The Katie Halper Show

Mindahi Bastida joins us from Mexico to reflect on COP, the climate conference he attended in order to get people to listen to indigenous voices and ancestral wisdom. He shares his critique of corporate greenwashing and empty promises. Bastida is the Director of the Original Nations Program at The Fountain and a member of the Mother Earth Delegation back from COP in Glasgow. He is an executive mem...

Virginians Leslie Lee (https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii) & YB (https://twitter.com/stuffhedoes) predicted Glenn Youngkin defeat Terry McAuliffe in the race for governor months ago. They react to McAuliffe, what made him such a bad candidate and why running on Tony Morrison's Bluest Eye and running against the mistreatment of Black women wasn't a winning strategy. YB works in the Virgin...

(Patreon-only Rose McGowan interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rose-mcgowan-57953217) Labor journalists Alex Press (https://twitter.com/alexnpress) & Jonah Furman (https://twitter.com/JonahFurman) discuss the labor movement, strikes, John Deere and what it has to do with Alec Baldwin's deadly shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Alex Press is a writer and editor at Jacobi...

Iraqi Journalist Ahmed Twaij (https://www.ahmedtwaij.com/) talks about Colin Powell and why he says "I’d sooner mourn my country than treat Colin Powell as a hero." Ahmed Twaij (https://twitter.com/twaiji) is an independent freelance journalist. His work has been published in numerous outlets including The Independent, The Guardian, New York Times, Vice, BBC, Kerning Cultures and many more...

Amy Franck and Amber Fitzwater were hired by the pentagon to help the military combat sexual assault. Instead they've become whistleblowers who have been retaliated against and sexually assaulted. Amy (https://twitter.com/Neveraloneadvo1), Amber and investigative journalist Rich McHugh (https://twitter.com/RichMcHugh) join the show to share their stories and talk about the way the US Military...

Chris Hedges, Marianne Williamson & Steven Donziger discuss the sentencing of environmental and Human Rights Lawyer Steven Donziger to the maximum sentence of of six months in federal prison for the petty misdemeanor contempt of court charges filed by judge Lewis Kaplan, a pro-Chevron former tobacco industry lawyer. Steven's real crime was helping successfully sue Chevron for polluting the...

Full chat with Max is at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/56886283 Michael Moore talks about film-making, being an eagle scout, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin; then Michael is joined by climate youth leaders Alexandria Villaseñor and Jerome Foster II; then Max Blumenthal joins to talk about the latest Assange news. Plus Katie, Alexandria and Jerome call Joe Manchin. Advertising Inquiries: https://red...

Patreon Only: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-only-her-56628231 Reshma Ramachandran MD, MPP, a family medicine physician and fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale University talks about vaccine apartheid. twitter: @reshmagar Jemima Pierre, a sociocultural anthropologist and Associate Professor, UCLA Department of African American Studies and Department of Anthropology, di...

Patreon-only: how the CIA controls the media & why former CIA directors are the same mean, loud, cigar-smoking, wife-cheating. https://www.patreon.com/posts/56317591 Former CIA analyst and case officer, who blew the whistle on its torture program, breaks down the newly declassified FBI document on the Saudi connection to 9/11 so that people who haven't been in the CIA or FBI can understand...

What is the deal with Covid? Vaccines? Masks? What works? What doesn't work? Who *are* the unvaccinated? What is vaccine apartheid? What's the deal with boosters? Dr. Adam Gaffney answers your questions. He is a physician, writer, public health researcher, and advocate. He practices pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance and is an Assistant Professor in Medic...

Law Professor & historian Sam Moyn and retired NY State Supreme Court Judge Emily Jane Goodman talk about what should and could be done about the Texas abortion ban and Roe v. Wade more generally. Then an all-ladies panel with Kate Willett, Esha Krishnaswamy, Esperanza Fonseca, and Rebecca Parson discusses the ban as well as the people blaming it on Susan Sarandon, Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders a...

Three times Nobel Peace Prize nominated peace activist Kathy Kelly and anti war veteran and author Danny Sjursen discuss Afghanistan, what the war was about, what the war was not about, why Biden's statements on the terrorist "threats" in other countries & on the Kabul blast were troubling. And they debunk the disingenuous media narrative about women's rights and human rights....

Patreon only discussion on Afghanistan and the fight between Larry David & Alan Dershowitz: https://www.patreon.com/posts/55207742 Ron Kim, https://twitter.com/rontkim, the Queens Assemblyman whose uncle died in a nursing home of covid and whom Cuomo threatened to "destroy" argues for Cuomo's impeachment, warns that his political career isn't over, discusses his "soft landi...

Patreon only! https://www.patreon.com/posts/54900465 Katie and guest co-host Kate Willett (https://twitter.com/katewillett) talk to Tara Reade (https://tarareadeauthor.com/) about Cuomo, Biden & #MeToo. But first journalist Liza Featherstone (https://twitter.com/lfeatherz) discusses her piece "Elite Feminists Ran Cover for Andrew Cuomo." Plus Avalon Clare (https://twitter.com/AvalonCla...

Patreon only! https://www.patreon.com/posts/54643422 Actor & activist James Cromwell (https://twitter.com/jamesocromwell) of "Six Feet Under" and "Babe," climate change activist Alexandria Villaseñor (https://twitter.com/AlexandriaV2005) & environmental activist Pramilla Malick (https://twitter.com/pramillasmalick) join the show to talk about the connections between Andrew...

#EvictionMoratorium A panel of housing organizers, unhoused activists & policy wonks talk about the recent expiration of the eviction moratorium. Ava Farkas is the head of Met Council On Housing (https://www.metcouncilonhousing.org/); Milton Perez is an organizer with VOCAL (https://www.vocal-ny.org/); Samuel Stein researchers and writes about the politics of housing and urban planning and is...

Who Killed Haiti's President? With Kevin Pina by Katie Halper Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Reverend William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, initiated by Dr. Martin Luther King, talks about the Selma-to-Montgomery Style, 4-Day march in Texas to Challenge Attacks on the Right to Vote, which consists of a 27 mile trek from Georgetown to Austin, TX. The event is part of the organization’s national Moral Monday direct actions which are designed to demand an end to the fil...

Patreon Only audio with Lee Camp & Tara Reade https://www.patreon.com/posts/54064743 We're joined by Whole Washington organizers Georgia Davenport, Lisa Theobold & Laura Fielding plus ally Sema Hernandez who talk about how they're achieving medicare for all in the state of Washington, how it relates to the national fight for medicare for all and the Medicare For All March. Advertis...

Cuban journalist Liz Oliva Fernández & Cuba-based U.S. Journalist Reed Lindsay talk about what is happening in Cuba and offer a perspective you don't get in mainstream media. They expose the information war against the country, debunk propaganda and tell you things the U.S. Government & media definitely don't want you to know about Cuba's response to COVID-19. Learn about their...

Please support Julian Assange's Case https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/assangeappeal/ Human Rights lawyer and Julian Assange's fiancée Stella Moris delivers an urgent update about what's next for the Wikileaks founder. In the process, she destroys the legal case against Julian, points out that the star witness is a diagnosed sociopath & convicted pedophile, and argues why freedom o...

Mike Gravel, the Alaska Senator and two-time presidential candidate, died on Saturday at 91. Dan Ellsberg, the former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, eulogizes Mike Gravel, the late Alaska senator, who entered the classified documents into the Congressional Record. Ellsberg is joined by Lynne Mosier, Gravel's daughter. Both praise his moral courage and urge others to ho...

Patreon-only: https://www.patreon.com/posts/53083786 I talk to historian Jules Gill-Peterson about her groundbreaking and moving book "Histories of the Transgender Child." Peterson is associate professor of English and gender, sexuality, and women's studies at The University of Pittsburg. She's the General Co-Editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke University Press). And her...

Izzy Award-winning Journalist Aaron Maté (https://twitter.com/aaronjmate) calls out media figures who claim to be Left and "anti-interventionist," while totally ignoring the intervention in the countries they're reporting on. Having recently been attacked for reporting from Syria, Maté responds to a segment from The Young Turks and Ana Kasperian who, after smearing Aaron as a working f...

Steven Donziger (https://twitter.com/SDonziger), the lawyer under house arrest for successfully suing Chevron for poisoning the Ecuadorian Amazon & the indigenous people who live there talks with musician (Pink Floyd) & activist Roger Waters (https://twitter.com/rogerwaters) about why this case is so unprecedented & so important (https://www.donzigerdefense.com/). Donziger has been und...