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

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

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.

Watch the 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

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.

🚨THE FATE OF US🇺🇸 BASES IN THE GCC AFTER THE WAR ON IRAN

Afshin Rattansi: Why host the US bases in the first place and make Dubai and Abu Dhabi a target? Is that not a question that is now going to be asked?

UAE’s🇦🇪 Mishal Kanoo: ‘I believe every sovereign country has a right to decide what it wants to do within its own territory…

At the end of the day, it’s a sovereign decision.

And whatever the ruler of the country decides is in the best interest of the country and its population, so be it.

If I was a ruler of a country and I had to choose, I can’t go to somebody, some other country, and tell them you can’t have that, and you can’t do this.’

-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.

Watch the 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

Qatar’s🇶🇦 Al Jazeera has released footage for the first time showing the level of destruction caused by Iranian missiles that targeted the Al Udeid Air Base

The vast majority of the US’ 8000-10,000 personnel in Qatar are usually based in Al Udeid.

The facility previously routinely hosted over 100+ aircraft from the US air Force.

🚨DOES IRAN HAVE A RIGHT TO CONTROL THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ?

Afshin Rattansi: ‘Ships have to pass through Iranian and Omani territory because the strait is only 21 miles.’

UAE’s🇦🇪 Mishal Kanoo: ‘I’ll accept that argument and take it to the next stage. Even if that’s the case, the last I checked, neither of the countries created the strait. That was made by God, through the natural movement of tectonic plates. Neither country created it, so neither country has a right to it.’

Afshin: ‘No, but under international maritime law you’re allowed 12 miles. You own up to 12 miles off the coast.’

Mishal Kanoo: ‘None of the countries on either side of the water created that. They happen to be there. So this is a natural passage, it shouldn’t be under anyone’s control in such a manner that they can use it as a gateway.

I’d like to say it’s unfair, but this has been a tradition where everyone has been utilising this for the longest time. It’s only now Iran is wanting to weaponise it, that Iran is making issues out of it. It didn’t benefit Iran before because we couldn’t enforce it, so Iran didn’t weaponise it before.’

-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.

Watch the 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

On this day in 2002, Hugo Chavez is overthrown in a coup backed by the George W. Bush Administration, bringing in a right-wing coup regime that rescinded many of the reforms Hugo Chavez introduced which benefitted millions of poor Venezuelans.

The coup regime would be short-lived, as loyalists in the Venezuelan military worked to return Chavez to power. Supporters of Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution surrounded the Presidential Palace in Miraflores and demanded his return. Chavez returned to power after just two days, triumphant in the latest episode of class war in Venezuela🇻🇪.

CIA asset Maria Corina Machado signed the 2002 order by one of the coup leaders Pedro Carmona to destroy Venezuelan democracy by dissolving the National Assembly, the Supreme Court, and the Bolivarian constitution which had been approved by a popular referendum in 1999 which expanded indigenous, economic and social rights.

‘The real cause of misery, poverty, and exclusion is capitalism. Christ’s mandate is impossible under capitalism.’

-Hugo Chavez

🚨WAR ON IRAN: UN, IMO, CANNOT BE SILENT on attack on Safesea Vishnu and other ships!

‘It was a well-calculated, calibrated attack on the Safesea Vishnu. It’s quite different than the attacks that has happened in the region that we have seen for the last couple of weeks. All those attacks had happened through drones, missiles, etc.

It was attacked in the territorial waters of Iraq, within the vicinity of the terminal. And what has surprised us about this attack, after doing the due diligence, is that one day before the attack, there was a speedboat that definitely took a couple of rounds, probably to map the attack. And it was attacked at a very vulnerable time, midnight. She was supposed to complete the operation in just the next couple of hours.

It was attacked using an unmanned vessel with explosives on board. The boat that was controlling this unmanned vessel was just miles away from our ships. So this attack definitely happened inside the territorial waters of Iraq.

Again, there are coast guards. They’re vigilant, definitely operating 24/7, especially during the time of war. We have not seen any sort of action or report thereafter from Iraqis about how they allowed this attack to happen inside their territory.

We have not seen that. So that’s one of the reasons we have requested international bodies, including the United Nations, the Guardian of the Maritime Industry, and the IMO, to come forward and do the investigation on this. They cannot be quiet.’

-S. V. Anchan, Chairman of the Safesea Group, which owns the Safesea Vishnu which was attacked by the IRGC

He joins us on Sunday’s episode of New Order. Don’t miss it, follow our Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/c/NewOrderTV?e9s=src_v1_cmd

🚨THE NEXT EPISODE OF NEW ORDER: The Strait of Hormuz and shipping crisis

We speak to S. V. Anchan, Chairman of the Safesea Group which owns the Safesea Vishnu, which was attacked by the IRGC.

We’ll focus on the shipping crisis dimension to the US-Israeli war on Iran, as the entire world is affected by skyrocketing cost of living, and looming political unrest stemming from the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.

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