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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Emmy-nominated filmmaker and award-winning journalist James Bamford, author of âSpyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs & the Collapse of Americaâs Counterintelligenceâ. He discusses Israelâs influence in the US Presidential election as the US enables Israelâs genocide in Gaza, Israelâs interference in the 2016 election by lobbying Donald Trump to agree to Benjamin Netanyahuâs demands, pro-Israel billionaire and dual US-Israeli citizen Miriam Adelsonâs enormous $100 million donation to Donald Trump to buy pro-Israel policies, the Israel lobbyâs purchasing of the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris who has never condemned Israel, the difficulty for journalists to write critically about Israel in the US and the attacks he has faced for his reporting on Israel, Israelâs infiltration of university campuses in the US, the embedding of Israeli Unit 8200 agents in the USâ NSA, the USâ assistance to Israel for assassinations against key figures in the regional resistance against Israel, the fate of the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Paul Thacker, Founder of the Disinformation Chronicle and the 2021 British Journalism Award Winner. He co-authored the âElection Exclusive: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to Kill Muskâs Twitterâ article with Matt Taibbi. He discusses how Sir Keir Starmerâs Labour Partyâs has interfered in the US election trying to aid Kamala Harris in her efforts to win the Presidency against Donald Trump, the nefarious history of the de facto Labour Patty vehicle Center for Countering Digital Hate in the UK (CCDH) and its growing influence in the US, how the CCDH and its CEO Imran Ahmed are now attacking all of the enemies of the Democratic Party such as RFK Jr. and Elon Musk, the CCDHâs tactics to kill Elon Muskâs Twitter/X by smearing Musk and stopping advertisers from using the platform, the media pushing Elon Musk in the direction of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, the Trump campaignâs letter of official complaint against Sir Keir Starmerâs Labour Party and Kamala Harris for accepting illegal foreign national contributions, where the CCDHâs money comes from and Imran Ahmedâs close ties to the Democratic Party, the growth of the censorship industry on social media through âfact-checkingâ, Twitter being the Democratic Partyâs censorship toy before Elon Musk bought it and the mediaâs total vilification of Musk after previously praising him for years, how legacy media outlets became mouthpieces for the Democratic Party subsequently resulting in a severe decline of public trust, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Jean Bricmont, Author of âHumanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell Warâ, and Professor of Theoretical Physics, Catholic University of Louvain. He discusses how âhumanitarian imperialismâ which he wrote about has descended into ongoing genocide in Gaza and nuclear brinkmanship, the âastonishingâ lack of any effect of mass protests across the West on the policies of US, UK, and EU governmentsâ policies towards Israel, Franceâs posturing as a defender of Christians while doing nothing to defend the Christians of Lebanon, Palestine or Syria from Israeli attacks, the failure of the West to isolate Russia and cripple its economy via sanctions, the Westâs bullying through sanctions resulting in the BRICS Summit in Kazan, why the US must accept a multipolar world in which there is no place for the Israeli Zionist project, and why Vladimir Putinâs defeat of the Westâs attempts to isolate him has made him appear to be a political genius. In the second half, he discusses how NGOs such as Amnesty International have gone on to support âhumanitarian imperialismâ and ended up backing Washingtonâs imperial policies, the pro-Israel lobbyâs purchasing of both Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and Democrats and Republicans in Congress, how Israelâs genocidal actions have increased anti-Semitism around the world, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Daoud Kuttab, Columnist for Arab News and Al-Monitor and former Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. He discusses how the Gaza genocide and slaughter in Lebanon have exposed the USâ and Europeâs hypocrisy, the looming Israeli attack against Iran and subsequent Iranian retaliation which could bring the US militarily into the conflict, American journalist Bob Woodwardâs repetition of Israeli propaganda and outright lies surrounding October 7th in his new book, the banning of foreign journalists from entering Gaza and reporting the genocidal horrors perpetrated by Israel, how the Westâs support for Israel has left international law âin the garbage canâ, Antony Blinken and the Biden Administration breaking the USâ own laws by supplying weaponry to Israel while they block humanitarian aid from getting to Gaza, what implications a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris Presidency can have for Palestinians in Gaza, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Andrey Kortunov, the Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council. He discusses the significance of the BRICS+. Summit in Kazan and its importance for Russia, the opportunities and challenges that come with an expanded BRICS welcoming in new nations, why he believes BRICS welcoming in MENA countries is a double-edged sword, Russiaâs shifting relations in the Middle East with Moscow becoming closer to Iran and the Arab world and ties weakening with Israel, Saudi Arabiaâs navigation between BRICS+ and NATO countries, the extent to which BRICS+ can develop institutions which can provide an alternative to the Western-created institutions, the prospect of direct armed conflict between Washington and BRICS countries such as Russia and China, Ukrainian President Zelenskyâs declaration of war against Iran and North Korea and what Zelenskyâs endgame is, the expected mobilisation of BRCIS+ countries to counteract the USâ unilateral secondary sanctions, the role of cryptocurrency in the new BRICS+ financial architecture, Washingtonâs exploitation of the European Unionâs strategic weakness to render it a total vassal with no hope for strategic autonomy
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph, Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Haifa and author of âBeyond the Iron Wall: The Fatal Flaw in Israelâs National Securityâ. He discusses how October 7th and the Gaza genocide are a result of the failure of the Israeli government to reach a political solution with the Palestinians, the assassination of Lebanese resistance leader Hassan Nasrallah and his legacy, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrichâs comments that he wants to see Israel expand and invade Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, the overall popularity of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and how much support a two-state solution has among Israeli society, Israelâs bloody attacks on Lebanon and the war with Lebanonâs resistance, how October 7th shattered Israelâs sense of security and Israeli mediaâs omission of any real information about the tragedy in Gaza, one of the biggest problems being Israeli media and society not discussing a diplomatic path with the Palestinians and Arab states leading to military force being constantly used in attempts to achieve security, Israelâs Generals who support a deal with Hamas to secure the release of hostages clashing with Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the failure of Zionism to create a safe haven for Jews in Israel, the mass emigration from Israel and its causes, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former Nigerian Minister of Culture and Tourism, he also served as the Aviation Minister. He discusses why he said anyone calling what Israel is doing in Gaza a âwarâ is either a paid Israeli asset, mischievous, or ignorant, his belief that Israel could spark World War 3 let alone a regional conflict, the freedom of speech in Nigeria and the rest of the world regarding what is happening in Gaza as opposed to the draconian crackdowns in the US, UK, and EU, why Israel no longer has the right to exist based on the precedent of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War 2, South Africa rising to the occasion to take Israel to the International Court of Justice for genocide, Israelâs history of playing both sides in the Nigerian Civil War and its influence over the country, Nigerians looking eastwards to Russia and China as Washingtonâs unipolar hegemony crumbles, his prediction a regional war of Iran vs Israel and the US will eventually bring in Russia and possibly China, why his Christianity compels him to oppose Israel, Joe Bidenâs cancelled trip to Angola, Russia becoming one of the greatest friends to Africa, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Diana Buttu, Former Legal Advisor and Negotiator for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. She discusses what it has been like witnessing the Israeli reaction to the October 7th Anniversary from Ramallah and Israelis lack of recognition of anything they have done to Palestinians over the last year of genocide, Israelâs de facto designation of anyone opposing Israeli military rule as a âcombatantâ, whether Americans will recognise that the aid for Israel could pay for natural disaster responses and public services that they donât have, the crackdown on pro-Palestine activists and free speech in the USâ university campuses, Israelâs glorification of the genocide against Palestinians in pop culture, the Israeli pressâ role exposing the lies about October 7th while simultaneously cheering on genocide and Israelâs escalations, Western mediaâs role as stenographers parroting Israelâs propaganda rather than questioning Israeli atrocities, the harrowing accounts of torture and maltreatment she has heard from Palestinians who have been held hostage by the Israeli army, the ICCâs failure to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli officials and her conclusion that it is just a court to go after Vladimir Putin and African leaders, the need for accountability against Israeli soldiers who have committed these war crimes, Israelâs growing confidence about pursuing regime change across the region while simultaneously being surprised at the level of resistance after one year since the genocide started, why it makes no difference to Palestinians if Kamala Harris or Donald Trump is elected in November, the USâ number one policy being to keep the Israeli colonial entity in place, how long it will take for the sickness of supremacist Israeli Zionism to be removed, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Michael Scheuer, Former Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station at the CIA, and Author of âImperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terrorâ, on the 1 year anniversary of Hamas and other Palestinian Resistance groupsâ October 7th attack against Israel. He discusses why it is the Israeli government that controls the US and not the US controlling Israel, the history of foreign interference by Israel and its loyalists in the USA since 1948, how the CIA only got one piece of useful information from Israel in his entire time running the CIA Bin Laden Issue Station, the USâ involvement in defending Israel from Iranâs retaliatory ballistic missile attack and how perpetual US wars have harmed America, the CIAâs concern being to keep the Israelis happy, the claim that Iran is plotting to assassinate Donald Trump, how the US President has become a warlord that heads a war machine, why the US should not be in NATO or any other alliance, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former Middle East Advisor to the EU Foreign Policy Chief Alastair Crooke. He discusses Iranâs ballistic missile attack against Israel and Iranâs restraint in trying to avoid a regional war after many Israeli escalatory actions as the BRICS Summit in Kazan approaches, the removal of all Middle East experts from the State Department and Amos Hochsteinâs operation as a âone-man bandâ, Iranian President Pezeshkianâs embarrassing belief that Iranian restraint would be rewarded with sanctions relief and a Gaza ceasefire, the reformist campâs restraint contributing to Israelâs escalations such as assassinating Hassan Nasrallah and bombing Lebanon, Israelâs propaganda that Lebanese homes are housing Hezbollah rockets and weapons used to justify Israeli mass bombing of Lebanese villages, how Israel has seen Iranâs self-restraint as weakness and an opportunity to continue escalating, the US allowing itself to be potentially dragged into a regional war with Iran at the invitation of Israel, the Pentagonâs fear that the US is overextended as tension with Russia and China continues to rise, Netanyahuâs plan to expel all Palestinians from the West Bank & Gaza, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Malik Obama, the brother of Former President of the United States Barack Obama and the Founder & Chairman of the Barack H. Obama Foundation. He discusses his brotherâs early years and his start in politics as a community leader in Chicago, his meeting with Barack when he became President and the change in his personality as he acquired more power, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi reaching out to him to establish good relations with his brother, why he believes his brother ended up destroying Libya and killing Muammar Gaddafi, who really was pulling the strings when Barack Obama was President, why he supports Donald Trump for doing things his own way versus Barack who he calls a âsimpâ for going along with the US deep stateâs wish to kill Gaddafi, his belief that Barack Obama is pulling the strings in the Democratic Party and played a large role in making Joe Biden quit the Presidential race and crowning Kamala Harris as the successor, the attacks on his character by the media saying that he is jealous of his brotherâs success, his belief that his brother is either evil or a wimp, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Palestinian-born academic Dr. Ghada Karmi, author of âOne State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israelâ. She discusses how she was branded an anti-Semite and expelled from the British Labour Party under Sir Keir Starmer for writing against Israel, her interrogation by British Police over a talk she participated in at a Book Fair for explaining the Palestinian perspective on Hamas, the massive crackdowns on pro-Palestinian dissent in the UK and Western Europe, why the real culprits are the heads of the American Empire for Israelâs genocidal carnage in Gaza and mass slaughter in Lebanon, why Blinken should be embarrassed over his performative âdiplomatic effortsâ to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza, the significance of Palestinian and Lebanese resistance against Israel as it is one of the âmost important tools of empireâ, why the two-state solution was initially supported by Palestinians and now serves Western interests, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Member of the European Parliament for Ireland South Mick Wallace. He discusses the Nord Stream pipeline attacks two years on which was the largest methane emissions release in history, the rise of anti-establishment left-wing and right-wing political parties as the EU continues to serve the interests of elites, massive disillusionment with the unrepresentative EU Parliament and the entire political system, Ursula Von der Leyen behaving like a âtotal servantâ of US empire, the political class in Ireland going along with Washingtonâs position on the Ukraine proxy war, the grip of 60,000 lobbyists over European Union politics, NATOâs increasing grip over EU politics and it behaving like a terrorist organisation, how Gaza has led to the mask slipping for the European Union over their support for Israel, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Historian of the Middle East Dr. Assal Rad. She discusses how Western media has consistently whitewashed Israelâs crimes for years against Palestinians, the shaping of media narratives and the use of language to change perceptions of Israelâs occupation of Palestine, how institutional dehumanisation and demonisation of Palestinians in the US, UK and EU is necessary to justify the magnitude of Israelâs crimes, the mediaâs broad refusal to challenge the narratives of the US State Department and Israel, the role of corporations in corrupting the media and political landscape in the US to ensure their narratives of choice prevail, the double standards of Western governments and media when it comes to talking about Saudi-Iran & Saudi-Syria normalisation agreements in the Middle East as well as Iranâs alliances in the region, AIPACs vice grip on US politics and covert Israeli influence campaigns to influence US elections, the ideologies of US officials which lead them to whitewash and enable Israelâs crimes, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He discusses the Haaretz estimate of 2% of Gazaâs population killed by Israel and the systematic destruction of Gaza to make it uninhabitable, his visit to Israel to give a lecture at a university and the protests against him by Israeli students for saying a genocide was taking place in Gaza, why he has come to the conclusion that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza to wipe out the Palestinian population in whole or in part, why it may be hard to prove Israelâs intent of genocide, whether the US, UK & EU are complicit in war crimes and genocide by supplying weaponry to Israel, Israeli society showing no empathy for the Palestinians suffering in Gaza despite opposing Benjamin Netanyahu, how Israelis went from experiencing the trauma of the Holocaust during World War 2 to carrying out genocide in Gaza and apartheid against Palestinians, why Israelâs apartheid system over Palestinians will intensify, why Israelâs apartheid state will eventually implode and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Former Special Assistant to US President Ronald Reagan and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute Doug Bandow. She discusses Dick Cheneyâs endorsement of Kamala Harris and the subsequent glee of Democrats after she received his endorsement, the USâ foreign policy establishmentâs ignorance on their own hypocrisy seen by the rest of the world, the Arab Gulf States mending ties with Syria to the horror of the US, why a Kamala Harris Presidency wonât mean much of a change in terms of foreign policy and whether Donald Trump has learned from the foreign policy mistakes made in his first term, why Kamala Harris and the Democrats seem to not care about the rising risk of World War 3 and nuclear war with Russia, the transformation of Bill Burns from cautious diplomat warning against NATO expansion to publicly cheering on the proxy war against Russia through Ukraine as CIA Director, the US, UK and EUâs âdisgusting policyâ of fighting to destroy Russia by sacrificing Ukrainian lives, the details of the settlement that should be negotiated to end the war, the disastrous self-sanctioning of the European countries and complete subservience to the United States, why a Donald Trump second term could have some benefits on foreign policy because of his anti-war instincts, his work in the Reagan Administration and why he believes the most important issue of our times is war and peace, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Daniele Ganser, Founder and Director of the Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research and author of âUSA: The Ruthless Empireâ. He discusses the history of NATOâs secret armies in Western Europe through Operation Gladio and their links to terrorist attacks, the parallels of Operation Gladio and the chaos fomented in Ukraine in 2014, the USâ involvement in the 2014 Maidan coup and the general population being unaware of much of this history, the assassination attempt against Donald Trump and the many suspicious facts surrounding the event that lead him to believe there was a stand-down order among the Secret Service, NATO countries possibly using Zelenskyâs Ukrainian army to invade Kursk in Russia and how this is unprecedented in history, Switzerlandâs abandonment of neutrality amid the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and Switzerlandâs partaking in the economic war against Russia, the decline of the populationâs trust in the ruling establishment parties in Western Europe, why Russia and Ukraine have no option to return to peace and brotherhood, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Fiona Lali, the National Campaigns Coordinator of the UK Revolutionary Communist Party who went viral after calling the the former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman a war criminal to her face on television. She discusses the protests outside of the Israeli Embassy in London on Saturday and the widespread opposition against the British governmentâs support for Israel in its genocidal slaughter, why the British governmentâs support for the atrocities happening in Palestine is a reflection of western imperialism and the capitalist system, the Labour Party and the Conservative Party being one and the same when it comes to Palestine, Britain being a lapdog to American imperialism and how British Labour politicians have shifted their positions to placate the US, the international pro-Palestine movement being symbolic of the divide between the ruling class and the working class, the British mediaâs constant covering for Israel amid the genocide and occupation of Palestine and how it reflects British ruling class interests, Sir Keir Starmerâs pledge to keep supporting Ukraine in the NATO proxy war against Russia while the government continues to attack the poorest in society, the continual cultural and media propaganda around the Ukraine proxy war, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Amb. Danny Ayalon, the Former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister and former Ambassador to the United States. In a heated interview, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on the the looming prospect of regional war with Iran and whether Iran already has nuclear weapons, the state of the Israeli economy and society as Israeli Jews leave the country, Lebanese Hezbollahâs recent wide-ranging strikes against Israel and the censorship order from the Israeli government to prevent reporting on the damage, the placing of Israeli military facilities next to civilian infrastructure, the banning of access for journalists to enter Gaza to verify any of Israelâs claims of see the apocalyptic damage, the reports of torture and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners at the Sde Teiman concentration camp, the trend in the United States of the younger generation supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state and opposing Israelâs human rights violations, the extreme number of civilian casualties in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and much more.
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Matt Taibbi, Co-Publisher of âTwitter Filesâ, Co-Host of the âAmerica This Weekâ Podcast, and Former Contributing Editor of the Rolling Stone magazine. He discusses the arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov and why it marks a paradigm shift in free speech and censorship in Western countries, the creeping digital censorship since the passing of the Digital Services Act in Europe, the precedent set by arresting Durov for the crimes of users using his platform, the significance of Meta boss Mark Zuckerbergâs letter to the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan admitting that the Biden Administration had pressured him to censor COVID-19 content and the Hunter Biden laptop story, his time in Russia and the shift in the journalistic environment there, the creeping move towards censorship in the US following Donald Trumpâs victory in 2016 and Brexit, the shift of the priorities of the US government from counter-terrorism to monitoring speech domestically, why he has called Elon Musk âdisappointingâ on the issue of free speech and his call for a conversation with Elon Musk to resolve their differences stemming from their dispute on Substack, and much more.
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