Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Professor Roman Yampolskiy, author of ‘AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable’ and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Louisville. He discusses what differentiates AI and AGI, the ‘AI control problem’ and the high likelihood of Artificial Intelligence becoming out of control, why AI security parameters will not be enough to contain Artificial General Intelligence, why humans cannot even comprehend the kinds of threats AI could pose, the coming danger of AI becoming increasingly a part of warfare, why advanced Artificial Intelligence will pose a threat to humans no matter who builds it, the danger of AI replacing labour and ending economics as we know it, the race by big tech companies to create the ‘best’ AI while they have no concrete plan to control their creation, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the Co-Host of Redacted Natali Morris. In the interview she slams US foreign policy as having nothing to do with respect for life and discusses the Ukraine proxy war and continued US support for Zelensky, the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the increasing censorship against alternative news sources such as Redacted as corporate media seeks a total monopoly on narratives, crumbling infrastructure in the United States and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Award-Winning Foreign Correspondent and author of ‘Soldiers Don’t Go Mad’, Charles Glass. He discusses his new book focussing on soldier poets of World War One such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, who recounted the horror and trauma of war through poetry, whether World War 3 has begun as the Gaza genocide and Ukraine proxy war wage on, the New York Times’ restrictions on reporting on Palestine and their ‘abysmal’ reporting on Gaza, the widespread support for a Palestinian state in the US which is ignored by Congress and the political establishment, why Julian Assange is being persecuted by the USA and UK and why he is the ‘bravest man he has ever met’, his visit to Belmarsh Prison and the state of Julian Assange’s health, his campaign to jointly sue the former Head of the CIA Mike Pompeo for bugging his cellphones when visiting Julian Assange, the failure of Israeli propaganda as their rhetoric contradicted reality on the ground in Gaza, the perilous future for the Middle East with the Gaza genocide still raging and Iran-Israel tensions at an all-time high, President Joe Biden’s hypocrisy on Iran responding to the Damascus embassy bombing by Israel, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Morton Halperin, who supervised the assembling of the Pentagon Papers which revealed the extent of the disaster in the US’ imperial war on Vietnam, and served as a former Director of Policy Planning at the State Department. He discusses the effect the Pentagon Papers had on the Vietnam War and the work of Daniel Ellsberg in helping bring the Vietnam War to an end, the continued persecution of Julian Assange under the Espionage Act and why the act in its current form is too broad, and why Henry Kissinger bugged his phone when he served in the National Security Council. Later in the interview, Dr. Halperin and Afshin Rattansi debate the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, where Halperin discusses what concessions should be offered to Russia to end the conflict. Dr. Halperin also discusses Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Col. Jacques Baud, a former analyst for NATO who was on the ground in Ukraine after the Maidan coup, and author of ‘The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat’ and ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood: The Defeat of the Vanquisher’. He discusses his role on the ground in Ukraine and the growth of the Donbas rebellion and the defection of Russian speakers in the Ukrainian army to the rebels following the Maidan coup in 2014, the extreme repression of the Russian-speaking regions in Ukraine by the post-coup governments, the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive of 2023 and why Ukraine’s tactics continue to fail against Russia’s military strategy, the involvement of the Western militaries in assisting Ukraine in the ground, how Washington’s strategy evolved to weaponise Ukraine to weaken Russia resulting in catastrophe for Ukraine, why the West is at the ‘face-saving’ stage in the proxy war against Russia, UK and French efforts to provoke the US to intervene in Ukraine, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, Editorial Board member of the Haaretz newspaper. He discusses his disagreements with the remnants of the Israeli peace camp, who think the departure of Netanyahu from power would lead to radical changes, the state of Israeli society and the criminalisation of empathy with the Palestinian people in Gaza, the views of the different classes in Israel with anti-Palestinian sentiment being most prevalent among the working class, the ‘ridiculous’ label of Israel being ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ and his belief that Israel is ‘playing with fire’, whether Israelis care about the potential for an Israel-Saudi normalisation agreement, the brainwashing of Israeli society to ignore the plight of Palestinians and how he overcame it, the ‘one-state solution’ and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He discusses Israel’s bombing of the Iranian Embassy in Damascus and Israel’s attempts to drag the US into a war with Iran, how US protection allows Israel to ‘get away with anything’ in international politics, how the Gaza genocide is paving the way for a Donald Trump victory in November, the Israel lobby’s grip on US foreign policy, the deliberate failure of the Minsk Agreements in Ukraine leading to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch the Special Military Operation, why the US and Europe have lost the proxy war against Russia and the risk of direct conflict between NATO and Russia, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to son of Holocaust survivors Norman Finkelstein, son of Holocaust survivors and author of the book ‘Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom’. He discusses and exposes Israel’s propaganda over mass rape during the October 7th attacks which have been uncritically reported by mainstream media, Pramilla Patten’s report on mass rape on October 7th and why the report itself reveals why there wasn’t widespread mass rape committed by Hamas, Biden ordering the building of the unnecessary Gaza pier which he calls a PR move while Palestinians starve to death, the Israel lobby’s increasing grip on US politics and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Stephen Walt, Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. He discusses the US-UK persecution of Julian Assange and why his potential imprisonment in the USA would have a ‘chilling effect’ on press freedom, the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese labelling the US-backed Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza as genocide and the US’ abstention at the UN Security Council on a resolution for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the egregious inconsistency of the US in following international law which is hurting its image around the globe, the Biden Administration’s dilemma in doing the right thing in cutting the military support to Israel vs facing the wrath of pro-Israel forces domestically during an election year, why he has called the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine ‘provoked’ rather than ‘unprovoked’ like journalists in the mainstream media, what NATO’s goals are in Ukraine as the war becomes increasingly disastrous, the Moscow Crocus City Hall terror attack and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former US Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Lawrence Korb. In an at times heated discussion, Afshin Rattansi challenges Korb on the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, why the US would risk nuclear war with Russia over the proxy war in Ukraine, Western Europe’s economic decline amid the proxy war, the implosion of the idea of a US-led rules-based order with the Gaza genocide, the history of US foreign policy disasters from Vietnam to Ukraine and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Israeli negotiator at Oslo 2 and the Taba Summit Daniel Levy. He discusses why the October 7th attack by Hamas and Palestinian resistance groups should have come as no surprise, how the October 7th attack shattered ignorance and hubris among Israeli political leaders and Israel’s Western backers, Prime Minister Netanyahu becoming inconvenient for Biden in the Presidential election year, US and Western military aid continuing to flow into Israel, the Houthis operations in the Red Sea, why US-led peace efforts are and have been a sham, the US’ plan to ‘re-freeze’ the apartheid reality in Palestine and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dmitri Trenin, a member of Russia’s Foreign & Defence Policy Council and the Former Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He discusses the Russian Presidential elections where Vladimir Putin seeks re-election, Putin’s balancing act of funding the military as well as funding social programs in an attempt to avoid the mistakes of the Soviet Union, the end of hope in Russia for good relations with the US and European countries after Russia was double-crossed on Ukraine, Putin’s transformation of Russia into Russian Federation 2.0 after the start of the Ukraine proxy conflict, his surprise that European countries are pushing the tension with Russia to the brink of direct conflict, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Khaled Elgindy, Program Director of the Palestine & Palestinian-Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute. He discusses why the policy of the US, UK and EU countries on Israel’s genocidal slaughter hasn’t changed despite performative humanitarian airdrops and mild criticism, the Palestinian right to armed resistance and whether Hamas’ operation on October 7th is legitimate resistance, Hamas’s tactical victory against Israel by delivering a shock to the Israeli system, the evolution of the US’ irresponsible coverage of October 7th and the genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the surge of Hamas’ popularity in the West Bank, why US-UK-EU support for Israel has eviscerated any idea of a rules-based idea and may have permanently damaged the credibility of the West in the eyes of the global south, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Alan Dershowitz, Emeritus Professor at Harvard Law School and author of ‘War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism’. He discusses the persecution of Donald Trump and attempts to keep him off the ballot in the 2024 Presidential election and the persecution of Julian Assange and his hope of legally representing Assange should he be extradited to the United States. The interview takes a turn to become one of the most heated interviews ever on Going Underground as Afshin Rattansi challenges him on Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza, Israel’s narrative on what happened on October 7th, the US providing arms to Israel to carry out its bloody campaign in Gaza, the right of Palestinians to carry out armed resistance under international law against Israeli occupation and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci. In a heated and lively exchange, Afshin Rattansi and Anthony Scaramucci discuss Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza and Biden’s support for Israel, US Joe Biden vs Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential election, whether Arab Americans will vote for Biden after the Gaza genocide, US foreign policy and the role of NATO, the argument that Donald Trump is ‘Putin’s lapdog’, why a second Trump Presidency would be bad for cryptocurrencies and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Said Arikat, the Washington Bureau Chief of Al-Quds Newspaper. He discusses what it’s like changing the State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller in challenging exchanges that have become viral, the complicity of the United States in the Israeli genocidal slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, the sympathy of US officials for Israel compared with the dismissive attitude to Palestinian suffering and reports of Israeli atrocities, opposition to the US’ role in the Gaza genocide across the State Department and all across federal agencies, why Gaza is likely to be a big issue in the 2024 election as Biden has earned the nickname ‘Genocide Joe’, Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation and the reaction of US officials and the media, the US being an aggressive nation and its violent foreign policy, the proxy war in Ukraine and CIA operations in Ukraine before 2022, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Glenn Diesen, author of ‘The Ukraine War & The Eurasian World Order’ and the Editor of Russia in Global Affairs. He discusses the US-UK-EU-armed Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the collapse of Western legitimacy, the roots of the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine and why the West finds itself trapped in the curse of US unipolarity, the death of Alexei Navalny and the media whitewashing of his record in NATO nations, the role of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in destabilising US adversaries, US resistance against the rise of the multipolar world and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters. He discusses Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange’s London court battle to prevent his extradition to the USA where he faces 175 years in prison, why the British judges presiding over Assange’s case are ‘servants of the ruling class’, his last visit to see Julian Assange and the horrific prison conditions he faces, Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and South Africa taking Israel to court at the ICJ, the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Israeli- British Historian Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and author of ‘Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew’. He discusses why it is clear that Israel is committing war crimes & genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, British and European complicity in Israeli war crimes and why the US is not just complicit in Israeli genocide but also an enabler, US military-industrial complex profiteering off of Israel’s slaughter, why Israel does not have the right to defend itself under international law and the weaponisation of anti-Semitism, the crackdown on academic freedom in the UK surrounding the Gaza genocide, whether he would choose Mandela’s or Gandhi’s approach if he were a Palestinian teenager in Gaza and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Shandana Gulzar, Member-Elect of the National Assembly of Pakistan, the first ever woman elected to represent Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the former Joint Secretary of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party. She discusses the results of Pakistan’s elections in which she alleges fraud by the Sharif dynasty’s PLM(N) and the Zardari dynasty’s PPP to keep Imran Khan’s PTI out of power, the crackdown against the PTI in the months and days leading up to the general election, the brazen corruption by Pakistan’s political dynasties, the US-backed coup orchestrated by Joe Biden to remove Imran Khan from power in 2022, the US-UK-EU-armed Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and reports of Pakistan supplying ammunition via Britain to Israel, the colonial mindset of the US and European countries and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to David Stockman, the former Director of the US Office & Budget Management under President Ronald Reagan and author of the book ‘Trump’s War on Capitalism’. He discusses the myths surrounding the ‘strong MAGA economy’ under Donald Trump and why economic performance under him was actually weak, Trump’s irresponsibility with printing more money and increasing inequality in the United States, why Biden is a ‘tool of the warfare state’ and why Donald Trump doesn’t have the capability to end the forever wars and reign in military spending in a 2nd term, the US’ broken immigration system, why the military-industrial complex’s grip on US politics continues to prevail, why he backs Robert F. Kennedy’s campaign to become President of the United States and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Independent US Presidential Candidate Prof. Cornel West. He discusses his electoral platform which includes dismantling the US empire and its global military presence, President Joe Biden’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza and enabling of Israeli apartheid against Palestinians, why Biden is not a serious alternative to Donald Trump’s ‘neo-fascism’, the mainstream media and duopoly political establishment’s attacks against him, how the US has been an anti-democratic force around the world with its foreign policy, the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, his pledge to pardon Julian Assange on day one should he become President and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Andrés Arauz, former Ecuadorian Presidential candidate and former Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent. He discusses how the criminal mafias in Ecuador have infiltrated the government, prisons and judicial systems under President Daniel Noboa, how the IMF has weakened the state which is needed to fight the mafias in the country through austerity, deepening ties between the US and Ecuador in a strategic partnership where the US is set to open a military base on the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador’s full-throttle support for Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza, Ecuador’s deal to transfer weapons to the US to be used against Russia in Ukraine which signals Ecuador becoming a US vassal state, the prospect of a return of former Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Joseph Nye, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Author of Life in the American Century. He discusses Israel’s onslaught against Gaza and argues US soft power is being damaged by support for Israel, the prospect of Donald Trump returning to power, and gets into a tense exchange with Afshin Rattansi on the Ukraine proxy war, the US’ unilateral sanctions which are declining in effectiveness, US policy towards Syrian and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Retired Lieutenant-Colonel John Nagl, Professor of Warfighting Studies at the US Army War College. In a heated, exchange with Afshin Rattansi, he discusses the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the ongoing slaughter conducted by Israel in Gaza with US, UK and EU support, the US and UK’s airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen for their operations in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance, the accusations of genocide against Israel and complicity of the United States, the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and the failure of US and EU sanctions against Russia and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sami Abou Shehadeh, Chairman of the Balad Party in Israel. He discusses the irony of the State of Israel committing a genocidal slaughter in Gaza as the world commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the rise of Israel’s far right with fascists being the only ones to have a ‘legitimate voice’ in Israel while those speaking out against the slaughter are forcefully suppressed, what differentiates the Palestinian struggle with other anti-apartheid and national liberation struggles, the complicity of the United States, Britain and European countries in the genocidal slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, his own family’s personal experience of tragedy with relatives killed in Gaza and much more.

FOLLOW US ON OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former advisor to the EU Foreign Policy Chief and the Founder & Director of Conflicts Forum Alastair Crooke. He discusses the fierce anti-colonial sentiment across the global south against the US & its allies over Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, the coming expansion of the war with the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel in Lebanon heating up, Iran’s and the Axis of Resistance’s strategy to fight Israel without unleashing an armageddon war which would destroy entire nations, the collapse of the West’s narrative over Gaza and Ukraine and why a period of catharsis will be good for the West, US and UK airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, the omission of South Africa’s evidence against Israel at the International Court of Justice in US and European media, the EU’s ‘atrocious’ position on IsraelMs onslaught and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Brian Toon from the University of Colorado Boulder. He discusses the civilisation-ending impact nuclear war would have, 50-150 million people being killed by nuclear explosions alone in a hypothetical nuclear war between India and Pakistan, the harsh impacts of nuclear winter and why it is a credible extinction-level threat, the close call accidents and mistakes that have almost caused nuclear wars to begin, the threat of a large-exchange nuclear war between the US and the United States, the case for disarmament and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this special episode of Going Underground, we pay tribute to legendary journalist and film-maker John Pilger who passed away at the age of 84. He was the award-winning author of the books ‘Hidden Agendas’, ‘Heroes’ and ‘A Secret Country’, and was renowned for his eye-opening films such as ‘The Coming War on China’, ‘Palestine is Still The Issue’ and ‘The War You Don’t See’. Over the years, he appeared many times on Going Underground delivering ground-breaking analysis. Today we air an interview with John Pilger that was first aired in 2021, during the last Israeli bombing campaign of Gaza. He discusses why Palestine is still the issue, the legal right of Palestinians to defend themselves, the mainstream media’s shameful ‘both sides’ reporting, the US, UK and EU’s role in arming Israel, the US-led campaign for the coming war on China, the persecution of Julian Assange and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Samuel Moyn, author of ‘Liberalism Against Itself’ and Chancellor Kent Professor of Law & History at Yale University. He discusses the transformation of enlightenment liberalism into the US’ 20th century destructive Cold War liberalism that rose out of rivalry with the Soviet Union, the failures of liberalism and the rise of Donald Trump, liberalism’s failure to understand the global south and overreactions to perceived threats, the attempted rejuvenation of Cold War liberalism in the era of the Ukraine proxy war and the global south’s rejection of it, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Richard Sakwa. He discusses the foreign policy disasters of the West after the end of the Cold War, the warnings of the past on the need for a pan-European security architecture which includes Russia being ignored and the consequences being seen in Ukraine, how the US’ hegemony has weakened the power of the traditional European powers such as Italy, France and Germany, Israel’s genocidal bloodbath in Gaza and the status of the ‘rules-based international system’, the new Cold War of the US and it’s allies vs Russia and China and why the second Cold War will be worse and far more intense, and harder to overcome.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the Editor of Strategic Intelligence and the Best-Selling Author of ‘Currency Wars: The Making of The Next Global Crisis’. He discusses the hidden structural problems of the US economy including a hidden depression-level unemployment rate, the risks of a global oil crisis of a US-Iran conflict over Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, why he correctly predicted that Russia sanctions over the Ukraine proxy war were doomed to fail, how China’s ownership of US debt is greatly underestimated and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv    On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Saudi academic and writer Dr. Mansour Almarzoqi. He discusses the intense pressure relations between Arab countries and the US and its allies are under amid Israel’s Gaza genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the role of social media in breaking pro-Israel Western media’s monopoly on information, why Gulf countries using oil as a weapon would backfire and potentially aid Israel, the complete end of the West’s moral authority as they provide cover for and materially support Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Congressman and former Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. He discusses Israel’s current ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing being a wider plan for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attack, ethnically cleanse and annex the West Bank, Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on US foreign policy, US complicity in Israel’s atrocities, the self-destructiveness of US’ ‘horrific and evil’ foreign policy in the emerging multipolar world, the failed US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi, the UAE’s former Minister of Climate Change and Environment and former Minister of Infrastructure Development. He discusses the attacks made by the US and European countries against the UAE as host of COP28, what has been achieved at COP28 and the UAE’s drive to invest in renewable energy, climate threats from new gases being emitted which we currently know nothing about, countries such as the US and other industrialised countries failing to commit to their climate change promises while weaponising climate change to attack small nations such as the UAE and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Israel’s former Justice Minister Yossi Beilin. In a heated exchange, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on Gaza’s mass-slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, the parallels between Palestinian resistance and Nelson Mandela’s ANC resistance, dubious evidence surrounding October 7th and evidence of Israeli friendly fire, and Israel’s support for jihadists in Syria. Furious at the direction of the interview, Yossi Beilin would abruptly end the interview. Finally, in tribute to the award-winning writer, poet, and celebrated anti-racist and anti-colonial trailblazer Benjamin Zephaniah who passed away this Thursday, we play for our audience our last interview with Benjamin Zephaniah which first aired on the 27th of May 2019.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Ian Fry, the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights. He discusses the inequality of the burden of climate change on the poor and the inevitability that wealthy nations, individuals and corporations will have to pay for climate damage, the absence of US President Joe Biden at COP28, the danger of greenwashing by wealthy corporations, the crackdown on the right to protest against climate change in Western Europe, the large global military emissions that are often ignored by mainstream media and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the Editor in Chief of Arab News Faisal Abbas. He discusses the mainstream media in the West’s omission the nearly 8 decades context in their reporting of Israel’s mass-killing in Gaza, Saudi Arabia’s call for an arms embargo to be imposed on Israel, the collapse of the West’s ‘moral high ground’ after backing Israel, the COP28 climate summit being hosted in the UAE and Western double standards against the UAE, Saudi Arabia winning the bid to host Expo 2030 and much more

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Joseph Glauber, Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and former Chief Economist at the US Department of Agriculture. He discusses the causes of the spiralling world hunger crisis including energy price increases, wars and accessibility, the impact of the war in Ukraine on food prices, the US’ structural problems with food security and poverty, India’s ban on rice exports, why general inflation is in turn causing food prices to spike and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Abhi Rajendran, Head of Global Oil Markets and Research at Energy Intelligence. He discusses why energy markets have so far remained calm as Israel’s war on Gaza continues and regional escalation has been avoided, what could potentially ignite a bigger conflict and cause energy prices to spike, the delayed OPEC+ meeting and the outlook for energy markets going into next year, the pace of transition to renewable energy ahead of the COP28 summit in Dubai and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to renowned trauma specialist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Gabor Maté. He discusses the root of the support for English-speaking countries for Israel being guilt for European antisemitism and a colonial mindset, lies being told by the media and politicians in the US and it’s allied states, why Israel’s slaughter in Gaza is the darkest thing he’s ever seen, why the question should really be ‘was October 7th a proportional response to Israel’s policies against the Palestinians’ since 1948, why the attempts by Israel, the US, UK and EU to link Hamas to European historical antisemitism are wrong and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the Editor in Chief of The Grayzone Max Blumenthal who joins us for a special interview. He reveals a trail of ‘lies and deceit’ by the Israeli government and the Biden Administration on what really happened in Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7th, how the evidence points to Israel killing its own civilians while attempting to stop Hamas from taking hostages, atrocity propaganda manufactured by Israel and regurgitated by Biden’s State Department to manufacture consent for Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza, Israel’s manipulation of ‘evidence’ which has been shown across TV screens in NATO nations, the racist double standards US, UK and European media have shown in their coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Hussein Ibish, Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He discusses Arab leaders avoiding meeting senior US officials in disgust of the Biden Administration’s embrace of Israel as it conducts mass-killing in Gaza, US mainstream media coverage of the Gaza war, Hezbollah and Arab militias being ‘dumbed down garbage’, how Hamas and Hezbollah have acted independently during this war contrary to mainstream media assertions that they are Iranian proxies, shifts in public opinion in the US towards sympathy for the Palestinian people and if it will have an effect on US policy, the inevitability of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to renowned writer, filmmaker and activist Tariq Ali. He discusses the mass protests sweeping the US, UK and EU countries opposing Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the indifference of governments to the demands of their masses, the silence of the leaders of the US, UK and EU countries on Israel’s slaughter in Gaza and the refusal of calls for a ceasefire, Netanyahu’s government trying to quash any possibility of a Palestinian state and the US fuelling Israeli arrogance, US carrier strike groups standing guard to defend Israel against possible intervention from Iran and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Ilan Pappé, renowned Israeli historian and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He discusses why the Israeli public has been incapable of showing compassion for the people killed in Gaza by Israeli bombardment and for Palestinians living under occupation since 1948, why we may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Zionist Israel project and the two ways the occupation of Palestine can go from here, how the leaders of the UK, US and EU are sending a message of ‘we absolve you’ to Israel as it bombs civilians, why Russia and China still stick to a two-state solution and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former Secretary-General of the Arab League and former Foreign Minister of Egypt Amr Moussa. He discusses why countries such as Egypt and Jordan are refusing to allow Israel to forcibly displace millions of Palestinians into their countries as it will fulfil Israel’s plan of destroying the chance of a Palestinian state, the progress of humanitarian aid being allowed into Gaza, the global majority of nations calling for a ceasefire while the US, UK & EU stand alone in supporting Israel’s mass-killing in Gaza, Israel’s increasing brutality in the occupied territories in the West Bank, why Israel will continue to face more 7th of October events if it continues its politics of siege and occupation, the upcoming Arab Emergency Summit in Riyadh to formulate a united Arab position and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College University of London and a member of the Iraq Inquiry Committee (2009-2011). He discusses Israel’s deadly onslaught in Gaza and Hamas’ attack on October the 7th, the Israeli Ambassador to the UN demanding UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres resign, what he views is likely to come after the fighting between Israel and Hamas ends, Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons program, why what Israel can achieve via military action is limited and how Israel is in a strategic mess, whether the US could win a war against Iran should the conflict expand and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Professor Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs & Public Security. He discusses the strategic blunders made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that made Hamas’ attack on the 7th of October possible, the security and civil structures in Israel which have upheld the ongoing occupation, why a political solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict still exists, Israel having no real viable endgame in Gaza and why a ground invasion to destroy Hamas is likely to take a long time if it is even possible, why the main winner from the Gaza war will be the US weapons manufacturers, Israel’s UN Ambassador demanding UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres resign for saying Hamas’ attack did not happen in a vacuum and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Senior Advisor to the Saudi Minister of Petroleum Dr. Mohammad Al Sabban. He discusses Israel’s brutal assault against Gaza and the threat of another round of displacement for Palestinians, saying Islamic and Arab countries will join the fighting if Israel’s aggression continues, Western hypocrisy as pro-Palestine demonstrations are cracked down upon in NATO countries such as France, Arab leaders refusing to even meet with President Biden as he visited the region to rally support for Israel, Western inaction on implementing their ‘two-state solution’, why the US knows it cannot risk a war against the Islamic world as the Israel-Palestine war threatens to escalate to a regional conflict and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Salman Al-Ansari, who was awarded the Most Influential Political Pundit in the Middle East of 2021 by Arab News. He discusses the Israel-Gaza war and the context behind this explosion of violence stemming from the Israeli occupation’s continued assaults on Palestinian rights, Saudi Arabia’s official position on Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza, Biden’s foreign policy being a ‘disaster’ and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza being a stain on US history, Iran and Saudi Arabia uniting together to support Palestine despite the existing bilateral issues, Israeli officials’ genocidal remarks against Palestinians, Saudi-Israel normalisation and Israel’s integration into the region being completely off the table while it continues to massacre Palestinians and deprive Palestinians of their rights, why the Gaza war has further exposed the need for a multipolar world and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Hussein Askary, Vice Chairman of the Belt & Road Initiative in Sweden, ahead of the BRI Forum in Beijing. He discusses the growth of China's Belt & Road Initiative to include 152 countries, propaganda around China’s BRI being a debt trap for developing countries, the rise of the multipolar world and the only thing that can stop it being a world war, attempts by the US & European countries to counter the Belt and Road Initiative and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the General Secretary and Co-founder of the Palestinian National Initiative and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council Dr. Mustafa Barghouti. He discusses the lies being circulated in US and European media about Hamas beheading babies which he says are to dehumanise Palestinians, the Israeli provocations which led to this explosion between Palestinians and the Israeli occupation, a conspiracy between the US and Israel to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip of 2.2 million Palestinians, how Israel has systematically killed the peace process with Palestinians, officials from the Biden Administration such as Antony Blinken visiting Israel to show unwavering support and much more.

FOLLOW OUR NEW EPISODES CHANNEL: https://rumble.com/c/GoingUnderground FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Jacob Hornberger, the 2024 Libertarian Party’s Presidential candidate. He discusses the violence of US foreign policy and calls the USA the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, the Republicans’ and Democrats’ bipartisan support for destructive foreign interventions, the persecution of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange for exposing the crimes and secrets of the national security state, US support for Ukraine in the Russia-NATO proxy war, the odds being against the Libertarian Party in 2024, his agenda should he become the President of the United States and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Col. Mark Cancian, Former Land Forces Director, US Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Senior Advisor of the International Security Program at CSIS. Afshin Rattansi challenges him on the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, on issues such as Western arms supplies prolonging the war and pushing the inevitability of negotiations even further away, NATO officials admitting they are running out of weapons to supply Ukraine, US and Europe’s assertions that the war was unprovoked and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv   On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to David Freiheit, Host of ‘Viva Frei’ on Rumble.com. He discusses the outrage surround the Canadian Parliament, Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Zelensky giving a standing ovation for Ukrainian Nazi Waffen SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka, the UK’s attempts to force Rumble to demonetise Russell Brand, NATO media’s switch from covering Ukraine’s far-right scourge to dismissing it as Russian propaganda, Frances’s total censorship of Rumble for carrying RT after the ban on YouTube and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Clayton Morris, Host of ‘Redacted’. He discusses YouTube demonetising Russell Brand and the hypocrisy of YouTube now earning 100% of revenue off of his videos, YouTube’s weaponisation of its terms of service to censor independent journalists, growing attacks against Rumble and attempts to censor the platform, why Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News for his coverage of the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, why he believes the deep state will not allow Donald Trump to become President again, 1 year since the Nordstream attacks and the media propaganda in NATO nations surrounding the sabotage and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Alastair Crooke, the former Advisor to the European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief and the Founder and Director of Conflicts Forum. He discusses why the US is becoming increasingly isolated while Europe relegates itself to a weaker vassal, the deep divisions within NATO brushed under the carpet, Ukraine’s increasing anger at the US over as support begins to dwindle, why Ukraine is incapable of ‘existing like Israel’ in a constant state of conflict, Ukraine’s strikes against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, the floundering state of the US economy as Biden and the Democrats head into the 2024 elections, ‘enormous’ tensions in Ukraine between the ultranationalists and the military, and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the Deputy Director of National Operations of the EMP Taskforce on National and Homeland Security David Pyne. He discusses the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, why Russia will take more land if Ukraine keeps waiting longer for an armistice agreement, US President Joe Biden’s family’s corruption in Ukraine, why Ukraine joining NATO is a pipe dream and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Todd Miller, Author of ‘Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders’ and Co-Editor of ‘The Border Chronicle’ Newsletter. He discusses the rise of the border-industrial complex and increased paranoia about the security of the southern border, ballooning budgets for border security and the involvement of companies in the military-industrial complex, myths about immigration, Joe Biden's Democrats showing little difference to Donald Trump and the Republican Party when it comes to border security and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and member of the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism. She discusses why the food crisis of rising prices is caused by Agribusiness and big corporations while using the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine as cover for profiteering, worsening global inequality as the gulf between the rich and poor continues to grow, the IMF and World Bank’s continued predatory policies, the close ties elites of the global south have with US and European elites, why the global south has continued to lose trust in the US, UK & European countries and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former Commanding General of the US Army Europe and Senior Mentor for Logistics at NATO Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges. In this interview, Afshin Rattansi challenges Ben Hodges over the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine, over issues such as the Minsk Agreements, Ukraine’s battlefield failures, corruption in Ukrainian President Zelensky’s government and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Yaroslav Lissovolik, Founder of BRICS+ Analytics, after a game-changing BRICS Summit which saw the organisation welcome UAE, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran and Ethiopia as new members. In this interview conducted by Afshin Rattansi, Yaroslav discusses how BRICS will become more irrelevant and pose a greater challenge to the US and European economies, the BRICS currency project, the possibility of Bretton-Woods institutions such as the IMF and World Bank working with BRICS, dangers facing the BRICS alliance and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Valdai Programme Director and Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council Prof. Ivan Timofeev. He discusses the upcoming BRICS Summit and President Vladimir Putin’s in-person absence from the summit in South Africa, global south powers such as India playing both sides between Russia and the US and its allies, the Russian economy’s resilience against sanctions and the problems that still loom over Russia’s economy, the failed Ukrainian counter-offensive and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Todd Bensman, author of Overrun, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in US History. Afshin Rattansi challenges Todd Bensman on elite scaremongering and race-baiting over immigration, the US’ foreign policy being a root cause of illegal immigration into the United States, the modern United States being built on illegal immigration, why the US economy needs more, not less immigration and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Indian National Congress MP and former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor. In this interview, Afshin Rattansi questions Shashi Tharoor on the US’ growing closer ties to the US under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India’s creeping involvement in the US’ anti-China alliance, whether India would join the US in a war against China over Taiwan and his views on the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine. He also discusses the upcoming BRICS summit and the imprisonment of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, Afshin Rattansi conducts a tense interview with Dr. Michael O’Hanlon, former CIA External Advisory Board member, Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign Policy Rearch at the Brookings Institution, and author of ‘Military History for the Modern Strategist’. The tense exchange covers the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine, previous US foreign policy disasters such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Wall Street Financial Analyst Michael Hudson, author of ‘The Collapse of Antiquity’. He discusses the origins of debt stemming from the oligarchy-dominated Ancient Greek and Roman ‘democracies’, the tradition of debt cancellation and how the Roman and Greek oligarchies marked a turning point in history using debt as a weapon of societal control, how oligarchic control of entire countries in contemporary late-stage capitalism has evolved through the US-dominated IMF & World Bank, why financial conquest has been far more deadly than military conquest and much more.  FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former IMF economist and Bank of America strategist David Woo, CEO of David Woo Unbound. He discusses the de-industrialisation of Europe driven by rising energy costs amid the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine, the purpose of the war being for the US to drive a wedge between Russia and Europe, his disappointment in British and European leaders who don’t understand the US does not have their welfare at heart, his predictions for a successful Russian counter-offensive as Ukraine’s disappointing counter-offensive winds down, the ongoing inflation crisis and much more. You can visit David Woo’s website here: https://www.davidwoounbound.com/

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Anuradha Mittal, Founder and Executive Director of The Oakland Institute, which has reported on the IMF and World Bank’s carving up of Ukrainian farmland and the myths about the Black Sea Grain Deal which NATO nation media have propagated to the whole world. She discusses the UN statistics that show the overwhelming majority of grain that was exported via the Black Sea Grain Initiative went to rich countries, not to poor hunger-hit countries as was reported by the media, the mass privatisation of Ukrainian farmland at the expense of small Ukrainian farmers, the coming further neoliberal gutting of Ukraine when the war ends, the role of giant agribusiness corporations in artificially raising grain prices through speculation, the myth of high food prices being caused by low grain exports due to the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to  Chuck Spinney, former Military Analyst at the US Department of Defense and author of ‘Defense Facts of Life: The Plans/Reality Mismatch’, otherwise known as the Spinney Report, which exposed the high levels of financial waste pursuing costly weapons system at the Pentagon. He discusses his job at the Pentagon to scrutinise the wasteful spending in the Pentagon which led to his bombshell report, the killing of the movement to reform the Pentagon and make it more financially accountable, the extremely costly projects of the Pentagon going on right now that the US public will be ‘paying back for 80 years’, the propaganda over the US creating an ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ amid the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine which has instead resulted in ‘unilateral disarmament at an even higher cost’ and much more.  FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. PLO Lumumba, the former Director of Kenya’s Anti-Corruption Commission, the former Director of the Kenya School of Law and renowned Pan-Africanist thinker. He discusses the upcoming Russia-Africa Summit this week and his views on the summit, the contempt shown against African leaders for their peace initiative to bring about an end to the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, Western neutralisation of historical great African leaders and titans of the Non-Aligned Movement such as Nehru, Nasser, Sukarno, Tito and Nkrumah, methods of Western neo-colonial domination of Africa through military bases, the IMF and governmental infiltration, why he believes the ICC should be disbanded, the neutrality of African nations in the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to ex-US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff and retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. He discusses the advert he along with his co-signers put in the New York Times urging people to see the proxy war in Ukraine from Russia’s eyes, the rising threat of a tactical nuclear exchange and why he is more worried of a nuke being used by Washington or another party than Moscow using a nuclear weapon, why he believes NATO is likely to disintegrate if the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine continues for a long period, the bankruptcy of the US economy and its declining ability to militarily dominate and sanction others, whether Donald Trump can end the proxy war in Ukraine and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former US Navy’s Deputy Undersecretary and the Founder and President of the Yorktown Institute Seth Cropsey. He discusses NATO’s de-facto denial of Ukraine’s request to join NATO and why this shows disunity among the Western allies and cracking resolve, the supplying of cluster bombs by the Biden Administration to Ukraine as Biden admits Ukraine has run out of ammunition, why he believes US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley should be replaced, the rising risk of nuclear escalation amid the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine and much more.    FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, the former CIA Moscow Station chief, former WMD Department Chief of the US Counterterrorist Center and Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University. Afshin Rattansi challenges him on the provision of cluster bombs by the US to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, US involvement in the 2014 coup in Ukraine, war profiteering in the US, nuclear escalation between Russia and NATO, the role of the CIA in sabotaging governments and destabilising politics around the world and much more.    FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to retired Russian Lieutenant General Evgeny Buzhinsky, who is the Chairman of the Executive Council of the Russian Center for Policy Studies. He discusses the talk of admitting Ukraine into NATO at the Vilnius NATO summit and why it is unlikely the US would allow this, the state of Ukraine’s counter-offensive and why the US knows the battlefield situation is not looking good for Ukraine, Wagner PMC Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion against the Russian Armed Forces high command, the destruction of NATO military equipment on the battlefield by Russia and much more.      FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Mitch Feierstein, author of ‘Planet Ponzi’ and former UK Brexit Party candidate. He discusses why the US’ and global financial system is in serious crisis, the prospect of civil unrest in the United States after a financial meltdown, the media‘s role in creating ‘the biggest threat to democracy’, the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and much more.    FOLLOW ALL OF OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy’s campaign manager and former Congressman Dennis Kucinich. He discusses the US’ continued attempts to extradite Julian Assange and RFK’s promise to end the persecution of the Wikileaks publisher, the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine and RFK stopping the US’ foreign policy ‘madness’ if he becomes President, the draconian mass surveillance architecture in the US revealed by the Wikileaks Vault 7 leaks, the Nordstream pipeline sabotage and why he squarely blames the Biden Administration for being behind the sabotage and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Serbia’s Hereditary Prince Philip Karadjordjevic, Chief Strategy of Jan3. He discusses the Wagner Group’s rebellion against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military leaders, the Nordstream pipeline explosion and the ongoing Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine, Serbia-Kosovo tensions, the geopolitics of Serbia and why Serbia’s future may be with the BRICS rather than the EU, why Bitcoin means global financial freedom and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former British Ambassador to Russia Sir Tony Brenton. Afshin Rattansi challenges him on the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine and during the interview Sir Tony Brenton admits NATO did not pay enough attention to Russia’s security concerns, the fact that US-UK-EU sanctions have not had their desired effect in collapsing Russia and that Ukraine shares most of the blame for the failure of the Minsk Agreements which could have prevented the war from breaking out. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sergey Karaganov, Chairman of the Editorial Board of Russia in Global Affairs and author of the ‘A Difficult But Necessary Decision’ article which argues Russia could escalate to using nuclear weapons against European countries supporting Ukraine to force the US and its allies to back off in the wider conflict against Russia to prevent a global nuclear war and World War 3. He discusses this unprecedented time in history where he views nuclear deterrence to be failing in preventing Russia-US confrontation, the scenario in which Russia could escalate to using nuclear weapons against European countries to ensure a nuclear conflict with the US doesn’t break out, why the war between the US and its Western allies and Russia is bigger than the Ukraine proxy conflict, and he defends the idea of why a limited Russian nuclear strike against European targets would avert a wider global nuclear war which would end humanity. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Ebrahim Hashem, AsiaGlobal Fellow at the University of Hong Kong’s Asia Global Institute and former Head of the Strategy Division at the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. He discusses the implications and outcomes of the Arab-China business conference in Saudi Arabia and the Belt and Road Initiative in the Middle East, whether or not the US under Joe Biden will look to pressure Arab countries for growing ties with China, the growing strategic autonomy of the Middle East amid the US-China Cold War, the US’ failed attempts to dominate the region and hijack sovereignty since the Iraq War, the continued presence of US troops in Arab countries, the normalisation of ties between Arab countries and Syria’s government under Bashar Al-Assad and the ignoring of the US’ Caesar Sanctions, the sudden reduction of terrorism in the Middle East following the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, BRICS expansion bringing in the new multipolar order and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan. He discusses his attempts to negotiate a discount on Russian oil prices, alleged US involvement in deposing him as Prime Minister, the US-led War on Terror and why Pakistan should have never joined the war, his allegations that the current Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is ignoring the rule of law and turning Pakistan into a banana republic, assassination attempts against him, Western countries’ hypocrisy on human rights, the crackdown on the Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) and cases against him, and much more.  FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs, Chairman of the Presidium of the Russian Council of Foreign and Defence Policy, and Research Director at the Valdai Discussion Club. He discusses why currently there is no prospect for direct or indirect negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and NATO nations, the rising distrust against mainstream media in the US and Europe, the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka Dam, the emergence of a multipolar world and Russia’s lack of ruling ideology, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s evolution from a pro-Western leader to a leader now opposing US hegemony, reports of the imminent demise of Russia in NATO nation media and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary Oscar-winning director and writer Oliver Stone on his new film 'Nuclear Now', which makes the case for why nuclear energy is humanity's last shot at avoiding a cataclysm due to the climate emergency. He discusses the deep-rooted fears in society around nuclear power, why contrary to popular belief, nuclear power is safe and far less fatal than other forms of energy, why renewable energy sources will not be enough to fight the climate crisis, the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Harriet Fraad, host of the Capitalism Hits Home podcast. She discusses the debt ceiling fiasco in the United States and why both the Democrats and Republicans refuse to tax the rich, the primacy of the military-industrial complex in the US and why the US always needs a foreign conflict, the real motives for the US in the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine being to weaken the Russia-China alliance, the mass shooting epidemic in the United States and the root causes of gun violence, the causes behind the breakdown in US families and relationships and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Vuk Jeremić, the former President of the UN General Assembly, the former Foreign Minister of Serbia, and the current President of the Serbian People’s Party about the recent clashes between Kosovo Serbs and NATO troops alongside Kosovo police. He discusses the root of the oppression of Serbs in Kosovo, the lack of global south recognition of Kosovo, why he calls Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti an anti-Serb ‘extremist’ who wants a ‘Greater Albania’, the decline of support from even Kosovo’s allies such as the United States over his hardline anti-Serb policies, why he suspects he didn’t become UN Secretary-General over his views on Kosovo, the parallels between the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and NATO’s partition of Yugoslavia, then Serbia and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Lord Jim O’Neill, the former Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and the man who coined the term ‘BRIC’ for the rising economics of Brazil, Russia, India and China. He discusses the G7’s confrontational stance towards Russia and China, the global multipolar backlash against the ‘Americanisation’ of the world, why sanctioned Russia is doing better than countries such as the UK and Germany which imposed those sanctions in the first place, the prospect of de-dollarisation and the end of ‘King Dollar’, the continued rise of the BRICS countries especially India and China and the importance of the growth in India’s workforce and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the Editor-in-Chief of Arab News Faisal Abbas. He discusses Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s return to the Arab League, the transformative changes taking place in Saudi Arabia and across the region, the peace deal brokered by China between Saudi Arabia and Iran, agenda-driven coverage of Saudi Arabia in US and European press, why Saudi Arabia’s ‘Vision 2030’ will drive transparency and press freedom in the country, and why he prefers being a journalist in Saudi Arabia rather than in the UK. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the host of 'Freedom Side' Breakthrough Newsroom Eugene Puryear and former US Vice Presidential Candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation in 2008 & 2016. He discusses and explains the Sudan Crisis and the US' hand in trying to manipulate Sudan's civilian mass movement to get a compliant government in Khartoum, why the US opposed the government of Omar Al-Bashir, Ethiopia's economic crisis and the danger of the country falling into an IMF & World Bank trap, the growing rejection of the United States' and European Union countries' ultimatums in Africa and the growing popularity of China, Russia and countries of the global south within Africa and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Senior Fellow & Director of European Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the former National Security Director for European Affairs under Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton Prof. Charles Kupchan. He has a heated exchange with Afshin Rattansi on Russia vs NATO in Ukraine, the history of US & NATO wars in the global south, Seymour Hersh’s report that the U.S. blew up the Nordstream pipelines, his support for more arms supplies to Ukraine while supporting a negotiated end to the conflict, the birth of the multipolar world and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Richard Sakwa, author of Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands and Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent. He discusses why tensions between Russia and NATO are far worse than the tensions of the first Cold War, the ICC indictment against Russian President Vladimir Putin and why he believes the indictment was entirely political amid the privatisation of the UN system by the US, why Russia still has the advantage in the proxy war in Ukraine, the echo chamber in NATO nation media where zero criticism of NATO policy is allowed, the 1990s origins of the current soaring tensions between Moscow and Washington and much more. https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dan Rice, the University President of AUK in Ukraine and a former advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces General Zaluzhnyi. In a heated exchange, Afshin Rattansi challenges Dan Rice on the suppression of the Russian language in Ukraine as well as the banning of Russian literature, allegations of Ukrainian war crimes including allegations from Mozart Group founder Andrew Milburn that Ukrainian troops violated the Hague Convention, his claims that the US is viewed as a ‘liberator nation’ over Iraq and Middle East policy, continued military aid to Ukraine to fight Russian forces and much more. Follow all of our platforms: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this season finale episode of Going Underground, we speak to the author of the best-selling ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ John Perkins, the 3rd edition of the book with 12 new chapters is out now. He discusses his past as an ‘economic hitman’ where he would work in the US' National Security Agency (NSA) to sabotage economies and burden them with debt, resulting in these countries being controlled by the US via debt. He also discusses why he believes China now has its own set of ‘economic hitmen’ and ‘jackals’ following the same strategy as the US, the shift of global power away from the US with the rise of the global south, China and the other BRICS countries, why economic sabotage has become harder for the US to apply in the Middle East, threats to his life for blowing the whistle on the US deliberate impoverishing of millions and much more. Follow all of our social media platforms for exclusive content: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this special episode of Going Underground, we speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh on his new report that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his entourage have been embezzling $400 million from US aid allocated for fuel purchases, as well as buying diesel from Russia. He discusses the CIA's knowledge of the corruption and how Zelensky was allegedly reprimanded by CIA Director William Burns which led to the firing of dozens of generals and officials, mainstream media attacking him for not revealing his sources on the report, the presence of the most elite units of the US military on Ukraine borders amid the escalating risk of war, mainstream media exposing and helping the US government target Jack Teixeira, who is accused of leak documents from the Pentagon and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Thomas Mountain, who has been one of the most widely distributed independent journalists in Africa about the ongoing violent clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces led by General Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as 'Hemedti'. He discusses why General Burhan, who ousted the former civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, is the CIA's man in Sudan, Egypt's alleged role in the battle between the two factions, the strategic importance of the Horn of Africa and Bab al-Mandab Strait and why Washington tries to control it, the differences between Burhan and Hemedti on their stances regarding civilian rule in Sudan, Eritrea's new alliance with Ethiopia following the conflict between the TPLF against Ethiopia and Eritrea, why the fight between Burhan and Hemedti is a 'fight to the finish' and much more. FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Robert Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law and Public Policy and an adviser to Democrats such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Elizabeth Warren. He discusses the rise of de-dollarisation as a consequence of the war in Ukraine, the potential for an autarkic trading bloc rising out of the BRICS and why he argues for an autarkic US economy. Afshin Rattansi also questions him on whether progressive Democrats such as AOC and Elizabeth Warren actually have been progressive in office. #news #china #russia FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to award-winning scholar and managing partner at Energy Outlook Advisors Dr. Anas Alhajji. He discusses why attacks on energy facilities such as the Nordstream pipeline are part of a dangerous new normal, why Europe’s switch to relying on US LNG gas supplies is dangerous and exposes Europe to shortages, why US sanctions on Russian energy are a ‘joke’, do not work and simply a game of ‘musical chairs’ and much more. #oil #news #energy FOLLOW ALL OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Daniel Lacalle, Chief Economist at Tressis who is ranked as one of the top 20 most influential economists in the world. He discusses the crisis of bank crashes in the US and why more Silicon Valley Bank-style crashes are likely, why the banking sector in the EU is in an even worse situation than the US, the global scale of the problem and whether the crisis will be as bad as 2008, the sanctions war between the West and Russia and why Russia’s economy and rouble have been able to stay resilient, de-dollarisation by global south countries, China’s gradual de-coupling from the United States and much more. #economiccrisis #bankcrash #news FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Carl Zha, host of the Silk and Steel podcast and renowned commentator on Chinese affairs. He discusses Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen’s visit to the USA and the attempts of US lawmakers to make Taiwan an independent nation, the prospect of war with China and Taiwan with US intervention, French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to China to meet with President Xi Jinping, China’s position on the Russia-Ukraine and the proposed peace plan, why the US is unlikely to win a conventional war against China and much more. FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv