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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryThe Assassination Complex: Secret military documents expose the inner workings of Obama's drone wars Scahill, Jeremy Article 2015 There has been intense focus on the technology of remote killing, but that often serves as a surrogate for what should be a broader examination of the state's power over life and death. Banacol: A company implicated paramilitarism and land grabbing in Curvarado and Jiguamiando Interchurch Justice and Peace Commission Article 2012 This study focuses on the International Banacol Marketing Corporation’s actions in the Afro-Colombian and Mestizo communities’ collective territories of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó in the Lower Atrato r... The Drone Papers Article 2015 The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military's assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistl... Execution Day in Zhengzhou Hongda , Wu; Creger, John Article 1991 A first-hand account of an execution day in China. Find, Fix, Finish: For the Pentagon, creating an architecture of assassination meant navigating a turf war with the CIA Scahill, Jeremy Article 2015 Obama was urged by Michael Hayden, the CIA director, and his counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to adopt small footprint counterterrorism operations and drone strikes. In one briefing, Hayden tol... Firing Blind: Flawed Intelligence and the Limits of Drone Technology Currier, Cora; Maass, Peter Article 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. How many more Global Witness Article 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 enviro... How We Fought the War: Bob Kerrey's Revolting Medal of Honor St. Clair, Jeffrey; Cockburn, Alexander Article 2001 On May 16, 2016, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was named chairman of Fulbright University, a US-backed college with ties to the State Department in Ho Chi Minh City. During his recent visit to Vi... Inside El Salvador's Military Blacklist: The Yellow Book Galindo-Doucette, Evelyn Article 2014 The Yellow Book (Libro amarillo) is a 270 page document from 1987 that the National Security Archive in Washington DC made public on September 28th, 2014. The Yellow Book includes 1,975 photographs th... Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since December Article 2010 An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court o... Journalists Killed since 1992 Article 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, yea... The Kill Chain: The lethal bureaucracy behind Obama's drone war Currier, Cora Article 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. Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins Cockburn, Andrew Book 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... Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II  Blum, William Book 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 (Ch... The Life and Death of Objective Peckham: Stripped of British citizenship and killed by an American drone Gallagher, Peter Article 2015 Documentation of the final years of Bilal el-Berjawi's life, a British-Lebanese citizen suspected of being a terrorist. The story raises questions about the British government's role in the targeted a... Manhunting in the Hindu Kush: Civilian casualties and strategic failures in America's longest war Devereaux, Ryan Article 2015 U.S. military forces set out to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda forces that remained hidden in Hindu Kush. Dubbed Operation Haymaker, the campaign has been described as a potential model for the futu... Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Herman, Edward S.; Chomsky, Noam Book 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... Mossad Operation Threatened Against Reporter Cook, Jonathan Article 2010 An Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caught, as Israeli secur... New Orleans' Police Death Squads: Against The Current vol. 151 Suber, Malcolm Article 2011 An interview with Malcolm Suber, a New Orleans community activist and fighter for justice, and a former candidate for city council. Against the Current asked him to comment on the struggle around murd... The NYT's Love Letter to Death Squads: Hymns to the Silence Floyd, Chris Article 2012 It is, I confess, beyond all my imagining that a national leader so deeply immersed in murdering people would trumpet his atrocity so openly, so gleefully - and so deliberately, sending his top aides ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014: Arms Trade Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2014 Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature ... Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed Chatterjee, Pratap Article 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... Patricia Isasa's Quest for Justice: Against The Current vol. 137 Finkel, David Article 2008 Patricia Isasa turned 16 on April 24, 1976 in her home town of Santa Fe, Argentina. She was an honor student, a delegate of her school and a member of a Catholic group in support of the poor - all com... The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda Herman, Edward S. Book 1982 Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests. Remembering Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared Sun, Rivera Article 2016 Campaign Nonviolence is a movement to build a culture of active nonviolence. We share the stories of nonviolent action, drawing lessons, strength, and strategy from the global grassroots movements for... Remote-Controlled Killing: The Spot-and-Shoot Game Cook, Jonathan Article 2010 The Israeli military is increasingly using remote-controlled weapons to kill Palestinians. Israel's remotely controlled weapons systems are in high demand from repressive regimes and the burgeoning ho... The Return of the Albuquerque Death Squads: Police War on the Poor Correia, David Article 2011 APD is at war with the poor because it has come to equate any expression of poverty or drug addiction not as an effect of structural inequality, but rather as another opportunity to dispose of what it... A Secret War in 135 Countries Turse, Nick Article 2015 Turse discusses the U.S. global engagement strategy of covert operations conducted on every continent but Antarctica. The Socialist Register 1984: Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 1984 They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders: Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders Macaray, David Article 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 ... Under the Influence Pilger, John Article 1999 For the few of us who reported East Timor long before it was finally declared news, the "disclosures" last weekend that Washington had trained Indonesia's death squads are bizarre. That the American, ... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesCentre for Research on Globalization An independent research and media group of writers, scholars and activists. Publishes news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focussing on social, econo... Sources LibraryCrimes of War What the Public Should Know (Crimes of War project) Dworkin, Anthony; Gutman, Roy; Rieff, David; Mendez, Sheryl 2007 An A-Z guide to the laws governing armed conflict and their application in practice. The chapters include discussions of the crimes prohibited by international humanitarian law, key terms relating to ... Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri Lanka Sources News Release 2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka#s journalists and media organizations. Einsatzgruppen Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Einsatzgruppen (German: "task forces"; singular Einsatzgruppe) were SS paramilitary death squads that were responsible for mass killings, typically by shooting, of Jews in particular, but also signifi... Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally Sources News Release 2010 Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military informa... The mass graves of Kashmir India's dirty war unmasked Scott-Clark, Cathy 2012 For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses. A memorial to killed journalists, a call to action 2009 More than 500 journalists have been targeted for murder, our research shows, and nearly nine in 10 of these slayings go unpunished. Another 200 journalists have been killed in combat or on dangerous a... Mexican journalist who covered police is abducted and killed Sources News Release 2009 Authorities found the body of a journalist who covered the police beat in northern Mexico after he was abducted from his house on Monday night, according to Mexican news reports. |
