

Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi
Going Underground
We ask the questions mainstream media avoid. Current affairs and geopolitics. Produced independently from Dubai, UAE. Hosted by award-winning journalist Afshin Rattansi.
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Jul 2, 2025 • 27min
'It Would be PRUDENT For Iran to Develop Nuclear Weapons!'- CMSGT Dennis Fritz
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CMSGT. Dennis Fritz, Former Advisor to US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Richard Myers. He discusses the fallout of the US’ and Israel’s aggression against Iran and what comes next. Will Israel’s Mossad prepare false flags to drag the US into a major escalation against Iran soon? How deep does the Israel lobby’s control over Congress and departments of the US government go? Will Iran now build nuclear weapons? All this and more is answered in this episode.

Jun 28, 2025 • 28min
Petr Bystron MEP: 'NATO NEEDS an Enemy', Slams ‘STUPID’ Russia-NATO Proxy War in Ukraine
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Petr Bystron MEP, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. He discusses the narrative of Russia being the enemy of Europe and NATO after the NATO Summit this week, the abandonment of Ukraine’s ‘irreversible path’ to NATO, the German government’s labelling of the AfD and left-wing parties as ‘extremist’, Zelensky’s corruption and the billions of missing aid money, the mainstream narrative of Russia being about to invade Europe, whether Germany is still a democracy as crackdowns against free speech and the opposition continue, NATO nations arming Israel for the genocide in Gaza, and much more.

Jun 23, 2025 • 28min
Russian NUCLEAR STRIKE Against Europe Becoming More Likely Over Ukraine (Dr. Dmitri Trenin)
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Dmitri Trenin, Retired Colonel of the Russian Armed Forces and member of Russia’s Foreign and Defence Policy Council. He discusses why Russia has not come to the defence of Iran as Israel and the US attack it, Vladimir Putin’s offer to mediate between Iran and Israel, Russia’s relations with Israel and Israel’s assistance for Ukraine in the proxy war against Russia, and whether the attack on Iran will result in increased nuclear proliferation. In the second half of the interview, he discusses why BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation have not put on a united front, Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s strategic bombers and the changing Russian view on deterrence, Russia’s failure to retaliate causing Russia’s adversaries to step up their escalations, and the increased likelihood of a Russian nuclear strike.

Jun 21, 2025 • 28min
ATTACK ON IRAN: Israel Seeks Regional Hegemony as US & Europe Face Isolation — Daniel Levy
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Daniel Levy, former Senior Advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin, and President of the US/Middle East Project. He discusses the real reasons for Israel’s attack on Iran and the claims that Iran was about to manufacture a nuclear weapon, why the green light was given by Donald Trump for Netanyahu to bomb Iran, the split among Donald Trump’s MAGA camp with opposition to US involvement, whether it’s Israel running the United States or the United States running Israel, America’s misperception of its adversaries including Iran, the isolation that the US and Europe face as the rest of the world condemns the aggression against Iran, the negotiations being used as a decoy, and much more.

Jun 16, 2025 • 27min
Viktor Bout: Zelensky is a DEAD MAN WALKING, Globalists Trying to Pull Trump into WAR Against Russia
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Viktor Bout, Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Ulyanovsk Oblast, called the ‘Merchant of Death’ by NATO propaganda media. He discusses Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s strategic bombers which Russia says was planned by the British Secret Services, the state of the negotiations with Ukraine to end the proxy war, the efforts to pull Donald Trump into the war against Russia, Putin avoiding an ‘emotional’ response to NATO’s provocations, Europe’s economic self-sabotage since 2022, the mass protests in Los Angeles and across the United States, whether Russia will advance on Odessa, Zelensky being a ‘dead man walking’, and much more.

Jun 14, 2025 • 27min
Netanyahu is a FASCIST, Endless Suffering in Gaza is UNBEARABLE- Balad Party’s Sami Abou Shehadeh
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sami Abou Shehadeh, Chairman of the Israeli Balad Party. In an emotional interview, he discusses the 600+ days of suffering Palestinians have endured in the ongoing genocide, Israel’s kidnapping of Greta Thunberg and others on the Madleen Freedom Flotilla Vessel, the US, UK, and EU’s arming of Israel as well as other forms of support such as the UK’s spy flights over Gaza, the UK’s token sanctions against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, the experience of Palestinians living within the State of Israel, why Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascist, the mistake of the Palestinian leadership to trust the United States, and much more.

Jun 9, 2025 • 27min
Israel's MOSSAD IS EVERYWHERE and ALL OVER Ukraine, Russia has WON!- Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of Staff. He discusses Ukraine's drone attack targeting Russia's nuclear-capable strategic bomber fleets, why Russia has already won the proxy war on the ground, his sources telling him that barely anyone can get Donald Trump's ear, the CIA and Mossad acting under the visibility of Presidents especially since 9/11, the war between the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and Mossad's takeover of the Pentagon, the de facto curbing of DNI Tulsi Gabbard's powers, Trump's desire to wind down the US' vast military presence in Europe, Trump's involvement in backing Israel's genocide in Gaza, and much more.

Jun 7, 2025 • 28min
Is the Palestinian Authority Israel’s HOSTAGE?! Going Underground Talks to Palestine’s UN Ambassador
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s Ambassador to the United Nations. In the first half of the interview, discusses the massacre of Palestinians attempting to get a morsel of food aid in Gaza, Donald Trump’s and Israel’s proposal for Palestinians to be expelled from Gaza, Israel’s refusal to allow a pan-Arab delegation to visit Ramallah, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the scheme to starve the Palestinians of Gaza, and his appeal for countries and journalists to break the blockade of Gaza. In the second half of the interview, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on why he has not brought up the US-UK-EU’s arming of Israel and intelligence sharing to their UN Ambassadors at the Security Council, whether the Palestinian Authority is a hostage of Israel, the Palestinian Authority’s killing of Palestinians in the West Bank, why there still haven’t been elections for the Palestinian Authority, and much more.

Jun 2, 2025 • 28min
Cold War 2: Europe Gripped by WAR FEVER, Stuck in Escalation Against Russia - Prof. Richard Sakwa
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian & European Politics at the University of Kent and Author of ‘The Culture of the Second Cold War’. He discusses Merz becoming Chancellor and Germany’s pursuit of a ‘suicidal’ foreign policy, the negotiations to end the Ukraine proxy war in Istanbul and Trump’s rapprochement with Russia, the growing backlash in Europe against the increased militarism and conformational foreign policy, the campaign to blacklist him by the British secret service, the political West’s militant campaign to spread neoliberalism and the portrayal of any other system as ‘evil’, his classification of current geopolitical conflicts as a Second Cold War, why the political West’s dominance is under challenge like never before, and much more.

May 31, 2025 • 29min
GENOCIDE CENSORSHIP: Free Speech is Being OBLITERATED in the West to Support Israel (Asa Winstanley)
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Asa Winstanley, Associate Editor at The Electronic Intifada and a veteran journalist who has covered Palestine and the Israel lobby for over two decades. He discusses the UK’s attempts to silence his journalism covering the Gaza genocide, the police raid on his home to seize his devices and his ultimate victory in his legal case, the symbiotic relationship between pro-Israel think tanks and the British government, the lack of coverage from the mainstream media on crackdowns against him and other pro-Palestinian journalists, the media’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, social media censorship, whether the genocide marks the beginning of the end of Israel, and much more.


