If Alexander the Great couldn’t conquer Afghan, Trump would surely fail – George Galloway

‘There’s outrage in America at America’s war on Afghanistan not outrage, you understand at the loss of blood and treasure that it has cost – outrage at Donald Trump secretly meeting a Taliban representative at Camp David to try and bring it to a close’ – George Galloway on Afghanistan tensions See Also: (Russia Today) – Netanyahu threatening war to gain votes, his era may be over – Palestinian UN ambassador

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad H. Mansour about Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest threat to illegally annex parts of the West Bank and his threat to start a war in Gaza. Mansour looks at the motivations for these escalations, attributing them to Netanyahu’s election campaign and blames the US for allowing this further shift in Israeli policy. Next we speak to David Devin, the lawyer for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged “principle architect of the 9/11 attacks,” on the likelihood of Mohammed’s prosecution after years of CIA torture and human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay, arguing that US practices may have made his prosecution more difficult. Also: (Russia Today) – Big bad Iran: Bibi is at it again!

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that Tel Aviv identified a number of nuclear-weapons sites in Iran…that were then dismantled by Tehran. It comes a week ahead of elections, in which Netanyahu is fighting for political survival.

Iran has rejected his latest allegation – saying that, quote, “the real possessor of nukes is crying wolf.” Also: (Russia Today) – Justifying its $600bn budget? Pentagon’s DARPA to fight ‘disinformation’ with AI

Pentagon’s secret research arm ‘DARPA’ became the forefront of AI technological revolution and it is working on a program that can distinguish between fake news and real news.