Going Underground
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.
Anthony Scaramucci: ‘Trump will surprise people on Ukraine’, will he bring a crypto boom?
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Anthony Scaramucci, who served briefly as the White House Communications Director under President Trump and is the founder of SkyBridge Capital. He discusses what advice he has for Karoline Leavitt, who was appointed by Trump as the youngest ever Press Secretary, Donald Trump’s pro-crypto policies and the Democrats ignoring the demand for pro-crypto policies, Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and his gains among black and Latino voters, Donald Trump’s pledge to end the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine and Biden’s green light for Zelensky to use long-range missiles to strike Russia, Trump’s cabinet picks, and what his relationship with his team will be like, how the stock markets will govern Trump’s hardline tendencies on policies such as tariffs, why the integration of crypto into the economy is inevitable despite the resistance of the SEC, the effect of US sanctions on facilitating de-dollarization, and the move away from US financial hegemony, his belief that the US and Russia are natural allies and his hope that bilateral relations are much better in the future, and much more.
Jimmy Dore on Ukraine & WW3: Biden wants a war that Trump can’t stop; the only hope is Putin’s restraint
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Jimmy Dore, the host of the Jimmy Dore Show. He discusses Joe Biden giving the green light for Ukraine’s Zelensky to launch long-range missile strikes inside Russia using US-supplied weaponry and the risk of World War III, the Biden administration’s constant escalation of war around the world and the failed attempt to break-up Russia through the proxy war in Ukraine, Europe’s illogical submission to Washington to join the economic war against Russia, Donald Trump picking Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence after she told the truth about Syria and was cast out by the Democratic Party, whether Trump will go along with his nominee for secretary of state Marco Rubio’s hawkish and destructive plans for Latin America which in turn would fuel the border crisis, and the US’ regime change attempts against Venezuela. In the second half of the interview, he discusses the Biden-Harris administration’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and his hopes for Trump to force Israel into a deal, his hope that Trump’s MAGA base rises up and pressures Trump to hold Israel to account, the demonisation of Elon Musk by the media for allowing more free speech on X, and much more.
Prof. Naomi Wolf SLAMS fascist censorship of the Biden administration, explains why she backed Trump
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Naomi Wolf, Co-Editor of ‘The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity’. She discusses the high stakes of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taking on the powerful pharmaceutical industry, the attempts to censor and silence her book exposing Pfizer’s cover-ups, which she calls the ‘greatest crime against humanity in recorded history’, why she went from being a lifelong Democrat to endorsing Donald Trump in alliance with RFK Jr, how censorship by the Biden administration and the legacy media turned her away from the Democratic Party, the impact of Pfizer’s vaccine on human reproduction, why legacy media and Google’s YouTube are censoring the findings of the Pfizer Papers, the US’ border crisis, and much more.
HEATED EXCHANGE: Trump’s ex-Deputy Assistant Dr. Sebastian Gorka & Afshin Rattansi CLASH over Gaza
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to President-elect Donald Trump’s former Deputy Assistant Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Host of the Gorka Reality Check and the America First podcast. He discusses whether he has been called on to serve in the second Trump administration, Donald Trump’s picks for his new cabinet, and the media’s outrage over them, the fake leaks coming out since Trump’s election and why it represents the ‘death rattle’ of the establishment, officials such as Retired General Mark Milley actively working against Trump, which he describes as seditious, the ‘clean up’ of the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice that will be coming once Trump takes office, the Ukraine proxy war and how Donald Trump will force a negotiated settlement to be reached, and Ukraine’s infamous corruption being a funnel for laundering money back to the US, and the Hunter Biden-Burisma scandal. In the final part of the interview, a heated exchange takes place between Dr. Gorka and Afshin Rattansi over the Gaza genocide, the majority of the world opposing US support for the Gaza genocide, and what Trump’s approach to Gaza will be.
Matt Taibbi on Donald Trump’s victory: Legacy media is dead, Americans have defied the authorities
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Matt Taibbi, former contributing editor to Rolling Stone, co-publisher of the Twitter Files, and publisher of Racket News. He discusses the legacy corporate media’s failed attempt to elect Kamala Harris and beat Donald Trump, how Trump’s victory represents a shift from US voters not listening to authorities to active defiance, the hope for free speech and a roll-back of digital censorship with Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk. He also addresses the fate of Ukraine’s Zelensky and how likely it is that Donald Trump will end foreign wars, and the vilification of the disenfranchised working class after the post-2008 financial crisis. In the second half of the interview he discusses why legacy media is dead after the majority of America voted against them, Kamala Harris’ rejection of new media such as Joe Rogan’s podcast which was fatal for her campaign, and the possibility of a ‘Twitter Files’ for the entire US government to expose secrets behind censorship and foreign wars. He then discusses how Donald Trump will shape his new cabinet and his future relationship with the national security establishment, the monopolisation of the US economy and why Donald Trump must combat it to fulfil his mandate, whether Donald Trump will face another assassination attempt.
Dennis Kucinich: Biden-Harris brought us close to WW3, Donald Trump MUST end the wars to succeed
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dennis Kucinich, veteran former congressman for Ohio, after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election against Kamala Harris. He discusses America’s shift towards Trump and its reflection of the failure of the Democratic Party, whether he will be a member of Trump’s cabinet once he takes office, the American electorate’s rejection of Joe Biden and Harris taking the country to the edge of World War 3 despite all of the US’ internal problems, the current state of the US economy and the declining power of the dollar as BRICS builds an alternative financial infrastructure, the rise of the multipolar world and how Trump should navigate scaling back the US’ empire in Europe and the Middle East. He also discusses what Trump will mean for the Gaza genocide and Israel after he took millions from Miriam Adelson, Netanyahu’s genocidal onslaught across the Middle East and his risking of the destruction of the state of Israel, and whether Iran will retaliate against Israel before Trump takes office. In the second half of the show, he discusses the military-industrial complex’s powerful grip of the US economy and the impact on foreign wars on the US’ large deficit, the victory over American populism over globalism and how the battle between the two forces will shape US foreign policy, whether Trump could be assassinated before he is inaugurated in January, what Trump’s presidency will mean for the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, and much more.