Israel Escalates Terror Campaign: How Will Lebanon and Iran Respond?

On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 9/19 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, Eugene and Rania are joined by special guests: Elijah Magnier- Israel weaponized civilian communication devices, turning them into deadly explosives and killing at least 12 people while maiming thousands in a series of terrorist attacks in Lebanon this week. Veteran war correspondent Elijah Magnier exposes Israel’s ongoing war crimes, carried out with full US support, as it recklessly pushes for a war with Lebanon—one it cannot win. Abubaker Abed - Palestinian journalist and commentator in Gaza, Abubaker Abed, joins hosts Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear to share the situation in the central city of Deir al-Balah amid the ongoing US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. David Hundeyin - Days after US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced sanctions against Russian state broadcaster RT and other non-western-aligned media platforms, Meta banned the accounts of African Stream, a Pan-African digital media organization. Nigerian Investigative journalist and author David Hundeyin, explains how Meta’s ban on Africa Stream is the latest in the US government’s offensive against media that challenge US corporate media narratives. Zoe Alexandra - After Honduran President Xiomara Castro denounced a planned coup d’état against her, tens of thousands of Hondurans took to the streets to express their support for the leftist President. Zoe Alexandra, co-editor of Peoples Dispatch, discusses how the Honduran people are rising up against the efforts by the US and right-wing to undermine the country’s progressive government. Salma Hamamy- Michigan State Attorney General has charged eleven pro-Palestine protesters for participating in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Michigan State University. Salma Hamamy, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan where she served as the President of the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, discusses the state’s concerted effort to stifle the student movement for Palestine. #breakthroughnews