On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Salman Al-Ansari, who was awarded the Most Influential Political Pundit in the Middle East of 2021 by Arab News. He discusses the Israel-Gaza war and the context behind this explosion of violence stemming from the Israeli occupation’s continued assaults on Palestinian rights, Saudi Arabia’s official position on Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza, Biden’s foreign policy being a ‘disaster’ and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza being a stain on US history, Iran and Saudi Arabia uniting together to support Palestine despite the existing bilateral issues, Israeli officials’ genocidal remarks against Palestinians, Saudi-Israel normalisation and Israel’s integration into the region being completely off the table while it continues to massacre Palestinians and deprive Palestinians of their rights, why the Gaza war has further exposed the need for a multipolar world and much more.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Rob Wallace, author of ‘Big Farms Make Big Flu’. He discusses how in recent history, deforestation and land use changes driven by global capital have caused more epidemics, his own experience battling Coronavirus, why the emergency response to Coronavirus has a side-effect of making the population see the structural causes of deadly pathogens, for-profit science and why it is ineffective at solving problems such as deadly pathogens, China’s level of responsibility for Coronavirus, how leaving airports open was instrumental in the rise of Coronavirus as a pandemic, whether Coronavirus will kill of the World Health Organisation and more!
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Saad al-Muttalibi, member of the Security Committee in Baghdad’s Provincial Council about escalating US-Iran tensions, including the withdrawal of non-essential US personnel leaving Iraq, the movement of a carrier strike group to the Persian-Gulf, Iran’s allied Shi’a militias in Iraq and whether Iraq could be a theatre of a US-Iran conflict. Next we speak to Katherine Kubrick, the daughter of Stanley Kubrick on the Stanley Kubrick Exhibition opened in London, the legacy of the legendary films Dr.Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey and more!
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Afshin Rattansi goes over the ongoing Lebanese protests ahead of his interview with Melhem Riachy of the Lebanese Forces Party. He draws upon the history of the Syrian civil war, highlighting British and American involvement against Bashar al-Assad and questions whether the same could happen to Lebanon, highlighting the West's opposition to Lebanese Hezbollah, led by Hassan Nasrallah
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we speak to the BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Dr. Subramanian Swamy on the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s Article 370. He discusses why the revocation is about equality and why it needed to happen, Imran Khan’s comments that the BJP and Modi are modern-day Nazis, the terror threat in the Kashmir valley and how India will counter it, allegations of the move being undemocratic, what India plans to do with an integrated Jammu and Kashmir and more
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Joseph Glauber, Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and former Chief Economist at the US Department of Agriculture. He discusses the causes of the spiralling world hunger crisis including energy price increases, wars and accessibility, the impact of the war in Ukraine on food prices, the US’ structural problems with food security and poverty, India’s ban on rice exports, why general inflation is in turn causing food prices to spike and much more.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud about the on-going Lebanese protests which have taken over Lebanese politics. He discusses endemic corruption and alleges a long history of corruption by Saad Hariri and his late father Rafic Hariri involving Saudi Arabia, the need for sectarian politics in Lebanon to be completely abolished to unite Lebanon, why Hezbollah must not be disarmed given its history of fighting Israeli attacks on Lebanon, US arrogance while dealing with him as President and more!
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Ian Fry, the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights. He discusses the inequality of the burden of climate change on the poor and the inevitability that wealthy nations, individuals and corporations will have to pay for climate damage, the absence of US President Joe Biden at COP28, the danger of greenwashing by wealthy corporations, the crackdown on the right to protest against climate change in Western Europe, the large global military emissions that are often ignored by mainstream media and much more.
We speak to Richard Murray, Chief Executive of the King’s Fund about the UK’s response to Coronavirus. He discusses the impact of austerity on the country’s ability to cope with the effects of COVID19, the lack of PPE for NHS frontline staff, the poor being hit hardest by the economic effects of Coronavirus, how NHS privatisation has left the NHS worse off, whether he believes there has been a ‘war on the elderly’ due to the care homes crisis during Coronavirus and more!
Statement from McKinsey & Company:
‘McKinsey does not advise on policy. It was not involved in drawing up the proposals in the Health and Social Care Bill. It is for Government to set policy.’
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We speak to Richard Lachmann, US sociologist and author of First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers. He discusses how the United States’ decline is similar to the imperial collapse of the Netherlands and Great Britain, how climate change could accelerate the US’ decline, what a post-US hegemony world would look like and why China nor India could achieve the power the US achieved, what the Iraq War, Barack Obama's and Donald Trump's election meant for US hegemony, the possibility of mass social unrest and mass movements within the US as the country declines economically and geopolitically and more!
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