CHINA🇨🇳 IS ECONOMICALLY LEAPFROGGING THE WEST, HOW?

‘China has made absolutely extraordinary gains in renewable energy production and EV production and high speed rail production, absolutely leapfrogging what the US🇺🇸 and Western Europe have been able to achieve.

Now this is remarkable. This is causing people in Washington and London to scratch their heads like how did China manage to do this?

The reason is because China has public control over the financial system and so it can align finance and investments with the national development plans.

It also has credit guidance policies. And so China can direct its incredible financial power towards what is most important for society and for the planet rather than just what is most important for capital.

And that’s what’s enabled them to make these incredible developments in industries that are not necessarily the most profitable.

And so I think that we can learn from basic industrial policy that China is implementing. I think that everyone’s paying attention to this, certainly across the Global South, states are realising the need for industrial policy along these lines.’

-Prof. Jason Hickel on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v71165o-a-liberated-palestine-means-the-end-of-us-control-over-the-middle-east-prof.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a

China🇨🇳 has already surpassed the US🇺🇸 and the vassal European Union:

China accounts for 70% of global electric vehicle production.

China installed 256 GW of solar capacity in the first half of 2025, more than twice as much of the rest of the world combined.

China has the largest high-speed rail network on Earth, with over 48,000KM of track by the end of 2024. China aims to reach 50,000KM of track in 2025. The US barely has any high speed rail.

China produced around 80% of the world’s solar panels.

According to data from the National Energy Administration, China had constructed more than 94,000 dams by December 2024, by far the largest number globally.

While the US focus on spending hundreds of billions on war and destruction, and Europe’s sole purpose seemingly being to bark whenever Washington tells it to…China is easily the superpower of the 21st century.

However, if China underestimates the capacity and appetite of Washington for bringing war and destruction to China, all these incredible achievements are at risk.

US🇺🇸 WANTS TO DESTROY MADURO TO GAIN CHEAP ACCESS TO VENEZUELA’S🇻🇪 OIL RESERVES

‘In terms of the sanctions, Trump put sanctions on Venezuela back in 2017. That’s when they started. And they’ve just been ratcheted up since then.

Now we have data from economists showing that in the first year of the sanctions, as you pointed out, they killed 40,000 people. This is very devastating, totally destabilising on the economy, causing massive hunger, humanitarian crisis.

It’s forced millions of people to leave the country because life is becoming so difficult there. The purpose of these sanctions is not some kind of exercise of soft power. It is very clearly aimed at destabilising the country, destabilising the government, making the economy scream.

And now the US is openly talking about wanting to invade Venezuela. And to justify this, they’ve built up this incredible propaganda narrative that came out of nowhere, claiming that the President of Venezuela is a narco-terrorist who runs a drug smuggling gang.

But these claims have been very thoroughly debunked by scholars, including within the United States itself. Even key institutes in the US government reject these claims.

We know that Venezuela is not a cocaine-producing nation. Only about 5% of the drugs trafficked to the US are even routed through Venezuela, the vast majority go up by the Pacific.

So this is really a non-entity when it comes to the so-called US war on drugs. It’s clear that this narrative is a ruse, designed as a PR narrative.

The reality is that the US wants to destroy the Venezuelan government primarily because they want cheap access to its extraordinary oil reserves, the largest in the world, larger than Saudi Arabia’s, and because they see Venezuela as a sovereign-seeking nation.

And that is something they are always against. They always immediately try to target and sanction nations motivated by that tendency.’

-Prof. Jason Hickel on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v71165o-a-liberated-palestine-means-the-end-of-us-control-over-the-middle-east-prof.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

An absolute farce: 2025 Nobel ‘Peace’ Prize Winner and veteran CIA asset Maria Corina Machado endorses US military action against her own country to topple Nicolas Maduro.

A Nobel ‘Peace’ Prize winner calls for bombing her own country, after calling for the wholesale privatisation of ‘everything’ in her country in a shameless attempt to gain power.

Prof. Jason Hickel: ‘Gaza Genocide shows we live in an APARTHEID WORLD, where international law applies to the world majority but does not apply to the Western states and their leaders. The global south is FED UP with this arrangement. This arrangement must be dismantled.’

-Prof. Jason Hickel on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v71165o-a-liberated-palestine-means-the-end-of-us-control-over-the-middle-east-prof.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

PALESTINE’S🇵🇸 MANDELA: Marwan Barghouti’s son joins us for Monday’s Going Underground

‘Any Western leader that wants to bring peace and stability in the region, they must support the release of my father.

My father represents a positive force for unifying the Palestinian people into a vision, a political vision that is accepted by the international community. The international community keeps claiming that they support a political settlement, they support coexistence, they support peace, they support a two-state solution, and so on.

Okay, here you have the most popular Palestinian leader who is trusted by the Palestinian people, who has a political vision. And to prove that, if you go back to 2006, he’s the one who initiated the Prisoners’ Document, which is one of the most important documents in Palestinian political history, because it was the only document signed by all Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, that stated on three main points.

The first is the creation and establishment of the Palestinian state on the ’67 borders. The second is limiting resistance to within the ’67 borders. And the third is that the targeting of civilians is forbidden, regardless of where they are.

And I think that a Palestinian leader who has all that credibility and legitimacy among the Palestinian people, to come and say that, is a great opportunity for the international community to seize it and to prove that the recognition of Palestine is not only symbolic, but that they are willing to take steps on the ground.

And I can argue that releasing my father can advance that. And I’m really encouraged by the statement by President Trump that he’s thinking about it and that he knows who he is.’

-Arab Barghouti, son of Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian leader imprisoned by Israel for over 23 years.

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Venezuela’s🇻🇪 President Nicolas Maduro:

‘How could I be a dictator if I wasn’t trained at the School of the Americas, at Harvard? I was not trained at Langley, West Point…I was trained in the high schools of Caracas, in the neighbourhoods of El Valle, 23 de Enero, Catia, Propatria, El Cementerio.’

Maduro refers to the long list of Latin American dictators and coup leaders who received US training.

Veteran CIA asset and the Nobel Peace Prize Winner who advocates for bombing her own country brags about being hard at work advertising the fire sale of her country’s natural resources to global mega corporations, saying “Venezuela🇻🇪 has become sexy.”

She begs the US to bomb her own country, and then salivates at the prospect of mega corporations swooping in for a disaster capitalism profit bonanza, while Venezuelans suffer war and becoming subjects of a vassal state.

CIA Asset Maria Corina Machado blames socialism for Venezuela going from the richest country in Latin America, to the poorest in 20 years.

Richest for whom? Before Hugo Chavez took office, 49–50% of Venezuelans lived in poverty, and extreme poverty was around 20–23%. The richest 20% of Venezuelans controlled over 50% of total income, while the poorest 20% had less than 5%.

Chavez’ reforms improved the lives of millions of ordinary Venezuelans, then came the US’ economic warfare against the country through draconian unilateral sanctions, which impoverished the country again.

🚨NEW EPISODE OF GOING UNDERGROUND

Palestine's Mandela: Interview With The Son of Marwan Barghouti, Imprisoned by Israel for 23+ Years

https://rumble.com/v714mdi-palestines-mandela-interview-with-the-son-of-marwan-barghouti-imprisoned-by.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a

PALESTINE’S🇵🇸 MANDELA: Marwan Barghouti’s son details HORRIFIC BEATING his father suffered at the hands of Israeli prison guards

‘I haven’t hugged him in more than 23 years, almost 24 years now, because it was a few months before his imprisonment. But on another note, I haven’t seen him in three years.

I used to see him twice a month only until I turned 16. So it was only for the first three years. And then since 2006, I would see him once every two or three years. I haven’t seen him in three years. And none of the family members have seen him in three years.

After October 7th, it’s very important for people to understand what’s been happening inside Palestinian prisons. It’s the other side, or the backyard, of the genocide that is happening inside prisons.

79 Palestinian detainees have been killed inside prisons, either by beating, starvation, medical neglect, and so on. And I think that my father is part of that.

What happened to him is that they sent him to solitary confinement to punish him, even though he had nothing to do with October 7th. But as part of the collective punishment and as part of targeting him as a leader, a representative of the Palestinian people, they sent him to solitary confinement.

He was assaulted at the end of 2023, March of 2024, September of 2024. And then we just heard two weeks ago the scary and very disturbing stories from the released detainees who got exiled to Egypt…

8 prison guards, while he was shackled in his hands and legs, put him on the ground and started kicking and beating him until he lost consciousness.

He passed out for a few hours and regained it after hours when he got to Megiddo Prison. They sent him to the clinic. He had four ribs broken and severe injuries to his head, and he was sent back without any medical treatment to his cell.’

-Arab Barghouti, the son of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v714mdi-palestines-mandela-interview-with-the-son-of-marwan-barghouti-imprisoned-by.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Netanyahu admitted that the leaked footage of the rape of Palestinian detainees by Israeli soldiers at Sde Teiman Prison caused "enormous damage" to Israel's image, calling it "perhaps the most severe propaganda attack" since Israel’s founding.

Netanyahu isn’t horrified by the rape of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, he’s only horrified at the consequences for Israel’s reputation.

This should tell you one thing; Israel will commit every kind of barbarism and cruelty against Palestinians, so long as they feel they can hide it and get away with it.

PALESTINE’S🇵🇸 MANDELA: Marwan Barghouti’s son details EXTRAORDINARY efforts of his father to provide university-level education to Palestinian prisoners, despite torture and solitary confinement

‘The Palestinian detainees said that while my father was recovering, barely recovered from torture, what he did is that he started to teach those prisoners through the window, talking to them, giving them classes from six to eight hours in political science, in history, in Israeli studies, and so on.

Because you need to know something about my father, in Hadarim prison, where he stayed for 18 years out of the 23 years, he started what we call the Light Academy. He sent his lawyer to the head of Jerusalem University and convinced him to give him the ability to give official degrees through sneaking the grades of the detainees while he is teaching them.

And he was a very hard teacher. Seven days a week. He doesn’t take breaks. Eight hours a day. He has a PhD in political science, so he’s eligible to teach. And he used to teach in Jerusalem University. He’s graduated more than 450 Palestinian detainees with bachelor’s degrees, more than 200 with master’s degrees in Israeli studies. He is, of course, fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.

And that’s what he continued, despite all that torture, to try and teach them as good as he can. And they said that he was the one who is encouraging them, who’s lifting their spirit and so on.

And I want to recall one of my father’s favourite quotes when I say “our chains will be broken before we are.”

So I have no doubt that mentally he’s the strongest person I’ve ever known in my life. But at the same time, I’m his son and I am concerned for his life, because it’s not crazy to think that the Israeli government would harm him.’

-Arab Barghouti on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v714mdi-palestines-mandela-interview-with-the-son-of-marwan-barghouti-imprisoned-by.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

When Marwan Barghouti was subjected to the farcical Israeli show trial, his son Arab Barghouti, who we interviewed for our latest episode, called out to him.

Marwan Barghouti’s face instantly lit up and he rose to greet his son. An elderly Israeli slapped Arab, and other Israelis tried to attack him for trying to run to hug his father. Arab Barghouti was a 12-year-old child at the time.

Marwan Barghouti’s son: ‘It took 20,000 Palestinian children to be SLAUGHTERED for Western journalists to change their tone on Palestine🇵🇸

‘When I talk to Western journalists in general about Israeli attacks on refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, they say, “Yeah, but they’re attacking terrorists.” No, I don’t think they are. They’re displacing civilians.

And the other thing, why are we calling the IDF an army, and the people that are defending under international law, defending themselves, the terrorists?

So that gives you an idea of the double standards that finally are getting exposed. And it took 20,000 Palestinian children to be slaughtered in front of the whole world for them to start changing their tone when talking about Palestine.’

-Arab Barghouti, son of Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, imprisoned by Israel for over 23 years, on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v714mdi-palestines-mandela-interview-with-the-son-of-marwan-barghouti-imprisoned-by.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

John Pilger said it best on Western media hypocrisy when it comes to Palestine:

"The very notion of 'two sides' is obscene...it's like people looking up at German bombs during the blitz and saying 'ah but there are 2 sides here.’”

PALESTINE’S🇵🇸 MANDELA: Arab Barghouti, son of the Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti who has been in an Israeli prison for over years, details his father’s rise in the Palestinian resistance to one of its most revered leaders, and what his father stands for.

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v714mdi-palestines-mandela-interview-with-the-son-of-marwan-barghouti-imprisoned-by.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

‘THIS SOIL SPEAKS ARABIC. This is our land…you are thieves, you are stealing from the land. I am the owner of this land, not you. You are thieves.’

A Palestinian man defiantly confronts IDF soldiers and Israeli settlers trying to steal land in the town of Idhna, west of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

The genocidal mentality of Israeli soldiers never changes. Here’s an Israeli soldier speaking to a reporter in occupied Lebanon in 1985:

‘I’m not dealing with human beings [Lebanese]. They are all terrorists and they don't have any human feelings, so l kill them without remorse.’

Reporter: ‘They live here and they’re trying to defend their villages.’

IDF soldier: ‘They know we’re going back to Israel in two months, why do they have to try and kill people?’

Israeli soldiers; always simultaneously genocidal and trying to portray themselves as the victim

Veteran CIA Asset Maria Corina Machado

'Venezuela🇻🇪 has the world’s largest oil reserves and vast natural resources, which can only be unleashed with a government that brings order and is friendly to international investment.’

The US didn’t allow Venezuela to prosper with its nationalised oil, so it crushed PDVSA to stop the profits from oil sales being used to develop the country and further the Bolivarian revolution…

Then after making the economy scream, they send out this CIA Asset and de facto spokesperson for American capitalism to tell the world the benefits of bombing her own country and selling the countries resources to American corporations.

ICYMI: CIA Asset Maria Corina Machado baselessly claims that she has no doubts that Nicolas Maduro is a mastermind behind US election interference.

This de facto spokeswoman for American corporations will say absolutely anything to get Trump to bomb her own country.