The Latin American Revolution (Part 23): Destabilization Campaign Continues in Venezuela By Asad Ismi Since February, continuing protests, many of them violent, against the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro have claimed more than 40 lives in Venezuela and injured more than 800 people. Most were victims of opposition supporters who have also set fire to universities, public buildings and bus stations – even the […]
CIA Torture Program Exposed: More Than a 100 Detainees “Rendered” by U.S. With Help from Allies Including Canada By Asad Ismi With the National Security Agency (NSA) spying scandal continuing to make news, another secretive U.S. agency is now the subject of its own public humiliation. In early April, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee (SIC) voted to partially declassify a 6,600-page report on Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) treatment of “terror suspects” during the […]
Progressives Hail Socialist Party Leader’s Election in Chile: Hopes High Bachelet Will Fulfill Pledge to Reduce Inequality By Asad Ismi The Latin American Revolution scored a powerful victory last December when Michelle Bachelet, the Socialist Party’s leader, was elected President of Chile for the second time. She takes office on March 11. Bachelet won in a landslide, taking 62% of the vote compared to only 38% for her rival, Evelyn Matthei, who […]
Canadian Government Spies on Brazil and its own citizens: Canada’s Spy Agency Espionage Arm of Canadian corporations By Asad Ismi In the September issue of the CCPA Monitor, I reported on the U.S. National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying on hundreds of millions of its citizens, as revealed by whistle-blower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Now it appears that the Canadian government, too, is engaged in surreptitiously spying on its citizens, in […]
