Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

Updated: 22 Jul 2025 • 209 episodes
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We ask the questions mainstream media avoid. Current affairs and geopolitics. Produced independently from Dubai, UAE. Hosted by award-winning journalist Afshin Rattansi. https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Avi Melamed, former Senior Israeli Intelligence Official and advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. In a heated exchange, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on Israel’s bombing of Syria and Netanyahu’s support for ISIS and Al Qaeda against Bashar Al-Assad, fo

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FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Jennifer Kavanaugh, Director of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities and Former Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. She discusses why the US-European plan to supply Ukraine with weaponry

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FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Nadav Tamir, Executive Director of J Street Israel. He discusses Israel’s and the United States’ attack on Iran and whether this will push Iran towards a nuclear weapon, how Netanyahu convinced Trump to

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to David Pyne, Deputy Director of the US Taskforce on National and Homeland Security and former Consultant at the US Missile Defence Agency. What capabilities does Iran have to devastate the US mainland? Why is President Trump putting Israel and Ukraine first instead of Am

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FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Andrew Bridgen, former Member of the British Parliament. He discusses the increasing crackdown on freedom of speech by Sir Keir Starmer’s government, the campaign to destroy his reputation by the political

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FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., Former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund and Former Vice President of the BRICS New Development Bank, ahead of the upcoming 2025 BRICS Summit in Rio. H

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