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Journalist Ben Norton analyzes the UN speech of Honduras’ new left-wing President Xiomara Castro. She denounced colonialism, “neoliberal injustice,” and corporate exploitation while calling for multipolarity.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=udvjVaxP96s

Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/22/un-speech-honduras-xiomara-castro

Report on Honduras' unpayable odious debt: https://multipolarista.com/2022/01/31/coup-honduras-unpayable-odious-debt

In fiery UN speech, Honduras condemns colonialism, neoliberalism, coups, corporate exploitation

Bolivia’s leftist President Luis Arce used his platform at the United Nations General Assembly to propose a revolutionary 14-point program to transform the world.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kqzrvo_vC68

Translation and more info here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/27/luis-arce-un-bolivia-14-point-program

Our report ‘War on drugs has failed’: At UN, Colombia condemns ‘addiction to money and oil’: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/24/war-drugs-un-colombia-gustavo-petro

At UN, Bolivia presents revolutionary 14-point socialist program to transform world

Historian of Italian politics David Broder returns to PTO to discuss the victory of Giorgia Meloni, who is set to lead the most right-wing government since World War II. We talked about the history of the Brothers of Italy and their neofascist roots, and why the far left achieved such a poor result in the election.

Plotics Theory Other

The far right victorious in Italy w/ David Broder

The right-wing loves yelling, “We’re a republic, not a democracy!” Now they have a Supreme Court that agrees with them. The Court is about to hear Moore v. Harper, a gerrymandering case that will also take up the Electors Clause of the Constitution. The Republican legal argument, made famous by Trump’s 2020 legal team, is that state legislatures can send their own choice of electors to the Electoral College, rather than abiding by the vote of the people. The implications of this are huge — the end of ‘one person, one vote.’

Brian is joined by Steven Donziger, an advocate, writer and public speaker on human rights and corporate accountability. His most recent piece is The most terrifying case of all is about to be heard by the US Supreme Court. He also filed a class-action lawsuit with others against Chevron for environmental damage – including dumping 17 million gallons of crude oil in the Ecuadorian rainforest – and won a historic $9.5 billion judgment. Chevon then fled Ecuador and launched a campaign against Donziger that resulted in him being disbarred, serving 45 days behind bars, and under home confinement for 993 days. For more on his story, watch his interview on The Freedom Side and Rania Khalek Dispatches here on BreakThrough.

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Supreme Court Plots to End ‘One Person, One Vote’ & the Hidden Hand of Big Oil

Richard Seymour on why Lula's margin of victory was so narrow in Brazil's presidential election and how it is that Jair Bolsonaro maintained such substantial support, despite Brazil's poor economic performance and his disastrous handling of the covid-19 pandemic. We also talked about what to expect from Lula's third term in office, both domestically and regarding Brazil's foreign policy.

Interregnum - Lula's knife-edge victory

Brian is joined by investigative reporter Greg Palast, who wrote the film “Vigilantes: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitmen,” available at gregpalast.com.

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Voter Suppression Behind Georgia’s Run-Off: GOP Blocked 149,000 Mail-In Ballots w/ Greg Palast

On today's episode Brian and Prof. Richard  Wolff discuss the mass layoffs that billionaire CEOs at Meta (formerly  Facebook), Twitter, Amazon, and others have begun. More than one hundred  thousand workers are projected to lose their jobs this year just in the  tech industry.

Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder  of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at  rdwolff.com.

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Billionaires Order Mass Layoffs of Tech Workers

The US mainstream media is twisting and distorting news about the recent Covid-related protests in China. This important interview with Tings Chak,  a Beijing-based researcher at the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, a member of Dongsheng News collective, and the author of the pamphlet 'Serve the People – The Eradication of Extreme Poverty in China', explains the realities of the protests, the US media, and what’s really going on with Covid in China.

'Serve the People – The Eradication of extreme poverty in China': https://thetricontinental.org/studies-1-socialist-construction/

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CHINA PROTESTS & COVID - MYTHS AND FACTS

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SD 178 - Non Binary People Sure Are

Multipolarista host Ben Norton was invited on Lee Camp's show to explain the two coups that happened in Latin America in two days: the right-wing judicial coup against Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on December 6 and the right-wing congressional coup against Peru's President Pedro Castillo on December 7.

We also discuss Latin America's attempt to create a new financial system to free itself from the hegemony of the US dollar and sanctions, as well as the Latin American left's leading role in campaigning for the freedom of political prisoner Julian Assange.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kf1b95SGUp0

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2 coups in Latin America in 2 days: Peru and Argentina - What happened?

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