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FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the Ali Abunimah, the Founder and Director of The Electronic Intifada. He discusses the Nuseirat massacre committed by Israel in Gaza, the ongoing rhetoric and propaganda from the Biden Administration and Benjamin Netanyahu's government on ceasefire negotiations and their blaming of Hamas for no breakthrough, how the Palestinian resistance is imposing a defeat against Israel, the mainstream media’s role in propagating Israeli and US propaganda regarding Gaza, the disastrous Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s direct role in the genocide in Gaza, evidence of Israel killing its own civilians on October 7th and the propaganda to manufacture consent for the Gaza genocide, the glee of Israeli soldiers and Israeli society over the genocide in Gaza, Israel’s torture program and the similarities between it and the US’ torture program in Iraq, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Former Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General. He discusses why he is never brought on mainstream media to discuss the Ukraine proxy war and the lies of Western media, the G7’s growing arrogance resulting in multiple dangerous crises in Gaza, Ukraine and Taiwan, NATO nation’s governments and media continuously using the term ‘unprovoked invasion’ when discussing the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, how the Ukraine proxy war could have easily been avoided and the consequences of NATO expansion and adventurism, the ‘Ukraine peace conference’ in Switzerland, why nothing will change after the November 2024 US Presidential election regardless of if Biden or Trump wins, the increasing failure of the US’ sanctions and the rise of BRICS, why he believes a two-state solution is the only solution to Israel’s occupation of Palestine, the 100 years of manipulation of the Arab world by colonial powers, the US giving the green light for Ukraine to strike inside of Russia, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Brahma Chellaney, a former advisor to India’s National Security Council. He engages in a debate with Afshin Rattansi on the reduced vote share that India’s population gave Narendra Modi’s BJP after 10 years of his rule, why the INDIA opposition alliance was still unable to topple the rule of the BJP and its allies, the poverty alleviation and inequality in India compared to neighbouring communist China, Modi’s Hindu-Muslim culture wars as economic problems persist for the poor and working classes, the increased concentrated ownership of India’s media outlets by oligarchs, India’s pro-Israel turn under Narendra Modi and deepening ties with the West, India’s independent stance on the Ukraine proxy war and continued good relations with Russia, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Mouin Rabbani, Co-Editor of Jadaliyya and Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. He discusses the latest Gaza ceasefire negotiations debacle between the US and Israel and typical blame being placed on Hamas and the US being ‘more pro-Israel than Israel itself’, the paradox of the US trying to avoid regional escalation while driving escalation with full-throttle support to Israel’s Gaza genocide, the increasing ineffectiveness of Israel’s propaganda for international audiences and the shift of Israeli society to the far-right, the mainstream media’s attacks on dissenting pro-Palestinian voices, why Israel is the US’ vassal state rather than the other way around, the slow end of the blind bi-partisan support for Israel, the US’ attempts to attach Israeli normalisation to security pact negotiations with Saudi Arabia, the GCC’s strategic diversification away from solely relying on the US to provide security, the racism of the Western political class, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Miko Peled, grandson of one of the signatories of Israel’s 1948 Declaration of Independence and Founder of the Palestine House of Freedom. He discusses the purpose of Palestine House of Freedom and the goal of shifting the pro-Zionist narratives in Washington, the effect of the mass student protests taking in the US against the genocide in Gaza, the Biden Administration’s continued arming and enabling of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, why the conversation must be shifted to ending Israeli apartheid and demanding a Free Palestine, whether the Gaza genocide marks the beginning of the end of Israel and Zionism, why the two-state solution is realistically impossible and morally wrong, the genocidal state of Israeli society and the political future of Benjamin Netanyahu, why the goal of Israel is the extermination of as many Palestinians as possible and not the defeat of the Palestinian resistance, the absurdity of the ICJ giving Israel time to end the genocide, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Colin Powell’s former Chief of Staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. He discusses the collapse of the INF Treaty and why its collapse is so dangerous, the ICC finally moving to prosecute Israeli officials after decades of only prosecuting enemies of Washington, Joe Biden and every member of the US government down to the lowest staffer being complicit in the Gaza genocide, Benjamin Netanyahu playing a key role in the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the reckless decision to allow Ukraine to strike within Russia and target Russian early warning systems which could trigger nuclear war, the increasing risk of escalation between NATO and Russia as Stoltenberg and Macron continue to flirt with direct conflict with Russia, the attempted colour revolution in Georgia over the ‘Foreign Agents’ law, what could make him support Donald Trump in November, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Brett Scott, author of ‘Cloudmoney: Why the War on Cash Endangers Our Freedom’ and the ‘Altered States of Monetary Consciousness Newsletter’. He discusses why cryptocurrencies in their current form are not a rival to the existing monetary system and actually empower the system, the Conservative fixation over the imagined modern history of gold, the decline of ATMs and the growing control of banks over the monetary system, the myth of fintech ‘democratising finance’ and fintech’s alliance with big finance, the war on cash and why big companies are leading efforts to eliminate cash, the rise of central bank digital currencies and why the power really lies with big US and European firms, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Author of ‘Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response’. She discusses how the climate crisis has been massively oversimplified along with its solutions, the so-called ‘scientific consensus’ on climate change and the marginalisation of dissenting scientists, how green colonialism has led to hampering the efforts to get billions of people out of poverty, the politicisation of the science to pursue certain policy agendas, why the focus on global warming has led to the ignoring of inadequate infrastructure and poor water resource management, the IPCC’s selective use of evidence to further their agenda, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Gerald Celente, Founder and Director of The Trends Research Institute. He discusses the ever-growing power of the military-industrial complex in the US while living standards continue to worsen, why the US’ and Europe’s economic turmoil is much worse than the figures suggest, his prediction of a large banking crisis caused by an office building bust that threatens to cripple the US economy, why a large US war is to come as the US economy faces crisis, China’s move towards economic self-sufficiency in the face of sanctions, increasing global opposition to US hegemony, the risk of escalation in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine, Joe Biden vs Donald Trump, and much more.

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 major advancements in medicine, chemistry, energy production and other major issues humanity faces today, why it is taking so long to mass-produce effective quantum computers, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS:https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv 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 union-busting practices by companies, whether the AFL-CIO should be dismantled and replaced with a new labour federation, the successful drive by Starbucks workers to unionise stores one by one, why Donald Trump and the Republicans are a non-starter for trade unions in the 2024 election race, the relationship between America’s unions and the military-industrial complex, why new union organising may be the only way to bridge the gap of polarisation in the US, and much more.

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 Artificial General Intelligence, why humans cannot even comprehend the kinds of threats AI could pose, the coming danger of AI becoming increasingly a part of warfare, why advanced Artificial Intelligence will pose a threat to humans no matter who builds it, the danger of AI replacing labour and ending economics as we know it, the race by big tech companies to create the ‘best’ AI while they have no concrete plan to control their creation, and much more.

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 monopoly on narratives, crumbling infrastructure in the United States and much more.

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’ restrictions on reporting on Palestine and their ‘abysmal’ reporting on Gaza, the widespread support for a Palestinian state in the US which is ignored by Congress and the political establishment, why Julian Assange is being persecuted by the USA and UK and why he is the ‘bravest man he has ever met’, his visit to Belmarsh Prison and the state of Julian Assange’s health, his campaign to jointly sue the former Head of the CIA Mike Pompeo for bugging his cellphones when visiting Julian Assange, the failure of Israeli propaganda as their rhetoric contradicted reality on the ground in Gaza, the perilous future for the Middle East with the Gaza genocide still raging and Iran-Israel tensions at an all-time high, President Joe Biden’s hypocrisy on Iran responding to the Damascus embassy bombing by Israel, and much more.

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 continued persecution of Julian Assange under the Espionage Act and why the act in its current form is too broad, and why Henry Kissinger bugged his phone when he served in the National Security Council. Later in the interview, Dr. Halperin and Afshin Rattansi debate the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, where Halperin discusses what concessions should be offered to Russia to end the conflict. Dr. Halperin also discusses Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza and much more.

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 to the rebels following the Maidan coup in 2014, the extreme repression of the Russian-speaking regions in Ukraine by the post-coup governments, the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive of 2023 and why Ukraine’s tactics continue to fail against Russia’s military strategy, the involvement of the Western militaries in assisting Ukraine in the ground, how Washington’s strategy evolved to weaponise Ukraine to weaken Russia resulting in catastrophe for Ukraine, why the West is at the ‘face-saving’ stage in the proxy war against Russia, UK and French efforts to provoke the US to intervene in Ukraine, and much more.

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 Israel with anti-Palestinian sentiment being most prevalent among the working class, the ‘ridiculous’ label of Israel being ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ and his belief that Israel is ‘playing with fire’, whether Israelis care about the potential for an Israel-Saudi normalisation agreement, the brainwashing of Israeli society to ignore the plight of Palestinians and how he overcame it, the ‘one-state solution’ and much more.

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 Israel lobby’s grip on US foreign policy, the deliberate failure of the Minsk Agreements in Ukraine leading to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch the Special Military Operation, why the US and Europe have lost the proxy war against Russia and the risk of direct conflict between NATO and Russia, and much more.

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 why there wasn’t widespread mass rape committed by Hamas, Biden ordering the building of the unnecessary Gaza pier which he calls a PR move while Palestinians starve to death, the Israel lobby’s increasing grip on US politics and much more.

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 at the UN Security Council on a resolution for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the egregious inconsistency of the US in following international law which is hurting its image around the globe, the Biden Administration’s dilemma in doing the right thing in cutting the military support to Israel vs facing the wrath of pro-Israel forces domestically during an election year, why he has called the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine ‘provoked’ rather than ‘unprovoked’ like journalists in the mainstream media, what NATO’s goals are in Ukraine as the war becomes increasingly disastrous, the Moscow Crocus City Hall terror attack and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv Julian Assange has a sliver of hope and won't be immediately extradited to the USA a UK court has ruled. The UK courts want 'assurances' over his fair treatment should he be extradited from Joe Biden's Justice Department and the US Secretary of State. What's next? Going Underground's social media producer Farhaan Ahmed explains.

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 genocide, the history of US foreign policy disasters from Vietnam to Ukraine and much more.

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 election year, US and Western military aid continuing to flow in to Israel, the Houthis operations in the Red Sea, why US-led peace efforts are and have been a sham, the US’ plan to ‘re-freeze’ the apartheid reality in Palestine and much more.

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 Russia for good relations with the US and European countries after Russia was double-crossed on Ukraine, Putin’s transformation of Russia into Russian Federation 2.0 after the start of the Ukraine proxy conflict, his surprise that European countries are pushing the tension with Russia to the brink of direct conflict, and much more.

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 legitimate resistance, Hamas’s tactical victory against Israel by delivering a shock to the Israeli system, the evolution of the US’ irresponsible coverage of October 7th and the genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the surge of Hamas’ popularity in the West Bank, why US-UK-EU support for Israel has eviscerated any idea of a rules-based idea and may have permanently damaged the credibility of the West in the eyes of the global south, and much more.