BOLIVIA - An Excellent Recap for All 3 People Here Who Might Be Interested

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Serious indictment of US policy and corporate media.

After Socialist Victory in Bolivia, Media Still Whitewash Coup

Much reporting on Bolivia still ignores facts that are critical to understanding the situation there.

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[UNIowaHawk]

I bet the guy on the left has some awesome ideas for how to run the country

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Serious indictment of US policy and corporate media.

After Socialist Victory in Bolivia, Media Still Whitewash Coup

Much reporting on Bolivia still ignores facts that are critical to understanding the situation there.

fair.org

This last line is dead on...

“It may seem surprising that so much reporting on Bolivia still ignores facts that are critical to understanding the situation there, but US media have a long history of reporting on Latin America that does more to please the State Department than to inform readers.”

 

[shank hawk]

The SeeEyeAye has been involved in Latin America since, like, forever: drugs, money laundering, coups, etc.

Would be nice to see them and their dirty tactics removed from foreign meddling.

 

[Nat Algren]

Serious indictment of US policy and corporate media.

After Socialist Victory in Bolivia, Media Still Whitewash Coup

Much reporting on Bolivia still ignores facts that are critical to understanding the situation there.

fair.org

The Grayzone has been all over it from the jump.

The Grayzone - The Grayzone

The Grayzone is an independent news website producing original investigative journalism on politics and empire.

thegrayzone.com

 

[Nat Algren]

Throughout Latin America, we have overthrown the left and installed right wing dictators and not a peep from our 'supposed' left.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

The SeeEyeAye has been involved in Latin America since, like, forever: drugs, money laundering, coups, etc.

Would be nice to see them and their dirty tactics removed from foreign meddling.

I wonder if it's even possible to get an honest accounting of their actions, or possible to rein them in if we had a desire to do so.

There's the real "deep state." Or maybe not. How would we know?

 

[Nipigu]

I prefer vacationing in Costa Rica or Lombok and Nusa Penida. Two of the best places on this earth.

 

[naturalmwa]

Our corporate media isn’t actually liberal? Who knew? 🤔

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Throughout Latin America, we have overthrown the left and installed right wing dictators and not a peep from our 'supposed' left.

Well, some of us have "peeped." But not enough. Most get their news from the corporate media - left and right - which reliably backs such ventures and which is happy to spread propaganda as truth.

And when a politician like Bernie says relatively mild things about lefty governments in Latin America - such as complimenting Cuba on its education programs 40 years ago - they get smeared by leading not-so-liberal media like NYT, Wapo, MSNBC, and CNN.

Sickening journalist malpractice.

 

[Nat Algren]

Well, some of us have "peeped." But not enough. Most get their news from the corporate media - left and right - which reliably backs such ventures and which is happy to spread propaganda as truth.

And when a politician like Bernie says relatively mild things about lefty governments in Latin America - such as complimenting Cuba on its education programs 40 years ago - they get smeared by leading not-so-liberal media like NYT, Wapo, MSNBC, and CNN.

Sickening journalist malpractice.

Yes. Hence my emphasis on 'supposed'. The leadership of the DNC is center-right. The people on the ground make up 40% of the party and are true progressives which is why Hills lost in '16. Bernie followers felt betrayed just as libertarians and the GOP.

 

[shank hawk]

Our corporate media isn’t actually liberal? Who knew? 🤔

The quest for power & money doesn’t follow partisan or ideological paths.

Obviously

 

[TC Nole OX]

 

[fsu1jreed]

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The US could learn something from Bolivia

 

[h-hawk]

Coups are their national pastime. SIAP

"For Bolivians, it’s another coup attempt to add to the list of roughly 200 since the country’s foundation. According to data compiled by scholars, there have been more coups in Bolivia - both attempted and successful - since the 1950s than in any other country.

“Bolivia is high on the coup-risk indicator,” said political science professor Clayton Thyne, who helped compile the dataset that keeps track of coups around the globe. “The makings have been there for a while. It’s a poor country that sees protests, and a lot of them.”

Bolivia's attempted coup, dueling versions of events raises worries over divisions and what comes next

Amid renewed calm on the streets is a nagging skepticism of what happened, who was behind it and more importantly, questions over the democracy that remains in place.

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[TC Nole OX]

Left wing media coverage of labor unions and citizens taking to the streets to stop the coup. Citizens literally chased members of the military as they fled


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