68 - Major Defeat Suffered By The Right On International Economic Justice Front: Bolivia Prevails In Nationalization Of Its Natural Gas Industry

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🗓️ 16 November 2006

⏱️ 29 minutes

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There's good news for those of us who cheer when Third World nations make progress in their efforts to step out from under the boot heel of Western economic exploitation.Six months ago, way back in podcast 42, we discussed how Evo Morales, the newly elected President of Bolivia, had nationalized Bolivia's oil and gas industry. He gave foreign companies 180 days to turn over a majority stake in

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 68 of Blast the Right.
0:24.0	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com.
0:27.6	Well, as promised, since it became clear just after I recorded the last podcast, that the
0:37.4	Senate is now Democrat-controlled as well as the House, it's high time I proclaimed.
0:43.7	I was wrong, how aloo-yi was wrong, the Democrats have taken back the House and Senate, democracy
0:51.4	may be saved.
0:53.6	To match the good news domestically, I thought we'd have a good news podcast on the International
0:58.4	Economic Justice Front as well.
1:01.6	Right-wingers have also suffered a stunning and, hopefully, stinging defeat there.
1:06.7	Yes, there's good news for those of us who cheer when Third World Nations make progress
1:12.2	in their efforts to step out from under the boot heel of Western Economic Exploitation.
1:17.9	Today we'll discuss a major victory in the battle to prevent the theft of Third World
1:22.8	natural resources.
1:24.8	Let's get right into it.
1:27.4	Back a couple of months ago, podcast 56 was entitled, quote, class warfare international
1:33.3	style, the right-wing's assault against the world's poor, close quote.
1:38.6	In that show I described four ways the most impoverished nations in the world are ripped
1:43.9	off by us rich Western industrialized nations.
1:48.3	Because of recent positive developments, with two of these methods, it might not be so
1:52.8	easy for multinational corporations and Western governments to accomplish their goal of transferring
1:58.6	wealth from the already impoverished Third World to the two rich Western industrialized
2:03.6	world.
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