On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Tariq Ali, renowned writer, filmmaker and activist, and author of ‘You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024’. He discusses how his experiences during the Vietnam War continue to give him hope for today, the crackdown against the pro-Palestinian movements in the US, UK and EU, and how he discovered the British intelligence services were spying on him in the 1990s. He also discusses Donald Trump’s move towards a US-Israeli war with Iran and why he believes that it is to target China, why it will be hard for the West to win a war against Iran, why Gorbachev’s mistakes during the collapse of the Soviet Union are a root cause of the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the possibility that Hugo Chavez was assassinated by the CIA, why the US has been against the prospect of a Unified Korean Peninsula and, much more.
