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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 Russia sanctions over the Ukraine proxy war were doomed to fail, how China’s ownership of US debt is greatly underestimated and much more.

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, the complete end of the West’s moral authority as they provide cover for and materially support Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza and much more.

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 atrocities, the self-destructiveness of US’ ‘horrific and evil’ foreign policy in the emerging multipolar world, the failed US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and much more.

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 currently know nothing about, countries such as the US and other industrialised countries failing to commit to their climate change promises while weaponising climate change to attack small nations such as the UAE and much more.

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 of the interview, Yossi Beilin would abruptly end the interview. Finally, in tribute to the award-winning writer, poet, and celebrated anti-racist and anti-colonial trailblazer Benjamin Zephaniah who passed away this Thursday, we play for our audience our last interview with Benjamin Zephaniah which first aired on the 27th of May 2019.

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 right to protest against climate change in Western Europe, the large global military emissions that are often ignored by mainstream media and much more.

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 double standards against the UAE, Saudi Arabia winning the bid to host Expo 2030 and much more

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Joseph Glauber, Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and former Chief Economist at the US Department of Agriculture. He discusses the causes of the spiralling world hunger crisis including energy price increases, wars and accessibility, the impact of the war in Ukraine on food prices, the US’ structural problems with food security and poverty, India’s ban on rice exports, why general inflation is in turn causing food prices to spike and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Abhi Rajendran, Head of Global Oil Markets and Research at Energy Intelligence. He discusses why energy markets have so far remained calm as Israel’s war on Gaza continues and regional escalation has been avoided, what could potentially ignite a bigger conflict and cause energy prices to spike, the delayed OPEC+ meeting and the outlook for energy markets going into next year, the pace of transition to renewable energy ahead of the COP28 summit in Dubai and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to renowned trauma specialist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Gabor Maté. He discusses the root of the support for English-speaking countries for Israel being guilt for European antisemitism and a colonial mindset, lies being told by the media and politicians in the US and it’s allied states, why Israel’s slaughter in Gaza is the darkest thing he’s ever seen, why the question should really be ‘was October 7th a proportional response to Israel’s policies against the Palestinians’ since 1948, why the attempts by Israel, the US, UK and EU to link Hamas to European historical antisemitism are wrong and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the Editor in Chief of The Grayzone Max Blumenthal who joins us for a special interview. He reveals a trail of ‘lies and deceit’ by the Israeli government and the Biden Administration on what really happened in Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7th, how the evidence points to Israel killing its own civilians while attempting to stop Hamas from taking hostages, atrocity propaganda manufactured by Israel and regurgitated by Biden’s State Department to manufacture consent for Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza, Israel’s manipulation of ‘evidence’ which has been shown across TV screens in NATO nations, the racist double standards US, UK and European media have shown in their coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and much more.

Afshin goes underground on comparisons of Russia and the Nazi’s. Plus what he thinks about RT’s bank accounts being blocked

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Hussein Ibish, Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He discusses Arab leaders avoiding meeting senior US officials in disgust of the Biden Administration’s embrace of Israel as it conducts mass-killing in Gaza, US mainstream media coverage of the Gaza war, Hezbollah and Arab militias being ‘dumbed down garbage’, how Hamas and Hezbollah have acted independently during this war contrary to mainstream media assertions that they are Iranian proxies, shifts in public opinion in the US towards sympathy for the Palestinian people and if it will have an effect on US policy, the inevitability of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to renowned writer, filmmaker and activist Tariq Ali. He discusses the mass protests sweeping the US, UK and EU countries opposing Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the indifference of governments to the demands of their masses, the silence of the leaders of the US, UK and EU countries on Israel’s slaughter in Gaza and the refusal of calls for a ceasefire, Netanyahu’s government trying to quash any possibility of a Palestinian state and the US fuelling Israeli arrogance, US carrier strike groups standing guard to defend Israel against possible intervention from Iran and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Ilan Pappé, renowned Israeli historian and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He discusses why the Israeli public has been incapable of showing compassion for the people killed in Gaza by Israeli bombardment and for Palestinians living under occupation since 1948, why we may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Zionist Israel project and the two ways the occupation of Palestine can go from here, how the leaders of the UK, US and EU are sending a message of ‘we absolve you’ to Israel as it bombs civilians, why Russia and China still stick to a two-state solution and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former Secretary-General of the Arab League and former Foreign Minister of Egypt Amr Moussa. He discusses why countries such as Egypt and Jordan are refusing to allow Israel to forcibly displace millions of Palestinians into their countries as it will fulfil Israel’s plan of destroying the chance of a Palestinian state, the progress of humanitarian aid being allowed into Gaza, the global majority of nations calling for a ceasefire while the US, UK & EU stand alone in supporting Israel’s mass-killing in Gaza, Israel’s increasing brutality in the occupied territories in the West Bank, why Israel will continue to face more 7th of October events if it continues its politics of siege and occupation, the upcoming Arab Emergency Summit in Riyadh to formulate a united Arab position and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College University of London and a member of the Iraq Inquiry Committee (2009-2011). He discusses Israel’s deadly onslaught in Gaza and Hamas’ attack on October the 7th, the Israeli Ambassador to the UN demanding UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres resign, what he views is likely to come after the fighting between Israel and Hamas ends, Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons program, why what Israel can achieve via military action is limited and how Israel is in a strategic mess, whether the US could win a war against Iran should the conflict expand and much more.

FOLLOW ALL OF OUR PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Professor Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs & Public Security. He discusses the strategic blunders made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that made Hamas’ attack on the 7th of October possible, the security and civil structures in Israel which have upheld the ongoing occupation, why a political solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict still exists, Israel having no real viable endgame in Gaza and why a ground invasion to destroy Hamas is likely to take a long time if it is even possible, why the main winner from the Gaza war will be the US weapons manufacturers, Israel’s UN Ambassador demanding UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres resign for saying Hamas’ attack did not happen in a vacuum and much more.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to world-famous communist philosopher and author of ‘Pandemic!: COVID-19 shakes the world’, Slavoj Zizek. He discusses different Coronavirus responses from governments around the world, from the ‘capitalist barbarism’ of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, to the responses of Governors like Andrew Cuomo, why the world as we know it no longer exists, the discovery of a new working class of nurses, caretakers and essential staff, class warfare in the pandemic world, why capitalism and free markets cannot be relied on for handling future crises, why he believes some form of communism is needed in the post-Coronavirus world, the need for increased international health collaboration and more!

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Board Chair of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation as well as the Special Envoy got ACT Accelerator. She discusses the public-private partnerships working on a Coronavirus vaccine, what ACT (Access to COVID-19 Tools) Accelerator is and the work they are doing to develop vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics and make them accessible to all, why Africa’s Coronavirus death rate is so low, how the Coronavirus vaccine will be a public good and whether big pharma is involved for the sake of earning massive profits. Next, we speak to Alexander Zevin, author of ‘Liberalism at Large: The World According to The Economist’. He exposes The Economist’s deep involvement in promoting free trade and the Laissez-faire disaster in Ireland during the Irish famine, pushing Western foreign policy goals such as the Pinochet coup in Chile, to the coup in Iran in 1953, to US-backed regime change operations in Venezuela today. He also discusses the class dimension to the rise of The Economist magazine, and why it it is so highly sought after for advertising purposes.

We speak to Lord Barker, the former UK State Minister for Energy and Climate Change Lord Barker. He discusses the scale of the challenge ahead in tackling the climate crisis as the UK hosts COP26, the role of the private sector in fighting climate change, the UK’s strides in reducing carbon emissions, Russia’s rapid turn towards a green economy, criticism’s on China’a record and more.

We speak to Jonathon Porritt, author of ‘Hope in Hell: A Decade to Confront the Climate Emergency’. He discusses whether people can expect a success or failure in an agreement being reached at COP26 that could turn the tide against climate change, lying by fossil fuel companies on net zero targets, Boris Johnsons’s record on climate change and his recent comments rubbishing plastic recycling, the absence of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping from COP26 and much more!

Ws speak to Changhua Wu, Executive Director of the Professional Association for China’s Environment. She discusses the COP 15 biodiversity conference and the UK’s and China’s close cooperation on the two issues, the COP 26 summit being held in Glasgow, the blame put on China for the climate crisis and the massive strides China is taking in renewable energy production for the world, how seriously US Envoy John Kerry is taken, why no country is doing enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees and much more!

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Cherie Blair QC about her case defending Russian businesswoman Masha Lazareva, who has been imprisoned for over 400+ days in a Kuwaiti prison. Next we speak to Prince Charles Advisor Sir Jonathon Porritt about climate change, impending climate disaster, big oil corporate sponsorships, the need for immediate renewable energy investment, Extinction Rebellion and more!

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to UN Sanctions Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy on the escalating crisis between the US and Iran, why sanctions never achieve their goals of regime change, how endless sanctions without room for negotiation could mean war, US sanctions killing 40,000+ in Venezuela and more! Next we speak to Lizzie O’Shea, author of ‘Future Histories’ on the history of mass surveillance and policing, how police and mass surveillance have been used throughout history and today to protect class interests and maintain the status quo, how big tech companies are inhibiting freedom and why the technological revolution has disappointed! Statement from an EU spokesperson regarding sanctions and Venezuela: “Let me stress that the European Union does not have sanctions on Venezuela. What we have in place are targeted individual restrictive measures on individuals that have had responsibilities in terms of either violence or of obstructing the democratic process. They do not affect Venezuela as a country or the Venezuelan people. Our primary concern is the improvement of the humanitarian situation in the country and the well-being of the Venezuelan population”.