Rania Khalek Dispatches from the Underclass
/ March 11, 2022 / Leave a comment

Fractures in Russian Left Over Ukraine: An Antiwar Perspective, w/ Alexey Sakhnin

BreakThrough coverage has emphasized the US and NATO role in instigating the violence in Ukraine, which is precisely what the Western media has tried to obscure in recent weeks. We’ve also hosted many voices from different segments of the left about the war. One of those voices joining Rania Khalek from the Russian left is Alexey Sakhnin, an anti-war activist, journalist and academic of the Soviet era.

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/ March 2, 2022 / Leave a comment

Ukraine War Exposes US Hypocrisy, Double Standards & Racism, w/ Ali Abunimah & Rania Khalek

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, have suddenly dusted off their international law books with regard to Russia and are celebrating and promising to arm the Ukranian resistance.
To discuss the government and media hypocrisy and dangerous escalation by the West and Russia, Rania Khalek is joined by Ali Abunimah, director of The Electronic Intifada and author of the Battle for Justice In Palestine.
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/ March 2, 2022 / Leave a comment

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 Russia, and will support a NATO-backed insurgency against the Russian military. Once war starts, forces are unleashed which can’t easily be contained, dynamics emerge which were unpredicted and the more outside players intervene the longer and bloodier the battles will be.

Why did Russia invade Ukraine? How is it impacting Russia domestically? And what comes next? To understand how we got here and what to expect, Rania Khalek spoke to Boris Kagarlitsky, a Marxist professor at the Moscow Higher School for Social and Economic Sciences, and the editor of YouTube channel and web journal Rabkor, which you can follow here: https://www.youtube.com/c/RabkorTV/vi…

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/ February 25, 2022 / Leave a comment

Ukraine, Russia, NATO: Is There a Road to Peace?

Against the nonstop chorus for military escalation, join The Freedom Side LIVE for an anti-war perspective with special guests you won’t hear on the mainstream media:

Norman Solomon – co-founder & national director of RootsAction.org, founder of Institute for Public Accuracy & author of “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death”

Dr. Oleg Barabanov – academic director of the European Studies Institute at MGIMO University

Ivan Katchanovski – University of Ottawa political scientist from Ukraine

Ben Chacko – journalist & editor of the Morning Star

Richard Becker – national organizer, ANSWER Coalition

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/ February 6, 2022 / Leave a comment

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, Venezuela and Angola, how the US blockade harms Cuba’s socialist healthcare system, and more.

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/ February 6, 2022 / Leave a comment

Meet the U.S. Students Studying Medicine For Free in Cuba

BT’s Rania Khalek paid a visit to the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, also known as ELAM. Cuba’s socialist government foots the bill for students, who come from all over the world to study medicine for free. Tuition, accommodation and board are all covered. Cuba even throws in a government stipend for students to live on. The one condition? Graduates have to return to serve in low-income communities.

A testament to Cuba’s commitment to internationalism, ELAM is one of the largest medical schools in the world, with tens of thousands of students enrolling in a given year from over 100 countries.

During her visit to the campus, Rania had the chance to catch up with current 2nd year medical students from the U.S., and asked them about their experiences studying in Cuba.

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/ February 6, 2022 / Leave a comment

‘The US Is A Predator’: Cuban Diplomat on the Blockade & Cuba’s Anti-Imperialism

Breakthrough News was on the ground in Havana, Cuba where Rania Khalek spoke with Johana Tablada, General Deputy Director of US affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry. They discussed the US blockade hampering the country’s development, how socialism makes Cuba’s survival possible, why Cuba has such a strong anti-imperialist foreign policy, how Cuba sees the recent left victories across Latin America, Cuba’s vaccine leadership, “Havana Syndrome,” how Cuba’s medical brigades connect to an internationalist foreign policy, its growing relationships with Iran & China, and more.

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/ February 6, 2022 / Leave a comment

War in Ukraine? Unrest in Kazakhstan? What’s going on?

All things having to do with Russia are seen in the West through a renewed Cold War prism, with simplistic portrayals more befitting a Hollywood villain. Western media has been in a panic about an impending Russian invasion of Ukraine, while they celebrated a countrywide uprising in Kazakhstan that after a few days was put down.

So what’s really happening? Is it all right-wing color revolutions provoked by the West? Local anger manipulated by elites? Perhaps a bit of both? What are the local dynamics at play? To discuss, Rania Khalek was joined by Volodymyr Ishchenko, a research associate at the Institute of East European Studies at Free University Berlin.

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/ February 4, 2022 / Leave a comment

Women Accuse TPLF of Mass Rape | The War on Ethiopia Dispatch 2

Nifas Mewcha, a town in northern Ethiopia, was attacked and captured by the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, from August 12 to August 21. Breakthrough News traveled there and spoke to several women who gave testimony that they were gang raped by TPLF fighters, many in front of their children, in the nine days the group occupied the town. We filmed them from behind to protect their identities. Content warning: *Graphic descriptions of sexual violence*

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/ January 7, 2022 / Leave a comment

Palestine, the Squad & How the Right To Resist Imperial Violence Is Universal, w/ Ali Abunimah

As Israel enters its 74th year of occupying Palestine, labeling all its critics as antisemitic, world public opinion is finally changing. But is it shifting fast enough for those being pushed off their land? What is the relationship between, and relative importance of, Western public opinion in connection with regional resistance? How should we deal with the new brand of political leaders who claim solidarity with Palestinians while campaigning but then disappoint when in office? Also, is a multipolar world good for Palestine and what does 2022 have in store for the Middle East?

To discuss this Rania Khalek was joined by Ali Abunimah, director of The Electronic Intifada and author of the Battle for Justice In Palestine.

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