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 Prof. Naomi Wolf, Co-Editor of ‘The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity’. She discusses the high stakes of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr taking on the powerful pharmaceutical industry, the attempts to censor and silence her book exposing Pfizer’s cover-ups which she calls the ‘greatest crime against humanity in recorded history’, why she went from being a lifelong Democrat to endorsing Donald Trump in alliance with RFK Jr, how the censorship by the Biden Administration and the legacy media turned her away from the Democratic Party, the impact of Pfizer’s vaccine on human reproduction, why legacy media and Google’s YouTube are censoring the findings of the Pfizer Papers, the US’ border crisis, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to President-elect Donald Trump’s former Deputy Assistant Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Host of the Gorka Reality Check and the America First podcast. He discusses whether he has been called on to serve in the second Trump administration, Donald Trump’s picks for his new cabinet and the media’s outrage over them, the fake leaks coming out since Donald Trump’s election and why it represents the ‘death rattle’ of the establishment, officials such as Retired General Mark Milley actively working against Donald Trump which he describes as seditious, the ‘clean up’ of the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice that will be coming once Trump takes office, the Ukraine proxy war and how Donald Trump will force a negotiated settlement to be reached, and Ukraine’s infamous corruption being a funnel for laundering money back to the US and the Hunter Biden-Burisma scandal. In the final part of the interview, a heated exchange takes place between Dr. Gorka and Afshin Rattansi over the Gaza genocide, the majority of the world opposing the US support for the Gaza genocide, and what Trump’s approach to Gaza would be.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Matt Taibbi, former Contributing Editor to Rolling Stone, Co-Publisher of the Twitter Files. and Publisher of Racket News. He discusses the legacy corporate media’s tireless failed attempt to elect Kamala Harris and beat Donald Trump, how Donald Trump’s victory represents a shift from US voters not listening to authorities to active defiance, the hope for free speech and a roll-back of digital censorship with Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk, the fate of Ukraine’s Zelensky and how likely it is that Donald Trump will end the foreign wars, and the vilification of the disenfranchised working class after the post-2008 financial crisis. In the second half of the interview he discusses why legacy media is dead after the majority of America voted against them, Kamala Harris’ rejection of new media such as Joe Rogan’s podcast which was fatal for her campaign, the possibility of a ‘Twitter Files’ for the entire US government to expose secrets behind censorship and foreign wars, how Donald Trump will shape his new cabinet and his future relationship with the national security establishment, the monopolisation of the US economy and why Donald Trump must combat it to fulfil his mandate, whether Donald Trump will face another assassination attempt, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dennis Kucinich, veteran former Congressman for Ohio, after Donald Trump won the 2024 Presidential election against Kamala Harris. He discusses America’s shift towards Donald Trump and its reflection of the failure of the Democratic Party, whether he will be a member of Donald Trump’s cabinet once he takes office, the American electorate’s rejection of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris taking the country to the edge of World War 3 despite all of the US’ internal problems, the current state of the US economy and the declining power of the dollar as BRICS builds an alternative financial infrastructure, the rise of the multipolar world and how Donald Trump should navigate scaling back the US’ empire in Europe and the Middle East, what Donald Trump will mean for the Gaza genocide and Israel after he took millions from Miriam Adelson, Netanyahu’s genocidal onslaught across the Middle East and his risking of the destruction of the state of Israel, and whether Iran will retaliate against Israel before Donald Trump takes office. In the second half of the show, he discusses the military-industrial complex’s powerful grip of the US economy and the impact on foreign wars on the US’ large deficit, the victory over American populism over globalism and how the battle between the two forces will shape US foreign policy, whether Donald Trump could be assassinated before he is inaugurated in January, what Donald Trump’s Presidency will mean for the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Emmy-nominated filmmaker and award-winning journalist James Bamford, author of ‘Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs & the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence’. He discusses Israel’s influence in the US Presidential election as the US enables Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Israel’s interference in the 2016 election by lobbying Donald Trump to agree to Benjamin Netanyahu’s demands, pro-Israel billionaire and dual US-Israeli citizen Miriam Adelson’s enormous $100 million donation to Donald Trump to buy pro-Israel policies, the Israel lobby’s purchasing of the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris who has never condemned Israel, the difficulty for journalists to write critically about Israel in the US and the attacks he has faced for his reporting on Israel, Israel’s infiltration of university campuses in the US, the embedding of Israeli Unit 8200 agents in the US’ NSA, the US’ assistance to Israel for assassinations against key figures in the regional resistance against Israel, the fate of the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Paul Thacker, Founder of the Disinformation Chronicle and the 2021 British Journalism Award Winner. He co-authored the “Election Exclusive: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to Kill Musk’s Twitter” article with Matt Taibbi. He discusses how Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party’s has interfered in the US election trying to aid Kamala Harris in her efforts to win the Presidency against Donald Trump, the nefarious history of the de facto Labour Patty vehicle Center for Countering Digital Hate in the UK (CCDH) and its growing influence in the US, how the CCDH and its CEO Imran Ahmed are now attacking all of the enemies of the Democratic Party such as RFK Jr. and Elon Musk, the CCDH’s tactics to kill Elon Musk’s Twitter/X by smearing Musk and stopping advertisers from using the platform, the media pushing Elon Musk in the direction of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, the Trump campaign’s letter of official complaint against Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party and Kamala Harris for accepting illegal foreign national contributions, where the CCDH’s money comes from and Imran Ahmed’s close ties to the Democratic Party, the growth of the censorship industry on social media through ‘fact-checking’, Twitter being the Democratic Party’s censorship toy before Elon Musk bought it and the media’s total vilification of Musk after previously praising him for years, how legacy media outlets became mouthpieces for the Democratic Party subsequently resulting in a severe decline of public trust, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Jean Bricmont, Author of ‘Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War’, and Professor of Theoretical Physics, Catholic University of Louvain. He discusses how ‘humanitarian imperialism’ which he wrote about has descended into ongoing genocide in Gaza and nuclear brinkmanship, the ‘astonishing’ lack of any effect of mass protests across the West on the policies of US, UK, and EU governments’ policies towards Israel, France’s posturing as a defender of Christians while doing nothing to defend the Christians of Lebanon, Palestine or Syria from Israeli attacks, the failure of the West to isolate Russia and cripple its economy via sanctions, the West’s bullying through sanctions resulting in the BRICS Summit in Kazan, why the US must accept a multipolar world in which there is no place for the Israeli Zionist project, and why Vladimir Putin’s defeat of the West’s attempts to isolate him has made him appear to be a political genius. In the second half, he discusses how NGOs such as Amnesty International have gone on to support ‘humanitarian imperialism’ and ended up backing Washington’s imperial policies, the pro-Israel lobby’s purchasing of both Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and Democrats and Republicans in Congress, how Israel’s genocidal actions have increased anti-Semitism around the world, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Daoud Kuttab, Columnist for Arab News and Al-Monitor and former Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. He discusses how the Gaza genocide and slaughter in Lebanon have exposed the US’ and Europe’s hypocrisy, the looming Israeli attack against Iran and subsequent Iranian retaliation which could bring the US militarily into the conflict, American journalist Bob Woodward’s repetition of Israeli propaganda and outright lies surrounding October 7th in his new book, the banning of foreign journalists from entering Gaza and reporting the genocidal horrors perpetrated by Israel, how the West’s support for Israel has left international law ‘in the garbage can’, Antony Blinken and the Biden Administration breaking the US’ own laws by supplying weaponry to Israel while they block humanitarian aid from getting to Gaza, what implications a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris Presidency can have for Palestinians in Gaza, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Andrey Kortunov, the Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council. He discusses the significance of the BRICS+. Summit in Kazan and its importance for Russia, the opportunities and challenges that come with an expanded BRICS welcoming in new nations, why he believes BRICS welcoming in MENA countries is a double-edged sword, Russia’s shifting relations in the Middle East with Moscow becoming closer to Iran and the Arab world and ties weakening with Israel, Saudi Arabia’s navigation between BRICS+ and NATO countries, the extent to which BRICS+ can develop institutions which can provide an alternative to the Western-created institutions, the prospect of direct armed conflict between Washington and BRICS countries such as Russia and China, Ukrainian President Zelensky’s declaration of war against Iran and North Korea and what Zelensky’s endgame is, the expected mobilisation of BRCIS+ countries to counteract the US’ unilateral secondary sanctions, the role of cryptocurrency in the new BRICS+ financial architecture, Washington’s exploitation of the European Union’s strategic weakness to render it a total vassal with no hope for strategic autonomy

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph, Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Haifa and author of ‘Beyond the Iron Wall: The Fatal Flaw in Israel’s National Security’. He discusses how October 7th and the Gaza genocide are a result of the failure of the Israeli government to reach a political solution with the Palestinians, the assassination of Lebanese resistance leader Hassan Nasrallah and his legacy, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s comments that he wants to see Israel expand and invade Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, the overall popularity of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and how much support a two-state solution has among Israeli society, Israel’s bloody attacks on Lebanon and the war with Lebanon’s resistance, how October 7th shattered Israel’s sense of security and Israeli media’s omission of any real information about the tragedy in Gaza, one of the biggest problems being Israeli media and society not discussing a diplomatic path with the Palestinians and Arab states leading to military force being constantly used in attempts to achieve security, Israel’s Generals who support a deal with Hamas to secure the release of hostages clashing with Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the failure of Zionism to create a safe haven for Jews in Israel, the mass emigration from Israel and its causes, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former Nigerian Minister of Culture and Tourism, he also served as the Aviation Minister. He discusses why he said anyone calling what Israel is doing in Gaza a ‘war’ is either a paid Israeli asset, mischievous, or ignorant, his belief that Israel could spark World War 3 let alone a regional conflict, the freedom of speech in Nigeria and the rest of the world regarding what is happening in Gaza as opposed to the draconian crackdowns in the US, UK, and EU, why Israel no longer has the right to exist based on the precedent of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War 2, South Africa rising to the occasion to take Israel to the International Court of Justice for genocide, Israel’s history of playing both sides in the Nigerian Civil War and its influence over the country, Nigerians looking eastwards to Russia and China as Washington’s unipolar hegemony crumbles, his prediction a regional war of Iran vs Israel and the US will eventually bring in Russia and possibly China, why his Christianity compels him to oppose Israel, Joe Biden’s cancelled trip to Angola, Russia becoming one of the greatest friends to Africa, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Diana Buttu, Former Legal Advisor and Negotiator for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. She discusses what it has been like witnessing the Israeli reaction to the October 7th Anniversary from Ramallah and Israelis lack of recognition of anything they have done to Palestinians over the last year of genocide, Israel’s de facto designation of anyone opposing Israeli military rule as a ‘combatant’, whether Americans will recognise that the aid for Israel could pay for natural disaster responses and public services that they don’t have, the crackdown on pro-Palestine activists and free speech in the US’ university campuses, Israel’s glorification of the genocide against Palestinians in pop culture, the Israeli press’ role exposing the lies about October 7th while simultaneously cheering on genocide and Israel’s escalations, Western media’s role as stenographers parroting Israel’s propaganda rather than questioning Israeli atrocities, the harrowing accounts of torture and maltreatment she has heard from Palestinians who have been held hostage by the Israeli army, the ICC’s failure to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli officials and her conclusion that it is just a court to go after Vladimir Putin and African leaders, the need for accountability against Israeli soldiers who have committed these war crimes, Israel’s growing confidence about pursuing regime change across the region while simultaneously being surprised at the level of resistance after one year since the genocide started, why it makes no difference to Palestinians if Kamala Harris or Donald Trump is elected in November, the US’ number one policy being to keep the Israeli colonial entity in place, how long it will take for the sickness of supremacist Israeli Zionism to be removed, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Michael Scheuer, Former Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station at the CIA, and Author of ‘Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror’, on the 1 year anniversary of Hamas and other Palestinian Resistance groups’ October 7th attack against Israel. He discusses why it is the Israeli government that controls the US and not the US controlling Israel, the history of foreign interference by Israel and its loyalists in the USA since 1948, how the CIA only got one piece of useful information from Israel in his entire time running the CIA Bin Laden Issue Station, the US’ involvement in defending Israel from Iran’s retaliatory ballistic missile attack and how perpetual US wars have harmed America, the CIA’s concern being to keep the Israelis happy, the claim that Iran is plotting to assassinate Donald Trump, how the US President has become a warlord that heads a war machine, why the US should not be in NATO or any other alliance, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former Middle East Advisor to the EU Foreign Policy Chief Alastair Crooke. He discusses Iran’s ballistic missile attack against Israel and Iran’s restraint in trying to avoid a regional war after many Israeli escalatory actions as the BRICS Summit in Kazan approaches, the removal of all Middle East experts from the State Department and Amos Hochstein’s operation as a ‘one-man band’, Iranian President Pezeshkian’s embarrassing belief that Iranian restraint would be rewarded with sanctions relief and a Gaza ceasefire, the reformist camp’s restraint contributing to Israel’s escalations such as assassinating Hassan Nasrallah and bombing Lebanon, Israel’s propaganda that Lebanese homes are housing Hezbollah rockets and weapons used to justify Israeli mass bombing of Lebanese villages, how Israel has seen Iran’s self-restraint as weakness and an opportunity to continue escalating, the US allowing itself to be potentially dragged into a regional war with Iran at the invitation of Israel, the Pentagon’s fear that the US is overextended as tension with Russia and China continues to rise, Netanyahu’s plan to expel all Palestinians from the West Bank & Gaza, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Malik Obama, the brother of Former President of the United States Barack Obama and the Founder & Chairman of the Barack H. Obama Foundation. He discusses his brother’s early years and his start in politics as a community leader in Chicago, his meeting with Barack when he became President and the change in his personality as he acquired more power, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi reaching out to him to establish good relations with his brother, why he believes his brother ended up destroying Libya and killing Muammar Gaddafi, who really was pulling the strings when Barack Obama was President, why he supports Donald Trump for doing things his own way versus Barack who he calls a ‘simp’ for going along with the US deep state’s wish to kill Gaddafi, his belief that Barack Obama is pulling the strings in the Democratic Party and played a large role in making Joe Biden quit the Presidential race and crowning Kamala Harris as the successor, the attacks on his character by the media saying that he is jealous of his brother’s success, his belief that his brother is either evil or a wimp, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Palestinian-born academic Dr. Ghada Karmi, author of ‘One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel’. She discusses how she was branded an anti-Semite and expelled from the British Labour Party under Sir Keir Starmer for writing against Israel, her interrogation by British Police over a talk she participated in at a Book Fair for explaining the Palestinian perspective on Hamas, the massive crackdowns on pro-Palestinian dissent in the UK and Western Europe, why the real culprits are the heads of the American Empire for Israel’s genocidal carnage in Gaza and mass slaughter in Lebanon, why Blinken should be embarrassed over his performative ‘diplomatic efforts’ to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza, the significance of Palestinian and Lebanese resistance against Israel as it is one of the ‘most important tools of empire’, why the two-state solution was initially supported by Palestinians and now serves Western interests, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Member of the European Parliament for Ireland South Mick Wallace. He discusses the Nord Stream pipeline attacks two years on which was the largest methane emissions release in history, the rise of anti-establishment left-wing and right-wing political parties as the EU continues to serve the interests of elites, massive disillusionment with the unrepresentative EU Parliament and the entire political system, Ursula Von der Leyen behaving like a ‘total servant’ of US empire, the political class in Ireland going along with Washington’s position on the Ukraine proxy war, the grip of 60,000 lobbyists over European Union politics, NATO’s increasing grip over EU politics and it behaving like a terrorist organisation, how Gaza has led to the mask slipping for the European Union over their support for Israel, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Historian of the Middle East Dr. Assal Rad. She discusses how Western media has consistently whitewashed Israel’s crimes for years against Palestinians, the shaping of media narratives and the use of language to change perceptions of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, how institutional dehumanisation and demonisation of Palestinians in the US, UK and EU is necessary to justify the magnitude of Israel’s crimes, the media’s broad refusal to challenge the narratives of the US State Department and Israel, the role of corporations in corrupting the media and political landscape in the US to ensure their narratives of choice prevail, the double standards of Western governments and media when it comes to talking about Saudi-Iran & Saudi-Syria normalisation agreements in the Middle East as well as Iran’s alliances in the region, AIPACs vice grip on US politics and covert Israeli influence campaigns to influence US elections, the ideologies of US officials which lead them to whitewash and enable Israel’s crimes, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He discusses the Haaretz estimate of 2% of Gaza’s population killed by Israel and the systematic destruction of Gaza to make it uninhabitable, his visit to Israel to give a lecture at a university and the protests against him by Israeli students for saying a genocide was taking place in Gaza, why he has come to the conclusion that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza to wipe out the Palestinian population in whole or in part, why it may be hard to prove Israel’s intent of genocide, whether the US, UK & EU are complicit in war crimes and genocide by supplying weaponry to Israel, Israeli society showing no empathy for the Palestinians suffering in Gaza despite opposing Benjamin Netanyahu, how Israelis went from experiencing the trauma of the Holocaust during World War 2 to carrying out genocide in Gaza and apartheid against Palestinians, why Israel’s apartheid system over Palestinians will intensify, why Israel’s apartheid state will eventually implode and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Former Special Assistant to US President Ronald Reagan and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute Doug Bandow. She discusses Dick Cheney’s endorsement of Kamala Harris and the subsequent glee of Democrats after she received his endorsement, the US’ foreign policy establishment’s ignorance on their own hypocrisy seen by the rest of the world, the Arab Gulf States mending ties with Syria to the horror of the US, why a Kamala Harris Presidency won’t mean much of a change in terms of foreign policy and whether Donald Trump has learned from the foreign policy mistakes made in his first term, why Kamala Harris and the Democrats seem to not care about the rising risk of World War 3 and nuclear war with Russia, the transformation of Bill Burns from cautious diplomat warning against NATO expansion to publicly cheering on the proxy war against Russia through Ukraine as CIA Director, the US, UK and EU’s ‘disgusting policy’ of fighting to destroy Russia by sacrificing Ukrainian lives, the details of the settlement that should be negotiated to end the war, the disastrous self-sanctioning of the European countries and complete subservience to the United States, why a Donald Trump second term could have some benefits on foreign policy because of his anti-war instincts, his work in the Reagan Administration and why he believes the most important issue of our times is war and peace, and much more.