On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Lebanese MP Ghassan Moukheiber about the tragic explosion in the Port of Beirut, which was considerably more powerful than the MOAB. He discusses what happened in his personal life in the first few moments of the explosion and his initial reaction, calling it nothing short of a nuclear bomb, the possibility of the explosion being triggered by some form of attack as US President Trump is saying, why the main factors are criminal negligence and corruption, Lebanon’s spiral of deterioration through economic and political crisis and how much worse the Beirut blast has made things, why Lebanon’s democracy is a façade, continual conflict with Israel and the role of Hezbollah in Lebanese politics, Israel’s claim it is a democracy and more! Finally, we speak to Da 5 Bloods actor Clarke Peters. He discusses the filming of Back Lives Matter protests in the movie a full year before the widespread protests we see today and why BLM protests were inevitable, the story of Da 5 Bloods and how the film provides a black perspective on the Vietnam War, his accusation that veterans around the world have been neglected after coming back from battle, his own arrest at an anti-Vietnam War protest, the Black Lives Matter protests today, the backlash against police brutality and much more.
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