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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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🚨CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on the CIA’s history of drug trafficking

‘There’s a popular Netflix television series called Narcos. And Narcos is based on the true story of the hunt for Pablo Escobar, the hunt for the Cali cartel, the hunt for one of the Mexican cartels.

And over the course of three seasons, every time the Drug Enforcement Administration gets close to its primary target, the CIA station chief steps in and ruins the investigation. That is true.

That happens in real life because the CIA doesn’t care about drugs. It cares about terrorism. It cares about communism. For what that’s worth.

There’s always some other bigger ism that the CIA is concerned about. And so it was perfectly happy to allow cocaine to flood into the United States in the 1980s during the Iran-Contra affair, just as it was perfectly happy to allow Afghanistan to provide 93% of the world’s heroin once the United States began its occupation of Afghanistan.’

-John Kiriakou joins us for Monday’s episode of Going Underground

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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on the CIA’s power over Hollywood:

‘The CIA has set up a branch within the Office of Public Affairs whose job is solely to cooperate with Hollywood studios, just like the FBI has been doing since the 1950s.

The CIA works with Hollywood studios to make sure that everything that comes out of Hollywood has a pro-CIA message.

You know, technically it’s illegal for the CIA to propagandise the American people, but that’s what happens every time a CIA-related film is released. It’s propaganda.

Indeed, the movie Zero Dark Thirty broke all kinds of laws. The director, Catherine Bigelow, and the writer Mark Boal were given classified briefings over a classified mock-up of the Osama bin Laden compound.

They were given classified briefings by CIA Counterterrorism Center analysts, and in exchange they gave those analysts watches and free tickets to the premiere of the film.

Well, they should all be in prison for that. Technically that’s a violation of the Espionage Act. Instead, the film was celebrated as a victory at the CIA.’

-John Kiriakou on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on the CIA’s power over Hollywood: ‘The CIA has set up a branch within the Office of Public Affairs whose job is solely to cooperate with Hollywood studios, just like the FBI has been doing since the 1950s. The CIA works…
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BURKINA FASO’S🇧🇫 IBRAHIM TRAORE ON HOLLYWOOD:

‘Watch their films…you will always find the bad guys are either the Russians, South Americans, or black people…Arabs play the role of terrorists…through their communication they can make you hate a people or love a people…and finally, the empire of slaves according to them is Africa and certain people from South America.’
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🚨CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Just FIVE corporations/oligarchs will now control all of US🇺🇸 media

‘The entire American media is run by six corporations or oligarchs. Now it’s going to be five. And so the only place you can go to is independent media.

But so few Americans have the time or the inclination to seek out independent media. They just sit in front of the television, turn on CNN or MSNBC, now it’s called MS NOW, or Fox News, and they think they’re being educated.

In fact, they’re not. They’re being propagandised.’

-John Kiriakou on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Just FIVE corporations/oligarchs will now control all of US🇺🇸 media ‘The entire American media is run by six corporations or oligarchs. Now it’s going to be five. And so the only place you can go to is independent media.…
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Former CIA Agent John Stockwell on how the CIA pushes fake news in the media to manufacture consent for regime change operations and wars abroad:

"We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities...we didn't know of a single atrocity committed by the Cubans. It was pure raw false propaganda to create an illusion of communists eating babies for breakfast."
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🚨CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on the CIA’s and Israel’s torture programs: ‘Israel doesn’t follow ANYBODY’S rules.’

‘What the United States did was that it outsourced torture to two sick psychologists, contract psychologists, who reverse-engineered the US Air Force’s SERE training so that they could exert the most amount of pressure, the most amount of force and pain, frankly, on prisoners.

The Israelis don’t follow anybody’s rules.

The United States did this dance back in late 2001 and early 2002, where they went to the CIA general counsel, then they went to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.

Then they went to the General Counsel of the National Security Council. And they at least pretended that they needed legal cover to allow themselves to do this.

The Israelis just go in with guns blazing.’

-John Kiriakou on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
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🚨CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on the CIA’s and Israel’s torture programs: ‘Israel doesn’t follow ANYBODY’S rules.’ ‘What the United States did was that it outsourced torture to two sick psychologists, contract psychologists, who reverse-engineered the…
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Israeli torture camp staff r*ped a 13-year-old child they imprisoned.

Israel then labelled the organisation investigating the barbaric crime as a “terrorist entity.”

This is what your tax dollars, euros, and pounds go towards supporting.
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🚨CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou:

‘The United States does not spy on Israel, period. It just does not. And it operates in Israel only with the permission of the Mossad.

It’s a very strange relationship. It’s not a terribly friendly one. It’s proper. It’s formal, but not friendly.

And the US does nothing inside Israel without the Mossad’s permission.’

-John Kiriakou on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: ‘The United States does not spy on Israel, period. It just does not. And it operates in Israel only with the permission of the Mossad. It’s a very strange relationship. It’s not a terribly friendly one. It’s proper. It’s…
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Israel only exists thanks to US🇺🇸 military aid…and yet the US is not allowed to spy on Israel

Meanwhile…Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on Going Underground: ‘It’s UNQUESTIONABLE that the Epstein business was heavily influenced by MOSSAD!’

‘I watched Mossad take over the Pentagon in 2002. The Pentagon was infiltrated by Mossad. They did not need any identification to get through the river entrance to the building…

Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defence, said to my boss one time ‘Hell, I don’t run my building, Mossad does!’

-Former Chief of Staff at the State Department Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: The US🇺🇸 is SERIOUS about going to war with Venezuela🇻🇪, why is Trump pursuing a war of CHOICE?!

‘I’ve said many times that if you want to know what American military intentions are, watch naval movements. This is something that I learned at the CIA.

We can yell and scream and point the finger and tell countries we’re going to invade them, but we’re not unless we send enough naval assets to cover what’s needed in terms of supply and aircraft carriers.

An aircraft carrier battle group, for example, has 11 support ships, battleships, troop transports, supply ships, and of course the aircraft carrier itself is full of fighter jets.

So if the United States is serious about doing something, it’s going to send an aircraft carrier battle group. And indeed, what did it do?

It sent the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier battle group to the coast of Venezuela. So which Donald Trump are we going to see? Are we going to see the America First, non-intervention Donald Trump, or the neocon Donald Trump?

And the truth of the matter is we’re not at war with Venezuela. Venezuela hasn’t done anything to us. They haven’t attacked us.

These drugs that we’re supposedly destroying or intercepting or whatever aren’t even meant for the United States. They’re meant for Western Europe, and they’re not Venezuelan drugs.

Venezuela is the transshipment point for drugs coming from Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. So I just don’t see why this President, especially, is considering a war of choice.’

-John Kiriakou on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: The US🇺🇸 is SERIOUS about going to war with Venezuela🇻🇪, why is Trump pursuing a war of CHOICE?! ‘I’ve said many times that if you want to know what American military intentions are, watch naval movements. This is something…
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Alastair Crooke: US🇺🇸 regime change in Venezuela🇻🇪 is about dominating ALL of Western hemisphere from Argentina to the Arctic…and the US’ growing FINANCIAL CRISIS

‘Venezuela is a huge country. It’s bigger than Ukraine. It’s a large, very large country. And it has connections. You know, I for a period lived in Colombia and you know, it’s quite likely that there are militia waiting to join in on the borders. What are they going to do? Decapitate the government? Bombing it or invading it or kidnapping it? I don’t know.

But when the FT says they’re unprepared, this is just psy-ops to say this is an easy war, we will take all that oil and gas and natural resources, and it’ll be folded into the United States.

I mean what I think this is about is that the Trump team has made it very clear and sent sort of very clear messages to those receiving, saying from the southernmost tip of Argentina to the Arctic, this is all going to be folded into the new US Western hemisphere sphere of interest.

So all of this is part of that, but it’s also part of the US financial crisis. They’ve got a shadow banking system which is now 50% of the credit, which is 50% of total credit given from America, dwarfing almost the conventional deregulated banking system.

This is unregulated, is over-leveraged and as the economist from the BIS just said the other day, this is half of the credit given out and we haven’t a clue what’s going on there.

In the regulated system we’ve got an idea of what’s going on in the banks, but in the shadow banking system which is now half of the total, we don’t have an idea what’s going on there.’

-Alastair Crooke, the former Middle East Advisor to the EU Foreign Policy Chief, on Going Underground
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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on Venezuela🇻🇪 regime change: The CIA doesn’t understand the people DON’T WANT US THERE

‘It’s because of this belief at the CIA, it’s a very deeply held belief that we are the good guys and as soon as we cross that border, people are going to throw flowers at us.

And of course that’s laughably, laughably wrong.

There’s no understanding of history, there’s no understanding of the societies and the cultures of these countries. They don’t want us there. And at the CIA, they just don’t understand.

Now, in their defence, the CIA is not a policy agency, it’s a policy support agency. So just like with the invasion of Iraq, if the White House says do it, you have to do it, even if you’re opposed to it on philosophical grounds.

But you’re right, the CIA, the American government in general, just never seems to learn the lesson of invasions gone bad.

It’s easy to invade a country, it’s easy to overthrow its government. It’s exceedingly difficult to take care of things the day after.

And one thing about Venezuela too, as I just said, it would be easy to overthrow the government. We’ve already essentially told Maduro, just get on your plane and run away. Go to Doha, go to Havana, go to Moscow. Just get on the plane and run away…

The point being to put so much pressure on Maduro that he just gets up and runs away.

So to overthrow him, what do you need to do? You need to secure the presidential palace, you need to take over the radio and television stations, you need to control the major intersections in Caracas, but most importantly, you need to have the military on your side.

And the Venezuelan military is on the side of President Maduro.’

-John Kiriakou on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: We may NEVER see the unredacted Epstein Files

We had a hint of what the truth was when Elon Musk said, as he was leaving government, that Donald Trump was all over his words, all over the Epstein files.

And I think Trump probably didn’t think that he would be, or didn’t realise that he was, when he was making the promise to release all of the unredacted files.

I have to tell you, I’m not sanguine that we’ll ever see these files, because this is not a partisan issue. There are Democratic perverts just like there are Republican perverts.

And there are a lot of them in positions of very important power. And so I think that they are going to work together to kill this information, to disappear the information.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is right. Donald Trump said that he would release it. He should release it.

This is what the MAGA base wanted. But I think Trump believes that the MAGA base is more pro-Trump than they are pro-MAGA, and that he could wait this out and win it in the end.

I don’t think we’ll ever see this unredacted information.

-John Kiriakou on the latest episode of Going Underground

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v73017g-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-reveals-all-on-us-israel-alliance-warns-of-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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Chile’s President José Antonio Kast is a:

-staunch defender of the fascist Pinochet dictatorship, here is a young Kast defending the Pinochet dictatorship on national television

-son of a German card-carrying Nazi Party member who fought against the Soviet Union in WW2

-Staunch defender of Israel and strongly anti-Palestine
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Chile’s President José Antonio Kast is a: -staunch defender of the fascist Pinochet dictatorship, here is a young Kast defending the Pinochet dictatorship on national television -son of a German card-carrying Nazi Party member who fought against the Soviet…
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Here’s Chile’s🇨🇱 President-elect José Antonio Kast downplaying the crimes of the fascist Pinochet dictatorship and defending it for ‘economic progress.’

The economic progress he speaks of is skyrocketing the poverty rate to 45-50% of the population as a result of neoliberal shock therapy

Tripling the extreme poverty rate

Creating one of the most unequal countries on Earth
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Col. Jacques Baud, retired Swiss Army Colonel and former Advisor to NATO has been sanctioned by the European Union for being ‘a regular guest on pro-Russian television and radio programmes. He acts as a spokesperson for pro-Russian propaganda and disseminates conspiracy theories’

In books written by Col. Jacques Baud on the Ukraine proxy war, he explicitly only used Ukrainian and Western material to evidence his analysis of the proxy war, to show how warped the mainstream media’s representation of the conflict has been. Here is one such example where he talked to us on Going Underground:

'In 2019 a report written by the RAND Corporation outlined a strategy...the purpose of that strategy was not to help Ukraine, it was to weaponise Ukraine to weaken Russia...in the report, it was explicitly written that implementing this strategy would cause to Ukraine huge loss of territories, huge losses in personnel and will force Ukraine into a disadvantageous peace.'
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Col. Jacques Baud, retired Swiss Army Colonel and former Advisor to NATO has been sanctioned by the European Union for being ‘a regular guest on pro-Russian television and radio programmes. He acts as a spokesperson for pro-Russian propaganda and disseminates…
Col. Jacques Baud was sanctioned by the European Union for voicing his analysis of the Ukraine proxy war, citing his works which explicitly used Western and Ukrainian sources and not Russian sources, to show how warped the coverage of the war is in NATO nations.

This is ‘free speech’ and ‘democracy’ in the European Union, where any dissent against a march to senseless confrontation and war with Russia is effectively criminalised. This is the same European Union lecturing the global south on ‘democracy’ and ‘free speech’.
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“Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.”

-Vladimir Lenin

China’s🇨🇳 total electricity generation capacity has leapfrogged the US🇺🇸, and every other major economy.

Whatever technological innovations come next, China will dominate production.
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