Vladimir Putin🇷🇺 on how Europe’s leaders will behave with Trump:

"You'll see, it will happen quickly, soon, they will all stand at the feet of the master and will gently wag their tails. Everything will fall into place.”

Europe deferred security policy to the State Department for decades, and cut itself off from cheap Russian energy to deindustrialise their own countries…

Now Europe has no realistic option if Trump wants to annex Greenland by force apart from strong words of protests, or escalating an economic war that will only damage their own countries even more than they have been through the Ukraine proxy war.

Eventually, their only option will be to bend the knee and obey Washington, the end result of their choice to be vassals.

Even if Europe seriously wants to consider militarily opposing Trump’s annexation of Greenland, it can’t…

Because Washington convinced European countries that giving away all their weapons to Ukraine to be destroyed in a pointless proxy war against Russia, was a good idea.

Now Europe has no choice but to continue enriching US military-industrial complex companies to rearm itself, while its economic power lies in tatters after accepting deindustrialisation by cutting off cheap Russian energy.

Europe thought that by being the vassal of Washington, it would be checkmate for Russia. In the end, it’s Europe that finds itself in checkmate.

Throwback to when Prof. Jeffrey Sachs was cut off by a moderator for telling too much truth about the United States’🇺🇸 monstrous history of violence

Russian🇷🇺 Foreign Minister Lavrov:

Chancellor Merz is saying Germany🇩🇪 must become the strongest country in Europe once again.

Lavrov also points out the irony that Merz compares ending the war in Ukraine on Russia’s terms is like appeasing Hitler.

‘We should remember and shouldn’t forget what such conceit brought about for the German leadership several times throughout history.’

Europe’s leaders still can’t break out of the ‘Russia is our existential threat’ dogma, when the US is planning to annex Greenland, the territory of a NATO country, and demanding total submission from Europe.

Lavrov🇷🇺: ‘The primary cause of the Ukraine conflict is that the West tried for many years to turn Ukraine🇺🇦 into a security threat against Russia, a stronghold against our country.’

If the shoe were on the other foot, and Russia turned Mexico into a security threat against the US, the US would have bombed Mexico with ‘shock and awe’ tactics, and overthrown their government.

Lavrov🇷🇺: ‘Africa is entering a second renaissance. Africa is realising it is still being exploited by neocolonial methods, and this awareness is growing every day.’

The arrogance of particularly French neocolonialism has made Africa look East…

And yet the West can’t seem to understand why.

Greenland: Does Europe🇪🇺 have any financial weapons that the US🇺🇸 fears?

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: ‘No.’

After seeing how disastrous Europe’s sanctions on Russia were for European economies, one can imagine the scale of the disaster European sanctions on the US would be

‘We stand ready to defend ourselves…the European Union has the power and means to do so.’

-President of the European Council Costa

Europe’s weapons inventories are empty after Washington ordered Europe to give it all away to Zelensky

Economic power? The EU manufactures nothing, and is led by economies that are failing.

The largest single market is on the path of being nothing but a dumping good for cheap Chinese exports.

US Treasury Scott Bessent openly admits that the US🇺🇸 designed the economic collapse of Iran🇮🇷, which has been the direct cause of the regime change protests that have destabilised the country.

Laughably, some say that Iran blaming US sanctions for the economic collapse is just ‘regime propaganda’ while the US openly boasts that it is the direct cause of the misery and suffering of the Iranian people.

"Why are we threatening Iran🇮🇷 which hasn’t invaded anyone for 400 years...Why do we journalists write what governments tell us? Why don’t they question them?"

-The incomparable, late, great John Pilger on Going Underground

US military assets are being repositioned to the Middle East as Donald Trump is poised to launch a regime change war against Iran

‘Iran🇮🇷 will bring holy fire to bear on Israel in the next war, much more so than they did during the 12 Day War, which was a disaster for Israel. Iran will DESTROY the State of Israel.’

-Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Going Underground

On this day in 1924, Vladimir Lenin, the leader of Russia’s October Bolshevik Revolution passed away.

Here is Michael Parenti explaining why the US feared the power and the example set by the October Revolution, and why that power is still feared today and dictates US foreign policy.

Vladimir Lenin passed away on this day in 1924, yet his ideas and legacy remain immortal. Here are some of his most notable quotations which are critical for understanding the world today:

“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich, that is the democracy of capitalist society.”

“A handful of rich states live by robbing the colonies and oppressing the majority of the world’s population.”

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: freedom for slave owners.”

“The bourgeoisie of the imperialist ‘Great’ Powers bribe their workers with crumbs from the superprofits they obtain from the colonies.”

“Imperialism is not a policy but a stage of capitalism.”

“The concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life.”

“Finance capital is such a decisive force in all economic and international relations that it is capable of subordinating, and actually does subordinate, even states enjoying the fullest political independence.”

Muhammad Ali’s famous denunciation of the Vietnam🇻🇳 War, where he explained his refusal to be drafted to fight:

‘My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother…some poor hungry people in the mud, for big, powerful America…they never called me n*****, they never lynched me.’

One of the worst atrocities of the Vietnam🇻🇳 War was the My Lai massacre, where US soldiers killed up to 500 unarmed villagers.

Here’s Seymour Hersh on Going Underground explaining and detailing the horrors of the massacre.

Tariq Ali on the World Economic Forum in Davos 2026:

‘After this year’s events, we may be closer to the death of Davos as an institution.’

-Renowned writer, filmmaker, and activist Tariq Ali joins us for the season premiere of Going Underground this Saturday, to discuss the crises that have kicked off 2026 including Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, and more.

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SATURDAY’S SEASON PREMIERE OF GOING UNDERGROUND:

-The aftermath of the US’ kidnapping of Venezuela’s🇻🇪 President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores

-Potentially looming regime change war on Iran🇮🇷

-NATO in crisis with Trump’s threats on Greenland

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"Here, I am not a Negro but a human being for the first time in my life…I walk in full human dignity."

-Paul Robeson on his visit to the Soviet Union in 1934. The legendary concert bass baritone, actor, and civil rights activist died on this day in 1976.

His journey to Marxist-Leninism started after his experience proved that the American Dream was a lie. He was a top student at Rutgers University, an All-American athlete, a Columbia educated lawyer, and a world famous singer and actor…

And yet he still faced racism and employment discrimination, with white law firms refusing to hire him.

His visit to the Soviet Union made him feel like a ‘full human being’ for the first time, experiencing equality that he had not experienced in the USA. The Spanish republic’s fight against Franco’s fascist armies solidified his support for the communists, who fought valiantly to stop the rise of fascism.

At home in the USA, he was persecuted in the McCarthyite hysteria, having his passport revoked, concerts cancelled, income cut off, and being under constant state surveillance.

Paul Robeson’s experience proved that America’s ‘freedom’ only applied if you stayed within the acceptable confines of debate, and did not challenge the system of elite power.

Paul Robeson, who passed away on this day in 1976, defending himself in the McCarthyite anti-communist witch hunt:

‘In Russia, for the first time I felt like a full human being. No colour prejudice like in Mississippi and Washington, where I did not feel the pressure of colour as I feel it in this committee today.’

HUAC: Why did you not stay in Russia?

Robeson: ‘Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I’m going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?’