PUTIN IN THE HEIGHTS – Plus: Nato vs China & Israel’s Aggression Continues

On this episode of The Freedom Side LIVE, hosts Eugene Puryear and Rania Khalek talk the much anticipated Putin-Biden meeting, the NATO Summit and its redirection at China and updates on Israel’s agression against Palestinians. Plus, a critique of In the Heights!

11:03 – Educator, activist and Co-Executive Director of The People’s Forum Claudia de la Cruz drags Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new movie version of their musical ‘The Heights.’

33:19 – Scholar and Co-Founder of the No Cold War campaign Carlos Martinez joins us to discuss NATO, Putin, and China.

01:20:10 – Israeli author and activist Miko Peled provides us with updates and analysis of the new Israeli government: New faces, same settler extremism.

“We would have to spend the entire two hours of our show if we wanted to list out all the coup attempts, assassination attempts, successful assassinations, the funding of death squads. The list goes on and on of US intervention.” @RaniaKhalek

“People are still serving jail time, and now you have an entire industry growing selling marijuana but it’s owned by upper class white people while poor Black people are sitting in jail today for selling marijuana twenty years ago.” @RaniaKhalek