Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

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.