The Katie Halper Show

Bonus eps are here! Dean Spade https://www.patreon.com/posts/220-political-28476762 Rania Khalek and NolympicsLA https://www.patreon.com/posts/no-sanctions-no-28576729 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jim Zogby, pollster, founder and president of the Arab-American Institute and Bernie Sanders advisor talks about the way polls are reported and misreported on and why the press acts like pack of crows. Plus Malaika Jabali, Aaron Mate, Jordan Chariton and I talk about the corporate media at the Left Forum. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/...

I speak to Dean Spade, trans activist, writer, teacher, law professor and founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the Big Door Brigade Mutual Aid project, and the creator of the documentary Pink Washing Exposed. Dean's links: http://www.deanspade.net, https://bigdoorbrigade.com/, https://queertranswarban.wordpress.com/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfpvrsZ-LtU Advertising Inquiries: https...

Bonus: Michael Jackson on his (I mean Usher's) Inner White Girl & Inwood Daddy. https://www.patreon.com/posts/28136890 Playwright Michael R Jackson discusses A Strange Loop, his new black queer musical about a black queer playwright writing a musical about a black queer playwright. Sophie Ellman-Golan talks about Jews against ICE and their recent protest (and arrest) outside of a detention...

Full interview about North Korea, Iran, Venezuela and hawkish Dems is here https://www.patreon.com/posts/27931206 Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) talks to me about a bipartisan amendment he and Republican Matt Gaetz (FL-1), (whom Trump has praised as "a machine," who is "handsome and going places,") introduced on Tuesday to the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to prevent fed...

I talk to Ava farkas, executive director of Met Life on Housing, and Terry Roethlein of Reclaim Pride. Ava talks about how she and her organization and countless tenants helped pass the strongest tenant protections in over a quarter of a century, what the news laws mean for New Yorkers, housing as a human right. Terry talks about queer liberation and the reclaim pride coalition and Sunday's ma...

My piece on Sydney Ember https://fair.org/home/sidney-embers-secret-sources/ Carl's paper: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GlobalGreenNewDeal.pdf I chat with Carl Beijer about his new paper, published by the People's Policy Project, on how to pay for the Global Green New Deal, why Third Way, the radical centrist think tank which says it will support any Dem...

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/youtubes-left-27583829 Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi talks about the alternative and Left content creators who have been targeted by Youtube, people who identify as liberals but support war & don't care about civil liberties, how the media gets us into war and Jonathan Chait. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: htt...

Bonus: Matt Taibbi on Youtube & Facebook purges: https://www.patreon.com/posts/27583829 Francesca Fiorentini and Esha Krishnaswamy and I talk Crowder, Youtube, censorship, sex work, George Carlin and the Palins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

(re)-educating Jonathan Chait & Sydney Ember with Greg Grandin: or how reporters like Chait & Ember regurgitate psyops disinformation & Reagan administration talking points to sanitize death squads & imperialism or in defense of Bernie Sanders' radical opposition to genocide Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's a preview of two patreon-only eps: Matt Taibbi, Struggle Session, Jamie Peck & Jake Flores live https://www.patreon.com/posts/neolib-or-neocon-26990464 ; Alice Speri on criminal justice. https://www.patreon.com/posts/212-vanilla-with-27145199 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

patreon only: The Intercept's criminal justice journalist Alice Speri https://www.patreon.com/posts/27145199 Kraig Lewis was living in Connecticut about to get his MBA when police showed up, took him away and indicted him and 119 other young black and latino men from the Bronx neighborhood he grew up in during what was hailed as the biggest gang raid in New York history. The problem was that m...

Marcie Smith, and adjunct lecturer in economics at Jon Jay (CUNY) questions the sanctification of Gene Sharp, who has been called the "Machiavelli of nonviolence," and portrayed as apolitical. Smith talks to me about her recent piece, published on NonSite called "Change Agent: Gene Sharp's Noeliberal Nonviolence", which looks at Sharp's noeliberal ideology and his role as a...

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/26658137 Live show! https://www.facebook.com/events/355195211781069/ We talk to Street Fight Radio's Brett & Bryan about how fun their live show with me and Leslie Lee and Chapo was and how fun the Katie Halper Show & Struggle Session live show with Matt Taibbi, Jamie Peck and Jake Flores will be. Plus we talk about Joe Biden, Matt McGorry, Brett...

We talk to Johann Hari about his excellent book "Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions." He discusses the way neoliberalism contributes to depression, the way different cultures and countries deal with it and his own battle with depression. Really important discussion. Trigger Warning: we briefly discuss Ayn Rand's sex life. Advertisi...

I speak to Tiffany Caban, a public defender running for DA in Queens about why she's running, how she wants to decarcerate communities, and why the incarcerated deserve the right to vote. But first, I speak to Leslie Lee III and Jack Allison from Struggle session about how bad Meghan McCain is. Find out more about Tiffany here https://www.cabanforqueens.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redci...

To hear the full interview go to https://www.patreon.com/posts/being-censored-26205426 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

bonus: Zaid Jilani on being low key censored by Center for American Progress https://www.patreon.com/posts/being-censored-26205426 First I talk to Ben Armbruster & Zaid Jilani, two former employees of Think Progress and Center for American Progress about the editorial independence of the blog from the think tank. They explain the beef between them and Bernie Sanders. Then I speak to Rebecca Vi...

In this free bonus (because it's such an important story), Intercept reporter Ryan Grim talks about interviewing Julian Assange and what his arrest means for journalism. Plus we go over the worst tweets about Assange and are especially impressed by a certain MSNBC correspondent's hot takes. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

I talk to Karina Moreno, a professor and writer focusing on immigration, and Daniel Denvir, the host of the Jacobin Podcast the Dig, about immigration and Bernie's comments on the border and how he can do better. Also, we try, once again, to get Mother Jones to correct a mistake it made about Sanders' voting record. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: htt...

You can find the full episode where Biden tries to justify his opposition to school desegregation by citing Black is Beautiful here: www.patreon.com/posts/bidens-busing-25863870 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

bonus interview with Branko Marcetic on Biden's political record. https://www.patreon.com/posts/25863870 Lucy Flores talks to me about why she spoke out about the open secret of Biden's inappropriate interactions with women, the pushback she's been getting and how saying "He's not as bad as Trump," doesn't work. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privac...

Bonus: Matt Taibbi on media bias. https://www.patreon.com/posts/25697135 Russiagate skeptics Aaron Maté and Matt Taibbi talk about where we are in the #Russiagate investigation. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

related bonus eps: https://www.patreon.com/posts/196-woke-regime-25581357 & https://www.patreon.com/posts/manufacturing-2-25697135 I'm unlocking this episode because it's the 16 year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War and somehow the media and lots of liberals think regime changing Venezuela (under Trump, of all people) is a good idea. Max Blumenthal reports back from Venezuela a...

Full interview! https://www.patreon.com/posts/lying-about-with-25328445 Journalist Max Blumenthal talks about what eh saw in Venezuela, what the media's getting wrong or not telling you and how he discovered an anti-semitic sermon from a pastor Joe Leberman calls a Moses-like figure. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy