Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Pre-order Aaron’s new book on the Ukraine war “Their Blood, Our Bullets.” To support our work and go ad-free, click here . Watch the free version here: Subscribers get our recap of the craziest in corporate media, the Friday Free-for-All: This week we have a powerhouse panel on Useful Idiots: Professor Sami a...

Don’t miss our weekly recap of the craziest moments in corporate media: Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here: After finally doing one thing to back up his campaign promise of being an anti-war president, has President Trump folded to pressure from Israel and its corporate media stooges to go back on his peace deal with Iran? Because now the message seems to be that we’ll bomb their civilians and...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Subscribe for the full, hour-long interview at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here: Subscribers also get our Friday Free-for-All: On this week’s show we look at the Mamdani Sweep in New York City where progressive, populist, pro-Palestine candidates, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, won important...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com To support our work and go ad-free, click here . Watch the free version here: Subscribers get our recap of the craziest in corporate media, the Friday Free-for-All: This week, after months of demanding Iran’s unconditional surrender, Trump suddenly backed off his regime-change war, signing an MOU (Memorandum...

Don’t miss our weekly recap of the craziest moments in corporate media: Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here: Since the beginning of Trump’s war-of-choice on Iran, the administration has been telegraphing its inability to defend US aggression by refusing to let real decision-makers like Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth do interviews on the Sunday morning news show...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here: Subscribers also get our Friday Free-for-All: This week we’re welcoming back to the show Useful Idiots fan-favorite California Congressman Ro Khanna to discuss his efforts to reign in Trump’s war on Iran, what’s happening wit...

Don’t miss our weekly recap of the craziest moments in corporate media: Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here: Trump met up with Meet the Press’s Kristen Welker for a literally and metaphorically stormy interview in which he failed to defend his disastrous war on Iran and insisted that he never promised to be an anti-war president. Right from Welker’s welcome, Katie and Aaron turn on the gas and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com To support our work and go ad-free, click here . Subscribers get our recap of the craziest in corporate media, the Friday Free-for-All: The Trump Administration just announced their latest achievement: it’s a ceasefire in Lebanon! One problem: they excluded from their ceasefire talks Israel’s main target , He...

Don’t miss our weekly recap of the craziest moments in corporate media: Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here: After months of struggling and failing to inflict enough damage on Iran that they reopen the Strait of Hormuz to US ships, Trump is now coming out with a new talking point that he hopes will convince the world that defeating Iran militarily was never actually his goal: “Their military we...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here: Subscribers also get our Friday Free-for-All: It’s been a while since we’ve covered the proxy war in Ukraine, so who better to give us an update than Useful Idiots fan-favorite Lev Golinkin, the Ukrainian-American journalist...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com To support our work and go ad-free, click here . Subscribers get our weekly recaps, the Friday Free-for-All: After starting two regime change wars in Venezuela and Iran, Donald Trump is now ramping up his campaign to overthrow the government of Cuba, and in the process impose serious misery on its people by t...

Don’t miss our weekly recap of the craziest moments in corporate media: Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here: From Lindsey Graham’s mouth to God’s ears: when asked on Meet the Press if the Iran War was worth losing the midterms over, Senator Lindsey Graham proclaimed: “It’s worth losing my job!” Finally, something to agree with arch-Zionist warmonger Lindsey Graham on! And speaking of God’s ears...

Thanks for supporting our work! Watch our full, unpaywalled episode here: Subscribers get our weekly recaps, the Friday Free-for-All: It’s another classic Useful Idiots double header! First up we’re speaking with Rami Elghandour, biotech CEO whose company is developing transformative immunotherapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases. He’s also executive producer of the Oscar-nominated film The Vo...

Don’t miss our weekly recap of the craziest moments in corporate media: Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here: From UN Ambassador Mike Waltz all the way up to the top: Benjamin Netanyahu, it was a disastrous affair watching the Sunday Morning News Shows. Katie and Aaron pick apart every lie: why oil prices are actually skyrocketing, how Iran never actually wanted to build nuclear weapons, why Tru...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Subscribe to support our work and get the ad-free version of the episode. Free version here: Subscribers also get our weekly recaps, the Friday Free-for-All: Despite recent attacks from both sides, a ceasefire is technically in effect between the US and Iran: Is peace at hand? Or are these shaky truce talks j...

Don’t miss our weekly recap of the craziest moments in corporate media: Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here: “So, we are still at war with Iran?” CBS’ Margaret Brennan asked top White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett. “I don’t know what the definition of war is,” responds the smiling Hassett. It’s been over 60 days of Trump’s disastrous war-of-choice on Iran, the global economy is breaking,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here: Subscribers also get our Friday Free-for-All: “Being anonymous is very important to this group. And they had really good OPSEC, which is security to make sure they’re not found. When we saw their internal documents and commun...

Don’t miss our recap of the craziest moments in corporate media: Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here: After a shooting outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, corporate media erupted in fights, with Republicans and CNN hosts alike pointing blame at Democrats for “using heated rhetoric” against President Trump. Meanwhile, there was no discussion on these shows of the girls’ elementary sc...

This interview is not paywalled so it can be heard by everyone. Support our work and get the ad-free version here . Subscribers get Katie and Aaron’s recap of the craziest moments on corporate media this week: This week we’re looking at the latest in Trump’s regime-change war on Iran and how it’s spilled over into Lebanon, where Israel has just killed another journalist, Amal Khalil. Khalil was as...

This week, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani gave an exclusive interview for Meet the Press where he proved that he’s been watching Useful Idiots by reciting Aaron’s favorite lyric: “I wish the words of Tupac from the 90’s weren’t still prescient,” Mamdani told Kristen Welker. “But they continue to be true for too many which is that we always have money for war and not to feed the poor.” This quote comes o...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here: Subscribers also get our Friday Free-for-All: We’ve got another Useful Idiots Double Header this week: Second Secretary of the Cuban Embassy to the US David Ramirez Alvarez, as well as the Palestinian-Lebanese hosts of the Ma...

This week, after it went unreported on mainstream media that Israel destroyed a synagogue in Iran, Trump doubled down on the US-Israeli threat to Iranian civilization: “I could take out Iran in one day. In one hour, I could have their entire energy, everything. And the other thing you take out are their bridges. I took out one just to show them." Which means that this week’s Sunday shows have Repu...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here: This week, after Trump threatened to wipe out Iran’s civilization, he backed down and announced that he was instead accepting a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Israel responded to the ceasefire announcement by going on a rampag...