Twice a week, award-winning journalist Afshin Rattansi and his team go underground to cover geopolitics and current affairs from a perspective you won’t find in the mainstream media, with some of the most high-profile guests.
Democrats don’t know how to handle war, things will get worse if Republicans lose midterms (Bo Loudon)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Bo Loudon, Trump insider and Turning Point USA Ambassador. He discusses what he considers the risk of the Democrats winning the midterm elections, Donald Trump’s achievements and why he believes the Democrats are unable to handle war, how Trump will respond if the Republicans lose the midterms, the need for more civil conversations and debate in American politics, the war on Iran and its consequences, the effect of the loss of Charlie Kirk on the Republican Party, why Donald Trump has done nothing to prosecute the likes of James Clapper, Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, and others who propagated the Russiagate hoax, ongoing threats to Donald Trump’s life, Trump’s handling of the Ukraine proxy war, Vladimir Zelensky, and Vladimir Putin, the Epstein Files scandal and his defense of Donald Trump, his view of the polling which paints a dismal picture for the Republicans ahead of the midterms, and much more.
US midterms: Why would anyone vote for Democrats after Gaza? Afshin Rattansi challenges Joel Rubin
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Joel Rubin, former deputy assistant secretary of state in the Obama Administration. In a heated debate with challenges from Afshin Rattansi, he discusses how he thinks the Democrats will fare in the upcoming midterms in terms of taking back the House and Senate, his argument for why people should vote for the Democrats, what the Democrats’ position on the war on Iran is, and if they will do anything to stop the war, how AIPAC has destroyed its reputation with the Democratic Party, why the US continues to send military aid to Israel despite the Gaza genocide and Israel’s wars of aggression, why the Democrats continue to support more military aid for Ukraine while a majority of Americans oppose continued aid, his opposition to ‘isolationist’ American foreign policy, his defense of the Democrats’ foreign policy as Afshin challenges him on the US’ foreign policy record while the American people suffer, and much more.
Prof. Richard Wolff: China is waiting and watching as the US empire and the West implodes
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Richard Wolff, Professor of Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He discusses the causes of the mass protests in France and the rest of Western Europe and the drive by Europe’s leaders to gear up for war against Russia, Europe’s hypocrisy in buying hundreds of billions of euros’ worth of Russian energy while funding Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, the solution to Europe’s terminal decline and loss of power, China and Russia’s goal being to stay on the sidelines while the US’ unipolar world implodes, whether the US working class can trust progressives and ‘democratic socialists’ ahead of the midterms, what socialism actually means for progressive politicians in the US, how socialism is likely to evolve in the US in the future, how the Israel lobby’s and military-industrial complex’s power over Congress is ultimately their downfall, the two scapegoats in the US being immigrants and Russia, and much more.
Iran war: Trump is too egotistical and in Netanyahu’s pocket – Paul Craig Roberts
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Paul Craig Roberts, former US assistant treasury secretary for economic policy under Ronald Reagan and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He discusses why the US under Donald Trump continues to supply intelligence to Ukraine despite pursuing an end to the NATO-Russia proxy war, the grip of the neoconservatives on American foreign policy, why he believes Ukraine’s Zelensky is “finished,” the US-Russia diesel deal and why it was struck, how Iran has handed Trump a midterm victory on a silver platter only to be met with rejection and more bombing threats, why he believes Benjamin Netanyahu orchestrated October 7th, how Ronald Reagan defied the Israel lobby, the ongoing protests in France and Western Europe, the prospect of the Democrats sweeping the midterm elections, and much more.
Prof. Robert Pape reveals Trump’s Iran escalation plan, the likelihood of the use of nukes has doubled
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Robert Pape, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, and founder of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats. He discusses the rise of violent populism in the United States and Americans increasingly turning on each other, the legacy media’s deliberate omission of the facts he has found about the new middle and upper class of violent populists in the United States, why Trump’s political survival is at risk because of the war on Iran, the Iran war escalation trap that has resulted in it spreading to Saudi Arabia and Yemen, Trump’s plan for escalation against Iran, why the odds of the use of a nuclear weapon against Iran have doubled, the normalization of political violence in the United States and the impacts it will have both at home and abroad, what could cause a mutiny in the US armed forces, skyrocketing economic inequality, and much more.
Iran War could be Trump’s downfall: An enormous strategic mistake (ex-economic hitman John Perkins)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to John Perkins, former ‘economic hitman’ and Author of The Art of the Steal: Trump & The Economic Hit Man Presidency. He discusses the US’ move to oligarchy and Trump’s acceleration of the shift, why he feels ashamed to be an American, the IMF & World Bank’s GDP predictions and why GDP is only a measure of how the wealthy are doing, why unity is very important for African and Latin American countries, why the US made the enormous strategic mistake of attacking Iran, why the war on Iran could be Donald Trump’s downfall, the nature of Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin, why leaders of countries continue to take hated IMF & World Bank loans, China’s strategy of sitting on the sidelines while the US makes catastrophic mistakes, and much more.