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Expert Explains Who Attacked Nord Stream Pipeline
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“You either fight to the last Ukrainian or you’re pro-Russian.”
As this motto of CIA-backed corporate media and politics strengthens, there is suddenly a glimmer of hope: people are beginning to wake up. Protests, no matter how “random” Rachel Maddow may claim, are growing across the world, demanding peace, not backing down in the face of increasingly intense propaganda.
Glenn Diesen, professor at the University of Southeastern Norway and author of the book Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics, joins Useful Idiots to report on the largely-uncovered peace protests and explain what’s actually going on in Ukraine.
“This is what we’re doing,” he says. “We’re shipping weapons in, we’re sabotaging all the peace agreements, and we’re accusing China of doing what we’re doing. I think it’s called projection.” The Chinese, if you ask the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman or MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, are prolonging the war to destroy the West. The truth, Diesen explains, is that China is the only country with a peace plan.
“I think that China is the best actor at the moment to rally the whole world and push for negotiations because the West can’t. We’re part of this conflict. We’re sending the weapons. We’re giving the intelligence. We’re celebrating every time we see a dead Russian general.”
Listen to the full interview, where Diesen explains why the Chinese peace plan is the most practical path to peace and who he believes blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.
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Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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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.
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If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning
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Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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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.
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If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning
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Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Aaron Maté and Katie Halper
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If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning
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Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Aaron Maté and Katie Halper
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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.
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https://www.callin.com/room/medias-worst-moments-BHfQmOpgVq
If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning
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MSNBC Tries to Smear 2024 Candidate Marianne Williamson
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Watch NBC News spread anti-democracy in a sad attempt to bury Marianne Williamson, calling third-party challengers both a nuisance and a threat to democracy. Pick a lane, corporate media.
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Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning
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Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning
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Chris Hedges: Bernie and the Squad have been Bought Off
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Rage Against the War Machine Rally on Feb 19: https://rageagainstwar.com/#home
Chris Hedges Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/
"If elected progressives are joining with the people who are funding the war, well, they've been bought off. I mean, they've been domesticated, including Bernie, so they should be out at this rally if they really oppose war."
“If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing,” warns Chris Hedges, “we will be impotent in the face of corporate power and the war machine.”
Award-winning journalist Chris Hedges returns to the show to argue for a left-right alliance and explain why he’s speaking at the Rage Against The War Machine rally on Sunday.
The stakes are too high to not form a coalition: “We’re flirting with a nuclear holocaust.”
“The Democrats made a conscious decision to become the Republican Party,” he says. They consciously and very cynically decided to sell out the underclass for political expediency. But the damage they did, the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of families that they destroyed, we don’t talk about it. There’s just no accountability.”
But people, on both the left and right, who were terrorized by these policies, know who hurt them.
“They know what the Democrats did to their neighborhoods by militarizing police and creating internal armies of occupation. I teach at a prison and half the students wouldn’t be there but for Clinton. They know who did that to them.”
But fighting the powerful from just one side has shown not to work: “It’s much scarier for politicians when you have people from both sides of the political spectrum making demands than it is from just one side.” A left-right coalition can’t be bought off, it can’t be smeared as partisan. It’s a movement.
This is why Chris Hedges is joining activists from all across the political spectrum to rally this weekend to Rage Against the War Machine. If you can get to DC this weekend, your voice can make a difference.
Watch the extended episode where Chris Hedges discusses how the silence on the Nord Stream story is an indication of how degraded the media has become, how mainstream consumers may never learn the truth of Russiagate, and his disgust for the leaders in our government:
“These people are really frightening, amoral, they cover themselves in the veneer of Ivy League degrees and cloying snobbery, but they’re very limited intellectually. They’re drunk with their own power and hubris, and of course they have made a very good living being shills for weapons manufacturers. They’re pimps of war.”
Plus, catch this week’s Thursday Throwdown where the White House takes a break from covering up the chemical explosion that devastated East Palestine, Ohio to cover up the other major story (not) in the news: Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s groundbreaking reporting that the US blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.
And join the Absurd Arena live discussion board with Katie and Aaron every Tuesday at 12pm est.
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Lindsey Graham Proves Lying Official Wrong: US will fight to the last Ukrainian
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Former US deputy secretary of state and ambassador to Russia John Sullivan told Face the Nation that it's a complete lie that the US policy in Ukraine is to fight to the last Ukrainian.
If only we had some clip, Aaron's favorite clip, perhaps, that could prove he's lying.
Oh wait! Thanks Lindsey Graham!
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Chris Hedges: Dems are no different than Far Right
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"But this is just the Democrats," Chris Hedges says. "They're a little slicker, but it's the same kind of conspiracy theory and self delusion that grips the far right. There's no difference."
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Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Aaron Maté and Katie Halper
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https://www.callin.com/room/war-monger-media-review-JrwSduXBqn
If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning
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"Shameful" New York Times Changes Headline to Protect Sanctions
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Click here for the full interview with Professor Joshua Landis: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/us-sanctions-block-aid-to-earthquake?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
“Sanctions are a form of war. They’re economic warfare. And they destroy people’s lives.”
Joshua Landis (https://twitter.com/joshua_landis), Sandra Mackey Chair in Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, is one of the foremost experts on Syria. This week, as Syria, along with neighbor Turkiye, grapples with the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, Professor Landis joins the Useful Idiots to explain the deadly consequences that sanctions pile on to the damage.
“America likes to talk about all its precision bombing and hitting someone with a drone to avoid collateral damage,” Landis explains. “But sanctions? It’s all about collateral damage. Very little of it is targeted.”
But if you read corporate media outlets like the New York Times or Washington Post, you’d find a much different story. Both papers this week published headlines that were hastily changed when they realized they were being a little too truthful. See if you can tell the difference:
The Times changed their headline from “Syria is not able to receive direct aid from many countries because of sanctions” to “The Syrian government tightly controls what aid it allows into opposition held areas.” When the Times accidentally tells the truth, they can always be trusted to fix their mistake.
The original WaPo headline implored “Don’t lift sanctions of Syria to help earthquake victims.” But when they realized they were saying the quiet part too loud, they made a quick change to “Lifting sanctions on Syria won’t help earthquake victims.” Good catch.
Professor Landis knows that sanctions are exacerbating the death toll in Syria, as indicated by both original headlines. Watch the full episode to hear him explain the history of sanctions, why the poor bear the worst of their destruction, and how to help.
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Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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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.
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If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning
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US sanctions block aid to earthquake-hit Syrians
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“Sanctions are a form of war. They’re economic warfare. And they destroy people’s lives.”
Joshua Landis (https://twitter.com/joshua_landis), Sandra Mackey Chair in Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, is one of the foremost experts on Syria. This week, as Syria, along with neighbor Turkiye, grapples with the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, Professor Landis joins the Useful Idiots to explain the deadly consequences that sanctions pile on to the damage.
“America likes to talk about all its precision bombing and hitting someone with a drone to avoid collateral damage,” Landis explains. “But sanctions? It’s all about collateral damage. Very little of it is targeted.”
But if you read corporate media outlets like the New York Times or Washington Post, you’d find a much different story. Both papers this week published headlines that were hastily changed when they realized they were being a little too truthful. See if you can tell the difference:
The Times changed their headline from “Syria is not able to receive direct aid from many countries because of sanctions” to “The Syrian government tightly controls what aid it allows into opposition held areas.” When the Times accidentally tells the truth, they can always be trusted to fix their mistake.
The original WaPo headline implored “Don’t lift sanctions of Syria to help earthquake victims.” But when they realized they were saying the quiet part too loud, they made a quick change to “Lifting sanctions on Syria won’t help earthquake victims.” Good catch.
Professor Landis knows that sanctions are exacerbating the death toll in Syria, as indicated by both original headlines. Watch the full episode to hear him explain the history of sanctions, why the poor bear the worst of their destruction, and how to help.
Plus, catch this week’s Thursday Throwdown where Seymour Hersh reveals how Lyin’ Biden blew up the Nord Stream pipeline and Katie explains why Joe Rogan’s antisemitic defense of Ilhan Omar’s non-antisemitic statements was so unhelpful. Oy.
And don’t miss the Absurd Arena’s new home: the Substack app chat. Katie and Aaron will now be live in the discussion board each Tuesday at noon EST.
It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out.
0:00 Intro
1:04 The Four Food Groups of News
22:28 Useful Idiots announcement
23:55 Professor Joshua Landis interview
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Matt Taibbi on the CJR Story Exposing Fake Journalists
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Taibbi on Hamilton68: https://www.racket.news/p/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton
Gerth's article in CJR: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-president-part-1.php
With Matt Taibbi’s Twitter Files and Jeff Gerth’s new in-depth reporting for CJR exposing the years of lies spread by Russiagaters, bitter attacks from outed journalists are rolling in.
Gerth and Taibbi, who come from the old style of journalism where you fact check your work and don’t accept government officials’ claims on faith, have each shown clear, indisputable evidence of disinformation campaigns pushed by corporate reporters. And since the so-called journalists can’t argue the facts, they dig themselves a deeper hole with more lies and name-calling.
Jeff Gerth has been working as a reporter for decades and published, in the very mainstream Columbia Journalism Review, a 20,000-word report on his findings, only to be called a liar and misdirecting magician in the most self-important article by Mother Jones’ David Corn (“The true media failure is that Trump got away with it and that articles like this one that you are now reading are still necessary.”) And possibly worse than that is the near complete silence from the rest of mainstream media who, as Gerth reported, refused to follow Bob Woodward’s pleas for introspection.
They’re not silent, however, about Matt Taibbi. These corporate stenographers, either angry that Taibbi called them out for lying or jealous that they didn’t get the Twitter Files story themselves, haven’t made any substantive arguments against his findings both because they can’t, but also because they know they don’t need to. Their audiences are trained to believe them.
Watch the extended episode to hear Taibbi’s response, plus Matt unveils never-before-shared info on the Twitter Files. It’s a Useful Idiots exclusive.
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Matt Taibbi Announces Next Twitter Files Drop
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Matt Taibbi announces brand new information on the Twitter Files. "There's a government angle and people are going to be very upset."
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Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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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.
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https://www.callin.com/room/chinese-spy-balloon-scare-wKmNwRJqJh
If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning
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Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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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/chinese-spy-balloon-scare-wKmNwRJqJh
If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning
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House Progressives Will be Remembered for Historic Irresponsibility
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"If we survive this moment, I do think we'll look back on these progressives in Congress as being of historic irresponsibility in refusing to stand up to a neocon proxy war that could have been avoided with diplomacy."
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Wall Street Bets on Joe Biden Refusing Healthcare for Working Class
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A JP Morgan executive explained why Wall Street is hoping Joe Biden will run again: they don't want the working class to have healthcare. A primary of Democrats means the issue of Medicare for all will be discussed, which is bad for investors.
But don't worry, JP, as long as Biden's in charge, he's standing by his promise to prohibit the working class from having healthcare. It's a win-win!
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Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Aaron Maté and Katie Halper
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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.
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If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning
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Useful Idiots Monday Mourning with Aaron Maté and Katie Halper
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If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning
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How to Be a Human Again
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If an alien life form (or just someone who watches mainstream media) happened across the Useful Idiots community, watched a few episodes, and read the the Absurd Arena, they might start to think: “Hey, these people seem pretty down.”
We’ve talked extensively about the discouraging nature of constant news and how escaping it feels increasingly impossible, waves of bad news drowning us, the next one always breaking just when we think there’s a moment of peace.
But we also learned from you that 2023 is a year of wellness, a time to fight back and build a boat to sail atop those waves. You shared your tips for feeling good each day, and we promised an expert to teach us how to feel like humans again.
Darcia Narvaez is a professor of psychology emerita at the University of Notre Dame. She joins the Useful Idiots to explain how we’re living in a culture that goes against everything it means to be human, emphasizing toughness over tenderness, isolation over togetherness, making the US the most depressed, anxious, and chronically ill country in the world.
“We’re stuck in a cycle of competitive detachment, where we feel disconnected from others and even ourselves, while at the same time feeling we have to compete for anything worthwhile.” But Professor Narvaez has hope: we can break the cycle.
“There are still societies around the world though that resist this hierarchicalism and think it’s immoral,” she explains. “We have a lot to learn from them because they successfully live in egalitarian and healthy, happy ways. Unlike us.”
Watch the full episode to learn how other cultures and species are able to live rewarding, fulfilling lives, why learning and school is actually one of the biggest detriments to humanity, and everyday, practical tips to help you break your own cycle.
Plus, catch this week’s Thursday Throwdown on the other way we might break the cycle: nuclear Armageddon.
It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out.
0:00 Intro
2:09 The Absurd Arena (UI discussion board: get your comments and questions read on the show each Tuesday!)
8:42 The Four Food Groups of News
25:39 Professor Darcia Narvaez Interview
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Biden Continues US Torture Program – CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou
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After CIA officer John Kiriakou blew the whistle on US torture, no one in the CIA was arrested for their crimes. Except, of course, John Kiriakou.
John became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act. He served 23 months in prison as punishment for his opposition to the Bush administration’s torture program.
This week, he joins Useful Idiots to speak (freely this time) about the torture and war crimes of the US Government, the sickening purpose of Guantanamo Bay and its continuing crimes against humanity, and the hardest question of all:
Who’s worse – The CIA or the FBI?
Don’t worry, John’s got a lot of dirt on each. It’s one of the most jarring, sickening, revealing, scary, and funny episodes of Useful Idiots, which is why you’re probably going to want to watch…
…the extended interview, in which Kiriakou uncovers the CIA’s sadistic psychedelics testing, the hawks in the mainstream media who are gunning for war with China, and his last words spoken to Keith Olbermann and Alec Baldwin:
“Fuck you, Olbermann.” and “Fuck you, Baldwin.”
And don’t miss this week’s Thursday Throwdown on Hollywood's New "It" Couple: Volodymyr Seanpenskyy.
It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out.
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