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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Podcast Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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Useful Idiots is an informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalist Aaron Maté and podcaster/writer Katie Halper. Episodes feature analysis of the p...

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  • What Is Elon Up To? Inside the Broligarchy with Quinn Slobodian and Michael Tracey
    Go to our sponsor https://venice.ai/useful and use code useful to enjoy private, uncensored AI. Using our code will get you 20% off a pro plan.This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at http://betterhelp.com/USEFUL and get on your way to being your best self.Check out DeleteMe and use our code IDIOTS for a great deal: https://joindeleteme.comSupport local jobs and get variety of high-quality clothing and activewear at https://www.american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code USEFUL. Thanks to American Giant for sponsoring the show!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Click here for the full interviews with Quinn Slobodian and Michael Tracey: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/extended-episode-what-is-elon-up?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=falseWatch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Calls on Ghost Witnesses from JFK Commission https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/rep-anna-paulina-luna-calls-on-ghost?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=falseFor $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.comJoin us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to.This week, the world saw the president of the United States sit quietly at his desk while the richest person in the world stood over him to take questions from reporters. It comes only days after another subservient look from “tough guy” Trump when he pushed in his boss’s chair like a waiter:While Netanyhu seems to be in complete control of Trump internationally, we’re turning to the domestic front to ask: how much power do Musk and the Broligarchy have over the president’s decisions?Quinn Slobodian, professor of international history at Boston University and author of the upcoming book Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, and journalist Michael Tracey join the show to unravel the mystery around Elon Musk, analyzing what he’s already done, what DOGE has the power to do, and how he plans to build his influence.Quinn explains the difficulty in putting a label on Musk, which he says is often helpful in giving a historical analysis for a person. Some call Musk a techno-fascist, others call him a libertarian, and others a tech oligarch. Quinn doesn’t quite agree with any of these labels, and begins building a new one.We also ask him about Steve Bannon, who has been replaced at Trump’s side by Musk, and whether there will be some kind of MAGA civil war between the pseudo-populists and the tech elites. And dive into how Elon Musk was shaped by the South African apartheid.Michael Tracey discusses Trump’s role in the Ukraine War. After Trump’s failed promise to end the war in “24 hours,” it’s become clear that he doesn’t plan to stop giving aid to Ukraine. And with reports of a historic phone call this week between Trump and Putin, what is next for Ukraine?Subscribe for the full interview with Michael Tracey on what Russia is willing to accept from Trump, the hypocrisy of the culture wars, and what Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation as director of national intelligence means for foreign policy.00:00 Intro01:26 Dems are PISSED at constituents and activists09:49 Republicans are slashing Medicaid21:05 Trump calls FRAUD on policy he doesn't like24:39 Plastic straws and sharkaganda26:57 Quinn Slobodian interview27:40 How much power does Elon Musk have?31:12 The PayPal Mafia35:43 DOGE targets the Pentagon40:56 Musk got his contract under Biden48:23 Elon's obsession with population53:33 A MAGA civil war?57:02 The 5 Core Propositions of Elon Musk1:04:16 Michael Tracey interview1:04:54 Trump called Putin1:08:21 KGB spies in the White House1:13:13 How does Trump view Ukraine?1:20:47 Trump wants to raise military spending??1:24:12 What will Russia accept?Our Sponsors:* Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com* Check out DeleteMe and use my code IDIOTS for a great deal: https://joindeleteme.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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  • Former Marine DEBUNKS USAID Rumors
    Click here for the full interview with Brian Berletic: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/extended-episode-former-marine-debunks?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=falseWatch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Trump Lackeys Sell “Bold, Fresh” Gaza Expulsion Plan https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/trump-lackeys-sell-bold-fresh-gaza?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=falseCheck out Brian's Youtube channel, The New Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/ @TheNewAtlas  For $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.comJoin us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to.Support local jobs and get variety of high-quality clothing and activewear at https://www.american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code USEFUL. Thanks to American Giant for sponsoring the show!Check out DeleteMe and use our code IDIOTS for a great deal: https://joindeleteme.comFormer U.S. Marine Brian Berletic, who focuses on geopolitics in Eurasia and hosts the informative Youtube show The New Atlas, joins Useful Idiots this week as Elon Musk and the Trump administration are gutting USAID and attempting to move it under the control of Marco Rubio’s State Department.Musk claims he’s “dismantling the Deep State.” Berletic, whose years as a marine gave him a harsh awakening about the reality of US hegemony, gives an in-depth analysis of what’s really going on.He explains why each side is up-in-arms over the issue: Dems are painting USAID as an all-loving agency that is essential to upholding Democracy around the world, while Republicans are crying wokeism by finding relatively trivial expenses in the fine print. Neither, Berletic says, are highlighting the real, and much more nefarious issues with USAID.“They have not mentioned foreign interference, regime change, subversion, stifling development, and they have not said that they are going to stop any of that.”“And here's a photo,” he shows us from the U.S. Government Counterinsurgency Guide, drafted in part by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “Just think about how tone deaf or brazen they are to post this picture. This is a picture of the Philippines, the U.S. conquered the Philippines. There was an uprising because they wanted to be an independent nation. The US military brutally suppressed it. Mass murder, concentration camps. This is all listed on the State Department's website And so they're talking about insurgency, counterinsurgency, and USAID's role in the counterinsurgency process.”Subscribe for the full interview with Brian Berletic on Trump's fight with China for the Panama Canal, Brian’s realization of the sick acts committed by marines, and what the Deep State really is.00:00 Intro00:30 Schumer's embarrassing leadership05:52 Trump's ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza10:46 The most Trumpian exchange of all time12:29 Pro-Israel group threatens Norm Finkelstein with a pager16:10 Brian Berletic interview16:48 Debunking USAID rumors18:58 What USAID actually does23:47 Is Trump WITH the Deep State?26:15 The myth of the Radical Left27:28 Marco Rubio on USAID31:30 Trump tariffs vs Biden tariffs34:21 USAID and it's "open source" cronies like Bellingcat39:04 Talk about Russia meddling in elections!42:50 CIA's new priority: UNDERMINE CHINA45:30 The China Obsession48:59 How will China respond?50:54 WHAT IS THE DEEP STATE?Our Sponsors:* Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com* Check out DeleteMe and use my code IDIOTS for a great deal: https://joindeleteme.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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  • Gazans Return + DeepSeek Strikes
    Click here for the full interview with Mosab Abu Toha and Ramesh Srinivasan: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/extended-episode-gazans-return-deepseek?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=falseWatch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Trump Exposes Hamas Condom Bombs https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/trump-exposes-hamas-condom-bombs?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=falseFor $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.comJoin us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to.Support local jobs and get variety of high-quality clothing and activewear at https://www.american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code USEFUL. Thanks to American Giant for sponsoring the show!This week we are joined by two guests, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha and tech Professor Ramesh Srinivasan. First is Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha, who recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his “Letter from Gaza” columns for The New Yorker, and authored the new poetry book is Forest of Noise. He is also the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which was destroyed by Israel.Over the course of Israel’s mass assault on Gaza, Mosab has lost 31 members of his family. He has expressed his catastrophic loss through poetry:“All of Gaza has become a funeral home,” Mosab explains to us, “because the mourners themselves are killed. Who is going to mourn the death of someone when their father, their mother, their siblings were killed? And sometimes we do the funeral on the phone. We call someone and say, ‘I'm so sorry to hear about your loss.’ And then a few minutes later, that person, the caller or the recipient of this condolence, would be killed.”Mosab also explains why he doesn’t consider this pause in Israel’s attacks on Gaza to be a ceasefire.“The whole area is a pile of rubble, so where do you place your tent? People are deciding to go back. Going back for what and for how long? No one knows. This is why it's not a ceasefire.”ShareWe also talk to Ramesh Srinivasan, professor of information studies at UCLA and author of Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow.The big news out of the tech world this week is that Chinese AI company DeepSeek has surpassed the abilities of ChatGPT. In response, the Trump administration imposed new tariffs against China, a move that exposes a fear of falling behind.We ask Ramesh: why does the US government see DeepSeek as a threat, and should regular Americans see this new AI as a potential for human progress or as a dangerous new advancement? His answer gives a clear explanation for why the US is losing the AI War so far.Ramesh also explains the surprising effect AI usage has on depleting natural resources.Subscribe for the full interview with Ramesh Srinivasan on how the government uses tech companies to spy on Americans through the Patriot Act, the lack of disclosure by Big Tech of anything that they’re doing behind the scenes, and what the oligarchs who sat front row at Trump’s inauguration are planning next to tighten their control.Plus, catch this week’s Thursday Throwdown: Trump Exposes Hamas Condom BombsThanks for supporting independent media. Subscribe for the full episode here:00:00 Intro01:05 Tulsi calls out Dems' support of Al Qaeda12:32 Tom Cotton admits democracy doesn't matter16:30 CNN fires Jim Acosta (and he tries to go Network)20:25 GOP calls it a DEI plane crash22:58 Mosab Abu Toha interview23:32 Is the ceasefire real?24:54 Poem: Gaza Has Become a Funeral Home28:28 The Edward Said Library31:26 His family in Gaza34:21 How Palestinians see Trump39:28 Ramesh Srinivasan interview40:12 DeepSeek beats ChatGPT42:01 Trump is afraid44:23 Is Chinese AI more nefarious?47:24 AI's impact on natural resources52:11 DeepSeek's energy consumption56:12 They're using the Patriot Act to watch usOur Sponsors:* Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com* Check out DeleteMe and use my code IDIOTS for a great deal: https://joindeleteme.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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  • The TikTok Wars – w/ Entrepreneur Arnaud Bertrand
    Click here for the full interview with Arnaud Bertrand: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/extended-episode-the-tiktok-wars?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=falseWatch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Trump’s Creative Excuse for Hiring “Very Stupid Person” John Bolton https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/trumps-creative-excuse-for-hiring?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=falseFor $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.comJoin us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to.Support local jobs and get variety of high-quality clothing and activewear at https://www.american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code USEFUL. Thanks to American Giant for sponsoring the show!What is really behind the TikTok wars? According to Arnaud Bertrand, our guest this week, it’s less about Palestine content and more about good, old-fashioned American colonialism and hypocrisy.Bertrand, a French entrepreneur and political analyst based in Malaysia, who lived in China for eight years and has debated China with the likes of Adrian Zenz, reflects on the hypocrisy of the American government, which claims to respect the free market, but actually intervenes in business in order to ban a company for simply being Chinese:“This is the kind of stuff that Cuba would get accused of,” he explains, “talking about the evils of communism, like appropriating enterprises. It’s ironic that the United States government, which presents itself as this bastion of entrepreneurship, free market, where the government doesn't meddle, is doing exactly that.”“If [the Tik Tok ban] goes through, it sets a very worrying precedent because basically what it's saying is that, if as a non-American tech company, you make it big, then basically we're going to try to colonize you. It's digital colonialism.”The fairness of the free market, Arnaud explains, is reserved only for American companies. Beyond that, the government steps in for control.“It completely destroys the incentive for any country. It's already so hard to succeed given the odds on how dominated the landscape is by American VCs and American tech companies. If you're one of the lucky few that finally make it, then you're forced to sell to the Americans. It's definitely not right and that's a precedent that I don't think should be set.”The irony is that the crackdown on TikTok has brought Chinese people and American people together as Americans are migrating to the Chinese platform Red Note.Subscribe to hear the full interview with Arnaud Bertrand on the myths the West tells about Chinese culture, China’s roll in the Ukraine-Russian War, and the claim that China is engaging in a genocide against the Uyghurs.00:00 Intro00:55 Fmr CIA Director is still lying about Hunter's laptop06:14 Elise Stefanik goes biblical on Israel10:10 Trump wants Gaza's real estate12:29 The ADL loves Elon's N*zi salute22:35 Israeli throws a kitten off a roof27:00 Arnaud Bertrand interview27:40 The TikTok War34:55 DeepSeek and OpenAI37:36 Israeli censorship on TikTok39:57 Digital Colonialism45:14 Neocolonialism47:23 Trump's new tariffs54:07 China's role in the Ukraine/Russian WarOur Sponsors:* Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com* Check out DeleteMe and use my code IDIOTS for a great deal: https://joindeleteme.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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  • Is the Ceasefire Real? With Gazan Writer and Israeli Negotiator
    Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Biden’s Ceasefire Joke https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/bidens-ceasefire-joke?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=falseFor $6 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and bonus content at http://usefulidiotspodcast.comJoin us LIVE on Youtube every Monday at 10am EST for Monday Mourning, where we watch the Sunday morning news shows so that you don't have to.Support local jobs and get variety of high-quality clothing and activewear at https://www.american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code USEFUL. Thanks to American Giant for sponsoring the show!This week, after over a year of genocide in Gaza, Israel and Hamas have finally reached a tentative ceasefire deal:“The giant loophole in this deal is that it comes in three phases. A permanent ceasefire comes in the second phase. The first phase is a limited prisoner exchange, and so Hamas has very little reason to believe that Israel will go into this and actually see it through to the end of the three phases.”And here’s another trick: this quote isn’t from this week – it’s from our interview with Nathan Thrall in May 2024 regarding the ceasefire deal that was never implemented. But Gazan writer Muhammad Shehada, who is based in Copenhagen but with family still in Gaza, points out this week’s deal is remarkable similar to the one from May:“I started reading through [the recent deal],” he tells us, “and I looked up the May 27th deal. I read the whole text: word-for-word identical, one hundred percent, not a change. There's only an appendix of elaborations.”So we’re having onto the show former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy and Muhammad Shehada to analyze why this deal is back, whether it will actually signal an end to the mass killings in Gaza, and what really happened in the negotiations between Trump and Netanyahu.“Could this then lead to a quid pro quo down the line where Netanyahu gets something from Trump that will be horrific for Palestinians, such as expanded theft of West Bank land?”Daniel Levy also discusses “Bloody Blinken’s” terrible track record as Secretary of State, which has become a pressing matter as Blinken is now having journalists dragged out of press briefings for challenging him on his complicity in the genocide in Gaza. Muhammad Shehada discusses the Biden Administration’s false history of ceasefire negotiations, and shares what it has been like to lose so many friends and family in Gaza.This week’s interview is free to all viewers. Thanks for your support of Useful Idiots and independent media.Correction: Trump’s Middle East envoy is named Steve Witkoff. He was wrongly identified at 5:00.Plus, catch this week’s Thursday Throwdown: Biden’s Ceasefire Joke00:00 Intro01:26 Protesters interrupt Blinken's farewell04:44 Trump Admin's response to ceasefire10:25 NY Post mocks Biden for the wrong thing15:53 ADL CEO proposes IDF terrorism against US protesters17:49 Blinken has reporters DRAGGED OUT of press conference24:36 Daniel Levy on the ceasefire deal27:52 Netanyahu's motive30:34 Is this Biden's fault?34:07 Does Trump get credit?37:57 What motivates Blinken?41:33 Muhammad Shehada read the full ceasefire agreement55:16 Are Israeli officials more honest than US officials?58:45 Will Israel follow the agreement?1:03:09 Is this deal the same as the May 27 deal?1:06:39 Does Hamas want to stay in power?1:21:04 Muhammad's friends and family in GazaOur Sponsors:* Check out American Giant and use my code USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.american-giant.com* Check out DeleteMe and use my code IDIOTS for a great deal: https://joindeleteme.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Useful Idiots is an informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalist Aaron Maté and podcaster/writer Katie Halper. Episodes feature analysis of the political news of the week and exclusive interviews, with humor, commentary and dissection of why both Republicans and Democrats suck. Join Aaron and Katie as they examine important stories that have slipped through the cracks and what the media got wrong – and laugh about whatever is left to laugh about.
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