Episodes
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
FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Independent US Presidential Candidate Prof. Cornel West. He discusses his electoral platform which includes dismantling the US empire and its global military presence, President Joe Biden’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza and enabling of Israeli apartheid against Palestinians, why Biden is not a serious alternative to Donald Trump’s ‘neo-fascism’, the...
Published 02/10/24
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Andrés Arauz, former Ecuadorian Presidential candidate and former Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent. He discusses how the criminal mafias in Ecuador have infiltrated the government, prisons and judicial systems under President Daniel Noboa, how the IMF has weakened the state which is needed to fight the mafias in the country through austerity, deepening ties between the US...
Published 02/05/24
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Joseph Nye, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Author of Life in the American Century. He discusses Israel’s onslaught against Gaza and argues US soft power is being damaged by support for Israel, the prospect of Donald Trump returning to power, and gets into a tense exchange with Afshin Rattansi on the Ukraine proxy war, the...
Published 02/03/24
FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Retired Lieutenant-Colonel John Nagl, Professor of Warfighting Studies at the US Army War College. In a heated, exchange with Afshin Rattansi, he discusses the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the ongoing slaughter conducted by Israel in Gaza with US, UK and EU support, the US and UK’s airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen for their operations in solidarity with the...
Published 01/29/24
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sami Abou Shehadeh, Chairman of the Balad Party in Israel. He discusses the irony of the State of Israel committing a genocidal slaughter in Gaza as the world commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the rise of Israel’s far right with fascists being the only ones to have a ‘legitimate voice’ in Israel while those speaking out against the slaughter are forcefully...
Published 01/27/24
FOLLOW US ON OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former advisor to the EU Foreign Policy Chief and the Founder & Director of Conflicts Forum Alastair Crooke. He discusses the fierce anti-colonial sentiment across the global south against the US & its allies over Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, the coming expansion of the war with the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel in Lebanon heating up, Iran’s and the...
Published 01/22/24
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Brian Toon from the University of Colorado Boulder. He discusses the civilisation-ending impact nuclear war would have, 50-150 million people being killed by nuclear explosions alone in a hypothetical nuclear war between India and Pakistan, the harsh impacts of nuclear winter and why it is a credible extinction-level threat, the...
Published 01/06/24
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this special episode of Going Underground, we pay tribute to legendary journalist and film-maker John Pilger who passed away at the age of 84. He was the award-winning author of the books ‘Hidden Agendas’, ‘Heroes’ and ‘A Secret Country’, and was renowned for his eye-opening films such as ‘The Coming War on China’, ‘Palestine is Still The Issue’ and ‘The War You Don’t See’. Over the years, he appeared many times on Going...
Published 01/01/24
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Samuel Moyn, author of ‘Liberalism Against Itself’ and Chancellor Kent Professor of Law & History at Yale University. He discusses the transformation of enlightenment liberalism into the US’ 20th century destructive Cold War liberalism that rose out of rivalry with the Soviet Union, the failures of liberalism and the rise of Donald Trump, liberalism’s failure to...
Published 12/30/23
FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Richard Sakwa. He discusses the foreign policy disasters of the West after the end of the Cold War, the warnings of the past on the need for a pan-European security architecture which includes Russia being ignored and the consequences being seen in Ukraine, how the US’ hegemony has weakened the power of the traditional European powers such as Italy, France and Germany,...
Published 12/25/23
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the Editor of Strategic Intelligence and the Best-Selling Author of ‘Currency Wars: The Making of The Next Global Crisis’. He discusses the hidden structural problems of the US economy including a hidden depression-level unemployment rate, the risks of a global oil crisis of a US-Iran conflict over Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, why he correctly predicted that...
Published 12/23/23
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv    On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Saudi academic and writer Dr. Mansour Almarzoqi. He discusses the intense pressure relations between Arab countries and the US and its allies are under amid Israel’s Gaza genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the role of social media in breaking pro-Israel Western media’s monopoly on information, why Gulf countries using oil as a weapon would backfire and potentially aid Israel,...
Published 12/18/23
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Congressman and former Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. He discusses Israel’s current ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing being a wider plan for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attack, ethnically cleanse and annex the West Bank, Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on US foreign policy, US complicity in Israel’s...
Published 12/16/23
FOLLOW ALL OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi, the UAE’s former Minister of Climate Change and Environment and former Minister of Infrastructure Development. He discusses the attacks made by the US and European countries against the UAE as host of COP28, what has been achieved at COP28 and the UAE’s drive to invest in renewable energy, climate threats from new gases being emitted which we...
Published 12/11/23
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Israel’s former Justice Minister Yossi Beilin. In a heated exchange, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on Gaza’s mass-slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, the parallels between Palestinian resistance and Nelson Mandela’s ANC resistance, dubious evidence surrounding October 7th and evidence of Israeli friendly fire, and Israel’s support for jihadists in Syria. Furious at the direction...
Published 12/09/23
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Ian Fry, the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights. He discusses the inequality of the burden of climate change on the poor and the inevitability that wealthy nations, individuals and corporations will have to pay for climate damage, the absence of US President Joe Biden at COP28, the danger of greenwashing by wealthy corporations, the crackdown on the...
Published 12/04/23
FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the Editor in Chief of Arab News Faisal Abbas. He discusses the mainstream media in the West’s omission the nearly 8 decades context in their reporting of Israel’s mass-killing in Gaza, Saudi Arabia’s call for an arms embargo to be imposed on Israel, the collapse of the West’s ‘moral high ground’ after backing Israel, the COP28 climate summit being hosted in the UAE and Western...
Published 12/02/23