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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéUkraine vs. Russia: Nuclear War, Frozen Conflict, or Peace? Debate w/ Simon ShusterHere’s our full Thanksgiving chat with Simon Shuster. Thanks for your support.After President Biden gave Ukraine the go-ahead to use long-range US missiles in Russia, the Russians responded by shooting an intercontinental ballistic missile back into Ukraine. Now, as we wait for the next move that could ignite nuclear war, we’re talking to TIME correspondent Simon Shuster to analyze the conflict.At TIME, Shuster covers international affairs, with a focus on Russia and Ukraine. For his first book, The Showman, he reported inside the Ukrainian President’s compound in Kyiv as the Russia...2024-11-291h 10
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéRoger Waters TAKES ON Piers MorganThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“Is the revolution around the corner? I effing hope so!”Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters returns to Useful Idiots as bold and funny as ever, with takes on the UK’s new “self-serving Nazi” Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the meaninglessness of the Trump assassination attempt, the real devastation happening everyday in Gaza, Julian Assange, and so much more.Roger laments that...2024-07-1948 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéEgyptian Podcaster Destroys CNN Reporter for Israel PropagandaThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:When Rahma Zein, host of the podcast The Arab Narrative, confronted CNN’s Clarissa Ward on camera at the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt over CNN’s biased neglect of Palestinians, the video went viral. More importantly, it exposed Western media’s complicity in Israel’s crimes against Gaza.“The Zionist movement has” influence “not only in major industries but with thoug...2023-11-1747 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéIsraeli general's son slams Israel's savagery – with Miko PeledThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“Israeli society has always been held together by scotch tape. The scotch tape is falling apart,” says Miko Peled. And he would know. Miko is the son of one of Israel's highest ranking generals and the grandson of a signatory to Israeli independence. He was raised in Israel and served in its army. And he condemns Israel's "savage" attacks on Palestinians.He an...2023-10-2043 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéPalestine voices on Israel's war against GazaThis week’s interview with Refaat Alareer, Yumna Patel, and Muhammad Shehada:After Hamas’s attack in Israel on Saturday, the Israeli massacres of Palestinians in Gaza have skyrocketed. This genocidal ethnic cleansing has scarcely been reported by mainstream media at any time in its 50 year history, let alone at a time when western media and politicians openly support a religious war against Palestine. So we’re giving a platform to three Palestinian voices to share their story.We speak with Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian academic currently sheltering 15 children in his Gaza apartment, Yumna Patel, the Pa...2023-10-131h 19
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéUkraine's Inconvenient TruthThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Analyst Gordon Hahn has been covering the Ukraine conflict since long before Russia invaded, focusing on the West’s strategic efforts to use Ukraine as a proxy under the guise of defending its sovereignty.“You have to lie about everything,” Hahn explains, detailing how self-serving Western narratives became so successful. “You have to maintain that Putin is Hitler II.”But the re...2023-10-0638 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéNorman Finkelstein on Canada’s Applause for NazisThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Norman Finkelstein, whose latest book is I’ll Burn that Bridge When I Get to It, returns to Useful Idiots with as much heretical bravado as ever: he’s coming out swinging.First, he’s dissecting the embarrassing Nazi celebration in Canada: the Orwellian push to have it erased from history, Trudeau’s fake apology, and the despicable claims that Zelensky, who spea...2023-09-2959 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéUS Media Can't Stop Lying about UkraineThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:In the old world of journalism, reporters forced themselves through rounds of fact checks, dug through sources, interviewed every witness and expert they could find, and even then wouldn’t publish a story until they were absolutely sure of its veracity. And if all that failed and their story was wrong, they swallowed hard and published a correction. An embarrassing yet humbling check on...2023-09-2240 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéBiden's Trumpian War on KoreaThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Journalist Amanda Yee of Liberation News joins the show to break up some hardened American propaganda about the “forgotten” war in Korea and what’s actually going on behind the travel ban in North Korea, which Trump started and Biden has renewed each year since. This proves, once again, that despite running as the opposite of Trump, the one campaign promise that Biden has ac...2023-09-1544 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéMatt Taibbi on GOP Debates, Censorship, and Trump on ShroomsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Did you ever wonder what Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman would sound like if she was played by director and actor Werner Herzog? Or what Chris Christie would do if Trump ordered food for him that he was allergic to? Have you wondered what the German word is for a Brazilian spider bite that causes painful, hours-long erections? Do you know the world-record ti...2023-09-0835 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéMatt Taibbi and Max Blumenthal on Neoliberal CensorshipThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“The constitution is just a sideshow at this point.”Censorship, no longer just a threat from the government but now from private tech corporations as well, has snowballed into dystopian size. And the scariest part about censorship? It hides itself. So it’s hard to know just how huge it really is.Which makes this an issue on a scale...2023-09-0144 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéHow Both Parties Work for ‘Tyranny, Inc.’This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:After claims of fraud in the 2020 election and the rise of Trump’s pseudo-populist wing of the GOP, Sohrab Ahmari wrote Tyranny, Inc. In the book, the journalist and founding editor of Compact magazine gives a tour of our political economy from the point of view of ordinary people who faced private tyranny and paid the price for it.Private being th...2023-08-2544 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéExposed: US backed regime change in PakistanThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Professor Junaid Ahmad, director for the Center for Global Dialogue, joins Useful Idiots to shed light on a bombshell story that you may not have heard about. And you have western corporate media to thank for that.The Intercept released a secret Pakistan cable which documents US pressure to remove Prime Minister Imran Khan from power. That was achieved in April 2022...2023-08-1856 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéDebate: Is Trump’s Jan 6th plot kooky or criminal?This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Trump Indictment Season is officially in full swing, and corporate news, in their best attempt to give Trump as much free campaign coverage as possible, is covering it nearly 24/7. Whichever network you tune into, whether Fox News or MSNBC (and we sincerely hope you never tune into either), you’ll find panels with talking-head lawyers professing to know the exact legal implications of th...2023-08-1155 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéNATO is the Zombie that won’t DieThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“The likely outcome of the Vilnius summit,” Anatol Lieven, Director of the Eurasia program at the Quincy Institute, explains, “will be once again to dangle a never ending timetable for Kyiv’s admittance into the alliance.”As we progress further and further into the proxy war against Russia, Ukraine’s roadmap for joining NATO grows foggier and foggier. In 2008, Ukraine was given an exp...2023-08-0449 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéOppenheimer expert on what Christopher Nolan’s movie gets wrongThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Now I am become Useful Idiot.With the Hollywood blockbuster forcing everyone to remember the nuclear bomb again, Oppenheimer expert Greg Mitchell, who you can find on Substack here and here, joins the Useful Idiots to analyze Hollywood’s portrayal of the man and his bomb.“Only four movies in 75 years” have really dealt with the bomb, he tells us. We...2023-07-2842 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéUkrainian Journalist “Shocked” by New PollThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“This poll is earth-shattering.”“I wonder if any media will pick it up.”“Of course not!”Ukrainian-America journalist and author Lev Golinkin joined the show this week to discuss on a new poll that flips everything we’ve been told about “real Ukrainians.” And before you write off the poll as Russian propaganda, check out who conducted it: not Moscow, wi...2023-07-2147 min
The Oblivion Bar: A Comic Book PodcastINTERVIEW: Katie PeirceJoining us for episode 122 is one of the most entertaining Sea of Thieves Twitch streamers in the world -- it is our honor to welcome Twitch/G Fuel Partner Katie Peirce onto The Oblivion Bar Podcast!⭐ Katie's Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Merch Store ⭐Follow us on TwitterLike us on FacebookFollow us on BlueSkyFollow us on InstagramConsider supporting us over on PatreonStock up on G Fuel (CODE: OBP)Follow us on Whatnot (GET $15)Thank you DreamKid for our show music 🎼Thank you Kevin Zeigler...2023-07-171h 09
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéFormer CIA Analyst: The West Cannot Defeat Russia in UkraineThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“The west cannot win.”Former CIA analyst and deputy director of the US Office of Counterterrorism Larry Johnson has a grave outlook for the proxy war in Ukraine. And it ends with a lot of dead Ukrainians.Even with the hundreds of billions of dollars of HIMARS, Stingers, Javelins, and now the potential for F-16s and war-crime cluster muni...2023-07-1445 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéIsrael's Illegal Assault on Jenin – w/ Noura ErakatThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“Their crime is to exist,” Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat says of the Palestinians resisting Israel’s state-perpetrated terrorism and the recent attacks on the West Bank city of Jenin in particular.“When they attack, with war planes and tanks, indiscriminately, it’s a message to Palestinians that you are not safe. Anywhere. That unless you completely surrender, we will terrorize...2023-07-0741 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéScott Ritter: Putin Won the Coup and Will Win the WarThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“How does this war end?” we asked former marine corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter. The answer was not pretty.“With a lot of dead Ukrainians,” he told us gravely. “When Lindsay Graham gets out there and does his sick cackling and says we’re going to fight to the last Ukrainian, unfortunately that’s what’s going to happen.”2023-06-3046 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéThe Kennedys vs The Deep StateThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“We’ve gotten to the point now where we’ve been lied to for so long that people are really pissed off. One major event after the other we’ve been lied to. And we want the truth.”These wise words come from our guest David Talbot, journalist and author of The Devil’s Chessboard and Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy...2023-06-2343 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté80s Grooves that Explained the News w/ TouréThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:We’re throwing it back to the 1980s with Touré, host of the excellent new podcast Being Black: The 80s (70s and 90s to follow), which breaks down some of the most impactful Black music of the decade, including what was happening in Black America at each moment in time.We listen to Dianna Ross, Public Enemy, Tracy Chapman, Stevie Wonder and...2023-06-1648 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéOliver Stone Goes NuclearThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Oliver Stone grew up in a world that hates nuclear energy: we heard horror stories of catastrophic “disasters” like in Chernobyl and Fukushima, subconsciously linked it to the nuclear bomb, even died under the trampling feet of its nuclear spawn in Godzilla and Them!So what, after decades of mistrust against the nuclear boogeyman, made Oliver change his mind? He shares it a...2023-06-0938 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéHenry Kissinger: Kill Anything that MovesThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Since CBS is celebrating Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday, we figured it’s time to look into the “elder statesman’s” past with journalist Nick Turse, author of books including Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead and a recent investigation “Blood on his Hands,” an extensive examination of the unreported mass killings of Kissinger’s secret war in Cambodia.“It’s long been kno...2023-06-0233 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéSyrians Find Hope Under Crushing US SanctionsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:From Iraq to Syria to everywhere else the US government attempts regime change, when corporate media tells us what the “voices of the people” are saying, it’s not often that we actually hear voices that deviate from the US agenda.That’s why we invited Syrian analyst Kevork Almassian and journalist Hekmat Aboukhater. And even under accounts of dangerous war zones, t...2023-05-2655 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéFormer Buzzfeed Chief on the End of a Media EraThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:The era of corporate media is dying. The future is independent.Ben Smith, former Buzzfeed chief and New York Times media columnist, is the founder of Semafor, a news site which, unlike corporate rags who pretend otherwise, doesn’t hide the author’s opinion. Check it out here.Ben joins Useful Idiots to explain the beginnings of the internet age...2023-05-1945 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéEx-CIA Agent Reveals the Truth about JFKThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:A 23-year-old Ray McGovern, fresh in the CIA, a believer in John F. Kennedy, sat for a lecture from a senior operations officer at the agency. And was shocked by the rant he heard: “This president is a coward! He failed to back us up on the Bay of Pigs! He’s so cowardly, this is an awful, awful thing!” That was the summer...2023-05-1247 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéKremlin Droned + Tucker Carlson DebateThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“Humanity escaped by the skin of its teeth.”But you wouldn’t know it without journalists like Branko Marcetic, a returning Useful Idiot revealing the contents of the Pentagon leaks that the media has tried so hard to bury. And after this week’s attempted drone strike on the Kremlin, these leaks of US aggression become even more important.“One of the...2023-05-0548 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéMatt Taibbi Reacts to Dems' Prison ThreatThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:If you thought beef with Elon Musk and threats of imprisonment from Congress would stop Matt Taibbi from breaking more of “the biggest story” of his career, you underestimate the power of a Useful Idiot: Matt returned to the show this week to drop an explosive new Twitter Files.What he and journalists Matt Orfalea and Andrew Lowenthal uncovered was Project Ospr...2023-04-2851 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéLee Fang on Pentagon Leaks, Twitter Files, and Mehdi vs. MattThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:*We recorded this episode before it was revealed that Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett had written Matt Taibbi a letter threatening him with prison time over his Twitter Files testimony. This makes our discussion with Lee even more crucial.*Lee Fang, an independent and highly accomplished investigative journalist, is needed this week more than ever. His in-depth research and reporting, increasingly foreign to “in...2023-04-2146 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéThe Disinformation Hoax of the CenturyThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“Something monstrous is taking shape in America,” warns journalist Jacob Siegel in an article at Tablet:Formally, it exhibits the synergy of state and corporate power in service of a tribal zeal that is the hallmark of fascism… A state organized on the principle that it exists to protect the sovereign rights of individuals is being replaced by a digital leviathan that w...2023-04-1442 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéCongressman Ro Khanna vs Useful IdiotsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Congressman Ro Khanna joins Useful Idiots to answer the question once and for all: can we still call him, or any member of Congress for that matter, a progressive?Aaron and Katie come ready with hard-hitting questions on the Ukraine proxy war, the strangling sanctions on Syria, Biden’s drilling hypocrisy, and more, challenging the corporate establishment’s propaganda, constantly shoved down...2023-04-0737 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéThe Middle East kicks out the USThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“It’s the biggest lie I’ve ever witnessed in my life. I’ve never come across this amount of misinformation.”The Middle East, known geographically correct as West Asia, is fogged with years of propaganda and misinformation, lies told to us from within and out. And from just reading western media, the perspective of the region is wholly different than what’s rea...2023-03-3146 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté"Ceasefire is Unacceptable" – The US Stops PretendingThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:The US has finally stopped pretending to be pro-peace: with China proposing a plan for a ceasefire, Secretary of War Antony Blinken announced that stopping the war is unacceptable. And when CodePink’s Medea Benjamin called for Blinken to act as a diplomat instead of a war hawk, she was dragged out of the room by security. The US does not want peace....2023-03-2448 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéWill the Left Stand Up to the Deep State?This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“Why has the Left turned its back on free speech?” asks Christian Parenti, professor of economics and author of Radical Hamilton. As Democrats censor Matt Taibbi over the Twitter Files, smear journalists Seymour Hersh and Jeff Gerth for reporting facts they don’t like, bury coverage on the Ohio train derailment, and vote for censorship bills in the name of stopping Putin...2023-03-1750 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéMSM Mad at Marianne for challenging Dear Leader BidenAnnouncement: Useful Idiots is taking a break for the rest of the week, so no Thursday Throwdown and regular Friday episode. We’ll be back next week (March 13-17) as normal. Thanks as always for your support. -Katie, Aaron, and Wilson This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe2023-03-0759 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéEuropeans Protest the Proxy WarThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“You either fight to the last Ukrainian or you’re pro-Russian.”As this motto of CIA-backed corporate media and politics strengthens, there is suddenly a glimmer of hope: people are beginning to wake up. Protests, no matter how “random” Rachel Maddow may claim, are growing across the world, demanding peace, not backing down in the face of increasingly intense propaganda.Glenn Di...2023-03-0344 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéDavid Sirota vs Pete ButtigiegThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview of our interview here:For all the Pete Buttigieg-defending Democrats who say that the chemical explosion in East Palestine, Ohio isn’t the chief regulator’s fault because Donald Trump repealed the Brake Rule, and for all the Trump-defending Republicans who argue that the Brake Rule wouldn’t have helped this crash because Obama sided with the chemical lobby to narrow safety requirements, David Sirota...2023-02-2435 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéChris Hedges Rallies for a Left-Right Coalition Against WarThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview of our interview here:“If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing,” warns Chris Hedges, “we will be impotent in the face of corporate power and the war machine.”Award-winning journalist Chris Hedges returns to the show to argue for a left-right alliance and explain why he’s speaking at the Rage A...2023-02-1752 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéUS sanctions block aid to earthquake-hit SyriansThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview of our interview here:“Sanctions are a form of war. They’re economic warfare. And they destroy people’s lives.”Joshua Landis (https://twitter.com/joshua_landis), Sandra Mackey Chair in Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, is one of the foremost experts on Syria. This week, as Syria, along with neighbor Turkiye, grapples with the aftermath of the devastating earthqua...2023-02-1052 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéUseful Idiots 2022 Special plus Mick Wallace & Claire Daly UnlockedClick here for the full end of year special on Ukraine, Guantanamo Bay, and Meet the Press’s cringiest moments.2022 is nearly dead! Last year in our year recap with Thomas Frank, we asked “WTF will happen in 2022?” While we predicted correctly some brutal Jan 6 hearings and a nightmare midterm year, none of us thought the biggest news of the year would be a proxy war in Ukraine.So in our 2022 end of year special, Aaron and Katie deep dive on the latest in Ukraine, Zelenskyy’s Churchillian visit to Congress, Pelosi’s weird kiss...2022-12-301h 22
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéWhy is Establishment Media Finally Defending Julian Assange?Click here for the full interview with Matt Kennard on the crimes against Julian Assange and the right to free speech.“It’s a complete stitch up,” Matt Kennard, author and co-founder of Declassified UK, tells Useful Idiots about Julian Assange’s extradition case. “None of the rules of the game apply.”Assange, who has been jailed and tortured for nearly a decade for releasing documents which shed light on the crimes of the US government, now faces an extradition trial teeming with corruption.But after a crucial witness admitted to lying, the US governmen...2022-12-091h 00
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéUS Threatens Haiti with InterventionFor $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get the extended interview with Jemima Pierre, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your question answered on the show in the Absurd ArenaWhile independent media like Useful Idiots try to cover all the important news that corporate media purposefully ignores, Haiti is an especially overlooked story. The US, with its hooks deep in Haiti’s elections, businesses, agriculture, and daily life, has slowly drained the country of autonomy.Jemima Pierre, associate professor at UCLA and the Haiti-America coordinator for the Black Alliance for Peace, joins us th...2022-10-2849 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéMatt Taibbi ReturnsClick here for the full episode, including the extended interview with Matt Taibbi: Matt and Aaron ask why hasn’t Hillary Clinton been questioned for her Russiagate involvement, Matt remembers pranking General Secretary Gorbachev, and we take Matt’s new media quiz.Once a Useful Idiot, always a Useful Idiot.Matt Taibbi, who’s taken a hiatus from this pod to write his next book (he gives a sneak peek in the extended interview), just can’t stay out of the game. He’s back to talk about Democrats and Republicans sucking, the weird and terrible m...2022-09-1655 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéKurt Metzger on Comedy in Communist ChinaClick here for the full interview with comedian Kurt Metzger.Emmy-winning comedian Kurt Metzger, who wrote for Who is America? and Inside Amy Schumer, stops by to talk comedy with the Useful Idiots.We figured since August is wrapped, it’s probably time we all had a Summer Friday. So instead of talking death in Ukraine and poverty in the US, Kurt shares stories of running from Chinese cops, illegal standup comedy in Shanghai, joining (and then ditching) the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and, most importantly, how he’d look with Katie’s hair.When the...2022-09-0252 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéTony Winner Michael R. Jackson on "A Strange Loop"Click here for the full interview with Michael R. Jackson on the culture war, racism on Broadway, and his next musical. Plus, Aaron’s heated call with the Guardian’s Mark Townsend.Michael R. Jackson had no idea that a monologue he wrote two decades ago would turn into a Broadway musical that would win countless awards, including a Tony and Pulitzer Prize. And when he criticized the political establishment, including Obama, he had no idea that Michelle Obama would be one of the countless celebrities who would flock to see the show. Nor did he i...2022-07-2250 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéBriahna Joy Gray on Beta Dems and Republican ChadsClick here for the full episode, including the extended interview with Briahna Joy Gray, where we pick 2024 candidates, rank the squad, and Briahna and Aaron debate the importance of Jan 6 hearings.Host of Bad Faith podcast and Rising and former Bernie Sanders press secretary Briahna Joy Gray explains why dems are rapidly losing voters:Trump gets mocked for failing to put up his wall, but his supporters watched him try the whole time, putting up pieces of wall and getting blocked. He showed them what he will do if they get him more votes. So...2022-07-0150 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéProgressive Organizations Self-Implode while Roe is Overturned – with Ryan GrimClick here for the full episode, including the extended interview with Ryan Grim.The Intercept’s Ryan Grim shares his new article Elephant in the Zoom, which explains how internal struggles have progressive advocacy groups at a standstill during a critical political moment. He argues that workplace problems, while important to deal with, are distracting these groups from the issues they were created to fight for.And while progressives are doing internal evaluations, do you think Republican groups are analyzing their micro-aggressions or are they busy seizing power?Plus, Grim ‘calls out’ the left’s...2022-06-2454 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéMax Blumenthal on Censorship and MasongateTo clear up the confusion, Aaron and Max’s livestream on the Grayzone got censored from Youtube. Youtube is still allowing this episode of Useful Idiots. So check it out now! And click here for the full interview.In secret meetings and leaked emails, Paul Mason and Nina Jankowicz work to silence journalists who don’t promote the approved message. In public, they complain that journalists bully them, and do vile things like publish past things they’ve said.And who does Youtube side with? The supercalifragicensors.The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal is here to...2022-06-2046 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéMax Blumenthal on Censorship and MasongateClick here for the full episode, including the extended interview with Max on leaked emails, Bellingcat, and 60 minutes.In secret meetings and leaked emails, Paul Mason and Nina Jankowicz work to silence journalists who don’t promote the approved message. In public, they complain that journalists bully them, and do vile things like publish past things they’ve said.And who does Youtube side with? The supercalifragicensors.The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal is here to explain.Leaked emails show that Paul Mason, a prominent UK journalist, privately discussed plans to collaborate with U...2022-06-1746 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéUkrainian Journalist Exposes the Azov BattalionClick here for the full episode, including the extended interview with Lev Golinkin on disinformation, weapons manufacturers, and Aaron’s fight with a Nazi denier.The Nation’s Lev Golinkin has an important message that most people in mainstream news can’t seem to wrap their heads around:“Russia is committing war crimes. That is true. And not everyone who is fighting Russia is a good guy. That is also true.”And some of these bad guys are Nazis.Lev, who sees his home country being terrorized by Russia while also by it’s ow...2022-05-2047 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéHow to End the War in Ukraine with Scott RitterClick here for the full episode, including an explosive extended interview with Scott Ritter.Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter resigned his post in protest of US war mongering. Immediately, he was mocked by Joe Biden. And when the FBI came after him, well, as he puts it, it went something like:So when he joined the Useful Idiots to discuss Joe Biden, he (like many of our recent guests), didn’t have much nice to say.“The marine in me says he stinks. He w...2022-04-2256 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéOliver Stone: We're Living in a Censored StateThis week, we’re unpaywalling our extended interview with multiple-Oscar-winner Oliver Stone. His new documentary Ukraine on Fire has been censored by Youtube, but you can still see it on Rumble.He wrote and directed multiple classic, culture-defining American movies. He created groundbreaking documentaries, interviewing Putin, debunking Russiagate, and uncovering JFK’s murder. He won three Academy Awards.There was only one thing left for Oliver Stone to do: Become a Useful Idiot.Stone’s new documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, uses newly declassified and reexamined footage to present a case that c...2022-03-2534 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéDid Obama Know?“But if Obama knew,” Aaron and Katie ask Status Coup’s Jordan Chariton, “why didn’t he go to Flint and bust Wall Street and the Republicans for poisoning the city? It would’ve been an easy political win.”“If Obama didn’t go after Wall Street for tanking the global economy,” responds Chariton, “what makes you think he would’ve done anything to go after them for a fraud financial deal that led to a city being poisoned?”Today, Chariton is breaking stories in Flint about Obama’s complicity, Wall Street’s greed, a state-government coverup, and...2022-01-2851 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéVeterans Attack Military Industrial ComplexMatt and Katie consistently critique the Military Industrial Media Complex. But it’s different when actual veterans do it. On this week’s episode, Matthew Hoh, a former Marine and USG Official, who resigned from The State Department in protest over Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan, and Army Officer Danny Sjursen, an anti-war author and activist who served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan expose the over-funded, hypocritical, violent industry from the inside. And they ask an important question:Is there anything we can do about it? Hear their answers. Plus, in this C...2021-12-241h 06
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéThe Cult of the Privilege WalkJournalist and professor Christian Parenti’s latest NonSite (the Adolph Reed site) article, The First Privilege Walk, has, among other things, one of the greatest subtitles of all time: How Herbert Marcuse’s widow used a Scientology-linked cult’s methodology to gamify Identity Politics and thus helped steer the U.S. Left down the dead-end path of identitarian psychobabble.The article, which Matt described as “an article after my own heart,” (to which Katie replied, “It’s like it was made in a lab for you,”) explores the way identify politics (or the weaponization of it) undermines t...2021-12-171h 11
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéOliver Stone Knows Who Killed JFKHe wrote and directed multiple classic, culture-defining American movies. He created groundbreaking documentaries, interviewing Putin, debunking Russiagate, and uncovering JFK’s murder. He won three Academy Awards.There was only one thing left for Oliver Stone to do: Become a Useful Idiot.Stone’s new documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, uses newly declassified and reexamined footage to present a case that conspiracy theories about the president’s death are actually “conspiracy facts.”And it creates a big debate on Useful Idiots. Watch the pod, watch the doc, then let us know: do you agr...2021-12-031h 14
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéAaron Maté + Matt Taibbi vs The WorldWell, it looks like there’s new information out there about Russiagate. Who knew?Your two favorite Russiagate addicts are back and feeling very vindicated. We watch as Adam Schiff, the Washington Post, and more slowly realize their facts were only conspiracy theories. Now we’re just waiting for a resounding “Great job, Matt and Aaron!”Aaron Maté of The Grayzone’s Pushback has spent years putting in journalistic work to track down facts, read thick dossiers, and interview top suspects who were ignored by the entire US government and press.Now, he has answers...2021-11-121h 09
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéWhat Everyone Gets Wrong About FacebookFacebook is changing its name.The reason? They’re not just a social media platform anymore. They’re so much more!Definitely not the reason? Distract and distance from a whistleblower scandal, rampant fake news issues, and an evil reputation. No, really, it has nothing to do with those things…Activist and writer Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, joins the Useful Idiots to discuss The Company Soon to Be Known As The Company Formerly Known As Facebook. We delve deep into the whistleblower’s findings, how Facebook has made free speech l...2021-10-221h 19
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéWhat Everyone Gets Wrong About FacebookSubscribe for extended interviews at http://usefulidiots.substack.comFacebook is changing its name.The reason? They’re not just a social media platform anymore. They’re so much more!Definitely not the reason? Distract and distance from a whistleblower scandal, rampant fake news issues, and an evil reputation. No, really, it has nothing to do with those things…Activist and writer Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, joins the Useful Idiots to discuss The Company Soon to Be Known As The Company Formerly Known As Facebook. We delve deep into the whistleblower’s findin...2021-10-221h 19
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéAdolph Reed has ENOUGH White People Explaining Racism to HimSubscribe at http://usefulidiots.substack.comMatt lost his voice this week, so we’re unpaywalling this extended interview with Adolph Reed. We’ll be back next week with Monday Mourning and a new UI episode. Subscribers can still get their UI fix with Katie’s attempt at the Taibbi dating app, also out today.“But if that doesn’t happen, then that’s gonna be the end of American democracy in the next year.” Does he mean Republicans taking the senate? The creation of a new religion of Wokery in deference to Robin DiAngelo? Duke winning March...2021-09-101h 07
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéUNPAYWALLED: "Adolph Reed doesn't understand racism." –Too many white peopleMatt lost his voice this week, so we’re unpaywalling this extended interview with Adolph Reed. We’ll be back next week with Monday Mourning and a new UI episode. Subscribers can still get their UI fix with Katie’s attempt at the Taibbi dating app, also out today.“But if that doesn’t happen, then that’s gonna be the end of American democracy in the next year.” Does he mean Republicans taking the senate? The creation of a new religion of Wokery in deference to Robin DiAngelo? Duke winning March Madness in 2022?You’ll have to watch...2021-09-101h 07
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéCuomo's Kiss Compilation & Dystopian Media "Bullshit" w/ Walter Kirn“America finally had enough media awareness after being taught in high school to look for bias that they suddenly were able to see, with new eyes, just how slanted and silly and contradictory and boring [corporate media is.]” Thus spoke Walter Kirn, writer for Time magazine and author of eight novels including Up in the Air (which was turned into a George Clooney movie), on this week’s Useful Idiots. And, like Matt and Katie, Kirn ditched the mainstream and made the move to Substack. where you can check him out.Years ago, Walter tells us, he...2021-08-061h 28
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéCuomo's Kiss Compilation & Dystopian Media "Bullshit" w/ Walter KirnSubscribe for the full interview at http://usefulidiots.substack.com“America finally had enough media awareness after being taught in high school to look for bias that they suddenly were able to see, with new eyes, just how slanted and silly and contradictory and boring [corporate media is.]” Thus spoke Walter Kirn, writer for Time magazine and author of eight novels including Up in the Air (which was turned into a George Clooney movie), on this week’s Useful Idiots. And, like Matt and Katie, Kirn ditched the mainstream and made the move to Substack. where you ca...2021-08-061h 29
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéJulian Assange's Brother: #FreeAssange, Plus Airstrikes on Cuba and An Art Critic on Hunter BidenMatt and Katie sit down with Julian Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, and journalist Kevin Gosztola to talk about the astonishing new development in the Julian Assange case, which the mainstream media has kept from you. Namely that the government’s star witness in its extradition case has admitted that he lied about Assange in exchange for immunity. Why has mainstream media reported only on the Biden administration’s continued efforts to extradite Assange--and its recently won right to appeal a UK lower court’s ruling blocking his extradition--and ignored the fact that the government’s case has unraveled with the reca...2021-07-161h 46
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéBlack Scholar Adolph Reed DESTROYS Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility & Nice RacismAs PC culture, led fearlessly by Miss Woke 2021 Robin DiAngelo, moves deeper into decreeing what terms and actions count as racist, Professor Adolph Reed has a warning for us:“Both the discursive and institutional have emerged around a systemic disposition to find ways to evade talking about class and economic inequality, then it just grows in that dark environment with other fungi and so forth and so on.”That’s “historian of ideologies” talk for a simple yet important concept which he explains further:When we focus too much on the struggle against racism and prejud...2021-07-091h 21
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéProfessor Adolph Reed on "Nice Racism" & Robin DiAngelo, Plus Lying Politicians & A Chastity Belt for their MouthsAs PC culture, led fearlessly by Miss Woke 2021 Robin DiAngelo, moves deeper into decreeing what terms and actions count as racist, Professor Adolph Reed has a warning for us:“Both the discursive and institutional have emerged around a systemic disposition to find ways to evade talking about class and economic inequality, then it just grows in that dark environment with other fungi and so forth and so on.”That’s “historian of ideologies” talk for a simple yet important concept which he explains further:“When we focus too much on the struggle against racism and p...2021-07-091h 21
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéAustin Smith on Getting Out of Student Loans, Plus Nina Turner's Endorsement, Confederate Statues, and Aggressive Sports FansWhat do you do when your congressman is an a**hole who celebrates the January 6 insurrection and uses it to try propel himself to governor of New York? You run against him and f*cking beat him.At least that’s what attorney and former Onion writer Austin Smith plans to do. And he’s using his “furious, blood-boiling” anger toward Lee Zeldin and the rest of Trump’s losers to help the people of New York’s first district to finally get a decent guy to represent them.Smith, who previously worked for the campaigns of...2021-07-021h 09
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéHow to Discharge Your Student Loans with Austin SmithWhat do you do when your congressman is an a**hole who celebrates the January 6 insurrection and uses it to try propel himself to governor of New York? You run against him and f*cking beat him.At least that’s what attorney and former Onion writer Austin Smith plans to do. And he’s using his “furious, blood-boiling” anger toward Lee Zeldin and the rest of Trump’s losers to help the people of New York’s first district to finally get a decent guy to represent them.Smith, who previously worked for the campaigns of both John McCain...2021-07-021h 09
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéNorman Finkelstein On Cancel Culture, "White Fragility" plus Andrew Yang's Crucial MistakeNorman Finkelstein, the prolific (and widely canceled) political scientist, and author of 11 books, joins the show to give us a sneak preview of his new book on cancel culture and identity politics. He explains what makes today's cancel culture new, what makes it not so new, and why it’s worse, in some ways, when the Left does it: “Obviously there’s cancel culture on the right. But the cancel culture on the right, or the mainstream, the establishment, whatever you want to call it, for a person of the left, is a given. That’s a part of what it...2021-06-251h 24
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéNorm Finkelstein on Cancel CultureSubscribe at usefulidiots.substack.comNorman Finkelstein, the prolific (and widely canceled) political scientist, and author of 11 books, joins the show to give us a sneak preview of his new book on cancel culture and identity politics. He explains what makes today's cancel culture new, what makes it not so new, and why it’s worse, in some ways, when the Left does it: “Obviously there’s cancel culture on the right. But the cancel culture on the right, or the mainstream, the establishment, whatever you want to call it, for a person of the left, is a given. That’s...2021-06-251h 24
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéNew Useful Idiots: Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti Reach a Breaking Point, plus Dicks By Association, Obama's Drone Addiction, and Water Bear AbuseClick here for the extended interview.Saagar Enjeti tells a story from his time as the co-host of The Hill’s Rising, in which he described the seniority system for House of Representatives Committee assignments. “I did a segment this is all I said: ‘Maxine Waters will be the chairwoman of the Financial Services Committee till the day she dies,’” he recounts. “So her fucking staff called the boss of The Hill and said I issued a death threat against Maxine Waters! I shit you not. They said I was threatening her life.”He pauses. “Th...2021-06-041h 10
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéNew Useful Idiots: Aaron Maté, calling from Syria, describes his treasonous interview of Konstantin Kilimnik. Plus: M*nge Face, "Mental Retardation Thereafter," and Assad's John HancockClick here for the extended interview.We had to speak with guest Aaron Maté of The Grayzone via Skype, because other platforms wouldn’t service his location — he was calling in from the capital city of our sanctioned enemy, Syria. What, you might ask, was Aaron Maté doing in Syria? “I thought you guys weren’t supposed to talk about my real mission here,” he said, “which was to negotiate a co-host position for Useful Idiots for Bashar al-Assad.”Put that in your conspiratorial pipe and smoke it, Oz Katerji! Our dream of making dictatori...2021-05-281h 15
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéNew Useful Idiots: Abby Martin on Gaza, a Liz Cheney Surprise, the Grammar of Stabbing, and More Feces FriesClick here for the extended interview.Longtime friend-of-show Abby Martin, maker of the remarkable documentary Gaza Fights for Freedom, drops in for a Zoom chat to discuss the outbreak of hostilities in Israel. Included also in this week’s free episode of Useful Idiots:— In “Democrats Suck,” Matt excitedly discusses a story about the Biden administration teaming with private entities to circumvent prohibitions on illegal surveillance, not realizing that no one cares about this nearly as much as he does;— For “Republicans Suck,” Katie denounces the Liz Cheney story, but goes counter-intuitive: “The Republicans who...2021-05-151h 02
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéNew Useful Idiots: Thomas Frank, Financial Scams & Woke CIA AdsClick here for the extended interview.Useful Idiots returns with friend-of-show and the great not-fully-canceled political author of our time, Thomas Frank. The author of books like Listen, Liberal and The People, No and What’s the Matter With Kansas in this episode had occasion to draw on the experience of one of his other words, The Conquest of Cool. The discussion started with the viral sensation of the week, the so-called “Woke CIA ad,” which featured a 36-year-old self-described “cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder” who is “intersectional” and wants you to join th...2021-05-081h 13
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéCornel West On Biden & Leaving HarvardFriend-of-show Dr. Cornel West has been in the news a lot of late, and not always in a happy way. At the end of February, the brilliant professor of Philosophy, Divinity, and African-American studies announced he was leaving his longtime employers at Harvard University, and moving back to Union Theological Seminary, where he began his teaching career back in 1977. Harvard denied his request to be considered for tenure, apparently for political reasons.On Useful Idiots, West talked about the likely reasons behind Harvard’s decision (outspokenness on Palestine?), Joe Biden’s first 100 days, and the influence of his late mother I...2021-05-011h 10
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéNew Useful Idiots: Interview with Dr. Cornel West, Depressing Oscars, Pence on Skis, and Andrew Yang's PecsClick here for the extended interview.Friend-of-show Dr. Cornel West has been in the news a lot of late, and not always in a happy way. At the end of February, the brilliant professor of Philosophy, Divinity, and African-American studies announced he was leaving his longtime employers at Harvard University, and moving back to Union Theological Seminary, where he began his teaching career back in 1977. Harvard denied his request to be considered for tenure, apparently for political reasons.On Useful Idiots, West talked about the likely reasons behind Harvard’s decision (outspokenness on Palestine?), Joe Bi...2021-05-011h 09
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéNew Useful Idiots: Bad Chauvin Verdict Reactions, Notes From the Anus-Having Club, And More Vanguard Time TravelWhat separates the human being from the lower animals? Language? Morality? Comfortable shoes?None of the above, says Live Science. The real differentiator, they say, is what lay beneath, explaining in a classic headline about comb jellies that became fodder for this week’s “Isn’t that weird?”:YOUR MOST DISTANT COUSIN DOESN’T EVEN HAVE AN ANUSAs it turns out, the primitive jellyfish-like creatures have inspired a whole literature of anus headlines. “Animal with an anus that comes and goes could reveal how ours evolved,” wrote New Scientist a few years back. “An anim...2021-04-2400 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéNew Useful Idiots: Interview with Noam Chomsky, Why We Got Fired, Our Pro-Saudi Advocacy, and Abu Mohammed al-Jolani's Extremist MakeoverClick here for the extended interview“Like who the fuck is reading anything from Rolling Stone now?” asked Zac and Gavin, hosts of the Vanguard podcast, when pondering our mysterious — and completely unjust — firing at the hands of the iconic music magazine. Katie and I would like to know the same thing. And, Zac and Gavin? We’re with you. None of it makes any sense to us, either. “I just think it’s crazy that you as a company would have Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper in to do a podcast, and then a year in...2021-04-1048 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéNoam Chomsky + The True Story of the Rolling Stone BreakupWe interview some guy named Noam Chomsky (extended interview coming next week), get to the bottom of why we broke up with Rolling Stone, and scrutinize the thrilling PBS interview of former al-Nusra/al-Qaeda leader-turned-very-handsome-man Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. Katie taps her beard-crit background, while we both investigate the two most important questions of our time: which four goateed male celebrities combined look like one PBS interviewer Martin Smith, and why do I keep thinking Smith is British?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...2021-04-1048 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéTed Cruz, Penis Mishaps + Matt Stoller on Big Tech Monopoly & Surveillance AdvertisingIn this Useful Idiots interview, Matt Stoller walks us through some of the myths about big tech. Many members of Congress seem to believe the firms don’t intervene enough; Stoller explains that their massive existing levels of intervention are the problem, that the financial incentives of what he calls “surveillance advertising” move firms like Facebook to push users in the direction of ever more enraging, divisive, and conspiratorial content. Plus Matt (Taibbi) and Katie talk about Ted Cruz, Woke-washing and penis mishaps.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode...2021-03-2656 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéJesse Singal & Katie Herzog On The Substack WarsJesse Singal and Katie Herzog, co-hosts of the podcast Blocked And Reported, join Useful Idiots to talk about the failed campaign to get Singal driven off of Substack and what, according to Herzog, some of Singal's most vocal critics have in common with QAnon. They also talk about how they met and why they started their podcast and how they're not exactly canceled. Singal discusses his new book "Quick Fix," about the dangers of fad psychology. And Matt and Katie discuss the indefensible hoarding of vaccine, and debate the important question: can robbing blind people ever be funny? ...2021-03-231h 14
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéDaniel Ellsberg On The Pentagon Papers + Matt & Katie On Cow Therapy & Serial KillersWe spoke to legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about the nuclear threat nobody is talking about, the end of the world and how he, despite all that, stays hopeful. But before diving in with Ellsberg, Matt and Katie talk about, of course, Dems sucking, Republicans sucking, things being weird and terrible and even bring you a stoned moment. Stand by for the youtube episode. And, dear paying subscribers, stand by for the paywalled video and audio sections dropping soon where we talk to Ellsberg about the way he’s been cynically rehabilitated by his critics as a “good whistleblower” in order...2021-03-231h 15
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéUseful Idiots Unchained TeaserUseful Idiots, the podcast Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper started in the summer of 2019 at Rolling Stone, is moving. After eighty episodes that included interviews with the likes of Tulsi Gabbard (our first guest), Roger Waters, Andrew Yang, Erin Brockovich, Michael K. Williams, Noam Chomsky, Marianne Williamson, Adam McKay, Bernie Sanders, Nadya Tolkonnikova of Pussy Riot, Tim Robbins, Adolph Reed, Chris Hedges, and many others, the show that was created with the idea of being a home for voices shut out or shouted down in traditional media outlets is moving, appropriately, to Substack.Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...2021-03-2301 min
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéUseful Idiots Podcast: Jesse Singal & Katie Herzog On The Substack WarsThis was a crazy one, even by Internet standards. As if it weren’t enough that reporters and editors are being purged at mainstream news organizations all over the world, from the New York Times to the Guardian to Teen Vogue, a new campaign has begun targeting writers already shunned by the regular press, working as independent contractors at Substack.Last week, a series of articles and Tweets, including a much-circulated piece by Jude Ellison Sady Doyle called “In Queers We Trust: All Others Pay Cash,” targeted this platform, home to thousands of writers covering a huge variet...2021-03-201h 17
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéDaniel Ellsberg On The Pentagon Papers + Matt & Katie On Cow Therapy & Serial Killers (AUDIO ONLY)Here is our first truly independent podcast episode of Useful Idiots! [It is audio only and video will be released Tuesday.] We spoke to legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about the nuclear threat nobody is talking about, the end of the world and how he, despite all that, stays hopeful. But before diving in with Ellsberg, Matt and Katie talk about, of course, Dems sucking, Republicans sucking, things being weird and terrible and even bring you a stoned moment. Stand by for the youtube episode. And, dear paying subscribers, stand by for the paywalled video and audio sections...2021-03-161h 14
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéStella Moris on the Assange Case, Concealing PregnancyStella Moris, lawyer and life partner of Julian Assange, joins the show to discuss the current status of Assange's case and it’s implications for global journalism. Hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper discuss arguments for and against independent journalism outlet Substack.Merch link: https://teespring.com/stores/useful-idiotsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe2021-03-061h 37
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéThe Democrats Try To Cancel Fox News, with Shahid ButtarShahid Buttar joins the show to discuss Democrats, Fox News, and free speech. Hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper discuss Tennessee GOP efforts to prohibit kneeling during college sports national anthems.Merch link: https://teespring.com/stores/useful-idiotsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe2021-02-262h 00
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéAaron Maté on Biden's Foreign Policy, OPCW, and MoreJournalist Aaron Maté joins the show to talk about the start of Biden's foreign policy, and his reporting on Syria and the OPCWMerch Link: https://bit.ly/3uiFz4DLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe2021-02-201h 40
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéGlenn Greenwald Returns, Plus Neera Tanden's Confirmation HearingGlenn Greenwald rejoins the show to discuss recent journalism news, content moderation, and more on GameStop/Wall Street. Hosts Katie Halper and Matt Taibbi trade off takes related to the contentious confirmation hearing of Neera Tanden.Merch Link: https://teespring.com/stores/useful-idiotsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe2021-02-121h 23
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéRo Khanna on Covid Relief, Robinhood, and More, Plus a Review of the MandalorianCongressman Ro Khanna makes another appearance to discuss the state of Covid relief, his experience during the January 6 riot and more. Hosts Katie Halper and Matt Taibbi discuss other recent news, including an inspired metaphor from Thomas Friedman on the Gamestop story.Merch Link: https://teespring.com/stores/useful-idiotsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe2021-02-051h 06
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéZephyr Teachout, RNC Highlighs & the Myth of the Markey BrosAttorney, author and former New York gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout joins hosts Katie Halper and Matt Taibbi to talk about the role of monopolies in the American politics, economies, and tech. Matt and Katie break down the drama in the Ed Markey vs. Joe Kennedy III Massachusetts Senate race, and react to the first half of the Republican National Convention.Merch Link: https://teespring.com/stores/useful-idiotsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...2020-08-281h 31
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéDNC Highlights, the USPS Crisis, Plus Katie Hill on Her Scandal and New BookFormer congresswoman Katie Hill joins hosts Katie Halper and Matt Taibbi to talk about her life after resigning last fall. Matt and Katie review the first two days of the DNC, and analyze what's going on with the USPS and its media coverage.Merch Link: https://teespring.com/stores/useful-idiotsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe2020-08-211h 42
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéDr. Robert Gallo on Vaccines, Plus the Democrats' Campaign Strategy | Useful IdiotsLeading biomedical researcher Dr. Robert Gallo shares his thoughts on the various theories for potential covid-19 vaccines. Matt and Katie caution against overconfidence by the left heading into the presidential election. Katie decries a 'Sharkaganda' story from AustraliaLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe2020-07-311h 54
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéOmar Wasow on Violent vs. Non-Violent Protests, Plus Katie and Matt on Trump's RallyOmar Wasow, assistant professor of politics at Princeton, joins the show to discuss his paper on protest tactics and 'Agenda Seeding,' and the polarized reaction it's received. Matt and Katie analyze a scene from Delaware involving a manly encounter with a shark.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe2020-06-261h 42
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéAaron Mate on New #Russiagate Bombshells, Plus More From the Stupid Bay of PigsAaron Mate of the Grayzone and 'Pushback' joins the show to talk recent developments in #Russiagate, how it’s helping Trump, plus Matt and Katie continue to dive into the Stupid Bay of PigsMerch Link: https://teespring.com/stores/useful-idiotsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe2020-05-151h 38
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéJimmy Dore and Why Everyone Hates the MediaComedian and podcaster Jimmy Dore joins Matt and Katie to discuss his show and media bias. Matt and Katie break down the fact-checking controversy involving The Washington Post and Bernie Sanders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe2019-09-051h 03
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron MatéIntroducing 'Useful Idiots' with Matt Taibbi and Katie HalperIntroducing Useful Idiots, an informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalist Matt Taibbi and podcaster/writer Katie Halper. Episodes feature on-the-road coverage of the 2020 campaign and exclusive interviews, with humor, commentary and dissection of the politics news of the week. Here's a taste of what's to come.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe2019-08-1002 min
MAG - Marriage advice, Relationship Encouragement, We discuss Sex, Money, Finances and everything In-between, Marriage Tips and tricks and Conversations with Couples About MarriageMAG 11: Why It's Important To Take Inventory In Your Marriage w/ Elisha & Katie Voetberg from Now That We're A Family PodcastJoin the Marriage After God movement and order a copy of our new book today.
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We thank You for the way you created us and we thank you for your rich provision. Thank you for equipping us for the work you have for us to do. May our eyes be opened so that we can see all of the wonderful ways you have equipped us. Use us to enco...2019-04-2442 min