Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CIA Veteran Prof. Melvin Goodman. In an at times heated interview, Afshin Rattansi and Prof. Goodman cover the looming US war on Iran and why the focus will be Iranian ballistic missiles, Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Ukraine proxy war and one of the causes being NATO expansion to Russia’s borders, the beginning of a new Russia-China-US nuclear arms race after expiry of the START treaty, the Epstein Files and whether Israel is pressuring Donald Trump via blackmail, the US’ ‘takeover’ of Venezuela and regime change campaign against Cuba, the ‘mediocrity’ of Trump’s cabinet team, and much more.

n this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Alan Eyre, Former Senior Advisor for Iran at the US State Department and the First Persian-Language Spokesperson at the US State Department. He discusses the Trump Administration’s strategic ambiguity and inconsistency towards Iran regarding the nuclear program, missiles and regime change, whether China and Russia will come to Iran’s rescue for economic and military aid, the weakening of the Iranian economy by the US and structural economic problems, Iran’s continued deterrence via hypersonic missiles, whether Iran should pursue nuclear weapons as a deterrent against the US and nuclear-armed Israel, the power of the Israel lobby as the war on Iran looms, Israel’s goal being the annihilation of Iran rather than a US-Iran deal, whether he would advise Trump to use or not to use military action against Iran, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Victoria Panova, Head of Russia’s BRICS Expert Council who participated at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, UAE. She discusses the shadow of a US war on Iran hanging over the region, the status of Saudi Arabia’s invitation to join BRICS and Javier Milei’s rejection of BRICS membership for Argentina, the launch of the BRICS New Development Bank as an alternative to the Washington-dominated World Bank and IMF, Brazil’s Lula Da Silva vetoing BRICS membership for Venezuela, the subsequent kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores by Donald Trump and the silence of BRICS and the international community. In the second half, she discusses why Donald Trump believes BRICS is an anti-US bloc, the building of an independent payment system and the use of non-dollar currencies, Trump’s tariff war against BRICS nations, Donald Trump being the ‘best thing’ to happen to BRICS, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Former Israeli Intelligence Officer Ari Ben-Menashe about the Epstein Files. He discusses his belief that Israel is holding sensitive information which they would release if they felt Donald Trump was threatening Israel, Jeffrey Epstein’s history of working as a Mossad agent to attain compromising blackmail on Western politicians, his allegations that MI6 is working with Israel amid the revelations about Peter Mandelson in the Epstein Files, the Western media’s claims that Jeffrey Epstein is a Russian agent and Israel being behind the cover-up, his belief that Benjamin Netanyahu would sabotage a US-Iran deal with damaging Epstein material against Trump and other US officials, the previous Israeli policy of supporting Hamas and the turn to destroying Palestinians, his belief that Donald Trump wants Benjamin Netanyahu out of power, the possibility of Israel using nuclear weapons against Iran, former British Prince Andrew’s role as Jeffrey Epstein’s useful idiot, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland’s Minister of Business, Mineral Resources & Energy. She discusses the US’ betrayal of Greenland following Donald Trump’s plans to annex Greenland, her policies on banning uranium mining and natural resource extraction, Greenland’s membership of NATO and the accusation that it makes Greenland a target for Russia and China, her view of China as a competitor rather than a potential partner, whether Greenlanders see Trump’s annexation plan as leverage against Denmark to gain full independence, the lower rates of poverty rates in Denmark compared to Greenland and the lack of sovereignty over US bases, Trump’s offer of $100,000 to every Greenlander in exchange for annexation, Denmark’s arming of Israel for the genocide in Gaza, whether the US’ threats over Greenland signal the beginning of the end of NATO, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CMSGT. Dennis Fritz, Former Advisor to the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Richard Myers. He discusses the Trump Administration’s crackdown against anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota and how it’s a training ground for repression against the American population, Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland and what the motivations are behind his threats, the looming threat of a US-led regime change war against Iran, the US’ failed use of unrest in Iran to bring down the Iranian government which makes war more likely, whether Saudi Arabia and the UAE can dissuade Trump from attacking Iran while the Israel lobby and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are persuading Trump into going to war, whether China will imminently move to reintegrate Taiwan by force, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Tuomas Malinen, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Helsinki and CEO of GnS Economics. He discusses why it is likely President Donald Trump will fail to broker peace in the Ukraine proxy war thanks to the neoconservatives in his administration, the neocon faction’s priority shifting to stopping an alliance between China, Russia, and Europe, the Greenland crisis and whether NATO could actually break up over the crisis, the construction of 15 US bases in Finland since it became a full NATO member, how Georgia was a test for pushing Russia’s red lines in Ukraine, the catastrophic state of the Western European banking sector, the structural fragility of the European Union and the vulnerability of the Euro, the potential re-igniting of the Israel-Iran War and the fears of a Strait of Hormuz closure, the facade being presented of the US’ and Israel’s military power over Venezuela and Iran, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Renowned Writer, Filmmaker and Activist Tariq Ali. He discusses the mainstream media’s obsession with the World Economic Forum in Davos and why we may be closer to the end of the organisation than we imagine, Donald Trump’s regime change kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro to start 2026, his thoughts on the new Acting President Delcy Rodriguez and the deals being made with Washington over Venezuelan oil, the worsening relationship between Brazil’s President Lula Da Silva and Nicolas Maduro which aided the US’ regime change campaign, the effects of the economic strangulation by the US, UK, and EU on Venezuela’s democracy, Donald Trump’s motivations for setting his sights on Greenland, the state of the Ukraine proxy war following the assassination attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin, the looming reaction of the Ukrainian far-right groups to a negotiated end of the war, the scale of repression against pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Germany, France and Starmer’s UK, the protests in Iran which have sparked a renewed effort by the US and Israel for a regime change campaign, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago for our final episode of the year and season. He discusses Donald Trump’s foreign policy failures of 2025, the 12-day Israeli war on Iran, the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and how his former defence lawyer Alan Dershowitz attacked him for exposing the Israel lobby, the threat the Israel lobby poses to freedom of speech in the United States, the damage the Gaza genocide has done to Israel’s image abroad, whether a second US-Israel war on Iran is likely, Donald Trump’s growing disdain for Europe and the likely reduction of the US military presence in Europe, the European strategy of trying to prolong the proxy war on Russia through Ukraine, the likely conclusion of the Ukraine proxy war being a frozen conflict, the fate of the global nuclear arms control infrastructure, and much more.

NewsPolitics On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Philip Pilkington, Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs and Author of ‘The Collapse of Global Liberalism’. He discusses how the Ukraine proxy war has completely upended the Western economic and geostrategic calculus, the failure of the West’s logic in military procurement as proven in Ukraine and the Israel-Iran war, the collapse and dysfunction in Western European cities, the failure of markets and capitalism to solve the West’s problems, the origins of liberal capitalism and the evolution of imperialism, the rediscovery of civilisational roots among the non-Western powers, the dark future Europe faces as it sits in the chaos of the collapse of liberalism.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Richard Spence, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Idaho. He discusses what is and what defines a society and the importance they have on elite decision making, the origins of the infamous Bohemian Grove and the influence it has had over Western politics, the Bilderberg Group and the who’s who of important members and the vetting of future holders of political office, the Trilateral Commission and its role as the elite foreign policy secret society, the Western hostility against Russia dating back to the Middle Ages and the role of secret societies in enforcing it, the efforts to bring back in some form the Roman Empire, the origins of Jeffrey Epstein and how he rose into the highest circles of elite power, the risk to Donald Trump’s life for going against these elite circles, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Max Blumenthal, Editor in Chief of The Grayzone. He discusses the Trump Administrations’ fabrications of left-wing terror plots to justify further repression, the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia and how Israel is exploiting it for furthering its aims of cracking down on anti-Zionist activism and pursuing a second war on Iran, how Israel’s campaign to portray itself as the global voice of Judaism has fuelled anti-Semitism as the Gaza genocide continues, the Epstein Files scandal and its damage to Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and the neocon wing trapping Donald Trump in escalation in Venezuela and Syria, President Nicolas Maduro strategy of defying the US media and Trump Administration, why Russia and China are not taking more action to stop the looming US regime change war on Venezuela, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou. He discusses why the CIA is involved in drug trafficking and the purposes it serves, how the CIA works with Hollywood and the media to ensure the CIA is portrayed in a positive light, the mass control of the media by just 5 corporations and its effects on the American people, why there is no Gaza Peace Deal or even peace in the Middle East with Israel continuing its region-wide warfare, why US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee needs to be urgently fired, the CIA’s program of torture which he exposed and the outsourcing of torture and abuse, the fact that the CIA does not spy on Israel and everything the US does in Israel having to be approved by Mossad, the lack of arrests or indictments of any deep state officials under Donald Trump such as John Brennan, the looming war on Venezuela and the war in the Republican Party between neoconservatives and America First Republicans, the US’ warped view of Latin America which leads to continuous foreign policy failures, Venezuela’s military still being on the side of President Nicolas Maduro and the obstacles this poses, the CIA’s bases in Ukraine and whether there is a risk of escalation as Russia advances, why we may never see a full release of the Epstein Files, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Carlos Ron, Former Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister for North America. He discusses the mood in Venezuela as the threat of regime change attack from the US looms over the country, the new type of warfare being used against Venezuela by Washington, the lies being told by the Trump Administration and the media about Nicolas Maduro being the head of a narco-trafficking cartel, the exclusion of Venezuela from BRICS reportedly by Brazil’s President Lula Da Silva, the right-wing governments of Latin America being sustained by the US’ financing and repression, the prevailing strength of the Bolivarian Revolution and unification of the country behind defiance of Donald Trump’s threats, the treatment of Venezuelan migrants by the Trump Administration and the possible refugee wave that would come from a US attack on Venezuela, the brave history of resistance in Latin America and why the US will be surprised by the level of resistance shown by Venezuela, CIA Asset Maria Corina Machado’s close ties and links to Israel in contrast to the Bolivarian Revolution’s solidarity with Palestine, Corina Machado’s history of sabotaging Venezuela and representing the system of exclusion that impoverished most Venezuelans, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Ahmed Alnaouq, Co-Founder of We Are Not Numbers and Co-Editor of the We Are Not Numbers anthology. He discusses the purpose of the organisation to fight against the dehumanisation of Palestinians by the mainstream media, US-UK-EU-armed Israel’s slaughter of much of his family during the Gaza genocide, the mass destruction of Palestinian centres of culture and knowledge by Israel, why Israel killed Co-Founder of We Are Not Numbers Refaat Alareer, the lack of sympathy or empathy from mainstream media when interviewing him, whether ‘peaceful’ resistance against a genocidal Israel has failed, whether the Palestinian bourgeoisie is to blame for the fragmentation of the resistance, how the Gaza genocide proved the West’s values as hypocritical, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Steven Simon, NSC Senior Director for Transnational Threats under President Bill Clinton and NSC Senior Director for Middle East and North Africa under President Barack Obama. He discusses his reaction to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee meeting convicted Israeli spy Jonathon Pollard responsible for the biggest breach of US intelligence in history, the lack of any real set compass for Donald Trump as regards foreign policy with constant u-turns, Russia’s standing in the Middle East following the fall of Bashar Al-Assad in Syria, and Trump’s welcoming of Al-Sharaa/Al-Jolani to the White House. In the second half of the interview Afshin Rattansi challenges him on why the US had been meddling in Syria leading to more bloodshed and the infamous admission by Jake Sullivan that the US was on Al Qaeda’s side in Syria. The conversation then moved into Iran realising that negotiations with the US over its nuclear program are pointless and the threat of attack by the US and Israel again, how long Jolani/Al-Sharaa can remain in power, and more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Dmitri Trenin, Member of Russia’s Foreign and Defence Policy Council and Former Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He discusses why the Ukraine proxy war is far more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis with the world at the precipice of nuclear war, the possibility of Russia using tactical nuclear weapons should current negotiations with the US fail, whether there are splits in the approach to negotiations in the Russian and US leadership, the leak of the Ushakov-Witkoff phone call and who could be behind it, why Donald Trump keeps caving to demands from the European countries on Ukraine, Trump’s approach to pressuring both Russia and Ukraine into agreeing to a peace deal, Vladimir Putin’s aim to help the US distance itself from Ukraine, the tenets of the ‘28-point-plan’ and whether Russia is likely to accept it, the potential of Russian strikes against European targets in the event of Western provocations and false flags to torpedo a future peace agreement, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Susan Miller, Former Chief of the CIA’s Station in Tel Aviv. Afshin Rattansi asks her about the close relationship between the CIA, Mossad and Shin Bet, Israel’s level of influence over US foreign policy, Israel and the CIA’s involvement with ISIS and Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, Syria’s Al-Sharaa/Al-Jolani being welcomed to the White House by Donald Trump, the CIA’s role in the assassination of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani, whether the CIA’s policy of assassinations are actually successful in furthering US foreign policy objectives, the Trump Administration’s bogus pretext of narco-trafficking for pushing regime change against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, the CIA’s own history of being involved in drug trafficking, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Steve Keeen, Distinguished Fellow at UCL’s Institute for Strategy Resilience and Security. He discusses the ‘failed sideshow’ of the G20 and the non-attendance of the leaders of the big powers, the high levels of private debt crushing the poor and reducing demand across the West, the zero-sum games of FDI-led growth and war-led growth that the US is trying to pursue under Donald Trump, the short-sighted and ludicrous economic aims of our contemporary leaders, the elite increasing their wealth and power through war while ignoring growing private debt, the IMF being a major destabilising force causing economic misery in Africa, the US’ weaponisation of the US dollar and international commerce system against Russia, Iran, and others, the catastrophic economic impact of Europe cutting itself off from cheap Russian energy, the need for BRICS to create an alternative international financial system to replace the US’ authoritarian and flawed system, some of Donald Trump’s good economic instincts which are in tune with the demands of the working class, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Colonel Roxane Towner-Watkins, US Air Force Veteran and Host of the Colonel’s Corner podcast. She discusses the history of NATO’s Operation Gladio and the use of terrorism and false flags to suppress and keep socialist and communist movements out of power not just in Western Europe but all around the world, the real objective being to suppress and attack labour movements and strengthen oligarch power, how Gladio networks are still attacking anti-imperial leaders in the modern era from Gaddafi to Maduro now in Venezuela, Israel and Taiwan as a ‘strategy of tension’ for control of the Middle East and Asia’s resources, how Operation Gladio today uses student movements against designated enemy governments, the assassination of Charlie Kirk and how it fits into the historical pattern of assassinations of mass movement leaders, the Jeffrey Epstein blackmail campaign and how it fits into the Operation Gladio strategy, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Ruthie Blum, Former Advisor to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. She discusses Syria’s Ahmed Al-Sharaa's visit to the White House and the resignation of Netanyahu’s Strategic Affairs Minister, Ron Dermer. Afshin Rattansi challenges her on Israel’s arming and supporting of Hamas, Ron Dermer advocating the use of economics to lower Palestinian birth rates and preserve an Israeli majority, the assassination of Charlie Kirk and his turn against Israel before his death, J.D. Vance’s embrace of the anti-Israel MAGA base, Donald Trump’s admission of Miriam Adelson’s significant influence over his administration, the exodus of Jews from Israel as the Gaza genocide continues despite the ceasefire, a potential second Israeli war on Iran, whether it’s time to wrap up the Zionist project, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Nick Maynard, a Volunteer Surgeon at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital. The failure of UK medical institutions to call out the Gaza genocide, why he decided to speak out in media interviews with the horrors of what he’s seen in Gaza, the media’s role in covering up the genocide and parroting Israeli propaganda, Israel’s systematic targeting of Palestinian children, British officials ignoring the clear photographic evidence he presented and choosing to believe Israeli propaganda instead, Israel’s blocking the entry of most doctors and medicine into Gaza despite the ceasefire, how he watched a baby named Zainab pass away from malnutrition after Israel blocked the entry of baby formula, the attempts by medical and academic institutions in the US and UK to silence him and others providing evidence of the horrors in Gaza, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Alastair Crooke, Former Middle East Advisor to the EU Foreign Policy Chief. He discusses Donald Trump’s resumption of nuclear tests after accusing Russia and China of covert tests, the US’ move towards a regime change war against Venezuela to topple Nicolas Maduro, the US financial crisis being the real reason for targeting Venezuela, the potential for the Supreme Court to declare Donald Trump’s tariffs as unconstitutional, the European Union’s and Britain’s push to keep funding the Ukrainian proxy war despite not having the money, China’s domination of trade talks with the US, Israel’s reliance on US hegemony to survive, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Arab Barghouti, son of Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti who has been imprisoned by Israel for over 23 years. He discusses the terror attacks against Palestinians by Israeli settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank and what life is like under Israeli occupation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed requests for an update on the potential release of his father, why Marwan Barghouti is a trusted and revered figure in the eyes of Palestinians who could lead a future Palestinian state, Israeli refusing to even allow him to hug his father for 23 years, the recent torture and vicious beating of Marwan Barghouti by Israeli prison guards under the orders of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, the efforts of his father to educate Palestinian prisoners despite the horrific conditions he faces, his disappointment with the international community over the double standards over the Gaza genocide, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Jason Hickel, Co-Creator of the Global Inequality Project. He discusses the US’ historical and contemporary real motivations for supporting Israel to crush Arab national liberation movements and protect Western economic interests, the Gaza genocide being a mask-off moment for Western liberalism, the global apartheid of international law only applying to the global majority and not the West, the destruction of Gaza’s environment and the silence of the environmental lobbies and NGOs, the challenges the grassroots environmental movement faces, the need to rebuild institutions such as the UN Security Council to give the global majority more power, the profound anti-democratic nature of capitalism and it being the root of the major problems we face today, why the capitalist system does not address the threat of climate change, why China has been able to make huge strides in the development of renewable energy, the high level of trust of the Chinese people in their government compared to Western countries, the Trump Administration’s push for a regime change war on Venezuela and the devastating effect of sanctions, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Former US State Department Officer and Former Pentagon Official Matthew Hoh. He discusses how neocon officials appointed by Donald Trump such as Marco Rubio have sabotaged his plans for brokering peace with Russia in Ukraine, Marco Rubio’s push for war on Venezuela and his obsession with Latin America, the sidelining of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in favour of CIA Director John Ratcliffe, the lack of progress since the Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska, Trump’s threat to give Zelensky Tomahawk missiles, the need for a mechanism by China and Russia to punish the US if it goes ahead with a regime change war in Venezuela, the Trump Administration’s belief that regime change won’t be a disaster despite historical examples, the likelihood of a US-Israeli war on Iran, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Mouin Rabbani, Co-Editor of Jadaliyya. He discusses Donald Trump forcing Israel to accept the Gaza ceasefire plan unlike the approach of the Biden Administration, the plutocratic system of the US and Miriam Adelson buying Trump’s policy towards Israel, why the US isn’t a colony of Israel as has been asserted over the course of the genocide, Israel waiting for the US to change foreign policy priority to sabotage the Gaza peace deal, the Palestinian Authority’s increasing irrelevance and shocking dereliction of duty, the future of Arab-Israeli normalisation efforts, the high likelihood of a second Israeli war on Iran, the MAGA movement’s increasing opposition towards Israel, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Craig Mokhiber, Former New York Director of the UN High Commissioner’s Office for Human Rights. He discusses the cowardice of United Nations officials who have refused to call Israel’s slaughter in Gaza a genocide, UN officials’ fear over powerful Western states and Israeli proxies, the UN’s failure to prevent the genocide as demanded by the UN Charter, how the UN General Assembly could take action against Israel bypassing the US veto at the Security Council, why UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres should step down from his role, the smearing of UN officials such as Francesca Albanese for revealing Israel’s crimes of apartheid and genocide, Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Omar Awadallah, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority. He discusses Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan and the last-minute alterations to the plan, the absence of the founding of a Palestinian State in the plan and the level of involvement of the PA in formulating the plan, Donald Trump being unsure of a one-state or two-state solution, Donald Trump’s refusal to allow an Israeli annexation of the West Bank after pressure from UAE and Saudi Arabia, the future of Mahmoud Abbas as leader of the Palestinian Authority, war criminal Tony Blair’s involvement in the post-genocide governance of Gaza, the PA’s plan for governing Gaza and the West Bank as the occupation continues, the need to disarm Israeli settlers, the fate of Marwan Barghouti, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to James Carden, Ex-Adviser to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission and Editor of The Realist Review. He discusses Donald Trump’s neoconservative foreign policy shift and the Republican establishment firmly controlling his foreign policy, the fake Ukraine proxy war casualty numbers being published in the Western press and the shocking real casualty numbers and ratio, why its ’mission impossible’ for Tulsi Gabbard to reform US foreign policy from within the Trump Administration, why Russia has largely ignored Washington’s and Brussels’ escalations in Ukraine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio being poised to turn Latin America and the Caribbean into a war zone after threats against Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, how the US has turned Ukraine into a ‘supersized Kosovo’ as a black market arms bazaar, the US population’s shift against Israel after the Gaza genocide, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Mika Almog, Content Director of the It’s Time Coalition and granddaughter of the late President of Israel, Shimon Peres. She discusses how the It’s Time Coalition has been working to promote the voices of the Israeli peace camp against the Gaza genocide, the polls showing the overwhelming majority of Israelis expressing genocidal sentiment towards Palestinians, why Israel’s concept of ‘total victory’ in Gaza is ‘childish’ and unrealistic, why Israel has still not recovered from the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the elimination of discussion about a political peace process in Israel, Donald Trump tipping Tony Blair to be part of the leadership of the Gaza Peace Plan, what her message would be to Israelis who want a genocidal ‘total victory’, whether Benjamin Netanyahu will use a war with Iran and potentially use Israel’s nuclear weapons to evade elections, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Jim Rickards, Author of ‘Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation in the Coming Chaos’ and Lecturer of Financial Warfare at the US Army War College. He discusses the historic significance of the Mar-a-Lago Accord and the plan behind Donald Trump’s trade and foreign policy plan, the plan for introducing century bonds and why it might hit US treasury bonds, the urgency to bring down the US’ debt-to-GDP ratio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s plan to do it, why the US Treasury has been engineering the dollar’s declining valuation, Europe’s self-destructive sanctions against Russia and its consequences, Ukraine being a ‘money laundering machine’ for US progressive politicians while Russia wins the war, why oil prices haven’t been weaponised to force an end to the Ukraine proxy war, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Matt Kennard, Author of The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire, and former Head of Investigations at Declassified UK. He discusses the crackdown on free speech in the UK on Palestine and the weaponisation of the Terrorism Act to silence critics of British foreign policy, the detention of George Galloway at a UK airport, the proscription of Palestine Action and the arrest of over 1000 activists, Britain’s RAF spy flights over Gaza giving real-time intelligence sharing to Israel and the cover-up of the UK’s role in the Gaza genocide, the consideration of Tony Blair to be a de facto viceroy in post-war Gaza, why it’s likely Israel will attack Iran again, why the US-Israeli proposal for Gaza is a ploy to the further the Gaza genocide, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Steve Hanke, Co-Author of ‘Making Money Work’. He discusses how commercial banks create money ‘out of thin air’, his three solutions to rewrite the rules of our financial system, the extreme wealth inequality in the United States and how it has been fuelled by monetary policy, why contemporary monetary policy places too much importance on interest rates as not the money supply, the weaponisation of the US dollar via sanctions and whether ‘King Dollar’ will be toppled, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Kehinde Andrews, author of Nobody Can Give You Freedom: The Political Life of Malcolm X. He discusses how Malcolm X would have viewed the Gaza genocide and Israel’s crimes, the crucial differences between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and their views on the American project, why Malcolm X was not a Marxist despite his alliance with Marxist revolutionaries and the difference in their philosophies, his critiques of Marxism, Donald Trump and his massively overstated with black Americans, why the Posthumous Autobiography of Malcolm X is a pack of lies, what Critical Race Theory actually is, and much more

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff of former Secretary of State Colin Powell. He discusses his work with Randy Credico to publicise the horror of the Gaza genocide in Washington D.C., Israeli PM Netanyahu being intent on fulfilling the Greater Israel plan, the high likelihood of a second war with Iran before the end of the year, Netanyahu’s plan to drag the US into World War 3 and why we are already in a World War, why Israel may use nuclear weapons in the upcoming second war on Iran, the US empire now facing down over 2 billion people in its confrontation with the multipolar world, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Andrey Kortunov, former Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council. He discusses the understated role and sacrifice China made for victory in World War 2, European countries’ plan to send troops to Ukraine and why security guarantees are essential for Russia, whether these negotiations are a ploy to trick Russia into another Minsk Agreement trap, whether the powers of the multipolar world such as China and Iran should act preemptively before the US moves against them, whether the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation can withstand the pressure from the US and its military-industrial complex, whether the SCO can be a united front for the multipolar world against US hegemony, whether Israel will use its nuclear weapons against Iran in the next war, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign Policy Research at the Brookings Institution, former member of the Defense Policy Board of the US Department of Defense, and former CIA Advisor. He discusses the legacy of the US’ disastrous invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the importance of ending the Ukraine proxy war for Trump’s agenda and the MAGA base, his desire for US military trainers to be sent to Ukraine as part of a peace deal between Washington and Moscow, why Russia’s reaction to NATO expansion was predictable, and more. In the second half, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on his claims that Russia tried to use ‘shock and awe’ against Ukraine, why Russia can’t trust an agreement with the United States, the US’ hypocrisy of condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with its own history of illegal invasions, the state of the International Relations scholarly field in the US, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert. He discusses his opposition the continuation of Israel’s war on Gaza, the arrogance and complacency of the Israeli leadership which allowed October 7th to occur, Benjamin Netanyahu’s failed approach of flirting with Hamas and ignoring all warnings of an upcoming Hamas operation, Israel’s plan for Palestinians which could become ethnic cleansing, the extreme polarisation of Israeli society and the potential for civil war, the unforgivable and intolerable amount of innocent Palestinians killed in Gaza, his message to Arabs and Muslims that there are Israelis opposed to Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, what he says really happened in the failed negotiations between him and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for a two-state solution, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Anatol Lieven, Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute. He discusses why European countries have been so hostile towards direct negotiations with Russia and why the Ukraine proxy war must keep going, the idea of NATO nations contributing to a ‘reassurance force’ in Ukraine, the failed policy of excluding Russia from European security and giving Eastern European NATO members a veto on European security affairs, European leaders grovelling before Trump as a consequence of outsourcing their own security to Washington, European countries’ refusal to see Russia’s point of views and compromise for decades, why a European peacekeeping force may actually encourage Ukraine to escalate against Russia, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He discusses why he concludes that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and the exact moment that conclusion became apparent to him, the weaponisation of the Holocaust to eradicate Israel’s enemies and equating all criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, the mainstream media’s soaring coverage of the Gaza genocide, the deliberate targeting of journalists and medical professionals by Israel, why the US, UK, and EU so far have refused to acknowledge the Gaza genocide, why we must not give up on international law even if it has so far been ineffective in stopping genocide, the hero status of OUN Leader and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera in Ukraine, the rise of the far right in Ukraine, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Guy Shalev, Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. He discusses the Israeli public’s ’wall of denial’ about the suffering and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza as the Gaza genocide continues, the draconian media censorship in Israel which omitted his organisation’s report that concluded Israel is committing genocide, why the US, UK and EU refusing to recognise that it is a genocide, Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s healthcare and essential infrastructure for life, the targeting of 22 hospitals by Day 5 of the Gaza genocide, the weaponisation of anti-Semitism to facilitate the genocide of Palestinians, his organisation’s early reporting on false claims of sexual violence on October 7th, the extent of the torture inside the Sde Teiman camp, the medical community in Israel starting to speak out against the genocide in Gaza, the role of the weaponisation of anaesthesia as a weapon of war, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Development. He discusses the upcoming Trump-Putin meeting and the chances of success or failure at ending the Ukraine proxy war, Donald Trump’s behaviour as a ‘King’ and why it harms global security, the contradiction of the US government wanting security while the US military attacks Russia in the Ukraine proxy war, how Trump’s ultimatums and threats against major powers are bringing us closer to nuclear war, Washington’s campaign since the fall of the Soviet Union to bring Russia to its knees, the European Union’s complete vassalage to Washington, the US-Israeli attack on Iran and the damage Iran’s retaliation caused to Israel, how the US still could end the Ukraine proxy war quickly, the US’ continuing support of Israel genocide in Gaza despite overwhelming public opinion against Israel, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dennis Kucinich, former Congressman and former Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. He discusses the efforts for negotiations between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin with the danger of nuclear war hanging over us all, the deep state’s continuing grip on the Trump Administration in foreign policy, Vladimir Putin’s restraint in avoiding escalation with Washington amid the Ukraine proxy war, why the nuclear powers must get rid of their nuclear weapons, the Commanding General of US Forces in Europe threatening an invasion of Russia’s Kaliningrad, why NATO should be dissolved, Russia’s ‘Dead Hand’ nuclear response system, the Gaza genocide and why the US must change its relationship with Israel, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer who alleges Jeffrey Epstein was an asset of Israel’s Mossad. He discusses why he believes the US is trapped by Israel to do nothing about the Gaza genocide, Jeffrey Epstein’s blackmailing of Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton to stop an agreement with Yasser Arafat for a two-state solution, how a number of US Presidents had been blackmailed by Israel using Jeffrey Epstein, how Rupert Murdoch’s first newspaper was funded for him by Israel, Trump wanting to bring peace to the Middle East but being held back by Israel via blackmail over Jeffrey Epstein, the brainwashing of Israelis during the Gaza genocide, the bombing of his house in Canada in 2012, how the UK got most of its military technology from Israel, Israel committing harakiri on itself over the Gaza genocide, why Donald Trump must end the Gaza genocide despite the blackmail, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Max Blumenthal, Editor in Chief of The Grayzone. He discusses the Democrats’ and the media’s sudden switch to acknowledging starvation in Gaza and the scale of the carnage, Israel’s race towards a final solution in Gaza to the shock of the Democrats, the New York Times’ apology over its reporting of the death of a child which effectively ceded ground to the Zionist lobby, the role of NATO nation journalists as stenographers for imperial power, why a military intervention is needed to stop the Gaza Holocaust, the hypocrisy of Samantha Power and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine over Gaza, why the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is a Mossad, IDF and CIA cutout, Trump’s threats against Russia along the lines of the ‘Kellogg formula’, the sidelining of Tulsi Gabbard and the relegation of her role to just saving Donald Trump’s skin, the potential for another war between Israel and Iran, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Curtis Yarvin, Author of ‘Gray Mirror’ on Substack and New Right Political Theorist. He discusses the ‘top-down’ approach of the Trump Administration versus the traditional bottom-up mode of operating, how Trump’s 2nd term is starting to mirror the FDR Presidency, how the Trump Administration’s approach to the India-Pakistan conflict became a new positive for the world, why the US is still involved in the genocide in Gaza and bombed Iran, the ‘toxic’ US-Israel relationship, why Trump 47 is 10 times more powerful than Trump 45, why Vladimir Putin’s winning position in the Ukraine proxy war means he won’t give Trump an easy off-ramp, why Trump is a mortal enemy for the Republican establishment, Iran resembling the USSR in the 1980s, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Alan Dershowitz, former Defence Lawyer for the late Jeffrey Epstein and Former Impeachment Lawyer for Donald Trump. He discusses whether Barack Obama will go to prison for fabricating the Russiagate hoax against Donald Trump with the help of the CIA and FBI, why a deal must be reached with Ghislaine Maxwell for the full truth to be revealed about Jeffrey Epstein. Afshin Rattansi and Dershowitz go on to debate the allegations that Jeffrey Epstein was an agent of Israel’s Mossad, whether Israel has something on Donald Trump for him to be supporting Israel to the hilt and bombing Iran, Epstein’s connections to Robert Maxwell, Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Avi Melamed, former Senior Israeli Intelligence Official and advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. In a heated exchange, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on Israel’s bombing of Syria and Netanyahu’s support for ISIS and Al Qaeda against Bashar Al-Assad, former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert saying that Israel is close to a civil war, Iran’s reported successes in destroying economic and military targets inside Israel, the Muslim world’s outrage at Israel for its atrocities and genocide in Gaza, the Iranian people’s demand for nuclear weapons as a deterrent against Israel, Jews in Israel being unsafe while Jews in Iran are safe, Iran’s relations with the GCC, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Jennifer Kavanaugh, Director of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities and Former Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. She discusses why the US-European plan to supply Ukraine with weaponry won’t make a difference on the battlefield and how Donald Trump has made it harder for himself to walk away from the Ukraine proxy war, Trump’s use of tariffs and his threats for secondary tariffs on Russia, the frustration over Trump campaigning on a more restrained US foreign policy and now going in the opposite direction, whether Trump would actually bomb Russia if peace talks fail over Ukraine, why Trump’s strike on Iran makes nuclear proliferation more likely across the global south, Vladimir Putin’s restraint against NATO amid the proxy war in Ukraine, Europe’s efforts to tie the US military down in Europe, why the US must withdraw from the Middle East, and much more.