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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Brahma Chellaney, a former advisor to India’s National Security Council. He engages in a debate with Afshin Rattansi on the reduced vote share that India’s population gave Narendra Modi’s BJP after 10 years of his rule, why the INDIA opposition alliance was still unable to topple the rule of the BJP and its allies, the poverty alleviation and inequality in India compared to neighbouring communist China, Modi’s Hindu-Muslim culture wars as economic problems persist for the poor and working classes, the increased concentrated ownership of India’s media outlets by oligarchs, India’s pro-Israel turn under Narendra Modi and deepening ties with the West, India’s independent stance on the Ukraine proxy war and continued good relations with Russia, and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Mouin Rabbani, Co-Editor of Jadaliyya and Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. He discusses the latest Gaza ceasefire negotiations debacle between the US and Israel and typical blame being placed on Hamas and the US being ‘more pro-Israel than Israel itself’, the paradox of the US trying to avoid regional escalation while driving escalation with full-throttle support to Israel’s Gaza genocide, the increasing ineffectiveness of Israel’s propaganda for international audiences and the shift of Israeli society to the far-right, the mainstream media’s attacks on dissenting pro-Palestinian voices, why Israel is the US’ vassal state rather than the other way around, the slow end of the blind bi-partisan support for Israel, the US’ attempts to attach Israeli normalisation to security pact negotiations with Saudi Arabia, the GCC’s strategic diversification away from solely relying on the US to provide security, the racism of the Western political class, and much more.
 
 

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Miko Peled, grandson of one of the signatories of Israel’s 1948 Declaration of Independence and Founder of the Palestine House of Freedom. He discusses the purpose of Palestine House of Freedom and the goal of shifting the pro-Zionist narratives in Washington, the effect of the mass student protests taking in the US against the genocide in Gaza, the Biden Administration’s continued arming and enabling of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, why the conversation must be shifted to ending Israeli apartheid and demanding a Free Palestine, whether the Gaza genocide marks the beginning of the end of Israel and Zionism, why the two-state solution is realistically impossible and morally wrong, the genocidal state of Israeli society and the political future of Benjamin Netanyahu, why the goal of Israel is the extermination of as many Palestinians as possible and not the defeat of the Palestinian resistance, the absurdity of the ICJ giving Israel time to end the genocide, and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Colin Powell’s former Chief of Staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. He discusses the collapse of the INF Treaty and why its collapse is so dangerous, the ICC finally moving to prosecute Israeli officials after decades of only prosecuting enemies of Washington, Joe Biden and every member of the US government down to the lowest staffer being complicit in the Gaza genocide, Benjamin Netanyahu playing a key role in the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the reckless decision to allow Ukraine to strike within Russia and target Russian early warning systems which could trigger nuclear war, the increasing risk of escalation between NATO and Russia as Stoltenberg and Macron continue to flirt with direct conflict with Russia, the attempted colour revolution in Georgia over the ‘Foreign Agents’ law, what could make him support Donald Trump in November, and much more. 

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Brett Scott, author of ‘Cloudmoney: Why the War on Cash Endangers Our Freedom’ and the ‘Altered States of Monetary Consciousness Newsletter’. He discusses why cryptocurrencies in their current form are not a rival to the existing monetary system and actually empower the system, the Conservative fixation over the imagined modern history of gold, the decline of ATMs and the growing control of banks over the monetary system, the myth of fintech ‘democratising finance’ and fintech’s alliance with big finance, the war on cash and why big companies are leading efforts to eliminate cash, the rise of central bank digital currencies and why the power really lies with big US and European firms, and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Author of ‘Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response’. She discusses how the climate crisis has been massively oversimplified along with its solutions, the so-called ‘scientific consensus’ on climate change and the marginalisation of dissenting scientists, how green colonialism has led to hampering the efforts to get billions of people out of poverty, the politicisation of the science to pursue certain policy agendas, why the focus on global warming has led to the ignoring of inadequate infrastructure and poor water resource management, the IPCC’s selective use of evidence to further their agenda, and much more.