Challenging the West’s Superiority Complex & Erasure of History, with Professor Joseph Massad
Mainstream media coverage of the war in Ukraine has sought to erase the U.S. and NATO role in setting the stage for the conflict, the Western history of attacking Russia, and Europe’s violent and racist past and present. Joseph Massad, Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University, joins Dispatches with Rania […]
How Ukraine War Affects the World Order & Global Power Balance: Vijay Prashad & Rania Khalek
The impacts of Russia’s war in Ukraine isn’t isolated to Europe. As the US and NATO pour weapons into a Ukrainian insurgency, the risk for confrontation between nuclear-armed power is rising. Does this mark the end of unipolarity and the beginning of a multipolar world? If so, what does that mean? How will support for […]
Ukraine War Exposes US Hypocrisy, Double Standards & Racism
It’s not for nothing that the US has been called the “United States of Amnesia.” The same leaders who invaded Iraq and killed a million people, who are starving Yemenis and Afghans, who label Palestinians “terrorists” for throwing rocks, and who took every opportunity to escalate rather than de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine since 2014, […]
How Russia’s War In Ukraine Is Playing Out Inside Russia, w/ Prof. Boris Kagarlitsky
After weeks of sky-high tension, ambiguity and threats, the Russian military crossed into Ukraine and the country’s eight year civil war became a war between two post-soviet armies. While the extent of Putin’s goals in the war are unclear, Western countries have been supplying the Ukrainian military with weapons, launched a brutal economic war on […]
What Do Cubans Think About Biden, the Blockade, the Revolution & U.S. Health Care Costs?
Rania Khalek asked Cubans on the streets of Havana if they see a difference between Biden and Trump, how the US blockade impacts them personally, what the revolution means to them, where they get their daily news, why they got vaccinated and their thoughts on healthcare and education costs in the US versus Cuba.
What Do Cubans Think About Biden, the Blockade, the Revolution & U.S. Health Care Costs?
Rania Khalek asked Cubans on the streets of Havana if they see a difference between Biden and Trump, how the US blockade impacts them personally, what the revolution means to them, where they get their daily news, why they got vaccinated and their thoughts on healthcare and education costs in the US versus Cuba.
Aleida Guevara, Daughter of Che, Internationalist Doctor: ‘I Do It Because I’m Cuban’
Rania Khalek sat down with Aleida Guevara, the daughter of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, in Havana, Cuba. They discussed Che’s legacy, his impact on her decision to become a doctor, her earliest memories about his personality in the home, how people treated her after his death, her time serving in Cuba’s revolutionary medical missions in Nicaragua, […]
A War on Civilians: Yemeni Suffering Intensifies Due to U.S., Saudi & Emirati Bombs and Blockade
Professor Shireen Al-Adeimi, Yemeni-born anti-war activist & Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, joined Eugene Puryear and Rania Khalek on The Freedom Side to discuss the ongoing Saudi and Emirate destruction of Yemen and the role of the US and UK in making it possible.