1. AIPAC: Israel's U.S. Spy Den
   Against The Current vol. 113
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2004
   The socialist Left must remain clear in its avoidance of a conspiratorial view of history. The entire U.S. political spectrum in the aftermath of the 2000 election, and especially since 9/11, has been awash with conspiracy theories. With deep roots in our political culture, ahistorical conspiratorial views of the workings of the world, devoid of any class understanding or a structural and institutional analysis of what we live in, come bubbling to the surface, especially during times of "national crisis."
2. Alice Walker's Conspiracy Theories Aren't Just Anti-Semitic - They're Anti-Black
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   White supremacy relies on different stereotypes of Black and Jewish people. Alice Walker's adoption of anti-semitic conspiracy theories points to the need for solidarity between the Black and Jewish communities - which are not mutually exclusive.
3. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
4. Class Warfare
   Interviews with David Barsamian
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1996
   
5. Connexions
   Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1984
   
6. Conspiracies or Institutions: 9-11 and Beyond
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2002
   Why and how does much (but not all) conspiracy theorizing create a tendency for people to depart from rational analysis?
7. Conspiracy, Inc.
   Wild Tales From the Reactionary Right
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   Increasingly, reactionary media pundits and much of the rank-and-file of the Republican Party are taking the American right down a dangerous path, marked most ominously by the abundance of conspiracy theories directed against the Democratic Party and mainstream liberals.
8. Desire to Kill the Streetcar
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   The author analyzes the conspiracy by large corporations to monopolize the American transit system and its fuel system.
9. Did Roosevelt know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor yet say nothing?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2001
   Examining another popular conspiracy theory.
10. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Website
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
11. The Good War, Revisited
    The Bombing of Pearl Harbor: What FDR Knew
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
12. Judeophobia: The scourge of antisemitism
    New Internationalist October 2004 - #372
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at the history of antisemitism and the fight against it.
13. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
14. Narrative of the dispossessed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Discussion of conspiracies tends to be polarised: people see them everywhere, or nowhere.
15. National Catechism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1866
    Bakunin sketches out his vision of an anarchist social and political revolution, stating that "in order to prepare for this revolution it will be necessary to conspire and to organize a strong secret association coordinated by an international nucleus."
16. The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated After All These Years?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The 9/11 conspiracists seize on coincidences and force them into sequences they deem to be logical and significant. Their treatment of eyewitness testimony and forensic evidence is whimsical.
17. 9/11: Debunking The Myths
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Popular Mechanics special report on September 11 conspiracy theories.
18. 9-11 Loose Change Second Edition Viewer Guide
    Resource Type: Article
    Debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories.
19. 911Myths
    Resource Type: Website
    Skeptical analysis of conspiracy theories about September 11, 2001.
20. Our Generation
    Volume 7 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    
21. Panoply of the Absurd
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Conspiracy theorists are filling bestsellers with their supposed evidence about September 11.
22. Post 9/11 Conspiracism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The tendency to explain all major world events as primarily the product of a secret conspiracy is called conspiracism. The antidote to conspiracism is Power Structure Research.
23. The Program of the International Brotherhood
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1869
    Bakunin maintains that his revolutionary anarchist vision "excludes any idea of dictatorship and of a controlling and directive power." but then goes on to say "It is, however, necessary for the establishment of this revolutionary alliance and for the triumph of the Revolution over reaction that the unity of ideas and of revolutionary action find an organ in the midst of the popular anarchy which will be the life and the energy of the Revolution. This organ should be the secret and universal association of the International Brothers.... a sort of revolutionary general staff, composed of dedicated, energetic, intelligent individuals, sincere friends of the people above all, men neither vain nor ambitious, but capable of serving as intermediaries between the revolutionary idea and the instincts of the people."
24. Revolutionary Catechism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1866
    Bakunin believed that workers were very far from being able to attain revolutionary consciousness on their own. To imbue the masses with this consciousness and to prevent the deformation of a resulting revolution, Bakunin felt that the only alternative was to organize a secret International Fraternity headed by himself. Bakunin was convinced that this kind of vanguard movement was indispensable to the success of the anarchist Social Revolution.
25. Right-Wing Populism in America
    Too Close for Comfort
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Examines the historical roots and current situation of right-wing populism in the US. Berlet and Lyons highlight the dangers of right-wing populism in affecting the political system and opportunities for social change.
26. Screw Loose Change Video
    Resource Type: Website
    This is a counter-video of the famous "Loose Change 2nd Edition". Using their own video and words, "Screw Loose Change" debunks the theories and statements made in Loose Change 2nd Edition.
27. The September 11 X-Files
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    One problem with conspiracy theorizing is that it can distract from the true and (sometimes mundane) misdeeds and mistakes of government.
28. The Skeptic's Dictionary
    Resource Type: Website
    A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions.
29. 13 Things the Government is Trying to Keep Secret From You
    Constitutional Black Out
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The President and the Government are intentionally keeping massive amounts of information about surveillance secret.
30. The Truth About the "9/11 Truth Movement"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    A rebuttal of some of the claims made by 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
31. Understanding Power
    The Indispensable Chomsky
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2002
    In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
32. What's the Matter with Kansas? 
    How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Explores the rise of conservative populism in the United States through the lens of Frank's native state of Kansas. According to his analysis, the political discourse of recent decades has dramatically shifted from the class animus of traditional leftism to one in which "explosive" cultural issues, such as abortion and gay marriage, are used to redirect anger towards "liberal elites."
33. When 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Go Bad
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    Aren't these conspiracy theories too silly to address? That should be the case. But, sadly, they do attract people.
34. Where the conspiracies are real
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    US expansionism in Latin America, sometimes violent, sometimes discreet, played such a large role in shaping the history of the continent that many still see the "black hand" of Washington behind every obstacle faced by progressive governments.
35. Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.

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