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.
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.
The political life of Malcolm X: Busting the myths (Prof. Kehinde Andrews)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Kehinde Andrews, author of Nobody Can Give You Freedom: The Political Life of Malcolm X. He discusses how Malcolm X would have viewed the Gaza genocide and Israel’s crimes, the crucial differences between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and their respective views on the American project, why Malcolm X was not a Marxist despite his alliance with Marxist revolutionaries and the difference in their philosophies, Donald Trump and his relationship with black Americans, why the Posthumous Autobiography of Malcolm X is a pack of lies, what Critical Race Theory actually is, and much more.
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: World War 3 is here, Netanyahu is intent on Greater Israel
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff of former Secretary of State Colin Powell. He discusses his work with Randy Credico in Washington D.C. to publicise the horror of the Gaza genocide, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu being intent on fulfilling the Greater Israel plan, the high likelihood of a second war with Iran before the end of the year, Netanyahu’s plan to drag the US into World War 3 and why we are already in a world war, why Israel may use nuclear weapons in the upcoming second war on Iran, the US empire now facing down over 2 billion people in its confrontation with the multipolar world, and much more.
Is Russia about to be tricked? Can the SCO stand up against US hegemony? (Dr. Andrey Kortunov)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Andrey Kortunov, former Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council. He discusses the understated role and sacrifice China made for victory in World War II, European countries’ plan to send troops to Ukraine and why security guarantees are essential for Russia, whether these negotiations are a ploy to trick Russia into another Minsk Agreement trap, whether the powers of the multipolar world such as China and Iran should act preemptively before the US moves against them, whether the Shanghai Cooperation Organization can withstand pressure from the US and its military-industrial complex, whether the SCO can be a united front for the multipolar world against US hegemony, whether Israel will use its nuclear weapons against Iran in the next war, and much more.
Doug Bandow: Enormous damage done to US’ reputation over Gaza, Trump ‘easily manipulated’ by Israel
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Doug Bandow, former special assistant to US President Ronald Reagan and senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He discusses Trump directing the US government to purchase stakes in key companies such as Intel, the corruption between the US government and the defense-industrial base, the wasteful spending of trillions on war and empire, the prospect of a second US-Israel war against Iran, the hypocritical US policy of sanctioning India for buying Russian oil, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s extreme Christian theology which is helping guide US foreign policy, and Israel’s calculation that no US president will truly do anything to stop them. He also discusses Trump’s approach to ending the Ukraine proxy war, the deranged belief that Vladimir Putin would not use nuclear weapons under any circumstances over the Ukraine conflict, US foreign policy towards nuclear-armed North Korea, the enormous damage to the US’ reputation in the Global South after the Gaza genocide, and much more.
Ex-CIA adviser & Afshin Rattansi have heated exchange over Ukraine proxy war
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow and director of foreign policy research at the Brookings Institution, former member of the Defense Policy Board of the US Department of Defense, and former CIA adviser. He discusses the legacy of the disastrous US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the importance of ending the Ukraine proxy war for Trump’s agenda and the MAGA base, his desire for US military trainers to be sent to Ukraine as part of a peace deal between Washington and Moscow, why Russia’s reaction to NATO expansion was predictable, and more. In the second half, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on his claims that Russia tried to use ‘shock and awe’ against Ukraine, why Russia can’t trust an agreement with the United States, the US’ hypocrisy of condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine with its own history of illegal invasions, the state of the international relations scholarly field in the US, and much more.