On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 12/04 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear are joined by special guests: Greg Stoker, U.S. military veteran and host of Colonial Outcasts, joins the show to discuss the growing scandal over deadly U.S. strikes on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, including a September 2 attack that killed 11 and a follow-up strike on survivors that Trump’s own legal experts say could be a war crime. He will discuss “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth’s attempt at blame-shifting to Admiral Mitch Bradley, and how these extrajudicial killings reflect the export of War on Terror tactics to Latin America as Trump intensifies threats against Venezuela. Vijay Prashad, the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, joins the show to discuss Trump’s escalating attacks on Venezuela, U.S. meddling in Honduras, and the rise of an “angry tide” of far-right forces sweeping Latin America. He will discuss how these aggressive forces are armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, and why their resurgence reflects both Washington’s imperialist agenda and a crisis of strategy on the left. Obaidullah Baheer, PhD scholar at The New School and lecturer at the American University of Afghanistan, joins the show from Kabul to discuss the alleged involvement of a former member of the CIA-backed “Zero Units” in the shooting of two National Guardsmen outside the White House, tracing these units’ origins in the War on Terror and their brutal legacy across Afghanistan. He will discuss the lack of accountability for these forces, the violence they left behind, and how this moment reflects the wider blowback of U.S. imperial policy. Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear discuss how Trump is letting corruption and white collar crime run rampant amid his “crime crackdown”, Israel’s escalation against Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon all at once, and more of the day’s top news. #breakthroughnews

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