Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Philip Pilkington, Author of 'The Collapse of Global Liberalism’ and Host of the ‘Multipolarity’ Podcast. He discusses how Donald Trump has manipulated markets to keep oil prices artificially low using Truth Social & mainstream media, how China & the United States likely struck a deal for China to reduce its oil imports to stave off an oil shock while the US signed the Memorandum of Understanding, why there is no plan at all for the US’ war on Iran, oil market manipulation since the beginning of the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, why he predicts the Strategic Petroleum Reserve will likely creak before the midterms, why this could be the end of the US dollar global financial system, and much more.

Chapters

(00:00:00) - Going Undercover: Philip Pilkington on Global Liberalism
(00:01:35) - Is Trump Manipulating the Oil Price?
(00:06:57) - Analyzing Why Trump Was in Beijing
(00:09:21) - Deep State involvement in the Iran War
(00:14:13) - Going Undercover: The Crisis in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
(00:16:57) - Will the Bretton Woods 2 Paper Fail?
(00:21:49) - The Dollar System Unraveling
(00:27:57) - Going Underground: America's Forever Wars

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Branko Milanovic, former Lead Economist at the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years and Author of The Great Global Transformation. He discusses the looming danger of World War 3 and the similarities of the world today with the world prior to WW1, why more globalisation actually increases the risk of World War 3, how the Ukraine proxy war specifically is putting us at risk of WW3, and the rise of military-Keynesianism in the US & Europe. Afshin Rattansi challenges him on the record of the World Bank’s destruction of the economies of so many countries, whether BRICS institutions will be able to replace the IMF & World Bank, the success of China’s economic model and whether China is trying to export Chinese communism, and whether this is the end of neoliberal economics.

Chapters

(00:00:00) - Going Undercover: Great Global Transformation
(00:01:42) - Trump's War Plan for Asia
(00:10:32) - Former World Bank Lead Economist Brago Billowicz on His Experience at
(00:13:07) - Branko Milanovic on the International Organizations
(00:20:13) - BRICS: At the End of Neoliberalism
(00:23:47) - Military Keynesianism

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago. He discusses the reports of the depletion of US critical munitions in the war on Iran including THAAD and Patriot missiles and inability of the US to escalate against Iran now, the influence of Rupert Murdoch and the role of his media outlets in manufacturing consent for the war on Iran, the future of US bases in the Gulf states after Iran’s barrages of missiles and drones, Zelensky’s apology for attacking Iranian vessels in the Caspian Sea, why drones have averted complete collapse for Ukraine but sped up the end of the war with Russia’s severe response to Ukraine’s long-range drone attacks, why sanctions have failed against Russia & Iran and only made their population more militant than their leaders, Türkiye’s understanding that it is next for Israel after Iran, and much more.

Chapters

(00:00:00) - Trump's Threats to Destroy Iran
(00:01:38) - Trump's War on Iran
(00:09:16) - U.S. Military Presence in the Gulf
(00:13:13) - Drones in the Ukraine
(00:16:47) - Does Sanctions Cause Civilian Violence in Iran?
(00:19:24) - Turkey Tipped Off Iran About the Funding of the Kurds
(00:26:37) - Trump's foreign policy

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Hasan Ünal, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Ankara’s Başkent University and Host of the Strategic Compass podcast. He discusses Türkiye’s position on the US-Israeli war on Iran and the anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment of the Turkish public, Türkiye’s intelligence sharing with Iran to combat US-backed Kurdish groups who would have been Trump’s regime change ground troops, the US’ use of Incirlik Air Base and the presence of US troops in the country, Türkiye’s ultimatum to the US over the war on Iran, the view in Israel that the next target after Iran will be Türkiye, why Türkiye helped overthrow Bashar Al-Assad in Syria despite him being a leader against Israel, Türkiye’s supplying of Ukraine with weaponry while calling Russia a partner, why he believes NATO will crumble in the multipolar world, and much more.

Chapters

(00:00:00) - Going Undercover: Iran-US Relations
(00:01:18) - Turkey's position on the Trump Netanyahu war on Iran
(00:14:41) - Israel's Next Target
(00:21:29) - Turkey-Russia Relations
(00:26:21) - Iran's War Against the US and Israel

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Gabor Maté, Holocaust Survivor and renowned Trauma Specialist. He discusses why the last few years have been particularly tough to watch with the Gaza genocide, Israeli war on Lebanon, and war on Iran, how the era of social media has changed people’s responses to the horrors happening in the world, the increasing opposition of young Jews to Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu’s premiership being the culmination of Zionism’s dehumanisation of Palestinians, the segment of the Iranian diaspora that opposes the US-Israeli war on Iran and why diaspora populations from Cuba and Iran support the US’ wars against their home countries, the dehumanisation of the victims of American and Israeli wars and selective empathy, his advice for the survivors of the US’ and Israel’s wars, and much more.