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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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Zelensky says he doesn’t want to be involved in the US-Russia diesel deal, as Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery in Ryazan, ending the energy ceasefire. Zelensky should read a history book on what happened to US proxy leaders like Manuel Noriega, Ngô…
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Russia’s🇷🇺 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Zelensky’s outrage against the US-Russia diesel deal:

'Zelensky thinks the whole world owes him, and he doesn't owe anything in return.’

Zelensky’s regime is frightened of any reapproachment between the US & Russia because ultimately, if Zelensky doesn’t have support from the US, his regime is over…

Along with the gravy train of hundreds of billions of dollars which is being siphoned by Zelensky’s inner circle and Ukrainian oligarchs.

Zelensky is happy to maintain a forever war in which more territory is lost, many more thousands of Ukrainians die, so long as he remains in power and his allies continue their corrupt profiteering.
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ICYMI: This year Burkina Faso’s🇧🇫 Captain Ibrahim Traore’s government BANNED beauty pageants in the country.

Instead, Traore’s government launched the HAKILI Mousso competition in August; a national women’s science competition to compete in maths, physics, and chemistry.

Ibrahim Traore revives and continues the legacy of Thomas Sankara’s revolution to empower women in Burkina Faso’s society.
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On this day in 1987, Burkina Faso’s🇧🇫 Marxist revolutionary Thomas Sankara was killed in a coup backed by NATO intelligence services. Here are his achievements in his short 4 years in power.

•Vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.

•Initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.

•Planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification

• Built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid

•Appointed women to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.

•Outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of women’s rights

•Redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.

Increased education spending: Government education expenditure rose by 42% between 1983 and 1987.

Increased healthcare spending: Public health expenditure rose by 27% between 1983 and 1987, according to research by economist Emmanuel Harsch and other scholars.

Expanded rural healthcare: By January 1986, more than 7,460 primary health posts had reportedly been established across Burkina Faso, approximately one per village.

Expanded access to drinking water: The revolutionary government constructed 600 wells and 1,100 boreholes in 1986, alongside investment in small dams and irrigation.

Accelerated road construction: Burkina Faso reportedly built an average of 106 km of paved roads annually, compared with an average of 59 km annually during the preceding 23 years, an increase of approximately 80%.

Increased cereal production: Annual cereal production rose from approximately 1.12 million tonnes in 1983 to 1.64 million tonnes in 1987, an increase of roughly 46%.

He was assassinated in a coup led by Blaise Compaoré, a man who Sankara considered a brother before their relationship deteriorated.

Compaoré betrayed the revolution, and reversed the country’s revolutionary direction, putting the chains of foreign neocolonial dependence back on Burkina Faso.

With the arrival of Captain Ibrahim Traore to power, Burkina Faso once again has changed course back onto the revolutionary path.
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On this day in 1987, Burkina Faso’s🇧🇫 Marxist revolutionary Thomas Sankara was killed in a coup backed by NATO intelligence services. Here are his achievements in his short 4 years in power. •Vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever…
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Burkina Faso’s🇧🇫 Thomas Sankara was assassinated on this day in 1987, 3 months after calling on African countries to not pay back debt to European countries and institutions such as the IMF and World Bank:

‘I would like this conference to clearly declare that we cannot pay this debt…just to avoid being assassinated individually. If Burkina Faso is the only one to refuse, I won’t be at the next conference.’
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Donald Trump SLAMS Zelensky:

‘Zelensky is not a good guy for us to deal with. If they're going to end up with a settlement of some kind, they're not going to do it with him.’

Less harsh words have been used in the past against leaders who would fall victim to a US-backed coup.
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‘Trump’s alignment with Putin is out of fear of China🇨🇳 and an attempt to create a new US🇺🇸-Russia🇷🇺 axis.’

—John Perkins, Former Economic Hit Man

He joins us for Saturday’s episode of Going Underground.

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‘The war on Iran could be Donald Trump’s downfall. It’s emblematic of an enormous STRATEGIC FAILURE, Iran has TREMENDOUS leverage.’

—John Perkins, Former Economic Hit Man

‘The war on Iran, I think, is emblematic of a terrible strategic failure on the part of Trump.

I was very involved in building the military bases along the Strait of Hormuz in Iran under the Shah.

The Shah’s petrodollars paid American corporations to go in and build these vast military bases in Bandar Abbas and elsewhere along the Strait of Hormuz…

We knew at that time, and for the next 50 years, the CIA, the Pentagon, presumably the White House, has known that whoever controls the Strait of Hormuz, controls global oil to a very large degree, and therefore global economies to a very large degree.

And it’s pretty obvious that when the Iranians took ownership of those military bases that we built so that America could control the Strait of Hormuz, when Iran has control of those and you go out and take out the Supreme Leader, why would you not realise that Iran is going to use the leverage that it has?

And it’s a mystery to me that this country made such an incredible strategic mistake. The only answer I can come up with, and I’m asked this a lot, is Trump was on a high, an adrenaline rush after his success in Venezuela.

And so he thought, “Well, I can do the same thing in Iran.”

What he didn’t take into account was that Venezuela didn’t have leverage. It doesn’t control the oil flow through the Caribbean, or the Panama Canal, or anything.

Iran has tremendous leverage by having that control over the Strait of Hormuz, control that we gave them by building those military bases for Iran.

So it’s a really deep strategic mistake, and it may be Trump’s downfall ultimately, because this war with Iran is certainly not popular in the US, and what’s going on throughout the entire world, including where you’re located, is having a huge impact.’

Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v7gxuzu-iran-war-could-be-trumps-downfall-an-enormous-strategic-mistake-ex-economic.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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‘The war on Iran could be Donald Trump’s downfall. It’s emblematic of an enormous STRATEGIC FAILURE, Iran has TREMENDOUS leverage.’ —John Perkins, Former Economic Hit Man ‘The war on Iran, I think, is emblematic of a terrible strategic failure on the part…
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Prof. Hasan Ünal on Going Underground:

‘Iran has not only won the war, it is a STRATEGIC DEFEAT on the part of Israel and particularly the United States. Iran’s victory has contributed to the transforming of the world order.’

231 days into Trump’s war on Iran, the state of Washington’s power and position in the world is in utter shambles.

Once again, the most powerful, bloated, and expensive military in the world fails to defeat Iran a much smaller power, after embarrassing defeats in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam.

The US’ power projection in the Middle East has been greatly diminished, with many of its bases destroyed and turned into rubble, and Generals in Washington knowing that if they are rebuilt, Iran can target them just as easily again.

The global majority views the US as a dangerous rogue state that has pushed the global economy, let alone its own economy, to the breaking point with spiralling energy and fertiliser prices. Anti-American sentiment continues to rise in every house, and on every street, as families struggle with spiralling inflation.

Iran now has de facto control over the Strait of Hormuz and has proven it doesn’t need aircraft carriers or an expensive navy to use it as leverage, with Washington being powerless to stop its attacks on shipping.

A war that was promised to take a few weeks has ended up being a disastrous neocon quagmire, and an embarrassing defeat for the United States.
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‘Donald Trump’s war on Iran has given Iran a lot MORE POWER than it had before, all of this plays into the hands of China🇨🇳.’

—John Perkins, Former Economic Hit Man

‘If you were looking at this in any sort of a rational way, and I'm not sure that Trump does look at things in a rational way, but if you were, you would see that the ultimate consequences of the attack on Iran are incredibly detrimental to the United States and to the global economy.

It gives Iran a lot more power than it had before all of this happened. And I'd also point out that all of this plays into the hands of China.

If you're Xi Jinping, you're sitting back there with a big grin on your face, like, "Oh, keep it up, Mr. President of the United States. Keep doing these dumb things, because China is staying out of the fray."’

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Ex-Economic Hit Man John Perkins:

‘Colonial powers like Europe in the Middle East & Africa…Spain, Portugal, and the US in Latin America, have always known that the way to keep power is to divide people, DIVIDE & CONQUER, because united, people have power. Divided, it dissipates.’

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Ex-Economic Hit Man John Perkins: ‘Colonial powers like Europe in the Middle East & Africa…Spain, Portugal, and the US in Latin America, have always known that the way to keep power is to divide people, DIVIDE & CONQUER, because united, people have power.…
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How the US🇺🇸 uses the World Bank, IMF, and regime change to enslave developing nations through debt and economic servitude, while robbing them of their resources.

If a nation doesn’t comply, the US uses military force or covert CIA operations to bring vassals to power.
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Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins:

‘The United States has been headed toward this OLIGARCHY and very IMPERIALISTIC state of being for a long time under both Democrats and Republicans.

But Trump has really highlighted this. He’s brought it out into the open. We’ve never had a President that so openly was corrupt, and so openly was striking deals that are not good for this country.

And so I wanted to use this time of the Trump Presidency as a time to point out that this economic hitman strategy that I helped to develop back in the 70s has now just gone crazy, if you want to call it that, and taken the United States into a position that I could never, never have imagined we would reach.

The United States is, it’s a mystery to everyone, but it’s also a laughing stock. It’s just, it’s a real shame. I’m ashamed to be an American today, quite frankly. It’s just a real shame. I’m ashamed to be an American today, quite frankly.’

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Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins: ‘The United States has been headed toward this OLIGARCHY and very IMPERIALISTIC state of being for a long time under both Democrats and Republicans. But Trump has really highlighted this. He’s brought it out into the…
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The late, great John Pilger: ‘Trump is a caricature of the US system…he strips away the mask from a rapacious, rogue state.’

Countries that have been subjected to US military attacks, CIA coups and clandestine operations since WWII:

🇮🇷 Iran
🇨🇳 China
🇬🇷 Greece
🇮🇹 Italy
🇵🇭 Philippines
🇰🇵 Korea
🇻🇳 Vietnam
🇬🇹 Guatemala
🇱🇧 Lebanon
🇭🇹 Haiti
🇨🇩 Congo
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇱🇦 Laos
🇪🇨 Ecuador
🇵🇦 Panama
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇮🇩 Indonesia
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
🇬🇭 Ghana
🇰🇭 Cambodia
🇴🇲 Oman
🇨🇱 Chile
🇦🇴 Angola
🇱🇾 Libya
🇸🇻 El Salvador
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇬🇩 Grenada
🇭🇳 Honduras
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇱🇷 Liberia
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇸🇴 Somalia
Yugoslavia
🇧🇦 Bosnia
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇲🇰 Macedonia
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇺🇦 Ukraine
🇵🇸 Palestine
🇾🇪 Yemen
🇸🇾 Syria
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇹🇷 Türkiye
🇦🇺 Australia
🇵🇪 Peru​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

*note: this is not a complete list
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Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins:

‘It certainly looks as though Iran gets
STRONGER and stronger, the US🇺🇸 gets weaker and WEAKER, and it’s not just those military bases.

One of the things that comes out of the Trump administration is a future where people will not take the United States nearly as seriously as they have in the past, and certainly won’t trust us…

We’ve proven that one President can negate very important deals that were made by previous administrations, and sometimes even by his own at a previous time.

So in that process, what does the United States look like? A country that just can’t strike deals and keep them.’

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Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins on the US’ war on Iran:

‘China’s🇨🇳 Xi Jinping has been playing his cards very close to the vest…

He’s sitting on the sidelines. He’s letting the USA🇺🇸 make HUGE MISTAKES. And meanwhile, he’s riding on the wave of it.’

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Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins on the US’ war on Iran: ‘China’s🇨🇳 Xi Jinping has been playing his cards very close to the vest… He’s sitting on the sidelines. He’s letting the USA🇺🇸 make HUGE MISTAKES. And meanwhile, he’s riding on the wave of it.’…
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:

"How many wars has China🇨🇳 been in, in the last 40 years? Let me count them. That would be zero. Not one war in 40 years.”

While the US spends its trillions bombing poor people in the global south, China invests its trillions on improving the lives of its citizens, and building economic partnerships with the rest of the world.
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Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins:

‘Trump has given us a GIFT, and that he’s brought the economic hitman strategy out into the open. The things that I did in secret and on a much smaller scale, he’s now doing totally publicly, and on a very, very large scale.

And the country is going along with him to a large degree. And by the country, I don’t necessarily mean the people, but the politicians, certainly the Republicans are going along with him.

The corporate executives are going along with him. The universities, everybody has given in to him.
He’s used, I talk about the four pillars of the economic hitman strategy, and he’s used them all brilliantly.

But fear is perhaps the one he’s used most brilliantly of all. People are scared of this man, and you can understand why they’re scared of him.’

Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v7gxuzu-iran-war-could-be-trumps-downfall-an-enormous-strategic-mistake-ex-economic.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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