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I'm Afshin Rattansi, and welcome back to Going Underground, broadcasting all around the world from the UAE, as US-Israeli military aggression is felt around this region and the world.

And economically beleaguered Britain has now entered the war in Yemen, and Trump has ordered 10,000 more troops and a third aircraft carrier.

strike group, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which will arrive here in the Gulf soon.

This time, any NATO nation, Great Depression will parallel the creation of a new order as seen at this week's Shanghai Corporation Organization Summit in Tajikistan, where Russia, China, India, and Iran pledged solidarity.

Joining me again from Florida is the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Ronald Reagan and former associate editor of The Wall Street Journal, Professor Paul Craig Roberts.

Thanks so much for coming back on Going Underground.

Aside from all the uprisings in Western Europe, I got to say that 10 years ago on Going Underground, you said Trump might mean better relations between the United States and Russia.

What do you think now, given the United States is, you know, still supplying intelligence to kill Russians?

I'm Afshin Rattansi, and welcome back to Going Underground, broadcasting all around the world from the UAE amidst calamity in this region from the catastrophic fallout of the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran.

Tomorrow marks 15 years since NATO's brutal murder of Libya's Mama Gaddafi by CIA-trained, Al-Qaeda-linked proxy forces.

part of a regime change operation that brought down the nation that topped literacy rates in North Africa and held the continent's highest spot on the UN Human Development Index.

His latest book is a nonpartisan warning about political violence.

It's called Our Own Worst Enemies, America in the Age of Violent Populism, and he joins me now from Chicago.

Professor Pape, thanks so much for coming on Going Underground.

We've been trying to get you for quite a while.

Tell me, first of all, before we get to today's issues, our own worst enemies in what you call America in the age of violent populism.

I'm Afshin Rattanti, and welcome back to Going Underground, broadcasting all around the world from the UAE amidst ongoing genocide in Gaza, NATO's war on Russia and Ukraine, uprisings across Western Europe, and the US-Israeli war on Iran here in West Asia.

The IMF and World Bank are meeting in Bangkok behind a protest ban.

No one is allowed to protest outside the meetings of the two institutions linked to so much death and destruction all around the world.

John Perkins, I'll stop you there.

More from the bestselling author of The Art of the Steel after this break.

Welcome back to Going Underground.

I'm still here with the bestselling author whose new book is The Art of the Steel, Trump and the Economic Hitman Presidency.

John, we were talking about whether it might be a reason for Trump to have engaged in this war, to have increased the profits of the big oil majors.

I'm Afshin Rattanti, and welcome back to Going Underground, broadcasting all around the world from the UAE on the anniversary of the European Union winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Today, leaders from that grouping, which has armed genocide in Gaza, meet at something called the Warsaw Security Forum.

Speakers will avowedly call for the destruction of the Russian Federation, not just Ukrainian dictator Zelensky, who has been given long-range missiles by Britain, and intel from the CIA to kill civilians in Russia.

Secretaries General Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon, and Antonio Guterres.

He's in Rome in Italy.

Professor Sachs, thanks so much for coming back on Going Underground.

It's quite a while.

I'm not going to ask you why you're in Rome immediately, but...

[dramatic music] I'm Afshin Rattansi, and welcome back to Going Underground, broadcasting all around the world from the UAE.

Tomorrow marks four decades since the Reykjavik Summit, when Reagan and USSR destroyer Gorbachev discussed eliminating all nuclear weapons.

Gorbachev offered a historic deal to totally eradicate strategic nuclear arsenals by the year 2000, but Reagan and military industrial complex imperialists like Richard Perle, the Prince of Darkness, who later engineered the 2003 WMD Iraq war lies, refused to abandon a fantasy policy called Star Wars.

Today, we celebrate the freedom of Julian Assange and his return to public life after years of British incarceration and torture.

Joining me again from Reykjavik in Iceland is the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, Kristinn Hrafnsson.

Kristinn, thanks so much for coming on, uh, Going Underground.

You're talking to us from, uh, Reykjavik, where tomorrow marks that anniversary.

Of course, um, uh, there is another 20-year anniversary, arguably slightly less important, but probably on the same level.

I'm Afshin Rattansi, and welcome back to Going Underground, broadcasting all around the world from the UAE on Israel's National Remembrance Day for the 2023 October 7th attacks by Hamas in retaliation for decades of illegal Israeli brutality, occupation, and concentration camps.

It would lead to NATO nation-armed genocide in Gaza, millions displaced, and bombing of countries from the Mediterranean to the Gulf to the Indian Ocean.

It coincides with the 20-year anniversary of Julian Assange's WikiLeaks, which published Thousands of documents on Israel, such as the 2008 leaked cables revealing Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza's economy on the brink of collapse, and the 2011 cables revealing the extent of CIA Mossad cooperation with Israel pressuring the U.S. against Iran.

Joining me from Nashville, Tennessee, is a former senior operations officer who was at the CIA for almost 20 years.

Charles Finfrock is also former senior manager of Tesla's insider threat program and is now founder and CEO of Vigilance, a private intelligence and security firm.

Charles, thanks so much for coming on Going Underground.

Normally, I'd like to ask you about Tesla's, what was the program called? Sounded far more interesting, but the threat program.

But the world is such a mess, obviously.

I'm Afshin Rattanti, and welcome back to Going Underground, broadcasting all around the world from the UAE amidst repeated U.S. threats to wipe out tens of millions in West Asia.

Tomorrow marks 20 years to the day that Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks, giving whistleblowers a platform to shatter the lies of elites and notably NATO power.

The anniversary is in the very week the U.S. finally stopped avowedly occupying Iraq after an imperialist war built on lies relentlessly promoted by a compliant NATO nation totalitarian media killed, wounded, or displaced millions.

He's a former U.S. State Department official who resigned over Washington's catastrophic war in Afghanistan.

He is now a senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network and joins me now from North Carolina.

Matt, thanks so much for coming back on Going Underground.

20 years since Assange founded it, you campaigned for his freedom.

as he was being tortured by the British security state.