Government Surveillance

McCutcheon, Chuck. "Government Surveillance: Is government spying on Americans excessive?" CQ Researcher 30 Aug. 2013: 717-40. Web. 30 Oct. 2013.  How tightly the government should keep tabs on citizens has long been fiercely debated. But concern about surveillance intensified in June after National Security Agency computer specialist Edward Snowden revealed classified details of agency electronic snooping programs. Civil liberties advocates, lawmakers and others also have cited growing unease with other surveillance measures, including the use of unmanned “drone” aircraft and tiny video cameras. Congress, along with state and local governments, is expected to take up a variety of bills this fall to protect privacy and increase transparency about government activities. But the Obama administration maintains that internal safeguards — including a federal civil liberties oversight board created in 2004 — have prevented the federal government from becoming “Big Brother.”From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Articles

 su(privacy and ("national security" or "intelligence gathering")) AND (united states) - 900+ articles on the subject of privacy as it relates to national security in the United States.

"Edward Snowden" AND PUB(Washington Post) - 1300+ articles mentioning former NSA contractor turned leaker Snowden, from one of the papers he worked with.

Books

National Security Agency - United States
 
Web

NSA FIles: Decoded - What the revelations mean for you.  The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Ltd. Web. 1 Nov. 2013  6 part interactive site with documents, graphics, and video interviews with multiple perspectives/viewpoints,

Mexico's Drug War

Katel, Peter. "Mexico's Future: Can the country's new president stop the drug cartels?." CQ Researcher 26 Oct. 2012. Following years of grisly drug-related violence, Mexico's next president, Enrique Peña Nieto, is hinting that he will adopt a new anti-crime strategy when he takes office Dec. 1. Instead of using a military-style offensive to kill or capture the leaders of Mexico's drug cartels

Modern Middle East - History, Biography, Area Studies

Ebooks:

A prophet from amongst you: The life of Yigael Yadin : soldier, scholar, and mythmaker of modern Israel, by Silberman, Neil Asher

World I Loved : The Story of an Arab Woman  
Cortas, Wadad Makdisi  

Next Founders : Voices of Democracy in the Middle East
Muravchik, Joshua

Ariel Sharon : An Intimate Portrait
Dan, Uri

Man Who Pushed America to War : The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
Roston, Aram

Reading Lolita in Tehran : A memoir in books
Nafisi, Azar

Son of the Cypresses : Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life
Benvenisti, Meron

Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur : From the Six-Day War to the First Intifada
Rejwan, Nissim

Print Books (click link to check status in CBC Library's Catalog):

Arafat : From defender to dictator
Aburish, Saïd K .
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection  - DS119.7 .A68A28 1998

Atatürk
Mango, Andrew
CBC Library, Pasco - On Order

The Ayatollah begs to differ : The paradox of modern Iran
Majd, Hooman
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS318.9 .M35 2008

The Gulf states : A modern history
Commins, David Dean
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS247 .A135C66 2012

House of stone : A memoir of home, family, and a lost Middle East
Shadid, Anthony
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ663.9 .S53 2012

Lipstick Jihad : A memoir of growing up Iranian in American and American in Iran
Moaveni, Azadeh
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - E184 .I5M63 2006

Man of defiance : A political biography of Anwar Sadat
Israeli, Raphael
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DT107.828 .S23I84 1985

Mayada, daughter of Iraq : One woman's survival under Saddam Hussein
Sasson, Jean P.
CBC Library, Pasco - HQ1735.Z75A56 2004

Nasser
Nutting, Anthony
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DT107.83 .N79 1972b

The Oil kings : How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia changed the balance of power in the Middle East,  Cooper, Andrew Scott
CBC Library, Pasco - E183.8 .I55C66 2011

Patriot of Persia : Muhammad Mossadegh and a tragic Anglo-American coup
De Bellaigue, Christopher
CBC Library, Pasco - DS318.6 .D42 2012

The Prince : The secret story of the world's most intriguing royal, prince Bandar bin Sultan
Simpson, William
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS244.526 .B55S56 2006

The Process : 1,100 days that changed the Middle East
Savir, Uri
CBC Library, Pasco - DS119.76 .S78 1999

Reading Lolita in Tehran : A memoir in books
Nafisi, Azar
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ1746.5 .N34 2004

The Shah
Milani, Abbas
CBC Library, Pasco - DS318 .M494 2011

Things I've been silent about : Memories
Nafisi, Azar
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ1746.5 .N345 2008


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Pakistan

Articles

EBSCOhost

pakistan [Subject Terms] - over 4200 full text articles

Add terms to second search line to focus on subtopics - for instance:

• military or armed forces
• taliban or qaida
• school* or education

ProQuest

Login to Proquest to construct this search: pakistan - over 35900 full text articles; note that this search is limited to the keyword 'pakistan' as 'Location' rather than subject. As above, add topic keywords to other search lines to narrow: Login to Proquest to construct this search: GEO(pakistan) AND (school* or education)

Books

CBC Library Catalog - su:pakistan or ti:pakistan

Ebrary - subject search pakistan - 12 ebooks

Reference

Country Profile: Pakistan Facts on File World News Digest. Includes many links to articles as well as facts and history. Long, Roger D. "Search for this in Oxford Reference: Pakistan" Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern World. Ed Peter N. Stearns. Oxford UP, 2008.
Articles on Pakistan (primarily background) from 4 encyclopedias in the History & Culture subcollection of Gale Virtual Reference, including an 18 page article from the Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations 11th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
Clemmitt, Marcia. "US-Pakistan relations: Is the rocky alliance worth saving?" CQ Researcher 5 Aug. 2011.
 

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History 113 - Mexico Since Independence

EBSCOhost - Articles


Finds articles on the Zapatistas (or Chiapas), provided they deal with issues of trade/economics. Limiters insure that the articles are either available in paper or full text. View Results


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Wallach, Lori. "Has the North American Free Trade Agreement Been A Success? Con." International Debates May 2005: 157-159. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Apr. 2007. Discusses the negative results of NAFTA in Mexico, including the Zapatista revolt in Chiapas. Very brief, no references, few dates, some useful quotes.

Books
Reference

Mexico : an encyclopedia of contemporary culture and history [F1234 .C67 2004]

Historical atlas of Central America [G1551 .S1H2 2003]

Search for this in Oxford Reference: The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures : the civilizations of Mexico and Central America [Reference F1218.6 .O95 2001 & Search for this in Oxford Reference: Online]

Illegal immigration in America : a reference handbook [JV6483 .I53 1999]

Milenios de Mexico [F1204 .M955 1999]

The United States and Mexico at war : nineteenth-century expansionism and conflict [E404 .U66 1998]

The Cambridge history of Latin America [F1410 .C1834]

Reference Articles Online

Kirkwood, Burton. "The Aftermath of Independence, 1821–1876." from The History Of Mexico. Greenwood. 2000. in ebrary. Also other sections in the same title.

"Mexico." Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. 2004. p283-301. in Gale Virtual Reference Library.


Main Collection – Call Number Areas
E184 - Hispanic/Latino/Chicano History
E404 - Mexican War (1846-48)
F1200+ - Mexico - History
JV6400+ - Immigration