1. American Fascists 
   The Christian Right and the War on America
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2006
   Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques. Hedges argues that the movement resembles the young fascist movements in Italiy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. He challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
2. Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   First Published: 2006
   Israeli director Avi Mograbi documents what he calls the "culture of death" in the psychology of Israel the occupier.
3. Cotton: The peril and the promise
   New Internationalist April 2007
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2007
   A look at the cotton industry in India and how it is affecting the workers. Discusses alternatives to cotton and sustainability.
4. Gatekeeper
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   First Published: 2016
   In 2015, there were 24.025 documented suicides in Japan. A retired police detective dedicates his life to preventing deaths at Japan's suicide cliffs, providing emergency assistance and counseling even as tourists flock to the site, attracted by its notoriety as a popular suicide destination.
5. GM cotton really is helping to drive Indian farmers to suicide
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   A new study finds that Indian farmers in rain-fed areas are being driven to suicide from the increased cost of growing Bt GMO cotton varieties that confer no benefits to them. The extra expenses arise from buying new seeds each year, along with increased chemical inputs, while suffering inadequate access to agronomic information.
6. Morrison, Norman
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   Baltimore Quaker best known for committing suicide in an act of self-immolation to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War. (1933-1965).
7. The Myth of Sisyphus
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1955   Published: 1975
   Camus asks whether life has meaning, and whether suicide is a legimitate response to the absurdity of life. He says: "Although The Myth of Sisyphus poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert."
8. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
   Depression and Joy
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2016
   It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
9. Rising suicide rate for Indian farmers blamed on GMO seeds
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   Monsanto, which has just paid out $2.4 million to US farmers, settling one of many lawsuits it's been involved in worldwide, is also facing accusations that its seeds are to blame for a spike in suicides by India farmers.

Experts on Suicide in the Sources Directory

1. World Health Organization