Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

Going Underground
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Jun 9, 2025 • 27min

Israel's MOSSAD IS EVERYWHERE and ALL OVER Ukraine, Russia has WON!- Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of Staff. He discusses Ukraine's drone attack targeting Russia's nuclear-capable strategic bomber fleets, why Russia has already won the proxy war on the ground, his sources telling him that barely anyone can get Donald Trump's ear, the CIA and Mossad acting under the visibility of Presidents especially since 9/11, the war between the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and Mossad's takeover of the Pentagon, the de facto curbing of DNI Tulsi Gabbard's powers, Trump's desire to wind down the US' vast military presence in Europe, Trump's involvement in backing Israel's genocide in Gaza, and much more.
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Jun 7, 2025 • 28min

Is the Palestinian Authority Israel’s HOSTAGE?! Going Underground Talks to Palestine’s UN Ambassador

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s Ambassador to the United Nations. In the first half of the interview, discusses the massacre of Palestinians attempting to get a morsel of food aid in Gaza, Donald Trump’s and Israel’s proposal for Palestinians to be expelled from Gaza, Israel’s refusal to allow a pan-Arab delegation to visit Ramallah, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the scheme to starve the Palestinians of Gaza, and his appeal for countries and journalists to break the blockade of Gaza. In the second half of the interview, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on why he has not brought up the US-UK-EU’s arming of Israel and intelligence sharing to their UN Ambassadors at the Security Council, whether the Palestinian Authority is a hostage of Israel, the Palestinian Authority’s killing of Palestinians in the West Bank, why there still haven’t been elections for the Palestinian Authority, and much more.
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Jun 2, 2025 • 28min

Cold War 2: Europe Gripped by WAR FEVER, Stuck in Escalation Against Russia - Prof. Richard Sakwa

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian & European Politics at the University of Kent and Author of ‘The Culture of the Second Cold War’. He discusses Merz becoming Chancellor and Germany’s pursuit of a ‘suicidal’ foreign policy, the negotiations to end the Ukraine proxy war in Istanbul and Trump’s rapprochement with Russia, the growing backlash in Europe against the increased militarism and conformational foreign policy, the campaign to blacklist him by the British secret service, the political West’s militant campaign to spread neoliberalism and the portrayal of any other system as ‘evil’, his classification of current geopolitical conflicts as a Second Cold War, why the political West’s dominance is under challenge like never before, and much more.
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May 31, 2025 • 29min

GENOCIDE CENSORSHIP: Free Speech is Being OBLITERATED in the West to Support Israel (Asa Winstanley)

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Asa Winstanley, Associate Editor at The Electronic Intifada and a veteran journalist who has covered Palestine and the Israel lobby for over two decades. He discusses the UK’s attempts to silence his journalism covering the Gaza genocide, the police raid on his home to seize his devices and his ultimate victory in his legal case, the symbiotic relationship between pro-Israel think tanks and the British government, the lack of coverage from the mainstream media on crackdowns against him and other pro-Palestinian journalists, the media’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, social media censorship, whether the genocide marks the beginning of the end of Israel, and much more.
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May 26, 2025 • 28min

‘Israel’s Genocide in Gaza is DWARFING the Nazi Holocaust’- If Americans Knew Founder Alison Weir

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Alison Weir, the Founder and Executive Director of If Americans Knew. She discusses the purpose of her organisation which is to educate Americans on Israel’s historical and contemporary crimes against Palestinians which their tax dollars pay for, the mainstream media’s whitewashing of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and omission of the US’ role in Israel’s atrocities, the incident where the FBI visited her over her work and the threats she faces, the smears of ‘anti-Semitism’ against those who oppose Israel’s action, the power of the pro-Israel lobby and AIPAC over all levels of government, and much more.
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May 24, 2025 • 28min

HOPELESS: Peter Schiff SLAMS US Involvement in Ukraine, Zelensky’s Corruption & Threat to the Dollar

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground، we speak to Peter Schiff, Chief Economist & Global Strategist at Euro Pacific Asset Management. He discusses why the US involvement in Ukraine against Russia was a massive mistake, the massive corruption among US politicians and Zelensky’s entourage stemming from US aid to Ukraine, military-industrial complex profiteering off of the proxy war, the threats he received for simply asking whether Zelensky owned a suit, the propaganda to make the Ukraine proxy war a ‘freedom fight’, and much more. In the second half of the interview, he discusses how the Ukraine proxy war galvanised BRICS countries against the dollar, China’s increased purchasing of gold and China’s slow pace of dumping US treasuries and dollars, why he views Bitcoin and cryptocurrency as ‘gambling’, Donald Trump’s support for the crypto industry, the ‘Golden Dome’ missile defence program, and much more.
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May 19, 2025 • 27min

Economic Hitman John Perkins on The ‘Death Economy’, Decline of the US Empire & the Rise of China

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman. He discusses why he believes Donald Trump is trying to become a dictator, Trump’s attempts to pressure Netanyahu as the Gaza genocide rages on, Trump’s axing of USAID as China rises while the US becomes isolationist, the degenerative death economy polluting and consuming itself into extinction, the rise of a new class of oligarchs under predatory capitalism, Latin America’s economic shift towards China and China’s solutions to some of the problems the US has created, the threat of nuclear war, AI, and destruction of the climate, and much more.
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May 17, 2025 • 28min

Trump's SLAM DUNK Middle East Trip & The Sabotage Campaign Against Trump (George Papadopoulos)

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to George Papadopoulos, Former Foreign Policy Advisor to US President Donald Trump and best-selling author of 'Deep State Target'. He discusses Donald Trump's landmark trip to the Middle East and the achievements of the trip, the push for a war against Iran by neoconservatives, Trump's efforts to end the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the deep state and international campaign of sabotage and entrapment against those surrounding Donald Trump since the 2016 campaign, the threats that remain against Donald Trump, and much more.
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May 12, 2025 • 27min

Prof. John Mearsheimer: Israel OWNS the Trump Administration, Israel is a LIABILITY for the US

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago. He discusses the potential risk of nuclear war between India and Pakistan after the recent breakout of conflict, the alignment of China and the US on either side of the India-Pakistan conflict, Israel’s internal deterioration and civil unrest, Donald Trump’s support for Israel as the Gaza genocide continues, Israel’s campaign to push the United States into a war with Iran, the US’ campaign against Yemen and why it harms the US’ campaign to contain China, Mike Waltz working with Netanyahu behind Trump’s back to push for a war with Iran, Israel and the US’ plan to keep Syria wrecked and broken, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s demand for a Palestinian state, Trump’s failure to end the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, his prediction that a war will end on the battlefield as a frozen conflict with a Ukrainian defeat, and much more.
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May 10, 2025 • 27min

‘Israel CANNOT Beat Hamas’ Afshin Rattansi Challenges Jerusalem Center President Dr. Dan Diker

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, Afshin Rattansi gets into a heated exchange with Dr. Dan Diker, the President of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, and the former Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress. In the interview, Afshin challenges him on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Israel’s push for a war on Iran, Israel’s international isolation as the Gaza genocide continues, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s classification of Israel’s war as a genocide, Israel’s state of crisis and near civil war, Israel’s war against Yemen, and much more.

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