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.
BRICS Summit: China is US target no.1, India is BRICS problem – Professor Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Professor Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., a former executive director of the IMF and former VP of the BRICS New Development Bank, ahead of the upcoming 2025 BRICS Summit in Rio. He discusses the tectonic change of the West’s relative decline in economic, cultural, and moral terms as a result of their support for the Gaza genocide, Brazil’s internal divisions when it comes to orientation towards the US or BRICS, the pace of BRICS de-dollarization being more substantial than most people realize, the timid approach of the NDB even amid the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, China being target number one of the US and what the Ukraine proxy war has taught it, PM Narendra Modi’s India increasingly becoming a major problem for BRICS, the importance of Iran to BRICS and why Iran should have had a nuclear weapon a long time ago, and much more.
It would be prudent for Iran to develop nuclear weapons! – CMSGT Dennis Fritz
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CMSGT. Dennis Fritz, Former Advisor to US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Richard Myers. He discusses the fallout of the US’ and Israel’s aggression against Iran and what comes next. Will Mossad prepare false flags to drag the US into a major escalation against Iran soon? How deep does the Israel lobby’s control over Congress and departments of the US government go? Will Iran now build nuclear weapons? All this and more is answered in this episode.
Petr Bystron MEP: NATO needs an enemy, slams ‘stupid’ Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Petr Bystron MEP, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. He discusses the narrative of Russia being the enemy of Europe and NATO after the NATO summit this week, the abandonment of Ukraine’s ‘irreversible path’ to NATO, the German government’s labeling of the AfD and left-wing parties as ‘extremist’, Zelensky’s corruption and the billions of missing aid money, the mainstream narrative of Russia being about to invade Europe, whether Germany is still a democracy as crackdowns against free speech and the opposition continue, NATO nations arming Israel for the genocide in Gaza, and much more.
Russian nuclear strike against Europe becoming more likely over Ukraine (Dr. Dmitry Trenin)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Dmitry Trenin, Retired Colonel of the Russian Armed Forces and member of Russia’s Foreign and Defense Policy Council. He discusses why Russia has not come to the aid of Iran as Israel and the US attack it, Vladimir Putin’s offer to mediate between Iran and Israel, Russia’s relations with Israel and Israel’s assistance for Ukraine in the proxy war against Russia, and whether the attack on Iran will result in increased nuclear proliferation. In the second half of the interview, he discusses why BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization have not put on a united front, Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s strategic bombers and the changing Russian view on deterrence, Russia’s failure to retaliate causing Russia’s adversaries to step up their escalations, and the increased likelihood of a Russian nuclear strike.
Attack on Iran: Israel seeks regional hegemony as US & Europe face isolation – Daniel Levy
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Daniel Levy, former senior adviser to Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin, and president of the US/Middle East Project. He discusses the real reasons for Israel’s attack on Iran and the claims that Iran was about to manufacture a nuclear weapon, why the green light was given by Donald Trump for Netanyahu to bomb Iran, the split among Trump’s MAGA camp with opposition to US involvement, whether it’s Israel running the US or the US running Israel, America’s misperception of its adversaries including Iran, the isolation that the US and Europe face as the rest of the world condemns the aggression against Iran, the negotiations being used as a decoy, and much more.
Viktor Bout: Zelensky is a dead man walking, globalists trying to pull Trump into war against Russia
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Viktor Bout, Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Ulyanovsk Oblast, called the ‘Merchant of Death’ by NATO propaganda media. He discusses Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s strategic bombers, which Russia says was planned by the British Secret Services, the state of the negotiations with Ukraine to end the proxy war, efforts to pull US President Donald Trump into the war against Russia, President Vladimir Putin avoiding an ‘emotional’ response to NATO’s provocations, Europe’s economic self-sabotage since 2022, the mass protests in Los Angeles and across the United States, whether Russia will advance on Odessa, Zelensky being a ‘dead man walking’, and much more.