Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary Pink Floyd Frontman Roger Waters. He discusses the fall of Bashar Al-Assad in Syria, the horrific events in the Middle East being machinations of a dying Western empire with the mask now off, how the Gaza genocide shows the hypocrisy of the US, UK and European governments when it comes to human rights and international law, Sir Keir Starmer’s UK government’s role in the Gaza genocide and the shame he feels to being English while the genocide continues, where he finds optimism for an ‘existential battle’ for the soul of the human race, how the US deposed Assad by stealing Syria’s oil and sanctioning the Syrian economy to the point where ‘the government never had a chance’, his release of the emails between him and Tom York of Radiohead asking him to join the BDS movement and not perform in Israel, the impact of his childhood and upbringing on his politics and his opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the few brave Israelis that speak out against the Israeli government, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He discusses the collapse of Bashar Al-Assad’s government in Syria and his demise being a loss for Iran, why the fall of Assad may mean Iran finally develops nuclear weapons and the implications for Turkey, why he doesn’t believe Donald Trump will radically change US foreign policy in the Middle East, the importance of Russia’s bases in Syria and whether those bases will be lost under the new regime, why neither Russia or Iran could save Bashar Al-Assad once the HTS-led offensive started, Russia and Iran warning Assad of the weakness of his military and their attempts to fix the problem in years prior and more. In the second half of the interview, he discusses the effect of US sanctions and the US occupation of Syria’s oil fields on the collapse of Assad’s government, the US’ alliance with Al Qaeda and ISIS operatives that are now in power in Damascus, the Ukraine proxy war and its intended goal of knocking Russia out of the great powers and instead has gotten Ukraine wrecked, the West’s genuine belief that it could defeat Russia in Ukraine, why he doesn’t believe Vladimir Putin is close to using nuclear weapons over Ukraine, how likely blowback terrorism is for the West after the Gaza genocide and regime change in Syria, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Susan Abulhawa, Founder and Director of Playgrounds for Palestine and best-selling author of ‘Mornings in Jenin’. She discusses the Playgrounds for Palestine initiative and its evolution into concentrating on education for Palestinian children facing bombing and starvation, the Western media’s ’active participation’ in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and The Guardian's opposition to her use of the word ‘Holocaust’ to describe the onslaught on Gaza, her time in Gaza this year and why the reality on the ground is ‘infinitely worse’ than is being reported, Israel’s mass degradation of Palestinian society, why she wishes she never left Gaza and the feeling of complicity and survivor’s guilt, Zionists dictating US foreign policy under the Biden Administration and previous administrations, and her lack of hope for the incoming second Trump administration. In the second half of the interview, she discusses her estimated real death toll in Gaza which she says in the range of 194,000-514,000 people killed, whether Biden Administration officials will be held accountable for the genocide in Gaza, why such a large segment of the US population voted for Kamala Harris despite her participation in the genocide, the awakening of the American public to the lies of pro-Israel propaganda, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Matt Kennard, Co-Founder of Declassified UK and author of ‘The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire’. He discusses the role of Western mainstream media as an adjunct of state power, the media’s propaganda coverage of the Al Qaeda cutout group HTS’ recent offensive in Syria against Syrian government forces, the organisations fighting ‘disinformation’ being funded by governments to delegitimise new voices as the mainstream media loses its hold on the narrative, his experience at Columbia University’s journalism school and the role of elite journalism schools to create the next level of journalists to defend the US empire, the propaganda reports that Israel would prefer Bashar Al-Assad to the Al Qaeda cutout groups, Al Jazeera’s pro-regime change coverage of the Syrian war and Qatar’s support for extremist groups, and the rise of China and how it has opened up space for governments in Latin America, Africa, and Asia to move away from relying on the US and its institutions. In the second half of the interview, he discusses the UK’s direct participation in Israel’s genocidal carnage in Gaza, the UK’s spy flights over Gaza and crucial intelligence sharing with Israel, the destruction of Jeremy Corbyn by elements of the British State and the Israel lobby and whether the same could be repeated again, the repression against independent journalists under UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, the US military’s and intelligence services activities in the UK and the black hole in reporting, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Joseph Kishore, 2024 US Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Equality Party. He discusses the broad interest of the US population in seeking an alternative to capitalism and the view of the US’ elites that the working class is the real threat to their power, the extreme economic inequality and poverty in the US, the working class’ hatred of the Democratic Party and their support for Donald Trump, Biden’s use of the trade union apparatus to suppress class struggle, the role of the intelligence services infiltrating the trade union apparatus, why Donald Trump’s cabinet is a cabinet ‘by and for the oligarchs’, and the attack on immigrants as part of the building of a police state machine to crack down on the working class and opposition to the oligarchy. In the second half of the interview, he discusses the bipartisan support for Israel’s ‘fascist, criminal regime’, the Gaza genocide as an escalation of global imperialist war directed from Washington as the threat of war with Russia and China grows, why the root of the global conflict is the world economy vs the nation-state system, his view of the BRICS+ bloc and his critique that they constantly seek an agreement with imperialism, what comes next for the US’ foreign policy towards Latin America and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Gideon Levy, a veteran columnist for the Haaretz newspaper and author of ‘The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe’. He discusses his friendship with a Palestinian in Gaza ‘M’ who refers to in his new book and his daily life in the last year facing Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the etymology of the Hebrew word for Gaza which derives from the word ‘hell’ and Israel’s campaign to turn Gaza into a hell on Earth, young Palestinians writing wills in the occupied West Bank out of fear of death at the hands of the Israeli occupation, Israeli leftists opposition to Netanyahu and their similarity to Israel’s right-wing in ignoring the genocide in Gaza and occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, how squarely blaming Benjamin Netanyahu is a ‘comfort zone’ which hides the fact that the problems stem from Israel’s society, and whether Israel will attack Iran before Donald Trump is inaugurated as President of the United States in January. In the second half of the interview, he discusses why he has little hope for Donald Trump’s second term on imposing conditions on aid to Israel to change the behaviour of the Israeli state towards Palestinians, why terror has become the only avenue for Palestinians to fight for the future and why Palestinian armed resistance will continue against Israel, the trends within Israel to authoritarianism even against Israeli Jews, the convenient ignoring of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza by Israeli society to remain within the comfort zone of calling the rest of the world ‘anti-Semitic’ for opposing Israeli atrocities, the lack of opposition from major cultural figures and artists in the West and his friendship with Roger Waters who has consistently opposed Israeli occupation and atrocities, whether Israel will continue to exist, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Anthony Scaramucci, who served briefly as the former White House Communications Director under President Trump and the Founder of SkyBridge Capital. He discusses what advice he has for Karoline Leavitt who was appointed by Donald Trump as the youngest ever Press Secretary, Donald Trump’s pro-Crypto policies and the Democrats ignoring the demand for pro-Crypto policies, Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and his gains among black and Latino voters, Donald Trump’s pledge to end the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and Biden’s green light for Zelensky to use long-range missiles to strike Russia, Donald Trump’s cabinet picks and what his relationship will be like with his team, how the stock markets will govern Trump’s hardline tendencies on policies such as tariffs, why the integration of crypto into the economy is inevitable despite the resistance of the SEC, the effect of US sanctions on facilitating de-dollarisation and the move away from US financial hegemony, his belief that the US and Russia are natural allies and his hope that bilateral relations are much better in the future, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Jimmy Dore, the Host of the Jimmy Dore Show. He discusses Joe Biden giving the green light for Ukraine’s Zelensky to launch long-range missile strikes inside Russia using US-supplied weaponry and the risk of World War 3, the Biden Administration’s constant escalation of war around the world and the failed attempt to break-up Russia through the proxy war in Ukraine, Europe’s illogical submission to Washington to join the economic war against Russia, Donald Trump picking Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence after she told the truth about Syria and was cast out by the Democratic Party, whether Trump will go along with his nominee for Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s hawkish and destructive plans for Latin America which in turn would fuel the border crisis, and the US’ regime change attempts against Venezuela. In the second half of the interview, he discusses the Biden-Harris Administration’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and his hopes for Donald Trump to force Israel into a deal, his hope that Trump’s MAGA base rise up and pressure Donald Trump to hold Israel to account, the demonisation of Elon Musk by the media for allowing more free speech on X, and much more.

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.