Tag Archives | Bolivia’s Movement to Socialism (MAS) party

Bolivia at a standstill

Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on August 14, 2025 by Chantal Liegeois and David Cavalcante (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Aug 16, 2025)

Between the null vote promoted by Evo Morales and the dispersion of the progressive camp, the right wing is poised to reopen the neoliberal path that the MAS had closed for twenty years.
Media responds with apathy, disappointment as U.S.-backed coup Gov’t concedes defeat in Bolivia

Originally published: MintPress News on October 19, 2020 (more by MintPress News) |

Across the spectrum, corporate media has endorsed last year’s rightwing takeover of Bolivia, refusing to label it as a coup. Coverage of Sunday’s historical elections hasn’t been much better.

Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
Scott Ferguson

Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]
Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
Scott Ferguson

This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]
The Public Banking Institute
Scott Ferguson

In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]