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Norman Finkelstein REACTS To Israeli Embassy Staffers Shooting 40:39

6 hari yang lalu40:39

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Click here for the full interview with Norman Finkelstein – an additional 50 MINUTES: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/extended-interview-norman-finkelstein?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Go to groundnews.com/useful for a better way to stay informed. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access to world-wide coverage through our link. Visit ProlonLife.com/USEFUL to claim your 15% discount and your $40 bonus gift. Go to our sponsor https://venice.ai/useful and use code useful to enjoy private, uncensored AI. Using our code will get you 20% off a pro plan. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at http://betterhelp.com/ USEFUL and get on your way to being your best self. Check out DeleteMe and use our code IDIOTS for a great deal: https://joindeleteme.com Support local jobs and get variety of high-quality clothing and activewear at https://www.american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code USEFUL. Thanks to American Giant for sponsoring the show! Check out Avocado Green Mattress: https://avocadogreenmattress.com Get the right life insurance for YOU, for LESS, at selectquote.com/useful . Let CrowdHealth help with your healthcare needs. Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months by using code USEFUL at joincrowdhealth.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Trump Finally Calls Out Genocide… in South Africa https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/trump-finally-calls-out-genocide?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.com Join us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to. Two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot and killed on Wednesday evening by a man who yelled “Free Palestine.” The man allegedly wrote a manifesto, and it isn’t clear yet what his motives are, his mental state, if he was a lone actor, or as our guest today puts it: “crazy.” That guest is Useful Idiots fan-favorite Professor Norman Finkelstein, who gives his analysis of the shooting, beginning with a historical connection he made in his initial reaction. Useful Idiots: Let's start with the top news in the US: the shooting of two Israeli embassy officials outside an event in Washington, DC. What we know so far is that the alleged shooter chanted Free Palestine. There's also a manifesto that's been purported to be written by him, although we haven't confirmed that. With so much going on in Gaza, atrocities day by day, it feels a little inhuman to talk about two deaths in Washington when there's thousands of deaths going on in Gaza. But what is your reaction? Norman Finkelstein: Well, my first reaction is that you have to have the facts and make a careful evaluation on the basis of the facts. When I first read about it this morning, I thought it had occurred at the Israeli consulate. And I assumed it was a Palestinian who had committed the action. And my first reaction was to remember the [Polish Jewish] fellow Herschel Grynszpan, who assassinated the second-level diplomat in the German legation in Paris in 1938. He reacted in sheer horror at what was being done to the Jews. And he did an act. Of course, the Germans called it an act of terrorism, and that's what triggered Kristallnacht. I'm not aware of any [historians] who condemned him for the act, even though you could say it was not a very smart thing to do because it triggered Kristallnacht. So that was my initial reaction. But then that turned out to be wrong because of two things. It didn't occur in the Israeli consulate. It occurred in front of a Jewish museum in Washington. And secondly, it's unclear at this point whether the alleged perpetrator was even aware that these two people worked in the Israeli consulate. So that throws a large number of variables into the equation. There seems to be this big disconnect between a sophisticated manifesto and a fellow just going randomly in front of a Jewish museum in Washington and attempting to assassinate two people who presumably he thought were Jewish. So everything remains foggy now. I would say for me, the bottom line is it could have been a nutty guy. That's always possible. It could be a smart guy with a crazy project. It could be a crazy guy with a crazy project. Useful Idiots: Let’s talk about Israel itself. You have Israeli politicians openly talking about how every baby in Gaza is our enemy. And unfortunately, these views are widely held. What are your thoughts on Israel right now in terms of its place as a unique society on the spectrum of lunacy, of collective insanity in the same way that Nazi Germany was an example of outright collective insanity? Where do you situate Israel in that right now? Norman Finkelstein: All the demons in Israeli society, which they had to repress, all the demons rose to the surface after October 7: they had moral license to publicly espouse. It was there. If you scratch the surface with any Israeli, their loathing and contempt for Arabs in general and Gazans in particular, it was there. So there was a veneer of being civilized and what October 7 did was it enabled the Israelis to free themselves from that veneer and for all the demons to rise to the surface. On the other hand, I would say Israelis, unlike Nazi Germany, don't have the pretense or the pretext that they didn't know what was happening. Now, I'm not saying Germans didn't know. They may not have known about the death camps. They knew about the concentration camps. Did they know about the systematic extermination? There is debate about that. In Israel, everybody knows. Israel has the highest usage of the Internet of any country on Earth. The Israelis were posting on social media what they were doing. The Israeli soldiers were posting and boasting of what they were doing. Every Israeli knew and knows exactly what's happening. What has happened since October 7, it is incorrect to describe it as a state project. That's incorrect. It's a national project. Every poll taken since October 7 has shown that roughly 95% of Israelis believe that Israel is using enough or too little force in Gaza. I do think that at least in the current world, let's say since World War Two, this is in a class all its own. The sheer numbers, since the twenty-first century, it's unique in every category. There's just nothing like it. Subscribe to hear the full interview with Norman Finkelstein – 50 MINUTES longer. Norman reveals the “main enabler” of the genocide, calls out the New York Times for its coverage of the Israeli embassy shooting, discusses his debate with “that thing called Destiny,” and gives his prediction for how quickly Israeli crimes will be forgotten. 00:00 Intro 01:14 Dems want power until death 03:20 Trump's Big Beautiful Bill 08:10 MSM coverage of Israeli embassy shooting 10:26 ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt on the shooting 14:31 Norman Finkelstein interview preview 15:50 Israeli Embassy Shooting: Norm's Initial Reaction 21:58 GOP Congressman wants to NUKE Arab countries 25:05 Norm's Take on Israel 38:56 The "Main Enabler" of the Genocide Our Sponsors: * Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mate/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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Did Trump Just BETRAY Israel? w/ Sana Saeed | Useful Idiots 44:25

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What Really Happened to Greta Thunberg’s Bombed Ship? 1:13:22

20 hari yang lalu1:13:22

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Let CrowdHealth help with your healthcare needs. Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months by using code USEFUL at joincrowdhealth.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Here’s What We Found Inside Harvard’s Antisemitism Report https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/heres-what-we-found-inside-harvards?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.com Join us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to. The Conscience , a civilian ship that is part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was attempting to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza when it was was attacked by drones last week. Greta Thunberg, who was scheduled to board the ship on its way to Gaza, as well as organizers of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Israeli media, blamed Israel for the attack. Israel, for its part, has not denied responsibility. We spoke with Freedom Flotilla organizers Huwaida Arraf and Thiago Ávila who explain the mission of the Conscience , describe the attack, and their commitment to breaking the ilegal and inhumane siege on Gaza. Useful Idiots: There were calls from the ship during the attack. Were you guys scared at this point that people were potentially going to die? Huwaida Arraf: We lost contact with them for many hours and we knew that the ship was bombed and that it was taking on water. So we were very concerned. We organized people to take a couple of boats and sail out to them, but they were prevented from reaching them twice. The Maltese authorities prevented them from reaching the ship. We were pressuring the Maltese authorities to let them get the people off the ship. And the requests continue to be inexplicably denied. The vessel right now is still in the place where it was bombed. We are still asking the Maltese authorities to let us in. But the crew all remains on the ship for now. Useful Idiots: Have you confirmed that this drone attack was carried out by Israel? Thiago Ávila : It has come to light that just hours before Israel bombed our ship, there was an Israeli military plane in Maltese airspace that flew right over the area where the ship was bombed before going back to Israel. And there are a lot of other factors that indicate that there are other countries that knew. We have a situation where not only is the United States obviously fully on board with what Israel is doing and enabling it, but other countries are not only not living up to their obligations under international law, but they're also hampering civilian efforts to do something about it. People should ask themselves ‘why should civilians try to organize a boat and aid and try to confront the Israeli military to make their way into Gaza which is illegally besieged like this, when countries should be doing this?’ But not only are countries not putting aid on ships and insisting on getting into Gaza, they are doing Israel's work by trying to sabotage our efforts. Huwaida also recalls being on another ship in 2010 which suffered a lethal attack from Israel that killed nine humanitarians. Huwaida Arraf: The reason why the flotillas exist is because the people of Gaza are suffering a genocide and they're under illegal Israeli blockade for eighteen years. And now for more than two months without a single bottle of water entering Gaza. So that's why people are not with their families here on the flotilla, because we are here for a purpose, to serve as a solidarity mission to the Palestinian people. Watch our full, unpaywalled talk with the Freedom Flotilla organizers where we watch video of the crew during the attack, Thiago explains the role that President Lula’s Brazil has in Israel’s destruction of Gaza, and Huwaida lays out a plan for their next attempt to get aid past the siege. 00:00 Intro 00:25 John Fetterman in the deep end 06:59 Republican Congressman SCREAMS about Medicaid 10:57 Trump's most ridiculous pardon 13:18 Is the Palantir CEO the most evil man? 18:14 Huwaida Arraf and Thiago Ávila interview 20:02 What is the Freedom Flotilla? 25:19 What happened to The Conscience? 31:57 Did Israel do it? 34:53 Video of the attack 41:30 Are other governments complicit? 49:58 Israel's SCAM Gaza foundation (don't give the GHF money!) 53:56 The last time Israel attacked the Freedom Flotilla 58:16 Is this a surprise? 1:02:21 Is Lula's Brazil doing anything? 1:05:04 What's the next plan? 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Dystopia Now: Why Tech Bros Want a Master Race 59:46

27 hari yang lalu59:46

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Let CrowdHealth help with your healthcare needs. Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months by using code USEFUL at joincrowdhealth.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here for the full interview with Kate Willett and Emile Torres: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/dystopia-now-why-tech-bros-want-a?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Morning Joe Comes Out as a Bernie Bro https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/morning-joe-comes-out-as-a-bernie?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.com Join us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to. The new podcast Dystopia Now , hosted by comedian Kate Willett and philosopher Émile Torres, has been unveiling a disturbing new story from the tech world that comes straight out of The Matrix . It involves transhumanism, a tech-bro update to eugenics, in which billionaires can digitize their minds with AI, transcending humanity and achieving immortality. If this sounds disturbing, just wait until you hear our full chat with Kate and Émile. Useful Idiots: Can you define transhumanism? Émile Torres: The key idea is this techno-utopian vision. And transhumanism is this ideology that says we ought to develop advanced technologies to radically re-engineer the human organism, ultimately creating a new and supposedly superior post-human species. Elon Musk is a transhumanist. His company Neuralink is all about merging our brains with AI. Mark Zuckerberg is a transhumanist. Peter Thiel has invested millions and millions of dollars into radical longevity research. The goal then would be to attain immortality. Useful Idiots: Can you talk about network states? Kate Willett: They wanted to have these little anarcho-capitalist communities. It was all about getting out of the United States to do this. But what seems to have changed recently is that a lot of these billionaire dudes seem to have decided that maybe the best way for them to realize their illiberal, anti-democratic vision of running the government more like a business is making the United States that versus leaving. Curtis Yarvin talks about this idea he calls RAGE: Retire All Government Employees. And now we have DOGE, which is also a four-letter acronym for getting rid of the administrative state. It just seems like these dudes are making a lot of progress. Their previous vision was leaving somewhere and having these little tech utopias, network states. Now they're trying to do it here. Émile Torres: DOGE seems to be RAGE in action. Useful Idiots: What are some of the craziest, scariest ideologies, that come out of this movement? Émile Torres : The one thing I would want people to know is that part of what it means for us to bring about utopia, to transition from our current human era to this paradisiacal post-human era, is for our species to be disempowered, marginalized, or eliminated. I think that at the heart of this ideology is a pro-extinctionist view. They say once we create post-humans, our digital successors, then we should bow out. Because we're just going to be inferior beings that are using up valuable resources on Earth. So really, at the heart of this idea is this eschatological end times vision that we're going to transition from a biological world to a digital world. And our species is going to disappear. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Subscribe for the full interview with Kate and Émile where we discuss the pseudo-utopian autocratic book Abundance by the New York Times ’ Ezra Klein and the Atlantic ’s Derek Thompson, how older billionaires are cryogenically freezing themselves to be revived once the immortality AI is ready, why that tech may be ready a lot sooner than we think, and what the relationship is between transhumanism and Zionism. 00:00 Intro 00:27 Israel says Biden NEVER ordered a ceasefire 06:41 Mike Waltz is FIRED 12:52 Antisemitism at the anti-antisemitism conference 18:15 Manchild Zionists boys beat up women in NYC 26:04 Kate Willett and Emile Torres interview 26:35 Dystopia Now podcast 30:58 What is transhumanism? 33:08 Elon Musk wants to grow the White race 42:14 Abundance from the NYT and Atlantic 53:47 The dark side of effective altruism 56:12 Why Dems don't want Medicare for All Our Sponsors: * Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mate/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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Trump RESCINDED His Job Under Israel Lobby Fire 1:03:19

5 weeks yang lalu1:03:19

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Let CrowdHealth help with your healthcare needs. Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months by using code USEFUL at joincrowdhealth.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here for the full interview with Lt. Col. Daniel Davis and Glenn Diesen: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/trump-rescinded-his-job-under-israel?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt Accidentally Celebrates College Protests https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/adls-jonathan-greenblatt-accidentally?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.com Join us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to. A lot is happening in Ukraine this week, so we start there with our two guests: retired Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis and Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen. After Russia launched its largest strike on Kyiv in a long time, peace talks between the two sides with the US as intermediary are stalled, with Trump appearing to blame Volodymyr Zelensky for the impasse. Useful Idiots: What is your assessment of where we are in the Ukraine proxy war? Lt. Col. Daniel Davis: We need to understand from the first point here that this war is already concluded. Ukraine lost, Russia won. That's the entry point that we have to start with because there's too many people in the West who still operate like there's a choice that can be made, that Trump can either press for a good outcome or he can quote ‘abandon Ukraine’ and give in to a bad outcome. There isn't. There is no good deal here to be had. We can get an ugly peace deal right now or we can avoid that yet again and end up setting the stage for a Ukraine military outright defeat. Useful Idiots: Meanwhile, you had these talks this week that were supposed to happen in London, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio skipped out, saying that Ukraine is not ready to come to the table. And Volodymyr Zelensky is openly rejecting one of the key U.S. concessions so far, which was to recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea. Glenn Diesen: I think it was a poor play by Zelensky, because this is Trump's hundred-day plan to finish off the war. The United States is preparing to walk away and wash its hands of this war if it can't get a peace deal, and the Russians are making real concessions, so obviously you want to at least appear to accommodate Trump's proposal. But Zelenskyy shut it down before the meeting even took place. Our chats with the two experts cover the history and future of the war in Ukraine, the “catastrophic” prediction they have for Trump’s China plans, and why the role of Deputy Director of National Intelligence was taken from Lt. Col. Davis at the last moment. Davis: I actually was going to be the Deputy Director of National Intelligence, but that got sank. There were these voices: the Jewish Insider, Mark Levin, the ADL, spreading all kinds of stuff. That's a shame, because what that's telling you is that there is some external entity that has power over who gets to serve in the United States government at even the highest levels. When you say, ‘ We're going to follow one path here that harms another group of people writ large, not just Hamas but all of the Palestinian people, and if you don't hold that view, you're going to be prevented from serving in the United States government, ’ something is desperately wrong and we need to get that fixed. Share Subscribe for the full interview with Lt. Col. Daniel Davis where he deep dives further into how the Israel lobby got his job rescinded, which president from the last 40 years he considers to be a strong leader, and some crazy China comments from Bari Weiss. Our Sponsors: * Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mate/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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She Defended Republicans’ Free Speech—And They Betrayed Her 48:42

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Let CrowdHealth help with your healthcare needs. Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months by using code USEFUL at joincrowdhealth.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here for the full interview with Jenin Younes: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/extended-episode-she-defended-republicans?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Tim Walz Says ‘Oops’ on Refusing to Break From Biden on Gaza https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/tim-walz-says-oops-on-refusing-to?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.com Join us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to. Attorney Jenin Younes has a long career defending free speech. This has brought her across both sides of the political aisle, with Democrats and Republicans trading places on civil liberty abuses. After four years of defending conservatives against Joe Biden, she’s now leading the fight against Donald Trump and his administration as they censor, kidnap, and deport foreign nationals who stand up to genocide. Useful Idiots: Now must be a really crazy time to be a civil liberties lawyer. Tell us what you do and how you are trying to fight for civil liberties under this administration in particular. Jenin Younes: I have a focus on First Amendment free speech rights. I was a public defender in New York, which is a very left-wing career. I ended up going into the civil liberties practice of law because I was really opposed to COVID restrictions. I thought it might hurt the poor and working class the most. I actually started defending what would largely be called conservative speech, people who questioned the lockdowns, vaccine mandates, the vaccines themselves, and the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story. For the last four or so years, I've worked mainly with conservatives, even though that's not really my political persuasion. Obviously, that's changed since October 7. A lot of the speech suppression that's been going on has been pro-Palestine speech. What is happening now under Trump is probably the most severe civil liberties and free speech violation of not just my lifetime, I would say modern history and possibly all of American history. Useful Idiots: Why is the current censorship so historic? Jenin Younes: Throwing people in ICE detention and putting them in deportation proceedings for writing op-eds is historically unprecedented. I don't think there's been anything like that ever. You had some during the Red Scare. There was some sort of echoes of that. The fact that we are throwing people in ICE detention, tearing them away from their families, and deporting them out of the country for criticizing a foreign nation is so without precedent in this country that I really don't even have words for it. I don't know how many people they're going to eventually punish. I don't know if they're going to go after citizens next. I think they might because they've indicated they could. But what they're doing is chilling everybody's speech. That's a major concern in First Amendment law, that when people see others being punished for the same kind of speech they want to engage in, that they're going to say, ‘I can't risk that. I can't risk being deported. I can't risk going to prison. So I'm just going to shut up.’ And I would say that the ultimate aim is to entirely suppress any pro-Palestine advocacy. Subscribe to hear the full interview with Jenin Younes on JD Vance’s “playbook of tyrants,” the age of Trial by Twitter, the turn of RFK Jr, a dangerous new legal definition of antisemitism, unmasking the doxxers at Betar, and so much more. 00:00 Intro 01:11 Jake Sullivan's WWIII Lie 04:42 Marco Rubio's Blatant Hypocrisy 11:58 Harry and Meghan are more racist than the Queen?? 15:15 Betar doxxed Aaron (and rudely ignored Katie) 20:15 Jenin Younes interview 21:25 Defending both sides as a civil liberties lawyer 23:16 The most severe free speech violation in American history 24:55 Is there legal justification for the ICE arrests? 29:22 Will this go to the Supreme Court? 30:58 Rubio's Still Lying 36:19 Why they PURPOSEFULLY choose innocent protesters 42:43 What are Dems doing? 46:21 The most unlikely person we agree with Our Sponsors: * Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mate/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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“It’s a Crock!” Richard Wolff on Trump’s Tariffs 50:41

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Let CrowdHealth help with your healthcare needs. Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months by using code USEFUL at joincrowdhealth.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here for the full interview with Richard Wolff: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/richard-wolff-on-trumps-tariffs-its?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Fox News Reluctantly Criticizes Trump’s Tariff "Capitulation" https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/fox-news-reluctantly-criticizes-trumps?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.com Join us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to. In a week of market turmoil, we need a real expert to explain WTF is going on with Trump, tariffs, reversals, and crashes. So we’re talking to Useful Idiot-favorite, economist Richard Wolff, who sheds light on a tumultuous week and gives a fascinating lecture on what Trump should be doing to save the economy, and why he won’t. Useful Idiots: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just gave a speech saying ‘yes, the market is tumbling, but too bad, Wall Street. It's not your turn. This is the era of Main Street.’ This is the Trump administration's message now: The stock market has taken a huge hit, but that's because we're focused on restoring Main Street. How do you respond to that? Richard Wolff: This is all advertising noise. It has nothing to do with anything. The reason that Wall Street is yelling is that they don't want to be pinched. They're perfectly happy to have Mr. Trump do most of the things he wants to do. But they don't want to pay even this much of a fee for the benefits. Let me give you an example. When Mr. Trump was president the first time, the only basic economic achievement was the tax cut of 2017, an enormous tax cut given to corporations and the rich. The thirty years before 2017 were an enormous and unprecedented redistribution of wealth and income from the bottom and the middle to the top. If ever you didn't need a tax cut for those people, it was then. The only opposition to it that the Democrats could achieve was a sunset. It would expire this year, 2025. And so Mr. Trump has an urgent need, which all of Wall Street understands. He can't allow that to happen because they would all blame him. So that's what he's about to do. And the major way he thinks he can do that is by savaging public employment through all the firings, and by income from tariffs. I want people to understand this means that the Republican Party, which for a hundred years has branded itself the anti-tax party, has overnight become the mammoth tax-imposing economy, because a tariff is just a tax . And so what they're achieving is huge increase in taxes and firing large numbers of public employees. That's what it's about. The Main Street/Wall Street nonsense is pure fluff and shouldn't detract anyone from the underlying realities. Useful Idiots: Trump announced [on Wednesday] that he’s authorized a 90-day pause and a substantially lowered reciprocal tariff of 10% during that period. Help us make sense of what he’s doing here. Richard Wolff: I'm mystified. In my wildest imagination. Since I've just explained about uncertainty – I'm blown away – it's just incredible what he's doing. It’s beyond anything I can give you a rational answer for because this is no longer a rational behavior pattern. Useful Idiots: ‘Incredible’ like incredibly stupid? Richard Wolff: Yeah incredibly self-defeating. It undercuts any calculation. Even Jamie Dimon said that the uncertainty is the issue. This is just revving up uncertainty by cutting it down, making it not effective for ninety days. Everybody has to wonder: what happens at the end of ninety days? Another thirty days? Another twelve? I mean, this is beyond words. 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Clare Daly & Mick Wallace Go To Yemen: ‘It’s Heroism, Not Terrorism’ 1:06:57

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Get started today for just $99 per month for your first three months by using code USEFUL at joincrowdhealth.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here for the full interview with Clare Daly and Mick Wallace: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/extended-episode-clare-daly-and-mick?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: State Dept Blames Hamas For Israel Executing Rescue Workers https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/state-dept-blames-hamas-for-israel?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.com Join us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to. Activists and former Members of the European Parliament Clare Daly and Mick Wallace return to the show a day after returning from a momentous trip to Yemen where they attended (and Mick spoke at) a Palestine Solidarity rally of over a million people. We discuss the US bombing campaign they witnessed first-hand in Yemen, the resilience of the Yemeni people, the history of terror against their people, and their attempt to block Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, which continues to be enabled by the West. Katie Halper: Tell us what you were just doing in Yemen, what brought you there and what you observed. Clare Daly: We're a bit overwhelmed still. We only came back yesterday. We were there on invitation at the National Conference on Solidarity with Palestine, the theme being You Are Not Alone. And this was the first time that they had international visitors in Yemen, in the midst of a US blitz. We were not disappointed, it was just from start to finish an absolutely incredible experience in terms of both the solidarity with Palestine but also the absolute resilience of the Yemeni people. Mick Wallace: You'd struggle to find a people so determined and so united. It's hard to imagine that any state has opposed Western imperialism in quite the same way as Yemen has. KH: Much like the situation in Gaza ‘starts on October 7’ for lots of people, what's happening in Yemen just ‘starts with the Houthis blocking ships’ and being ‘bad men’ and ‘terrorists.’ But why does Saudi Arabia, with U.S. support, want to destroy Yemen? And why did the U.N. give them permission to do so? Mick: The Yemenis had done nothing to anybody other than the fact that [in 2011 the president] had been pushed aside and the assistant Hadi had been put in power with a program of introducing neoliberalism and facilitating Western investment and plunder. They wanted to raze the place blind and get control of yemeni assets and resources. Yemen was one of the most self-sufficient food countries on the planet. And Hadi manufactured loans from the likes of the IMF and the World Bank with a view to changing how they did agriculture so that they would produce food for export instead of for themselves. And it was a disaster. Before long, people actually found themselves short of food. And they said no to this. There was an insurrection and of course the insurrection wasn't to the pleasing of the West and so in March 2015 [the West] said ‘we have found it impossible to subdue these people so we'll do it the other way.’ That was with military might. It's what's normal for settler colonials, be it America, Europeans or Israel. And that's what happened. Sanctions and blockades still continue to this day. And it's an enormously difficult situation for people living there now. KH: What do you think of the way that the Houthis [Ansar Allah] are portrayed as terrorists, given that, as you pointed out, they're actually the ones following the law when it comes to genocide? Clare: Isn't it amazing? It's deliberately portrayed as marginal and as terrorist. But in actual fact, this government is one of very few internationally which is fulfilling its responsibility under the Geneva Convention, which says that the obligation on all signatories is not just to not commit genocide yourself, but to actively prevent and punish those who do. And the Houthi-led government in Yemen is one of the few doing that. Their actions are directly targeted at interfering with international shipping, which is on its way to enable genocide. Meanwhile, the Israelis are targeting civilians and deliberately killing ordinary people and they're the ones enabled by the West but the Houthis are the ones who are demonized as terrorists. They've been incredibly restrained, they did not attack the ships when the ceasefire was in place and they only resumed the action when the ceasefire was broken with the implementation of the mass starvation again and targeted killing of civilians by the Israelis. The Houthis clearly have the support of their people. We were on a march of over a million people. It happens every Friday. People come out, and bear in mind that these are now the victims of American bombings. every night, to say ‘we stand with Palestine.’ We had a meeting with the former prime minister. And he said, ‘look, it's very simple for us. We are not going to stand by. When children are being murdered and starved, we have an obligation to do something and we are going to do it.’ For us, that's heroism. That's not terrorism. For our full interview with Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, where we discuss War in Ukraine and how the West is happy to use the Ukrainian people as cannon fodder, please subscribe to Useful Idiots. Your support keeps independent media strong. 00:00 Intro 01:01 Cory Booker's 25 Hours of Nothing 09:57 Should Trump run the global economy? 12:51 Trump makes up story about soldier saying I Love You 15:54 Matt Taibbi slandered in Congress 26:13 Clare Daly and Mick Wallace interview 26:56 A Trip to Yemen 29:22 They saw the US bombs drop 34:05 Why destroy Yemen? 38:00 Are the Houthis terrorists? 42:11 Why is Israel allowed to kill? 49:38 Yemenis are too cool for US bombs 57:26 Mick's speech to a million people 1:04:32 PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH: WTF is happening in Europe? 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Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern on SignalGate and JFK Files 1:03:47

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Israel Kills HUNDREDS During 'Ceasefire' – with Palestinians Diana Buttu and Abubaker Abed 1:12:12

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“Rampage in Syria” – Dennis Kucinich and Joshua Landis on Massacres Under New Al Qaeda Gov’t 1:08:57

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Check out Avocado Green Mattress: https://avocadogreenmattress.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here for the full interviews with Dennis Kucinich and Joshua Landis: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/rampage-in-syria-dennis-kucinich?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Follow Professor Joshua Landis: https://x.com/joshua_landis Follow Congressman Dennis Kucinich: https://kucinichreport.substack.com/ Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Aaron Maté DEMOLISHES Rabbi Schmuley on Piers Morgan https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/aaron-mate-demolishes-rabbi-schmuley?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.com Join us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to. “There have been widespread massacres along the coast of Alawites,” reports Professor Joshua Landis , Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma. “This is a religious minority in Syria. They're also the community that backed Bashar al-Assad's regime. Most of the top officers in his security forces and intelligence service were Alawites. And so for that reason, the entire Alawite community has been labeled as guilty and is accused by these Jihadi militias of being guilty.” We don’t show the videos coming out of Syria this week in this episode, but Professor Landis describes the disturbing footage he’s seen. “They just slaughtered every Alawite male they could find along the coast. And not just men, although the vast majority were men. But in many instances, entire families were killed in their apartments. And we have a number of videos of mothers showing you their kids and their entire household who have been shot. A hundred and forty people were just slaughtered in the main town on the roads and the square. And you can see just horrible videos.” The narrative that we've been told in the west is that regime change is necessary to promote democracy around the world. But, Landis explains, though many Syrians justifiably hated the Assad government, the results of US foreign policy make things worse. “Americans believe that when they overturn dictatorships, they're going to get a democratic outcome. We convinced ourselves of this in Iraq, in Libya, in Afghanistan, that we could somehow mold these societies in our own image. And we've discovered that time and time again: we're wrong. And what has happened throughout the Middle East, whether it's the Taliban or Al-Qaeda or ISIS, is you're going to get these extremist militias.” We’re also joined by former Congressman Dennis Kucinich , who has visited Syria over a dozen times and studied its history. “This was so predictable,” he says of this week’s massacres. “The US has been involved for thirty years in an effort to take over Syria.” Kucinich explains the US role in Syria since his time serving in Congress, when he saw firsthand how Bush administration officials focused on helping Israel by employing disruption tactics throughout the Middle East. “The ongoing humanitarian crisis and severe sectarian violence in Syria are direct outcomes of policies dating back to the Clean Break doctrine of 1996, by a D.C. think tank which counseled Benjamin Netanyahu.” Share “The Clean Break doctrine laid the groundwork for aggressive policies toward Syria which emerged through an effort coordinated by the Bush White House as several authors of the Clean Break strategy ascended to federal government policy-making positions.” And as always, this was a bipartisan strategy. “The "Clean Break" approach was further advanced by Hillary Clinton, who, as Secretary of State, together with CIA Director David Petraeus, proposed arming Syrian rebels.” This, Kucinich explains, led to the CIA’s plot to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, replacing him in 2024 with a new al-Qaeda-led government. Subscribe for the full interview with Dennis Kucinich in which he recounts his trip to Syria with now-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, what Elon Musk should be doing with DOGE, and how he would end America’s debt crisis. 00:00 Intro 00:42 Chuck Schumer slanders Mahmoud Khalil 08:32 Mike Johnson and Republicans gloat about arresting Mahmoud Khalil 19:04 Trump's racist insult to Schumer 20:36 Katie's shark-infested travel experience 22:40 Joshua Landis interview 23:02 What happened in Syria this week? 24:36 Was this started by Assad-regime loyalists? 31:37 Obama's Syria lie 36:20 Will the al-Qaeda leader condemn these massacres? 39:05 Is this what Israel wanted? 43:11 Will sanctions finally be lifted? 45:56 The Balkanization of Syria 48:41 Dennis Kucinich interview 49:03 The genesis of sectarian death squads in Syria 52:20 Congressman goes to Syria 55:12 Israel's Clean Break policy 58:23 Tulsi Gabbard on Syria 1:04:10 Trump's foreign policy 1:07:34 What should Elon and DOGE really do? 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Trump and Rubio Call Ukraine a Proxy War – with The Duran 47:09

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Go to our sponsor https://venice.ai/useful and use code useful to enjoy private, uncensored AI. Using our code will get you 20% off a pro plan. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at http://betterhelp.com/ USEFUL and get on your way to being your best self. Check out DeleteMe and use our code IDIOTS for a great deal: https://joindeleteme.com Support local jobs and get variety of high-quality clothing and activewear at https://www.american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code USEFUL. Thanks to American Giant for sponsoring the show! Check out Avocado Green Mattress: https://avocadogreenmattress.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here for the full interviews with The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/extended-episode-trump-and-rubio?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Follow The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/theduran https://x.com/AMercouris https://x.com/AXChristoforou See Katie and Yanis live in Brussels on March 7: https://diem25.org/brussels-event-the-battle-for-europes-future-starts-now-yanis-varoufakis-katie-halper-grace-blakeley-and-melanie-schweizer/ Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Trump Attacks Trans Mice; MSNBC Attacks a Child https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/trump-attacks-trans-mice-msnbc-attacks?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.com Join us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to. This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a stunning and unprecedented statement to the world: he called the Ukraine war a proxy war. Rubio’s statement makes him the highest ranking official to admit what has been happening in Ukraine since the start of this war. Adam Schiff said it: “The United States aids Ukraine and her people so that we can fight Russia over there and we don’t have to fight Russia over here.” Lindsey Graham said it: “As long as we help Ukraine with the weapons they need and the economic support, they will fight to the last person.” Now Rubio: “I’ve been very clear from the beginning that President Trump views this as a protracted stalemated conflict, and frankly it’s a proxy war between…the United States and Russia.” The Duran 's Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris join the show this week to explain the history of the proxy war, the magnitude of this unprecedented statement, and why it could represent a major shift away from the last 30 years of US foreign policy. “Since 2014,” Alexander explains, “[the CIA] has basically been controlling Ukraine's intelligence services and has even trained people who have taken part in the assassinations of rebel leaders in the Donbas. Admissions are slowly coming out about what has preceded all of this and what helped provoke Russia to invade.” But Rubio’s statement could be more than an admission; it could be a policy shift. “It's just so unprecedented to get at this level. The secretary of state saying, ‘This is indeed a proxy war. It has to come to an end.’ I think Rubio knew exactly what he was doing. He made this extraordinary statement a few weeks ago that the unipolar moment is over, that the United States is one great power amongst several, that it must pursue its own interests, that the entire history period of American foreign policy has essentially come to an end. Which is a massive reversal of everything that the US has been saying it's been doing for the last thirty years.” Subscribe to hear the full interview with Alex and Alexander on whether a proposed peace deal would actually be accepted by Russia, why there hasn’t been a single US lawmaker to oppose any military spending for Ukraine, and if the Trump administration’s peace messaging will extend to their policies in the Middle East. 00:00 Intro 00:16 Dems protest Trump's speech by doing nothing 07:41 Trump attacks free speech on college campuses 13:38 "Jewish women with big racks" go to the ADL 16:10 Democrats TikTok malfunction 18:25 Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris interview 19:27 Will Trump end the Ukraine War? 22:26 Rubio said it! 25:09 The CIA is more involved than we realize 30:55 Is Trump meeting with Zelensky's political opponents? 37:22 The EU is all in on the war 41:25 A pacified Russia 45:30 Will Russia accept a deal? Our Sponsors: * Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mate/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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Yanis Varoufakis: 'Capitalism is DEAD' 1:04:52

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Go to our sponsor https://venice.ai/useful and use code useful to enjoy private, uncensored AI. Using our code will get you 20% off a pro plan. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at http://betterhelp.com/ USEFUL and get on your way to being your best self. Check out DeleteMe and use our code IDIOTS for a great deal: https://joindeleteme.com Support local jobs and get variety of high-quality clothing and activewear at https://www.american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code USEFUL. Thanks to American Giant for sponsoring the show! Check out Avocado Green Mattress: https://avocadogreenmattress.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here for the full interviews with Yanis Varoufakis: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/extended-episode-yanis-varoufakis-928?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false See Katie and Yanis live in Brussels on March 7: https://diem25.org/brussels-event-the-battle-for-europes-future-starts-now-yanis-varoufakis-katie-halper-grace-blakeley-and-melanie-schweizer/ Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Brian Stelter: Voters Who Want Peace Are Illiterate https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/brian-stelter-voters-who-want-peace?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.com Join us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to. Useful Idiots’ resident economist Yanis Varoufakis returns to the show this week to analyze Trump and Musk’s chainsaw cuts to Medicaid, USAID, and other government programs, answering the important question: is it actually bad for a government to run a deficit? But before getting into the DOGE of it all, Varoufakis gives an economic explanation for how Trump reclaimed power, and whose fault it is. “Donald Trump is the creation of the Democratic Party's spectacular, lamentable failures,” he says. “The first time he was elected, it was entirely due to Barack Obama. Barack Obama betrayed every single promise or principle that he put forward in 2008.” And his reelection was a result of the same calculated missteps by the Dems. “The average American couldn't make ends meet. And yet the liberal establishment were saying you've never had it so good and you should celebrate the fact that we've had a recovery in the labor market and inflation . People couldn't make ends meet. And there was a Democratic establishment telling them that it was the best of all possible worlds. How dare you complain about your finances? ” Just as he did after Obama, Trump capitalized on this: “Trump comes again and says, I'm looking you in the eye and I can recognize your pain and I'm going to make you great. So he got elected as a result of very concerted efforts by the Democrats to lose.” Share But will Trump follow through on these promises to help the working class, or will the donors in Mar-a-Lago trump the voters? “The Republicans,” Yanis explains, “are notorious for being exceptionally liberal when it comes to handing money to themselves, to their friends, to the financial and real estate community. They have no problem doing that. But they look at a single cent, nickel, or dime being spent on a poor person and they scream blue murder. Why? Because they are class warriors. They're in the business of conducting a vicious class war against the little people.” But the even harsher reality, he says, is the reason it will be so challenging to fix any of these problems: “Unfortunately, the Democrats have been even more efficient class warriors than the Republicans.” Subscribe for the full interview with Yanis Varoufakis where he explains this, plus why Amazon is “the wet dream of the Soviet Economic Planning Ministry,” how technofeudalism killed capitalism, and the real reason that Germany is so beholden to Israel (hint: it’s not Holocaust guilt like they say). 00:00 Intro 01:01 Dems are MAD about peace talks with Russia 09:20 Trump's totally gonna cut Medicaid 20:30 Jake Tapper lied about everything 24:38 Meet the Snowflake: Christopher Rufo 28:50 Yanis Varoufakis interview 29:54 Less evil voting 34:44 Will Trump lower the cost of eggs? 38:59 Does government spending cause inflation? 42:36 What is the impact of a deficit? 45:30 Is it bad to run a deficit? 51:15 They're lying through their teeth 53:44 What is Elon Musk doing? 58:22 What is technofeudalism? 1:02:34 How do we stop Amazon? Our Sponsors: * Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mate/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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Ukrainian Historian Exposes the Real Zelensky 50:40

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Go to our sponsor https://venice.ai/useful and use code useful to enjoy private, uncensored AI. Using our code will get you 20% off a pro plan. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at http://betterhelp.com/ USEFUL and get on your way to being your best self. Check out DeleteMe and use our code IDIOTS for a great deal: https://joindeleteme.com Support local jobs and get variety of high-quality clothing and activewear at https://www.american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code USEFUL. Thanks to American Giant for sponsoring the show! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here for the full interviews with Marta Havryshko: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/ukrainian-historian-exposes-the-real?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Rachel Maddow Incites a New January 6 Over Ukraine Peace Talks https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/rachel-maddow-incites-a-new-january?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.com Join us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to. “Every single day, we are losing territories. Every single day, we are losing people. Every single day, our children in Ukraine are suffering from these rocket attacks, drone attacks. And nobody knows what happened next.” Dr. Marta Havryshko is a Ukrainian historian and professor at Clark University. She has watched as the proxy war between the United States and Russia has destroyed her country. “Those who want to continue this disaster and this hell,” she says, calling out the proxy warriors and those who have criticized her for seeking peace, “are you ready to sacrifice your life? Are you ready to sacrifice the life of your brother, son, and other loved ones for this crazy idea that victory can be achieved?” Ukraine, she believes, was doomed from the beginning of the war. “Russia is bigger, Russia has a lot of resources, Russia has powerful friends. I can't even understand who in their right mind actually can believe that Ukraine can change the situation on the front line and retake all those territories.” Marta has watched as her family members were forced to fight and die for this proxy war. She shows us footage of the Ukrainian army chasing and kidnapping men as a method of forced conscription as the fighting population wanes. “Who will retake those territories? Many of my friends, many of my relatives are in the army now. They suffer from suicidal thoughts. They suffer from this desperation, frustration. But nobody can replace them because we have this problem with mobilization, we are running out of manpower.” And she explains who Ukrainians are blaming: “That's why the popularity of Zelensky nowadays is really low. Ukraine under Zelensky is not a democracy.” Subscribe for the full interview with Marta Havryshko on how western media whitewashes neo-Nazis, why comparing Putin to Hitler doesn’t work, and how Zelensky shut down TV channels to censor opponents. 00:00 Intro 01:43 Chuck Schumer: Influencer 08:22 Trump's cutting Medicaid 14:58 Fighting Trump with Dance 17:25 NYT covers for a Hate Crime 20:22 Marta Havryshko interview 21:53 Will Trump Make Peace in Ukraine? 31:48 Why she voted for Zelensky in 2019 35:29 WaPo's Scantily Clad War Propaganda 40:08 Death Threats for Criticizing Nazis 45:18 Zelensky, the Azov Battalion, and Corporate Media Our Sponsors: * Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mate/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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What Is Elon Up To? Inside the Broligarchy with Quinn Slobodian and Michael Tracey 1:27:10

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Go to our sponsor https://venice.ai/useful and use code useful to enjoy private, uncensored AI. Using our code will get you 20% off a pro plan. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at http://betterhelp.com/ USEFUL and get on your way to being your best self. Check out DeleteMe and use our code IDIOTS for a great deal: https://joindeleteme.com Support local jobs and get variety of high-quality clothing and activewear at https://www.american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code USEFUL. Thanks to American Giant for sponsoring the show! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here for the full interviews with Quinn Slobodian and Michael Tracey: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/extended-episode-what-is-elon-up?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Calls on Ghost Witnesses from JFK Commission https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/rep-anna-paulina-luna-calls-on-ghost?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.com Join us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to. This week, the world saw the president of the United States sit quietly at his desk while the richest person in the world stood over him to take questions from reporters. It comes only days after another subservient look from “tough guy” Trump when he pushed in his boss’s chair like a waiter: While Netanyhu seems to be in complete control of Trump internationally, we’re turning to the domestic front to ask: how much power do Musk and the Broligarchy have over the president’s decisions? Quinn Slobodian, professor of international history at Boston University and author of the upcoming book Hayek's Bastards : Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right , and journalist Michael Tracey join the show to unravel the mystery around Elon Musk, analyzing what he’s already done, what DOGE has the power to do, and how he plans to build his influence. Quinn explains the difficulty in putting a label on Musk, which he says is often helpful in giving a historical analysis for a person. Some call Musk a techno-fascist, others call him a libertarian, and others a tech oligarch. Quinn doesn’t quite agree with any of these labels, and begins building a new one. We also ask him about Steve Bannon, who has been replaced at Trump’s side by Musk, and whether there will be some kind of MAGA civil war between the pseudo-populists and the tech elites. And dive into how Elon Musk was shaped by the South African apartheid. Michael Tracey discusses Trump’s role in the Ukraine War. After Trump’s failed promise to end the war in “24 hours,” it’s become clear that he doesn’t plan to stop giving aid to Ukraine. And with reports of a historic phone call this week between Trump and Putin, what is next for Ukraine? Subscribe for the full interview with Michael Tracey on what Russia is willing to accept from Trump, the hypocrisy of the culture wars, and what Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation as director of national intelligence means for foreign policy. 00:00 Intro 01:26 Dems are PISSED at constituents and activists 09:49 Republicans are slashing Medicaid 21:05 Trump calls FRAUD on policy he doesn't like 24:39 Plastic straws and sharkaganda 26:57 Quinn Slobodian interview 27:40 How much power does Elon Musk have? 31:12 The PayPal Mafia 35:43 DOGE targets the Pentagon 40:56 Musk got his contract under Biden 48:23 Elon's obsession with population 53:33 A MAGA civil war? 57:02 The 5 Core Propositions of Elon Musk 1:04:16 Michael Tracey interview 1:04:54 Trump called Putin 1:08:21 KGB spies in the White House 1:13:13 How does Trump view Ukraine? 1:20:47 Trump wants to raise military spending?? 1:24:12 What will Russia accept? Our Sponsors: * Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/useful-idiots-with-katie-halper-and-aaron-mate/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…

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