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.
Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan: A pivotal moment or farce? (Palestinian Deputy Foreign Minister)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Omar Awadallah, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority. He discusses Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan and its last-minute alterations, the absence of the founding of a Palestinian State and the level of involvement of the PA in formulating the plan, Donald Trump being unsure of a one-state or two-state solution, Donald Trump’s refusal to allow an Israeli annexation of the West Bank after pressure from UAE and Saudi Arabia, the future of Mahmoud Abbas as leader of the Palestinian Authority, war criminal Tony Blair’s involvement in the post-genocide governance of Gaza, the PA’s plan for governing Gaza and the West Bank as the occupation continues, the need to disarm Israeli settlers, the fate of Marwan Barghouti, and much more.
Trump has surrounded himself with neocons again, war after war is coming! (James Carden)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to James Carden, ex-adviser to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission and editor of The Realist Review. He discusses Donald Trump’s neoconservative foreign policy shift and the Republican establishment firmly controlling his foreign policy, the fake Ukraine proxy war casualty numbers being published in the Western press and the shocking real casualty numbers and ratio, why it’s ‘mission impossible’ for Tulsi Gabbard to reform US foreign policy from within the Trump administration, why Russia has largely ignored Washington’s and Brussels’ escalations in Ukraine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio being poised to turn Latin America and the Caribbean into a war zone after threats against Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, how the US has turned Ukraine into a ‘supersized Kosovo’ as a black market arms bazaar, the US population’s shift against Israel after the Gaza genocide, and much more.
‘Gaza will haunt Israel for generations’ – Mika Almog, granddaughter of former President Shimon Peres
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Mika Almog, content director of the It’s Time Coalition and granddaughter of late Israeli President Shimon Peres. She discusses how the It’s Time Coalition has been working to promote the voices of the Israeli peace camp against the Gaza genocide, the polls showing the overwhelming majority of Israelis expressing genocidal sentiment towards Palestinians, why Israel’s concept of ‘total victory’ in Gaza is ‘childish’ and unrealistic, why Israel has still not recovered from the assassination of former PM Yitzhak Rabin, the elimination of discussion about a political peace process in Israel, US President Donald Trump tipping Tony Blair to be part of the leadership of the Gaza Peace Plan, what her message would be to Israelis who want a genocidal ‘total victory’, whether Benjamin Netanyahu will use a war with Iran and potentially use Israel’s nuclear weapons to evade elections, and much more.
Trump’s world-changing economic plan you haven’t heard of: The Mar-a-Lago Accord (Jim Rickards)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Jim Rickards, Author of ‘Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation in the Coming Chaos’ and financial warfare lecturer at the US Army War College. He discusses the historic significance of the Mar-a-Lago Accord and what was behind Donald Trump’s trade and foreign policy initiatives, the plan for introducing century bonds and why it might hit US Treasury bonds, the urgency to bring down the US debt-to-GDP ratio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s plan to do it, why the US Treasury has been engineering the dollar’s declining valuation, Europe’s self-destructive sanctions against Russia and their consequences, Ukraine being a “money laundering machine” for US progressive politicians while Russia wins the war, why oil prices haven’t been weaponized to force an end to the Ukraine proxy war, and much more.
Matt Kennard: The cover-up of authoritarian Britain’s role in the Gaza genocide
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Matt Kennard, Author of The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire, and former Head of Investigations at Declassified UK. He discusses the crackdown on free speech in the UK regarding Palestine and the weaponization of the Terrorism Act to silence critics of British foreign policy, the detention of George Galloway at a UK airport, the proscription of Palestine Action and the arrest of over 1,000 activists, Britain’s RAF spy flights over Gaza giving real-time intelligence sharing to Israel and the cover-up of the UK’s role in the Gaza genocide, the consideration of Tony Blair to be a de facto viceroy in post-war Gaza, why it’s likely Israel will attack Iran again, why the US-Israeli proposal for Gaza is a ploy to the further the Gaza genocide, and much more.
Fixing the broken economic system: Prof. Steve Hanke’s blueprint to making money work again
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Steve Hanke, co-author of ‘Making Money Work’. He discusses how commercial banks create money ‘out of thin air’, his three solutions to rewrite the rules of our financial system, the extreme wealth inequality in the United States and how it has been fueled by monetary policy, why contemporary monetary policy places too much importance on interest rates as not the money supply, the weaponization of the US dollar via sanctions and whether ‘King Dollar’ will be toppled, and much more.