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For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the extended interview with Norm Finkelstein: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-norm-finkelstein?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web When Barack Obama tweets that we need to vote for people who look like us and represent us, Norm Finkelstein can only laugh. Nancy Pelosi? One of her facelifts was more money than Norm has made in his entire life. Norm shares the true leftist tradition from revolutionaries like Rosa Luxemburg and Leon Trotsky and explains why they are so important, especially today.

For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the extended interview with Norm Finkelstein: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-norm-finkelstein?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Norman “X” Finkelstein returns to Useful Idiots, fired up and with a scathing critique of Bernie Sanders and The Squad. He begins with a definition of radicalism and The Left, citing the writing of Rosa Luxemburg: “The whole job of The Left is to constantly point out the conflict of interest between the ruling elite, the capitalist class, and yourself. To constantly point out: ‘Their interests are not your interests. Don’t be fooled.’” Historically, he says, Bernie Sanders has upheld this left tradition, calling out the crooks who steal your money. But when it came to Ukraine, “the bunch of crooks metamorphosed into a band of angels. You’re telling me the same people who are cheating you day in and day out, stealing your wealth, stealing your labor, those same people are suddenly heartbroken by what’s happening to the Ukrainian people?” Norm does't pull any punches in his assessment of The Squad and Sanders: “The day the squad and Bernie voted for war credits for Ukraine, that whole progressive enterprise turned into a rotting corpse.”

For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the latest episode: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-leak-us-government?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web This Sunday on the corporate media shows, it was all election madness all the time. And more importantly, as Rania Khalek points out, not one mention of the nuclear proxy war raging in Ukraine. Has the US gotten bored of pretending to care about Ukrainians while escalating war and breaking peace talks? Do celebrities and politicians no long want to send billions and billions of dollars in weapons to keep the war raging on? Maybe the polling and punditry is just too much fun to talk about anything else.

For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com See the latest episode: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-us-threatens-haiti?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Chris Sununu, known familiarly to friends as Cuck, was called a Chinese communist sympathizer and supporter of terrorists by NH senate candidate Donald Bolduc. In return, Cuck is endorsing Bolduc for senate.

For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com See the latest episode: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-us-threatens-haiti?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Useful Idiots were "Monday Mourning" the terrifying Sunday news shows that we watch so that you don't have to, and to get into the spirit, threw together the most last-minute costumes we could find. And now, even though Halloween is over, much scarier days are ahead of us: corporate media election coverage....

Click here for the extended interview with Medea Benjamin: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-why-are-us-progressives?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com With the proxy war raging on in Ukraine and the new threat of nuclear war, CBS's Charlie D'Agata can't seem to contain his excitement for the upcoming armageddon.

Click here for the extended interview with Medea Benjamin: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-why-are-us-progressives?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com With AOC (and the Squad by extension) being recently heckled for their support of sending weapons to Ukraine and prolonging the proxy war, Useful Idiots had anti-war activist Medea Benjamin on to explore the question: when did US progressives become pro-war? Were the protesters right to confront AOC? Can you disagree with someone on some issues and still stand with them on others? How can progressives become active to push a path to peace in Ukraine? Medea Benjamin answers.

Click here for the full interview with Wyatt Reed: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-us-journalist-on?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get access to extended interviews and bonus content here: http://usefulidiots.substack.com Wyatt Reed, a US journalist who writes for Sputnik, a Russian-state media outlet, is reporting from the front lines in Ukraine. His hotel was bombed by a Ukrainian strike just hours after he had arrived there — and while he was just steps away. While in Donetsk, he learned first-hand about the Azov Battalion, how they treat people in the region, and the fear and hatred they provoke. Prior to the Russian invasion, the US government and its media outlets like the NYT condemned Azov as Neo-Nazis. Now, they are celebrated and armed by the west. Wyatt Reed reports.

Click here for the latest episode with Wyatt Reed: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-us-journalist-on?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get access to extended interviews and bonus content here: http://usefulidiots.substack.com As Biden officially announces the launch of the student loan forgiveness, Democrats have been slowly restricting who actually gets access to the help from a bill which originally proclaimed to be for everyone. In order to do this, they need to do means testing, which restricts who qualifies, and a recent report showed that this research will cost $99 million. A lot of money to make sure some people will stay in debt forever.

Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-col-doug-macgregor?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com In response to OPEC cutting oil production and increasing attempts of international "dedollarizing," Col. Doug Macgregor says, "A serious effort to replace the US global financial system has begun, where no one wants to buy our debt. And it's closer than we think. I don't think we're in control anymore."

Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-col-doug-macgregor?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com After years of calling out the Azov battalion as a Neo-Nazi militia, the New York Times now refers to them as "celebrated" in a heartwarming article about Neo-Nazis reuniting with their families. Col. Doug Macgregor says: "The US will use anything and anyone to win. That includes Neo-Nazis. That includes blowing up pipelines. That includes sanctions. They will leave no stone unturned."

Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-how-the-west-provoked?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Dr. Abelow's new book: How the West Brought War to Ukraine: https://www.amazon.com/How-West-Brought-Ukraine-Understanding/dp/0991076702 Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Researcher and writer Dr. Ben Abelow, a scholar who lobbied Congress on nuclear arms policy, joins Useful Idiots to explain, as his new book argues, how the west brought war to Ukraine. “The goal of the US,” Abelow says, “is not to save Ukrainians but to degrade Russia’s military until they won’t be able to fight in the future. And while some say stopping Russia is a humanitarian goal, the way one would degrade Russia’s military is to keep an extended war going and fight to the last Ukrainian.” And if this seems like cynical Useful Idiots conjecture, watch Senator Lindsey Graham literally say that this is the US policy. And everyone applauds.

Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-how-the-west-provoked?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 Hey Useful Idiots, listen up right here, There's a new 80-year-old great-grandma and Utah State Senate candidate on the block this year. Her name is Linda Paulson, Her rap is pretty awesome. And it would be a win-win for Utah and the rap world if she loses. Keep rapping Linda.

Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-how-the-west-provoked?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web How the West Brought War to Ukraine: https://www.amazon.com/How-West-Brought-Ukraine-Understanding/dp/0991076702 Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Researcher and writer Dr. Ben Abelow, a scholar who lobbied Congress on nuclear arms policy, joins Useful Idiots to explain, as his new book argues, how the west brought war to Ukraine. Abelow analyzes the history of this cold war, the aggression by each side, and the hypocrisy of the argument that Ukraine has a sacrosanct right to join NATO. “The right to join NATO is the right to place a western military arsenal on Russia’s border. If Russia made a military alliance with Canada or Mexico, US leaders would not be talking about their right to do so.”

Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-matt-taibbi-returns?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 Taibbi and Maté are the two leading experts on the nonsense that is Russiagate. So what are their two most burning questions that have yet to be answered? The first: why has no one interviewed Hillary Clinton, funder of it all, about any of this?

Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-matt-taibbi-returns?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 While Joe Biden and Democrats make angry speeches about the current election deniers, none of them mention the much more real coup attempt by the Dems and FBI in 2016. So Taibbi will.

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.

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.

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 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 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