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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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CHINA🇨🇳 IS WINNING THE TRADE WAR, AND COMING OUT MORE RESILIENT

Donald Trump’s barrage of tariffs couldn’t put a dent in China’s economic machine. In September, China’s exports grew by 8.3%, the fastest pace in months.

Shipments to the US🇺🇸 fell by 27%. Exports to the EU rose more than 14%, exports to ASEAN nations were up by almost 16%, and exports to Africa rose by 56%.

Direct shipments to the US now make up barely 10% of China’s total exports. The US is learning a harsh, obvious truth that it should have learned a long time ago…

The world is bigger than the United States, and the United States is no longer essential.
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ICYMI: Donald Trump on Miriam Adelson:

“She loves Israel more than America, she has 60 billion, she comes into my office more than anyone else, so I did what she told me to do.”

This is what $100 million buys you; the US government’s participation in genocide, support for apartheid, and the Holocaust of our times.

If a billionaire in a global south country bought a leader’s loyalty and put genocide and expanding occupation on his/her agenda, it would receive wall-to-wall coverage on the media.

But since this is the US, all forms of corruption and barbarism are covered as if they’re normal.
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Journalist: ‘You've said that Russia should repay for reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should repay for reconstruction of Gaza?’

EU Chief Spokesperson.: ‘It’s an interesting question, on which I have no comment at this stage.’

The multipolar world’s Island of Irrelevancy doesn’t even bother to hide its hypocrisy and double standards now
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Poland’s🇵🇱 Foreign Minister wants MORE Ukrainian lives to be lost for 3 YEARS:

Polish FM Sikorski has said ‘The Ukrainians are preparing to fight for another three years…we need to convince Putin that we are ready to stay the course for those three years.’

Hundreds of thousands, if not over a million Ukrainian lives lost already, for a pointless Washington-designed proxy war…and now they want to continue the slaughter for another 3 years, to the point where there may not be any Ukrainian male adults left in the country…

And if Ukraine’s loss of territory is already catastrophic, imagine what kind of rump Ukrainian ‘state’ will be left.

These people are willing to see hundreds of thousands die because they refuse to leave their infantile geopolitics behind and actually compromise with Russia and come to a solution for European security.

The Ukrainian population has already declined by an estimated 9-12 million people, the economy is in ruins, and dictator Zelensky wants the devastation to keep going, because the minute the war ends, he will be out of power, and the extent of the corruption will be uncovered.
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Poland’s🇵🇱 Foreign Minister wants MORE Ukrainian lives to be lost for 3 YEARS: Polish FM Sikorski has said ‘The Ukrainians are preparing to fight for another three years…we need to convince Putin that we are ready to stay the course for those three years.’…
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Singaporean diplomat and former President of the UN Security Council Kishore Mahbubani on why the Ukraine🇺🇦 proxy war began:

"It’s the absence of the culture of pragmatism in European cultures. All they had to do was reach a compromise with Russia🇷🇺."
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PUTIN🇷🇺: “What don’t you understand? Are we putting missiles near the borders of the US🇺🇸? No. It’s the US with their missiles coming to our home. They’re literally on our doorstep. Is this really too much to ask? No more strike systems on our doorstep.”

Now the US is contemplating giving dictator Zelensky Tomahawk missiles. From not compromising with Russia and ignoring all of its legitimate national security interests, to arming a proxy to lob missiles deep inside Russia, something never done even at the height of the ‘Cold War.’

World War 3 will seem like a far-fetched scenario until suddenly, the ICBMs start launching…
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Thomas Sankara, assassinated on this day in 1987:

‘I would like this conference to clearly declare that we cannot pay this debt…just to avoid being assassinated individually. If Burkina Faso🇧🇫 is the only one to refuse, I won’t be at the next conference’

-Thomas Sankara was assassinated 3 months after calling on African countries to not pay back debt to European countries and international institutions such as the IMF and World Bank
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One of Africa’s greatest sons Thomas Sankara

Here’s a summary of Thomas Sankara’s achievements in his short 4 years in power in Burkina Faso🇧🇫 before being overthrown in a French & CIA-backed coup:

-Vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.

– He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.

– He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification

– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid

– He appointed women to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.

– He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of women’s rights

– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient
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One of Africa’s greatest sons Thomas Sankara Here’s a summary of Thomas Sankara’s achievements in his short 4 years in power in Burkina Faso🇧🇫 before being overthrown in a French & CIA-backed coup: -Vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow…
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Thomas Sankara, assassinated on this day in 1987:

‘I would like this conference to clearly declare that we cannot pay this debt…just to avoid being assassinated individually. If Burkina Faso🇧🇫 is the only one to refuse, I won’t be at the next conference’

-Thomas Sankara was assassinated 3 months after calling on African countries to not pay back debt to European countries and international institutions such as the IMF and World Bank
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Trump says Ukraine wants to go on the offensive, ‘we’ll have to make a determination on that.’

Donald Trump basically admits that this is a proxy war in which Washington directs what Zelensky’s regime can do.

This is Washington’s war against Russia, using Ukrainian soldiers.
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The Ukraine🇺🇦 proxy war, now fully committed to by Donald Trump in a desperate attempt to save US hegemony:

Donald Trump is reportedly planning a ‘victory fund’ for Ukraine, financed by tariffs on China🇨🇳, which have done nothing to hurt China’s economy as exports have boomed

Surrounded by neocons, Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric of ending the pointless and devastating war have been abandoned, and with each passing day, Donald Trump begins to surpass the
dangerous and disastrous foreign policy of Joe Biden.
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The Ukraine🇺🇦 proxy war, now fully committed to by Donald Trump in a desperate attempt to save US hegemony: Donald Trump is reportedly planning a ‘victory fund’ for Ukraine, financed by tariffs on China🇨🇳, which have done nothing to hurt China’s economy as…
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PUTIN🇷🇺: THE US🇺🇸 MUST UNDERSTAND WE HAVE NOWHERE LEFT TO RETREAT TO

‘Under what pretext did they destroy Yugoslavia? Where's Yugoslavia and where is the US? Who gave them the right to strike a European capital?

What was the pretext for the invasion of Iraq? The development of weapons of mass destruction?

How did they invade Syria?
Did the UN Security Council authorise any of this? Whatever they want, they do.

But what they are doing now in Ukraine is not thousands of miles away from our national borders; it is on our doorstep. And they must realize that we simply have nowhere else to retreat to.’
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Former US🇺🇸 Ambassador to China🇨🇳 Nicholas Burns: ‘WE UNDERESTIMATED CHINA’S POWER.’

‘The infrastructure, that’s one strength. Second, their scientific and technological capacity. 34% of first year students in Chinese universities study engineering. In the US, it’s 5.6%…

I’ve seen the People’s Liberation Army. We’ve underestimated their military strength…

For the last 35 years, the Chinese Foreign Minister, whoever that person is, has made his first trip of the year in January to Africa, to show the Africans you are our priority. I think President Trump never went to Africa during his first term. President Biden went once.

They’re strategic and we’re not competing on that level. China’s technology, military and economics are stronger than we think they are, and I think we’ve underestimated them, and we can’t do that any longer.’
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Former US🇺🇸 Ambassador to China🇨🇳 Nicholas Burns: ‘WE UNDERESTIMATED CHINA’S POWER.’ ‘The infrastructure, that’s one strength. Second, their scientific and technological capacity. 34% of first year students in Chinese universities study engineering. In the…
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Prof. John Mearsheimer explains why China🇨🇳 shouldn’t underestimate the ruthlessness of the United States🇺🇸 either:

‘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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PALESTINE’S🇵🇸 DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER: ‘OCCUPATION MUST END FIRST, THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT ONE OR TWO STATES’

‘The root cause is an illegal occupation that has gone on for 57 years. First, we need to end this occupation, and then think about one state, two states, five states, seven states…

If Mr. Trump is talking about one state where there is no Israeli occupation, that’s great. And if he can manage and bring that, that’s very good.

And if he is thinking about two states where the Palestinian people and Israel are living side by side in peace and security, by ending the Israeli occupation, by protecting the Palestinian people, by preventing Israel from committing genocide against our people, that’s also most welcome.’

-The Palestinian Authority’s Deputy Foreign Minister Dr. Omar Awadallah on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v70f4t0-donald-trumps-gaza-peace-plan-a-pivotal-moment-or-farce-palestinian-deputy-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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PALESTINE’S🇵🇸 DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER: ‘OCCUPATION MUST END FIRST, THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT ONE OR TWO STATES’ ‘The root cause is an illegal occupation that has gone on for 57 years. First, we need to end this occupation, and then think about one state, two…
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Every Israeli accusation is a confession:

Israel accuses the Palestinian resistance of using human shields, here’s genocidal Israelis blocking an aid truck from going into Gaza by pushing a baby in a pram in front of it.

Israelis still want to see Palestinians starve to death.
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WHY IS THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY’S VICE PRESIDENT READY TO WORK WITH TONY BLAIR IN POST-GENOCIDE GAZA?

‘We’re ready to work with anyone that is ready to help us in ending the war and taking us to any kind of a peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine.

The idea of Tony Blair as a war criminal, I think that the international community should be the one to take Tony Blair to jail, not the Palestinian people. But I can assure you, if Tony Blair is going to commit any war crime in Palestine, he will be responsible for that and will be taken to jail.

So from our side, we are ready. This is a kind of commitment to work with anyone towards resolving the question of Palestine and to stop the genocide.’

-Palestinian Authority Deputy Foreign Minister Dr. Omar Awadallah on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v70f4t0-donald-trumps-gaza-peace-plan-a-pivotal-moment-or-farce-palestinian-deputy-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨FORMER TOP UN OFFICIAL: ISRAEL, DRUNK ON IMPUNITY, PREPARING FOR SECOND WAR ON IRAN🇮🇷

‘The core of Washington elites, together with the Israelis, are gearing up for war with Iran. And I think the Israelis in particular are looking to use the pause on military activity in Gaza, for as long as it lasts, to try to turn their forces toward Iran.

Netanyahu has repeatedly threatened to do so. And I think by now people should learn that when Netanyahu threatens to do something, he is going to do it. This, after all, is a regime that is drunk on impunity.

It is a regime occupying territory in Lebanon, in Syria, in Palestine. It is a regime that carried out a transnational terror attack in Lebanon with booby-trapped pagers.

It is a regime that has carried out aggression against half a dozen countries in the Middle East. It is a regime that has bombed humanitarians in the Mediterranean Sea.

It is a regime that has perpetrated a genocide, where it declared openly what it was doing and then carried that out on the ground. And now, drunk on that impunity granted to it by the US and other Western and regional collaborators, and knowing that it got away with genocide, literally so far, it now sees its chance. So the risk of further Israeli aggression on Iran is extremely high, in my view.’

-Former Senior UN Human Rights Official Craig Mokhiber, who resigned over the UN’s failure to act as Israel committed genocide in Gaza, joins us for Monday’s episode of Going Underground

Don’t miss it, follow our Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/v70i58c-cowardice-the-uns-failure-over-the-gaza-genocide-former-senior-un-official-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨FORMER TOP UN OFFICIAL: ISRAEL, DRUNK ON IMPUNITY, PREPARING FOR SECOND WAR ON IRAN🇮🇷 ‘The core of Washington elites, together with the Israelis, are gearing up for war with Iran. And I think the Israelis in particular are looking to use the pause on military…
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🚨MONDAY’S GOING UNDERGROUND: THE UN’S COWARDICE AND FAILURE OVER THE GAZA GENOCIDE

Why have top UN officials such as Secretary General Antonio Guterres failed to say the obvious and call Israel’s slaughter for what it is, a genocide?

We’ll be speaking to a former top UN human rights official who resigned over the UN’s catastrophic inaction over the Gaza genocide Craig Mokhiber

Don’t miss it, follow our Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/v70i58c-cowardice-the-uns-failure-over-the-gaza-genocide-former-senior-un-official-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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On this day in 1983, the revolutionary leader of Grenada🇬🇩 Maurice Bishop, who led the Marxist-Leninist New JEWEL Movement was assassinated in a coup suspected to have been instigated by the United States. Days later, the US would invade the small Caribbean island and destroy what remained of the revolution.

The United States feared the Grenadian revolution because its leaders spoke in English, and could communicate directly to the American people. For this reason, the power of the Grenadian revolution was feared even more than the Cuban or Nicaraguan revolution.

Even though Grenada was part of the Commonwealth with Queen Elizabeth II as official head of state, since Britain has been nothing but a US vassal since 1945, Ronald Reagan didn’t even bother consulting PM Margaret Thatcher and only notified her of the decision once it had already been made.

Embarrassingly, after initial public condemnation of the invasion, to preserve the US-UK master-vassal relationship, Thatcher would soften her tone on the invasion.
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