#88 Triple shock in the global south - oil, debt, and Covid-19 w/ Adam Hanieh

Adam Hanieh joins me to talk about the challenges Covid-19 and the
debt crisis pose to countries in the global south, how western
economic and military intervention has undermined state capacity
needed to combat the pandemic, and finally we discussed Adam's
argument that the crisis may paradoxically be in certain respects
beneficial for the oil majors and the richest oil producing
countries - in spite of last month's collapse in oil prices. Our
conversation was prompted by two articles by Adam for the Verso
books blog: This is a Global Pandemic – Let’s Treat it as Such
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4623-this-is-a-global-pandemic-let-s-treat-it-as-such
When Oil Markets Go Viral
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4651-when-oil-markets-go-viral