US Deploys Troops to Give Israel’s Genocide a Boost

On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 10/17 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, Eugene and Rania are joined by special guests: Mike Prysner - War veteran, Host of Eyes Left Podcast and producer for The Empire Files joins the show to give insight into the Pentagon’s plans to deploy a THAAD advanced anti-missile defense system to Israel along with 100 US soldiers to operate it – the first time the US has deployed boots on the ground since the start of the Gaza genocide. Prysner will discuss how the move signifies preparations for US involvement in a wider regional war. Zoe Alexandra - Journalist and Editor of Peoples Dispatch joins the show to discuss the latest attempts by the Colombian right-wing to overthrow Gustavo Petro’s democratically-elected government through an unconstitutional investigation into his 2022 campaign finances. Several world leaders have called this a lawfare coup. Zoe will discuss the mass mobilizations taking place to defend Colombia’s democratic process. Giorgio Cafiero - CEO of Gulf State Analytics, a Washington, DC-based geopolitical risk consultancy, joins the show to discuss how the reactionary Gulf States are responding to Israel’s dangerous escalations to provoke a full-scale regional war in the Middle East. Lawrence Grandpre - The Director of Research at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle will discuss Kamala Harris’s recently unveiled ‘opportunity agenda for Black men.’ Grandpre explains why the superficial attempts from the Harris-Walz campaign to win the Black vote – while doing nothing to address Kamala’s abysmal track record incarcerating Black people – will only fall short. Junaid S. Ahmad – Professor of Law, Religion, and Global Politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Decolonization in Islamabad, Pakistan joins the show to discuss the mass protests that swept Pakistan following Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Ahmad explains how the resistance in the Middle East has helped to revitalize the mass action against Pakistan’s US-backed military regime. #breakthroughnews