Episodes
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Peter Shor, the deviser of Shor’s algorithm. He explains the algorithm’s function of factoring large number and how this could be a revolution in quantum computing, what quantum computing is and what differentiates it from regular computing, the current technology of RSA encryption and why it is inefficient and expensive, why Shor’s algorithm can open the door to...
Published 05/06/24
    On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to labour journalist Hamilton Nolan, author of ‘The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor’. He discusses the soaring popularity of trade unions in the US and why the country may be at a tipping point to reclaim worker power, why US President Joe Biden has been disappointing for workers despite being the ‘most pro-union President in history’, the decades of decline of union power and why US laws incentivise...
Published 04/29/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Professor Roman Yampolskiy, author of ‘AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable’ and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Louisville. He discusses what differentiates AI and AGI, the ‘AI control problem’ and the high likelihood of Artificial Intelligence becoming out of control, why AI security parameters will not be enough to contain...
Published 04/27/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the Co-Host of Redacted Natali Morris. In the interview she slams US foreign policy as having nothing to do with respect for life and discusses the Ukraine proxy war and continued US support for Zelensky, the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the increasing censorship against alternative news sources such as Redacted as corporate media seeks a total...
Published 04/22/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Award-Winning Foreign Correspondent and author of ‘Soldiers Don’t Go Mad’, Charles Glass. He discusses his new book focussing on soldier poets of World War One such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, who recounted the horror and trauma of war through poetry, whether World War 3 has begun as the Gaza genocide and Ukraine proxy war wage on, the New York Times’...
Published 04/20/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Morton Halperin, who supervised the assembling of the Pentagon Papers which revealed the extent of the disaster in the US’ imperial war on Vietnam, and served as a former Director of Policy Planning at the State Department. He discusses the effect the Pentagon Papers had on the Vietnam War and the work of Daniel Ellsberg in helping bring the Vietnam War to an end, the...
Published 04/15/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Col. Jacques Baud, a former analyst for NATO who was on the ground in Ukraine after the Maidan coup, and author of ‘The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat’ and ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood: The Defeat of the Vanquisher’. He discusses his role on the ground in Ukraine and the growth of the Donbas rebellion and the defection of Russian speakers in the Ukrainian army...
Published 04/13/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, Editorial Board member of the Haaretz newspaper. He discusses his disagreements with the remnants of the Israeli peace camp, who think the departure of Netanyahu from power would lead to radical changes, the state of Israeli society and the criminalisation of empathy with the Palestinian people in Gaza, the views of the different classes in...
Published 04/08/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He discusses Israel’s bombing of the Iranian Embassy in Damascus and Israel’s attempts to drag the US into a war with Iran, how US protection allows Israel to ‘get away with anything’ in international politics, how the Gaza genocide is paving the way for a Donald Trump victory in November, the...
Published 04/06/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to son of Holocaust survivors Norman Finkelstein, son of Holocaust survivors and author of the book ‘Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom’. He discusses and exposes Israel’s propaganda over mass rape during the October 7th attacks which have been uncritically reported by mainstream media, Pramilla Patten’s report on mass rape on October 7th and why the report itself reveals...
Published 04/01/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Stephen Walt, Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. He discusses the US-UK persecution of Julian Assange and why his potential imprisonment in the USA would have a ‘chilling effect’ on press freedom, the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese labelling the US-backed Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza as genocide and the US’ abstention...
Published 03/30/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former US Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Lawrence Korb. In an at times heated discussion, Afshin Rattansi challenges Korb on the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, why the US would risk nuclear war with Russia over the proxy war in Ukraine, Western Europe’s economic decline amid the proxy war, the implosion of the idea of a US-led rules-based order with the Gaza...
Published 03/25/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Israeli negotiator at Oslo 2 and the Taba Summit Daniel Levy. He discusses why the October 7th attack by Hamas and Palestinian resistance groups should have come as no surprise, how the October 7th attack shattered ignorance and hubris among Israeli political leaders and Israel’s Western backers, Prime Minister Netanyahu becoming inconvenient for Biden in the Presidential...
Published 03/18/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dmitri Trenin, a member of Russia’s Foreign & Defence Policy Council and the Former Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He discusses the Russian Presidential elections where Vladimir Putin seeks re-election, Putin’s balancing act of funding the military as well as funding social programs in an attempt to avoid the mistakes of the Soviet Union, the end of hope in...
Published 03/16/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Khaled Elgindy, Program Director of the Palestine & Palestinian-Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute. He discusses why the policy of the US, UK and EU countries on Israel’s genocidal slaughter hasn’t changed despite performative humanitarian airdrops and mild criticism, the Palestinian right to armed resistance and whether Hamas’ operation on October 7th is...
Published 03/11/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Alan Dershowitz, Emeritus Professor at Harvard Law School and author of ‘War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism’. He discusses the persecution of Donald Trump and attempts to keep him off the ballot in the 2024 Presidential election and the persecution of Julian Assange and his hope of legally representing Assange should he be extradited to the United States. The...
Published 03/09/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci. In a heated and lively exchange, Afshin Rattansi and Anthony Scaramucci discuss Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza and Biden’s support for Israel, US Joe Biden vs Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential election, whether Arab Americans will vote for Biden after the Gaza genocide, US foreign policy and the role of...
Published 03/04/24
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Said Arikat, the Washington Bureau Chief of Al-Quds Newspaper. He discusses what it’s like changing the State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller in challenging exchanges that have become viral, the complicity of the United States in the Israeli genocidal slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, the sympathy of US officials for Israel compared with the dismissive attitude to...
Published 03/02/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Glenn Diesen, author of ‘The Ukraine War & The Eurasian World Order’ and the Editor of Russia in Global Affairs. He discusses the US-UK-EU-armed Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the collapse of Western legitimacy, the roots of the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine and why the West finds itself trapped in the curse of US unipolarity, the death of Alexei...
Published 02/26/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters. He discusses Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange’s London court battle to prevent his extradition to the USA where he faces 175 years in prison, why the British judges presiding over Assange’s case are ‘servants of the ruling class’, his last visit to see Julian Assange and the horrific prison conditions he faces, Israel’s genocide...
Published 02/24/24
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Israeli- British Historian Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and author of ‘Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew’. He discusses why it is clear that Israel is committing war crimes & genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, British and European complicity in Israeli war crimes and why the...
Published 02/19/24
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Shandana Gulzar, Member-Elect of the National Assembly of Pakistan, the first ever woman elected to represent Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the former Joint Secretary of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party. She discusses the results of Pakistan’s elections in which she alleges fraud by the Sharif dynasty’s PLM(N) and the Zardari dynasty’s PPP to keep Imran Khan’s PTI out of power, the...
Published 02/17/24
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to David Stockman, the former Director of the US Office & Budget Management under President Ronald Reagan and author of the book ‘Trump’s War on Capitalism’. He discusses the myths surrounding the ‘strong MAGA economy’ under Donald Trump and why economic performance under him was actually weak, Trump’s irresponsibility with printing more money and increasing inequality in the...
Published 02/12/24