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Russia needs to look in the mirror over Ukraine, NATO expansion – adviser to former President Obama

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to President Obama’s and President Clinton’s National Security Council director for European affairs, Professor Charles Kupchan. He discusses the state of the European Union after a tumultuous 2010s filled with populism and refugee crises, the EU’s record on maintaining peace on the continent, Britain’s post-Brexit foreign policy, Joe Biden’s handling of tensions with Russia … Read More >Russia needs to look in the mirror over Ukraine, NATO expansion – adviser to former President Obama

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Social criticism in film with Adam McKay, Defund the Police? and the Boxer Rebellion

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This week on VIP, Lee Camp looks back to a 2016 interview with the director of the Netflix smash-hit ‘Don’t Look Up’. Adam McKay is responsible for brilliant social criticism in movies like ‘The Big Short’, which took on the 2008 financial crisis, and a satire of corporate media in ‘Anchorman’. His latest movie skewers inaction in the face of climate change. … Read More >Social criticism in film with Adam McKay, Defund the Police? and the Boxer Rebellion

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The New Age of Empire: How Colonialism and Racism Still Rule the World (Prof. Kehinde Andrews)

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Professor Kehinde Andrews, author of ‘The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World’. He discusses how the Queen and the British royal family are the ‘premier symbol’ of white supremacy, the racist worldview that informed Enlightenment thinking and how it brought genocide and colonialism to the doors of people of colour around the world … Read More >The New Age of Empire: How Colonialism and Racism Still Rule the World (Prof. Kehinde Andrews)

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Nicaragua’s foreign minister: We’re resisting a ‘pandemic of neo-colonialism’

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The Grayzone’s Ben Norton sat down for an interview with Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister Denis Moncada to discuss the country’s decision to leave the OAS, attempts to build an international alliance against US unilateralism, and what an anti-imperialist foreign policy looks like. … Read More >Nicaragua’s foreign minister: We’re resisting a ‘pandemic of neo-colonialism’

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DOD: Alleged Colombian assassins trained in US

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Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos consider the State Department’s admission that seven of the alleged assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse had received prior training in the US. They also discuss how the first batch of Marines for the Space Force is shaping up. Finally, Ajamu Baraka talks about the colonial history of Haiti and brings us up to date on the latest news from an unsettled Cuba. … Read More >DOD: Alleged Colombian assassins trained in US

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Global Peace Index 2021: Peace deteriorating, military spending & violence on the rise

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Steve Killelea, founder of the Institute for Economics & Peace, about the Global Peace Index 2021 report. He discusses the deterioration of peace through the coronavirus pandemic, the increase of violent mass demonstrations against inequality and racial discrimination, the most violent countries in the world being in Latin America, and much more! … Read More >Global Peace Index 2021: Peace deteriorating, military spending & violence on the rise

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‘Slap in the face’: Namibian descendants of German genocide victims condemn aid deal

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Namibian descendants of victims of the genocide committed by Germany during its colonial rule have rejected a deal made by the governments of the two countries as a “slap in the face” that has “no regard for the human lives lost.” … Read More >‘Slap in the face’: Namibian descendants of German genocide victims condemn aid deal

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British gave colonial lands back ‘because people asked them to,’ claims US security expert, stirring Twitter rage

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A US security expert’s tongue-in-cheek claim about how the British Empire ceased to exist when colonized peoples ask for it to end, triggered online rebukes from those who saw it as an attempt to whitewash the UK’s dark history. … Read More >British gave colonial lands back ‘because people asked them to,’ claims US security expert, stirring Twitter rage