Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

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.