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.
‘War is Bringing Iran Closer to a NUCLEAR BOMB’— Ex-Chief of Israel’s Shin Bet Ami Ayalon
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Director of Shin Bet Admiral Ami Ayalon. He discusses why Israel’s wars against Palestinians and the Arabs are wars that Israel wants, why the perpetual conflict will hasten the end of the Zionist project, why he supported the JCPOA nuclear deal in opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government, the failures and shameful actions of Benjamin Netanyahu from Gaza to Lebanon to Iran, Israel’s financial support for Hamas prior to 2023, why he feels Israel does not understand its enemy: the Palestinian people, why the US-Israeli war on Iran has brought Iran closer to making the decision to build a nuclear weapon, Israel’s treatment of whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, who exposed Israel’s nuclear weapons program, why Israel has never been attacked by Al Qaeda or ISIS, and much more.
Israel is using up US power as the unipolar world ends – former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy. He discusses the state of the Trump-Netanyahu relationship as the Iran quagmire deepens and why the frustrations haven’t made a difference to US foreign policy, the Israel-Lebanon deal and how it overwhelmingly favors Israel, the reasons for the failure of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, why Israel has not been involved in this round of the Iran war so far, J.D. Vance’s political calculations behind his recent comments against Israel, how Israel is trying to strengthening its regional ambitions using up US power as the unipolar world ends, the unpopularity of the Iran war in the US, and much more.
Donald Trump knows Iran has won the war and is risking a global depression – Doug Bandow
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Doug Bandow. Former Special Assistant to Ronald Reagan and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He discusses the risk of a global Great Depression following the resumption of the war on Iran and the looming prospect of a catastrophic energy shock in the US, why Donald Trump knows he must end the war on Iran quickly, whether the echo chamber of neocons around Trump can tell Trump he made a mistake by starting the war, the Gulf States’ view of the war on Iran and their defense against Iranian capabilities, whether Iran could already have a nuclear weapon, Trump’s potential pivot to Ukraine as the NATO-Russia proxy war continues to escalate, and much more.
Col. Larry Wilkerson: The world is sleepwalking into potential nuclear war over Iran
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. He discusses Trump’s war on Iran as part of Washington’s conflict against China, the transformation of the US military into a mercenary military, as most service people don’t know why they are fighting Iran, the propaganda for US military-industrial complex companies and their ineffective weaponry, Iran’s ultimate leverage being the Strait of Hormuz and their nuclear program, the world sleepwalking into a potential nuclear war over Iran, the psychological warfare campaign in the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the US’ flagrant violations of international law and the possibility of either a civil war or coup d’état in the US leading up to the midterms, China’s concern over a direct war against the US as the empire continues to decline, the sidelining of the Palestinian issue and the Gaza genocide as the world focuses on the US-Israeli war on Iran, and much more.
CMSGT. Dennis Fritz: Israel’s influence over Trump’s Pentagon is even worse than under Bush!
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CMSGT. Dennis Fritz, former principal adviser to Richard Myers, who became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He discusses why he believes the US-Iran MoU will be torpedoed by Donald Trump’s negotiation tactics and the influence of Israel, the possibility of an Israeli false flag to drag the US back into the unpopular war against Iran, why he believes some of the attacks on GCC countries were carried out by Israel as false flags to frame Iran, the amount of influence Israel has over the Pentagon now under Pete Hegseth and the Trump administration, whether there is a risk of Israel assassinating Trump in the ultimate false flag attack, Trump’s potential pivot to Ukraine and whether he would be successful in negotiating a peace deal, his surprise at Vladimir Putin allowing the Ukraine proxy war to go on for so long without a decisive victory, and much more.
Ukraine Proxy War: Europe’s elites & US neocons want the dissolution of Russia — James Carden
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to James Carden, ex-advisor to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission at the US State Department. He discusses Trump’s remarks at an increasingly fractured NATO Summit and the continuing war on Iran, why he believes that the Trump administration isn’t serious about ending the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, why Ukraine’s drone attacks against Russia don’t change the balance of power in the war, the goal of Europe’s leaders and American neocons being the dissolution of Russia and regime change, Russia’s mistakes since the 2014 Maidan coup, the team surrounding Trump believing the Ukraine proxy war should be continued, the window of opportunity for it to be ended closing by the day, why the US must use NATO as leverage to force Europe to abandon its hawkishness towards Russia, why he believes Trump’s threats to leave NATO are an act, the US-Israeli war on Iran being intrinsically linked to the Greater Israel project, and much more.