https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/4d848762-25b3-4218-93c0-2f46f6c4dc04 On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 2/08 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, Eugene and Rania are joined by special guests: Layan Sima Fuleihan - As Israel’s genocide enters its 5th month, over 28,000 Palestinians, including 10,000 children, have been killed and almost 70,000 people have been injured by Israel’s relentless bombardment. Recent diplomatic efforts by the US, Egypt, and Qatar have yielded a proposal that falls short of securing a permanent ceasefire, offering only a temporary humanitarian pause instead. Hamas submitted a counter-proposal, which Israel rejected. Layan Sima Fuleihan, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, an editor at 1804 Books, and a lead organizer with the Shut It Down For Palestine coalition, discusses the viability of the proposals on the table and what implications they have for the people of Palestine. Dr. Jemima Pierre - Haitians nationwide are rallying for the ousting of unelected Prime Minister Ariel Henry, with hundreds of demonstrators flooding the streets. The unrest follows Henry's call for foreign intervention in October 2022, which sparked repeated waves of protests. Heightened by a deepening humanitarian crisis under his leadership and Kenyan President Ruto’s pledge to send Kenyan police to Haiti, demands for Henry's resignation have intensified. Dr. Jemima Pierre, Professor of Global Race in the Institute of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia and a member of Black Alliance for Peace, discusses the ongoing struggle for a free and sovereign Haiti. Dr. Gerald Horne- On Sunday, more than a dozen Republican governors gathered in a public park that's become the center of a standoff between Texas and the federal government over the control of the US-Mexico border. The far right is framing the standoff as a “states’ rights” issue and reignited the national conversation around Texas seceding from the United States. Dr. Gerald Horne, a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and the author of many books, including “The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of US Fascism” joins the show to discuss the historic roots of today’s crisis at the Texas border. Booker Ngesa Omole- Despite the prohibition by Kenya’s High Court, President William Ruto has vowed to deploy policemen to Haiti. The ruling dealt a setback to the planned US-sponsored intervention in Haiti, to which Kenya is to give an African face by deploying a thousand police personnel to lead the mission. Booker Ngesa Omole, the National Organizing Secretary of the Communist Party of Kenya (CPK), explains how Kenya is playing second-fiddle to US interests as President Ruto continues to sell the country’s foreign policy to the highest bidder. Amanda Yee - Lawmakers grilled Big Tech executives last week in a congressional hearing that was supposed to be focused on the issue of child safety, but was instead, predictably, used as the latest front in the New Cold War against China. CEO of TikTok Shou Zi Chew once again faced ignorant and McCarthyite questions, including from Senator Tom Cotton who asked Chew, who is Singaporean, if he had ever been ‘a member of the Chinese Communist Party. ’Amanda Yee, a journalist and the Managing Editor of Liberation News, discusses how the hearing fits into the escalating US war drive against China. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:18:05 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/4d848762-25b3-4218-93c0-2f46f6c4dc04 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.