Nov. 12 — From La Paz, journalist Marco Teruggi writes that 24 hours after the U.S.-backed coup in Bolivia, “There is no formal government, but there is the power of arms.” (pagina12.org) Police and soldiers patrol at the behest of the coup leaders, while fascistic gangs roam, beat and burn, . . .
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A look at these excerpts from Bolivian President Evo Morales’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 24, shows why the U.S. State Department and the CIA targeted the progressive Latin American leader. Once again we meet in the most important multilateral organization of humanity to reflect and analyze . . .
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Thousands of protestors demonstrated outside the Texas Governor’s mansion for three hours Nov. 9 to demand “Free Rodney Reed!” Reed’s execution is scheduled for Nov. 20. A busload of students from Prairie View University, one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, were there. A young man from Wisconsin drove . . .
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According to a poll by YouGov in September 2019, 70 percent of millennials — people between 23 and 38 — would vote for a socialist. One-third view communism favorably compared to capitalism. What this poll implies is that young people in the U.S. increasingly believe in a socialist future for . . .
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As New York City ends “stop and frisk” police harassment, the city implements another program to target Black and Brown people — the “fare evasion” campaign. Throughout subways and buses, commuters are seeing ads calling for people to pay the $2.75 fare or get ticketed $100. At Metropolitan Transit Authority . . .
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