August 18
GUEST: Sonali Kolhatkar, journalist, activist, and host of Pacifica’s popular program "Rising Up With Sonali," talks about the recent election in Columbia and the declining influence of the US empire in all of Latin America.
Colombia, Once a Pro-U.S. Conservative Bastion, Turns Left
Sonali presents a thoroughly enjoyable show that does its best to defy Western propaganda. The "Life and Times of a Well-Rounded Troublemaker" is both entertaining and carefully researched. There are hardly any limits to the stories that she takes on. We talked today about the recent election in Colombia. How can we make sense of this important change since we have grown up with nothing but media distortions about Latin America?
We can now enjoy the confusion of our lockstep news organizations as they try to come up with alternative narratives about Columbia. Will the Pentagon try to make peace with this new democracy? Or will the empire decide to rearm the right wing forces for a possible military coup against the new president? In the meantime, we the people get a little relief from the dominant and heavy handed reporting about the region.
As the empire's media contracts into predictable stereotypes about war and "Western values," there is an infinite number of subjects that are just left out. The empire has been hiding its history and lying about Columbia for decades. Let us applaud troublemakers like Sonali as they expose the gross hypocrisy of our warmongering leaders.
