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Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

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S7 Ep 21Palestine Has EXPOSED The Double Standards of the West & International System- Dr. Mustafa Barghouti

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.

Apr 5, 202527 min

S7 Ep 21Prof Steve Hanke: How The US Federal Reserve Made Inequality EXPLODE With Inflation

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.

Mar 31, 202528 min

S7 Ep 20Miko Peled: The Israeli Apartheid State Must be DISMANTLED to End the Gaza Genocide

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.

Mar 29, 202528 min

S7 Ep 18Dystopian Censorship: Ukraine Proxy War, Gaza Genocide, and the Trump Era (GU Head of Social Media)

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.

Mar 27, 202527 min

S7 Ep 20Europe Prepares for DIRECT WAR With Russia…But Why? Ex-OSCE Secretary-General Amb. Thomas Greminger

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.

Mar 22, 202528 min

S7 Ep 18UK Policy on Ukraine Proxy War is a SHAMBLES, Based on LIES- Lord Skidelsky

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

Mar 17, 202526 min

S7 Ep 17Afshin Rattansi vs Obama’s NSC Director Prof. Charles Kupchan on the Ukraine Proxy War, Syria, BRICS

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.

Mar 15, 202528 min

S7 Ep 16EU Prolonging Ukraine Proxy War for Profit, Zelensky is a Pass-Through – Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer

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.

Mar 10, 202527 min

S7 Ep 15Clare Daly: Europe is GAGGING For a War With Russia, Risks DEVASTATING Consequences

Mar 8, 202527 min

S7 Ep 14Ukraine: Europe OUTSOURCED ITS BRAINS to the US, Refuses to End Hostility With Russia- Anatol Lieven

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv 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 Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Ukraine proxy war and the administration’s view that it is China, not Russia that is an existential threat to the United States, the attempt to break the Russia-China alliance and China’s strength in the current geopolitical landscape, Europe’s complete submission and vassalage to the United States and the subsequent consequences surrounding Trump and the proxy war, the mutual mistrust between Europe and Russia, whether Donald Trump will actually withdraw from NATO and scale down the US’ European presence, why Israel would go into a frenzy if the US reduced its presence in Europe, why new German Chancellor Merz will likely continue to just defer European policy to Washington, Europe’s incapability to get off the path off of hostility towards Russia to their own detriment, the complete uniformity of establishment and media thought in the UK and Europe, the catastrophic backfiring of the Trump-Russia hoax perpetuated by the Democrats, and much more.

Mar 3, 202528 min

S7 Ep 13UK & EU Nations Risk DIRECT CONFLICT With Russia if They Deploy Troops in Ukraine- Dr. Dmitri Trenin

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dmitri Trenin, member of Russia’s Foreign and Defence Policy Council and the Former Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He discusses the prospect of British and European troops being deployed to Ukraine and why this could result in a direct conflict with Russia, the reckless decisions of European leaders that has made them direct participants in the Ukraine proxy war as viewed by Moscow, why the UK and EU have little to no choice but to follow Washington’s orders on Ukraine, the voices in Russia that advocate for striking the countries supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles, whether the US has truly changed course on Ukraine and relations with Russia under Donald Trump, whether Donald Trump’s administration will aim to split the Moscow-Beijing alliance, de-dollarisation and Donald Trump’s threats against BRICS and any efforts to create a common currency, Russia’s attempts to regain the technological sovereignty the Soviet Union had, the current dynamics of the US and Europe opposing each other over Ukraine, and much more.

Mar 1, 202527 min

S7 Ep 12Ron Paul on DOGE, the DEBASEMENT of the Dollar, Trump’s Foreign Policy and Potential War With Iran

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to veteran former US Congressman and libertarian icon Dr. Ron Paul. He discusses how much waste and nefarious projects have been uncovered in USAID and other departments by Elon Musk’s DOGE, the debasement of the US dollar and the economic policies that have led to the current precarious state of the US economy, Elon Musk wanting him to run the Federal Reserve, Musk’s plan to audit the gold reserves at Fort Knox, the ‘fake’ audit of the US’ gold reserves and the inevitable change of the US’ economic system, Donald Trump’s proposed plan for Gaza plan and the possible looming Israeli strike on Iran, Donald Trump’s pursuit of peace and his reservations on Trump’s instincts and policies, Iran being chosen to be the ‘enemy of the day’, the US providing the weapons for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the continuing threat to Donald Trump’s life, and much more.

Feb 24, 202528 min