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  1. Accumulation by Dispossession
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
  2. Alien Invasion
    How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
  3. All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement.
  4. Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Barbara Epstein analyzes the influence of anarchism on the history of American social protest, and its role in the anti-globalization resistance movement of the present day.
  5. Beating Back the Corporate Attack 
    Socialism and the struggle for global justice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
  6. Behind Closed Doors 
    How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System... And Ended Up Richer
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    A stinging indictment of Canada's tax system and the people who shape it.
  7. "Black Americans for a Better Future" Super PAC 100% Funded by Rich White Guys
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    New FEC filings show that all of the $417,250 in monetary donations to a Super PAC called "Black Americans for a Better Future" comes from conservative white businessmen-- including $400,000, or 96 percent of the total, from white billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.
  8. Blocking Public Participation
    The Use of Strategic Litigation to Silence Political Expression
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Examines the different types of litigation and causes of action that frequently form the basis of SLAPPs (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation), and how these lawsuits transform political disputes into legal cases, thereby blocking political engagement.
  9. Blue Gold 
    The battle against corporate theft of the world's water
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2003
    International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions.This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.
  10. Canada After Harper
    His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
  11. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  12. The Check-the-Box Loophole
    The Great Corporate Tax Shift
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Corporate taxes in America have been in decline now for more than three decades. Contrary to the drumbeat of corporate media throughout this year, and their false claims that US corporations are paying far more than their foreign capitalist cousins.
  13. Childhood Under Siege
    How Big Business Ruthlessly Targets Children
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    An exploration of the corporate manipulation and exploitation of children and childhood and society's (lack of) response.
  14. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
  15. The Competition Myth - The Real Meaning of the Last Twenty-five Years
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    The problems which working people have suffered in the last twenty-five years are not problems which the ruling elite are trying to solve but weapons they have devised to attack working people in a class war.
  16. Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
  17. Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications
    The Politics of Regional Reform
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    The issues behind privatization policies and telecommunications policies are looked at through a glass of drifting continentalism
  18. The Copyright Police
    First They Came for the Hip Hop Sites ...
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Understand this: the seizure of websites without due process, corporate interests lobbying and then writing laws that allow them to be the police and t personally enforce, the battle over net neutrality is all about concentrating power in the hands of a few. This is about controlling the flow of information and being a gate keeper in the communications arena. Its the first step in moving a democracy toward a dictatorship.
  19. Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Consumer freedom and privacy are examined as coercive commercialism quickly moves toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are forced into corporate payment systems from credit/debit cards, mobile phones and perhaps even through facial recognition technology.
  20. The Corporate Consensus
    A Guide to the Institutions of Global Power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    A detailed guide to the institutions and corporations which occupy the commanding heights of corporate power in the world today.
  21. Corporate Corruption And The Special Interest State
    Regulatory Capture at the FCC
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    With Tom Wheeler's nomination, expect pro big-telecom policies such as ending net neutrality, further industry consolidation, limiting meaningful competition and increasing user fees, among other policies.
  22. Corporate influence Inside business How corporations make the rules
    New Internationalist July 2002
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    A look into how corporate democracy works and facts regarding corporate influence. Also looks into a short history of corporations.
  23. Corporate money preventing all-out campaign to stop global warming
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Highly-regarded former Toronto Mayor David Miller says he is "very excited" about becoming the new President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada in September. But there are questions about whether the WWF is effective in its work and, moreover, why the WWF and other members of the global environmental movement have made such little progress combatting the most serious threat to earth - climate change.
  24. Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Carroll looks at the accumulation of capital in Canada since the Second World War. Most of the book is devoted to tracing actual patterns of corporate ownership and intercorporate relationships.
  25. The Corporate State and Manufactured Dependence
    Sure, It Can Get Worse...It's Happening Right Before Our Eyes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The 'resistance is futile' mindset that supports plutocrats and the global corporations they own assumes the existing order is the only possible order and the costs of resistance are too great because 'they' have state power and unlimited economic resources on their side.
  26. The Corporate Stranglehold on Education 
    Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Rather than challenge the economic irresponsibility, ecological damage, and human suffering, and culture of cruelty unleashed by free market fundamentalism, higher education appears to be one of its staunchest defenders, uncritically embracing a view of itself based on a market model of the academy.
  27. The Corporate Web
    Resource Type: Website
    Information about the corporations which make political contributions to, and benefit from, the Harris Conservative government in Ontario.
  28. The Corporations and the State
    Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Essays discussing modern U.S. capitalism and imperialism. Each chapter tries to delineate the relationship between 'economic' and 'political' processes, or at least recognize the unity between them. The unifying them is the role of the large corporations in U.S. society and the world eonomy, and the relationship between these corporations and the capitalist state.
  29. Corporations Meet Resistance Inside Boston's Schools
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    The corporate elite are a small minority and their values are the opposite of most peoples' values. Things that most people consider immoral, like deliberately increasing the number of students who fail to graduate, are ruthlessly pursued by the corporate elite in order to control people and to justify increasing inequality in society.
  30. Culture Inc.
    The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
  31. Desire to Kill the Streetcar
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The author analyzes the conspiracy by large corporations to monopolize the American transit system and its fuel system.
  32. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Website
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
  33. Fake News: the Unravelling of US Empire From Within
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A war of opposing certitudes and denunciations is waged day to day between the long-ruling US corporate media and the White House. Both continuously proclaim ringing recriminations of the other's 'fake news'. Over months they both portray each other as malevolent liars.
  34. False God
    How the Globalization Myth has Impoverished Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Laxer argues that the neoconservative economic agenda is folly, and that the United States is caught in a downward spiral of limited government power and widening social divisions. He demonstrates that continued free trade with the United States will doom Canada economically, socially, and poolitically.
  35. Fascism and Big Busness
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1939   Published: 1973
    A history of the rise of fascism in Europe and the role of big business in supporting fascism.
  36. The Fight for Canada 
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
  37. Fighting for Hope 
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
  38. The Fix Is In: Washington's Planned Social Contract Destruction
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    New audit figures show that Bernanke's Fed gave Wall Street and European banksters at least $16.1 trillion (called emergency loans) from December 1, 2007 - July 21, 2010, besides unknown amounts earlier and in the past year. Moreover, it's well known that trillions of dollars are stolen, handed to corporate interests and never returned, as well as gotten in other illegal ways. As a result, taxpayers get stuck with the bill, the nation with unsustainable mounting debt, heading it eventually for ruin.
  39. Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A useful snapshot of the 'free trade' debate at the time of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
  40. From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the "democratic" west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly -- it outsources its dirty work to corporations.
  41. The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    The deepest and most systemic threat to civil and planetary life the world has ever faced is underway. Behind the disasters of regional economies and planetary ecosystems melting down, the threat is driven by an underlying meta-program, in terms of which every decision, every policy, every regulation and implementation is demanded and instituted by servant governments.
  42. GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.
  43. Ghana's farmers battle "Monsanto law' to retain seed freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Ghana's government is desperate to pass a Plant Breeders Bill that would remove farmers' ancient 'seed freedom' to grow, retain, breed and develop crop varieties - while giving corporate breeders a blanket exemption from seed regulations. But the farmers are fighting back.
  44. GM crops: Hunger as the key to world domination
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Weapons and energy resources are apparently insufficient for total control over the world's nations, power-hungry globalists like David Rockefeller have come up with the idea of using people's daily need for food as a means to achieve global dominance.
  45. The Great Corporate Tax Shift
    The $10 Trillion Heist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The great corporate myth-making machine has been hard at work of late, attempting to create the false impression that US corporations are increasingly uncompetitive with their foreign rivals due to the fact they allegedly pay higher corporate taxes.
  46. How Bosses Use 'Open Shop' Campaigns to Crush Unions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Chad Pearson's book "Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement" and Lane Windham's new book "Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970's and the Roots of a New Economic Divide", take a historical look at anti-union tactics through the 20th century, and demonstrate how Unions can regroup, reform and fight back.
  47. The Illusion of Democracy
    Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘weirding’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices?
  48. Inside Komen's NGOized Culture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The authors analyze the monopoly that the Komen Foundation has over breast cancer research and how the process of "NGOization" has cultivated a consumer culture in how participants engage with the movement.
  49. International Forum on Globalization
    Resource Type: Website
    An alliance of activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
  50. Inventing Tax Rage
    Misinformation in the National Post
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    How the National Post created an agenda for the tax cuts that mostly benefits the wealthy.
  51. #KMFace photos mock Kinder Morgan claim that facial expressions are a form of "assault"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Anti-pipeline protestors took to social media to post their best #KMFace, following Kinder Morgan's court case against residents this week, where the company's lawyer stated that the protestors' angry snarls are "not just intimidation," but "actually assault."
  52. The Koch Empire and Americans for Prosperity
    More Tentacles Surface at Rightwing Front Group
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Tracking to funding of extremist right-wing groups.
  53. Land and seed laws under attack as Africa is groomed for corporate recolonization
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Across Africa, laws are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing millions of small cultivators and replacing them with a new model of profit-oriented agriculture using patented seeds and varieties.
  54. Leaked TTIP papers reveal 100% corporate sellout
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Secret documents leaked to Greenpeace from the EU-US TTIP negotiations show that environmental protection, climate change mitigation, consumer protection, public health and sustainability are sacrificed throughout to corporate profit and commercial interests.
  55. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
  56. Let's Talk TPP
    Resource Type: Article
    By now, many of us have heard that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was negotiated in complete secrecy, with no opportunity for Canadians to engage with the process or to have their voices heard. This changes today. Right now the government is asking Canadians what they think before they move to push this agreement into law. This is your best chance to let your MP and the Parliamentary Committee reviewing the TPP know where you stand. Use this tool to get your views on the public record of the Standing Committee on International Trade.
  57. Monsanto is buying up non-gmo seed companies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A positive trend in recent years is the growing number of gardening enthusiasts choosing to plant gardens using organic and/or heirloom seeds.
  58. Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance
    Putting Profits Before Populations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be in the hands of transnational corporations.
  59. Monsanto and Ukraine
    GM Food, Ukraine and the Return of Hill + Knowlton
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under terms of their $17 billion loan to Ukraine, will force that country to permit genetically-modified (GM) crops and genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.
  60. Museums, Art and the Rackets
    Against The Current vol. 121
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In the late 1990s when it appeared that the laws of capitalism had been suspended temporarily and wealth could be accrued purely on speculation, the New York Times began an annual full-section report on museums, those once fusty and staid zones of quiet suddenly become hot public draws. Its 21 April, 1999, issue extols the role museums play in rebuilding urban economies worldwide. The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, and new wings of the Metropolitan in New York have been instrumental in fostering urban pride and capital flows.
  61. The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
    Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
  62. NAFTA's Chapter 11 Makes Canada Most-Sued Country Under Free Trade Tribunals
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    According to a new study, Canada is the most-sued country under the North American Free Trade Agreement and a majority of the disputes involve investors challenging the country's environmental laws.
  63. Nature, science & power
    Questions need to be asked...
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2014
    Here many questions will be asked, some answers attempted. This blog connects to a new book: Bold Scientists: dispatches from the battle for honest science, published in 2014 by Between the Lines.
  64. Not Bad Policy, But Class Policy
    Holes in the Keynesian Against G20 Austerity Plan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Liberal critics of the vicious austerity policies passionately argue against such policies as bad, misguided, or unwise as if the governments that make such policies do not know what they are doing. Accordingly, these critics offer all kinds of elegant Keynesian arguments in favor of stimulus deficit spending that could lead to improved economic conditions, increased tax revenues, and decreased debt and deficit. What these critics tend to overlook, however, is the fact that the governments that impose austerity policies are serving as bailiffs or debt-collecting agencies on behalf of their corporate/financial masters.
  65. On Guard for Thee
    An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  66. One Market Under God
    Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  67. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 18, 2014
    The Commons
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    From its beginnings, one of capitalism's prime imperatives has been an all-out and never-ceasing assault on the Commons in all its manifestations. Common land, common water, public ownership -- anything rooted in the ancient human traditions of sharing and cooperation is anathema to an economic system that seeks to turn everything that exists into private property that can be exploited for profit. This issue of the Connexions Newsletter focuses on the Commons.
  68. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2015
    Resisting Neoliberalism
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Resisting neoliberalism: "free markets" and "free trade" are an ideological cover for what is actually a form of state capitalism in which working people subsidize and bail out corporations and the rich. In this edition of Other Voices, and more extensively on the Connexions website, we look at both neoliberalism and the resistance to it. The version of capitalism which became dominant by the 1980s has been given the name neoliberalism. The term refers to the global economic restructuring which has taken place, and to the accompanying shifts in the structures of power under which local and national governments have seen their ability to act independently curtailed by international treaties and by institutions which owe their ultimate allegiance to corporate capital. The essence of neoliberalism has been an unending campaign of class struggle by the rich against the rest. Yet resistance continues, and indeed continues to grow.
  69. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2015
    Corporate rights treaties
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Our focus is on the corporate rights treaties that are misleadingly sold as trade agreements. In particular, the spotlight is on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The TPP is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy.
  70. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
    What are we eating?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
    For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
    How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
    A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
  71. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
    Their Interent or Ours?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
  72. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
  73. The Passing of Bhaskar Save
    What The 'Green Revolution' Did for India
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Bhaskar Save died on 24 October 2015 at age 93. Emphasising self-reliance at the farm/village level, Save was regarded as the 'Gandhi of natural farming'.
  74. Perspectives On Power
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
  75. Poisoning the Democratic Well
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Opponents of so-called free trade deals have always struggled with the question of why these international treaties don't generate more alarm and vocal opposition from Canadians. These treaties, after all, trump all other Canadian authority to make laws -- provincial legislatures, Parliament, the courts and even the Constitution.
  76. The Polluters
    The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Provides an account of the American chemical industry and its effect on the environment.
  77. The Poor Must Die
    Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    For more than 30 years, the world-dominating Anglo-American alliance has been under the sway of factions which, for all their internal squabbling and hair-splitting, are strongly united in their steadfast, unshakeable adherence to the perpetuation -- and expansion -- of elite power and privilege. They have shown themselves willing -- eager -- to degrade their own societies (and destroy many others) in the service of this brutal, barbaric, inhuman faith. The poor have no place in this system.
  78. Porter's corporate interests can't be allowed to trump public health
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    We are concerned that it will be the children who live, study and play less than 300 metres from the current airport in the high-rises, the Waterfront school, Little Norway Park, the daycare and community centre who will be most affected by the addition of jets. Consider that landings and takeoffs generate the highest emissions and that peak airport periods coincide with times children walk to and from school.
  79. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  80. Preston Manning and the Reform Party
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A profile of Preston Manning and his right-wing agenda.
  81. The Privatization Putsch
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    According to Hardin, privatization is the expression of the ideology of a right wing, corporate agenda: business wants to gets its hands on public funds and politicians are more than willing to hand over publicly owned enterprises and public services to business friends, nearly always on terms that are immensely favourable to the corporations involved.
  82. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
  83. The Quick and The Dead
    Brian Mulroney, Big Business And The Seduction Of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    McQuaig argues that since 1984, there has been a systematic transfer of power in Canada from the democratically elected government to the private sector.
  84. Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Rick Berman, the king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements. Berman specializes in setting up pro-corporate front groups to attack grassroots citizen groups. Berman advocates and practises a range of dirty tactics and propaganda techniques.
  85. Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 2014
    The king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements, including on efforts to increase the minimum wage for workers.
  86. The Right-to-Farm Scam
    Third Wave Corporatocracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    When Monsanto’s home state of Missouri passed the “Right to Farm” on August 5, 2014 the third noose of corporate control tightened around the neck of the US. Unlike the first two steps of corporate domination of public life, this was a constitutional amendment that would block the state legislature or voters from passing future laws for environmental protection, animal welfare or labeling of contaminated food. This third wave corporatocracy could well spread across US and globally as it becomes a new form of mass disenfranchisement.
  87. Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Ruling Canada critically examines Canada's "economic elite" -- a collection of the country's richest and most powerful individuals, many of whom preside over Canada's largest corporations. Brownlee argues that this corporate elite is increasingly unified and class conscious. As a direct result, a broad array of state policies and programs have been cut and/or implemented which serve the interests of this elite minority at the expense of most Canadian citizens.
  88. Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salvadoran delegation is in Canada to discuss how this arbitration process threatens democratic decision making, public health and the environment here and beyond.
  89. Science and its enemies
    Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
  90. Shooting the Hippo 
    Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    An examination of how economic policies systematically favour the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
  91. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  92. Staff at 'Grinch' KPMG well looked after while advocating 'workers' comp' cuts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    KPMG – which operates across Canada and internationally – performs “hatchet jobs” for governments – often governments that don’t have the nerve to take the lead themselves when they want cutbacks.
  93. Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - June 1977
    Volume V Number 6
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
  94. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy 
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 1997
    The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
  95. Their Internet or Ours?
    Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    What happened to the Internet? The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
  96. Tips on How to Oppose Corporate Rule
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Dr. Kelsey has devised what she calls "A Manual for Counter-Technopols" -- suggestions and ideas for actions that challenge corporate rule.
  97. Top 5 Reasons Eaters should be Worried about Obama's New Trade Deal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a wide-ranging deal that would expand corporate rights across member states to the detriment of worker rights, the environment, and public health.
  98. Toward the Agro-Police State 
    You'll Need an iPad if You Want to be a Farmer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The main problem with precision agriculture -- and the hype that surrounds it -- is the faulty assumptions that it rests on. The problems of agriculture are not caused by a lack of technology, or even by a lack of productivity (overproduction has as a matter of fact been a more frequent problem for farmers). The root problems are political and economic in nature.
  99. TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut into their profits, according to the text of the trade pact released this week.
  100. Transpacific Partnership and Monsanto
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has the potential to become the biggest regional Free Trade Agreement in history, both in economic size and the ability to quietly add more countries in addition to those originally included.
  101. TTIP: the Corporate Empowerment Act 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. "Free trade" is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.
  102. The University of Nike
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Nike is just a piece of the bigger puzzle of private donors in public universities, but it is a perfect example of why private money is helping to erode the positive goals of public education.
  103. The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
  104. The Wealthy Banker's Wife 
    The Assault on Equality in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  105. What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational agreement that, among other things, threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement.
  106. Who do we try to rescue today?
    Canada under corporate rule
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
  107. The World According to Monsanto
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2008
    An investigation into the United States multinational corporation, Monsanto, uncovers controversial findings.
  108. 'Worse Than We Thought': TPP A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    On issues ranging from climate change to food safety, from open Internet to access to medicines, the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) is a disaster.
  109. You, Me & the SPP: Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    What do secrecy, police provocateurs, an assault on democracy and infringements on citizens' rights have in common? The Security and Prosperity Partnership.
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