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Government Abuses
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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 LibraryCanada's Science Library Closures Mirror Bush's Playbook: Similar moves by US Republican president met sharp backlash from 10,000 scientists. Nikiforuk, Andrew Article 2014 The Harper government is now eliminating seven Department of Fishery libraries containing one of the world's most comprehensive collections of information on fisheries, aquatic sciences and nautical s... Connexions Digest: Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1991 Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror Pither, Kerry Book 2008 An exposé of Canadian national security investigations, Kerry Pither's Dark Days exposes a disturbing record of human-rights abuses, both at home and abroad, and ultimately questions our notion of the... Dismantling Democracy: Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada Article 2015 An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent. GovernmentSources.ca Website A portal with information about government, Canadian and international, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and impor... Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled: The Tyee's full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law. Beers, David; and Tyee Staff and Contributors Article 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... Harper's Seven-Year War on Science: Chris Turner's treatise on Tory anti-empiricism should spark outrage. But those in power won't see it. Kilian, Crawford Article 2013 A Painful Struggle for Renewal: Against The Current vol. 87 Feeley, Dianne Article 2000 Twenty-one years after the Sandinista National Liberation Front's triumph of July 1979, and ten years since the FSLN government lost power in an electoral upset, Nicaragua's political and economic pic... The Political Slaughterhouse: Statism's Death Knell for Liberty and Democracy Bovard, James Article 2010 The issue of government coercion has been taken off the radar screen of politically correct thought. The more government power has grown, the more unfashionable it becomes to discuss or recognize gove... The Real Expenses Scandal Monbiot, George Article 2009 One of the consistent features of Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is that the projects are reverse-engineered to meet the demands of corporate investors. This, for example, is how the £30m public sc... The Thrust Toward Opacity: Shh! It's a Secret! Glickman Gene Article 2013 Lately we’ve been bombarded by Secrets. We don’t know many of the details, but we do know of their existence, at least some of them. Let’s turn briefly to some specifics, first in the area of intellig... The War on Science: Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada Turner, Chris Book 2013 Do No Science, Hear No Science, Speak No Science -- that is the Harper agenda. And if this agenda is most evident and most pronounced in environmental science, that's simply because it is the field mo... Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital Abu-Jamal, Mumia Article 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 ma... Sources LibraryIFJ Condemns U.S. Justice Dept for Secretly Gathering Associated Press Records Sources News Release 2013 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Newspaper Guild-CWA, in condemning the U.S. Justice Department for secretly gathering the phone records of Associated Pr... Panama's indigenous champion defies president's mining deal Canadian-Korean consortium plans 30-year gold, silver and copper project Helmore, Edward 2012 In Panama the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous community fights to keep a Canadian copper mining company off their land. Seizure of AP phone records condemned as 'grave violation' Sources News Release 2013 Reporters Without Borders regards the US Department of Justice's seizure of the records of thousands of Associated Press phone calls as an "extremely grave violation of freedom of information." Silence of the Labs 2014 Scientists across the country are expressing growing alarm that federal cutbacks to research programs monitoring areas that range from climate change and ocean habitats to public health will deprive C... |
