Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. He discusses Trump’s war on Iran being part of Washington’s conflict against China, the transformation of the US military into a mercenary military as most armed forces service people don’t know why they are fighting Iran, the propaganda for US military-industrial complex companies and their ineffective weaponry, Iran’s ultimate leverage being the Strait of Hormuz and their nuclear program, the world sleepwalking into a potential nuclear war over Iran, the psychological warfare campaign in the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the US’ flagrant violations of international law and the possibility of either a civil war or coup d’état in the United States leading up to the midterms, China’s concern over a direct war against the US as Washington’s empire continues to decline, the sidelining of the Palestinian issue and the Gaza genocide as the world focuses on the US-Israeli war on Iran, and much more.

Chapters

(00:00:00) - Going Undercover: Washington's Crackdown on Iran
(00:01:37) - Lawrence Wilkerson on Trump's War on Iran
(00:07:41) - Rtx, Lockheed Martin on the Iran Strike
(00:10:08) - Former Chief of Staff at the US State Department on the Patriots
(00:13:37) - Colonel Powell on Iran's Nuclear Program
(00:21:40) - Trump's War on the First Amendment
(00:23:44) - Trump on Saudi Arabia, China
(00:26:00) - Former Presidential Special Assistant Larry Wilkerson on Israel and the Palestinians

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CMSGT. Dennis Fritz, Former Principal Advisor to Richard Myers, who became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He discusses why he believes the US-Iran MoU will be torpedoed by Donald Trump’s negotiation tactics and the influence of Israel, the possibility of an Israeli false flag to drag the US back into the unpopular war against Iran, why he believes some of the attacks on GCC countries were carried out by Israel as false flags to frame Iran, the amount of influence Israel has over the Pentagon now under Pete Hegseth and the Trump Administration, whether there is a risk of Israel assassinating Donald Trump in the ultimate false flag attack, Donald Trump’s potential pivot to Ukraine and whether he would be successful in negotiating a peace deal, his surprise at Vladimir Putin allowing the Ukraine proxy war to go on for so long without a decisive victory, and much more.

Chapters

(00:00:00) - Trump's Secret War on Iran
(00:01:14) - Chief Master Sergeant Dennis Fritz on Deadly Betrayal
(00:02:40) - Dennis Fritz: MoU was done in good faith
(00:11:42) - Chief Master Sergeant: Israel Has Influence in the Pentagon
(00:14:36) - Israel Could Assassinate Trump
(00:20:04) - Putin's War in Ukraine

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to James Carden, Ex-Asvisor to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission at the US State Department. He discusses Trump’s remarks at an increasingly fractured NATO Summit and the continuing war on Iran, why he believes that the Trump Administration isn’t serious about ending the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, why Ukraine’s drone attacks against Russia don’t change the balance of power in the war, the goal of Europe’s leaders and American neocons being the dissolution of Russia and regime change, Russia’s mistakes since the 2014 Maidan Coup, the team surrounding Trump believing the Ukraine proxy war should be continued, the window of opportunity for the Ukraine proxy war to be ended closing by the day, why the US must use NATO as leverage to force Europe to abandon its hawkishness towards Russia, why he believes Trump’s threats to leave NATO are an act, the US-Israeli war on Iran being intrinsically linked to the Greater Israel project, and much more.

Chapters

(00:00:00) - NATO's 77th Annual Summit
(00:01:47) - President Trump at the NATO summit
(00:14:04) - James Carden on Trump's Failure to Get Rid of the Ne
(00:26:28) - Going Underground: Hillary Clinton Could Run for President in 2028

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Former UK Defence Secretary Rt. Hon. Tobias Ellwood. He discusses the resignation of UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer who became the 7th UK Prime Minister to resign in 10 years, his belief that Trump had no strategy in the war on Iran, Donald Trump’s disengagement from its European allies and why Trump won nothing in Iran, why Iran may now logically seek a nuclear deterrent, his perspective on the UK’s role in the Gaza genocide and the use of RAF Akrotiri, how Netanyahu has fuelled regional insecurity with ‘war for the sake of war’, the UAE’s close relations with Russia and Vladimir Putin which goes against the UK’s view that Russia is a ‘pariah nation’, and whether Western Europe is isolated as BRICS+ continues building a multipolar world.

Chapters

(00:00:00) - NATO summit
(00:01:45) - Keir Starmer's unpopularity in Britain
(00:09:06) - Iran Should Have Nuclear Weapons
(00:10:22) - Tobias Elwood on the UK's Role in the Gaza
(00:14:45) - UK Defence Committee member and former UK Minister for the Middle East on
(00:18:27) - Why is Britain supporting Ukraine?
(00:24:28) - Going Underground

On this episode of New Order, we speak to the Former Chief of India’s Research & Analysis Wing Vikram Sood. He discusses why Prime Minister Narendra Modi isn’t personally attending the funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei, Trump’s potential pivot to Ukraine after the war on Iran and whether India is in a better position to deal with threats from the Trump Administration, why Russia, China and India working together could be a formidable power bloc and send a powerful message to the world, the internal and external pressures India faces, the weaponisation of human rights by the West and the importance of soft power for India such as film and culture, the importance of the Chabahar Port in Iran for India’s national security, and much more. 

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