usefulidiots

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com 0:00 Intro 1:39 Four food groups of news 13:45 Ben Abelow interview

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.

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-ghqzrzUVDj If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

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 Once a Useful Idiot, always a Useful Idiot. Matt Taibbi, who’s taken a hiatus from this pod to write his next book (he gives a sneak peek in the extended interview), just can’t stay out of the game. He’s back to talk about Democrats and Republicans sucking, the weird and terrible media, and the scary stories that are ignored by the mainstream. His newest article on taint teams sheds like on a dark new phenomenon. The FBI has given itself the power to raid lawyers, take all of their documents, and then give itself permission to use the stolen documents in unrelated cases. It’s an easy way to skip getting a search warrant, and gives the government unprecedented power to bury its enemies. Matt explains the ominous story in detail. And subscribe for the full interview: Matt and Aaron ask why hasn’t Hillary Clinton been questioned for her Russiagate involvement, Matt remembers pranking General Secretary Gorbachev, and we take Matt’s new media quiz. Taibbi’s back this week, and you’re not gonna want to miss it. Check it out. 0:00 Intro 1:56 Four food groups of news 15:56 Syria news 22:04 Matt Taibbi interview

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 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-hcTxVunRth If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

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 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 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