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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former US ambassador to the UN and national security adviser to Donald Trump (2018-2019), John Bolton. He discusses Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, arguing that the US and EU need to further sanction Moscow to cripple its oil and gas industry, and that Biden has done ‘too little too late’ to deter Vladimir Putin and arm the Ukrainian military. He also predicts whether Putin will seek to occupy all of Ukraine, and discusses rising tensions with China over the growing anticipation that it will seek to reunify with Taiwan by unleashing a military assault.

More than a century ago, the German historian Carl Hempel pronounced that history doesn’t recognize any “ifs”, even though he himself was obsessed with finding the general laws of the historic process. The conflict in and over Ukraine came as a huge shock to most of us, but, given the imperatives and impediments of the sides involved, was it really such a big surprise? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council.

We live in chaotic times and it is easy to get stressed. So how do we get to a place of ‘zen’ where we feel at peace when it seems everything else is crumbling around us? Is meditation the answer for us all? Meditation Teacher Susan Piver joins William Shatner on this week's episode of "I Don't Understand" to meditation and its benefits.

On this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss ‘the 14 Families and the 12 Banks’ which control the distribution of wealth, and how bitcoin could fix this. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Dr. Felix Ulloa, the vice president of El Salvador. They discuss the horrible year of 1980, in which many assassinations happened in the country, including that of Dr. Ulloa’s father.

On the show, Chris Hedges discusses J. Robert Oppenheimer and the making of the bomb with author Kai Bird. J. Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb,” was by the end of World War II one of the most celebrated men in America. He was instrumental, as one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists, in the massive government effort to build the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But in the post-war anti-communist hysteria he was declared a security risk because of his warnings about the use of atomic weapons and his opposition to the development of the hydrogen bomb as well as the Air Force’s plans for massive strategic bombing with nuclear weapons – plans he condemned as genocidal. He was hauled before Red-baiting congressional investigative committees, the FBI tapped his home and office phones and put him under surveillance. Scurrilous stories about his political past were planted in the press and he was put on trial, becoming America’s most prominent victim of the post-war anti-communist witch hunts. Oppenheimer was a central figure in the greatest struggles and triumphs faced by the United States in war, science, social justice, and ultimately the Cold War. He oversaw the development of the most devastating weapon in human history and then spent the rest of his life warning that this weapon of indiscriminate terror did not make us safer but more vulnerable. The only effective defense against the nuclear nightmare, he said, was the elimination of nuclear weapons. For this warning he was ruthlessly silenced. “We have had the bomb on our minds since 1945,” E.L. Doctorow observed. “It was first our weaponry and then our diplomacy, and now it’s our economy. How can we suppose that something so monstrously powerful would not, after forty years, compose our identity?” The great golem we have made against our enemies is our culture – its logic, its faith, its vision.” Kai Bird, along with Martin J. Sherwin, wrote the Pulitzer-prize winning biography ‘American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer’.