Category: Shows
Best and worst COVID-19 countries: How does yours fare? (Full show)
The US retains its unenviable number-one spot in number of COVID-19 cases, but India has overtaken Brazil and is projected to reach the top. India has recorded more than 873,000 in the past week alone. Meanwhile, public health officials and policymakers the world over are eying Israel as a model for what a successful mass-vaccination effort and speedy return to relative normalcy would look like. …
Leaders who changed global economics: Lenin, FDR, Deng Xiaoping, Thatcher (Sir Vince Cable)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sir Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, about his new book ‘Money & Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics’. He discusses the prominent role of the most iconic figures of the 20th century in shifting economics, including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt …
American violence on trial
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, and a mass shooting among juveniles. They also reveal a new experiment combining the cells of monkeys and humans in embryos. Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Michael Moss talks about how food companies take advantage of human health in the name of profit. …
Commodifying capitalism’s collapse, extinction rebellion update, renegotiating Iran’s nuclear deal
The US today is a sick, broken society. Late-stage capitalism doesn’t offer any real solutions to the problems that people are facing as the economy falls apart. Lee Camp looks at the false solutions that corporations and the US government offer to people instead of addressing the root causes of the real problems that we all face. System-wide problems require systemic answers but unfortunately it’s more profitable to allow those problems to persist while selling solutions to the symptoms. …
Guilty verdicts, never-ending war & Hollywood loses its grip
Activism, justice and accountability led to a guilty verdict in the George Floyd murder trial. Troops may be leaving Afghanistan but the bombs will continue to drop. Illinois becomes the first US state to extend health insurance for postpartum mothers. Gen Z is rejecting Hollywood movies and television in favor of interactive entertainment. …
Is conflict between the US & its allies v Russia & China inevitable? (Ex-UK ambassador to Russia)
On this episode of Going Underground, we first speak to Sir Tony Brenton, the former UK ambassador to Russia. He discusses Boris Johnson’s decision to send UK warships to the Black Sea, Russia’s recent military build-up near the Ukrainian border for military exercises which have since concluded, Alexey Navalny’s imprisonment in Russia and his history of racist comments in the past, whether conflict between the US, NATO and its allies v Russia and China can be avoided, and much more …
Russia’s red lines
In his annual address to the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin reminded his citizens and the world, in fact, that Russia has red lines when it comes to foreign policy interests. And those red lines need to be taken seriously. And there lays the problem – the West refuses to acknowledge Russia has its own national interests. …
