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Going Underground

Going Underground

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We ask the questions mainstream media avoid. Current affairs and geopolitics. Watch us on Rumble. Host: @AfshinRattansi. RTs≠Endorsements

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Donald Trump says the Iran war will end immediately after the midterm elections in November. Waiting for a wipeout of Republicans in Congress to end the war which has pushed the global economy into a deepening crisis… A winning strategy!
More daily Israeli activities: Israel blows up a SCHOOL in Al-Mansouri, South Lebanon. Israel’s campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the people of Lebanon has not stopped, even as the world looks away.
On this day in 1976, Chairman of the Communist Party of China🇨🇳 Mao Zedong passed away. While neoliberal economists say China’s rise only started after Mao’s death, the statistics show that Mao’s rule laid the foundations for China to become the superpower it is today. Out…
Last night: reported footage of Iranian missiles successfully avoiding US Patriot interceptors in Jordan, and appearing to strike directly near Patriot missile launchers. This followed last night’s escalation where the US bombed Iranian oil tankers, leading to Iran bombing the…
Russia’s🇷🇺 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: ‘The West has miscalculated. There can be no artificial preservation of its dominance which has lasted for 500 years. It must defend its position in a fair fight, but it has never been able to do this in its entire history. The Wes…
On this day in 1941, Nazi Germany and its allies begin the Siege of Leningrad, one of the longest, brutal & destructive sieges in history. It would last for 2 years, 4 months, 2 weeks & 5 days. The goal was not to occupy the city, but to starve it into extinction. By early 19…
Ken Silva: ‘There will probably be MORE ASSASSINATION THREATS against Donald Trump.’ ‘There probably will be more assassination attempts because there's been no reforms at the Secret Service. In fact, a lot of the people who were responsible for the failures at Butler and Palm…
🚨NEW EPISODE OF GOING UNDERGROUND⚡️ Afshin Rattansi CHALLENGES Ex-CIA Advisor on the Legacy of America’s Wars: Success or Failure? How has the US maintained its superpower status despite losing so many wars? Why is the modern era the worst era for American Warfighting? How m…
In 1776, the US🇺🇸 defeated the British Empire🇬🇧 with ASYMMETRIC warfare, now the US is defeated by asymmetric warfare in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Former CIA Advisor Michael O’Hanlon: ‘The US’ success in the War of Independence wound up foreshadowing some of the opposition t…
On this day in 1953, the CIA & MI6 orchestrated the coup against Iran’s democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh. Mosaddegh had pursued nationalist policies and was widely-popular, having nationalised Iran’s oil to stop British exploitation of Iran’s natural res…
Philip Pilkington: ‘Iran War has ACCELERATED the end of US🇺🇸 financial hegemony, China’s🇨🇳 strategy is simply to WAIT.’ ‘The Chinese strategy, and Russia's involved in that Chinese strategy at this point, is basically to just wait. Now I don't think anyone was sure that the…
‘Europe’s move towards military Keynesianism is a COMPLETE WASTE of money and a way to mask the underlying problems of de-industrialisation.’ —Former Lead Economist at the World Bank’s Research Department Prof. Branko Milanović joins us on Saturday’s episode of Going Underground…
On this day in 1926, Cuban🇨🇺 Revolutionary Fidel Castro was born. He would lead a guerilla campaign with other revolutionaries such as Che Guevara to overthrow the US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Before Cuba's revolution, US financial interests owned 90% of Cuba’s mines…
Michael Parenti (1933-2026): "A client state is a state which is run by a comprador class. A comprador class is a ruling class that is in total collusion with foreign investors.” This is what the US’ revived Monroe Doctrine seeks for Latin America, an entire continent of client…
Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas: ‘We want Palestine’s legitimate sovereignty restored in Gaza as soon as possible. Gaza is an inseparable part of the State of Palestine. We say there can be no state in Gaza separate from Palestine.’ One question on the minds of millions o…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio: ‘Tupac is my favourite rapper of all time, he was a narrator more than anything else.’ Tupac: “They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.” Maybe if Marco Rubio actually bothered to listen to Tupac’s music, he would realise Tupac would hav…
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, his brother Maher, and ex-Security Official Atef Najib have been sentenced to death by a Syrian court on the charges of murder, torture, crimes against humanity, and arbitrary detention. Here is @afshinrattansi challenging Bashar Al-Assad on th…
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli: 'We may see civil wars in Europe…we are heading toward very profound changes, both in Britain and in France' No Pulitzer Prizes for guessing whose hands will be behind these ‘civil wars’.
Did you know? During the US' bombing of Laos, the US dropped 270 million cluster bombs on Laos, 80 million of which did not detonate. The US dropped more bombs on Laos than the total number of bombs dropped on Japan🇯🇵 and Germany🇩🇪 combined during WW2. More than 25,000 peop…
Prof. John Mearsheimer on Rupert Murdoch’s influence over Donald Trump: ‘It's very clear that there are a significant number of billionaires who have enormous influence with President Trump. And it's clear that Rupert Murdoch is one of them and that Murdoch talks to Trump all…
ICYMI, Donald Trump: "We're taking a lot of oil from Venezuela🇻🇪, billions and billions of barrels of oil. To the victor belong the spoils." Trump once again lifts the mask off of barbaric, lawless US imperialism. Delcy Rodriguez and her coterie sold Venezuela out without r…
Prof. Hasan Ünal: ‘The Turkish🇹🇷 public has been anti-American & anti-Israeli over EVERYTHING for the past few decades, not just the Iran war.’ ‘If you follow what President Erdogan has said all along, then it’s quite a sensible policy, basically distancing itself from taking…
US🇺🇸 Vice President J.D. Vance: ‘Iranians are extraordinarily difficult people. And they have a fractured system, there are people in their system who want the war to be over. There also people who are crazy radicals who want the war to continue.’ Maybe your administration…
On this day in 1945, the United States dropped the ‘Little Boy’ nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan🇯🇵. 140,000 people were killed in Hiroshima by the end of 1945. Militarily, the move was pointless as Imperial Japan’s military machine was close to finished, and Soviet leader Jos…
Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic Prrimary despite an overwhelming Israel lobby smear campaign against him and the spending of tens of millions of dollars to stop him. All of the Israel Lobby’s millions can’t stop the disgust Americans now have for Israel and any candi…
Holocaust Survivor & Trauma Specialist Dr. Gabor Maté on the wars of the last few years and Gaza genocide: ‘I was born during the second World War, I grew up in the Cold War era. I've seen wars, I've seen atrocities committed around the world by all kinds of parties. These las…
‘The only person who could compete with Lindsey Graham for causing MASS DEATH around the world is ANTHONY FAUCI.’ —Trump’s Former Lawyer Robert Barnes ‘Fauci was running a bioweapons lab operation around the globe, including in China, including in Ukraine, over 100 different f…
Vladimir Putin🇷🇺: "After the collapse of the USSR, it seemed to us that we would become members of the so-called civilised family of European nations… Today it turns out that there is no civilisation there, only complete degeneracy."
Iran has released footage of the aftermath of US bombing of residential areas on Qeshm Island. For every American bomb that falls on an Iranian home, the Iranian population only becomes more hardline, and the demands for retaliation only grow stronger. With every American bom…
Russia’s🇷🇺 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: ‘The West FEARS fair competition, hence the sanctions to maintain their position that is irrevocably slipping after 500 years of dominance.’ The West has nothing more to offer the world other than bullying, bombs, and bullets.
Prof. John Mearsheimer: ‘All this talk about how Ukraine has turned the tide against Russia is a propaganda campaign, much like the propaganda campaign vis-a-vis the war in Iran.’ ‘Russia has basically cut off Odesa from Ukraine. Ukraine no longer has a port on the Black Sea.’
‘The real cause of misery, poverty, and exclusion is capitalism. Christ’s mandate is impossible under capitalism.’ -Leader of Venezuela’s🇻🇪 Bolivarian Revolution Hugo Chavez, born on this day in 1954. Here are some of the achievements of the Hugo Chavez Presidency: -Pover…
CNN claims that the USAF fighter pilot that was shot down over Iran may be helped by Iranians because they are “happy that he’s there.” “Happy he’s there” after the US Air Force massacres Iranian civilians every day. And they say North Korea has ridiculous propaganda…
Tony Benn would have turned 101 today. The giant of Britain’s labour movement gave his last ever TV interview to us, where he said Tony Blair should be sent to The Hague for the invasion of Iraq. No doubt he would say now that Trump & Netanyahu should be sent to The Hague for t…
‘Aren’t Arabs terrified? Don’t Arab and Iraqi women weep when their children die? What FOOLS we are to live in a generation for which war is a computer game.’ On this day in 1925, Tony Benn, a giant of the socialist movement in the UK was born. Remember his words as the US and
Iranian media is circulating this image of the ejector seat of the downed US fighter jet. US search and rescue operations have so far failed to locate the two crew members. Iran’s IRGC is searching for, or already may have captured the two USAF crew members. Hegseth told th…
🚨DISASTER FOR THE US🇺🇸: Axios reports that Iran has successfully shot down a US fighter jet. A search and rescue operation is underway to locate TWO crew members. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are hunting down the pilot, and Iranian state media is reporting a promise of a hefty
🚨BREAKING: Trump says the US can ‘easily open the Strait of Hormuz, take the oil, and make a fortune’ with just a little more time. The scale of the imperial hubris is not only dangerously stupid, but risks economic catastrophe for the entire world. If the US tries to ‘take’…
SATURDAY’S GOING UNDERGROUND: We’re joined by Donald Trump’s former White House Communications Director Anthony @Scaramucci as the US-Israeli war on Iran rages on: Has Donald Trump already been defeated in this war? Was this war a distraction from the crimes of the Epstein
France’s🇫🇷 President Emmanuel Macron: 'I don’t believe that we will fix the situation [in Iran] just by bombings or by military ops… Look at what happened with this type of operation in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya...we NEVER delivered. Never, even after 20 YEARS.’ The mos…
🚨 Trump Threatens to WIPE OUT Iran’s Infrastructure 🇺🇸 Donald Trump talks about bombing bridges and power plants like it’s a checklist. This isn’t war. This is the deliberate dismantling of a country’s lifelines. Cut the power. Break the roads. Cripple daily life. Every day…
🚨PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING JOURNALIST SEYMOUR HERSH: TRUMP IS STARTING A GROUND WAR IN IRAN "Trump was telling the world that the ground war starts today. Thousands of Navy SEALs and Army Rangers are either en route or will soon be heading to areas within striking distance of the
‘Attorney General Pam Bondi FAILED US.’ Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and trafficking slammed Pam Bondi, fired by Donald Trump today, in an open letter. "Attorney General Pam Bondi failed survivors. Under her leadership, the Department of Justice mishandled the release…
🚨PAM BONDI OUT: CIA Whistleblower Prof. Melvin Goodman SLAMS Pam Bondi over the Epstein Files: 'Whatever is relevant to Trump in the Epstein files has been redacted/removed from the Epstein files. Trump has weaponised the Department of Justice. Pam Bondi is a TOOL for Trump.'
🚨PAM BONDI FIRED AS TRUMP’S ATTORNEY GENERAL ‘How can you say thousands of children were raped but I’m not going to find out who raped them?’ ‘Who are the rapists? Why aren’t they in jail?’ -Tucker Carlson on Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi is OUT as Donald Trump’s Attorney General. A reminder of the depraved moment where she told Congress that people shouldn’t be talking about the Epstein Files, and should be talking about record highs for the Dow Jones & Nasdaq index instead. Epstein’s victims wi…