More Countries Are Cutting Ties With Israel. Is Its Economy Doomed?

On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 6/13 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, Eugene and Rania are joined by special guests: Zoe Alexandra - Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced the country will be suspending its coal exports to Israel over the genocide in Gaza. Israel gets nearly half of its coal from Colombia, and Petro emphasized it will continue to pressure Israel’s economy “until the genocide stops.“ Zoe Alexandra, co-editor of Peoples Dispatch, joins the show to discuss how left-wing Latin American leaders cutting ties with Israel represents an era of unprecedented economic isolation for Israel. Nadège Abomangoli - The far-right made significant gains in last weekend’s European Parliament elections after millions of voters across all 27 European Union countries cast their ballots. This surge was especially notable in Italy, Germany, and France, leading French President Emmanuel Macron to call for a snap parliamentary election. However, France’s left-wing political party La France Insoumise bucked the trend, securing nearly 10% of the vote. Former member of the French Parliament, Nadège Abomangoli of La France Insoumise offers insight into the alarming rise of far-right, eurosceptic parties and its broader implications for Europe. Suchitra Vijayan - In a stunning upset, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to secure a majority in India’s national elections, forcing Modi to seek coalition partners to stay in power for the first time in a decade. Suchitra Vijayan, author of “Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India“ and founder of The Polis Project, explains how the results signal a growing rejection of the BJP’s far-right, Hindu nationalist politics. Nick Tilsen - Leonard Peltier, the longest-held Indigenous political prisoner in the U.S., had his first parole hearing in over a decade on Monday. Peltier, an activist who started organizing with the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, has spent nearly 50 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Nick Tilsen, president and CEO of NDN Collective, joins the show to discuss why the US government has continuously denied Peltier’s parole and the decades-long fight for his freedom. Naomi Harris- Waffle House workers have won a historic pay raise for 20,000 employees, in what the fast food giant has dubbed the “single largest additional investment in our workforce in the entire 68-year history” of the company. The announcement follows nearly a year of labor strikes at multiple Waffle House locations demanding better security, consistent scheduling, and fair pay. Naomi Harris, a Waffle House server from Columbia, SC, and co-founding member of the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) explains the significance of the labor victory in the South. Akilimali Chomachoma - The death toll continues to climb in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as fighting escalates between the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) and the M23 rebel group, a proxy force backed by Rwanda. The decades-long conflict has killed approximately six million people and displaced millions more. Akilimali Chomachoma, a journalist covering the Democratic Republic of Congo and Central Africa, membership officer in “Blogoma“ & volunteer media officer for several Ishango Encounters, explains the reality on the ground in the DR Congo. #breakthroughnews