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.
Netanyahu and Israel lobby leading US to war against Iran (CMSGT. Dennis Fritz)
In this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CMSGT. Dennis Fritz, a former adviser to the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Richard Myers. He discusses the Trump administration’s crackdown against anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota and how it’s a training ground for repression against the American population, Trump’s threats to annex Greenland and what the motivations are behind his threats, the looming threat of a US-led regime change war against Iran, America’s failed use of unrest in Iran to bring down the Iranian government, which makes war more likely, whether Saudi Arabia and the UAE can dissuade Trump from attacking Iran while the Israel lobby and Benjamin Netanyahu are persuading Trump into going to war, whether China will imminently move to reintegrate Taiwan by force, and much more.
US Deep State’s sinister plan: Preventing a Russia-China-Europe alliance (Prof. Tuomas Malinen)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Tuomas Malinen, associate professor of Economics at the University of Helsinki and CEO of GnS Economics. He discusses why it is likely US President Donald Trump will fail to broker peace in the Ukraine proxy war thanks to the neoconservatives in his administration, the neocon faction’s priority shifting to stopping an alliance between China, Russia, and Europe, the Greenland crisis and whether NATO could actually break up over the dispute, the construction of 15 US bases in Finland since it became a full NATO member, how Georgia was a test for pushing Russia’s red lines in Ukraine, the catastrophic state of the Western European banking sector, the structural fragility of the European Union and the vulnerability of the euro, the potential re-igniting of the Israel-Iran war and the fears of a Strait of Hormuz closure, the facade being presented of the US’ and Israel’s military power over Venezuela and Iran, and much more.
2026 begins in crisis: Tariq Ali on Venezuela regime change, looming war on Iran, Greenland, Ukraine
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to renowned writer, filmmaker and activist Tariq Ali. He discusses the mainstream media’s obsession with the World Economic Forum in Davos and why we may be closer to the end of the organization than we imagine, US President Donald Trump’s regime change kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro at the start of 2026, his thoughts on the new Acting President Delcy Rodriguez and the deals being made with Washington over Venezuelan oil, the worsening relationship between Brazil’s President Lula Da Silva and Nicolas Maduro, which aided the US’ regime change campaign, the effects of the economic strangulation by the US, UK, and EU of Venezuela’s democracy, Donald Trump’s motivations for setting his sights on Greenland, the state of the Ukraine proxy war following the assassination attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin, the looming reaction of the Ukrainian far-right groups to a negotiated end of the war, the scale of repression against pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Germany, France and Starmer’s UK, the protests in Iran which have sparked a renewed effort by the US and Israel for a regime change campaign, and much more.
Prof. John Mearsheimer reviews 2025: Trump’s foreign policy failures, Ukraine proxy war, Gaza
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago for our final episode of the year and season. He discusses Donald Trump’s foreign policy failures of 2025, the 12-day Israeli war on Iran, the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and how his former defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz attacked him for exposing the Israel lobby, the threat the Israel lobby poses to freedom of speech in the United States, the damage the Gaza genocide has done to Israel’s image abroad, whether a second US-Israel war on Iran is likely, Trump’s growing disdain for Europe and the likely reduction of the US military presence in Europe, the European strategy of trying to prolong the proxy war on Russia through Ukraine, the likely conclusion of the Ukraine proxy war being a frozen conflict, the fate of the global nuclear arms control infrastructure, and much more.
The collapse of liberalism: Ukraine proxy war, Western capitalism, and chaos in Europe
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Philip Pilkington, senior research fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs and author of ‘The Collapse of Global Liberalism’. He discusses how the Ukraine proxy war has completely upended the Western economic and geostrategic calculus, the failure of the West’s logic in military procurement as proven in Ukraine and the Israel-Iran war, the collapse and dysfunction in Western European cities, the failure of markets and capitalism to solve the West’s problems, the origins of liberal capitalism and the evolution of imperialism, the rediscovery of civilizational roots among the non-Western powers, and the dark future Europe faces as it sits in the chaos of the collapse of liberalism.
Secret societies exposed: Epstein Island, the Bilderberg meetings, the Trilateral Commission, and more
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Richard Spence, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Idaho. He discusses what is and what defines a society and the importance it has on elite decision making, the origins of the infamous Bohemian Grove and the influence it has had over Western politics, the Bilderberg Group and the who’s who of important members and the vetting of future holders of political office, the Trilateral Commission and its role as the elite foreign policy secret society, the Western hostility against Russia dating back to the Middle Ages and the role of secret societies in enforcing it, the efforts to bring back in some form the Roman Empire, the origins of Jeffrey Epstein and how he rose into the highest circles of elite power, the risk to Donald Trump’s life for going against these elite circles, and much more.