Going Underground
Two times a week Afshin Rattansi and his team go underground to discover the stories that aren’t being covered by the mainstream UK media. From GCHQ to Occupy protests, and everything else in between, Going Underground is here to bring a fresh perspective to our audiences around Britain.
Ecuador in crisis: How the US, IMF and mafia took over the country (Andrés Arauz)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak with Andrés Arauz, former Ecuadorian presidential candidate and former minister of knowledge and human talent. He discusses how criminal mafias in Ecuador have infiltrated the government, prisons and judicial systems under President Daniel Noboa, and how the IMF has weakened the state (and its ability to fight the mafias) through austerity. He also discusses deepening ties between the US and Ecuador in a strategic partnership, through which the US is set to open a military base on the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador’s full-throttled support for Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza, Ecuador’s deal to transfer weapons to the US to be used against Russia in Ukraine, which signals Ecuador becoming a US vassal state, the prospect of a return for former Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, and much more.
Gaza slaughter: US soft power damaged over support for Israel – Prof. Joseph Nye
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Joseph Nye, former US assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs and author of ‘A Life in the American Century’. He discusses Israel’s onslaught against Gaza and argues that US soft power is being damaged by support for Israel, the prospect of Donald Trump returning to power, and he gets into a tense exchange with Afshin Rattansi on the Ukraine proxy war, the US’ unilateral sanctions which are declining in effectiveness, US policy towards Syria, and much more.
US Army War College Prof. John Nagl challenged on Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, Ukraine proxy war
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Retired Lieutenant-Colonel John Nagl, Professor of Warfighting Studies at the US Army War College. In a heated exchange with Afshin Rattansi, he discusses the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the ongoing slaughter conducted by Israel in Gaza with US, UK and EU support, the US and UK airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen for their operations in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance, the accusations of genocide against Israel and complicity of the United States, the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the failure of US and EU sanctions against Russia, and much more.
Gaza genocide: The only ‘legitimate voices’ in Israel are genocidal fascists (Balad party leader)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sami Abou Shehadeh, Chairman of the Balad Party in Israel. He discusses the irony of the State of Israel committing a genocidal slaughter in Gaza as the world commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the rise of Israel’s far right – with fascists being the only ones to have a ‘legitimate voice’ in Israel while those speaking out against the slaughter are forcefully suppressed. He also discusses what differentiates the Palestinian struggle from other anti-apartheid and national liberation struggles, the complicity of the United States, Britain and European countries in the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, his own family’s personal experience of tragedy with relatives killed in Gaza, and much more.
Gaza genocide: US and allies of Israel COMPLETELY DIVORCED from the rest of the world (Alastair Crooke)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Alastair Crooke, former advisor to the EU foreign policy chief and the founder and director of Conflicts Forum. He discusses the fierce anti-colonial sentiment across the Global South against the US and its allies over Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, the coming expansion of the war with the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel in Lebanon heating up, Iran and the Axis of Resistance’s strategy to fight Israel without unleashing an Armageddon war which would destroy entire nations, the collapse of the West’s narrative over Gaza and Ukraine, and why a period of catharsis will be good for the West. He also discusses US and UK airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, the omission of South Africa’s evidence against Israel at the International Court of Justice in the US and European media, the EU’s ‘atrocious’ position on Israel’s onslaught, and much more.
Countdown to extinction: Nuclear war and the end of humanity
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Brian Toon, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. He discusses the civilisation-ending impact nuclear war would have, with 50-150 million people being killed in a hypothetical war between India and Pakistan. He also discusses the harsh impacts of nuclear winter and why it is a credible extinction-level threat, the close-call accidents and mistakes that have almost caused nuclear wars to begin, the threat of a large-exchange nuclear war involving the US, the case for disarmament, and much more.