carefully to creatively and make waste in food anywhere socially unacceptable economist and author richard wolfe believes the food industry is partly to blame. you can produce food as a national social community the objectives on you could make it something like. running up public park or providing public education or providing gained public health care in other words it is a human right and it is a basic requirement of civilized society and so it gets the priority that properly goals with that we don't do that in the united states and in many other countries either instead what we have in the united states and in other countries is a profit driven food system if we did it differently if the priority was take the food we temperate doom's feed the people who are in our community we would have taken steps law would know to make sure that the food is properly produced properly packaged properly process and properly consumed that whole it's not difficult to teach people out and do it to provide them with the equipment and they would pay for itself very quickly in a better fed healthier population. p

europe there's growing concern over international supply chains because of the blockage thomas richard wolfe believes it was only a matter of time though before something like this happened. this is not the 1st time the canal has been blocked not at all it's very vulnerable this canal particularly in the area where this ship is jammed very narrow part of the canal i think you could do a good bit on the suez canal you'd have to spend the money to widen then to deep in then to take steps to have fallback plans for moving cargo even relatively small distances if you could back ships down to the stranded ship there are all kinds of mechanisms that you could have in place if you were taking seriously the vulnerability is a little bit like in agriculture you can make more acreage produce more goods if you only grow one plant but then if something happens to that one plant you don't have the diversity which we used to have which is a kind of protection against something happening to a model culture you have to think like that if you don't if you're only focused on your short term profits then you r

and for more on this let's bring in professor richard wolfe host of economic update and author of the sickness is the system when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself which is now available in e-book format and boom bust co-host and investigative journalist ben swan thank you both for being here to discuss this important topic now bet i want to start with you can we break down what exactly these sanctions do and who is being sanctioned. yes so as with and has been the case as of late it's not essential necessarily against a country that sanctions that are being issued against specific people so in this case what we know is it is apparently a total of 7 senior russian officials and 14 entity's they are apparently facing sanctions that would block access to financial and other assets in the united states what's interesting is the 7 people that we're talking about are 7 senior russian officials around russian president vladimir putin but president putin himself is not actually being sanctioned so not exactly sure why that is i mean if you're going to take these steps why

has reduced its visibility so joining me now to go further in depth on this topic is professor richard wolfe host of economic update and author of the sickness is the system now per share let's start here with the problems that you is facing at home what do you say is the driving force behind what went wrong in europe's vaccine rollout. well there are 2 things and they're both really related to the basic economic system that is trying to cope with this pandemic the 1st one is the effort of the large pharmaceutical companies to secure big markets good prices big profits going to the people they have the most control over astra zeneca is a british and swedish company it has special relationships with those politicians and so you shouldn't be surprised that the u.k. has more astra zeneca than the rest of europe this is unfortunately the way the system works this is a global pandemic it needs a global response and what we have instead is different companies lobbying with different governments to get at them it is astra zeneca promised hundreds of millions of doses to be delivered and have since

you on a messy counterproductive game these maneuvers against china have always been professor richard wolfe and boom bust co-host ben swan thank you both for your excellent insight today. thank you. time now for a quick break but when we come back with the rising hope of mass vaccinations global travel is on the verge of eating up we'll bring you up to speed on the potential regulations we could see moving forward as we go to break the numbers of close. to. join me every day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. the sand had to. move along with. that on a lot of the rather tough it out for a kid that. only . compatible and then you. can keep an. eye on you. know that. it's whole full. time interior this is. a. model for the the whole fuck around this to have to jim and then i hope that our. welcome back as the us continues its race and vaccinating millions newco but strains are also beginning to appear across the country in fact the director of the centers for disease control and prevention told

you on a messy counterproductive game these maneuvers against china have always been professor richard wolfe and boom bust co-host ben swan thank you both for your excellent insight today. thank you. time now for a quick break but when we come back with the rising hope of mass vaccinations global travel is on the verge of eating up we'll bring you up to speed on the potential regulations we could see moving forward as we go to break the numbers of close. to. one of the worst mass shootings in america was in less vegas in 2017 the tragedy exposed a little of the real last vegas where many say elected officials are controlled by casino owners the vegas shooting revealed what. really announce part of this is sheen the american public barely remembers that it happened that just shows you the power of money and. the powerful showed that true colors when the pandemic hit the most contagious contagion that we've seen in decades and then you have a mayor who doesn't care so here's caroline goodman offering the lives of the vegas residents to the control group. deep indifference to the people could h

growing concern over international supply chains and case the blockage isn't resolved soon economist richard wolfetold us the canal has been long a disaster waiting to happen. it's going to raise prices it's going to delay shipments it's going to have a whole host of negative consequences that's already sure this is not the 1st time the canal has been blocked not at all it's very vulnerable this canal particularly in the area where this ship is jammed very narrow part of that to now i think you could do a good bit on that issue as a canal you'd have to spend the money to widen and deepen and to take steps to have fall back plans for moves in cargo even relatively small distances if you could back ships down to the stranded ship. there are all kinds of mechanisms that you could have the in place if you were taking seriously the vulnerability it's a little bit like it agriculture you can make more acreage produce more goods at the only grow one plant but then if something happens to that one plant you don't have the diversity which we used to add which is a kind of protection against something happe

wolf. >> interesting. nick, thanks very much. nick watt reporting. joining us now, the former cdc acting director dr. richard besser. dr.for joining us. the rdc has just labeled the two new covid variants first identified in california, they have labeled them as variants of concern. what makes these particular strains troubling, so troubling? >> well, what that means is when they look at antibodies, people who have had covid infection and they look to see do the antibodies destroy this -- this strain of virus, they find that they don't do it quite so well. the reason the alarm is raised to a higher level is that they -- there's no data yet to show that these strains are not -- are not protected -- people aren't protected if they get the vaccine for these strains. that would be the next level of concern, but, wolf, what it says to me is we are really in a race here. we're in a race to -- to get the population vaccinated, at the same time we're fighting people's exhaustion with the restrictions that public health has put in place, and we're fighting the move by so many governors to -- to remove the restrictions that are k

wolf? >> very important advice. nick watt reporting from l.a., thank you very much. >>> let's get to more on all of this. cdc acting director dr. richard joining us. you heard the current cdc director warn against lifting these restrictions right now. you're the former cdc acting director. what's your message to the governors of texas, mississippi and to officials, indeed, across the country who are beginning to lift mask mandates, who are easing restrictions? >> you know, what i would say, wolf, is we really need to follow the science. we need to follow cdc. dr. walensky is worried and so i'm worried. we're seeing these highly contagious variants spreading around the world and we don't want to see a fourth wave in the united states. if we can hang in there a little longer until more people are vaccinated, we can open up in a much safer way. >> we've gone a year basically. another month or two or three obviously you have to err on the side of caution. new cdc forecast shows the u.s. could see 564,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths by the end of this month. talking the end of march, even as we're seeing encouraging new vaccine development

wolf. >> nick, thank you very much. nick watt in l.a. for us. let's get some insight from the former acting cdc director dr. richard veser. you just heard the cdc director dr. walensky say she is pleading with americans to keep up mitigation practices as the dangers grow. why do we need to be even more individvigilant right now? >> there's a sense of optimism as more and more people are getting vaccinated, but it's a really critical period in the pandemic. we're concerned about the variants that have appeared in many countries, variants that are appearing here in the united states. and the way the variants spread is by letting our guard down, by not wearing masks, by not social distancing. if we can hang in there for a few more months, there will be enough vaccine for every adult in america to be vaccinated. then we can truly let go of some of the restrictions that are in place. if we do this too quickly, we could see an increase in cases. we could see a backslide that is occurring in many european countries. that does not have to be the outcome here in america. >> what about the nearly 40 million americans that have been