1. After the Cataclysm
   Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Right:s)
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1979
   
2. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1952
   
3. America#s last taboo
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2002
   The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
4. Anarchism
   A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
   Resource Type: Book
   
5. Behind Enemy Lines
   WWII Allied/Axis Propaganda
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   
6. The Best of The Nation
   Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   An anthology of articles from The Nation.
7. Between the Lines
   How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   
8. Blaming The Victims
   Spurious Scholarship And The Palestinian Question
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2001
   Demonstrates with cold precision how the consistent denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. Controversial, forceful, and#above all#honest, it attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational political future in Palestine possible. Searing essays from Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, G. W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim and Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mumammad Hallaj, Elia Zureik, and Rashid Khalidi.
   
9. Bound By Power
   Intended Consequences
   Resource Type: Book
   These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
10. Canadian War Posters
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    "The poster art that galvanized a young nation to action during two World Wars." 48 full-colour and 93 black and white posters.
11. Carter's Inconvenient Truths
    An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At least 90% of Americans, if they know anything at all of the issue, know only the Israeli propaganda line. Israel has been able to control the explanation, because the powerful Israel Lobby brands every critic of Israeli policy as an anti-semite who favors a second holocaust of the Jews.
12. The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
    Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
    
13. Chomsky on MisEducation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
14. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
15. Chronicles of Dissent
    Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
16. The CIA
    A Forgotten History
    Resource Type: Book
    Describes the CIA's role in overthrowing governments, rigging elections, assassinating leaders, and manufacturing "news" in over 50 countries.
17. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
18. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
19. Conscience & Courage
    Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
    Resource Type: Book
    
20. Contested Truths
    Keywords in American Politics since Independence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
21. Counter-Rhetoric
    Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
22. Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
23. The Culture of Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Chomsky argues that the United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips.
24. Designing Pacifist Films
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1961
    
25. Deterring Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
26. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
27. Eight Men Speak
    And Other Plays from the Canadian Workers' Theatre
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Eight plays presented by the Canadian Worker's Theatre in the 1930s.
28. The Encyclopedia of Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
29. Don Fenton
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
30. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
    
31. George Orwell: A Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    A biography of George Orwell.
32. Goebbels
    Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century War Leader Book No. 17
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
33. Hasbara
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Sourcewatch's analysis of 'Hasbara' -- the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.
    
34. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    
35. Hitler
    Resource Type: Book
    
36. Hitler Youth: The Duped Generation
    Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century Politics in Action No. 6
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
37. Hitler's Propaganda Machine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
38. Inventing Reality
    The Politics of News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
39. Inventing Tax Rage
    Misinformation in the National Post
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    How the National Post created an agenda for the tax cuts that mostly benefits the wealthy.
40. Inventing Tax Rage (excerpt)
    Misinformation in the National Post
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    The propaganda campaign to invent "tax rage".
41. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
42. Israel's 'left' apologists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism.
43. Journalism: Truth or Dare?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
44. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
    
45. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
46. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
    Resource Type: Book
    
47. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
48. The Mackenzie Institute
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
49. Manufacturing Consent
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1992
    A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
50. Manufacturing Consent
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
51. Media and Minorities
    Representing Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
52. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
53. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
54. Newspapers and the Workers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1916
    The worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his.
    
55. Newspeak in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
56. On Power and Ideology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    
57. One Market Under God
    Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    
58. Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
59. The Organizer's Manual
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
60. Orwell
    The War Broadcasts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    
61. The Politics Of Anti-Semitism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians? This is the question considered in these 18 essays (by nine Jews and nine Gentiles), including Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Lenni Brenner, and Uri Avnery.
62. The Poster in History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    
63. The Power of Persuation
    The Politics of the New Right in Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Kozolanka looks at how the New Right government of former Ontario Premier Mike Harris came to power by using successful strategies from other countries to gain public consent for its neo-conservative policies. Relying on evidence drawn from literature, interviews and content analysis, she argues that this trajectory was "neither haphazard nor narrowly constructed."
64. A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
    
65. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    
66. Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
    
67. Propaganda model
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A theory that alleges systemic biases in the mass media and seeks to explain them in terms of structural economic causes. Views the private media as businesses interested in the sale of a product # readers and audiences # to other businesses (advertisers) rather than that of quality news to the people.
68. Radical Mass Media Criticism
    A Cultural Geneology
    Resource Type: Book
    Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
69. Radical Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
70. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
71. Revolution in the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    
72. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
73. Some of my best comrades are friends
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    The left#s sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
74. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
75. Sultans of Sleaze
    Public Relations and the Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Reveals the extent to which we have been deceived by public relations firms on behalf of their unscrupulous clients -- the corporations and governments that control our society.
76. Tactics of Desperation: Using false accusations of #anti-Semitism# - Arabic text
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    
77. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
78. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
79. Ten Health Care Myths
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
80. Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Israel#s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government#s line on the Middle East conflict.
    
81. Unreliable Sources
    A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
82. We Own the World
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The whole debate about the Iranian #interference# in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
    
83. Weapons of Mass Persuasion
    Marketing the War Against Iraq
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
84. We're Winning -- Don't Ask Where!
    Roll Over George Orwell, And Give Goebbels the News!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    
85. Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT 'recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state'
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
    
86. William Morris
    From Romantic to Revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    A biography of the nineteenth-century socialist, designer, artist, and intellectual William Morris.
87. Words have failed
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2004
    The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
88. Year 501
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

Experts on Propaganda in the Sources Directory

1. Deutsches Historisches Museum
2. The Mackenzie Institute
3. MoMA Museum of Modern Art