Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter Roger Simon, CEO Emeritus of PJ Media. He discusses the implications of Donald Trump’s victory for freedom of speech, the rise of censorship machine and cancel culture in America, the pole switch where the Republican Party is now the party of the working class and the Democratic Party representing the elites, the left’s fear of retribution by Donald Trump in his second term, Hollywood’s destruction of itself with censorship and why it was due to die anyway, and more. In the second half of the interview, he discusses Trump’s cabinet picks and why some of them are swamp creatures in disguise, the shocking levels of poverty in the US including in the richest states such as California, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE partnership to cut wasteful government spending and corruption, celebrities relocating out of the US after Trump’s victory, the Russiagate hoax and whether that propaganda will be revamped to target Donald Trump and his team, whether Trump will take on the military-industrial complex and end the wars, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary Pink Floyd Frontman Roger Waters. He discusses the fall of Bashar Al-Assad in Syria, the horrific events in the Middle East being machinations of a dying Western empire with the mask now off, how the Gaza genocide shows the hypocrisy of the US, UK and European governments when it comes to human rights and international law, Sir Keir Starmer’s UK government’s role in the Gaza genocide and the shame he feels to being English while the genocide continues, where he finds optimism for an ‘existential battle’ for the soul of the human race, how the US deposed Assad by stealing Syria’s oil and sanctioning the Syrian economy to the point where ‘the government never had a chance’, his release of the emails between him and Tom York of Radiohead asking him to join the BDS movement and not perform in Israel, the impact of his childhood and upbringing on his politics and his opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the few brave Israelis that speak out against the Israeli government, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He discusses the collapse of Bashar Al-Assad’s government in Syria and his demise being a loss for Iran, why the fall of Assad may mean Iran finally develops nuclear weapons and the implications for Turkey, why he doesn’t believe Donald Trump will radically change US foreign policy in the Middle East, the importance of Russia’s bases in Syria and whether those bases will be lost under the new regime, why neither Russia or Iran could save Bashar Al-Assad once the HTS-led offensive started, Russia and Iran warning Assad of the weakness of his military and their attempts to fix the problem in years prior and more. In the second half of the interview, he discusses the effect of US sanctions and the US occupation of Syria’s oil fields on the collapse of Assad’s government, the US’ alliance with Al Qaeda and ISIS operatives that are now in power in Damascus, the Ukraine proxy war and its intended goal of knocking Russia out of the great powers and instead has gotten Ukraine wrecked, the West’s genuine belief that it could defeat Russia in Ukraine, why he doesn’t believe Vladimir Putin is close to using nuclear weapons over Ukraine, how likely blowback terrorism is for the West after the Gaza genocide and regime change in Syria, and much more.

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Susan Abulhawa, Founder and Director of Playgrounds for Palestine and best-selling author of ‘Mornings in Jenin’. She discusses the Playgrounds for Palestine initiative and its evolution into concentrating on education for Palestinian children facing bombing and starvation, the Western media’s ’active participation’ in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and The Guardian's opposition to her use of the word ‘Holocaust’ to describe the onslaught on Gaza, her time in Gaza this year and why the reality on the ground is ‘infinitely worse’ than is being reported, Israel’s mass degradation of Palestinian society, why she wishes she never left Gaza and the feeling of complicity and survivor’s guilt, Zionists dictating US foreign policy under the Biden Administration and previous administrations, and her lack of hope for the incoming second Trump administration. In the second half of the interview, she discusses her estimated real death toll in Gaza which she says in the range of 194,000-514,000 people killed, whether Biden Administration officials will be held accountable for the genocide in Gaza, why such a large segment of the US population voted for Kamala Harris despite her participation in the genocide, the awakening of the American public to the lies of pro-Israel propaganda, and much more.