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Months After Supporting A Deadly Coup, WaPo Admits Bolivia’s Elections Were Clean

March 4, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com , , , ,
The Washington Post published an op-ed yesterday from a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showing that there was no fraud in the October elections in Bolivia after all. The Post had for months claimed that President Evo Morales won the election fraudulently, thus justifying the U.S.-backed coup that ousted him weeks later.

There Have Been 21 Debate Questions About Paying For Social Programs, Zero About Paying For War

March 4, 2020 By Sarah Lazare, Inthesetimes.com , ,
Democratic debate moderators are sending the message that we can afford policies that spread militarism—but not those that protect human life. The implication of these moderators’ questions—that the cost of Medicare for All is so great it will hurt ordinary people—disregards the tremendous harm being inflicted on ordinary people right now by a staggeringly expensive healthcare system.

Debtors Of The World, Unite!

March 2, 2020 By Hannah Appel, Bostonreview.net ,
Moral thinking about debt has fluctuated throughout history, as Olivia Schwob’s recent piece in these pages deftly details. The current moment, she notes, marks the possibility of still another turning point. Millions of debtors, isolated, are owned by the banks. But if you’re part of a collective that owes $14.15 trillion, you all own the banks.

Resistance Episode 2: Shut It Down!

February 29, 2020 Staff, Stewis Media GbR ,
After the shock of the 2016 election started to sink in, activist groups across the United States began planning days of action and civil disobedience around inauguration day. They would not let this go by without some consequence. In this episode, Blake documents the various groups and protest actions that took place on January 20th, 2017.

The Bipartisan Causes Of The US Immigration Crisis

February 27, 2020 Brian Concannon, Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute as the source. , , , , ,
The Democratic candidates missed the opportunity last week in Nevada — a state with a 30 percent Latino population — to address the root causes of our immigration crisis. They predictably criticized the worst Trump administration immigration policies, such as families separated at the border and chronic uncertainty for undocumented people in the U.S., many of whom arrived decades ago as children.

ALBA Rejects Disqualification Of Evo Morales’ Candidacy

February 26, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , , ,
Member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for America- Peoples' Trading Treaty (ALBA-TCP), denounced this Saturday the disqualification of former President Evo Morales as a candidate for the Bolivian Senate for the May 3 elections. According to the statement issued by the regional body, the measure taken by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) is further evidence of the continuing coup against Morales...

Elections In Venezuela: Legislative Vs Presidential

February 25, 2020 Marco Teruggi, Pagina 12, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau , , ,
Nicolas Maduro has had a constant theme that he has been saying since last year;  affirming that there would be legislative elections in 2020, as the electoral calendar indicates. If then it was a distant date taking into account the swirling dynamics of Venezuelan politics, it is now an upcoming scenario around which the debates are focusing.

French Workers Continue Their Epic Struggle Against Macron’s Economic Reforms

February 25, 2020 John McEvoy, Thecanary.co , , , , ,
On 20 February, nearly 100,000 people across France protested against proposed reforms to the country’s pension system. According to those striking, the new system would force them to work for longer, for less. While France’s pension system is currently running a deficit, it remains one of the best in the EU. Figures from 2018 show that only 7.3% of French pensioners are at risk of poverty, as opposed to 21.6% in the UK [provisional figure] and 18.7% in Germany.

Protests Continue In Dominican Republic

February 25, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , ,
From their homes, people took out their pots so that the municipal elections could be carried out with all the guarantees and called for the resignation of the entire board of the electoral body. Citizens of the Dominican Republic, participated Saturday in a national 'cacerolazo' to demand transparent elections after the municipal elections on Feb., 16 were suspended due to problems in electronic voting, four hours after the elections began.

‘Corporate Media Are Not Observers Of The Electoral Process; They Are Participants’

February 22, 2020 Janine Jackson, Fair.org ,
From debates that encouraged sparring over substance, to evidence-free declarations about electability or momentum, to the insistence—bordering on gaslighting—of the fringiness of ideas that in fact enjoy broad support, corporate media’s election coverage would be disappointing at any time. With all that’s at stake in 2020, it’s a letdown we can ill afford—and a reason, of course, to support independent journalism.

The New Rules Of The Game

February 19, 2020 By Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com ,
The quadrennial political game of least worst, or how to scare the public to vote for presidential candidates who serve corporate power, comes this season with a new twist. Donald Trump, if he faces Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar or Michael Bloomberg, will continue to be an amalgamation of Adolf Hitler, Al Capone and the Antichrist. But should Bernie Sanders manage to evade the snares, traps and minefields laid for him by the Democratic Party elites...

U.S. Uneasy As Iraq Gets New Prime Minister

February 17, 2020 M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Punchline and Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. , , ,
In happier times, Washington and Tehran might well have zeroed in on Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi as their consensus candidate for the post of Iraq’s prime minister. Why not? He was opposed to Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship—although, unlike most Shia politicians who fled from Saddam’s tyranny, he never lived in Iran but chose the United Kingdom.

“Democratic Socialism” – Bring It On Corporate Socialists!

February 17, 2020 Staff, Nader.org ,
Crooked Donald Trump, the erstwhile failed gambling czar and corporate welfare king, is assailing Bernie Sanders for his “radical socialism.” How ludicrous given Trump’s three-year giveaway of taxpayer assets and authorities to giant corporations – a perfect portrait of crony capitalism. Others are joining the socialist labeling bandwagon, including corporatist right wing radio talk show blowhards, themselves freeloaders, profitably using the public airwaves.

Colombian National Strike Committee Issues Call To Renew Anti-Government Protests

February 15, 2020 Staff, Peoplesdispatch.org , ,
A popular uprising against the far-right Ivan Duque government began last year opposing the rise in assassinations of social leaders and the neoliberal economic measures. The Colombian National Strike Committee (CNP) has called for a series of fresh protests over the next couple of months after the far-right government of Ivan Duque failed to reach any sort of agreement with them.

Bolsonaro Has Destroyed Brazil In 400 Days

February 14, 2020 Eric Nepomuceno, Pagina 12, translation Resumenlatino Americano. North America bureau , , ,
Right-wing extremist Jair Bolsonaro has just served his first 400 days as President of the largest, most populous and economically powerful nation in Latin America, Brazil. It has turned out to be enough time to impose a regression that reaches all, absolutely all, aspects of my country. There is not a single sector, a single segment, which has not been reached by his devastating fury.
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