Going Underground

Gaza & Ukraine: Redacted’s Natali Morris slams US foreign policy – ‘no respect for life’

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the co-host of ‘Redacted’, Natali Morris. In the interview, she slams US foreign policy as having nothing to do with respect for life and discusses the Ukraine proxy war and continued US support for Zelensky, the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the increasing censorship against alternative news sources such as Redacted as corporate media seeks a total monopoly on narratives, crumbling infrastructure in the US, and much more.

Charles Glass slams Biden’s Iran hypocrisy, calls Julian Assange one of the bravest men he’s met

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to award-winning foreign correspondent and author of ‘Soldiers Don’t Go Mad’, Charles Glass. He discusses his new book focusing on the soldier-poets of World War One, such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, who recounted the horror and trauma of war through poetry. He also explores whether World War 3 has begun, as the Gaza genocide and Ukraine proxy war wage on, the New York Times’ restrictions on reporting on Palestine and their ‘abysmal’ reporting on Gaza, the widespread support for a Palestinian state in the US which is ignored by Congress and the political establishment, why Julian Assange is being persecuted by the USA and UK, and why he is the ‘bravest man he has ever met’, his visit to Belmarsh Prison and the state of Julian Assange’s health, his campaign to jointly sue former CIA director Mike Pompeo for bugging his mobile phones when he visited Julian Assange, the failure of Israeli propaganda as their rhetoric contradicts the reality on the ground in Gaza, the perilous future for the Middle East with the Gaza genocide still raging and Iran-Israel tensions at an all-time high, President Joe Biden’s hypocrisy on Tehran responding to Israel’s bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, and much more.

‘It’s time to try to end the war’ - Dr. Morton Halperin on the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Morton Halperin, who supervised the assembling of the Pentagon Papers, which revealed the extent of the disaster in the US’ imperial war on Vietnam, and served as a former Director of Policy Planning at the State Department. He discusses the effect the Pentagon Papers had on the Vietnam War and the work of Daniel Ellsberg in helping bring the Vietnam War to an end, the continued persecution of Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, and why the act in its current form is too broad, and why Henry Kissinger bugged his phone when he served in the National Security Council. Later in the interview, Dr. Halperin and Afshin Rattansi debate the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, where Halperin discusses what concessions should be offered to Russia to end the conflict. Dr. Halperin also discusses Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza and much more.

The Russian Art of War: How the West led Ukraine to defeat (ex-NATO analyst Col. Jacques Baud)

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Col. Jacques Baud, a former analyst for NATO who was on the ground in Ukraine after the Maidan coup, and author of ‘The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat’ and ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood: The Defeat of the Vanquisher’. He discusses his role on the ground in Ukraine and the growth of the Donbass rebellion and the defection of Russian speakers in the Ukrainian army to the rebels following the Maidan coup in 2014, the extreme repression of the Russian-speaking regions in Ukraine by the post-coup governments, the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive of 2023 and why Ukraine’s tactics continue to fail against Russia’s military strategy, the involvement of Western militaries in assisting Ukraine on the ground, how Washington’s strategy evolved to weaponize Ukraine to weaken Russia, resulting in catastrophe for Ukraine, why the West is at the ‘face-saving’ stage in the proxy war against Russia, UK and French efforts to provoke the US to intervene in Ukraine, and much more.

Gideon Levy: Israel’s society has been brainwashed… Empathy for Palestinians has been criminalized

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, Editorial Board member of the Haaretz newspaper. He discusses his disagreements with the remnants of the Israeli peace camp, who think the departure of Netanyahu from power would lead to radical changes, the state of Israeli society, and the criminalization of empathy with the Palestinian people in Gaza, the views of the different classes in Israel with anti-Palestinian sentiment being most prevalent among the working class, the ‘ridiculous’ label of Israel being ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ and his belief that Israel is ‘playing with fire’, whether Israelis care about the potential for an Israel-Saudi normalization agreement, the brainwashing of Israeli society to ignore the plight of the Palestinians and how he overcame it, the ‘one-state solution’ and much more.

Prof. John Mearsheimer: Israel wants to drag the US into war with Iran, Ukraine proxy war is lost

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to John Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He discusses Israel’s bombing of the Iranian Embassy in Damascus and Israel’s attempts to drag the US into a war with Iran, how US protection allows Israel to ‘get away with anything’ in international politics, how the Gaza genocide is paving the way for a Donald Trump victory in November, the Israel lobby’s grip on US foreign policy, the deliberate failure of the Minsk agreements in Ukraine leading to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch the special military operation, why the US and Europe have lost the proxy war against Russia, the risk of direct conflict between NATO and Russia, and much more.