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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.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Gerald Celente, Founder and Director of The Trends Research Institute. He discusses the ever-growing power of the military-industrial complex in the US while living standards continue to worsen, why the US’ and Europe’s economic turmoil is much worse than the figures suggest, his prediction of a large banking crisis caused by an office building bust that threatens to cripple the US economy, why a large US war is to come as the US economy faces crisis, China’s move towards economic self-sufficiency in the face of sanctions, increasing global opposition to US hegemony, the risk of escalation in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine, Joe Biden vs Donald Trump, and much more.

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Peter Shor, the deviser of Shor’s algorithm. He explains the algorithm’s function of factoring large number and how this could be a revolution in quantum computing, what quantum computing is and what differentiates it from regular computing, the current technology of RSA encryption and why it is inefficient and expensive, why Shor’s algorithm can open the door to major advancements in medicine, chemistry, energy production and other major issues humanity faces today, why it is taking so long to mass-produce effective quantum computers, and much more.

 
 
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to labour journalist Hamilton Nolan, author of ‘The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor’. He discusses the soaring popularity of trade unions in the US and why the country may be at a tipping point to reclaim worker power, why US President Joe Biden has been disappointing for workers despite being the ‘most pro-union President in history’, the decades of decline of union power and why US laws incentivise union-busting practices by companies, whether the AFL-CIO should be dismantled and replaced with a new labour federation, the successful drive by Starbucks workers to unionise stores one by one, why Donald Trump and the Republicans are a non-starter for trade unions in the 2024 election race, the relationship between America’s unions and the military-industrial complex, why new union organising may be the only way to bridge the gap of polarisation in the US, and much more.