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.
‘This is not our war’: UAE navigates instability amid US-Israeli war on Iran (Mohammed Baharoon)
In this episode, we speak with Mohammed Baharoon, the director-general of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center. What is the situation on the ground in Dubai as Iranian missiles and drones continue to target UAE? What is the state of the GCC’s alliance with the US after it plunged the region into its most destabilizing war yet? Why has BRICS disappointingly not stepped up to mediate the crisis? What is the state of the Abraham Accords following the Gaza genocide and Israel’s wars on Iran? Are there any chances for peace and negotiations? All this and more on Going Underground.
Assault on Iran: ‘The American people don’t want this war’ Afshin Rattansi challenges Capt. James Fanell
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Captain James Fanell, the Former Director of Intelligence of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet. Why did US President Donald Trump start this unpopular war against Iran? Was it dragged in by Israel? Is America heading for victory or disaster? Why are the US and Israel targeting schools and hospitals in Iran? All this and more on this episode of Going Underground.
Will the Epstein files be the end of the British royal family?
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Rt. Hon. Norman Baker, former UK Home Office Minister for Crime Prevention and Privy Councilor to King Charles III. How has the Epstein Files revelations about Peter Mandelson shaken the political establishment’s power in Britain? How morally bankrupt is Keir Starmer and the political establishment? What was the Royal Family’s role in protecting Prince Andrew from the consequences of his crimes? Will the Epstein files be the end of the British monarchy? All this and more on this episode of Going Underground.
US-Israeli war on Iran: Can Israel survive full-scale Iranian retaliation? (Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Uri Bar-Joseph, Prof. Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Haifa. Can Israel survive an all-out Iranian retaliation as Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu prepare a second US-Israeli war on Iran? What are the real motivations compelling Trump and Netanyahu to launch a war on Iran? Will Hezbollah join the war and how much damage could Israel suffer? All this and more on this episode of Going Underground.
Can Cuba’s revolution survive Trump’s economic war? (Cuba’s UN ambassador, Ernesto Soberon Guzman)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Cuba’s ambassador to the UN, Ernesto Soberon Guzman, amid US President Donald Trump's unprecedented campaign to strangle the Cuban Revolution by intensifying the blockade. Can Cuba survive the maximum pressure? What now for Cuba with Venezuela now under US control? What measures is Cuba taking against the US cutting off fuel imports to the country? Is Cuba ready for a US military attack? All this and more on this episode of Going Underground.
Ukraine: Europe’s deliberate lying and fearmongering on ‘Russian threat’ (Prof. Anatol Lieven)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Anatol Lieven, the director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute. He discusses Europe’s self-entrapment over providing assistance to Ukraine as the proxy war against Russia continues, European leaders deliberately lying to their people that Russia will imminently attack Europe and whether their populations believe them, Britain’s unexpected appearance in the Geneva Negotiations to end the Ukraine proxy war, and whether or not Europe is finally returning to a constructive role in international relations. In the second half, he discusses the Western media allegations that Alexey Navalny was poisoned with Ecuadorean dart frog poison, the potential collapse of the Western European ‘Coalition of the Willing’ supporting Ukraine, the collapse of belief in ‘liberal values’ in Western Europe from the Iraq War to Gaza, the farcical claims of the Russian and Chinese threat in the Arctic, and much more.