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Posted Nov 13, 2019
Weeks of Protest Leads to Coup, Ousting Bolivia’s First Indigenous President Evo Morales
Interview with Andres Arauz, senior research fellow with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, conducted by Scott Harris
Posted Nov 13, 2019
Trump Justice Department Begins 2nd Trial Against Man Who Provided Humanitarian Aid to Migrants
Interview with Celia Bavier, fundraising coordinator with No More Deaths, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Posted Nov 13, 2019
Chicago Teachers Strike Changed the City and Perhaps Labor Movement
Interview with Rebecca Burns, contributing editor at In These Times, conducted by Scott Harris
Posted Nov 13, 2019
This Week’s Under-reported News Summary Nov. 13, 2019
Compiled by Bob Nixon
- Indigenous Mapuche pay high price for Argentina’s fracking dream
- Outfoxed and outgunned: how China routed the US in an UN agency
- How the DCCC’s ‘blacklist’ could blow up in the Democratic establishment’s face
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