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Click here for the full interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-katrina-vanden-heuvel?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com New UK Prime Minister is ready and willing to use the nuclear weapons if the time comes. Katie explains: Feminism means girlbosses can be sociopaths too.

Click here for the full interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-katrina-vanden-heuvel?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Hillary Clinton shares her thoughts on Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents and whether or not he should be prosecuted. But as Aaron explains, neither Clinton nor Trump will ever be punished for their worst crimes abroad. The only crime that is prosecuted is if it is against the other faction of the ruling class.

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com “We need to not treat the idea of peace as subversive.” Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher and editorial director of The Nation, predicts a dark cold war ahead if our leaders continue their militaristic ways. The first step, she says, is talking about it. And while the media has no interest in journalism right now, a movement from the people can save lives. “The crisis is on us. And there’s a lack not only of preparedness but of thinking about the crisis.” Katrina, who was close with the late Mikhail Gorbachev, shares the leader’s personal thoughts on peace, nuclear weapons, and the worsening relationship between US and Russian presidents. She calls him “a great reformer in his country’s tormented history.” And she sneaks in some private stories about the guy too. Plus, Biden does fascist Roger Waters, Liz Truss wants to nuke you, and the latest in terrible Trump-themed drinks. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. 0:00 Intro 3:13 Four food groups of news 20:10 Aaron's book club 21:12 Stoned moment 24:14 Katrina vanden Heuvel interview

Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-kurt-metzger-on?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Former US official Fiona Hill reported in Foreign Affairs last week that peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, in which Russia would release Ukraine territories like Crimea in return for Ukraine not joining NATO, were knowingly sabotaged by the US. Tell your friends: the US does not care about Ukrainians.

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Emmy-winning writer and 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 Useful Idiots decide to go silly, we’re no-nonsense about it. So we also enroll in the new college major Lesbian Dance Theory, chat about stoned (and dry-diapered) President Brandon in a fighter jet, and announce a watch party for the new off-the-wall Hunter Biden movie (watch the trailer with us in the four food groups). And subscribe for the full episode, including the extended interview with Kurt Metzger on call-out culture, Youtube suppression, and whatever the hell is going on with that “robot with salmon eyes” Mark Zuckerberg. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. 0:00 Intro 1:58 Four basic food groups of news 15:57 New report: US stopped peace talks between Ukraine and Russia 22:37 Biden stoned moment 24:09 Kurt Metzger interview

Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-noam-chomsky-were?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Professor Noam Chomsky analyzes the US's handling of the war in Ukraine. A recent Washington Post article did a full retrospective of the war so far, and had no mention of diplomacy. It's simply not on the US agenda, and therefore mainstream media won't mention it. Plus he analyzes the confusion for the US and Britain: why isn't Russia invading like we do? Why aren't they destroying everything in their path? Why is Kyiv still standing? What's Russia's game here?

Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-noam-chomsky-were?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Professor Noam Chomsky quotes George Orwell's introduction to Animal Farm when explaining how the US silences dissent without throwing anyone in the gulag. The propaganda is so widespread and easy because the trick is that we help the US silence the truth. Listen to Chomsky's dark explanation and check out the full interview.

Become a Useful Idiots for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/media-fails-NIdhilJMJu If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com 0:00 Intro 0:31 Four basic food groups of news 14:18 Noam Chomsky interview

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party Omali Yeshitela explains the hypocrisy in thinking Trump is the only evil president while all presidents before and after maintained the US colonialism that is starving African people around the world and suppressing them in the US. Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-i-was-sure-they?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party Omali Yeshitela explains how the US uses the specter of Russia to maintain the captivity of Black people. Last month, the APSP was raided and the Chairman himself was threatened at gunpoint by the FBI, and the search warrant insisted they were secretly run by the Russians. It's a great excuse if you want to quietly crush the Black liberation movement. Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-i-was-sure-they?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiots for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin. Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/media-fails-rNeWCrxRiU If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-i-was-sure-they?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web “It’s the US’s attempt to crush the Black liberation movement.” On July 29th, members of the African People’s Socialist Party were raided by the FBI. At the St. Louis home of APSP Chairman Omali Yeshitela, armed agents threw flash grenades, drones swooped in to spy, and snipers trained lasers on their targets’ chests — all while the FBI taped over the ‘smart doorbells’ of neighbors to avoid being filmed. Anyone have 1984 bingo yet? And the purpose of the raid? To bust the Russians for, in the FBI’s eyes, secretly running the African People’s Socialist Party. The raid came in conjunction with an indictment that day of Russian national Aleksandr Ionov for an alleged “malign influence campaign” against the United States. “There’s this insidious assumption in the mind of most white people globally that African people are too stupid to know what our own interests are, that somebody else must’ve come and told us that we are mistreated in the United States,” Chairman Yeshitela tells us. “So if Black people are saying something is happening to us, it’s not because it’s happening, it’s because Russia is talking through us. That is what they constructed.” Now, Yeshitela and his team of activists are under intense legal threat from the US government. They’re trying to raise awareness, but very few in the media are covering it. Every American knew about the Trump raid that happened weeks later, and calls to defund the FBI were solely in defense of the former president. No one talked about the Black activists threatened and raided. “Generally speaking,” the Chairman explains, “Americans are the most backwards people in the world in terms of living right in the heart of the most oppressive system while being the most ignorant about what it is that this government does.” Subscribe for the full interview, where Chairman Yeshitela describes the full raid, the dark history of American colonization, and how he and the APSP are making real change — not “malign influence” — in cities all around the country. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. For more information on the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru, visit https://apspuhuru.org/ Upcoming events to support the movement: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inpdum-2022-convention-defending-the-black-community-tickets-388189955607 14th annual Black People’s March on the White House is happening November 5 and 6. Info will be posted at https://blackisbackcoalition.org/ 0:00 Intro 1:30 Four basic food groups of news 16:18 APSP Chairman Omali Yeshitela interview

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Historian and author Vijay Prashad tells a story of a hurricane that hit sanction-strapped socialist Cuba and capitalist-American-colony Puerto Rico. One country had the lights on the next day. One was out for a year. Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-vijay-prashad-us?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Historian and author Vijay Prashad saw Jordan Peterson crying at the idea of Marxism in Canada, an abstract concept that's really only a group of professors in Birkenstocks. Vijay things there are a few more important things to cry about. Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-vijay-prashad-us?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiots for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/abolish-the-fbi-oIoInwNbbX If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com “The jaws of Hell have opened wide.” Historian and author Vijay Prashad is worried about the next war that the US will provoke. Nukes in Ukraine, a new missile crisis in Taiwan, destabilizing sovereign South American nations, asserting control in Africa. All in the name of US hegemony. He focuses in on China: what if Xi Jinping flew to Guam like Nancy Pelosi flew to Taiwan? What would the US do? There are 29 US military bases in Africa. How many Chinese military bases are there? None. The US is expanding NATO to bypass the UN treaty in an attempt to rule the world. Is China to blame? Prashad, who has a new book co-authored by Noam Chomsky, analyzes the US’s increasingly dictatorial role in the world from Russia to China to Cuba to South America: Colombia just elected a new left president. One of Gustavo Petro’s first moves was to call for an end to the US-led, so-called “war on drugs.” Subscribe for the extended episode to hear Vijay discuss all of that, plus how capitalism has destroyed the ability of people to control their own lives; the nonsensical decision to place Cuba on the state sponsor of terrorism list; and why Jordan Peterson needs a hug. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Click here for the full episode, including the extended interview with Vijay Prashad on the US expanding control over South America and why Jordan Peterson needs a hug: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-vijay-prashad-us?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web 0:00 Intro 1:40 Four basic food groups of news 16:12 CBS deletes tweet because it accurately reported on Ukraine 22:10 Stoned moments 24:38 Vijay Prashad interview

Become a Useful Idiots for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin. Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/media-fails-BBeKOWCSCl If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Lindsey Snell, journalist at ishgal.com, crossed the Ukraine border to talk to soldiers and civilians. What she found surprised her: There are Ukrainian forces who are “openly Neonazis, and we’re still giving them weapons and calling them something that they’re not.” All across the frontlines Lindsey found swastikas, SS symbols, and Wolfsangels. But negative news in Ukraine undermines the West’s mission to bleed Russia and sell more weapons, so corporate US media paints over it. Lindsey also found that while the western mercenaries who flew over to kill Russians are loving the war, most of the Ukrainians she spoke to, both soldiers and citizens, want it to end. “The corruption and lack of equipment is worse in Ukraine than anywhere I’ve been, Syria, Iraq, Libya. It’s just so bad.” And for the Ukrainians who are starving, losing their homes, and dying, “there’s no end in sight.” What’s worse — as is the norm with guests on Useful Idiots — no one in western media will report on Lindsey’s story. “Journalists come and see how corrupt everything is and that the soldiers have nothing, but none of is is reflected in mainstream reporting. It’s very well known but it’s just not getting past the filter of western media.” Plus, subscribe for the full interview, where Lindsey shares the story of getting kidnapped in Syria, how the war is hurting Europeans, and Turkey’s potential invasion of Syria (that you probably won’t hear about). It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. 0:00 Intro 1:40 Four basic food groups of news 13:36 Lindsey Snell interview

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com European Parliament members Mick Wallace and Claire Daly join the Useful Idiots to explain how the mainstream media is silencing those who refuse to toe the line: “The mainstream media saw the war as an opportunity to silence dissent once and for all. Those who have the audacity to tell the truth like Julian Assange will be silenced.” Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-mick-wallace-and?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com European Parliament members Mick Wallace and Claire Daly join the Useful Idiots to explain how the Ukraine proxy war is making global warming worse: "The right thing is the cheapest thing to do in the long term, but they’re too g**d*** stupid. Europe is on the verge of a real catastrophe." Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-mick-wallace-and?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiots for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/media-fails-PNpJbzbCSh If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com “Democracy is about having a say in how your country is run. Right now, that’s not happening. The way the system works, the politicians don’t feel under pressure to answer to the majority of the people.” Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, members of the European Parliament, are Irish progressives. This means they speak out against the proxy war in Ukraine, Julian Assange’s torture, and the Syria dirty war. Elected progressives in the US are quite different. “From what we can see,” they tell us. “You don’t have any left politics in the US. The Democrats are indistinguishable from the Republicans and Bernie would be seen as just right of center in Europe.” And what does it take to get actual progressives like Clare and Mick in office? “Until people take to the streets, it’s going to be very hard for any left wing party to show its head in America.” Plus, subscribe for the extended interview where Claire and Mick discuss abortion rights in Ireland and the US, mainstream media’s constant attacks and misinformation about them, and why our government and media are too afraid to talk about Assange, the realities of the Ukraine proxy war, and US hegemony. As Mick always says, “democracy means you can say what you like, but you’ll do what you’re told.” And that’s this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-mick-wallace-and?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web 0:00 Intro 0:50 Four basic food groups of news 14:24 Mick Wallace and Claire Daly interview

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com European Parliament members Mick Wallace and Claire Daly join the Useful Idiots to explain how the EU is ignoring its citizens: “Fueling a war in Ukraine and pumping more weapons to make sure the war didn’t stop at a cost to ourselves isn’t something the ordinary people of Europe agree with. The self-destructive sanctions are going to have a bigger impact on the people of Europe than on the Kremlin and Putin” The full interview drops Friday morning.

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Tony Winner Michael R. Jackson on the family message of "A Strange Loop" and its complex portrayal of a mother's love for her son in the song "Periodically." Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-tony-winner-michael?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web