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Exclusive: Reuters Journalist Who Resigned Over Gaza Speaks Out
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1:41:05Now PlayingOn The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 8/28 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear are joined by special guests:
Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink joins the show for an exclusive interview after publicly resigning from Reuters over its “betrayal of journalists in Gaza.” After Israel bombed Nasser Hospital and killed one of Reuters' own journalists in a double-tap strike, the outlet reported Israel’s false claim that the intended target was “Hamas cameras.” Valerie Zink tells BreakThrough News why she resigned over “Reuters role in justifying and enabling the killing of 245 journalists in Gaza,” including Anas Al-Sharif, and why she thinks other journalists have a responsibility to do the same.
Manolo De Los Santos, Co-Executive Director of The People’s Forum and a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, joins the show to discuss the Trump administration’s threats against Venezuela. The US deployed warships off the coast of Venezuela and placed a $50 million bounty on President Nicolás Maduro’s head, under the pretext of alleged drug trafficking charges. De Los Santos argues the “narco-state” accusations are baseless attempts to justify regime change and the plunder of Venezuela’s vast oil and mineral wealth.
Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear discuss Israel’s intensifying destruction of Gaza, as Israel prepares its invasion of Gaza City and its starvation of Palestinians has reached its most lethal stage yet. Lebanon-based host Rania Khalek responds to U.S. Envoy Tom Barrack’s racist rhetoric, calling Lebanese journalists “animalistic” and “uncivilized.”
Byron Sigcho Lopez, Alderperson for Chicago’s 25th ward, joins the show as Trump threatens to expand his militarized police-state crackdown from Washington, D.C., to Chicago. Lopez will discuss the racist politics driving Trump’s takeover and how Chicago residents and grassroots organizers are mobilizing to fight back.
Brian Goldstone, author of There Is No Place For Us: Working and Homeless in America, joins the show as the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass ruling and a Trump executive order fuel a nationwide crackdown on the homeless, while at the same time housing, health, and nutrition programs are slashed. Goldstone will explain how the criminalization of poverty is escalating, why millions are struggling to survive, and why punishing homelessness is not only cruel but completely counterproductive.
Jordan Flaherty, author of Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Hurricane Katrina to the Jena Six, joins the show on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Flaherty sheds light on one of the deadliest and costliest hurricanes in US history, the racist injustices and neglect affecting survivors to this day, and Trump’s FEMA budget, which has been condemned by more than 180 current and former staffers in the “Katrina Declaration,” and the imminent risk it poses to repeating the disastrous response of 2005.
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