The Crisis in Ukraine: Neo-Nazis Who Seized Gov’t of Ukraine Backed by U.S., E.U. : U.S. Meets its Match as Russia Blocks its Aims in Ukraine

By Asad Ismi At the end of February, for the first time since World War II, a government containing a significant number of Neo-Nazis and fascists, backed by the United States and the European Union, took control of a European country. In a fascist coup, members of the Nazi Svoboda (Freedom) Party and the […]

The Latin American Revolution (Part 21): Denying Morales’ Plane Fuel Seen As Attempted Assassination

By Asad Ismi On July 2, the United States put pressure on several European countries to prevent a plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales from landing to refuel at any of their airports. The excuse for this unprecedented denial of landing rights was the unfounded claim that Morales was hiding American whistleblower Edward Snowden on […]

Snowden Exposes Vast U.S. Surveillance Empire: Americans Find Out How Much Their Government Spies on Them

By Asad Ismi Edward Snowden, a contract employee (until May) at the U.S. National Security Agency, revealed in June that the NSA was spying on hundreds of millions of Americans by collecting their phone, e-mail, and Internet records. The agency was also secretly compiling similar information on Europeans. The NSA is the largest and most […]

Capitalism is the Crisis

A four-part radio documentary about the destructive record of capitalism and the current disasters it has fomented. The series can be downloaded and heard here Written by Asad Ismi Produced by Kristin Schwartz Narrated by both Thanks to Chandra Siddan, Omar Faruque and Kevin Shaw. __________________ For the last five centuries the Western capitalist system […]