Brazil Tries to Arrest IDF Soldier, Israel Panics. Will Gaza War Criminals Finally Face Justice?

On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 1/09 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, hosts Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear are joined by special guests: Haroon Raza, co-founder of the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), joins the show to discuss Brazil’s historic arrest warrant for a vacationing Israeli soldier accused of Gaza war crimes, following a complaint issued by the HRF. Raza explains how HRF’s global campaign to hold individual IDF soldiers and their accomplices accountable for the Gaza genocide has Israel panicking. Ashish Prashar, Political strategist and former advisor to the Middle East peace envoy, joins the show to expose FIFA's glaring hypocrisy over Palestine. Despite Israel killing 368 Palestinian footballers since the start of the Gaza genocide, the world’s governing body for soccer refuses to ban Israel from international matches—yet it swiftly banned Russia over the Ukraine war. Prashar unpacks this double standard and the rising global call to kick Israel out of FIFA. Kurt Hackbarth, host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, joins the show to discuss the New York Times's latest article supposedly showing fentanyl production in Mexico—published just weeks before Donald Trump, who has pledged to invade Mexico to fight cartels, takes office. Hackbarth will discuss how the debunked article fits into a long history of the corporate-owned media pushing pro-intervention narratives. John Russell, Emmy-nominated ‘dirtbag’ journalist, will discuss the 2024 organized labor surge, highlighting the major strikes from Amazon, Starbucks, longshore, hotel workers, and more that delivered significant wins for working-class Americans. As union membership rises after years of decline, can the labor movement maintain its momentum under the looming Trump presidency? Prof. Glenn Diesen at the University of South-Eastern Norway and author of The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order, will discuss Ukraine’s latest stalling counter-offensive as the US continues to block Ukraine from negotiating an end to the brutal proxy war. Diesen will unpack the catastrophic potential consequences of escalation and what the incoming Trump presidency portends for the conflict. Zoe Alexandra, editor of Peoples Dispatch, reports live from Venezuela as the country prepares to swear in President Nicolas Maduro for a third term this Friday. Amid the US’ latest attempts to undermine the July 28 election, Alexandra will shed light on Washington’s intervention efforts and the Venezuelan people's fight to defend the Bolivarian Revolution and their sovereignty. #breakthroughnews