New Order with Afshin Rattansi

On this episode of New Order we speak to Ambassador John Bolton, former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump. He discusses the failure to reach a US-India trade deal after the tariff announcements, whether India will move closer to China following cooler relations with Washington, whether the US poses a threat to India after the bombing of the Chabahar Port and killing of Indian sailors by th...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, ex-Chief of Staff to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell. He discusses the end of the US 23-year occupation of Iraq and what prompted Iraq to renew its push to expel US troops, military-industrial complex profiteering off of the US war on Iran and why this could be the end of the US’ presence in the Middle East, his claim tha...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to John Mearsheimer, Professor of International Relations at the University of Chicago and the Host of the ‘Offensive Realism’ podcast. He discusses why he believes the United Nations has been irrelevant in international relations, the likelihood of UN Security Council reform to include members such as India, Japan, Brazil, Nigeria, and others, President Trum...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Prof. Anatol Lieven, Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He discusses the dramatic decline of the United Nations thanks to the United States ahead of the UN General Assembly, India’s bid for a Security Council seat and the warming of relations between India and China, the US’ and Israel’s contempt for India’s...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Prof. Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., former Vice-President of the New Development Bank and former Executive Director for Brazil at the International Monetary Fund, as leaders gather in New Delhi for the BRICS+ Summit. He discusses why BRICS has become a hot ticket with Russia, Iran and China at loggerheads with the West, why India is moving closer to China af...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Prof. David Monyae, Director of the Center for Africa-China Studies and Professor of Political Science at South Africa’s University of Johannesburg. He discusses the need for African unity as the world leaves unipolarity, why Donald Trump has pushed Africa towards emerging powers such as Russia, China, and Brazil, South Africa’s foreign policy objectives a...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Sarang Shidore, Director of the Global South Program at the Quincy Institute. He discusses the US’ 100% tariff threats against India to force an end to Russian oil purchases and how India hasn’t backed down, India’s foreign policy strategy balancing the United States and rising powers such as Russia, why a BRICS common currency is a fantasy and why it isn’...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Prof. Marta Fernandez, Former Director of the BRICS Policy Center in Brazil. She discusses Donald Trump’s tariffs on BRICS nations and US interference in Brazil’s elections ahead of the elections, the US’ kidnapping of President Maduro of Venezuela and how much Brazil’s Lula Da Silva is to blame, the US’ targeting of Cuba and Brazil being increasingly surr...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Mohammed Baharoon, Director General of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center. He discusses why the UAE refuses to choose between the US and BRICS and its approach to navigating the two blocs, the US’ tariff threats and the boomerang effect if will have on the US economy, why the UAE & Saudi Arabia have been buying up US treasuries at the same rate Ch...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Hussein Askary, Vice Chairman of the Belt & Road Institute. He discusses the significance of the targeting of Iran’s Chabahar Port in the US-Israeli war against the country, the decline of the US being the main reason for so many wars and major instability in the world, why the war on Iran is a US war against BRICS, the Gulf States’ changing calculatio...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Peter Schiff, Economist and Host of The Peter Schiff Show podcast. He discusses Donald Trump’s public chastising of him for pointing out prices in the US were not falling and his belief that the Trump Administration got him banned from Fox News, the reason for the recent major decline in gold prices and why gold is likely to continue rising, the real sourc...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to former Economic Hitman John Perkins, author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’ and ‘Art of the Steal: Trump and the Economic Hit Man Presidency’. He discusses how Donald Trump has laid the ‘economic hitman’ system out in the open with his brazen corruption, how Trump has become the ‘jackal’ with his kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and the di...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to the Former Chief of India’s Research & Analysis Wing Vikram Sood. He discusses why Prime Minister Narendra Modi isn’t personally attending the funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei, Trump’s potential pivot to Ukraine after the war on Iran and whether India is in a better position to deal with threats from the Trump Administration, why Russia, China and India w...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Amb. Kanwal Sibal, former Ambassador of India to Russia, France, Egypt and Turkey, and Former Foreign Secretary of India. He discusses the dropping of ‘Indo’ from the US’ Indo-Pacific Command and what this signals for US-India relations, India’s desire to not be pulled into any US-China confrontation over Taiwan, the US’ killing of 3 Indian sailors in the...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Dr. Andrey Kortunov, Political Analyst at the Valdai International Discussion Club. He discusses the state of India-Russia relations and India’s power in the world today, the RELOS Agreement and why the US failed to break away India from Russia, the limits of US power proven by the war on Iran, whether the US can continue hampering Russia’s oil exports by...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Prof. Charles Kupchan, who served as Barack Obama’s and Bill Clinton’s Director of European Affairs at the US’ National Security Council and Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University. He discusses why the old world is indeed dying with the gradual death of the US-led liberal order accelerated by Donald Trump, the US’ ‘schizophrenic’ forei...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Richard Sakwa, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Kent. He discusses the twilight of the political West and the end of the unipolar world, the 1914 levels of war fever in Europe against Russia as the Ukraine proxy war rages on, the declining impact of US and European sanctions against Russia, the evolution of India’s and other global south...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to one of the US’ most preeminent economists Prof. Richard Wolff. He discusses how Trump’s war on Iran is being paid for and why the cost is being pushed to the next generation, the untold truth about the deindustrialisation of the United States perpetrated by American corporations and the resulting supply line vulnerability, how the US-Israeli war on Iran wi...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Ambassador John Bolton, former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump in his first administration. Afshin Rattansi challenges him on his desire for Trump to pursue regime change in Tehran, his assertion that the Iranian people are on the brink of a mass uprising over the economic crisis caused largely by US sanctions, US-Israeli bombing causing Iranians...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to James Rickards, Former Pentagon Advisor and Editor of Strategic Intelligence. He discusses the US-Iran closure of the Strait of Hormuz and why it is likely to remain closed for the foreseeable future, why the global economic crisis will start unfolding including a risk of mass starvation, China’s vulnerability to the continued closure of the Strait of Horm...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Former Chief of Staff at the US State Department. He discusses the bombing of the China-Iran railway and the wider US priority to confront China, China’s global railway network strategy to ensure trade dominance, his belief that Iran has won against the US and Israel and whether Iran will pursue building nuclear weapons, why the ne...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Dr. S. V. Anchan, Founder and Chairman of the Safesea Group. His crude oil tanker, Safesea Vishnu was fatally attacked by Iran, and one Indian crew member was killed. He discusses how the Iranian attack on the Safesea Vishnu was different from the attacks on other ships in the region, the fact that the attack on his ship was conducted inside the territoria...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University’s Centre for Sustainable Development and Special Adviser to Three UN Secretaries-General. He discusses Donald Trump’s threats to ‘bomb Iran back to the stone age’ and Iran’s inevitable retaliation which will result in an out-of-control global economic crisis, the empowerment of the war machine in the Uni...

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Dennis Kucinich, former US Congressman for Ohio, and Former Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. He discusses the real reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran and the ‘moral collapse’ which led to it, the Trump Administration’s bogus justifications for starting the war, the impact of the war on India and the wider global south and their working classes, his warning to...

On this premiere episode of Afshin Rattansi’s brand new show New Order, we speak to Prof. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago as the US-Israeli War on Iran rages on, destabilising the entire region. How do Russia and China benefit from the US-Israeli War on Iran? How should India change its foreign policy calculus with regards to the United States? Why does Iran hold all the cards as the...