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Bringing you news from around the 🌍, we ask the questions mainstream media avoid. Hosted by Afshin Rattansi, broadcast globally. Our Channel: https://rumble.com/c/GoingUnderground
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The US🇺🇸 has imposed a 10% baseline tariff on all African countries, and has imposed additional tariffs as high as 40% on some African countries.

China🇨🇳 announced zero-tariff treatment for 100% of tariff lines for the 33 least-developed African countries with diplomatic ties, which began in December 2024. This aims to boost African exports to China, targeting $300 billion in imports over three years. China has been Africa's largest trading partner since 2009.

In the decaying stage of empire, the United States is lashing out desperately trying to save its crumbling hegemony, with immediate brutal consequences for Africa and the rest of the global south.

Anti-American sentiment has been growing as the world saw the atrocities of the Gaza genocide, now the US pulls out the whip against the entire world to demand complete submission and vassalage.

These same people in Washington, punishing Africa and the rest of the global south with tariffs now, will be the same people lecturing Africa and the rest of the global south when they deepen their integration into China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Once again, the US sends itself and the world into chaos…once again, China does nothing, and wins. Beijing looks like the serious superpower in town that is interested in win-win development. The US looks like the superpower in town that is dangerously drunk on imperial hubris.
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🚨🇺🇸AIRBORNE LASER SYSTEMS DON’T WORK, WHY WERE BILLIONS SPENT ON IT?

‘The problem with the airborne laser which was a very expensive research project, I was in Congress then as a scientific staffer on the House National Security Committee…I wrote a report saying this should not be funded, of course lo and behold it got funded for another 6 years after I left Congress, and eventually in 2009 it was cancelled.’

‘One of the basic problems was the laser was supposed to be on an airborne platform…one of the problems they faced was the lens for the laser…any little smudge or blemish would send the laser beam astray.’

-The first whistleblower in the US Government’s Accountability Office’s history Prof. Subrata Ghoshroy exposes multi-billion dollar corruption surrounding the US’ laser weaponry and missile defence systems

Don’t miss it on Saturday’s Going Underground, follow our Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/v6ry7z9-us-missile-defence-exposed-mega-corruption-billions-spent-on-systems-that-d.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
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🚨Donald Trump’s proposed ‘Golden Dome’ missile defence system is RIDICULOUS, WON’T WORK!

‘Donald Trump’s golden dome is ridiculous, it’s not going to work. The money will be spent, defence contractors will get rich and this missile defence lobby will get rich and Donald Trump can talk about this Golden Dome which will please his Israeli counterparts and the Israeli military companies like Elbit and others. But beyond that, it doesn’t mean a whole hell of a lot.’

-The first whistleblower in the US Government’s Accountability Office’s history Prof. Subrata Ghoshroy exposes multi-billion dollar corruption surrounding the US’ laser weaponry and missile defence systems

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6ry7z9-us-missile-defence-exposed-mega-corruption-billions-spent-on-systems-that-d.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
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Missile defence/Golden Dome/Laser weapons

The rehashed military-industrial complex scam to rob American taxpayers to pay for useless technology while the arms companies’ executives get rich

There is no protection from Russian, Chinese, or North Korean nuclear weapons unless there is lasting peace
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US🇺🇸 SANCTIONS MADE RUSSIAN🇷🇺 BUSINESSES THRIVE

‘The idea behind the sanctions was depriving the Russian Federation of capital, advanced capital that was supplied by the Western corporations that were operating there. You were going to deprive them of Western banking systems.’

‘What in fact happened was that removing the competition Western firms were providing the Russian economy, the sanctions created market space within which Russian companies could grow and prosper.‘

‘The sanctions did have a very substantial impact as they were designed to do. But the designers didn’t take account of the real world conditions they were creating and the capacity of Russian businesses to accommodate themselves and adjust, which after a short period they were able to do.’

-Prof. James Galbraith of the University of Texas at Austin, Author of ‘Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production’

FULL INTERVIEW: https://t.co/oMGZJw6ktK
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US🇺🇸 SANCTIONS MADE RUSSIAN🇷🇺 BUSINESSES THRIVE ‘The idea behind the sanctions was depriving the Russian Federation of capital, advanced capital that was supplied by the Western corporations that were operating there. You were going to deprive them of Western…
Thanks to the US🇺🇸-UK🇬🇧-EU🇪🇺 sanctions on Russia🇷🇺, Russia in 2025 has become the 4th largest economy by GDP at PPP.

Japan has fallen to the 5th place, Germany to 6th, and the UK to 10th.

US vassal states in the end shot themselves in the foot.
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🚨WHY TRUMP’S TARIFFS WON’T WORK

‘If you leave it entirely to private corporations, they have an alternative strategy which is to simply restrict output and raise prices. That’s a very profitable strategy from their point of view, but one which leaves the American consumer and the firm which uses the product, steel and aluminium and so forth, in a position in having much higher costs and lower profitability.’

‘Come back to the situation in the early 1940s when the government needed private business to radically expand the capacity to produce armaments…private business didn’t want to do it. They didn’t know how long the war was going to ask…they had to be essentially directed by the nose.’

‘The Trump vision is just to put up the tariff walls and the markets will do it for you. They’re falling for the trap of allowing people with this 18th century mentality, or people who pretend to have that mentality, but are essentially acting as predatory monopolists to control what will happen behind the tariff wall.’

-Prof. James Galbraith of the University of Texas at Austin, Author of ‘Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production’

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v6s1657-the-us-economic-entropy-russia-sanctions-trumps-tariffs-and-oligarch-power-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
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🚨WHY TRUMP’S TARIFFS WON’T WORK ‘If you leave it entirely to private corporations, they have an alternative strategy which is to simply restrict output and raise prices. That’s a very profitable strategy from their point of view, but one which leaves the…
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John Mearsheimer on the US🇺🇸 vs China🇨🇳:

‘The US is not simply containing China, we’re talking about a rollback strategy…you never want to underestimate how ruthless the United States is despite all the liberal rhetoric we use…in the early 90s I told the Chinese if you continue to grow economically, there’s going to be a fierce security competition and you’re going to be shocked at how ruthless the United States is.'
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On this day in 2002, a triumphant Hugo Chavez returned to Caracas and resumed his role as President of Venezuela🇻🇪 after a US-backed coup.

The short-lived coup regime rescinded many of the reforms Hugo Chavez introduced which benefitted millions of poor Venezuelans, including the 1999 constitution which was approved by popular referendum.

The coup regime was quickly defeated, as loyalists in the Venezuelan military worked to return Chavez to power. Supporters of Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution surrounded the Presidential Palace in Miraflores and demanded his return. The coup regime could not suppress the massive support for Chavez, and in just two days, Chavez resumed his role as President of Venezuela.
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J.D. Vance🇺🇸 on Europe’s🇪🇺 vassalage:

‘I think a lot of European nations were right about our invasion of Iraq. And frankly, if the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire world from the strategic disaster that was the American-led invasion of Iraq.’
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The US🇺🇸 once again savagely bombed Yemen, this time targeting the Ras Isa oil port reportedly killed at least 38 and injured at least 102 people

Multi-million dollar weaponry sent by the empire to bomb one of the poorest countries on the planet
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On this day in 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began against the Nazi occupation. It was the largest act of Jewish resistance against the Holocaust.

The Warsaw Ghetto’s Jewish population began to militarise after a quarter of a million Jews were sent to die in Treblinka. The uprising began on the 19th of April 1943 after the ghetto refused to surrender to a Nazi police Commander, who then ordered the entire ghetto to be destroyed, block by block.

Faced with certain death, the Jews knew victory against the Nazi killing machine was impossible. Marek Edelman, the last surviving ŻOB commander who died in 2009, said their inspiration to fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths".

56,065 Jews were killed or captured, of which approximately 36,000 deported to extermination camps.

Today, Israel is committing the same atrocities as Nazi Germany in Gaza, and is perpetrating another Holocaust. Here’s Norman Finkelstein on why the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Holocaust compel him to oppose Israel’s crimes:

‘My late father was in Auschwitz, my late mother was in the Majdanek concentration camp….both of my parents were in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and it is because of precisely and exactly the lessons that my parents taught me and my two siblings, that I will not be silenced when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians’
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Pope Francis has passed away at the age of 88.

He spoke out against Israel’s war crimes and barbarism against the Palestinian people in Gaza, while European, British, and American leaders fuelled a genocide.
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Benjamin Netanyahu explains how the Israeli Air Force prevented Iranian attempts to ‘rescue’ Bashar Al-Assad in Syria

HTS and its allies do nothing against the Israeli occupation because Israel helped bring them to power

The fall of Assad was sought by Netanyahu so that the next phase of his Greater Israel plan could begin; expanding the occupation of Syria without having to fire a shot
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NATO’s current vulnerability exposes its own hypocrisies and contradictions

The only reason NATO is in crisis is because American empire is being reorganised with less importance being given to Europe, despite it being a supposed alliance of sovereign equals.

The supposed ‘defensive’ alliance is now on the brink of collapse over the fate of a non-member, because NATO was never a defensive alliance and its primary purpose has been to be a vehicle for confronting Russia. With Russia emerging victorious in the proxy war, it’s clear NATO has failed.
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Another day in the multipolar world’s Island of Irrelevancy

France, Spain and Portugal have experienced a major power blackout, bringing parts of the countries to a standstill

The EU’s leaders are preparing for a direct war with Russia, and they can’t even keep the power on
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‘We have investigated ourselves and have concluded we have done nothing wrong.’
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Far-right Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss says why should Palestinians in Gaza sleep in peace, before declaring that ‘Gaza is ours’

Your taxes are fuelling an ideology of hatred where even seeing Palestinians sleep peacefully is too much for Israelis to bear
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