{"id":396899,"date":"2019-02-23T06:36:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T05:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/working-class-heroes-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2019-02-23T06:36:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T05:36:13","slug":"working-class-heroes-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/working-class-heroes-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Class Heroes | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u2018Imperialism abroad \u2014 despotism at home\u2019 was once the credo of the Democratic Party, part of its 1900 platform. One of the tidbits Dan Kovalik \u2014 author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1510745009\/dissivoice-20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World<\/a><\/em> (2018) \u2014 passed on at his Toronto book launch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/02\/working-class-heroes\/kovalik-bk\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89597\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-89597\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kovalik-bk-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kovalik-bk-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kovalik-bk.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Yes, the US is the big interferer in others\u2019 elections, as Kovalik documents. But as counsel of the Union of Steelworkers <i>and <\/i>lawyer for beleaguered workers in Colombia, Kovalik gave his listeners insight into the little known role the US trade union movement plays \u2014 its betrayal of trade unionists abroad. Dozens of Colombia worker-heroes owe their lives to his lawyer smarts and dedication to the working class. As an American, he takes the evil of \u00a0imperialism seriously and risks his own life to fight it. A real \u2018working class hero\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Kovalik doesn\u2019t pretend to document all the US crimes (read <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killing_Hope\"><u>William Blum<\/u><\/a> for that). Rather, in <em>The Plot<\/em> he takes you on a world tour to Eurasia, Africa and the Americas for key election rigging moments, moments that he connects with viscerally, and brings to life.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t get to Venezuela, but it\u2019s really not necessary. Same old, same old. There is a clear template that has been honed over the decades, and that makes the Maduros and Talibans around the world justifiably cynical about US \u2018democracy promotion\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Kovalik contrasts the pathetic claims of Russian interference in US elections with the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/02\/working-class-heroes\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Imperialism abroad \u2014 despotism at home\u2019 was once the credo of the Democratic Party, part of its 1900 platform. One of the tidbits Dan Kovalik \u2014 author of The Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World (2018) \u2014 passed on at his Toronto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}