Tag: Colonialism
The West wants to keep Africa as beggars, Eritrea and Ethiopia are threats to neo-colonialism!
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Thomas Mountain, an independent journalist in Eritrea. He explains why the Horn of Africa is strategically so important, and discusses US attempts to gain control of the Bab Al Mandab strait. He also traces Ethiopia’s move closer towards Eritrea under Abiy Ahmed, and explains how the country’s development model threatens the EU and the US. …
Russia needs to look in the mirror over Ukraine, NATO expansion – adviser to former President Obama
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 …
Social criticism in film with Adam McKay, Defund the Police? and the Boxer Rebellion
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. …
The New Age of Empire: How Colonialism and Racism Still Rule the World (Prof. Kehinde Andrews)
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 …
