Friday, November 15, 2019

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 15, 2019



Laurence Blair and Dan Collyns, The Guardian: Evo Morales: indigenous leader who changed Bolivia but stayed too long

The son of llama herders was a coca farmer before transforming his country during 14 years in office but his personalised rule was a fatal weakness

The meteoric political journey of Evo Morales came to an end – for now, at least – right where it started: in a steamy jungle region of central Bolivia.

It was in El Chapare that Morales cut his teeth in the 1980s, helping organise his fellow coca farmers against US-backed efforts to eradicate the raw ingredient of cocaine.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 15, 2019

Latin America Is Too Polarized to Help Stabilize Bolivia -- Oliver Stuenkel, Foreign Policy

Why Bolivian Politics Suddenly Matters to Putin -- Leonid Bershidsky, Moscow Times

Five Lessons From the New Arab Uprisings -- Georges Fahmi, Chatham House

Erdoğan’s Undeserving and Underwhelming Visit to DC -- Eric Edelman & David J. Kramer, American Interest

Erdogan may have scored pyrrhic victory in Washington -- Ömer Taşpınar, Asia Times

Hong Kong: 'For the protesters, this is a kind of end game' -- Helena Kaschel, DW

Highway blockade reveals splits in Hong Kong protest movement -- Jessie Pang and Kate Lamb, Reuters

Sri Lanka: Minorities fear return of Gotabaya Rajapaksa in presidential election -- Amanda Coakley, DW

Does Trump want to take US troops out of Korea? -- Andrew Salmon, Asia Times

Can Sudan and South Sudan find friendship? -- Daniel Pelz, DW

Change of guard as Velvet Revolution turns 30? -- Tim Gosling, Al Jazeera

Climate change, human activity rub salt into Venice's wounds -- Giselda Vagnoni, Reuters

France Tried Soaking the Rich. It Didn't Go Well. -- Noah Smith, Bloomberg

Chile agrees to hold referendum on constitution: 5 things to know -- Sandra Cuffe, Al Jazeera

Inside Chile's unprecedented protest movement -- France 24

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Report: Google Manipulates Search Results to Control Outcomes


According to the Wall Street Journal, that's a load of crap.

The Journal conducted a massive investigation that involved interviewing a hundred witnesses and examining internal documents from the company and found that Google altered its search engine algorithms 3,200 times last year. Much of that alteration was done in favor of promoting big business over small, as well as showing favor to big advertisers like eBay.

But there were instances of bias shown against conservative sites too.


https://pjmedia.com/trending/report-google-manipulates-search-results-to-control-outcomes/#

Anonymous said...


"Much of that alteration was done in favor of promoting big business over small"

I'm sure our local liberals would approve.

Anonymous said...

Series Of Blasts Target Mass Protest Gathering In Baghdad, Multiple Dead & Wounded

www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/series-blasts-target-mass-protest-gathering-baghdad-multiple-dead-wounded


So the Iranians are willing to do what Al Qaeda would do. Target Muslim civilians for mass casualty attacks.

Iran did bankroll during the war when AL Qaeda was doing exactly that.