Dr. Helen Yaffe, co-presenter of ‘Cuba & Covid-19: Public Health, Science and Solidarity’, discusses Cuba’s Coronavirus vaccine candidates which have been developed as the Trump Administration has piled on sanctions on Cuba, the Western media accusation that Cuban doctors are being trafficked, the unique public model of Cuba’s biotech sector which has developed many widely used drugs, US sanctions on Cuba and what’s stopping the U.K. and Europe from doing business with Cuba, the difference between Cuba’s Socialist model and the Anglo-American capitalist model and why Cuba has had under 150 Coronavirus deaths.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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