Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Anatol Lieven, Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute. He discusses why European countries have been so hostile towards direct negotiations with Russia and why the Ukraine proxy war must keep going, the idea of NATO nations contributing to a ‘reassurance force’...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He discusses why he concludes that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and the exact moment that conclusion became apparent to him, the weaponisation of the Holocaust to eradicate Israel’s enemies and...

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Guy Shalev, Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. He discusses the Israeli public’s ’wall of denial’ about the suffering and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza as the Gaza genocide continues, the draconian media censorship in Israel which omitted his organisation’s report that concluded Israel is committing genocide, why the...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Development. He discusses the upcoming Trump-Putin meeting and the chances of success or failure at ending the Ukraine proxy war, Donald Trump’s behaviour as a ‘King’ and why it harms global security, the c...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dennis Kucinich, former Congressman and former Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. He discusses the efforts for negotiations between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin with the danger of nuclear war hanging over us all, the deep state’s continuing grip on the Trump Administration in foreign polic...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer who alleges Jeffrey Epstein was an asset of Israel’s Mossad. He discusses why he believes the US is trapped by Israel to do nothing about the Gaza genocide, Jeffrey Epstein’s blackmailing of Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton to stop...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Max Blumenthal, Editor in Chief of The Grayzone. He discusses the Democrats’ and the media’s sudden switch to acknowledging starvation in Gaza and the scale of the carnage, Israel’s race towards a final solution in Gaza to the shock of the Democrats, the New York Times’ apology over i...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Curtis Yarvin, Author of ‘Gray Mirror’ on Substack and New Right Political Theorist. He discusses the ‘top-down’ approach of the Trump Administration versus the traditional bottom-up mode of operating, how Trump’s 2nd term is starting to mirror the FDR Presidency, how the Trump Ad...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Alan Dershowitz, former Defence Lawyer for the late Jeffrey Epstein and Former Impeachment Lawyer for Donald Trump. He discusses whether Barack Obama will go to prison for fabricating the Russiagate hoax against Donald Trump with the help of the CIA and FBI, why a deal must be reache...

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Avi Melamed, former Senior Israeli Intelligence Official and advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. In a heated exchange, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on Israel’s bombing of Syria and Netanyahu’s support for ISIS and Al Qaeda against Bashar Al-Assad, former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert saying that Israel is close to a civil war, Iran’s r...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Jennifer Kavanaugh, Director of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities and Former Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. She discusses why the US-European plan to supply Ukraine with weaponry won’t make a difference on the battlefield and how Donald Trump has made it ha...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Nadav Tamir, Executive Director of J Street Israel. He discusses Israel’s and the United States’ attack on Iran and whether this will push Iran towards a nuclear weapon, how Netanyahu convinced Trump to attack the Iranian nuclear program, whether Iran can destroy Israel’s cities wi...

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to David Pyne, Deputy Director of the US Taskforce on National and Homeland Security and former Consultant at the US Missile Defence Agency. What capabilities does Iran have to devastate the US mainland? Why is President Trump putting Israel and Ukraine first instead of America First? Does Iran already have nuclear weapons? Who is feeding President Tr...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Andrew Bridgen, former Member of the British Parliament. He discusses the increasing crackdown on freedom of speech by Sir Keir Starmer’s government, the campaign to destroy his reputation by the political class and the media, the false narratives behind the Russia-NATO proxy war in...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., Former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund and Former Vice President of the BRICS New Development Bank, ahead of the upcoming 2025 BRICS Summit in Rio. He discusses the tectonic change of the political West’s relative decline in eco...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CMSGT. Dennis Fritz, Former Advisor to US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Richard Myers. He discusses the fallout of the US’ and Israel’s aggression against Iran and what comes next. Will Israel’s Mossad prepare false flags to drag the US into a major escalation against Iran soon? Ho...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Petr Bystron MEP, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. He discusses the narrative of Russia being the enemy of Europe and NATO after the NATO Summit this week, the abandonment of Ukraine’s ‘irreversible path’ to NATO, the German government’s labelling o...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Dmitri Trenin, Retired Colonel of the Russian Armed Forces and member of Russia’s Foreign and Defence Policy Council. He discusses why Russia has not come to the defence of Iran as Israel and the US attack it, Vladimir Putin’s offer to mediate between Iran and Israel, Russia’s re...

FOLLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Daniel Levy, former Senior Advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin, and President of the US/Middle East Project. He discusses the real reasons for Israel’s attack on Iran and the claims that Iran was about to manufacture a nuclear weapon, why the green light...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Viktor Bout, Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Ulyanovsk Oblast, called the ‘Merchant of Death’ by NATO propaganda media. He discusses Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s strategic bombers which Russia says was planned by the British Secret Services, the state of the negotiations wi...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sami Abou Shehadeh, Chairman of the Israeli Balad Party. In an emotional interview, he discusses the 600+ days of suffering Palestinians have endured in the ongoing genocide, Israel’s kidnapping of Greta Thunberg and others on the Madleen Freedom Flotilla Vessel, the US, UK, and EU’s...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of Staff. He discusses Ukraine's drone attack targeting Russia's nuclear-capable strategic bomber fleets, why Russia has already won the proxy war on the ground, his sources telling him that barely anyone can get...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s Ambassador to the United Nations. In the first half of the interview, discusses the massacre of Palestinians attempting to get a morsel of food aid in Gaza, Donald Trump’s and Israel’s proposal for Palestinians to be expelled from Gaza, Israel’s refu...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian & European Politics at the University of Kent and Author of ‘The Culture of the Second Cold War’. He discusses Merz becoming Chancellor and Germany’s pursuit of a ‘suicidal’ foreign policy, the negotiations to end the Ukraine proxy war in Istan...

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS:  https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Asa Winstanley, Associate Editor at The Electronic Intifada and a veteran journalist who has covered Palestine and the Israel lobby for over two decades. He discusses the UK’s attempts to silence his journalism covering the Gaza genocide, the police raid on his home to seize his devi...