Honduran Democracy, Pete Buttigieg, Utah’s Mormon welfare

When Xiomara Castro won the election in Honduras the other week, it was a repudiation of the 2009 US-backed coup that overthrew her husband, Manuel Zelaya. Naomi Karavani reports on the elections and what they mean for the global left. Castro’s husband had ruled as a centrist democrat. … Read More >Honduran Democracy, Pete Buttigieg, Utah’s Mormon welfare

Slavoj Zizek on the failure of liberalism, how capitalism restricts freedom, climate crisis & the US ideological civil war

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to world-renowned communist philosopher Slavoj Zizek, author of ‘Heaven in Disorder’. He discusses the ‘disorder under heaven’ quote by Chairman Mao Zedong and why he has turned it on its head for the title of his new book, the ideological civil war in the USA … Read More >Slavoj Zizek on the failure of liberalism, how capitalism restricts freedom, climate crisis & the US ideological civil war

Some Western children are taught that Jesus was bisexual as part of ‘aggressive LGBT propaganda,’ claims Russian Foreign Minister

Schoolchildren in a number of Western countries are taught that Jesus was bisexual, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed on Monday, accusing the West of an attack on “the genetic code of the planet’s key civilizations.” … Read More >Some Western children are taught that Jesus was bisexual as part of ‘aggressive LGBT propaganda,’ claims Russian Foreign Minister