Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Tariq Ali, renowned writer, filmmaker, activist, and author of ‘You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024'. He discusses how his experiences during the Vietnam War continue to give him hope for today, the crackdown against the pro-Palestinian movements in the US, UK and EU, how he discovered the British intelligence services were spying on him in the 1990s, Donald Trump’s move towards a US-Israeli war with Iran and why he believes that it is to target China, why it will be hard for the West to win a war against Iran, why Gorbachev’s mistakes during the collapse of the Soviet Union are a root cause of the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the possibility that the CIA assassinated Hugo Chavez, why the US has been against the prospect of a Unified Korean Peninsula and, much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary and Co-Founder of the Palestinian National Initiative and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. He discusses Israel’s bloody full resumption of the genocide in Gaza, the plan to ethnically cleanse 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza, his classification of Netanyahu’s government as fascist, his predictions that the Oslo Agreements would lead to the genocide and apartheid against Palestinians today, the role of the BBC and NATO nation media in whitewashing Israel’s war crimes, how Gaza and Palestinians exposed the hypocrisy and double standards of the international system and Western governments for the world to see, the potential coming US-Israel war on Iran, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Steve Hanke, co-author of ‘Capital, Interest, and Waiting’ and Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University. He discusses the UK’s and Europe’s drive to remilitarise and why it is doomed to bankrupt the already troubled European economies, the concept of waiting as a factor of production, the relationship between the money supply and the interest rate, why Trump’s tariffs won’t cause inflation to spike due to the decrease in the money supply, the overall weak strength of the US economy, why inflation is a regressive tax on the poor and helps the rich get richer, the biggest contributor to inequality in the US being the Federal Reserve, BRICS’ rhetoric on a plan for a gold-backed common currency but no action to make it happen, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Miko Peled, Founder of the Palestine House of Freedom and grandson of a signatory to Israel's creation in 1948. He discusses the fully resumed Israeli genocide in Gaza, why Israel must be dismantled to end the genocide against Palestinians, the Trump Administration's move towards a war with Iran, the Israel lobby's grip on US foreign policy, and much more.    

FOLLOW US ON ALL OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this special online exclusive edition of Going Underground, we speak to Going Underground's Head of Social Media Farhaan Ahmed about the most draconian age of digital censorship we have seen, which began under the Biden era. From the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the Gaza genocide, and other geopolitical events, the US government and big tech companies have continuously censored opinions and programs that go against the official narrative. Farhaan Ahmed discusses whether there are any hopes for change under the Trump Administration, and why there are still difficult times to come in fighting censorship.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Ambassador Thomas Greminger, Executive Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and former Secretary-General of the OSCE. He discusses the phone call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump this week and the ongoing negotiations to end the Ukraine proxy war, Europe’s rearmament and preparations for a direct conflict with Russia which is being called ‘building deterrence’, whether the OSCE is now rendered irrelevant with Europe isolated in the international community, whether Europe will still have to obey Washington’s and Donald Trump’s orders as vassal states, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Lord Skidelsky, one of the greatest economic historians of the 21st Century and award-winning biographer of John Maynard Keynes. He discusses why the UK’s policy towards Ukraine is a shambles based on lies, Trump’s victory leaving the UK and Europe without a plausible policy for the Ukraine proxy war, why his opinion of opposing Britain’s fuelling of the proxy war is rare in Britain’s political class and the media, Britain’s policy having nowhere left to go after climbing the escalation ladder to nuclear war, Russia’s consistent opposition to NATO expansion after the collapse of the USSR and the myth that NATO is a purely defensive organisation, the cliche narrative that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was ‘unprovoked’ and ‘full-scale’, how the UK’s perspective of WW2 skews its policy towards Russia, and much more. Show less

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Charles Kupchan, National Security Council Director for European Affairs under US President Obama and President Clinton, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In a heated exchange, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on the current massacres in Syria carried out by Ahmed Al-Sharaa/Al Jolani’s allies, the US’ role in supporting the Al Qaeda and its affiliates in Syria, the Maidan Coup and his belief that it was a ‘grassroots revolution’, Tulsi Gabbard’s characterisation of the proxy war as a campaign to destroy Russia and depose Vladimir Putin at the risk of World War 3, his assertion that the West went out of its way to prevent the Ukraine proxy war from widening, the neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s military and the bombardment of the Donbas since 2014, his view that China, Iran and North Korea being on Russia’s side is ‘not an impressive coalition’, the rise of BRICS and the shift of power to the East and global south, whether the think tanks can understand the rise of a multipolar world, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, Veteran Intelligence Officer of the US Army and member of the Trump 2020 Campaign’s Advisory Board. He discusses how long he thinks Zelensky has left in power in Ukraine, Britain’s plans of deploying troops to Ukraine and Trump’s order to stop intelligence sharing with Ukraine, MI6 and the UK’s role in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, why Britain and the European Union are ‘on the wrong side of history’ when it comes to Russia and the Ukraine proxy war, Western European countries’ delusional belief that Russia will attack London and Paris, Trump’s cabinet picks to avoid pressure from the deep state and traditional lobbying power centres, his belief of a coming clearing house of the intelligence community, the delay in releasing the Epstein files to the public, and much more.