Patrick Bond

Like, asking...

How can you be having the guy who opens the conference with the, whatever, keynotes or the, the war opening address, be a guy with a checkered, corrupt history, like, opening a space where you're gonna be talking about governance and energy, and that's what Prof Patrick Bond told me.

Yeah, NJ Ayuk has this hilarious capability to, uh, march in with, uh, extraordinary self-confidence to, to say that he's the leader of the masses of, uh, poor Africans without energy, and he'll solve their problems using the big, uh, extractive industry processes.

But, uh, in reality, he's, uh, come under fire again and again and has tried to, to sweep clear his record, uh, and, uh, intimidate the media, like the Mail and Guardian.

We look at the significance of all three nations appearing at the U.N., which is on U.S. soil.

Distinguished professor at the University of Johannesburg, Professor Patrick Bond, joins us to take a look at this.

Thank you very much, Prof, for your time.

How should we understand the presence of Iran on U.S. soil?

It is.

Thank you very much, Prof, for your time.

Distinguished Professor at the University of Johannesburg, Patrick Bond.

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But first, you pointed out that Chavismo's economic model was based on oil extractivism.

And I don't know if you're aware, but Dennis Brutus and Patrick Bond met with Chavez in 2007.

And Dennis Brutus, who I knew I worked with when he was in the United States, told Chavez pretty bluntly that you got to leave the oil in the soil for the sake of the planet and you need an alternative.

Are you aware that he said that? And were there other voices trying to put that forward to Chavez? Yes.