🇺🇸 US President Donald Trump:

‘All U.S. ships, aircraft, and military personnel, with additional ammunition, weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded enemy, will remain in place in and around Iran until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with. If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the ‘shootin’ starts,’ bigger, better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before.’

President of the United States spinning failure in real time. Every 12 hours, the line changes — threats, backtracking, then suddenly “peace”.

The US has lost the war and the trust of its citizens as a world leader and military power.

This is what a declining hegemon looks like — loud, erratic, and out of control.

The pattern is tired: escalate, miss every objective, then shout “victory” anyway.

This was a reckless war that achieved nothing it set out to do — just damage, costs, and a dented credibility that won’t recover easily.

And yet, he will still sell it as a win. At this point, only a joker would trust him.

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the farce of Western countries telling Congo to ‘just govern properly’:

‘The Kingdom of Belgium created a slave colony in Congo for 30 years. The government of Belgium ran the slave colony for another 40 years. The CIA assassinated Congo’s first popular leader Patrice Lumumba, and then installed another dictatorship for the next 30 years.

And then Glencore and others now suck out your cobalt without giving Congo tax income. We don’t reflect on that. We say what’s wrong with you? Why don’t you govern properly?’

THROWBACK, Vladimir Putin in 2023:

"Russia🇷🇺 remembers and cherishes the memory of Africa’s outstanding sons...we must never forget them. I will name Patrice Lumumba, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Ben Bella, Omar al-Mukhtar, Kwame Nkrumah, Samora Machel, Leopold Senghor, Kenneth Kaunda and Julius Nyerere.

We also remember other African freedom fighters and national leaders of African countries. While relying on the principles of justice and equality, they staunchly promoted independent development for their nations, often sacrificing their lives."

THROWBACK, Vladimir Putin in 2023:

"Russia🇷🇺 remembers and cherishes the memory of Africa’s outstanding sons...we must never forget them. I will name Patrice Lumumba, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Ben Bella, Omar al-Mukhtar, Kwame Nkrumah, Samora Machel, Leopold Senghor, Kenneth Kaunda and Julius Nyerere.

We also remember other African freedom fighters and national leaders of African countries. While relying on the principles of justice and equality, they staunchly promoted independent development for their nations, often sacrificing their lives."

Washington’s European errand boy/NATO ‘Secretary General’ Mark Rutte:

"Over time you will see parts of our industry, maybe in the US but maybe sooner even in Europe, will move into more of a wartime mindset. Not to prepare for war, but to make sure that you are able to refill the stockpiles."

No money for the poor, but increasingly more money for the war and the military-industrial complex…

As European populations descend further into poverty and immiseration.

Israel’s Finance Minister Smotrich pledges that Israel will expand its borders to occupy more of Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria.

How is this any different from Hitler and Himmler screaming about ‘Lebensraum’ as they massacred their way through Europe?

It gets worse by the minute:

Washington’s errand boy in Europe Mark Rutte explains why he repeatedly refers to Donald Trump as ‘daddy’.

Europe’s endless humiliation rituals at the hands of Washington continues…

And yet European leaders are still too unimaginative to realise that the US is an occupying power in Europe, with NATO as its tool of subjugating Europe.

For Washington, European obedience is non-negotiable, and any dissent is quashed through bullying and coercion.

🚨WAR ON IRAN: Israel has made itself EVEN MORE UNAPPEALING for Gulf States to be associated with

‘Does Israel think that attacking Iran and spoiling that rapprochement process that we were having with Iran makes us see it in a positive light? With this Greater Israel rhetoric, expansionism, and religious discourse?

I think it’s becoming more unappetising and more unappealing for people to be associated now, or associating with this kind of Israel.

Israel thinks they’re taking a step forward, but actually in the region they’re taking 13-14 steps backwards.’

-Dr. Abdulaziz Alghashian, Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Gulf International Forum on Going Underground

Why Dubai🇦🇪 WON’T collapse after Iran war despite Western media headlines

‘This story has been played out several times at least in my lifetime. I remember from the Gulf War, to the collapse in 2008 of the financial market, to the 2014 collapse of the oil prices. It’s been repeated again and again and again.

And Dubai has been quite resilient in terms of its ability to stand up and bounce back again. And I think this has less to do with how people perceive Dubai and more of the people who are in Dubai.

We have over 200 nationalities here. Everyone is trying to make a life for him or herself, help creating an opportunity for him or herself. And I think that in itself is the driving force that causes the energy for people to want to come here and to make something work for them.

That, I think, is the magic of Dubai more than anything else.’

-One of the UAE’s🇦🇪 most prominent businessmen Mishal Kanoo, Chairman of the Kanoo Group, and one of Gulf Business’s Top 100 Powerful Arabs 2025.

He joins us on Saturday’s Going Underground to discuss the impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran on Dubai, future relations with Iran, the US’ Gulf bases, and much more.

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🚨SATURDAY’S GOING UNDERGROUND: WAR ON IRAN FALLOUT

What has been the impact on the working classes of GCC countries?

If the US’ bases in the Gulf are a target for Iran, should the US’ presence be removed?

What will relations between the UAE and Iran look like after this war?

We speak to Mishal Kanoo, one of the UAE’s most influential businessmen and Gulf Business’s Top 100 Powerful Arabs of 2025

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Party Chair of Taiwan’s Kuomintang Cheng Li-wun meets with the President of China🇨🇳 Xi Jinping.

The Kuomintang is the party that has historically ruled the Taiwan province, and despite opposing the Communist Party of China, firmly believes in the ‘One China’ principle.

A huge setback for those in Washington that seek to use Taiwan as a proxy for a ‘Ukraine scenario’ in East Asia.

After seeing how the US treats its proxies, using them for destruction and then casting them aside, millions in Taiwan increasingly want no part in Washington’s dangerous games for their coming war on China.

Chair of Taiwan’s Kuomintang Cheng Li-wun with President Xi Jinping🇨🇳:

‘We cannot allow Taiwan and the Strait of Taiwan to become a BATTLEFIELD.’

An outright rejection of Washington’s plan to use Taiwan as a battleground to attack the People’s Republic of China.

After seeing the disaster in Ukraine, where Washington led Kiev down the path of destruction, the historically most dominant political party in Taiwan stands firmly with the Communist Party, despite their differences.

‘No one wants to see Taiwan’s next generation SENT TO THE BATTLEFIELD.’

-Chair of Taiwan’s Kuomintang Cheng Li-wun with President Xi Jinping🇨🇳

The correct lessons have been learned in Taiwan from Ukraine, where millions of Ukrainians were sent to their deaths in Washington’s attempt to use Ukraine as a battering ram to bring down Russia🇷🇺.

Washington will seek to pit brother against brother, and destroy the lives of millions, to preserve its own hegemony.

If Washington’s plan comes into fruition, millions of Chinese in the mainland and in Taiwan will be killed, simply for Washington to maintain its dominance.

The Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, despite being historical rivals with differing visions for China, unite against Washington’s ambitions.

ISRAEL & TAIWAN: Part of the Operation Gladio ‘strategy of tension’ to CONTROL the most resource-rich areas on Earth

‘Israel is, in my opinion, a strategy of tension concept. It controls the Middle East for these same people.

We set up Chiang Kai-Shek after World War II in Taiwan. It was actually called Formosa. He was the world’s largest drug lord. He controlled over 80% of the opium trade in Asia. So that’s how we’re going to fund it.

He had his own OSS detachment during the war. Paul Helliwell. Paul Helliwell goes on to form Castle Bank. He becomes part of the CIA. He’s the guy that bought all the property for Disney in Central Florida using front companies. So you see these same characters throughout this entire historical research of them kind of pulling all the puppet strings.

Taiwan is a pivotal friction point, a strategy of tension in Asia. Israel is a strategy of tension focal point in the Middle East. Those are two of the most resource-rich areas in the world. We have Colombia, which was designated as that central point in South America and Central America. And you find the same players every single time.

So most of your audience may not know, but Israel and the UK, MI6 was integral in setting up Colombia as part of the Crystal Triangle. They were all involved in setting up the opium trade in Asia and the City of London is responsible for setting up Israel. So again, you see this geographical map of: I can control all of the oil in the Middle East by setting up Israel.’

-Colonel Towner-Watkins on the evolution of Operation Gladio on Going Underground

On this day in 1919, Emiliano Zapata the legendary revolutionary leader of Mexico’s🇲🇽 agrarian revolution was assassinated by the US-backed Mexican Army.

Born to mestizo farmers in Morelos, Zapata rose as commander of the Ejército Libertador del Sur. He fought for Tierra y Libertad (land and freedom).

His Plan de Ayala (1911) agenda was to seize the estates owned by the wealthy, return the stolen lands to the Indigenous and peasant communities who worked them, and smash the feudal system that kept millions in serfdom.

Through guerrilla warfare tactics, he liberated swathes of southern Mexico, created agrarian commissions, set up rural credit banks, and turned the sugar plantations into cooperatives. Emiliano Zapata showed what a people’s army defending the land and peasants could achieve.

But the bourgeois “revolution” under Venustiano Carranza, the faction the US government recognised, supported, and armed to protect American oil interests and investments, could not tolerate genuine land reform.

On April 10th, 1919, Carranza’s forces lured Zapata into an ambush at Chinameca. Colonel Jesús Guajardo’s troops, part of the US-backed Mexican Army, fired his bullets and killed Zapata. His body was photographed like a trophy to prove the radical peasant threat had been liquidated.

This was classic imperialist counter-revolution. The same US-backed ruling class that propped up Carranza to stabilise Mexico for capital feared Zapata’s example would spread: that peasants seizing the means of production might inspire the international proletariat.

As shown by history, the bourgeoisie will always betray the revolution the moment the property question is posed, and the moment the working classes and peasant demand ownership of land and capital. When the oppressed demanded the land in Mexico, the liberal “revolutionaries” called in the army, Washington supplied the guns, the recognition, and the ideological cover, to protect US corporate interests.

Without proletarian leadership and international solidarity, the peasants’ struggle is drowned in blood so that capital can keep extracting.

Zapatismo still endures in Mexico today. The cry “Tierra y Libertad” still echoes all over Latin America, where landless peasants locked into poverty fight back against wealthy landlords, backed by international capital.

Video: The portrayal of the assassination of Emiliano Zapata in the legendary film Viva Zapata! (1952). Zapata was portrayed by legendary actor Marlon Brando.

🚨NEW EPISODE OF GOING UNDERGROUND⚡️

UAE’s🇦🇪 Mishal Kanoo on Relations With Iran, US’s Gulf Bases, Iran’s Control of the Strait of Hormuz

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UAE’s🇦🇪 Mishal Kanoo: We want all of our neighbours, including IRAN, to PROSPER, reduces chances of hostility

“We live in a neighbourhood where there are people of different nationalities and different cultures. I can’t choose my neighbours, I can’t tell my neighbours to shoo and go away, and they can’t tell me to shoo and go away. So I have to live with whoever my neighbours are and however they treat us.

So, for example, for the UAE, specifically for Dubai, it is walking a very tight rope. We want to make sure that everybody knows that he or she is welcome here. He or she can come and do things over here and can make a life, a prosperous life for themselves here. We’re not here necessarily to take away from our neighbours.

In fact, one of the things that Dubai wants to see, and I can see that from interacting with different business people and leadership here, is a desire to see our neighbours also prosper. Because if you have a beautiful mansion and your neighbour has a horrible house, it is normal for them to get angry and jealous. They will ask why you have a wonderful mansion and they don’t, and they may start casting stones and hurting you whenever you go out.

However, if they have a mansion of their own, it doesn’t have to be the same as yours, it doesn’t have to be as large or as grand. In fact, if they have a bigger mansion, even better, because then they will leave you alone.

So we want all our neighbours to have their own mansion, their own idea of what that mansion is. When everyone prospers and everyone benefits, there is less likely to be conflict, envy, and aggression towards one another.”

-One of the UAE’s🇦🇪 most prominent businessmen Mishal Kanoo, Chairman of the Kanoo Group, and one of Gulf Business’s Top 100 Powerful Arabs 2025.

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US🇺🇸 Vice President J.D. Vance arrives in Islamabad, Pakistan🇵🇰 for negotiations with Iran:

Iran reportedly requested for J.D. Vance to lead the negotiations, since they know he was privately opposed to the war on Iran…

After the mediocrity, betrayal, and failure of the two real estate billionaires Witkoff & Kushner, who not only provided cover for the bombing of Iran through fake negotiations…

But also according to reports could not even understand the technical details of the major concessions Iran gave on its nuclear program before Trump and Netanyahu started the war on Iran in February.

It remains to be seen whether J.D. Vance can negotiate in good faith, and whether trusting Vance will be a breakthrough for peace or a fatal mistake for Iran.

UAE’s🇦🇪 Mishal Kanoo: We DON’T RETALIATE against Iran because we don’t want the Iranian people to remember us as an ATTACKER!

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v78b7oc-uaes-mishal-kanoo-on-relations-with-iran-uss-gulf-bases-irans-control-of-th.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

In 1988, the US warship USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 665 with two surface to air missiles, killing all 290 passengers on board.

The US refused to issue an official apology or acknowledged wrongdoing, and official investigations were treated as an afterthought…

Just in case you thought that the regime change campaign against Iran is because Washington cares about the lives and wellbeing of the Iranian people, instead of an attempt to bring Iran’s vast natural resources under its control.