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  1. Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do 
    The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  2. America's Complicity in Evil
    Barbarism on the High Seas
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Once again the US government has permitted the Israeli state to murder good people known for their moral conscience. The Israeli state has declared that anyone with a moral conscience is an enemy of Israel.
  3. And Then They Came For Me
    Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
  4. Another peace activist, Raza Khan, goes missing in Lahore
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Raza Mahmood Khan, a Peace activist and social worker, went "missing" in Lahore on Dec. 2, 2017, shortly after he had organised a public discussion about a recent demonstration that ended in ignominious surrender to those seeking power in the guise of religion.
  5. Benign State Violence vs. Barbaric Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The US and UK target for assassination civilians that allegedly have a connection with ISIS. Such operations are performed without a trial. Peppe discusses how the governments of these countries justify one form of extrajudicial killing while demonizing the murders that ISIS commits.
  6. Blackwater Founder Remains Free and Rich While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A federal jury in Washington, D.C., returned guilty verdicts against four Blackwater operatives charged with killing more than a dozen Iraqi civilians and wounding scores of others in Baghdad in 2007.
  7. Brazil: Journalist Evany José Metzker Murdered While Investigating Drugs and Child Exploitation in Minas Gerais
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
  8. Call Me Kuchu
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.
  9. The Capital Punishment Debate 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
  10. Chiapas Murder Draws Criticism of Canadian Mining in Mexico
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The recent murder of Chiapan anti-mining organizer Mariano Abarca Roblero has drawn sharp criticism of Canadian mining in Mexico.
  11. Colombia - indigenous defender murdered in gold mining frenz
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    An indigenous leader in Colombia's 'gold belt' has been killed by unknown gunmen as tensions grow between indigenous communities and outside gold mining interests, many of them linked to illegal armed groups and the drug trade.
  12. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  13. Conservationist murders threaten Costa Rica's eco-friendly reputation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The murder of Jairo Mora, who was trying to protect endangered turtle eggs, was the latest in a string of crimes against environmentalists in the country. Many worry activists will stay away if poachers continue to go unpunished.
  14. The court does not sympathize
    The moral depravity of the Israeli legal system
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The blood of Palestinians is cheap in this country. No one has ever been punished for killing Palestinians' children, adults, newborns, old people. The murderers are all walking among us, free and happy.
  15. The Cover-Ups That Exploded
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
  16. The Crimewave That Shames The World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    It's one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of 'honour'.
  17. Discovery of mass graves highlights bloody scramble for Congo’s resources
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Last week, a team with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights together with personnel from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) discovered scores of mass graves in Kasai Province, a south central region of the Congo currently wracked by bloody conflict between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and Kamuina Nsapu, a local tribal militia.
  18. Don't Blame the Media for the Charleston Murders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Featherstone argues that blaming the media for the Charleston Murders is an easy way to avoid doing any real thinking.
  19. Drug War-Related Homicides In The US Average At Least 1,100 a Year
    Full Extent of Carnage Unknowable Because US Government Doesn't Track Violent Crime Linked To The War On Drugs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The stubborn resistance against entertaining any other options beyond a fundamentalist adherence to prohibition for dealing with drug use in the United States is cloaked in an arrogant denial of the human costs of the drug war and the possibility that ending it would lead to less, not more, death. The US, by some estimates now spends about $40 billion a year at home and abroad waging its war on drugs and has imprisoned currently up to 400,000 people on drug-related charges — the vast majority of them nonviolent offenders.
  20. Eyes With Legs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace activists on the Freedom Flotilla. The U.S. never condemns these crimes because it's Israel's biggest supporter, and also because it does the same.
  21. Fighting Lynch Laws in America
    Against The Current vol. 143
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Rebecca Hill’s ambitious book highlights a major theme of American radical history. It brings together the history of labor defense campaigns with the concurrent movement to prevent the lynching of African Americans. In six individual studies from John Brown to the Black Panther Party, Hill achieves two notable goals: a substantive reinterpretation of these cases and a heightened recognition of their commonalities.
  22. For every 1,000 people killed by police, one officer is convicted of a crime
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Out of thousands of people killed by police in the United States since 2005, only 11 officers have been convicted of any crimes.
  23. From Klinghoffer to the Gaza Flotilla
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Under the Rome Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation of 1988, it is an international crime for any person to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, and also a crime to injure or kill any person in the process. The treaty necessarily adopts a strict approach. One cannot attack a ship and then claim self-defense if the people on board resist the unlawful use of violence. In other words, according to international law, the actions of the Israeli military were beyond the law and those involved should be treated no differently than, say, the Somali pirates who are also in the habit of boarding ships by force.
  24. Greece mourns slain anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A self-professed Golden Dawn member stabbed leftist rapper Killah P to death in Piraeus on September 18, 2013.
  25. Guatemala: Murders of Women Recall Counterinsurgency Techniques
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The worst waves of brutal, unsolved murders of women in Latin America have been seen in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico's northern border, where close to 400 killings have been reported since 1993, and Guatemala, where 527 women were killed last year alone.
  26. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
  27. How America Gets Away With Murder
    Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Michael Mandel offers a critical account of America's illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted America's leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.
  28. How many more
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    New report shows killings of environmental activists are increasing, with indigenous communities hardest hit. Global Witness shines a spotlight on Honduras - the most dangerous country to be an environmental defender.
  29. How they shot those campus bums
    Review of The Truth About Kent State
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
  30. Israeli forces 'deliberately killed' Palestinian paramedic Razan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Probe by Israeli rights group B'Tselem concludes that intentional fatal shot was fired at the Palestinian paramedic.
  31. Journalists Killed since 1992
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
  32. Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    History of drone warfare, a development in military technology that has its origins in long-buried secret programmes dating to US military interventions in Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Cockburn follows the links in a chain that stretches from the White House, through the drone command center in Nevada, to the skies of Helmand Province.
  33. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  34. The Massacre and the Cover-Up
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Without much stronger international pressure than the international community has applied to date, there is every reason to expect Israeli massacres to steadily become more severe, their PR rationales more outlandish. Mild diplomatic rebukes will not sway them. Unless serious costs are imposed for such crimes, much worse is yet to come.
  35. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
  36. Murder on the Mekong: why exiled Thai dissidents are abducted and killed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    In Thailand, people who violate lèse-majesté law - which prevents any criticism of the monarchy - can find themselves with a bounty on them and end up living in exile. Some dissidents have been murdered or disappeared.
  37. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsible.
  38. Police Violence Against Native People
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  39. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2008
  40. Shot in the Back
    Did the IDF Execute Mavi Marmara Victims?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In the Israeli commando assault on the Gaza aid flotilla, if victims were shot in the back or in the back of the head, then one is left really with only two possible conclusions: either the shooters, who were the Israeli commandos (according to Israel, no Israeli soldiers were themselves shot, plus all the recovered bullets were 9 mm, the type of shells in the Israeli weapons, making it clear who had the guns), fired at people who were fleeing from them, or alternatively they shot people from the front, and later executed them with shots to the back of the head, which is maybe even worse (certainly a war crime).
  41. They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
    Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
  42. The Truth About Kent State
    A Challenge to the American Conscience
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An account of the murder of four students at Kent State University by National Guard troops.
  43. What Does It Mean to Call Dylann Roof a 'Terrorist'?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    It would have been unfathomable a year ago for the phrase "white terrorism" to be used by the mainstream media. This shift in discourse is just one effect of the post-Ferguson moment in which there is a halting national discussion of systemic racism. Terminology matters because changing ideological frames is part and parcel of changing policies, institutions, and structures.
  44. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
  45. Who Killed Chea Vichea?
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    Chea Vichea served as president of Cambodia's garment workers' union until he was gunned down on the street in 2004. Filmed over four years, this film explores motives for Vichea's assassination and unravels a police plot that framed two men, who were sentenced to 20 years in prison.
  46. With My Heart in Yambo
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    Twenty-four years ago director Fernanda Restrepo's two teenage brothers disappeared. A year later, the family finally learned the worst possible news: the brothers had been kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the Ecuadorean police, and then dumped. Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story, and documents yet one more search in Lake Yambo, where the boys’ bodies were dumped.
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