Note: When using search engines in the below websites, include key information such as: country name, name of head of state, any relevant years (the year of an assassination or coup, etc.), so as to narrow the number of results you’ll get from your search.
Third World Traveler - puts up articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view to the U.S. mainstream media about the state of American democracy, media, and foreign policy, and about the impact of the actions of the United States government, transnational corporations, international financial institutions, and the corporate media, have on democracy, social and economic justice, human rights, and war and peace, in the Third World. http://thirdworldtraveler.com/ Primary source readings for Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Repubic, Ecuador, ElSalvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Angola, Congo/Zaire, Greece, Iran, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia and Laos can be found here: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/KillingHope_page.html
National Security Archives hosts tens of thousands of declassified government documents—including CIA, military, State Department, etc. documents. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
CIA Electronic Reading Room hosts hundreds of thousands of primary source CIA documents. http://www.foia.cia.gov/
Democracy Now examines issues related to U. S. issues of foreign and domestic policy. Steaming videos and audio interviews with numerous primary sources can be found by using their search engine. http://www.democracynow.org/
Global Exchange unites the history of U. S. involvement in sovereign nations with the current events in those nations. (Click on the “region” you are interested in). http://www.globalexchange.org/
International Relations Center offers hosts of articles, including readable, detailed histories of numerous countries and U. S. involvement therein. http://www.irc-online.org/
Amnesty International is a human rights watch organization that has easily accessible articles on the current situations in all the world’s developing nations. http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/index.do
Global Policy monitors policy making at the United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice. http://www.globalpolicy.org/
YouTube/Google Video - yes video clips of CIA sponsored coups, bombings, terrorist, etc can be found on either of these sources (for example the 1954 coup in Guatemala: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNG6xzQu1Mw OR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnYZVNVqBgU ) Note: all Youtube and Google videos should be pasted directly into your wikipage. Ask instructor for help on how to do it if necessary.
"Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth."
Resources
Note: When using search engines in the below websites, include key information such as: country name, name of head of state, any relevant years (the year of an assassination or coup, etc.), so as to narrow the number of results you’ll get from your search.
Third World Traveler - puts up articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view to the U.S. mainstream media about the state of American democracy, media, and foreign policy, and about the impact of the actions of the United States government, transnational corporations, international financial institutions, and the corporate media, have on democracy, social and economic justice, human rights, and war and peace, in the Third World. http://thirdworldtraveler.com/ Primary source readings for Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Repubic, Ecuador, ElSalvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Angola, Congo/Zaire, Greece, Iran, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia and Laos can be found here: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/KillingHope_page.html
National Security Archives hosts tens of thousands of declassified government documents—including CIA, military, State Department, etc. documents. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
CIA Electronic Reading Room hosts hundreds of thousands of primary source CIA documents.
http://www.foia.cia.gov/
Covert Action hosts testimonies before the House of Representatives, Senate committees, declassified documents and commentary on covert action beginning with the Regan era (1980s). http://covertaction.org//component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
Democracy Now examines issues related to U. S. issues of foreign and domestic policy. Steaming videos and audio interviews with numerous primary sources can be found by using their search engine. http://www.democracynow.org/
Global Exchange unites the history of U. S. involvement in sovereign nations with the current events in those nations. (Click on the “region” you are interested in). http://www.globalexchange.org/
International Relations Center offers hosts of articles, including readable, detailed histories of numerous countries and U. S. involvement therein. http://www.irc-online.org/
Amnesty International is a human rights watch organization that has easily accessible articles on the current situations in all the world’s developing nations. http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/index.do
Global Policy monitors policy making at the United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice. http://www.globalpolicy.org/
YouTube/Google Video - yes video clips of CIA sponsored coups, bombings, terrorist, etc can be found on either of these sources (for example the 1954 coup in Guatemala: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNG6xzQu1Mw OR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnYZVNVqBgU ) Note: all Youtube and Google videos should be pasted directly into your wikipage. Ask instructor for help on how to do it if necessary.
"Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth."
Mark Crispin Miller