Losing the Narrative War and Don’t Know What to Do? Blame Russia, China & the Outside Agitator!

On The Freedom Side LIVE, Wednesday, 5/22 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, Eugene and Rania are joined by special guests:

Lowkey - The Daily Telegraph published an article accusing Russia and China of boosting musician and journalist Lowkey’s social media accounts, and other ‘pro-Palestinian influencers’, as part of a secretive campaign to promote a "pro-Hamas" narrative in Britain. Lowkey explains how this is the US & Israel’s desperate attempt to regain control of the narrative after failing to convince the majority of the public in the West and globally to support Israel’s genocide.

Mike Africa Jr. - May 13 marked 39 years since the infamous MOVE bombing: when Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on the headquarters of the Black liberation group MOVE. To this day, no city official has ever been charged for the bombardment and raid that killed 11 MOVE members, including 5 kids, and left over 250 people homeless. Mike Africa Jr, the Legacy Director for the MOVE organization joins the show to reflect on the ongoing fight for justice for his family and community.

Liz Oliva Fernández - For over 60 years, the US has blocked resources like food, fuel, and medicine from entering Cuba, making it the world’s longest blockade in modern history. These illegal sanctions are the subject of two new documentaries, Hardliner on the Hudson and Uphill on the Hill. Liz Oliva Fernández, the co-creator of the films and a Cuban journalist with Belly of the Beast, joins Rania and Eugene to discuss the new documentaries and why Biden has embraced Trump’s Cold War-era policy toward Cuba.

Kevin Gosztola - A UK court granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange another opportunity to appeal his extradition to the US where he faces life in prison for publishing classified documents exposing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kevin Gosztola, the curator of TheDissenter.org newsletter & author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange breaks down what is next for Assange and what the UK court’s decision means for press freedom, whistleblowers and more.

Phakamile Hlubi-Majola - Amid worsening conditions of poverty and unemployment, South Africans will head to the polls next week for the national elections. For the first time in 30 years, the African National Congress (ANC), the party that has been in power since the fall of the apartheid regime in 1994, is at risk of losing its majority. Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, the national spokesperson for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), discusses the persisting inequities in the country and what is at stake in this election.

Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi - Pro-Israel groups have teamed up with university administrators and politicians to violently repress and retaliate against students and faculty participating in campus protests for Palestine. But this was only possible from decades of the pro-Israel lobby exerting its influence across the US political establishment, argues Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, the founding Director and Senior scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies Program at San Francisco State University and head of the oral history project Teaching Palestine. Abdulhadi joins Rania and Eugene to discuss.

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