Going Underground
Twice a week, award-winning journalist Afshin Rattansi and his team go underground to cover geopolitics and current affairs from a perspective you won’t find in the mainstream media, with some of the most high-profile guests.
Why Israel’s war in Gaza is EASILY a genocide – Israeli-American genocide scholar Prof. Omer Bartov
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 that 2% of Gaza’s population has been killed by Israel and the systematic destruction of Gaza to make it uninhabitable, his visit to Israel to give a lecture at a university, 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.
‘Disgusting’: NATO’s role in Ukraine proxy war slammed By Reagan’s ex-special assistant, Doug Bandow
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. He 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 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 Harris and the Democrats seem to not care about the rising risk of World War III 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 US, why a 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.
Ukraine being used as a PROXY for US imperialism in war against Russia (Dr. Daniele Ganser)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Daniele Ganser, Founder and Director of the Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research and author of ‘USA: The Ruthless Empire’. He discusses the history of NATO’s secret armies in Western Europe through Operation Gladio and their links to terrorist attacks, the parallels of Operation Gladio and the chaos fomented in Ukraine in 2014, US involvement in the 2014 Maidan coup and the general population being unaware of much of this history, the assassination attempt against Donald Trump and the many suspicious facts surrounding the event that lead him to believe there was a stand-down order among the Secret Service, NATO countries possibly using Zelensky’s Ukrainian army to invade Kursk in Russia and how this is unprecedented in history, Switzerland’s abandonment of neutrality amid the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and Switzerland’s partaking in the economic war against Russia, the decline of the population’s trust in the ruling establishment parties in Western Europe, why Russia and Ukraine have no option to return to peace and brotherhood, and much more. FOLLOW Going Underground http://twitter.com/GUnderground_TV FOLLOW Afshin Rattansi http://twitter.com/AfshinRattansi SUBSCRIBE on Telegram: https://t.co/xDEHJ0c6WW LIKE on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoingUndergroundTV/ FOLLOW on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/GoingUnderground
Heated interview: Former Israeli deputy diplomat challenged on Gaza and potential war with Iran
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Danny Ayalon, the Former Israeli deputy foreign minister and former ambassador to the United States. In a heated interview, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on the prospect of a war with Iran and whether Tehran already has nuclear weapons, the state of the Israeli economy and society as Israeli Jews leave the country, Hezbollah’s recent wide-ranging strikes against Israel, and the censorship order from the Israeli government to prevent reporting on the damage. They also discuss the placement of Israeli military facilities next to civilian infrastructure, the banning of access for journalists to enter Gaza, and reports of torture and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners at the Sde Teiman concentration camp. Plus, the trend in the United States of the younger generation supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state and opposing Israel’s human rights violations, the extreme number of civilian casualties in Gaza, and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. FOLLOW Going Underground http://twitter.com/GUnderground_TV FOLLOW Afshin Rattansi http://twitter.com/AfshinRattansi SUBSCRIBE on Telegram: https://t.co/xDEHJ0c6WW LIKE on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoingUndergroundTV/ FOLLOW on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/GoingUnderground
War on free speech: Matt Taibbi on Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s arrest, US government censorship
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Matt Taibbi, co-publisher of the ‘Twitter Files’, co-host of the ‘America This Week’ podcast, and former contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine. He discusses the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov and why it marks a paradigm shift in free speech and censorship in Western countries. He also talks about creeping digital censorship since the passing of the Digital Services Act in Europe, the precedent set by arresting Durov for the crimes of users using his platform, and the significance of Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan admitting that the Biden administration had pressured him to censor Covid-19 content and the Hunter Biden laptop story. Taibbi also discusses his time in Russia and the shift in the journalistic environment there, the creeping move towards censorship in the US following Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 and Brexit, the shift in priorities of the US government from counterterrorism to monitoring speech domestically, why he has called Elon Musk ‘disappointing’ on the issue of free speech, his call for a conversation with the Tesla CEO to resolve their differences stemming from a dispute on Substack, and much more. FOLLOW Going Underground http://twitter.com/GUnderground_TV FOLLOW Afshin Rattansi http://twitter.com/AfshinRattansi SUBSCRIBE on Telegram: https://t.co/xDEHJ0c6WW LIKE on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoingUndergroundTV/ FOLLOW on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/GoingUnderground
The US has been in a 5-YEAR RECESSION, the shocking state of the US economy (Prof. Peter St Onge)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Peter St Onge, an economist at the Heritage Foundation. He discusses the skewing of the US government’s economic statistics and what the real numbers are on unemployment and inflation, why the US has been in a 5-year recession or 5-year depression, the increasing government takeover of the economy and the ballooning corporate welfare budget, the decline of the pace of new technology innovation, the US’ wanton use of sanctions to steal from other countries, leading to the start of the decline of the US dollar as the world’s reserve country driven by BRICS, the Biden administration’s use of the strategic oil reserve as a political football to lower oil prices before elections, the problem with a gold-backed currency, and much more.