{"podcast":{"title":"Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi","slug":"going-underground-hosted-by-afshin-rattansi-6331572","podcast_index_feed_id":6331572,"rss_url":"https://feeds.castos.com/k4rk5","website_url":"https://goingunderground.castos.com","image_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/644258b7650582-10405540/images/podcast/covers/c1a-o9ngg-1p7x7v6vs6j1-xzcvxr.jpg","author":"Going Underground","episode_count":100,"summary":"We ask the questions mainstream media avoid. Current affairs and geopolitics. Produced independently from Dubai, UAE. Hosted by award-winning journalist Afshin Rattansi. https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T10:21:28.590950+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/going-underground-hosted-by-afshin-rattansi-6331572"},"episode":{"title":"US Losing the War on Iran Shows the US Empire is in DECLINE- Lt. Col. William J. Astore","slug":"us-losing-the-war-on-iran-shows-the-us-empire-is-in-decline-lt-col-william-j-astore","published_at":"2026-04-19T00:27:06+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/going-underground-hosted-by-afshin-rattansi-6331572/us-losing-the-war-on-iran-shows-the-us-empire-is-in-decline-lt-col-william-j-astore","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/going-underground-hosted-by-afshin-rattansi-6331572","url":"https://goingunderground.castos.com/episodes/us-losing-the-war-on-iran-shows-the-us-empire-is-in-decline-lt-col-william-j-astore","audio_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/644258b7650582-10405540/2425147/c1e-rn188soo2o6snrk34-25879jdnhz21-ju1rul.m4a","summary":"On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William J. Astore, Author of ‘American Militarism on Steroids’. He discusses why he asesses that the US is losing its war on Iran, the ballooning US military budget for perpetual war and the decline of US empire, the decline of democracy in America as the US empire’s appetite only continues to grow, Pope Leo XIV’s stance against the war on Iran, why Israel and Netanyahu dragging the US into the war on Iran represents a threat to national security, mainstream media’s coverage of the Ukraine proxy war and Russia’s lack of trust of the US in negotiations, and much more.","meta_description":"On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William J. Astore, Author of ‘American Militarism on Steroids’.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1644,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/going-underground-hosted-by-afshin-rattansi-6331572/episodes/us-losing-the-war-on-iran-shows-the-us-empire-is-in-decline-lt-col-william-j-astore/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/going-underground-hosted-by-afshin-rattansi-6331572/us-losing-the-war-on-iran-shows-the-us-empire-is-in-decline-lt-col-william-j-astore.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}