Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Palestinian-born academic Dr. Ghada Karmi, author of ‘One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel’. She discusses how she was branded an anti-Semite and expelled from the British Labour Party under Sir Keir Starmer for writing against Israel, her interrogation by British Police over a talk she participated in at a Book Fair for explaining the Palestinian perspective on Hamas, the massive crackdowns on pro-Palestinian dissent in the UK and Western Europe, why the real culprits are the heads of the American Empire for Israel’s genocidal carnage in Gaza and mass slaughter in Lebanon, why Blinken should be embarrassed over his performative ‘diplomatic efforts’ to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza, the significance of Palestinian and Lebanese resistance against Israel as it is one of the ‘most important tools of empire’, why the two-state solution was initially supported by Palestinians and now serves Western interests, and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Member of the European Parliament for Ireland South Mick Wallace. He discusses the Nord Stream pipeline attacks two years on which was the largest methane emissions release in history, the rise of anti-establishment left-wing and right-wing political parties as the EU continues to serve the interests of elites, massive disillusionment with the unrepresentative EU Parliament and the entire political system, Ursula Von der Leyen behaving like a ‘total servant’ of US empire, the political class in Ireland going along with Washington’s position on the Ukraine proxy war, the grip of 60,000 lobbyists over European Union politics, NATO’s increasing grip over EU politics and it behaving like a terrorist organisation, how Gaza has led to the mask slipping for the European Union over their support for Israel, and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Historian of the Middle East Dr. Assal Rad. She discusses how Western media has consistently whitewashed Israel’s crimes for years against Palestinians, the shaping of media narratives and the use of language to change perceptions of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, how institutional dehumanisation and demonisation of Palestinians in the US, UK and EU is necessary to justify the magnitude of Israel’s crimes, the media’s broad refusal to challenge the narratives of the US State Department and Israel, the role of corporations in corrupting the media and political landscape in the US to ensure their narratives of choice prevail, the double standards of Western governments and media when it comes to talking about Saudi-Iran & Saudi-Syria normalisation agreements in the Middle East as well as Iran’s alliances in the region, AIPACs vice grip on US politics and covert Israeli influence campaigns to influence US elections, the ideologies of US officials which lead them to whitewash and enable Israel’s crimes, and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He discusses the Haaretz estimate of 2% of Gaza’s population killed by Israel and the systematic destruction of Gaza to make it uninhabitable, his visit to Israel to give a lecture at a university and the protests against him by Israeli students for saying a genocide was taking place in Gaza, why he has come to the conclusion that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza to wipe out the Palestinian population in whole or in part, why it may be hard to prove Israel’s intent of genocide, whether the US, UK & EU are complicit in war crimes and genocide by supplying weaponry to Israel, Israeli society showing no empathy for the Palestinians suffering in Gaza despite opposing Benjamin Netanyahu, how Israelis went from experiencing the trauma of the Holocaust during World War 2 to carrying out genocide in Gaza and apartheid against Palestinians, why Israel’s apartheid system over Palestinians will intensify, why Israel’s apartheid state will eventually implode and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Former Special Assistant to US President Ronald Reagan and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute Doug Bandow. She discusses Dick Cheney’s endorsement of Kamala Harris and the subsequent glee of Democrats after she received his endorsement, the US’ foreign policy establishment’s ignorance on their own hypocrisy seen by the rest of the world, the Arab Gulf States mending ties with Syria to the horror of the US, why a Kamala Harris Presidency won’t mean much of a change in terms of foreign policy and whether Donald Trump has learned from the foreign policy mistakes made in his first term, why Kamala Harris and the Democrats seem to not care about the rising risk of World War 3 and nuclear war with Russia, the transformation of Bill Burns from cautious diplomat warning against NATO expansion to publicly cheering on the proxy war against Russia through Ukraine as CIA Director, the US, UK and EU’s ‘disgusting policy’ of fighting to destroy Russia by sacrificing Ukrainian lives, the details of the settlement that should be negotiated to end the war, the disastrous self-sanctioning of the European countries and complete subservience to the United States, why a Donald Trump second term could have some benefits on foreign policy because of his anti-war instincts, his work in the Reagan Administration and why he believes the most important issue of our times is war and peace, and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Daniele Ganser, Founder and Director of the Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research and author of ‘USA: The Ruthless Empire’. He discusses the history of NATO’s secret armies in Western Europe through Operation Gladio and their links to terrorist attacks, the parallels of Operation Gladio and the chaos fomented in Ukraine in 2014, the US’ involvement in the 2014 Maidan coup and the general population being unaware of much of this history, the assassination attempt against Donald Trump and the many suspicious facts surrounding the event that lead him to believe there was a stand-down order among the Secret Service, NATO countries possibly using Zelensky’s Ukrainian army to invade Kursk in Russia and how this is unprecedented in history, Switzerland’s abandonment of neutrality amid the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and Switzerland’s partaking in the economic war against Russia, the decline of the population’s trust in the ruling establishment parties in Western Europe, why Russia and Ukraine have no option to return to peace and brotherhood, and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Fiona Lali, the National Campaigns Coordinator of the UK Revolutionary Communist Party who went viral after calling the the former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman a war criminal to her face on television. She discusses the protests outside of the Israeli Embassy in London on Saturday and the widespread opposition against the British government’s support for Israel in its genocidal slaughter, why the British government’s support for the atrocities happening in Palestine is a reflection of western imperialism and the capitalist system, the Labour Party and the Conservative Party being one and the same when it comes to Palestine, Britain being a lapdog to American imperialism and how British Labour politicians have shifted their positions to placate the US, the international pro-Palestine movement being symbolic of the divide between the ruling class and the working class, the British media’s constant covering for Israel amid the genocide and occupation of Palestine and how it reflects British ruling class interests, Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to keep supporting Ukraine in the NATO proxy war against Russia while the government continues to attack the poorest in society, the continual cultural and media propaganda around the Ukraine proxy war, and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Amb. Danny Ayalon, the Former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister and former Ambassador to the United States. In a heated interview, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on the the looming prospect of regional war with Iran and whether Iran already has nuclear weapons, the state of the Israeli economy and society as Israeli Jews leave the country, Lebanese Hezbollah’s recent wide-ranging strikes against Israel and the censorship order from the Israeli government to prevent reporting on the damage, the placing of Israeli military facilities next to civilian infrastructure, the banning of access for journalists to enter Gaza to verify any of Israel’s claims of see the apocalyptic damage, the reports of torture and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners at the Sde Teiman concentration camp, the trend in the United States of the younger generation supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state and opposing Israel’s human rights violations, the extreme number of civilian casualties in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Matt Taibbi, Co-Publisher of ‘Twitter Files’, Co-Host of the ‘America This Week’ Podcast, and Former Contributing Editor of the Rolling Stone magazine. He discusses the arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov and why it marks a paradigm shift in free speech and censorship in Western countries, the creeping digital censorship since the passing of the Digital Services Act in Europe, the precedent set by arresting Durov for the crimes of users using his platform, the significance of Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan admitting that the Biden Administration had pressured him to censor COVID-19 content and the Hunter Biden laptop story, his time in Russia and the shift in the journalistic environment there, the creeping move towards censorship in the US following Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 and Brexit, the shift of the priorities of the US government from counter-terrorism to monitoring speech domestically, why he has called Elon Musk ‘disappointing’ on the issue of free speech and his call for a conversation with Elon Musk to resolve their differences stemming from their dispute on Substack, and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Peter St Onge, an economist at the Heritage Foundation. He discusses the skewing of the US government’s economic statistics and what the real numbers are on unemployment and inflation, why the US has been in a 5-year recession or 5-year depression, the increasing government takeover of the economy and the ballooning corporate welfare budget, the decline of the pace of new technology innovation, the US’ wanton use of sanctions to steal from other countries’ leading to the start of the decline of the US dollar as the world’s reserve country driven by BRICS, the Biden Administration’s use of the strategic oil reserve as a political football to lower oil prices before elections, the problem with a gold-backed currency, and much more.