
     We've all heard about the NSA mass surveillance scandal permitted by the Patriot Act but this is not the first time the NSA and other fedral agencies have violated our rights.
689. Crocker, Andrew; Mullin, Joe: The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption
     Published: 2019
     Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor access to all encrypted messages sent on all its platforms. In an open letter, these governments called on Mark Zuckerberg to stop Facebook's plan to introduce end-to-end encryption on all of the company's messaging products and instead promise that it will "enable law enforcement to obtain lawful access to content in a readable and usable format."
690. Crocker, Diane: Newfoundland Emporium contains over 15,000 items as curious as its 'marvellous terrible' owner Dave LeDrew
     Known for its unique assortment of antiques, crafts and giftware as much as it is for the man who runs it, the Newfoundland Emporium has been a fixture on Broadway in Corner Brook for 33 years.
691. Croidheain, Caoimhghin O: Remembering Ireland's Great Famine
     A review of Black '47 a soon to be released film about the famine in Ireland
     Published: 2018
     The Irish film, Black 47 (Director Lance Daly) is about the worst year of the catastrophic Irish famine and is set in the west of Ireland in 1847. The story centers around an Irish soldier, Feeney (James Frecheville), returning from serving the British Army in Afghanistan only to find most of his family have perished in the Famine or An Gorta Mor (the Great Hunger) as it is known in Gaelic.
692. Cromwell, David: Bad Pharma, Bad Journalism
     Published: 2012
     ‘The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal’, from Ben Goldacre's new book, Bad Pharma presents a disturbing picture emerges of corporate drug abuse.
693. Cromwell, David: Bias Towards Power *Is* Corporate Media 'Objectivity'
     Journalism, Floods and Climate Silence
     Published: 2014
     Journalistic bias in favour of the orthodox Western-centric socio-economic perspective is often framed as "objectivity", and departures from the orthodox Western-centric socio-economic perspective are often dismissed as "ideological'. A review of the incidence and framing of climate change reporting illustrates this.
694. Cromwell, David: Cartoon Politics: Rupert Murdoch, The Pro-Israel Lobby And Israel’s Crimes
     Published: 2013
     
695. Cromwell, David: Death of a Hero
     The General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims
     Published: 2013
     If all this glorification of a military commander had happened in the North Korean or the Soviet-era press, lavishly praising an 'original' who'd given years of 'patriotic service' in wars abroad, it would have rightly elicited scorn and ridicule amongst commentators here.
696. Cromwell, David: 'The Planet Can't Keep Doing Us A Favour'
     Published: 2013
     With humanity's huge impact on the planet's climate becoming ever clearer, the claim of 'history in the making' is truly deserved.
697. Cromwell, David: Propaganda
     'The Dominant Grand Narrative of Our Time'
     Published: 2014
     Today, it is clearer than ever to a growing number of people that there is something seriously wrong with 'the news'. The current system of planet-crushing propaganda relies on a mere façade of overall 'balance', 'reasonableness' and 'range of views'. In the UK, BBC News is the crucial foundation stone of this propaganda system, with the Guardian playing an accompanying role.
698. Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: Blair: Bombing Iraq Better. Again
     Published: 2014
     The authors critique the British media's coverage of a new essay by Tony Blair which attempts to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.
699. Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: David Cromwell & David Edwards Quotes
     
700. Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: The Ice Melts Into Water
     Arctic Ice Melt, Psychopathic Capitalism And The Corporate Media
     Published: 2012
     Last month, climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be more than a century away, now looks possible just a few decades from now. Some scientists say it may happen within the next few years.
701. Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: The 'Professorial President' And The 'Small, Strutting Hard Man'
     Published: 2014
     Exactly what is happening in Ukraine is not easy to disentangle from corporate news media reports. The current crisis began in November 2014 when the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, withdrew from a cooperation agreement with the European Union to forge closer ties with Russia.
702. Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: The Right Kind Of Terror
     Published: 2012
     When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies.
703. Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: Snowden, Surveillance And The Secret State
     Published: 2013
     There is plenty to be said about living under a giant system of government surveillance. Just don't expect the corporate media to explore the full extent of what it really all means.
704. Cromwell, David; Edwards, David: Thinking The Right Thoughts
     Published: 2014
     There are always convenient news-hooks on which corporate journalists can hang their power-friendly prejudices about the West being 'the good guys' in world affairs. The authors provide examples from the British media.
705. Cromwell, David; Edwards, David; Cook, Jonathan: Keeping the Media Safe for Big Business
     Published: 2008
     
706. Cronin, David: The racist worldview of Arthur Balfour
     Published: 2017
     A look at British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, whose Declaration of 1917 led to the expulsion of Palestinians.
707. Crook, Matt: East Timor: Journalists Hold Out for Better Media Laws
     Published: 2009
     Journalists in East Timor are anxiously waiting for a set of media laws to be revised after a negative reaction to a draft that was circulated in March.
708. Crooks, Harold: The Price We Pay
     Published: 2014
     This documentary, inspired by Brigitte Alepin's book La Crise fiscale qui vient, shines a light on the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens.
709. Crossen, Cathy: Pornography and the Sex Censors
     A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
     Published: 1996
     The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
710. Crowe, Kelly: What your government can't tell you about drug prices
     Published: 2018
     One of the best kept commercial secrets? The price governments pay for brand name drugs
711. Crowley, John: Works of Mercy
     The power of pastoral care
     Published: 2019
     Health care organizations increasingly recognize that meeting the spiritual needs of their patients is part of their mandate, and hospitals must address these needs to receive national accreditation. The provision of care for the sick, disabled, and dying beyond the strictly medical or therapeutic is now a career possibility with many variant descriptions and categories.
712. Crucianelli, Sandra: Seeding Data Journalism in Panama
     Published: 2014
     Journalist talks about a need for data-driven journalists. She highlights her experience teaching teams how to do this in Panama in time for the Panama elections.
713. Cruickshank, Ainslie: Toronto music teacher sues after principal, VP call folk song racist
     Published: 2017
     A Toronto music teacher is suing her principal, vice-principal and the public school board for defamation after the administrators sent an email to the school community apologizing that a well-known folk song - "Land of the Silver Birch" - was performed at a school concert, calling it "inappropriate" and "racist."
714. Crum, Chris: Just How Bad Is Yelp's Fake Review Problem?
     Published: 2014
     You're probably aware of multiple controversial issues surrounding Yelp reviews. There are several to choose from. You have some businesses accusing the company of holding positive reviews hostage (with advertising being the ransom). You have a court ordering Yelp to turn over the identities of anonymous Yelp reviewers. You have people paying other people to write fake reviews, whether it's negative reviews for competitors or positive reviews for their own business.
715. Crum, Crhis: FAQ Pages Could Boost Your Google Rankings
     
716. Crumpler, J.: Why prairies matter and lawns don't
     Published: 2013
     Prairies matter because of their immense root systems; dense, sprawling, complex biological systems that store one third of the world’s carbon and subsequently clean our future water as it precipitates from moisture-laden clouds onto diverse plant communities, and filters down through the mass of litter, roots, soil organisms, and soil horizons. Water quality always follows soil carbon levels, and prairies are the best soil carbon factories in the world. Lawns do not compare and never will.
717. Crumpton, Neil: Lies, damned lies, and energy statistics - why nuclear is so much less than it claims to be
     Published: 2015
     It's odd how often the contribution of nuclear energy is overstated by mixing up 'energy' and 'electricity', while a similar trick understates the importance of renewables like wind and solar. Even odder is how the mistake always seems to go the same way, to make nuclear look bigger than it really is, and renewables smaller. Welcome to the nuclear 'X factor'!
718. Cruz Díaz, Miguel A.: Puerto Rico: a Junta By Any Other Name
     Published: 2016
     Empire is once again fashionable. The financial crisis that is presently gutting the island of Puerto Rico plays out like the world's worst case of botched assisted suicide. The sell of its municipal funds and its constitutionally guaranteed promise of repayment to investors has plunged the island into a very precarious situation for its millions of citizens and the opportunity of a lifetime for hedge fund vultures.
719. Cruz-Díaz, Miguel A.: Memento Mori: a Requiem for Puerto Rico
     Published: 2017
     Puerto Rico is dying. Let those words sink in.Three and a half million people are without power, water, fuel, food, and support. This isn’t some uninhabited atoll.
720. Cuddehe, Mary: A Matter of Life
     The death penalty as a conservative conundrum
     Published: 2017
     A look at the Death Penalty in the United States and a Republican's campaign to have the practice abolished in the more Conservative areas of the country.
721. Cudmore, James: Canadian military explored plan to fully integrate forces with U.S.
     Published: 2015
     The Canadian military effort to formally create integrated forces with the US for expeditionary operations included a plan to fully integrate military forces.
722. Cullen, Don: The Bohemian Embassy
     Memories and Poems
     Published: 2007
     
723. Culp, Andrew; Bond-Graham Darwin: Left Gun Nuts
     Opposition to Gun Control Comes from Many on the Left Also. Here's Why They're Wrong
     Published: 2014
     In the aftermath of the Isla Vista massacre, we can expect the far Right to vehemently oppose any renewed call for gun control. They will tout the supposedly Constitutional right of Americans to keep and bear arms.
724. Cummings, Clitora E.: Fantasy's Legal, Reality's Not
     Published: 1986
     A sex worker's take on prostitution and the sex industry.
725. Cummins, Ronnie: The Carbon Underground: reversing global warming
     Published: 2014
     As millions join in climate marches and other actions around the world, the mainstream focus on energy is missing the 55% of emissions that come from mismanaged land and destroyed forests. The key is to replace industrial agriculture worldwide with productive, regenerative organic farming that puts carbon back in the soil.
726. Cummins, Ronnie: The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
     Published: 2019
     They now warn us that we have to drastically reduce global emissions – by at least 45 percent – over the next decade. Otherwise, we'll pass the point of no return – defined as reaching 450 ppm or more of CO2 in the atmosphere sometime between 2030 and 2050 – when our climate crisis will morph into a climate catastrophe.
727. Cummins, Ronnie: Vegetarians, ranchers and conscious omnivores of the world, unite!
     Published: 2015
     Thinking people of all stripes are agreed in their opposition to cruel, exploitative animal farming. Cummins suggests moving beyond sterile 'meat-eater versus vegetarian' debates, and unite in their opposition to the daily atrocities of industrial agriculture.
728. Cunningham, Finian: Britain's Real Terror Apologists
     Published: 2017
     Despite a smear campaign to denigrate Britain's Labour leader as soft on terror, Jeremy Corbyn pulled of a remarkable achievement in the general election.
729. Cunningham, Finian: Facespook! Social Media Giant Becomes Arm of US Intel
     Published: 2017
     Facebook, the world's top social media platform, is reportedly seeking to hire hundreds of employees with US national security clearance licenses. Purportedly with the aim of weeding out "fake news" and "foreign meddling" in elections.
730. Cunningham, Finian: US & Europe's farcical hypocrisy over Russian foreign media law
     Published: 2017
     The US and the European Union rushed to condemn Russia's new media laws restricting foreign entities. At the same time, they assume the unilateral right to hound Russian news outlets as "foreign agents."
731. Cunningham, Finian: Washington using legal cover to conceal economic banditry
     Published: 2018
     The arrest of a Chinese telecom executive in Canada on behalf of the US is an abuse of the legal process and international law to pursue American economic interests. China's anger resonates with similar grievances against the US felt by Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and even American allies in Europe.
732. Curran, James: Shout out for peace and quiet
     Green solutions to noise reduction could improve our mental and physical wellbeing.
     Published: 2019
     Noise is a cause of stress with physical and psychological effects on people and also harms the environment. Noise reductions needs to be made part of solutions such as industry standards and urban planning.
733. Currier, Cora: Al Jazeera Journalist Responds to U.S. Labeling Him Aa Qaeda
     Published: 2015
     A journalist is supposed to cover all sides of the story but when one does so with Al Qaeda, he is labelled a terrorist.
734. Currier, Cora: The Kill Chain
     The lethal bureaucracy behind Obama's drone war
     Published: 2015
     Secret military documents offer documentary evidence of the process by which the Obama administration creates and acts on its kill lists in Yemen and Somalia.
735. Currier, Cora: Six Facts from Sudden Justice, A New History of the Drone War
     Published: 2015
     Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars, a new book by London-based investigative journalist Chris Woods, traces the intertwined technological, legal and political history of drones as they evolved on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the covert U.S. targeted killing campaign.
736. Currier, Cora: U.S. Firms Accused of Enabling Surveillance in Despotic Central Asian Regimes
     Published: 2014
     U.S. and Israeli companies have been selling surveillance systems to Central Asian countries with records of political repression and human rights abuse, according to a new report by Privacy International. The U.K.-based watchdog charges that the American firms Verint and Netronome enable surveillance in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
737. Currier, Cora: A Walking Tour of New York's Massive Surveillance Network
     Published: 2016
     So it felt a bit risky to be climbing up a street pole on Wall Street to closely inspect a microwave radar sensor, or to be lingering under a police camera, pointing and gesturing at the wires and antenna connected to it. Yet it was also entirely appropriate to be doing just that, especially in the company of Ingrid Burrington, author of the new book "Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure," which points out that many of the city's communications and surveillance programs were conceived and funded in response to the attacks.
738. Currier, Cora; Maass, Peter: Firing Blind
     Flawed Intelligence and the Limits of Drone Technology
     Published: 2015
     Classified Pentagon documents reveal that the U.S. military has faced "critical shortfalls" in the technology and intelligence it uses to find and kill suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia.
739. Currier, Cora; McLaughlin, Jenna; Aaronson, Trevor; Speri, Alice: The FBI's Secret Rules
     President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers.
     Published: 2017
     A collection of articles exploring the contents and implications of a cache of internal FBI manuals, offering a rare window into the FBI’s quiet expansion since 9/11.
740. Curtin, Edward: Let Me Be Frank: Francesco Serpico, A Genuine Actor
     Published: 2018
     When you see injustice and corruption, when you open your eyes and see lying and deceit everywhere, you must be your own hero; you must be courageous and act.
741. Curtis, Christopher: Young activist is on the front lines of First Nations' fight against pipelines
     Published: 2016
     Vanessa Gray’s hand shakes as she talks about the prison sentence dangling over her head. The 23-year-old activist says she's "a little scared," but also hopeful she won't be convicted of mischief endangering life when her case goes to trial next year. Crown prosecutors charged Gray and two others last December after they allegedly sabotaged a pipeline in Sarnia.
742. Curtis, Mark: The British establishment is putting our lives at risk: Our state's key ally is a major public threat
     Published: 2017
     Why is the British government allying itself with a country that promotes extremist ideology?
743. Curtis, Mark: Hilary Benn's speech The media's war footing on Corbyn and Syria
     Published: 2015
     Britain's media is on a double-war footing. The first war is against Jeremy Corbyn, and is countering the threat that Corbyn's more popular policies may gain even wider support. The second war is for Britain's ongoing right to bomb somewhere whenever elites want.
744. Cusak, John; Roy, Arundhati: John Cusack and Arundhati Roy: Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
     Published: 2015
     A conversation With Arundhati Roy.
745. Cushing, Lincoln: Cranking It Out, Old-School Style: Art of the Gestetner
     Published: 2010
     Before photocopiers took over the short-run end of copy making, messy and relatively inexpensive machines called dittos, mimeographs and Gestetners ruled the earth.
746. Cuthbert, Alka Sehgal: I've been cancelled for standing up to racial identity politics
     Published: 2023
     An education conference has disinvited me because my presence would make speakers feel 'unsafe'.
747. Cymbalist, Rivka: Undocumented Labour
     Published: 2014
     Pregnant refugee and non-status women are facing growing difficulties in accessing pre & post-natal care. Some doula's in Montreal are helping to fix that situation.
748. Cymbalist, Rivka: Undocumented Labour: Changes to refugee health care put women and babies at risk
     Published: 2014
     Pregnant refugee and non-status women are facing growing difficulties in accessing pre & post-natal care. Some doula's in Montreal are helping to fix that situation.
749. Cyran, Olivier: Bangladesh's exploitation economy
     Published: 2013
     Before the collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed over a thousand people, most of them textile workers, there was the fire that killed a hundred at the Tazreen factory. A major cause is western companies' greed for profits.
750. Czarnecki, Al: Business Continuity and Crisis Preparedness
     Published: 2010
     
751. Czarnecki, Al: Crisis Communications
     Published: 1997
     Being prepared for a crisis is second best only to avoiding one altogether.
752. Czarnecki, Al: Going to the Public -- Ten public speaking tips
     Published: 2000
     Advice on effective public speaking.
753. Czarnecki, Al: Learning how to live with editors
     Published: 1998
     Pay attention to editorial fit, readership relevance, and good writing.
754. Cáceres, Berta; Lewis, Chris: They Want to Prohibit Us from Dreaming
     Published: 2016
     A 2014 interview with renowned Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated last week.