Through rigorous debate, Marc Lamont Hill cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom.
Celso Amorim, Brazil’s former FM and adviser to frontrunner Lula Da Silva, on what’s at stake in the upcoming election.
A special edition of UpFront highlights struggles around the issue of migration over the past year.
Daniel Ellsberg: ‘A failing war is just as profitable as a winning one.’
‘If we’re looking for that one terminator to show up at our door, we’re maybe looking in the wrong place.’
‘Having these weapons forever, we will see them being used eventually,’ says Beatrice Fihn of ICAN.
Housing rights campaigner Rob Robinson and Legal Aid’s Beth Mellen on the housing crisis in the United States.
Thapelo Mohapi, general secretary of grassroots movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, on the struggles of the landless poor.
‘We don’t have the capacity to control mobs once they are unleashed,’ says the chair of Amnesty International India.
Marc Lamont Hill presses Moscow’s ambassador to the EU on the Russian Armed Forces’ actions in Ukraine.
‘People have already been traumatised, and then under the stress of COVID, that trauma is being expressed.’
‘Why wouldn’t you strengthen your only line of defence against a deadly pandemic?’
‘We all live in a world that is very vulnerable and very fragile,’ says UNHCR’s Joung-ah Ghedini-Williams.
Economist and author Sergei Guriev on the political and economic implications of sanctions over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
‘He wants to think himself as a nowadays Stalin,’ renowned Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats tells Marc Lamont Hill.
