- Accumulation by Dispossession
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article
- Alien Invasion
How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario Resource Type: Book 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.
- All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Beating Back the Corporate Attack
Socialism and the struggle for global justice Resource Type: Book 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?
- Behind Closed Doors
How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System... And Ended Up Richer Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 A stinging indictment of Canada's tax system and the people who shape it.
- "Black Americans for a Better Future" Super PAC 100% Funded by Rich White Guys
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Blocking Public Participation
The Use of Strategic Litigation to Silence Political Expression Resource Type: Book 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.
- Blue Gold
The battle against corporate theft of the world's water Resource Type: Book 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.
- 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 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.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- The Check-the-Box Loophole
The Great Corporate Tax Shift Resource Type: Article 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.
- Childhood Under Siege
How Big Business Ruthlessly Targets Children Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 An exploration of the corporate manipulation and exploitation of children and childhood and society's (lack of) response.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- The Competition Myth - The Real Meaning of the Last Twenty-five Years
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
- Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications
The Politics of Regional Reform Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 The issues behind privatization policies and telecommunications policies are looked at through a glass of drifting continentalism
- Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Corporate Corruption And The Special Interest State
Regulatory Capture at the FCC Resource Type: Article 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.
- Corporate money preventing all-out campaign to stop global warming
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
Resource Type: Book 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.
- The Corporate State and Manufactured Dependence
Sure, It Can Get Worse...It's Happening Right Before Our Eyes Resource Type: Article 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.
- The Corporate Stranglehold on Education
Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout? Resource Type: Article 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.
- The Corporations and the State
Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism Resource Type: Book 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.
- Creating the Corporate Soul
The Rise of Public Relations and Corporte Imagery in American Big Business Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- Culture Inc.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression Resource Type: Book 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.
- Desire to Kill the Streetcar
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The author analyzes the conspiracy by large corporations to monopolize the American transit system and its fuel system.
- Fake News: the Unravelling of US Empire From Within
Resource Type: Article 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.
- False God
How the Globalization Myth has Impoverished Canada Resource Type: Book 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.
- Fascism and Big Busness
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 A history of the rise of fascism in Europe and the role of big business in supporting fascism.
- The Fight for Canada
Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism Resource Type: Book 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.
- Fighting for Hope
Organizing to Realize Our Dreams Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
- Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
Resource Type: Book 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.
- From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
Resource Type: Article 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.
- The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
Resource Type: Article 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.
- GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
Resource Type: Book 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.
- Gene wars: the last-ditch battle over who owns the rights to our DNA
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 A US biotech company is fighting to protect the patents it took out on a test for a cancer-causing gene. Scientists say a win for the firm would set back a growing ability to detect diseases.
- Ghana's farmers battle "Monsanto law' to retain seed freedom
Resource Type: Article 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.
- GM crops: Hunger as the key to world domination
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Google, Amazon, Netflix mount lobby crusade on Trudeau Liberals
Amazon had 99 registered contacts with the government last year, Google had 37 Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The numerous meetings between top Liberal Government officials and U.S. tech giants not only smack of favouritism, but also raise ethical questions and concerns over deregulation.
- Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 An interview with the current head of Google Search, discussing some of the thought processes behind the current functionality of 'search' and some of its possibilites for the future.
- Google wants to run cities without being elected. Don't let it
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A new initiative will see Alphabet the parent company of Google take charge of redeveloping a waterfront district in Toronto. Here's why that's troubling.
- The Great Corporate Tax Shift
The $10 Trillion Heist Resource Type: Article 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.
- How Bosses Use 'Open Shop' Campaigns to Crush Unions
Resource Type: Article 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.
- The Illusion of Democracy
Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions Resource Type: Article 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?
- Inside Komen's NGOized Culture
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Inventing Tax Rage
Misinformation in the National Post Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 How the National Post created an agenda for the tax cuts that mostly benefits the wealthy.
- #KMFace photos mock Kinder Morgan claim that facial expressions are a form of "assault"
Resource Type: Article 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."
- The Koch Empire and Americans for Prosperity
More Tentacles Surface at Rightwing Front Group Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Tracking to funding of extremist right-wing groups.
- Land and seed laws under attack as Africa is groomed for corporate recolonization
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Leaked TTIP papers reveal 100% corporate sellout
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
- 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.
- Monsanto is buying up non-gmo seed companies
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance
Putting Profits Before Populations Resource Type: Article 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.
- Monsanto and Ukraine
GM Food, Ukraine and the Return of Hill + Knowlton Resource Type: Article 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.
- The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business Resource Type: Book 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.
- NAFTA's Chapter 11 Makes Canada Most-Sued Country Under Free Trade Tribunals
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Nature, science & power
Questions need to be asked... Resource Type: Website 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.
- On Guard for Thee
An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement Resource Type: Book Published: 1988
- One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 18, 2014
The Commons Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) 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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2015
Resisting Neoliberalism Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) 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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2015
Corporate rights treaties Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) 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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) 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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
Their Interent or Ours? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) 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?
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 1 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1974
- The Passing of Bhaskar Save
What The 'Green Revolution' Did for India Resource Type: Article 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'.
- Perspectives On Power
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
- Poisoning the Democratic Well
Resource Type: Article 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.
- The Polluters
The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 Provides an account of the American chemical industry and its effect on the environment.
- Porter's corporate interests can't be allowed to trump public health
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- Preston Manning and the Reform Party
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 A profile of Preston Manning and his right-wing agenda.
- The Privatization Putsch
Resource Type: Book 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.
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book 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.
- The Quick and The Dead
Brian Mulroney, Big Business And The Seduction Of Canada Resource Type: Book 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.
- Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
Resource Type: Audio 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.
- The Right-to-Farm Scam
Third Wave Corporatocracy Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 When Monsantos 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.
- Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
Resource Type: Book 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.
- Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Science and its enemies
Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article 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.
- Shooting the Hippo
Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths Resource Type: Book Published: 1995 An examination of how economic policies systematically favour the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
- The Silent Revolution
Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Staff at 'Grinch' KPMG well looked after while advocating 'workers' comp' cuts
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 KPMG which operates across Canada and internationally performs hatchet jobs for governments often governments that dont have the nerve to take the lead themselves when they want cutbacks.
- Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty Resource Type: Book 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.
- Targeting the Public Sector
Public Services and Government Workers Resource Type: Article Published: 1993
- Their Internet or Ours?
Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article 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?
- Tips on How to Oppose Corporate Rule
Resource Type: Article Published: 1996 Dr. Kelsey has devised what she calls "A Manual for Counter-Technopols" -- suggestions and ideas for actions that challenge corporate rule.
- Top 5 Reasons Eaters should be Worried about Obama's New Trade Deal
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Toward the Agro-Police State
You'll Need an iPad if You Want to be a Farmer Resource Type: Article 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.
- TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Trade agreements and the corporate war on democracy
Introduction to the November 7, 2015 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 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, is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy. It gives corporations the power to block any environmental protections or health and safety legislation that could be interpreted as interfering with a corporation's 'right' to make a profit by doing whatever it wants.
- Transpacific Partnership and Monsanto
Resource Type: Article 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.
- TTIP: the Corporate Empowerment Act
Resource Type: Article 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.
- The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us
Resource Type: Article 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".
- The Wealthy Banker's Wife
The Assault on Equality in Canada Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Who do we try to rescue today?
Canada under corporate rule Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
- Who Gains From the Deficit?
The Contribution of Unfair Taxation and High Interest Rates to the Debt Problem Resource Type: Article Published: 1993
- 'Worse Than We Thought': TPP A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare
Resource Type: Article 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.
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