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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 interview takes a turn to become one of the most heated interviews ever on Going Underground as Afshin Rattansi challenges him on Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza, Israel’s narrative on what happened on October 7th, the US providing arms to Israel to carry out its bloody campaign in Gaza, the right of Palestinians to carry out armed resistance under international law against Israeli occupation and much more.
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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 NATO, the argument that Donald Trump is ‘Putin’s lapdog’, why a second Trump Presidency would be bad for cryptocurrencies and much more.
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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 Palestinian suffering and reports of Israeli atrocities, opposition to the US’ role in the Gaza genocide across the State Department and all across federal agencies, why Gaza is likely to be a big issue in the 2024 election as Biden has earned the nickname ‘Genocide Joe’, Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation and the reaction of US officials and the media, the US being an aggressive nation and its violent foreign policy, the proxy war in Ukraine and CIA operations in Ukraine before 2022, and much more.
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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 Navalny and the media whitewashing of his record in NATO nations, the role of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in destabilising US adversaries, US resistance against the rise of the multipolar world and much more.
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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 against the Palestinian people in Gaza and South Africa taking Israel to court at the ICJ, the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and much more.
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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 US is not just complicit in Israeli genocide but also an enabler, US military-industrial complex profiteering off of Israel’s slaughter, why Israel does not have the right to defend itself under international law and the weaponisation of anti-Semitism, the crackdown on academic freedom in the UK surrounding the Gaza genocide, whether he would choose Mandela’s or Gandhi’s approach if he were a Palestinian teenager in Gaza and much more.
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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 crackdown against the PTI in the months and days leading up to the general election, the brazen corruption by Pakistan’s political dynasties, the US-backed coup orchestrated by Joe Biden to remove Imran Khan from power in 2022, the US-UK-EU-armed Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and reports of Pakistan supplying ammunition via Britain to Israel, the colonial mindset of the US and European countries and much more.
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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 United States, why Biden is a ‘tool of the warfare state’ and why Donald Trump doesn’t have the capability to end the forever wars and reign in military spending in a 2nd term, the US’ broken immigration system, why the military-industrial complex’s grip on US politics continues to prevail, why he backs Robert F. Kennedy’s campaign to become President of the United States and much more.
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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 mainstream media and duopoly political establishment’s attacks against him, how the US has been an anti-democratic force around the world with its foreign policy, the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, his pledge to pardon Julian Assange on day one should he become President and much more.
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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 and Ecuador in a strategic partnership where the US is set to open a military base on the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador’s full-throttle support for Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza, Ecuador’s deal to transfer weapons to the US to be used against Russia in Ukraine which signals Ecuador becoming a US vassal state, the prospect of a return of former Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and much more.
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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 US’ unilateral sanctions which are declining in effectiveness, US policy towards Syrian and much more.
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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 Palestinian resistance, the accusations of genocide against Israel and complicity of the United States, the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and the failure of US and EU sanctions against Russia and much more.
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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 suppressed, what differentiates the Palestinian struggle with other anti-apartheid and national liberation struggles, the complicity of the United States, Britain and European countries in the genocidal slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, his own family’s personal experience of tragedy with relatives killed in Gaza and much more.
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