African Movement Leaders Discuss NATO Spread & Ukraine War;

As the world continues to watch the Ukraine war, the West is consolidating against Russia. However, U.S. media hasn’t covered the perspectives of much of the rest of the world, nor the context of U.S. and NATO wars and aggression. Joining The Freedom Side LIVE today are two guests with perspectives from the African continent:

Sizophila Mkhize, African National Congress Youth League National Spokesperson (South Africa)
Kwesi Pratt, Jr., General Secretary of the Socialist Movement Ghana (SMG)

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz recently announced the doubling of German military funding, which is expected to make its military the largest in Europe. Sevim Dağdelen, MP in the German Bundestag & Die Linke spokeswoman for international politics and disarmament, discusses when that’s happened before and why it can’t happen again.

Great Britain's Prince William and Duchess Kate arrived in Jamaica this week to protests demanding reparations, as well as a letter signed by politicians, community leaders, academics, and other prominent Jamaicans. Dr. Maziki Thame, a signatory to the letter & senior lecturer in the Institute of Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, explains what’s happening.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee ends today, with a vote expected Monday. Partisan attacks were plentiful, including objections to Jackson serving on the board of a private school in the tony Georgetown neighborhood of DC – because the school has anti-racism components in the curriculum. Anoa Changa, Atlanta journalist, activist, & host of the podcast The Way with Anoa.