Maduro-Xi Meeting: China and Venezuela Take on the Monroe Doctrine

On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday 9/14 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, tune in to hear hosts Eugene Puryear and Rania Khalek discuss Venezuela and China announced the elevation of the two countries’ relationship to an all-weather strategic partnership, following Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping. Eugene Puryear and Rania Khalek discuss what the deepening relationship means for the emerging multipolar world. 150,000 UAW auto workers are preparing to strike if the hugely profitable “big three” US-based car makers continue to refuse to meet the union’s demands for fair pay and working conditions. Congolese forces killed 56 people in the DRC city of Goma during a protest against the presence of UN and East African Community (EAC) security forces in the region. The eastern provinces of the country have been under a state of siege amid a resurgence of attacks by the Rwanda-backed M23. Kambale Musavuli of the Center for Research on the Congo explains the current situation in the DRC. September 11 marked the 50th anniversary of the US-backed coup against Chilean former President Salvador Allende, one of the first Marxist presidents elected by the popular vote. The coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet ushered in a brutal military dictatorship, in which thousands of people were killed, tortured, and disappeared. Zoe Alexandra, the co-editor of Peoples Dispatch, discusses the legacy of Allende and the ongoing and growing movement to build socialism in Latin America. McKinsey & Company is one of the largest global corporate consulting firms, notoriously advising many of the world’s most powerful governments and corporations. Garrison Lovely, a freelance writer and former McKinsey consultant, discusses his article at The Nation Magazine, “Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower: Inside the soul-crushing, morally bankrupt, top-secret world of our most powerful consulting firm” and his time working at Rikers Island and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the consulting behemoth. #BreakThroughNews