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 […]

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 […]

Union in Colombia Battles Anti-Union Canadian Oil Company: Pacific Rubiales is Linked to Attacks on Union Activists

By Asad Ismi In May 2012, the third edition of my report Profiting from Repression: Canadian Investment in and Trade with Colombia was published and released by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) in Ottawa. The report links ten Canadian companies in Colombia to the genocide of indigenous Colombians, to complicity in eight murders […]