On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Chris Daw QC, author of ‘Justice on Trial: Radical Solutions for a System at Breaking Point’. He discusses the UK’s arguably broken and oppressive legal system, the allegedly hellish conditions inside Belmarsh Prison which holds Julian Assange, how coronavirus is leading to de facto solitary confinement in prisons, the US’ mass incarceration system and how it has led to the United States having the largest prison population in the world, how corporations fuel the rise of private prisons in the US, the power of the prison lobby over politicians, and much more!
Finally, we speak to Dr. Helen Yaffe, co-presenter of ‘Cuba & Covid-19: Public Health, Science and Solidarity’. She discusses Cuba’s coronavirus vaccine candidates which have been developed as the Trump administration 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 UK 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 fewer than 150 coronavirus deaths, and much more!
