The Katie Halper Show
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Thu, April 17, 2025
Mohsen Mahdawi DEFENDED By Jewish Israeli Classmate + Lee Camp & Alex Kane
Katie talks about Mohsen Mahdawi, the SECOND Palestinian Columbia student unlawfully arrested with one of his Jewish American-Israeli classmate Aharon Dardik and journalist Alex Kane. Aharon talks about moving from the U.S. to the West Bank where he and his family were settlers, and then going to prison for refusing to serve in the IDF. Alex talks about his investigation into who funds The Canary Mission. Then Katie talks to political comedian Lee Camp about Ben Shapiro and trying to do comedy in this insanity. Aharon Dardik is an Israeli-American ex-settler, conscientious objector to the Israeli military, and nonviolent activist. He is currently getting his undergraduate degree in both Philosophy and Political Science at Columbia University, where he founded Columbia Jews for Ceasefire in the wake of the Israeli military’s response to the October 7th attacks. Aharon is a close friend of Mohsen and a partner in their peace efforts, hoping to bridge the Israeli and Palestinian communities together towards a shared future. Their work together has ranged from trying to craft Columbia campus policy changes that would be supported by both the Jewish and Palestinian communities, to crafting the framework for an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan designed to meet the needs of all the inhabitants of the land. Alex Kane is a senior reporter at Jewish currents and has also reported on The Canary Mission for The Intercept. Lee Camp is the former host of Redacted Tonight and current host of Unredacted Tonight on YouTube. He used to perform comedy with Katie Halper! ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/
Thu, April 10, 2025
Norman Finkelstein On Gaza & Chuck Schumer, Whitney Webb On Diddy & Epstein,
Patreon-only chat with Whitney Webb is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-podcast-126403115 Norman Finkelstein talks about Gaza, the attack on free speech, and Chuck Schumer's book 'Antisemitism In America: A Warning.' Whitney Webb talks about her latest investigation into Sean “Diddy” Combs. Ashley Bishop plays some tape she recorded at the Global Strike For Gaza protest in NYC where a pro-Israeli threw bleach and feces on the Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors. He received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom, I'LL BURN THAT BRIDGE WHEN I GET TO IT! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world. Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News. She currently writes for Unlimited Hangout. She is the author of the book One Nation Under Blackmail. Recently her work was referenced by Ian Carroll on the Joe Rogan Podcast. Follow Whitney on X https://x.com/_whitneywebb Ashley Bishop is a New York-based reporter and documentary filmmaker covering labor, climate, and social movements. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/
Thu, April 03, 2025
TARGETED Pro Palestine Cornell Student SELF-DEPORTS, Columbia Students Are KIDNAPPED & Expelled!
Columbia students discuss how their university betrayed Mahmoud Khalil who was kidnapped by ICE, & betrayed academic freedom by capitulating to the Trump Administration. Then Cornell University Ph.D student Momodou Taal, who is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom & the Gambia, talks about attempting to sue Trump & his decision to leave the United States. Momodou is joined by his lawyer Eric Lee to talk about the crackdown on pro Palestinian speech. See the full conversation here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/maryam-alwan-lee-125730587 Grant Miner is the president of the Student Workers of Columbia-UAW 2710 union & was expelled from Columbia University for participating in the protest movement against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Maryam Alwan is a Palestinian senior at Columbia University who played a key role in the student movement for divestment during the 2023-2024 academic year. Her activism gained international attention when she was among 108 students arrested at the April 2024 encampment, sparking pro-Palestinian mobilization at college campuses across the globe. She has published numerous op-eds & given many interviews advocating for Palestinian rights & liberation. Maryam Iqbal is a student organizer at Columbia who was suspended through the last fall semester for her involvement in the encampments. She's majoring in MESAAS, the dep't at Columbia which is currently facing the brunt of attacks by the Trump Admin. Momodou Taal is a PhD candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell University, specializing in conceptualizations of sovereignty with a particular focus on West Africa. Momodou Taal is the host of the Malcolm effect podcast, a show dedicated to political education. Eric Lee is an immigration lawyer & federal litigator who served as lead counsel in Dep't of State v. Muñoz & argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2024. He's represented numerous students & visa holders facing discipline for pro-Palestinian & socialist speech. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/
Thu, March 27, 2025
Trump’s Fake Peace w/Col Lawrence Wilkerson, Ben Cohen & José Luis Granados Ceja
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson and Ben Cohen slam Trump and Elon for refusing to go after REAL Waste: the Pentagon. Then Mexican journalist José Luis Granados Ceja discusses Trump's war on migrants, Mexico, Venezuela, Palestinians and the Houthis. Enjoy the full conversation here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/colonel-larry-125180619?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired US army colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. He is an anti-war critic of U.S. foreign policy and a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. Ben Cohen is an activist, businessman, philanthropist and co-founder of Ben & Jerry's. José Luis Granados Ceja (@GranadosCeja https://twitter.com/granadosceja?lang=en) is a writer and photojournalist based in Mexico City. He previously worked as a staff writer for teleSUR and currently works on a freelance basis. He is also the host of the Soberanía podcast co-host of the Soberanía podcast ( / @soberaniapodcast . His stories focus on contemporary political issues, particularly those that involve grassroots efforts to affect social change. He often covers the work of social and labor movements in Latin America. Follow him on Twitter: @GranadosCeja (https://twitter.com/granadosceja?lang=en) ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/ #news #politics #israelpalestineconflict
Thu, March 20, 2025
Israel BREAKS Ceasefire With Human Rights Lawyer Craig Mokhiber & Palestinian Journalist Said Arikat
Katie talks to Human Rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber and Palestinian-American journalist Said Arikat about Israel's relaunched genocide, Zionism's war on free speech and Human Rights, and the attacks on Yemen. Craig Mokhiber is an American former United Nations (UN) human rights official and a specialist in international human rights law, policy, and methodology. On October 28, 2023, Mokhiber stepped down as the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In his final letter to High Commissioner Volker Türk, he harshly criticized the organization's response to the war in Gaza, calling Israel's military intervention a "textbook genocide" and accusing the UN of failing to act. Said Arikat is a Palestinian journalist and Washington bureau chief for Al-Quds, a daily Newspaper which has been published out of East Jerusalem (uninterruptedly) since 1951. In addition to his work as a journalist, Arikat is an adjunct professor at the American University. He served as the United Nations Chief Spokesman in Iraq from 2005-2010. He is a familiar face at U.S. State Department press briefings, where he has engaged in sometimes contentious exchanges with State Department Spokespersons. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/ #news #politics #youtube
Thu, March 13, 2025
Irish Republican Danny Morrison, Gaza’s Asad Abushark & Holocaust Survivors Against Genocide
Katie, who is in Europe interviewing Holocaust survivors protesting the Gaza genocide, plays a clip from her recently recovered footage (we thought it had been lost) of a live show she recorded in Dublin in July about the connection between Palestine and Ireland. Sadly, it’s just as relevant now as it was then. For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-full-124164727 The live show featured Danny Morrison, a writer and former republican prisoner from West Belfast. He was national director of publicity for Sinn Féin in the 1980s and is the secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust. It also featured Asad Abushark, a Palestinian-Irish academic from Gaza and an international spokesperson of the Great March of Return . They co-edited the book A SHARED STRUGGLE: Stories of Palestinian & Irish Hunger Strikers. The Patreon only version features hilarious Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey. Then Katie plays an interview with three members of the London-based organization Holocaust Survivors and Descendants against the Gaza Genocide: Stephen Kapos is an artist and Holocaust survivor; Agnes Kory is a musician, scholar and Holocaust survivor ; and Haim Bresheeth is a historian, filmmaker and the son of two Holocaust survivors. All three feature in Katie’s documentary about Holocaust survivors and their descendants working to end the genocide in Gaza. Haim was ARRESTED for saying at a protest that Israel was not going to defeat Hamas. And earlier this month Stephen was QUESTIONED by London police. Speaking of the criminalization of speech when it comes to Palestine, we MUST ALL demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident of the U.S. and recent Columbia University graduate who was still living in university housing who who has been abducted by Trump’s ICE in what the president vows is “the first arrest of many to come.” Khalil, who was born in Syria to Palestinian refugee parents, was one of the negotiators representing student demonstrators during talks with Columbia University’s administration. Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/urgent-demand-the-immediate-release-of-mahmoud-khalil/ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/
Thu, March 06, 2025
Wallace Shawn, David Cross, and Matt Lieb Call Out Israel While Zionists Meltdown Over 'No Other Land' Oscar
Katie and Matt Lieb reacts to the Zion*ist meltdown over No Other Land winning the Oscar for best documentary film and Katie plays clips from her recent interview with Wallace Shawn and from her never before released interview with David Cross. For the entire discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-david-123664861 Matt Lieb is a host of Bad Hasbara - The World's Most Moral Podcast. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/
Thu, February 27, 2025
Mark Ames & Lev Golinkin On Ukraine, Rami Khouri & Helena Cobban On Hamas
Ukrainian-American journalist Lev Golinkin and co-host of Radio War Nerd at Patreon Mark Ames reveal the inconvenient truths about Zelensky and the Ukraine War. Rami Khouri and Helena Cobban talk about the cease-fire, what's really happening in Gaza, what Netanyahu is really doing, understanding Hamas and why it matters. For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-lev-mark-123120837 Lev Golinkin is the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, Amazon’s Debut of the Month, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program selection, and winner of the Premio Salerno Libro d’Europa. A graduate of Boston College, Golinkin came to the U.S. as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His writing on the Ukraine crisis, Russia, the far right, and immigrant and refugee identity has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC, The Boston Globe, Politico Europe, and Time.com, among others; he has been interviewed by MSNBC, NPR, ABC Radio, WSJ Live and HuffPost Live. Rami Khouri is a Palestinian American journalist and a senior public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut, as well as a nonresident senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC. Khouri served as editor of the Jordan Times newspaper in Amman, Jordan, and the Daily Star newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon, as well as general manager of Al-Kutba publishers in Amman. He was co-recipient of the Pax Christi International Peace Award for his efforts to bring peace and reconciliation to the Middle East, and has served on the advisory boards of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Harvard Divinity School, and Northwestern University in Qatar. Khouri is also a syndicated columnist with Agence Global syndicate (USA), an author, and a frequent analyst and commentator in international media, including BBC, Aljazeera, NPR, and CNN. He is the co-editor of the book: 'Understanding Hamas: And Why That Matters.' Helena Cobban is a writer and researcher on international affairs who lives in Washington DC. In 1984, Cambridge U.P. published her seminal study The Palestinian Liberation Organisation. Three of her six other sole-authored books dealt with political and strategic developments in the Arab-Israeli theater, the rest with more global matters. For 17 years she contributed a regular column on global issues to The Christian Science Monitor and Al-Hayat (London).In 2010 she founded Just World Books, which has published ground-breaking titles by Palestinian, Zionism-questioning Jewish, and other authors; and in 2016 she was a co-founder of Just World Educational, which she now serves as president. Her current main writing platform is Globalities.org. Link to the book 'Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters' - https://orbooks.com/catalog/understanding-hamas/ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interview
Wed, February 19, 2025
John Kiriakou Shares CIA Secrets, Nathan Tankus On Elon Musk’s 5 Alarm Fire
For the rest of the conversation, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-john-122741941 CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou talks about the JFK Files, USAID, Donald Trump and endless war. But first Nathan Tankus breaks down what the hell Elon Musk is doing. John Kiriakou is the only person to go to jail over the CIA torture program, which he blew the whistle on. He is a former CIA analyst and case officer, a PEN USA Award Winner and best-selling author. He's the host of Political Misfits and writes at http://johnkiriakou.substack.com In addition to being the Publisher of Notes on the Crises, Nathan Tankus is the Research Director of the Modern Money Network. He has written for the Financial Times, Politico, Rolling Stone, Business Insider, The Guardian, The Appeal, The American Prospect and JSTOR Daily. His work has also been extensively covered in The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Nation, Marketwatch, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Fortune Magazine, Vox, The Hill and The New Republic among other outlets. He was also the subject of a major profile in Bloomberg Businessweek, which has made him a sought after speaker and expert on the technical details of monetary policy, central banking and economic policy more broadly. Nathan is currently working on a book, under contract with Viking Press of Penguin. It is in the process of being rethought as a result of the "Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025." ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/ #news #politics #youtube
Thu, February 13, 2025
Luigi Mangione Update + Students SUE Columbia For Attacking Pro Palestine Protestors
For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/catherine-curran-122091844 Jamie Peck and Sam Beard have a major announcement about Luigi Mangione and the December 4th Defense Committee. But first suspended Columbia University graduate students and their lawyer talk about their lawsuit against the University for violating its own policies during the disciplinary process, targeting the students for their views, and breaking New York’s landlord tenant laws when it evicted the students from university housing. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/ #news #politics #youtube #luigi #luigimangione
Fri, February 07, 2025
Israeli Writer Miko Peled SLAMS Trump's ‘GROTESQUE’ Plan To 'Own Gaza'
Check out our interview with Wallace Shawn on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/wallace-shawn-121218101 Israeli-American activist and author Miko Peled, who knows Benjamin Netanyahu personally, exposes who he really is and discusses the so-called "ceasefire," the end of Israel, and how he was accused of terrorism. But first, award-winning reporter William N. (Bill) Proctor, and activist and streamer discuss the case of Temujin Kensu, who has been wrongfully imprisoned for 37 years for a murder that was committed more than 400 miles away from where Kensu was. Miko Peled is an author, writer, speaker, and human rights activist living in the United States. He is the author of "The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine" and "Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five." His father was a high ranking Israeli general, his maternal grandfather was a signatory to Israeli independence, his niece was tragically killed in a suicide bombing and he's a staunch advocate for a one state solution. He is considered by many to be one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and the creation of a single democracy with equal rights in all of historic Palestine. Educated in Jerusalem, Japan and the United States, Peled is also an accomplished professional martial artist. For 23 years, Peled ran a martial arts school that was dedicated to teaching leadership skills and non-violent conflict resolution through martial arts. Miko is also a contributor to several online publications (Mint Press, The Electronic Intifada, Democracy Now, Mondoweiss), Mikopeled.com, and produces The Miko Peled Podcast, all of which he dedicated to advocating for the creation of one democratic state with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians. He travels regularly to Palestine where he speaks and works with the popular resistance, the BDS movement, and other justice groups. As a result, he has been arrested several times by the Israeli authorities for his activism. William N. (Bill) Proctor, founder of Proving Innocence, is an award-winning journalist, reporter, producer, and anchorperson whose career of nearly forty years spanned electronic media, radio, television, and documentaries. A graduate of the University of Maryland, Bill received his degree in Sociology and Corrections with a minor in Journalism. He concluded his career as senior staff reporter for WXYZ-TV in Southfield, MI. In the mid-1990s, he produced a series of specials on the slaying of community-college student, Scott Macklem. Through his investigations, Bill became convinced that Frederick Freeman (Temujin Kensu), the man convicted of killing Macklem, was not guilty. His passion for redressing this injustice led Bill to found Proving Innocence in 2007. In May 2013, Bill "retired" and started Bill Proctor and Associates, a communications consulting firm. In 2017 Bill formed a new organization, which lo
Fri, January 31, 2025
Mexico TAKES ON Trump With Greg Grandin, José Luis Granados Ceja & Andalusia Soloff
For Katie's interview with Wallace Shawn, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/wallace-shawn-121218101 Historian Greg Grandin, journalist José Luis Granados Ceja & journalist Andalusia Soloff talk about Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, neocolonialism, immigration and deportation. Greg Grandin is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including most recently The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, and The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge prizes in American History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in the UK. He is also the author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His first book, The Blood of Guatemala, won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award for the best book published on Latin America, in any discipline. He has published widely in, among other places, The New York Times, Harper’s, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The Boston Review, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Hispanic American Historical Review, and The American Historical Review. A graduate of Brooklyn College at the City University of New York, Professor Grandin received his doctorate at Yale University, where he studied under Emilia Viotti da Costa. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. José Luis Granados Ceja (@GranadosCeja https://twitter.com/granadosceja?lang=en) is a writer and photojournalist based in Mexico City. He previously worked as a staff writer for teleSUR and currently works on a freelance basis. He is also the host of the Soberanía podcast co-host of the Soberanía podcast ( / @soberaniapodcast . His stories focus on contemporary political issues, particularly those that involve grassroots efforts to affect social change. He often covers the work of social and labor movements in Latin America. Follow him on Twitter: @GranadosCeja (https://twitter.com/granadosceja?lang=en) Andalusia K. Soloff is an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist in Mexico who seeks to center the voices of those most affected by violence by focusing on their human dignity and resilience. Soloff has produced award-winning documentaries including "A Sense of Community: Iztapalapa," "Frontline Mexico," "Guatemala's Past Unearthed"(Al Jazeera) as well as "Endangered" (HBO), focused on the risks that journalists face. Her new cinematic short, "Poppy Crash," which flips the script on the fentanyl crisis, is part of the official selection of the DOCS MX film festival and IDFA Docs for Sale. She has produced news documentaries and reports for RAI, ZDF, CGTN, Democracy Now!, AJ+, VICE News, TRT World and worked both as a DP, Drone Operator, an
Tue, January 21, 2025
The Interrupters: Max Blumenthal On Blinken And Trump, Antiwar Veterans At Hegseth Hearing
For the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-max-120655230 Katie talks with journalist Max Blumenthal about getting kicked out of an Antony Blinken press conference, about the latest in Gaza, Elon Musk's salute, ADL hypocrisy and what to expect from Trump. But first Katie talks to anti-war Army veterans Josephine Guilbeau and Greg Stoker who were arrested for disrupting Pete Hegseth’s Senate Confirmation Hearing. Max Blumenthal is the editor and founder of The Gray Zone and the author of several books including "The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump" and "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel." Josephine Guilbeau is a former U.S. Army All-Source Intel Analyst. Her mobilizations include Operation Enduring Freedom, where she supported cyberspace operations for U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) and the Cyber National Mission Force, earning an Army Commendation Medal for her vital role in mission success. Since her resignation from the military in 2023, Josephine has been advocating for peace in the Middle East, upholding the highest standards of professionalism and leadership. Her dedication to both her military duties and her community reflects her strong sense of duty and commitment to making a positive impact wherever she serves. Guilbeau earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity Management and Policy. Her awards and decorations include two Army Commendation Medals and three Army Achievement Medals, recognizing her outstanding service and valor in the face of adversity. Greg Stoker is a former United States Army Ranger. He has a background in special operations and human intelligence collection. He conducted 4 combat deployments to Afghanistan during the unfortunately named “Global War On Terror” and is now an anti-war activist, host of the Colonial Outcasts Podcast, and analyst at MintPress News. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, January 16, 2025
Ceasefire EXPLAINED By Palestinian Analyst, Candace Owens Corrected By Rabbi
For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-full-120030009 Palestinian Analyst Mouin Rabbani breaks down and responds to the potential ceasefire deal. Anti-Zionist Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro reacts to Candace Owens and explains that the problem is Zionism, not the religion of Judaism. Mouin Rabbani is a Dutch-Palestinian analyst, co-editor of Jadaliyya and non-resident fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. He was previously Senior Analyst Middle East and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group, and head of political affairs with the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria. He is a contributor to the book Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm. Yaakov Shapiro is a rabbinic scholar, speaker, author, and pulpit rabbi for over 30 years, now emeritus. He is a board director of the International Council for Middle East Studies, and the author of four books on Jewish theology and law. His most recent work is The Empty Wagon: Zionism’s Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft a 1381-page treatise on the differences between Zionism and Judaism. His podcast, Committing High Reason, discusses topic relating to the history and ideology of Zionsim. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Tue, January 14, 2025
What REALLY Caused LA Wild Fires w/David Sirota, Natali Segovia, Yasha Levine, Steven Donziger
For bonus content, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/live-now-special-11972532 This special show on what REALLY caused the LA wildfires features David Sirota, Yasha Levine, Natali Segovia, Steven Donziger, Meagan Day & Josh Olson. David Sirota is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author living in Denver, Colorado. He was nominated for an Academy Award for helping Adam McKay create the story for the film DON’T LOOK UP. Sirota is the founder and editor of The Lever, the creator of Audible’s MELTDOWN podcast and . the MASTER PLAN podcast. Natali Segovia (Quechua) is an international human rights attorney who currently serves as Executive Director of the Water Protector Legal Collective. Natali's work focuses on the protection of the Earth and the rights of Indigenous Peoples affected by forced displacement, and human rights violations as extractive industry and mass development projects. Over the past 15 years, her international work has focused on addressing human rights violations as a result of extractive industry and mass development projects in rural, "unseen" areas in countries including Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. She currently serves on the Scientific Committee of the Monique and Roland Weyl People's Academy of International Law and on the Board of Directors for Indigenous Peoples Rights International. Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He's the author of "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet," "A Journey Through California's Oligarch Valley," "The Koch Brothers: A Short History" and "The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell." He's the co-host of The Russians podcast and writes at https://yasha.substack.com/ Steven Donziger is a human rights and environmental lawyer who was imprisoned for successfully suing Chevron for poisoning the water in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The prosecution of Steven Donziger, which has been condemned by the United Nations, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Amazon Watch, and 64 Nobel Laureates, was a literal corporate prosecution. After the Southern District of New York refused to prosecute Donziger, the judge assigned a corporate firm which had represented Chevron to go after him. The judge also made the unusual move of handpicking the judge to oversee the case and chose a judge who is part of the Right Wing Federalist Society which gets funding from.... you guessed it... Chevron! Meagan Day is a writer and editor focusing on class, labor issues, economic inequality, and US politics. She is an editor at Jacobin, where she was previously a staff writer. The author of Maximum Sunlight (2016) and co-author of Bigger than Bernie (2020), her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New Republic In 2022 she addressed the Oxford Union on the topic of the "American Dream" in a global context. Josh Olson is an Oscar nominated screenwriter, writer of
Fri, January 10, 2025
Israel Kidnaps Gaza Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya + MAGA Civil War
For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-ron-hira-119678152 Palestinian-American Dr Thaer Ahmad and Canadian Dr. Ben Thomson, both of whom have worked in Gaza, speak out against Israel's kidnapping and likely torture of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. Thaer talks about his conversation with Dr. Hussam and the kidnapping of his own uncle. Ben talks about being suspended over speaking out on Gaza and shares stories of other tortured doctors. Then political scientist Ron Hira and historian Quinn Slobodian talk about the MAGA Civil War, Elon Musk, Donald Trump and H1B visas. UPDATE: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's mother has tragically passed from a heart attack. Dr. Thaer Ahmad, MD, is a board certified emergency medicine physician and a board member of the Palestinian American Medical Association. He has traveled to Gaza on several medical missions and recently spent three weeks volunteering at El Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Since returning, he has spoken out about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for humanitarian aid and services to reach the people. He is an assistant clinical professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the global health director for his emergency department. Dr. Ben Thomson is a renowned public health expert, nephrologist and general internal medicine doctor, an award-winning educator, a board member of the Muslim Advisory Council of Canada and the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations, and a global humanitarian physician. Dr. Thomson’s efforts have markedly improved healthcare in Indigenous communities in Ontario and globally in places including Uganda, and in Gaza through initiatives like the Keys of Health Fellowship and EmpowerGaza. Dr. Thomson envisions a world where resilient, compassionate healthcare is accessible to all communities globally. Ron Hira, an Economic Policy Institute research associate, is an associate professor in the department of political science at Howard University. His book, Outsourcing America, was one of the first to examine the economic and policy implications of the offshoring of high-skilled jobs. It was a finalist for the Benjamin Franklin awards in the best business book category. Hira has testified before Congress on offshoring and high-skilled immigration. He is frequently interviewed by the media about his work, which intersects STEM labor markets, immigration, globalization, and competitiveness policy. He is a licensed professional engineer. Quinn Slobodian is professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. His books, which have been translated into ten languages, include, most recently, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy. Forthcoming is Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right. He has been an associate fellow at Chatham House and held residential fellowships at Harvard and FU Berlin.
Mon, January 06, 2025
Bob Scheer on Interviewing Jimmy Carter and Moe Tkacik on Luigi Mangione
For the entire discussion, please join us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-robert-119387036 Veteran reporter Robert Scheer talks about his legendary Playboy interview with Jimmy Carter. Then journalist Moe Tkacik talks about Luigi Mangione, a whistleblower suit filed by a surgeon United Healthcare hired to deny spinal fusion surgery coverage, and how plutocracy kills. Moe Tkacik is the investigations editor of the American Prospect. Earlier in her career she worked for the Wall Street Journal, co-founded the feminist site Jezebel and waited on Steve Miller and Steve Mnuchin's wife at various fine dining establishments. She lives in DC with her husband and 2 sons. Robert Scheer is the publisher of Scheer Post (https://scheerpost.com/). Scheer has written eight books, including two this decade: "The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street while Mugging Main Street," and his newest book is "They Know Everything about You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy." He is a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. He has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and others. Between 1964 and 1969 he was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, December 27, 2024
Arrested For Tweets About H*mas With Tony Greenstein, Jenny Manson & Rabbi Herschel Gluck
To hear the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-tony-118747245 Katie talks to Tony Greenstein, the co-founder of Britain's Palestine solidarity campaign and the author of "Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation." Then Katie speaks to Rabbi Hershel Gluck is a British rabbi, chairman of the Arab-Jewish Forum and chairman and founder of the Muslim-Jewish Forum. Jenny Manson a British Jewish activist, author, former civil servant, former Labour Party councillor for Colindale on Barnet London Borough Council, and co-chair of Jewish Voice for Labour. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, December 20, 2024
Susan Abulhawa Gives EPIC Speech Against Israel, Lily Greenberg Call & Harrison Mann On RESIGNING
Watch the full conversation with Lily and Harrison here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/susan-abulhawa-118196391 Palestinian writer ("Mornings in Jenin") and activist Susan Abulhawa discusses Israel's latest crimes as well as the Oxford Union debate in which she participated on whether "Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide." Susan and Katie will show and discuss the portions of Susan's truly epic speech that Oxford censored. Then Katie is joined by Lily Greenberg Call, a former special assistant to the chief of staff at the Department of Interior and the first Jewish political appointee to resign from the Biden administration in protest of U.S. policy in Gaza and Harrison Mann, a former US army major and executive officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Middle East/Africa Regional Center who also resigned in protest of his office’s support for Israel during its Gaza campaign. Susan Abulhawa is an award-winning Palestinian-American writer, human rights activist and animal rights advocate. Her first novel, Mornings in Jenin, was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies, making her the most widely read Palestinian author of all time. Her second novel, The Blue Between Sky And Water, was sold in 19 languages before its release, and was published in English in 2015. Against the Loveless World, her third novel, was released in August 2020, also to critical acclaim. Susan is the founder of the NGO Playgrounds for Palestine and and Palestine Writes, the only North American literature festival dedicated to celebrating and promoting cultural productions of Palestinian writers and artists. Lily Greenberg Call is a former special assistant to the chief of staff at the Department of Interior. She has nearly a decade of experience in politics, movement organizing, and domestic and international human rights work. She worked on Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2020 primary campaign and President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and served in the Biden administration until May 15, 2024, when she became the first Jewish political appointee to resign in protest of U.S. policy in Gaza. Lily has appeared as a guest on MSNBC, CNN, NBC, and given commentary and written articles for The Washington Post, Politico, The Guardian, and Truthout. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. Harrison Mann is a senior fellow at Win Without War and a former U.S. Army major and executive officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Middle East/Africa Regional Center who resigned in protest of his office’s support for Israel during its Gaza campaign. He previously served as a Middle East all-source intelligence analyst and led a crisis cell coordinating intelligence support for Ukraine. Prior to DIA, he worked at the U.S. Embassy Tunis Office of Security Cooperation and led Army Civil Affairs teams combatting regional smuggling under U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) in
Tue, December 10, 2024
Israeli Son Of Holocaust Survivors ARRESTED Over Pro Palestine Speech
Watch more exclusive interviews here: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Haim Bresheeth Zabner, the Israeli son of two Holocaust survivors, talks to Katie about being arrested over a speech he gave at a non-violent protest outside the residence of Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely in north London. Haim Bresheeth Zabnner was Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at University of East London and then a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).He is Filmmaker, photographer, film studies scholar, and historian. His films include “A State of Danger,” a documentary on the first Palestinian Intifada. His books include "An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation." Haim is the son of two Holocaust survivors and was raised in Israel. He is a member of Holocaust survivors and Descendents Against the Genocide and a founding member of Jewish Network for Palestine. On November 4, Haim was arrested over a speech he gave at a pro Palestine demonstration outside the residence of Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely in north London. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Wed, December 04, 2024
Lebanese Prof. Asad AbuKhalil On Israel/Lebanon, Convicted Activist Omali Yeshitela Calls Out Biden
To hear the rest, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-asad-117407251 Watch the full conversation with Asad AbuKhalil here on Syria, meeting Nasralla and more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/omali-yeshitela-117262666 Lebanese-American Political science professor Asad AbuKhalil talks about Israel's U.S.-backed genocidal war on the people of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. He also shares memories of interviewing the slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. AbuKhalil also reflects on the elections and the difference (or lack thereof) between Joe Biden and Donald Trump when it comes to foreign policy. But first Omali Yeshitela, the founder of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) and Uhuru Movement discusses why he and two other members of Uhuru have been convicted of conspiring to act as unregistered Russian agents, in an outrageous miscarriage of justice and a McCarthyite attack on free speech. Given that Joe Biden has pardoned his own son, something he promised not to do, he might as well pardon people who actually deserve it, like Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal, Julian Assange, and the Uhuru Movement members, including Omali Yeshitela. He should of course also pardon anyone serving jail for the crimes committed by Hunter. Born in Tyre, Lebanon, Asad AbuKhalil received his BA and MA in political science from the American University of Beirut, and his PhD in comparative politics from Georgetown University. He is the author of Historical Dictionary of Lebanon, Bin Laden, and The Battle for Saudi Arabia, among other titles, and his articles on Middle Eastern politics and culture have appeared in publications throughout the world. AbuKhalil lives in California, where he is a professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus. Omali Yeshitela is the founder of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) and Uhuru Movement. In 1968 Chairman Yeshitela founded The Burning Spear newspaper which is still published today. He has authored numerous articles, pamphlets and books. Chairman Omali made “reparations a household word” with the International Tribunal on Reparations for African People which was held in Brooklyn, New York in 1982, finding that African people are owed 4.1 trillion dollars for stolen labor in the U.S. alone. The Chairman founded the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement in 1991 as a revolutionary mass organization to defend the democratic rights of the African working class. Today, Chairman Omali Yeshitela, as the leader of the African Socialist International, speaks to his growing base around the world and leads the worldwide movement for the liberation of Africa and African people everywhere. Help Support Omail here: www.handsoffuhuru.org **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your K
Tue, November 26, 2024
Cornel West On 'Multicultural Militarism' & 'Raw Fascism' + Lev Golinkin On 'Washington Warmongers'
Watch the full conversation with Lev about men being KIDNAPPED off the streets of Ukraine: https://www.patreon.com/posts/1168448... Cornel West returns to talk about his presidential run, 2024, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and why "multicultural militarism" can't defeat "raw fascism." Then Ukrainian-American journalist Lev Golinkin talks about Washington Warmongers' smearing of Tulsi Gabbard and the Ukraine proxy war. Dr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary and ran for president as an independent in 2024. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects -- including but by no means limited to, the classics, philosophy, politics, cultural theory, literature, and music. Dr. West is the former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. Lev Golinkin is the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, Amazon’s Debut of the Month, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program selection, and winner of the Premio Salerno Libro d’Europa. A graduate of Boston College, Golinkin came to the U.S. as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His writing on the Ukraine crisis, Russia, the far right, and immigrant and refugee identity has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC, The Boston Globe, Politico Europe, and Time.com, among others; he has been interviewed by MSNBC, NPR, ABC Radio, WSJ Live and HuffPost Live. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Wed, November 20, 2024
Jill Stein & Butch Ware Post-Election; Mouin Rabbani On Media’s Dehumanization of Palestinians
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-jill-116479568 Watch the full conversation with Dr Jill Stein and Butch Ware here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mouin-rabbani-116351008 Jill Stein and Butch Ware give their FIRST interview since the Presidential election. But first, Palestinian analyst Mouin Rabani talks Palestine, Lebanon, Amsterdam and whether Donald Trump is a departure or continuation of Joe Biden. Jill Stein is is a Harvard-educated doctor, a pioneering environmental health advocate, and an organizer for people, planet, and peace. She was the 2024 presidential nominee for the Green Party. Butch Ware is a lifelong activist and educator specializing in the history of empire, colonialism, genocide and revolution. He is associate professor of History at UC Santa-Barbara. He was the 2024 vice-presidential nominee for the Green Party. Mouin Rabbani is a Dutch-Palestinian analyst, oo-editor of Jadaliyya and non-resident fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. He was previously Senior Analyst Middle East and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group, and head of political affairs with the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria. He is a contributor to the book Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm. https://x.com/MouinRabbani https://www.jadaliyya.com/ https://orbooks.com/catalog/deluge/ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, November 14, 2024
Thomas Frank & Matt Karp On Why Kamala Lost, Lea Kayali On A People's Embargo
Full chat with Thomas Frank and Matt Karp: https://www.patreon.com/posts/116026597 Journalist Thomas Frank and historian Matt Karp discuss how Kamala Harris lost. But first, Palestinian Youth Movement organizer Lea Kayali talks about the "Mask Off Maersk" campaign which seeks to cut ties with one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics companies that directly ships weapons and weapons components that facilitate Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. Thomas Frank is an American political analyst, historian, and journalist. He co-founded and edited The Baffler magazine and is the author of the books "What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America," "Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?", "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism," among others. From 2008 to 2010 he wrote "The Tilting Yard", a column in The Wall Street Journal. Matthew Karp is an Associate Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of "This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy," (Harvard University Press). Karp is now at work on two books, both under contract with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux."Millions of Abolitionists: The Republican Party and the Political War on Slavery," is about the emergence of American antislavery mass politics. His other book is a meditation on the politics of U.S. history, and explores the ways that narratives of the American experience both serve and shape different ideological ends — in the nineteenth century, the twentieth century, and today. Karp is a contributing editor for Jacobin. His work has also appeared in The Nation, The Boston Review, and The London Review of Books. Lea Kayali is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians and Arabs in diaspora. In her organizing, she has supported the Evict Elbit campaign which ousted the weapons manufacturer from their innovation hub in Massachusetts, and was involved in the Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine encampment. She is currently organizing with the PYM’s Mask Off MAERSK campaign, which aims to expose the logistics giant’s role in facilitating the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, November 07, 2024
Election 2024 Results Coverage with Jill Stein, Rania Khalek, Eugene Puryear & More!
To hear the rest, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Tune in to hear Katie watch the election results with Eugene Puryear, Rania Khalek, and special guests including Jill Stein and Claudia de la Cruz! ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, October 31, 2024
Rashid Khalidi LIVE With Katie Halper: The 100 Years War On Palestine
Jewish Voice For Peace brings you an evening with renowned historian and author Rashid Khalidi in conversation with Katie Halper. Dr. Khalidi will discuss current events in Palestine, his seminal, best-seller book "The 100 Years War on Palestine," student protests and his decision to retire from Columbia University. Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies Emeritus at Columbia University. He received a B.A. from Yale University and a D. Phil. from Oxford University, and has previously taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, and the University of Chicago. He was editor and later co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and has served as President of the Middle East Studies Association. He is the author of eight books, including The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, and of over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, and has co-edited three books. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Tue, October 22, 2024
Jewish Tenured Prof Maura FInkelstein FIRED Over Tweet, Rami Younis on his Banned Documentary
Watch more on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Katie is joined by Maura Finkelstein a tenured Jewish professor of Anthropology at Muhlenberg College fired over an Instragram repost about Zionism. Then Katie talks to Rami Younis, a Palestinian writer, journalist, activist and co-director of "Lyd," a science fiction documentary he co-directed about the once-thriving Palestinian city of Lyd. Rami reacts to Israel's recent decision to ban the film. Maura Finkelstein is a writer, ethnographer, and associate professor of anthropology. She is the author of The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai, published by Duke University Press in 2019. Her writing has also been published in Anthological Quarterly, City and Society, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology Now, Post45, Electric Literature, Allegra Lab, Red Pepper Magazine, The Markaz Review, the Scottish Left Review, Mondoweiss, and Al Jazeera. She has been nominated for a Pushcart (2021), was a finalist for the Witness literary award (2022), was a Tin House Scholar (2023), and was recently the recipient of the 2024 New Directions Award from the General Anthropology Division (GAD) of the American Anthropological Association. Rami Younis is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer, journalist and activist from Lyd. He was a 2019-20 Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School. As a journalist, he mainly wrote for the online magazine +972 and served as both writer and editor of its Hebrew sister site, “local call”, a journalistic project he co-founded, designed to challenge Israeli mainstream journalism outlets. Rami served as a parliamentary consultant and media spokesperson for Palestinian member of Knesset (Israeli parliament) Haneen Zoabi. Rami is also co-founder and manager of the first ever “Palestine Music Expo”: an event that connects local Palestinian music scene to the world wide industry. Younis was the host of the Arabic-language daily news show, “On the Other Hand." Lyd is a feature-length, sci-fi documentary that shares multiple pasts, presents, and futures of the city of Lyd in Palestine/Israel. From the perspective of the city herself, voiced by Palestinian actress Maisa Abd Elhadi, the viewer is guided through the lifespan of a five-thousand-year-old city and its residents. Lyd was once a thriving Palestinian city with a rich history. In 636AD, It was even considered the first capital of Palestine. When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, Lyd became an Israeli city, and in the process, hundreds of Lyd’s Palestinian residents were massacred by Israeli forces, and most of the city’s 50,000 Palestinian residents were exiled. Today, the city has a Jewish Israeli majority and a Palestinian minority and is disinvested and divided by racism and violence. For Palestinians, Lyd’s story is a painful and tragic fall from grace, which is why the film dares to ask the question: what would the city be like had the Israeli occupation of Lyd never happened? **Please support
Wed, October 16, 2024
Holy Redemption: Stealing Palestinian Land with Ashish Prashar, Tyler Reynolds, and Daniel Santiago
Tonight’s Katie Halper Show was a live screening AND discussion organized by Code Pink at The People's Forum the TRT investigative documentary “Holy Redemption: Stealing Palestinian Land.” TRT's film reveals the terror tactics of the Israeli settler group Hilltop Youth, an organization that builds outposts in order to steal more land from Palestinians. Then Katie moderates a discussion with Ashish Prashar, Tyler Reynolds & Daniel Santiago. Ashish Prashar is a political strategist, human rights activist and former advisor to the Middle East Peace Envoy. Ashish has appeared as a regular commentator in media outlets, including CNN, The Guardian and USA Today. Tyler Reynolds is a musican and martial arts instructor who just returned from volunteering in the West Bank. Daniel Santiago is a high school teacher and community organizer from Jersey City who volunteered with Faz3a for two weeks in the West Bank and was shot in the leg by the Israeli Army. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Wed, October 09, 2024
Rami Khouri On The Middle East And Arturo Desimone On The Argentina Massacre Of Jews
Rami Khouri is a Palestinian American journalist and a senior public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut, as well as a nonresident senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC. He’s the co-editor of the book: 'Understanding Hamas: And Why That Matters' Arturo Desimone, is an Aruban-Argentine writer, artist, and active member of the social movement Llamamiento Argentino Judío. Arturo challenges the mainstream media narrative that how October 7th was the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust. He talks about the 2000 Jews disappeared under the last military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon / thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, October 03, 2024
'The Threat Of 1,000 Holocausts' With Sam Husseini & Norman Solomon
Jordanian-Palestinian Journalist Sam Husseini talks about Israel, Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and confronting French foreign minister about his country's failure to properly implement the ICJ's orders in the genocide case against Israel. Writer Norman Solomon talks about the ignored threat of nuclear war, the presidential elections and media bias and his book War Made Invisible. Sam Husseini is an independent journalist currently writing at husseini.substack.com. Husseini has also written for a variety of publications, including CounterPunch, The Nation, The Washington Post, USA Today and Salon. He has written extensively about Palestine and international law. Last year he repeatedly wrote about the possibility of a country invoking the Genocide Convention against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Husseini regularly attends State Department briefings, asking tough questions. Husseini is founder of VotePact.org, which encourages left-right cooperation to undermine the establishment duopoly. He is also a visual artist. Norman Solomon is executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and national director of RootsAction.org. His latest book is War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the book “a powerful, necessary indictment of efforts to disguise the human toll of American foreign policy.” The paperback edition of War Made Invisible was published this fall with a 30-page afterword about the Gaza war. Photo of Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei https://farsi.khamenei.ir/photo-album?id=54416 ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, September 26, 2024
'Israel UNLEASHES Hell In Lebanon' - Journalist Séamus Malekafzali + Prem Thakker On Hezbollah
Hear my live show with Rania Khalek & Abby Martin here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-podcast-112898819 Beirut-based journalist Séamus Malekafzali reports back on Lebanon where he was living until a few days ago. Journalist Prem Thakker suggests the U.S. is "picking a fight with Hezbollah," breaks down the smearing of Rashida Tlaib, and reacts to the State Department's hypocrisy on Israel. And Katie reads "The Perplexing Smiles of the Children of Palestine,” a poem by Marcellus Williams who was executed by the state of Missouri on Tuesday night, despite exonerating evidence and the pleas of the victim's family, the prosecutor and the jurors. Prem Thakker is a reporter at Zeteo News. He was previously a politics reporter at The Intercept, and is a former reporter at The New Republic. His work has also appeared in The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, CNN podcasts, and his newsletter Better World. Séamus Malekafzali is a journalist on the Middle East and Global South who writes for The Nation, The Baffler and at https://www.seamus-malekafzali.com ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, September 19, 2024
Lebanon Pager EXPLOSION With Lebanese Journalist Rania Khalek + Craig Mokhiber On Self Defense
This week’s Patreon: Jeremy Corbyn interview https://www.patreon.com/posts/jeremy-corbyn-112271741 Lebanese journalist Rania Khalek breaks down who is behind the pager explosion in Lebanon. Human Rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber explains why Israel does NOT have the right to defend itself. Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News, where she hosts the show Dispatches. She also co-hosts the weekly Freedom Side livestream with Eugene Puryear. Craig Mokhiber is an American former United Nations (UN) human rights official and a specialist in international human rights law, policy, and methodology. On October 28, 2023, Mokhiber stepped down as the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In his final letter to High Commissioner Volker Türk, he harshly criticized the organization's response to the war in Gaza, calling Israel's military intervention a "textbook genocide" and accusing the UN of failing to act. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/no-isr... https://fpif.org/weog-the-uns-settler... **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon / thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, September 13, 2024
Genocidal Media, Genocidal Endorsements With Craig Mokhiber + Dave Anthony and Josh Olson
Watch the full interview with Dave and Josh here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-full-111827621 International human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official Craig Mokhiber explains why Western media can (and should) be held legally accountable for its role in the Gaza genocide. Then Dave Anthony and Josh Olson, who took Bush's masterclass for their Audit podcast, explain why nobody should be celebrating a Cheney endorsement and why Dick Cheney and Bush are actually worse than Donald Trump. Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official. He left the UN in October of 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of genocide in Gaza, criticized the international response and called for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on equality, human rights and international law. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/wester... Dave Anthony is a comedian and co-host of the The Dollop. Josh Olson is an Oscar nominated screenwriter, writer of the "Bronzeville" podcast, and host of "The Movies That Made Me." Dave and Josh co-hosted the podcasts "West Wing Thing" and "The Audit." **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon / thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, September 05, 2024
Noura Erakat on Charges Against Hamas, Jordan Chariton on 'We The Poisoned'
Watch more exclusive interviews here: / thekatiehalpershow First Noura Erakat talks about what the media is NOT talking about when it comes to Palestine, the limits of International Law, and the double standards towards Palestinian and Israeli life. Then journalist Jordan Chariton talks about why Kamala Harris won't be pushed to the Left, how the Democrats are trying to rig the election, and what Jill Stein and Cornel West are doing about it. Plus Jordan discusses his new book, "We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans," the story behind how the government poisoned a major American city—and how they are still getting away with it. Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Professor of Africana Studies and the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. Jordan Chariton is an investigative reporter, the co-founder of Status Coup and the producer of the documentary Flint Fatigue. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon / thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Wed, August 28, 2024
No Tax For Genocide With Ashish Prashar, No Vote For Genocide With Nadia Ahmad, Lauren Steiner
For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-nadia-111047115 Ashish Prashar calls out the Democrats for their complicity in genocide and discusses his "no tax for genocide" which encourages British people to refuse to pay their taxes while their government funds a genocide. Then DNC delegate Nadia Ahmad talks about sneaking a "stop arming Israel" banner into the DNC and being assaulted with a "we love Joe" placard. And activist Lauren Steiner discusses organizing the action. Ashish Prashar is a formerly incarcerated political strategist, human rights activist, and writer. He was an advisor to the Middle East Peace Envoy and worked for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the Middle East and West Africa. He was a press secretary for the Conservative Party and Mayor of London Boris Johnson. Ashish also worked on Obama and Biden’s Presidential Campaigns. Ashish is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts and sits on the Board of Just Leadership and the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice. Ashish has appeared as a regular commentator in media outlets, including CNN, The Guardian and USA Today. He's now calling out ALL politicians for their complicity in genocide. Nadia Ahmad is a DNC delegate from Florida, DNC Interfaith Council Co-Chair, DNC Women's Caucus Executive Committee member, part of Delegates Against Genocide and a law professor from Orlando. She's filed a complaint with Chicago police against the Democratic National Committee over the "Islamophobic Attack" she experienced at the Democratic National Convention. Lauren Steiner is an activist, organizer and independent journalist based in Asheville, NC. She has fought against fracking, the climate crisis, education privatization and the Trans Pacific Partnership and for net neutrality, clean energy, Medicare for All, racial, economic and environmental justice and Palestinian human rights. On her internet show The Robust Opposition, she interviews organizers, activists, authors and progressive elected officials and candidates. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - / thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, August 23, 2024
Dennis Kucinich & Moataz Salim DISRUPT The DNC
Dennis Kucinich talks about his congressional campaign, leaving the Democratic Party, and questioning Netanyahu. Then Palestinian-American Moataz Salim talks about disrupting the DNC. Dennis Kucinich served as mayor of Cleveland from 1977 to 1979. and as a U.S. Representative from Ohio's 10th congressional district from 1997 to 2013, during which time he introduced Articles of Impeachment against both President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney for lying to take the US into war against Iraq. He ran for president in 2004 and 2008 and is now running as an independent for Ohio's 7th congressional district in 2024. Moataz Salim is a Palestinian-American graduate student in DC from Gaza advocating for an end to the genocide and the liberation of Palestine. He has been joining CODEPINK every day for 3 months to be a voice for his people. He has also been involved in activism at a university and within the local community, dedicating the past 10 months to fighting for Palestinian liberation. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - / thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, August 16, 2024
State Dept's Josh Paul On Biden's Weapons Package For Israel+ Jen Perelman on Running For Congress
Katie talks to Josh Paul, Former Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs of the State Depart, about why he and other government officials resigned. Then Katie talks to Jen Perelman a former zionist turned anti-Zionist running against the very zionist Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). Perelman received more than 21,000 votes (nearly 30 percent of the vote) in the 2020 Democratic Party primary. Josh Paul resigned from the State Department in October, 2023 due to his disagreement with the Biden Administration's decision to rush lethal military assistance to Israel in the context of its war on Gaza. He had previously spent over 11 years working as a Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which is responsible for U.S. defense diplomacy, security assistance, and arms transfers. He previously worked on security sector reform in both Iraq and the West Bank, with additional roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Army Staff, and as a Military Legislative Assistant for a Member of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee. Josh grew up between London and New York, and holds Masters degrees from the Universities of Georgetown and St Andrews, Scotland. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the organization Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) and a recipient of the 2023 Callaway Award for Civic Courage. Jen Perelman, a former zionist turned anti-Zionist, is running against the very zionist Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). Perelman received more than 21,000 votes (nearly 30 percent of the vote) in the 2020 Democratic Party primary. Jen talks to Katie about her campaign, going on the offensive against Zionism and AIPAC, why AIPAC isn’t registered as a foreign agent and more. https://www.jen2024.org/ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, August 08, 2024
88-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Marion Ingram Protests Israel Outside Of White House
Get early access to Marione’s full interview at https://www.patreon.com/posts/marione-ingram-109607911 Marione Ingram is a Holocaust survivor and activist for Palestinian rights who was born in Hamburg Germany in 1935. Marione and her husband Daniel have began protesting the Israeli Assault on the Gaza Strip by demonstrating in front of the White House and calling for a ceasefire. She has authored two books based on her life experience. The first book, The Hands of War: A Tale of Endurance and Hope, from a Survivor of the Holocaust, recounts her experience as a child survivor of the Holocaust. Her second book, The Hands of Peace: A Holocaust Survivor's Fight for Civil Rights in the American South, recounts her experiences during the American Civil Rights Movement, including working on campaigns in Mississippi. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, August 01, 2024
Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos Says Israel Is Committing A Holocaust
Stephen Kapos is an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor from Budapest who has been protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, which he describes as not only genocide but a holocaust. Stephen is a member of Holocaust Survivors Against Genocide. Stephen lost 15 members of his extended family in the Holocaust and his father was interned in Belsen & Theresienstadt. He settled in London but when he visited Israel was “shocked” by the racism exhibited by Israelis, including his relatives who had also survived the Holocaust. Stephen joined The Labour Party in 1997, becoming an activist and office-holder at various local levels. Stephen resigned from the Labour party, after penning a widely circulated letter, after the Labour party warned him they would “investigate” him if he spoke at a leftist organization on Holocaust Memorial Day. He is a member of Camden branch of PSC ( Palestine Solidarity Campsign ),Camden & Islington Momentum ( affiliate of the Labour Party) and lately of the small network ‘Holocaust Survivors and Descendents Against Genocide.’ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, July 25, 2024
Gabor Maté: Holocaust Survivor & Free Palestine Activist (Part 2)
This is part 2 of our interview with Gabor Maté, a renowned speaker and best selling author who focuses on addiction, stress, childhood development and trauma. He is the author of "Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder," "When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress," "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction," and the forthcoming book "The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture." He's a developer of the therapeutic approach compassionate inquiry, now studied by hundreds of therapists, physicians, counselors and others internationally. Also, Katie is in Europe working on a documentary project on Holocaust survivors speaking out against the genocide but she will still be bringing you Tuesday night streams. So you have some great ones to look forward to. And if you're in Ireland we're doing a Katie Halper Show taping in Dublin on July 24 at 7pm at the Fumbally Stables, Fumbally Lane, The Liberties, D08 CP27. Get your tickets here. thefumbally.ie/product/the-katie-halper-show/ The show is about the connection between Ireland and Palestine and features Palestinian and Irish special guests Tadhg Hickey, Danny Morrison and Asad Abushark with music by Aziz Abushark and Seán Mulrooney. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, July 18, 2024
Gabor Maté: Holocaust Survivor & Free Palestine Activist (Part 1)
Here is part two https://www.patreon.com/posts/108511133 Gabor Maté is a renowned speaker and best selling author who focuses on addiction, stress, childhood development and trauma. He is the author of "Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder," "When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress," "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction," and the forthcoming book "The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture." He's a developer of the therapeutic approach compassionate inquiry, now studied by hundreds of therapists, physicians, counselors and others internationally. Part 2 coming next week. Also, Katie is in Europe working on a documentary project on Holocaust survivors speaking out against the genocide but she will still be bringing you Tuesday night streams. So you have some great ones to look forward to. And if you're in Ireland we're doing a Katie Halper Show taping in Dublin on July 24 at 7pm at the Fumbally Stables, Fumbally Lane, The Liberties, D08 CP27. Get your tickets here. https://thefumbally.ie/product/the-katie-halper-show/ The show is about the connection between Ireland and Palestine and features Palestinian and Irish special guests Tadhg Hickey, Danny Morrison and Asad Abushark with music by Aziz Abushark and Seán Mulrooney. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, July 12, 2024
Remembering Jane McAlevey
The Katie Halper Show pays tribute to the great labor organizer Jane McAlevey who died on July 7 by playing an interview we did with her back in November 2020. Sarah Jaffe wrote a great obit of Jane at the Baffler here. https://thebaffler.com/latest/raising-hell-jaffe Find out more about Jane and her legacy here. https://janemcalevey.com/jane-mcalevey-has-passed/ Also, Katie is in Europe working on a documentary project on Holocaust survivors speaking out against the genocide but she will still be bringing you Tuesday night streams. So you have some great ones to look forward to. And if you're in Ireland we're doing a Katie Halper Show taping in Dublin on July 24 at 7pm at the Fumbally Stables, Fumbally Lane, The Liberties, D08 CP27. Get your tickets here. https://thefumbally.ie/product/the-katie-halper-show/ The show is about the connection between Ireland and Palestine and features Palestinian and Irish special guests Tadhg Hickey, Danny Morrison and Asad Abushark with music by Aziz Abushark and Seán Mulrooney. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, July 05, 2024
Laila Al Arian & Kavitha Chekuru - The Night Won't End
Join us on Patreon for more exclusive interviews: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow A new explosive documentary proves that Israel knowingly murdered Hind Rajab and also explores the role of the United States in Israel's genocide. Katie talks to Laila Al-Arian, the Emmy award-winning executive producer and Kavitha Chekuru the director of A new documentary by Fault Lines called “The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza” which follows the war’s impact on the lives of three Palestinian families in the besieged Strip. Laila Al-Arian is a Washington DC-based investigative journalist and the executive producer of Fault Lines, a current affairs and documentary program on Al Jazeera English. For her work, she has been honored with two News and Documentary Emmys, a Peabody Award and George Polk award. She is the co-author of “Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians.” Kavitha Chekuru is a journalist and former producer with “Fault Lines,” Al Jazeera English’s award-winning news documentary show. Her reporting focused on human rights and security has been recognized with the George Polk award, the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and five News and Documentary Emmy nominations. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, June 28, 2024
Craig Murray, Jody McIntyre, Rich Siegel & Remo Ibrahim
First, historian, journalist, dissident, and human rights activist Craig Murray talks about running as Member of Parliament for the Workers Party and his activism around Gaza and Assange. Then Jody McIntyre joins to talk about why he's running for MP for Birmingham Yardley. Then Palestine Youth Movement organizer Remo Ibrahim reveals what REALLY happened at the synagogue protest and Jewish anti-zionist Rich Siegel talks about why he condemned the sale of occupied land. Craig Murray is an historian, ex British ambassador to Uzbekistan, whistleblower, friend and campaigner for Assange's freedom and Workers Party candidate for Parliament under George Galloway's Workers Party in Blackburn. Jody McIntyre is a candidate for Parliament under George Galloway's Workers Party of Britain. He is the sole independent candidate running in the Birmingham-Yardley constituency, located in the city of Birmingham, England, against the Labour Party's Jess Phillips, who is a member of Labour Friends of Israel and is likely to become a minister in the new government, if she wins re-election Birmingham-Yardley. Jody has cerebral palsy and is a lifelong activist, focused on Palestine, disability-rights, and education. He converted to Islam as a young adult and has lived in Palestine multiple times, including being there on the day of the October 7th attacks. In 2010, he was the subject of national-news coverage when he was dragged out of his wheelchair by police multiple times while participating in mass protests against budget cuts and tuition hikes. Remo Ibrahim is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, LAOCIE chapter (@palestinianyouthmovement, @pymlaocie). He is committed to the struggle for Palestinian liberation, and to confronting Zionism and white supremacy wherever it appears. Rich Siegel is a musician and activist. Raised in what he calls “the cult of atheistic Zionism posing as Judaism”, in his youth Rich was very involved as a supporter of Israel, notably as a teenage Zionist youth group president. He then lived in Israel in his 20’s working as a pianist in a luxury hotel. Rich’s change of heart began as a spiritual awakening, by which he came to see that Jewish tribal identity and the state of Israel were worshipped as idols. Then he became acquainted with Zionism’s crimes against humanity, which contradicted the Zionist narrative he grew up with. Organizing demonstrations against Zionist activity in the northern New Jersey suburbs where he lives, Rich’s activism hit a high note when a talk he gave in front of the Teaneck town council went viral. Recently Rich was fired from a teaching job at a local music school due to a pro-Palestine Facebook post. He is director of Deir Yassin Remembered, a pro-Palestine charity and activist organization. He is currently running for Congress in New Jersey, with the Ceasefire and Justice Party. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to
Thu, June 20, 2024
Briahna Joy Gray & Marc Lamont Hill On Getting Fired Over Israel
To hear the rest, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-briahna-106636631 Katie is joined by Briahna Joy Gray and Marc Lamont Hill, both of whom were fired from their media jobs over Palestine. Brie was, of course, recently fired by The Hill, which fired Katie two years ago. Marc was fired by CNN for saying "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" back in 2018. Briahna Joy Gray is the host of the Bad Faith Podcast, former co-host at The Hill's Rising, former press secretary for Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign and former politics editor at The Intercept. Marc Lamont Hill is a cultural anthropologist, critical policy scholar and Presidential Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of several books including "EXCEPT FOR PALESTINE: The Limits of Progressive Politics." He's a host at BET News, Al Jazeera Up Front and his own youtube show Night School. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow
Fri, June 14, 2024
John Mearsheimer On World War III, Russia & Israel
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-john-106230219 Political scientist and author John Mearsheimer shares his thoughts on Ukraine, which he considers the West's fault, October 7, which he said was "not terribly surprising," the war on Gaza, which he considers genocide and why World War III could be around the corner. John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago and the author of "Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics," "The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities," and co-author of the controversial and ground-breaking "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, June 07, 2024
Cease Fire Plan DEBUNKED By Middle East Scholar & Palestinian Doctor + Mexican Elections!
Dr. Thaer Ahmad, who walked out of a meeting with President Biden and Assal Rad, a Middle East scholar and media analyst debunk the media spin and politicians' lies when it comes the negotiations between the Israeli Government and Hamas, Rafah and humanitarian conditions. Then we talk about Mexico's historic election of Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman and the first Jewish person elected president in North America, with Mexican writer, photojournalist and Soberanía podcast co-host (https://www.youtube.com/@soberaniapodcast) José Luis Granados Ceja (@GranadosCeja https://twitter.com/granadosceja?lang=en) and Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Angeles. Dr. Thaer Ahmad, MD, is a board certified emergency medicine physician and a board member for MedGlobal, a medical humanitarian NGO that works at building healthcare capacity and reducing health inequities. He has traveled to Gaza on several medical missions and recently spent three weeks volunteering at El Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Since returning, he has spoken out about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the need for humanitarian aid and services to reach the people. He is an assistant clinical professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the global health director for his emergency department. Dr. Assal Rad is a scholar of Middle East history. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues, the Middle East, and contemporary Iran. Her writing can be seen in Newsweek, The National Interest, The Independent, Foreign Policy and more, and she has appeared as a commentator on BBC World, Al Jazeera, CNN, and NPR. She completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018 and is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Follow Assal on X/Twitter: @AssalRad (https://x.com/AssalRad) José Luis Granados Ceja (@GranadosCeja https://twitter.com/granadosceja?lang=en) is a writer and photojournalist based in Mexico City. He previously worked as a staff writer for teleSUR and currently works on a freelance basis. He is also the host of the Soberanía podcast co-host of the Soberanía podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@soberaniapodcast). His stories focus on contemporary political issues, particularly those that involve grassroots efforts to affect social change. He often covers the work of social and labor movements in Latin America. Follow him on Twitter: @GranadosCeja (https://twitter.com/granadosceja?lang=en) Miguel Angel Angeles is a journalist who has collaborated with top Mexican media such as Vogue, Rolling Stone, Milenio, Aire libre, and currently at ADN40 and Heraldo Radio. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.
Fri, May 31, 2024
Rashid Khalidi On Gaza & Columbia, Journo Jon Farina On Police Attacks On Pro Palestine Protestors
Rashid Khalidi talks about Israel's savage attack on Gaza and Rafah as well as the protests at Columbia University, where he is the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies. Cameraman and journalist Jon Farina talks about covering pro Palestine protests as well as police violence and crackdowns against protestors. Dr. Khalidi was an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is the author of: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 (2020); Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009);The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986); British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980); and co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991), and The Other Jerusalem: Rethinking the History of the Sacred City (2020). Jon Farina is an independent Photojournalist based in NYC who's covered over 20 pro Palestine protests for Status Coup. He's covered stories all around the country, including January 6th and made a documentary about Ukraine where he lived for two months. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, May 23, 2024
Rania Khalek TAKES ON Piers Morgan, Michael Tracey TAKES ON Trump & His Fans For Being Israel First
To hear the rest, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-michael-104884931 Beirut-based journalist Rania Khalek talks about the latest news from the Middle East as well as her experience taking on Piers Morgan. Journalist Michael Tracey discusses Trump's position on Israel and a bill that would extend the same taxpayer benefits to Americans serving in the IDF as if they were serving in the US military. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, May 17, 2024
Dr. Mohamad Abdelfattah, Dr. Mahmoud Sabha in Rafah + Iris Hefets talks German Censorship
Katie talks to Jewish Israeli-German activist Iris Hefets about Germany's alarming crackdown on free speech from Jews and Palestinians. She herself was detained over holding a sign. Katie also talks to Dr. Mohamad Abdelfattah and Dr. Mahmoud Sabha who are currently in Gaza and were supposed to go back to the states yesterday but now can't. And Katie contrasts the media's antisemitism narrative with the actual reality on the ground at the protests and encampments. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Mon, May 06, 2024
Medea Benjamin, Bryce Greene, Aidan Khamis & Rahma Zein, Rami Younis, Sarah Ema Friedland
Katie talks to Medea Benjamin who was roughed up protesting the White House Correspondents' Dinner and Bryce Greene, who was arrested at Indiana University where snipers have been brought in. But first, she's joined by filmmakers Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland who talk about their documentary/ science fiction hybrid film Lyd, about the Palestinian city of Lyd, which is now known as the Israeli city Lod. The film shows what the city is like today and imagined what it could have been like without the Nakba. Bryce Greene is a student, writer, organizer and media critic based in Indianapolis. He is a contributor to Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. He was arrested and banned from Indiana University's campus for participating in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Indiana University. Aidan Khamis is an organizer for Palestine Solidarity Committee IU and IU divestment coalition. Media Benjamin Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK. She is also co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange, the Peace in Ukraine Coalition, Unfreeze Afghanistan, ACERE: The Alliance for Cuba Engagement and Respect, and the Nobel Peace Prize for Cuban Doctors Campaign. Medea has been an advocate for social justice for 50 years. She was one of 1,000 women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the millions of women who do the essential work of peace worldwide. She is the author of ten books, including Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection, and Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Her most recent book, coauthored with Nicolas J.S. Davies, is War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict. Sarah Ema Friedland Director/Cinematographer) is an NYC-based media artist and educator. Her work has screened at institutions including Cannes Film Festival, Lincoln Center, Anthology Film Archives, PBS, the Tang Teaching Museum, The Chelsea Museum, The Queens Museum, The 14th Street Y, and the MIT List Center. Her works have been supported by grants and fellowships, including the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, the Palestine American Research Center, the LABA House of Study, and the MacDowell Colony. She is a recipient of the Paul Robeson Award from the Newark Museum, and was nominated for a New York Emmy. Friedland is a member of the Meerkat Media Collective and the Director of the MDOCS Storyteller’s Institute at Skidmore College where she is also a Teaching Professor in the MDOCS Program. Rami Younis is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer, journalist and activist from Lyd. He was a 2019-20 Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School. As a journalist, he mainly wrote for the online magazine +972 and served as both writer and editor of its Hebrew sister site, “local call”, a journalistic project he co-founded, designed to challenge Israeli mainstream journalism outlets. Rami served as a parliamentary consultant and medi
Mon, April 29, 2024
Seder In The (Schumer) Streets
Katie anchors a livestream of a Jewish Voice for Peace rally taking place in Brooklyn and talks to Susan Sarandon, Abby Martin, Wallace Shawn, Michael Moore, Rabbi Brant Rosen. She's joined live in studio by Fouad Dakwar. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, April 19, 2024
Assal Rad, Matthew Hoh & Barry Riesch
Scholar Assal Rad and Veterans for Peace members Matt Hoh and Barry Riesch react to Iran's retaliatory strike on Israel, Israel's continued genocidal attack on Gaza and predict what's next. Matt and Barry also discuss the international Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) which will sail in mid April with multiple vessels, carrying 5500 tons of humanitarian aid and hundreds of international human rights observers to challenge the ongoing illegal Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Dr. Assal Rad is a scholar of Middle East history. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues, the Middle East, and contemporary Iran. Her writing can be seen in Newsweek, The National Interest, The Independent, Foreign Policy and more, and she has appeared as a commentator on BBC World, Al Jazeera, CNN, and NPR. She completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018 and is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Follow Assal on X/Twitter: @AssalRad (https://twitter.com/AssalRad) Matthew Hoh (https://twitter.com/Matthewphoh) is a disabled Marine combat veteran for peace and a senior fellow with the Center for International Policy. In 2009, he resigned from his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the war. He ran as a Green Party candidate for the US Senate to represent the people of North Carolina in 2022. Barry Riesch is a retired carpenter and building inspector. He is also a Vietnam veteran, former national president of Veterans For Peace, and has been active in the anti-war movement in the Twin Cities and beyond for over thirty years. Engaging in this work, he has participated in delegations to Vietnam, South Korea, Cuba, and Mexico. As an environmental activist, he focuses on how the military is contributing to climate change. It is a life goal of his to leave the world a better place. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, April 11, 2024
Holocaust Survivor & SUSPENDED Columbia Students Protest Genocide In Gaza
Katie speaks with Rene Lichtman, born 1937, who is a “hidden child” Holocaust survivor who opposes the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. Then Katie is joined by Layla Saliba & Aidan Parisi to get the latest updates on Columbia University’s handling of a recent chemical attack on Pro-Palestinian student activists, censorship on campus, and more. The son of two Polish Jews who fled to France during the 1930s, Rene Lichtman was hidden at the age of two with a Catholic family outside of Paris after his father was killed during the 1940 Nazi invasion and his mother was forced into hiding. After the war, Rene moved with his mother to Brooklyn, New York. He was politically radicalized in the 1960s and became an active opponent of the Vietnam War. Rene was a founding member of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust. On December 22, 2023, Rene took part in a demonstration outside of the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, against the US-backed Israeli massacres in Gaza. Aidan Parisi is a queer, non-binary MSW student at Columbia University. A Washington DC native, social justice has always been embedded in their life. They grew up in a household with two strong parents who imbued upon them the principles of challenging the status quo that perpetuates the subversion of marginalized communities. As an activist, Aidan has been involved in a number of social justice causes that include uplifting the rights of those who are queer/trans, immigrants, low-income, and marginally housed. Currently, Aidan is being targeted for their fierce stance against genocide and forced displacement. Layla Saliba (she/her) is a Palestinian American graduate student at Columbia University. She is studying social work with a concentration in policy practice. She is passionate about disability justice and wants to make healthcare more accessible and affordable for everyone. She truly believes that a better world is possible for everyone and that is what guides her advocacy work. In her free time, you can find her feeding the NYC pigeons, reading, and spending time with friends. Help Aidan and Layla with these links: https://www.gofundme.com/f/grieving-cu-community-members-need-your-support?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer https://www.change.org/p/tell-columbia-university-fire-shai-davidai?recruiter=85462137&recruited_by_id=a717f684-f75c-491a-a512-afecba3efc38&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_for_starters_page&utm_medium=copylink https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2023/11/14/columbia-university-apartheid-divest-who-we-are/ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, April 05, 2024
Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa, Journalist Prem Thakker + Larry Hebert & Ann Wright
Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa reports back from her recent trip to Gaza where she observed the fallout of Israel's genocidal war first hand. After that, journalist Prem Thakker talks about the attacks on Al Shifa and his interactions with the State Department's spokesperson Matthew Miller. Then active duty Senior Airman Larry Hebert and Anne Wright join to talk about Larry's hunger strike for Gaza which was inspired by Aaron Bushnell. Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of Mornings in Jenin, which was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies, The Blue Between Sky And Water and Against the Loveless World. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine and the executive director of Palestine Writes (https://palestinewrites.org/). Prem Thakker is a politics reporter at The Intercept, and is a former reporter at The New Republic. His work has also appeared in The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, CNN podcasts, and his newsletter Better World. You can find him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/prem_thakker), Instagram, and TikTok. Active Duty Air Force Active Duty Air Force Larry Hebert Stationed at Naval Station Rota, Spain Larry Hebert is a 26-year-old active duty senior airman in the United States airforce stationed at Naval Station Rota, Spain. He is on hunger strike calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. His actions were inspired by Aaron Bushnell. Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired as a Colonel and a former US diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She served in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia and Mongolia. In December 2001 she was on the small team that reopened the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is the co-author of the book "Dissent: Voices of Conscience." ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, March 28, 2024
Journalist Films Israelis ADMITTING to WAR CRIMES + Latest Julian Assange Updates
For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-brad-on-101331788 Katie speaks to Jeremy Loffredo, an investigative journalist and filmmaker back from Israel where he filmed Israelis admitting to war crimes and calling for genocide. Then Kevin Gosztola joins to give us the latest breaking updates on Julian Assange's case. Jeremy Loffredo is an investigative journalist and filmmaker based in New York. He has spent the past few months documenting the explosion of settler violence in the West Bank and the increase of political and religious repression against Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem. Most recently, Loffredo spent time within the ranks of the Jewish Israeli nationalists invading Gaza to establish Jewish settlements and blocking humanitarian aid for starving Palestinians at the Gaza border. The Israelis admitted to war crimes and clamored for genocide. Kevin Gosztola Curates The Dissenter at http://TheDissenter.org, is the author of “Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange," and co-host of the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, March 22, 2024
How Israel SINISTERLY Weaponizes LGBTQ Rights with Ghadir Shafie and Dean Spade
Katie speaks with Ghadir Shafie and Dean Spade about pink-washing, Israel's weaponization of LGBTQ rights, and more. Ghadir Shafie is a Palestinian activist and strategist, born and based in Palestine/Israel. She is a co- founder of Aswat- a Palestinian feminist-queer center for sexual and gender freedoms. She has spent the last decade of her life passionately advocating for the intersectionality of the struggle of Palestinian queer women, fighting multiple forms of oppression. Her interviews and articles appear in various media outlets and academic papers. Dean Spade is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. Dean has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, and the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!.” His latest book is Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next). ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, March 15, 2024
Antizionist Jews TAKE ON The Establishment With Zachary Foster, Jen Perelman & Daniel Maté
Antizionist Jewish Historian Zack Foster returns to the show to debunk Zionist propaganda being regurgitated in a viral Newsweek piece. Jen Perelman talks about her decision to run against AIPAC cheerleader Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) for Congress. Daniel Maté and Katie go over the hasbara of the week. Zachary Foster has a Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. He is a Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights. He runs a digital archive called Palestine Nexus and writes a newsletter called Palestine, in Your Inbox. He is a Jewish American historian of Palestine who was a zionist until he started studying Palestine. Jen Perelman is a former zionist running against the very zionist Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). She received more than 21,000 votes (nearly 30 percent of the vote) in the 2020 Democratic Party primary. Daniel Maté is a musical theater lyricist, the world's only mental chiropractor, and the co-author of "The Myth Of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture" by Gabor Maté. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Sun, March 10, 2024
Cornel West
To hear the rest of the conversation, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-cornel-100078108 Dr. Cornel West joins us from the campaign trail to talk about the state of the campaign, the state of the nation, the threats of Joe Biden and Donald Trump and the genocide in Gaza. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, March 08, 2024
Blakeley + Matt Lieb
Katie talks to Matt Lieb, a comedian, podcaster, accidental award winning journalist, and host of the podcast Bad Hasbara and Blakeley, a songwriter, Tik Tok content creator and Michael Rapaport Roaster. See Matt Lieb live March 17 in Sacramento here http://www.punchlinesac.com/EventDetail?tmeventid=G5vYZ9ziXyJ0k See Katie live here March 8 in New York here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/laughs-for-good-tickets-793162168397 ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, March 01, 2024
Aaron Bushnell's Death With Col. Ann Wright, Journalist Talia Jane & Historian Assal Rad
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-assal-99569961 Retired Colonel Ann Wright reacts to the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell and discusses why people kill themselves to try to stop a war. Journalist Talia Jane, who broke the story, joins us live from a vigil at the Armed Forces Recruitment Center. And Assal Rad discusses the media's biased treatment of Bushnell as well as Palestinians. Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired as a Colonel and a former US diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She served in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia and Mongolia. In December 2001 she was on the small team that reopened the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is the co-author of the book "Dissent: Voices of Conscience." Read her article "Why Would Anyone Kill One’s Self In an Attempt to Stop A War?" https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/26/why-would-anyone-kill-ones-self-in-an-attempt-to-stop-a-war/ Talia Jane is an independent reporter and videojournalist who reports via Twitter @taliaotg, covering social movements and protests as well as researching far-right propaganda and extremism. Jane’s work has appeared on CBS, ABC, NBC, New York Times, WNYC/Gothamist, and a slew of other outlets, with writing published in Vice, Teen Vogue, Hell Gate, It’s Going Down, and more. Support: patreon.com/taliajane Dr. Assal Rad is a scholar of Middle East history. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues, the Middle East, and contemporary Iran. Her writing can be seen in Newsweek, The National Interest, The Independent, Foreign Policy and more, and she has appeared as a commentator on BBC World, Al Jazeera, CNN, and NPR. She completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018 and is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Follow Assal on X/Twitter: @AssalRad (https://twitter.com/AssalRad) ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, February 23, 2024
Jewish Historian Zachary Foster DEBUNKS Zionist Propaganda + Assange Updates With Kevin Gosztola
For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-zachary-99042665 Katie talks to Skaii, a 15 year old Pro Palestine activist about being silenced by her high school; Jewish anti-zionist historian Zachary Foster about Gaza; and journalist Kevin Gosztola about Julian Assange. Skaii is a student at Walter Johnson HS in MCPS. She is a Marxist activist and does public speaking, rallying, and demonstrations for Palestine. Zachary Foster has a Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. He is a Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights. He runs a digital archive called Palestine Nexus and writes a newsletter called Palestine, in Your Inbox. He is a Jewish American historian of Palestine who was a zionist until he started studying Palestine. Zachary talks about how he saw through the propaganda, the dehumanization of Palestinians, how Israel uses starvation as a weapon of war, the history of Hamas and zionism's antisemitism. Zachary explains why Israel doesn't just harm Palestinians but Jews. Kevin Gosztola Curates The Dissenter at http://TheDissenter.org, is the author of “Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange," and co-host of the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast. . ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Sat, February 17, 2024
Palestinian Historian Rashid Khalidi SLAMS Biden, Jill Stein Makes HER Case For President
Katie talks to Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi about how history shapes the present moment and to Jill Stein about her presidential run. Jill Stein (https://www.jillstein2024.com/) is the Green Party's presidential nominee for 2024. She is a Harvard-educated doctor, a pioneering environmental health advocate, and an organizer for people, planet, and peace. She has helped lead initiatives to fight environmental racism, injustice, and pollution, to promote healthy communities, and to revitalize democracy. She has helped win victories in campaign finance reform, racially-just redistricting, and the clean-up of incinerators, coal plants, and other toxic threats. She was a principal organizer for the Global Climate Convergence for People, Planet, and Peace over Profit. Rashid Khalidi (https://history.columbia.edu/person/khalidi-rashid/) is the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University and was an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is the author of: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 (2020); Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009);The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986); British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980); and co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991), and The Other Jerusalem: Rethinking the History of the Sacred City (2020). ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, February 09, 2024
Max Blumenthal SLAMS Biden's Warmongering; Arab-Americans Abandon Biden, Matt Lieb Mocks Biden
To see the rest of my discussion with Max Blumenthal, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/max-blumenthal-98061819 Parody song link: https://youtu.be/dEG76hlnhNw Katie talks to Palestinian-American student Saba Saed who told "Face The Nation" that she would not vote for Biden because she cares about reproductive rights and Biden's genocide is forcing women to undergo c-sections without anesthesia. Then Katie talks to journalist Max Blumenthal about the state of the Middle East. Finally Katie talks to comedian Matt Lieb and musical theater lyricist Daniel Maté about the role of Hasbara, satire and being anti-zionist Jews. Saba Saed is a Palestinian-American college student at Michigan State where she's a neuroscience major and is vice president of the Arab Cultural Society. She was born in the West Bank and moved to the Michigan when she was 10. Max Blumenthal is the editor and founder of The Gray Zone and the author of several books including "The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump" and "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel." Matt Lieb is a comedian, podcaster, accidental award winning journalist, and guy from Good Mythical Morning. He hosts the podcast Bad Hasbara. Daniel Maté is a musical theater lyricist, the world's only mental chiropractor, and the co-author of "The Myth Of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture" by Gabor Maté. He also co-wrote with Katie the Parody song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now: The Genocidal Remix" a duet by Biden and Bibi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEG76hlnhNw ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, February 02, 2024
Palestinian Columbia Students SPRAYED With Toxic Chemicals At Campus Protest
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-daniel-97695284 Katie talks to Columbia grad student Layla Saliba about her experiencing getting sprayed with a hazardous chemical at a protest for Gaza and to Prem Thakker, a journalist at the Intercept who covered the incident and the university's inadequate response to it. Then Katie talks to journalist Daniel Boguslaw about the New York Times' decision to shelf a podcast about the alleged sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7th, Western media's pro Israel bias and the way Israel censors Western media. Layla Saliba (she/her) is a Palestinian American graduate student at Columbia University. She is studying social work with a concentration in policy practice. She is passionate about disability justice and wants to make healthcare more accessible and affordable for everyone. She truly believes that a better world is possible for everyone and that is what guides her advocacy work. In her free time, you can find her feeding the NYC pigeons, reading, and spending time with friends. Prem Thakker is a politics reporter at The Intercept, and is a former reporter at The New Republic. His work has also appeared in The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, CNN podcasts, and his newsletter Better World. You can find him on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Daniel Boguslaw is an investigative reporter based in Washington, D.C. His interests include corporate corruption, congressional and White House investigations, American influence overseas, and organized labor. Prior to joining The Intercept, Daniel worked at the New Republic, The American Prospect, and as a firefighter in the Pacific Northwest. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Thu, February 01, 2024
Norman Finkelstein & Craig Mokhiber EXPLAIN ICJ Genocide Decision on Israel
Political scientist Norman Finkelstein and Human Rights attorney Craig Mokhiber react to the International Court of Justice's ruling and explain what it really means. Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors. He received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom, I'LL BURN THAT BRIDGE WHEN I GET TO IT! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world. Craig Mokhiber is a longtime international human rights lawyer who served as director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He has resigned after publicly accusing the U.N. of failing to address what he calls a "text-book case of genocide" unfolding in Gaza. His resignation letter has gone viral. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, January 26, 2024
Norman Finkelstein & Mouin Rabbani BREAK DOWN Israeli Genocide Case w/Briahna Joy Gray
In this special stream, Katie joins Briahna Joy Gray to co-host a discussion with political scientist Norman Finkelstein and Palestinian analyst Mouin Rabbani. Finkelstein and Rabbani analyze South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, predict the outcome, and explain why the case is so important, regardless of the decision. Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors. He received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom, I'LL BURN THAT BRIDGE WHEN I GET TO IT! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world. Mouin Rabbani is a Contributing Editor of Middle East Report and has published and commented widely on Palestinian affairs and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He was a Senior Analyst of the Middle East with the International Crisis Group. Previously he worked as Palestine Director of the Palestinian American Research Centre. He is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and host of the Connections podcast. Briahna Joy Gray is the host of the bad Faith podcast and a host on The Hill's Rising. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, January 19, 2024
Abby Martin, Rania Khalek & Claudia De La Cruz Live At The People's Forum
To hear the rest, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-abby-de-96769546 A special live show bringing together Katie Halper, Rania Khalek, Abby Martin and Claudia de la Cruz talking about Palestine, the Presidential elections and more! Proceeds go to the Gaza-based Palestinian organization We Are Not Numbers, in memory of its co-founder assassinated Gazan professor, poet and translator Refaat Alareer. Sponsored by Breakthrough News, Empire Files and The Katie Halper Show Katie Halper is an award-winning writer, filmmaker and the host of the Katie Halper show podcast, YouTube show and radio show and the co-host of the YouTube show and podcast Useful Idiots. She is the director of the forthcoming documentary “Commie Camp.” Abby Martin is a journalist, the host and creator of The Empire Files, director of Gaza Fights For Freedom and the forthcoming documentary Earth’s Greatest Enemy. Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News, where she hosts the show Dispatches. She also co-hosts the weekly Freedom Side livestream with Eugene Puryear. Claudia De la Cruz is a central committee member of The Party for Socialism and Liberation. She is a popular educator, community organizer, and theologian. In 2018, she Co-founded The People’s Forum. Claudia has over 20 years of experience in organizing across sectors of struggle and building collective political- education and cultural spaces in the US, and internationally. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, January 12, 2024
Rest In Power, John Pilger
Katie remembers the amazing and prolific Australian journalist, filmmaker and author John Pilger, who died on on December 30, 2023. John Pilger wrote dozens of books, including Heroes, Hidden Agendas, and Freedom Next Time. He made over 60 documentaries, including Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny, Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia, The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back, The War You Don't See, The Coming War on China. He appeared as a contributor on BBC Television Australia, BBC Radio, BBC World Service, London Broadcasting, ABC Television, ABC Radio Australia, among others, and his writing appeared at The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation: New York, The Age: Melbourne, The Sydney Morning Herald and more. Learn more about John Pilger at https://johnpilger.com/ Link to January 16, 2024 live taping at The People's Forum - https://peoplesforum.org/events/live-at-tpf/ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, January 05, 2024
Norman Finkelstein SLAMS Alan Dershowitz, Defends Claudine Gay; Jamal Mohamad On Rabbi Shmuley
To hear the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-norman-95955935 Political scientist Norman Finkelstein shares his thoughts on Gaza, Biden, Sam Harris, Bill Maher and more. But first, Palestinian-American college student Jamal Mohamad talks about being harassed and filmed by Rabbi Shmuley for daring to say "free Palestine" to him and offering him a fist bump while skating in a video that has since gone viral. Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors. He received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom, I'LL BURN THAT BRIDGE WHEN I GET TO IT! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world. Jamal Mohamad is a second-generation Palestinian-American born and raised in North Carolina. He is the current president of the Arab Student Organization at North Carolina State University and has first-hand witnessed the brutal Israeli occupation and apartheid system during his time in Palestine. Jamal's Twitter: @jamal_mohamad02 Jamal's Instagram: jamal.mohamad_ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, December 29, 2023
Richie Torres EXPOSED & A History Of Zionism
Hear full interview with historian Sam Biagetti here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-audio-on-95459366?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Anti-zionist organizers Jason Rosenberg, Ilana Cruger-Zaken and Richie Merino talk about what happened when they disrupted a discussion between U.S. Representatives Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Mike Lawler (R-NY), Bethlehem-based journalist Yumna Patel gives a West Bank update and historian and host of the podcast Historiansplaining Samuel talks about the history of zionism. Samuel Biagetti holds a doctorate in early American history. He uses his knowledge in his antique dealership, in producing the podcast Historiansplaining, in his writings, and in giving college-level lectures. Yumna Patel is the Palestine News Director for Mondo Weiss. Link to Historiansplaining podcast website - https://historiansplaining.com/ Link to Historiansplaining on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632 Richie Merino is an NYC public school teacher in the South Bronx and an anti-imperialist activist and organizer with the Bronx Antiwar Coalition. Jason Rosenberg is an advocate and organizer with a focus in public health and HIV. He is an ACT UP NY and Reclaim Pride Coalition member, and was named in 2020's "Logo30" by LogoTV. You can find writings of his on public health, HIV/AIDS, and Queer identity in publications such as Teen Vogue, Out Magazine, The Advocate, TheBody, and Hey Alma. Ilana Cruger-Zaken is an antizionist Jewish activist based Westchester, New York and a founding member of the Israeli antizionist collective Shoresh.
Mon, December 25, 2023
Palestinian Journalist Said Arikat DISMANTLES State Department
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-said-95292037 Katie talks to Palestinian journalist Said Arikat about his reporting on Palestine and how he manages to challenge the State Department at their daily press conferences without getting kicked out or not called on! Said Arikat is a Palestinian journalist and Washington bureau chief for Al-Quds, a daily Newspaper which has been published out of East Jerusalem (uninterruptedly) since 1951. In addition to his work as a journalist, Arikat is an adjunct professor at the American University. He served as the United Nations Chief Spokesman in Iraq from 2005-2010. He is a familiar face at U.S. State Department press briefings, where he has engaged in sometimes contentious exchanges with State Department Spokespersons. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Sun, December 17, 2023
Refaat Alareer Remembered By Writers Yousef Aljamal & Muhammad Shehada
On this special bonus episode of both The Katie Halper Show and Useful Idiots (the show Katie co-hosts with Aaron Maté, on which she interviewed Refaat Alareer) Katie talks about the murdered Gazan poet with two of his former students and current writers Yousef Aljamal and Muhammad Shehada. Muhammad Shehada is a writer and analyst originally from Gaza who is now based in Sweden. His writing has appeared in Ha'aretz, Newsweek, The Forward, Al Jazeera. Yousef M. Aljamal is a Palestinian refugee from Gaza now based in Turkey. He has been involved on a number of book projects and is also a contributor to Gaza Writes Back and Light in Gaza. Mr. Aljamal has published a number of journal articles on topics that include Palestinians in the diaspora, travel restrictions imposed on Palestinians, and struggles for liberation.
Fri, December 15, 2023
The Assassination Of Refaat Alareer & The Witch-Hunt On College Campuses
Katie discusses the life, death and legacy of poet Refaat Alareer with his colleagues at Electronic Intifada, journalists Ali Abunimah and Nora Barrows-Friedman and his former student and current writer and translator Mahmoud Alyazji. But first Katie talks to law professor Sahar Aziz and writer and analyst Mitchell Plitnick about their new report “Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine-Israel Discourse” which looks at how accusations of antisemitism stifle criticism of Israel and empower its systematic violations of Palestinians’ human rights. We also talk about the witch hunts and censorship on college campuses which are distracting from Israel's crimes. Link to piece remembering Refaat Alareer: https://electronicintifada.net/conten... Ali Abunimah is Director of http://electronicintifada.net. Author of “One Country”and “The Battle for Justice in Palestine.” Nora Barrows-Friedman is a staff writer and associate editor at The Electronic Intifada, and is the author of "In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine" Mahmoud Alyazji is a translator, a writer and a video editor. Sahar Aziz is professor of law, Middle East Legal Studies Scholar, and Chancellor’s Social justice Scholar at Rutgers University Law School. She is the author of "The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom" Mitchell Plitnick is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy and a frequent writer on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. He is the former vice president at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, director of the U.S. Office of B'Tselem, and co-director of Jewish Voice for Peace. He is the co-author of "Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics," and former
Fri, December 08, 2023
How To See Through Israel's Propaganda With Mouin Rabbani & Ahmed Twaij
To hear the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-mouin-94287604 Palestinian analyst Mouin Rabbani shares his insights into Israel's war on Palestine, the hostage negotiations and what the hell Antony Blinken is thinking. But first Iraqi journalist and medic Ahmed Twaij draws on his experience as a journalist and medic in Iraq to explain why Hamas is not Isis and what it's like to try to treat people in times of war. Mouin Rabbani (https://twitter.com/MouinRabbani) is a researcher and analyst specializing in the contemporary Middle East. He has previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East with Crisis Management Initiative/Martti Ahtisaari Centre, and Senior Middle East Analyst and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group. He is Senior Fellow with the Institute for Palestine Studies, Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, Contributing Editor of Middle East Report, Associate Fellow of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka - The Palestinian Policy Network. He is also a member of the UN Mediation Roster. Rabbani has published, presented, and commented widely on Middle East issues, including for most major global media. Link to Mouin Rabbani's podcast: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Author/11848 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. His work focuses on US politics, social justice issues and the Middle East. He zealously tells stories as a means to promote equality, as well as holding those in power to account. His work has taken him across the US, UK, Europe and the Middle East. Ahmed is also passionate about photography and filmmaking and has previously worked with a number of international humanitarian and human rights organizations. He is currently working as a director of an, as yet, undisclosed feature length documentary produced by multiple Oscar winning John Battsek. He is also developing a podcast series on Racism in the Arab World. After initially graduating as a medical doctor from Imperial College London in 2012, Ahmed found his passion in storytelling and became a self-taught journalist. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in Medical Humanities. After working as a doctor in London for a number of years, Ahmed began volunteering abroad, namely helping with the refugee crisis across Europe, where he developed his desire for storytelling. This passion drove Ahmed to pursue a master’s degree in Conflict, Security and Development, with Global Health. Ahmed has also produced and directed a number of videos for which he has been nominated for awards, as well as podcasts. His photography has been featured in various exhibitions across the globe. Ahmed is a member of the Everyday Proje
Sat, December 02, 2023
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani HUNGER STRIKES For Gaza, Writer Susan Abulhawa GETS DETAINED in Egypt
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-susan-93986481 Writer Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin) talks about getting detained in Egypt trying to get to the Rafah Border Crossing with Global Conscience Convoy. But first New York State Assemblymember for District 36 Zohran Mamdani talks about why he's joining other activists including Cynthia Nixon in hunger striking for a cease fire. Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of Mornings in Jenin, which was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies, The Blue Between Sky And Water and Against the Loveless World. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine and the executive director of Palestine Writes (https://palestinewrites.org/). Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born and raised in Kampala, Uganda, moving to New York City with his family at the age of 7. A graduate of the NYC Public School System, he attended the Bronx High School of Science and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Africana Studies from Bowdoin College. A few years later in 2018, he became naturalized as an American citizen. Prior to representing the 36th Assembly District and its neighborhoods of Astoria, Ditmars-Steinway, and Astoria Heights, Zohran worked as a foreclosure prevention housing counselor, helping low-income homeowners of color across Queens fight off eviction and stay in their homes. It was this job that led him to run for office. After having spent every day negotiating with banks that valued profits over people, he came face-to-face with the reality that this housing crisis – one which predated this pandemic – was not natural to our lives, but instead a choice. A choice that was the consequence of decades of pro-corporate policies enacted across our country as well as our state. Yet, like with any choice, we always have the opportunity to change and Zohran is excited to be a part of that. More than his professional experience, however it was the act of organizing that led to Zohran becoming politically active in the first place. In high school, Zohran co-founded his school’s first ever cricket team, which would go on to participate in the Public School Athletic League’s inaugural cricket season. This act, though not ostensibly a political one, taught him how coming together with a few like-minded individuals can transform rhetoric into reality. Prior to that, his politics had been expressed primarily through long Facebook posts whose impact was the same as the Yankees’ rings from the last 10 years. Taking that lesson with him, he went on to co-found his college’s first Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and later organize across the country with different progressive organizations seeking to win national elections as well as expand healthcare coverage. As life took its inevitable turns, with detours in film, rap, and writing, it was always organizing that ensured that the event
Tue, November 28, 2023
Debunking Zionist LIES With Noura Erakat & Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro
To hear the rest, join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-rabbi-96556126 Human rights lawyer Noura Erakat debunks the Biden Admin's claim Israel isn't engaging in genocide. Then Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro explains why Zionism is antisemitic. Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Assoc. Professor of Africana Studies & the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School & was a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professor in Palestinian Studies at Brown University. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law & the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award & the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She's co-founding editor of Jadaliyya & an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She's a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee & Residency Rights, & as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including "Gaza In Context" & "Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Her writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Al Jazeera, & The Boston Review. She's a frequent commentator on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, the BBC, & NPR among others. Her awards include the NLG Law for the People Award (2021) & the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar award (2022). Yaakov Shapiro is an international speaker, author, & pulpit rabbi for over 30 years, now emeritus. He's attained an enviable place in the arena of anti-Zionist public intellectuals, having constructed a unique oeuvre on the ideology of Zionism & its relationship to Judaism. After graduating high school at age 16, Rabbi Shapiro dedicated himself to full-time study of religion, becoming the protégé of some of the most well-regarded rabbinic scholars in Orthodoxy. Among his areas of research are religious philosophy, analytic theology, Talmud, Halachah, & Biblical exegesis. At age 19 he published his first book, משפטי הבירורים, a collection of original expositions on rabbinic principles of tort adjudication. His other books include חלקת השדה, a commentary on Judaic laws governing land disputes (2000); צדה לדרך, a commentary on Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato’s exposition of God as the Necessary Being (2009); & שופריה דיעקב, a compendium of original Biblical exegeses (2017). His most recent work, The Empty Wagon: Zionism’s Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft (2018), a 1381-page treatise on the differences between Judaism & Zionism, is the most comprehensive work written on
Thu, November 23, 2023
'From The River To The Sea' with Yousef Munayyer
Yousef Munayyer discusses what 'From The River To The Sea' really means, what happens next for Palestine and the future of the one state solution. Yousef Munayyer is a Palestinian American analyst and head of the Israel-Palestine program at Arab Center Washington DC. Yousef's relevant pieces: There Will Be a One-State Solution (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/israel/2019-10-15/there-will-be-one-state-solution) What Does “From the River to the Sea” Really Mean? (https://jewishcurrents.org/what-does-from-the-river-to-the-sea-really-mean) The Smearing of Rashida Tlaib and the Palestinian Calls for Freedom (https://www.thenation.com/article/world/rashida-tlaib-palestinian-freedom/) ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Sat, November 18, 2023
Presidential Candidate Claudia de la Cruz on Palestine, ‘Blue No Matter Who’ and Her Campaign
Claudia De La Cruz disrupted Blackrock to call attention to its war profiteering and complicity in the war on Gaza. De la Cruz, who is running as a candidate with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, talks about why she's running for president, the reason the U.S. supports Israel, the proxy war in Ukraine, her domestic policy and more! ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Sat, November 11, 2023
Jews Say NO To Israel's Genocide In Gaza & UN Official Craig Mokhiber RESIGNS
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-craig-92682755 A panel of Jewish activists against genocide join the show followed by leading human rights and UN Official Craig Mokhiber who resigned over the institution's failure of Palestinian people. Rosalind P. Petchesky is a political scientist and member of Jewish Voice For Peace, who was arrested protesting outside of Chuck Schumer's house last month. Jay Saper is an artist, translator, educator, organizer and member of Jewish Voice for Peace. Brant Rosen is a reconstructionist rabbi of Tzedek Chicago, an anti-Zionist synagogue he founded in August 2015 and co-chair of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council. Craig Mokhiber is a longtime international human rights lawyer who served as director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He has resigned after publicly accusing the U.N. of failing to address what he calls a "text-book case of genocide" unfolding in Gaza. His resignation letter has gone viral. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Mon, November 06, 2023
Yumna Patel, Norman Finkelstein & Dan Kovalik On Israel's Genocidal War On Palestine
Bethlehem-based journalist Yumna Patel and political scientist Norman Finkelstein react to and analyze Israel's latest war on not just Gaza, but all of Palestine. And human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik talks about being assaulted by John Fetterman's staffer for daring to ask the senator why he won't support a cease fire. Yumna Patel is a journalist based in Bethlehem. She is Palestine News Director at @Mondoweiss. Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors. He received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom, I'LL BURN THAT BRIDGE WHEN I GET TO IT! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world. Dan Kovalik is a labor and human rights lawyer living in Pittsburgh. He taught International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 2012 to 2023. He is the author of several books, including "Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture" https://a.co/d/86FTTHP ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, October 27, 2023
Ali Abunimah, Nour Jaghama & Atheer Yacoub React to Israeli GENOCIDE
Ali Abunimah, Nour Jaghama and Atheer Yacoub React to Israeli genocide. Join CodePink's march here (Nov. 4th): https://www.codepink.org/palestinedc23 Ali Abunimah is executive director of the @TheElectronicIntifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine. Nour Jaghama is CODEPINK's Palestine Campaigner and has been advocating for Palestinian liberation for over 5 years, including organizing within her university DePaul University. Atheer Yacoub is a Brooklyn based comedian and writer and she just released her first comedy album Denied Entry with Comedy Records. Atheer has a half-hour special on Comedy Central Arabia and has been featured on AXSTV's Gotham Comedy Live. She has written for the Emmy award-winning channel BRIC TV on The Breakdown and Passport Control. She's also the co-creator of the sketch comedy show Muslim Girls DTF: Discuss Their Faith, which won many awards including Series Fest Best Independent Comedy Writing. She has been featured in numerous comedy festivals and tours domestically and internationally. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Sat, October 21, 2023
Norman Finkelstein on Israel's BRUTAL Assault On Gaza
Norman Finkelstein, a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors, talks about Israel's latest attack on Gaza and debunks some of the most pervasive talking points used to justify Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Norman G. Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom, I'LL BURN THAT BRIDGE WHEN I GET TO IT! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world. Link to Norman's website: https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/ Link to Norman's book "I Accuse!" - https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/i-accuse/ Phone number you can call to demand ceasefire: (202)225-3121 ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, October 13, 2023
Miko Peled On Israel's GENOCIDAL War On Gaza & GAZA RESISTS With Mohammed Hisam
To hear the rest of my discussion with Miko Peled, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-miko-90927870 Israeli-American activist Miko Peled explains what Israel is doing and why they're doing it. Then I'm joined by Mohammed Hisam, a Palestinian-American community organizer and attorney based out of Houston, TX. Miko Peled is an author, writer, speaker, and human rights activist living in the United States. He is the author of "The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine" and "Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five." His father was a high ranking Israeli general, his maternal grandfather was a signatory to Israeli independence, his niece was tragically killed in a suicide bombing and he's a staunch advocate for a one state solution. He is considered by many to be one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and the creation of a single democracy with equal rights in all of historic Palestine. Educated in Jerusalem, Japan and the United States, Peled is also an accomplished professional martial artist. For 23 years, Peled ran a martial arts school that was dedicated to teaching leadership skills and non-violent conflict resolution through martial arts. Miko is also a contributor to several online publications (Mint Press, The Electronic Intifada, Democracy Now, Mondoweiss), Mikopeled.com, and produces The Miko Peled Podcast, all of which he dedicated to advocating for the creation of one democratic state with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians. He travels regularly to Palestine where he speaks and works with the popular resistance, the BDS movement, and other justice groups. As a result, he has been arrested several times by the Israeli authorities for his activism. Mohammed Hisam is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement and currently serves as Director of Advocacy and Education for the Palestinian American Cultural Center - Houston. As an community organizer, Hisam engages in advocacy on behalf of the Palestinian community and for the Palestinian cause through organizing demonstrations and educational events and overseeing two critical grants that support Palestinian students and student organizing on Texas campuses. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, October 06, 2023
Ukrainian-Canadian Scholar EXPOSES Nazigate & The Truth Behind The Maidan Massacre + Zoe Alexandra
To hear the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/90496913 Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist Ivan Katchanovski talks about exposing Yaroslav Hunka for being in a Nazi unit, the Ukraine War, the Maidan massacre and more. Then Peoples Dispatch's Zoe Alexandra explains The New York Times' connection to press crackdowns in India. Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University of Ottawa. He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian at Harvard University. He is the author of "Cleft Countries: Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova," and the co-author of "Historical Dictionary of Ukraine." He has written for and/ or appeared on The BBC, CBC, Washington Post, The Guardian and more. He specializes primarily in politics, conflicts, political violence, and the far right in Ukraine. He teaches at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Katchanovski was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His academic publications include 4 books, 19 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 12 chapters. His three books on the Russia-Ukraine war and its origins, the Maidan massacre in Ukraine, and modern Ukraine will be published by major Western academic presses. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Mon, October 02, 2023
Marianne Williamson + Canada’s Ukrainian Nazis with Lev Golinkin, Mark Ames, & Yasha Levine
To hear the rest, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-marianne-90236663 Marianne Williamson joins the Katie Halper Show to talk about her campaign, and domestic and foreign politics. Then journalist Lev Golinkin joins to talk about Canada's Ukrainian Nazi problem, along with Mark Ames & Yasha Levine. Marianne Williamson is a political activist, author, non-denominational spiritual lecturer and New York Times bestselling author. She began in the 1980’s, during which time she became deeply involved with HIV/AIDS activism. A long-time champion for the LGBTQ+ community, she founded Project Angel Food to deliver meals to the homebound unable to shop or cook for themselves. To date, the charitable organization has served over 16 million meals. She also founded the LA Center for Living, the Manhattan Center for Living, and cofounded The Peace Alliance. Williamson has been a non-profit activist throughout her career. She has produced numerous progressive candidate summits and podcasts to encourage more women, LGBTQ+, racially diverse, and progressive Democrats to run for office. Over the years she has lectured to hundreds of thousands of people on spiritually and politically progressive topics, sold over three million books, and has done extensive work with the ill and dying. She has written 15 books, 7 New York Times bestsellers and 4 of them hitting #1. In 2020 she ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, and is now a candidate challenging the candidacies of President Biden and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. As an essential part of her platform Williamson proposes a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights, a Department of Peace, reparations for slavery, a Department of Children and Youth, and a just transition from a dirty to a clean economy. A progressive Democrat, Williamson proposes a new economic beginning including universal health care, tuition free college and tech school, and a guaranteed living wage. Lev Golinkin is the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, Amazon’s Debut of the Month, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program selection, and winner of the Premio Salerno Libro d’Europa. A graduate of Boston College, Golinkin came to the U.S. as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His writing on the Ukraine crisis, Russia, the far right, and immigrant and refugee identity has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC, The Boston Globe, Politico Europe, and Time.com, among others; he has been interviewed by MSNBC, NPR, ABC Radio, WSJ Live and HuffPost Live. Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He's the author of "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet," "A Journey Through California's Oligarch Valley," "The Koch Brothers: A Short History" and "The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell." He's the
Sun, September 24, 2023
UAW Workers STRIKE! Climate Protesters Get ARRESTED!
To hear the entire discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-arn-get-89771825 Katie is joined by climate change activists, and labor organizers to talk about why they're risking arrest and their jobs. First, Katie talks to Chris Falzone, a rank and file United Auto Workers (UAW) member who is on strike at Stellantis’s Toledo Assembly Complex; Marcelina Pedraza, a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and United Auto Workers Local 551 at Ford Chicago Assembly Plant; and Max Alvarez, a labor journalist, Editor-in-Chief of The Real News Network, the host of the Working People podcast and author of “The Work of Living Working People Talk about Their Lives and the Year the World Broke.” Then Katie talks about climate week with two people who just got arrested blocking the Federal Reserve bank and calling for end to fossil fuel funding: Alicé Nascimento, an organizer, advocate and campaigns director of New York Communities for Change (NYCC), one of the largest community based advocacy organizations in the US; and Arn Menconi, the Founder and former Executive Director of SOS Outreach, one of the country’s largest outdoor experiential youth programs for low income children, a former Colorado County Commissioner and current writer on foreign policy, climate, and social justice. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, September 15, 2023
BRICS Expansion & Africa Updates With Abayomi Azikiwe
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-abayomi-89297276 Abayomi Azikiwe discusses the recent BRICS expansion, the admission of the African Union into G20, France's ongoing war with Africa and de-dollarization. But first, headlines with Justin Williams. Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of the Pan-African News Wire. http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/ Justin Williams is a comedian and co-host of ‘Fraudsters’ on the Last Podcast Network. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, September 01, 2023
Lesley Blume, David Hecht, Alex Wellerstein & Jamie Peck
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-lesley-88637267 Journalist, historian & author Lesley M. M. Blume, historian of science David Hecht, & nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein join Katie to discuss the film Oppenheimer, the legacy and future of nuclear war & what is happening in Fukushima Japan. Then Jamie Peck joins to discuss the latest developments regarding the Stop Cop City Movement as well as her upcoming live show! Lesley M. M. Blume is an award-winning journalist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, WSJ Magazine, Vanity Fair, Columbia Journalism Review, Vogue, Town & Country, Air Mail, The Hollywood Reporter, Slate, The Los Angeles Review of Books & The Paris Review Daily, among other publications. She often writes about historical nuclear events, historical war journalism & the intersection of war & the arts. Blume’s second major non-fiction book, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed it to the World, was released by Simon & Schuster on August 4, 2020, to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. David K. Hecht is a historian of science, focusing on the modern United States. His particular interest is in public images of science, & he has published on the phenomenon of "scientific celebrities." His first book, Storytelling and Science: Rewriting Oppenheimer in the Nuclear Age, was published 2015 (University of Massachusetts Press), & he is currently researching a second book project on the intersections between nuclear & environmental history. Other scholarly interests include the history of energy, as well as the role that popular rhetoric about science plays in reinforcing (and sometimes challenging) the status quo. His courses include "The Nuclear Age," "The History of Energy," "Image, Myth & Memory," & "Science on Trial." In 2011 he was awarded the Sydney B. Karofsky prize, Bowdoin's annual teaching prize for junior faculty. Alex Wellerstein is a historian of science and nuclear technology. He is a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he is the Director of Science & Technology Studies in the College of Arts & Letters. His first book, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2021), is the first attempt at a comprehensive history of how nuclear weapons ushered in a new period of governmental & scientific secrecy in the USA. His current projects include: a new book about Harry Truman & nuclear weapons; research into the past, present & potential future of Presidential nuclear weapons use authority; & a video game about life after a full-scale nuclear war set in the early 1980s. His writings on the history of nuclear weapons have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Magazine, Harper’s Magazine & the Washington Post, amon
Thu, August 24, 2023
Jan Kavan
Jan Kavan is a Czech politician aligned with the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). From 1998 until 2002, he served as Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic and was Deputy Prime Minister from 1999 until 2002. He was then elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly, a post he held from 2002 until 2003. He is also a member of the organising committee of peace initiative Peace and Justice, which launched last January and to date has 20,000 signatories. Mr Kavan is an Honorary Fellow at the London School of Economics and has an Honorary Doctorate of Humane letters at Adelphi University, New York. He has also received several human rights awards including Companion of Honour (UK), International Order of Merit (UK), Presidential Roll of Honor (USA). He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the European Leadership Network (ELN). ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, August 18, 2023
How Colonialism Caused The Maui Fires w/Kaniela Ing, Kahala Johnson & Justin Williams
Kaniela Ing and Kahala Johnson talk about the connection between colonialism and the fires devastating Maui. But first Katie is joined by comedian & historian Justin Williams to go over recent news stories. Kaniela Ing is a former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives representing Maui, currently national director of the Green New Deal Network. Kahala Johnson (He/They/Oia/Siya) is a Hawaiian-Filipinx organizer from Waiehu, Maui and a Kiai of Haleakala and Mauna Kea. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Fri, August 11, 2023
New York Times’ Saber-Rattling McCarthyism with Eugene Puryear
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-eugene-87518516 Journalist and author Eugene Puryear destroys The NY Times' “pernicious, disgusting, McCarthyite and racist” smearing of anti-war activists and exposes the true motives behind the attack on organizations like CODEPINK, The People’s Forum, and Tricontinental Institute. Eugene Puryear is a journalist at Breakthrough News and the author of "Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America." Say no to this dangerous McCarthyism by signing the petition here: https://thetricontinental.org/mccarthyism-is-back-together-we-can-stop-it/ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Tue, August 08, 2023
Ex-CIA Agent Ray McGovern on Ukraine War, Freddie DeBoer on AOC
To hear the rest of my discussion with Freddie DeBoer, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-freddie-87362584 Katie is joined by Kate Willett to go over some recent news stories. Then Katie talks to CIA-turned-activist Ray McGovern about the War in Ukraine and the multipolar world order. Then she's joined by writer Freddie DeBoer who talks about his latest article "AOC Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now" and what to do about it. Kate Willett is a comedian, actress and writer who has appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Netflix’s Comedy Lineup. She’s the author of the Audible Original “Dirtbag Anthropology.” She’s the cohost of the political comedy podcast Reply Guys. Link to Reply Guys podcast - Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/replyguys Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reply-guys/id1471110894 Ray McGovern is a former CIA analyst turned activist. He headed the CIA branch analyzing Russian foreign policy in the 70s. From 1981 to 1985, he presented, in person, the early morning briefings of The President’s Daily Brief. Ray was awarded the Intelligence Commendation Medallion at retirement; in an act of conscience in early 2006 Ray returned the Medallion, explaining, “I do not want to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.” In January 2003, two months before the U.S. attacked Iraq, he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity to warn the President that the “intelligence” on Iraq was fraudulent. Link to Ray's website - https://raymcgovern.com/ Freddie DeBoer is a writer, the author of “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice” and the forthcoming book "How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement." He writes at https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Fri, July 28, 2023
'War Made Invisible' with Norman Solomon
To hear the full discussion, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-norman-86814649 Norman Solomon talks about how America hides the human toll of its military machine. Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include "War Made Easy," "Made Love, Got War," and "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine." ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Mon, July 24, 2023
Medea Benjamin & Jeffrey Alexander Sterling
Medea Benjamin joins the show to talk about her recent trip to Ukraine and why it's so dangerous to call for diplomacy and a cease fire. Not only has Medea (and others calling for negotiations) been smeared and had her talks canceled, she was threatened by a "protestor" who took her phone as she attempted to film him. Even worse, the protestor physically attacked by a 70 year old member of Veterans for Peace who tried to help her retrieve her phone and then had to be rushed to the emergency room with a dislocated shoulder. Then Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, an American lawyer and former CIA employee who was arrested, charged, and convicted of violating the Espionage Act, talks about the fate of Julian Assange. Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK. She is also co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange, the Peace in Ukraine Coalition, Unfreeze Afghanistan (which advocates for returning the $7 billion of Afghan funds frozen in U.S. banks), ACERE: The Alliance for Cuba Engagement and Respect, and the Nobel Peace Prize for Cuban Doctors Campaign. Medea has been an advocate for social justice for 50 years. Described as "one of America's most committed -- and most effective -- fighters for human rights" by New York Newsday, and "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement" by the Los Angeles Times, she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the millions of women who do the essential work of peace worldwide. She is the author of ten books, including Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection, and Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Her most recent book, coauthored with Nicolas J.S. Davies, is War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict. Her articles appear regularly in outlets such as The Hill, Salon, CommonDreams and The Progressive. Her twitter handle is @medeabenjamin. Learn more about the Peace in Ukraine initiative and join as an individual or as an organziation at - http://www.peaceinukraine.org/ Learn more about Code Pink's work along with info on contacting your local representatives regarding upcoming policy decisions at - https://www.codepink.org/ Jeffrey Sterling is a former CIA case officer turned whistleblower who was wrongfully convicted, on no evidence, of violating the Espionage Act for which he was sentenced to federal prison. His memoir Unwanted Spy chronicles his experience with race not only within the CIA but also in America. He is currently part of the progressive RootsAction team. Link to Jeffrey's book "Unwanted Spy" - https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jeffrey-sterling/unwanted-spy/9781568585581/?lens=bold-type-books ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https
Thu, July 13, 2023
Glenn Greenwald Remembers His Husband, Brazilian Politician David Miranda
To hear the rest of my discussion with Glenn Greenwald, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-glenn-86020281 Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald talks about the life and legacy of his late husband, the Brazilian activist and member of congress David Miranda. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Fri, June 30, 2023
Mark Ames, Yasha Levine On Russian Coup & Omali Yeshitela On Being Indicted For Free Speech
To hear the rest of my discussion with Mark Ames & Yasha Levine, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/mark-ames-yasha-85348916 Mark Ames and Yasha Levine talk about what just happened in Russia. What do we even call it? A coup? A mutiny? What do we need to know about The Wagner Group and Yevgeny Prigozhin? But first Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess, and Leonard Goodman talk about the indictment of the Uhuru Movement and African People's Socialist Party and why this targeting threatens free speech and The First Amendment. Chairman Omali Yeshitela leads the African People's Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement. He has organized for black power for over 50 years, beginning with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee registering black people to vote in the '60s. He has traveled the world building the movement for African unification and liberation, establishing relations of solidarity with anti-colonial struggles. He is the primary target of current U.S. government charges of "sowing discord" at the behest of a foreign government. Penny Hess is Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee which she has led since its founding in 1976. She has built an international movement for reparations from the white community, working under the leadership and at the behest of the APSP. She is author of the book, "Overturning the Culture of Violence" and another of the Uhuru 3 facing federal charges. Leonard Goodman is the attorney representing Penny Hess, one of the Uhuru 3. Goodman is a distinguished criminal law attorney based in Chicago who has won high profile and precedent-setting cases including in the U.S. Supreme Court and the Illinois Supreme Court. He is a prolific published columnist covering legal and social justice topics and teaches Federal Criminal Law at DePaul University. Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He's the author of "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet," "A Journey Through California's Oligarch Valley," "The Koch Brothers: A Short History" and "The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell." He's the co-host of The Russians podcast and writes at https://yasha.substack.com/ Mark Ames is a journalist and writer who lived in Moscow for 13 years. for He co-hosts the podcast Radio War Nerd with John Dolan. His writing has appeared in The Nation, The New York Press and GQ. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Fri, June 23, 2023
Arnaud Bertrand & Lev Golinkin
To hear the rest of my discussion with Lev Golinkin, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-lev-85031113 Arnaud Bertrand discusses the similarities between xenophobia and anti-semitism, as well as debunking America and the West's view of and stances toward China. Then Ukrainian writer and journalist Lev Golinkin discusses the Western media's whitewashing of the Azov Battalion. As he writes at The Nation, "before Russia invaded Ukraine, these fighters were neo-Nazis. They still are," https://www.thenation.com/article/world/azov-battalion-neo-nazi/ Arnaud Bertrand is an entrepreneur and a social activist. He founded HouseTrip in 2008 which grew to become one of Europe's foremost tech startups and which he sold to TripAdvisor in 2016. He's now working on his second venture, Me & Qi, which helps people understand how Traditional Chinese Medicine can benefit them. Arnaud is a frequent commentator on China, advocating for a better understanding of the country and its people as well as more friendly relationships between the West and China. Lev Golinkin is the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, Amazon’s Debut of the Month, a Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers program selection, and winner of the Premio Salerno Libro d’Europa. Golinkin, a graduate of Boston College, came to the United States as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His writing on the Ukraine crisis, Russia, the far right, and immigrant and refugee identity has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, The Boston Globe, Politico Europe, and Time (online), among other venues; he has been interviewed by MSNBC, NPR, ABC Radio, WSJ Live and HuffPost Live. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Fri, June 16, 2023
Cornel West!
Cornel West (@CornelWest) joins to talk about his presidential run. Cornel West is one of the nation’s most recognized public intellectuals. He’s a professor of philosophy and Christian practice at Union Theological Seminary. He formerly taught at Princeton and Harvard universities. He was a surrogate for Bernie Sanders' campaigns and is now himself running for the Green Party nomination for the 2024 Presidential Election. https://www.cornelwest24.com/ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Fri, June 09, 2023
Ajamu Baraka & David Sirota
To here the rest of the discussion with David Sirota, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-david-84341781 Journalist David Sirota talks about why Biden's debt ceiling "victory" is actually a failure. But first Ajamu Baraka talks about war, imperialism and why the United States of America is a "gangster state." Ajamu Baraka is human rights defender whose experience spans four decades of domestic and international education and activism, with roots are in the Black Liberation Movement and anti-apartheid and Central American solidarity struggles. He was the Founding Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network (USHRN) from July 2004 until June 2011. Before that, Baraka worked with Amnesty International USA where he was the Southern Regional Director and also directed Amnesty’s National Program to Abolish the Death Penalty. In 1998, Baraka was one of 300 human rights defenders from around the world who were brought together at the first International Summit of Human Rights Defenders commemorating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2001, Baraka received the “Abolitionist of the Year” award from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. The following year, Baraka received the “Human Rights Guardian” award from the National Center for Human Rights Education. Baraka has also served on the boards of various national and international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International (USA), the Center for Constitutional Rights, Africa Action, and the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights. He's a national organizer for Black Alliance For Peace and was the Green Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in 2016. His writing has appeared in Black Agenda Report, Common Dreams, Dissident Voice, Pambazuka News, and CounterPunch. Link to The Black Alliance For Peace website - https://blackallianceforpeace.com/ Link to The Black Alliance For Peace Zone of Peace campaign - https://blackallianceforpeace.com/zoneofpeace DAVID SIROTA is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author living in Denver, Colorado. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work helping Adam McKay create the story for the blockbuster film DON’T LOOK UP. Sirota is the founder and editor of The Lever, an editor at large at Jacobin Magazine and a columnist at The Guardian. He served as Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign speechwriter in 2020. He also created Audible’s financial crisis podcast series MELTDOWN, which was named one of the best podcasts of the year by The Atlantic and Uproxx. Link to The Lever - https://www.levernews.com/ Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Eventbrite link for the live taping with Briahna Joy Gray in NYC on June 10, 2023! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/katie-halper-show-live-with-briahna-joy-gray-tickets-643828447217 ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusiv
Thu, June 01, 2023
REAL Black Politics with Jason Myles & Pascal Robert
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-pascal-83981631 Katie talks to the hosts of THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast (TIR) about Black Marxist politics which frequently gets left out, co-opted or distorted. TIR was started by long time musician and overall troublemaker Jason Myles in late fall of 2019 in West Oakland, CA. After about a year through the recommendation of Touré Reed, Jason met Black Agenda Report and Huffington Post columnist Pascal Robert. The two bonded over their Marxian class analysis and other topics that they felt was missing in an understanding of the concept of “Black politics”. Pascal continues to write for Black Agenda Report as well as an occasional column in Newsweek, while Jason is a columnist at Sublation Magazine as well as the host of TIR. The two have no signs of slowing down their intellectual output as Pascal is working on a book on Haitian history and Jason continues to expand the show in various directions from live shows, to a feature length video essay that he will be screening for live audiences by year's end. Find Jason & Pascal's great work at - https://www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com/ Check out their articles https://www.newsweek.com/obsession-black-white-wealth-gap-protects-elites-opinion-1661910 https://www.sublationmag.com/post/stakes-is-high-addicted-to-the-spectacle Eventbrite link for the live taping with Briahna Joy Gray in NYC on June 10, 2023! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/katie-halper-show-live-with-briahna-joy-gray-tickets-643828447217 ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Thu, May 25, 2023
Susan Sarandon, Richard Wolff, Saru Jayaraman & Jenny Almanzar
To hear the entire discussion with Professor Richard Wolff, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/richard-wolff-on-83613742 Susan Sarandon, Saru Jayaraman & Jenny Almanzar talk about the One Fair Wage campaign they're fighting for. Economist Richard Wolff talks about the debt ceiling. Saru Jayaraman is the President of One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Saru is also the author of One Fair Wage: Ending All Subminimum Pay in America (The New Press, November 2021). https://onefairwage.site/ https://onefairwage.site/newyork Jenny Almanzar is a longtime NYC restaurant worker and leader in both OFW and Our Revolution. Susan Sarandon is an Academy-Award-winning actor and activist. She was arrested protesting for One Fair Wage. Richard Wolff is an economist, the host of #EconomicUpdate, Professor of Economics Emeritus at UMass Amherst , visiting professor at The New School and the founder of Democracy at Work. https://www.rdwolff.com/ https://www.democracyatwork.info/ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Thu, May 18, 2023
WGA Strike With John Rogers + JFK Debate With Aaron Good & Michael Tracey
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-jfk-with-83264899 Journalist Michael Tracey and historian Aaron Good debate whether JFK was an anti-war president and if that's why he was killed. But first screenwriter and member of the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America West John Rogers talks about the WGA strike. John Rogers is a screenwriter and the creator of the television series Jackie Chan Adventures (2000–2005), Leverage (2008–2012; 2021-present as Leverage: Redemption on Freevee), The Librarians (2014–2018), and The Player (2015). Rogers co-wrote the films American Outlaws (2001), The Core (2003), Catwoman (2004), and Marry Me (2022), and co-wrote the story for the film Transformers (2007). Michael Tracey is an independent journalist. Aaron Good is a political scientist and historian, the host of American Exception Podcast and the author of 'American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.' ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Fri, May 12, 2023
Jordan Neely's Killing & WGA Strike
Writer and Rutgers Professor Ben Burgis along with UPS Worker Matt Leichenger talk about labor organizing and the WGA & Rutgers strikes. Homelessness Union leader Milton Perez and journalist Eugene Puryear talk about the killing of Jordan Neely. Ben Burgis is the host of the Give Them an Argument Youtube show, a columnist for Jacobin, and an adjunct philosophy Professor at Rutgers. He writes at "Philosophy for the People" Substack every Sunday: http://benburgis.substack.com Milton Perez (BxPR He/Him) is an activist and a Homelessness Union leader with VOCAL NY. He He spent over five years in the shelter system. Eugene Puryear is a journalist at Breakthrough News and the author of Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Thu, May 04, 2023
Israeli Fascism With Yumna Patel & Miko Peled
To hear the entire discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/miko-peled-82582346 Israeli-American activist Miko Peled and Palestine-based journalist Yumna Patel talk about the latest news from Palestine. Miko Peled is an Israeli-American activist, speaker and author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. Link to Miko's website - https://mikopeled.com/ Yumna Patel is a journalist based in Bethlehem. She is Palestine News Director at @Mondoweiss. Link to Yumna's short-film 'Love Under Occupation' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKEdxHEQz00 Link to the trailer for the documentary 'On the Brink: Jenin’s Rising Resistance' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcscdQZ-4tw&ab_channel=Mondoweiss Link to the full documentary 'On the Brink: Jenin’s Rising Resistance' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKEdxHEQz00&ab_channel=Mondoweiss Link to the post-broadcast Callin: https://www.callin.com/room/israeli-fascism-aUfgjfIEgB ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Thu, April 27, 2023
John Kiriakou and Gerald Horne On The Indictment Of "Russian Assets"
To hear the rest of the conversation with John Kiriakou, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/john-kiriakou-82209537 CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou and historian Gerald Horne discuss the justice department's indictment of 4 activists charged with "weaponizing free speech" and the history of the crack down on Black radicals, free speech and alleged foreign assets. Dr. Horne also discusses Harry Belafonte and the situation in Sudan. John Kiriakou discusses the leaked pentagon documents and the war in Ukraine. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at The University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of race in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights and war. He is the author of over forty books. John Kiriakou is the only person to go to jail over the CIA torture program, which he blew the whistle on. He is a former CIA analyst and case officer, a PEN USA Award Winner and best-selling author. He's the host of Political Misfits and writes at http://johnkiriakou.substack.com ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Fri, April 21, 2023
Karina Gonzalez, Juan C. Dávila, Daniel Goldhaber, Jordan Sjol & Daniel Garber
To hear the rest of the interview with Daniel Goldhaber, Jordan Sjol & Daniel Garber, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/would-you-blow-81822434 Katie interviews Daniel Goldhaber, Jordan Sjol & Daniel Garber the director, writer & editor of the film HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE. But first she talks to Karina Gonzalez & Juan C. Dávila about Puerto Rico, climate change & capitalism. Karina N. González is a bilingual speech-language pathologist at an elementary school in Brooklyn, NY & author of the Pura Belpré honor picture book THE COQUÍES STILL SING / LOS COQUÍES AÚN CANTAN (Roaring Brook Press, 2022), a powerful story about home, community & hope, inspired by the rebuilding of Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017. Her forthcoming picture book is CHURRO STAND / EL CARRITO DE CHURROS (Cameron Kids, 2024). Juan C. Dávila is a documentary filmmaker, news producer, & activist. His work focuses on climate justice, social movements & colonialism. He is the director of the feature-length documentary film, "Simulacros de Liberación" (2021), which was released in movie theaters around Puerto Rico. He directed two mid-length documentary films: "Compañeros de lucha" (2012) & "Vieques: una batalla inconclusa" (2016). His filmography also includes the award-winning short film, "La generación del estanbai" (2016), "Aftershocks of Disaster" (2020), "Networked Education" (2020), "Rayito de sol" (2021), & a TV pilot for the documentary series "The Response" (2019). Dávila is a former senior producer at "When We Fight, We Win! The Podcast!" & morning news producer for the newscast Democracy Now! where he continues to contribute. Daniel Goldhaber is a director, writer & producer based in Los Angeles & New York. His new film, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, premieres in the Platform Section of the 2022 Toronto Film Festival. Jordan Sjol is a filmmaker & a cinema & media studies scholar. He was a story editor on the 2018 horror thriller CAM & was a writer & executive producer on How to Blow up a Pipeline, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2022. He currently lives in Durham, NC, where he is finishing his PhD in Duke’s Program in Literature. Daniel Garber is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY, with work spanning documentary, fiction & experimental practices. Primarily employed as an editor, he was nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors award for his editing on Sierra Pettengill & Pacho Velez’s feature documentary The Reagan Show, which premiered at Tribeca & Locarno in 2017. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy Sign the petition calling on Germany to un-cancel Roger Waters' concert. https://chng.it/bBMJRgnRkn
Thu, April 13, 2023
Roger Waters, Ahmad Abuznaid & Bryce Greene
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/bryce-greene-81531108 You can also hear the entire discussion with Roger Waters on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/roger-waters-81620033 Legendary musician and activist Roger Waters talks about Frankfurt's attempt to cancel his concert and smear him as an antisemite over his defense of Palestinian Human Rights. If you haven't already done so, please sign this petition calling on Germany to un-cancel Roger Waters' concert. https://chng.it/bBMJRgnRkn Ahmad Abuznaid, executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights talks about what U.S. tax dollars are funding and how that money could be reinvested. Journalist Bryce Greene and media critic Bryce Greene discusses how the media manufactures pro-war consent around the proxy war in Ukraine, the Nordstream Pipeline, poverty and more. Join Anwar Hadid, Susan Sarandon, Peter Gabriel, Ken Loach, John Pilger, David Cross, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Gabor Maté and more and the petition calling on Germany to reverse its decision here: https://www.change.org/p/let-pink-floyd-s-roger-waters-perform-in-frankfurt-germany Bryce Greene is a journalist at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. Ahmad Abuznaid is a Florida-based attorney, director of the coming documentary film "Shukran 10 days in Palestine", and executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. Prior to joining USCPR, Ahmad co-founded the Dream Defenders, serving as its legal & policy director and coo during his time there. Ahmad then went on to serve as the executive director of the National Network for Arab American Communities from 2017 to 2019. USCPR is a political home for all who believe that freedom for the Palestinian people is an integral part of achieving our collective liberation. We provide resources and strategic support to the U.S.-based Palestine solidarity movement, channeling grassroots power into positive change in U.S. policy and public opinion. We work with local organizers and activists, policymakers, movement leaders, media, and advocacy organizations to advance a rights-based, accountability and justice-oriented framework from the U.S. to Palestine. Link to interactive map showing U.S. Military Funding to Israel: https://uscpr.org/activist-resource/us-military-funding-to-israel-map/ Photos of Roger Waters by KATE IZOR ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy
Thu, April 06, 2023
Dr. Ana Malinow, Kay Tillow & Louis DeAngelis
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/aaron-good-81201647 Status Coup journalist Louis DeAngelis, who has been reporting on the ground in East Palestine talks about a bombshell investigation into the EPA coverup. Read Louis' reporting here - https://statuscoup.substack.com/p/east-palestine-bombshell-epa-official But first, Dr. Ana Malinow and union activist Kay Tillow talk about how residents of East Palestine could get medicare for all, how residents of Libby Montana already got it for asbestos poisoning and how Democrats need to improve their Medicare for All Bill before introducing it. Dr. Ana Malinow spent three decades working as a pediatrician with immigrant, refugee and underserved children in Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, and California. She is past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, co-founder of Health Care for All Texas, and a lead organizer for National Single Payer and The Movement to End Privatization of Medicare. She has authored opinion pieces on how national single payer will improve patient care and bring us closer to social justice. She has been a speaker on health care reform and the privatization of Medicare and featured on national and international television and radio. She recently retired as Professor of Pediatrics from the University of California in San Francisco. Learn more at - https://www.nationalsinglepayer.org Born in Paducah, Kentucky, Kay Tillow worked in the southern Civil Rights Movement, and worked for health care and nurses' unions on organizing and collective bargaining. She is currently chair of Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare and coordinator of the All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy If you haven't already done so, please sign this petition calling on Germany to uncancel Roger Waters' concert. https://chng.it/bBMJRgnRkn
Fri, March 31, 2023
John Pilger, Susan Kang & Steven Donziger
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/john-pilger-80862662 Legendary journalist, writer and filmmaker John Pilger joins the show to talk about "the unrelenting nature of propaganda," how to deconstruct the news, the proxy war in Ukraine, the coming war on China and more. Plus Human Rights and Environmental lawyer Steven Donziger reacts to the Supreme Court's terrible decision against him and the people of Ecuador who were poisoned by Chevron. And Susan Kang speaks out against the medicare "reform" for public sector workers retirees being pushed by NYC Mayor Adams as a "cost savings" measure. John Pilger has written dozens of books, including Heroes, Hidden Agendas, and Freedom Next Time. He's made over 60 documentaries, including Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny, Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia, The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back, The War You Don't See, The Coming War on China. He has appeared as a contributor on BBC Television Australia, BBC Radio, BBC World Service, London Broadcasting, ABC Television, ABC Radio Australia, among others, and his writing has appeared at The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation: New York, The Age: Melbourne, The Sydney Morning Herald and more. Learn more about him at https://johnpilger.com/ Susan Kang is an associate professor of political science at John Jay College, a member of the executive council of the Professional Staff Congress, CUNY (faculty and professional staff union at CUNY), and member of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America. *Attend the rally against the privatization of Medicare. https://psc-cuny.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/RallyFlyer033123.pdf *NYC Retirees is a group that is raising funds and hiring lawyers to fight the imposition of this impending change to their healthcare which is a for-profit scam. To learn more, donate to help their efforts and more, please visit: https://www.nycretirees.org The prosecution of Steven Donziger, which has been condemned by the United Nations, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Amazon Watch, and 64 Nobel Laureates, is a literal corporate prosecution. After the Southern District of New York refused to prosecute Donziger, the judge assigned a corporate firm which had represented Chevron to go after him. The judge also made the unusual move of handpicking the judge to oversee the case and chose a judge who is part of the Right Wing Federalist Society which gets funding from.... you guessed it... Chevron! Support Steven at: https://www.freedonziger.com https://substack.com/profile/7445653-steven-donziger ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/3rQPRRfZ Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalp
Thu, March 23, 2023
Dennis Kucinich & Veteran Matthew Hoh On Iraq War 20 Years Later
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-matthew-80501714 Veteran Matthew Hoh and former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich discuss the legacy of the ongoing war in Iraq, why it's still relevant today and what it has to do with the proxy war in Ukraine. In 2009, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-5 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-7 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matthew worked on Afghanistan and Iraq war policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-8. Matthew has been a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. In 2010, Matthew was named the Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling and, in 2021, he was awarded as a Defender of Liberty by the Committee for the Republic. Matthew is a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Public Accuracy, an Advisory Board Member for the Committee to Defend Julian Assange and Civil Liberties, Expose Facts, North Carolina Committee to Investigate Torture, The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice, Veterans For Peace, and World Beyond War, and he is an Associate Member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). He is a 100% disabled veteran and was certified by North Carolina as a Peer Support Specialist for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder. View Matt's website at: https://matthewhoh.com Dennis Kucinich is an American politician and former U.S. Representative from Ohio. He was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2004 and 2008. He ran for governor of Ohio in the 2018 election. Follow him on here on Substack: https://substack.com/profile/2106461-dennis-kucinich If you haven't already done so, please sign this petition calling on Germany to uncancel Roger Waters' concert. https://chng.it/bBMJRgnRkn ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/3rQPRRfZ Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Thu, March 16, 2023
Norman Finkelstein, Barbara Smith and Robin D.G. Kelley Debate Identity Politics
To hear the rest of the conversation, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast's discussion - https://www.patreon.com/posts/norman-barbara-d-80188734 Norman Finkelstein, Barbara Smith and Robin D.G. Kelley debate identity politics. First Barbara and Robin go over the College Board’s revision of its curriculum for its Advanced Placement African American Studies course. These revisions happened just weeks after Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis threatened to ban the class in Florida schools. Then Norman joins the discussion. Norman G. Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world. Link to purchase Norman's book: https://www.sublationmedia.com/books/i'll-burn-that-bridge-when-i-get-to-it Barbara Smith is an author, activist, and independent scholar who has played a groundbreaking role in opening up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. She was among the first to define an African American women’s literary tradition and to build Black women’s studies and Black feminism in the United States. She has been politically active in many movements for social justice since the 1960s. She has edited three major collections about Black women: Conditions: Five, The Black Women’s Issue (with Lorraine Bethel, 1979); All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies (with Gloria T. Hull and Patricia Bell Scott, 1982); and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, 1983 She was cofounder and publisher until 1995 of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U. S. publisher for women of color to reach a wide national audience. She is the 2022-23—Hess Scholar-in-Residence, Brooklyn College. Link to "There's a Lot More That Needs to Be Done" an interview with Barbara Smith: https://www.thedriftmag.com/theres-a-lot-more-that-needs-to-be-done/ Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. His books include, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression; Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class; Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. His essays have appeared in several publications, including The Nation, Monthly Review, New York Times, American Historical Review, American Quarterly, Social Text, Metropolis, Black Music Research Journal,
Sat, March 11, 2023
NY Times' Laughable Nordstream Story and Canceled Artist Adam Broomberg
To hear the rest of this discussion, receive bonus content, exclusive interviews, support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this broadcast's Patreon podcast with Bryce Greene: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nordstream-more-79929800 German-based artist Adam Broomberg talks about being smeared and literally canceled by German officials as an antisemite for the crime of defending Palestinian Human Rights and criticizing Israel. Broomberg, who is Jewish and who lost relatives in the Nazi Holocaust talks about having his latest show canceled by the German Government and what he's observed in Palestine. Then, journalist Bryce Greene updates us on the latest news about the Nordstream Pipeline explosion, discusses the smearing of journalist Seymour Hersh and talks to us about how Facebook is protecting Nazis to protect the Proxy War in Ukraine. Adam Broomberg (b. 1970, Johannesburg) is an artist, activist and educator. He currently lives and works in Berlin. He is on the faculty of the MA Photography & Society program at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague which he co-designed. His work is held in major public and private collections including Centres Pompidou, MoMA, The Stedelijk Museum, Tate, Yale University Art Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum. Bryce Greene is a student, writer, organizer and media critic based in Indianapolis. He is a contributor to Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/3rQPRRfZ Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Fri, March 03, 2023
Canceled Over Israel: James Cavallaro, Lara Sheehi & Tara Alami
Patreon: Briahna Joy Gray & Katie breakdown Joe Rogan's anti-semitic defense of Ilhan Omar: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rogan-gate-with-79524656 James Cavallaro and Lara Sheehi join the show to talk about being canceled over their criticism of Israel. James Cavallaro is a prominent Human Right expert who was blocked by Biden from his nomination to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) over his criticism of Israeli apartheid. Lara Sheehi is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University who is the subject of a Title VI complaint launched by the Right Wing organization Stand With Us. Then Tara Alami, a Palestinian writer and organiser from occupied Jerusalem and occupied Yafa, talks about the latest settler violence against Palestinians. James Cavallaro is a visiting professor at Columbia, UCLA and Yale and a professor of the practice at Wesleyan University. He is also the Executive Director of the University Network for Human Rights. He has taught human rights law and practice for nearly a quarter century, most recently at Yale Law School (Spring 2020), Stanford Law School (2011-2019), and Harvard Law School (2002-2011). At both Harvard and Stanford, he established and directed human rights clinics and ran human rights centers. Cavallaro has overseen dozens of projects with scores of students in over twenty countries. In June 2013, Cavallaro was elected to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He served as President of that body from 2016-2017. Lara Sheehi, PsyD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program where she is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Fri, February 24, 2023
Pat Tillman’s Mother On Who Killed Her Son, Julia Rock On What Caused Train Derailment
Pat Tillman's Mother, Mary Tillman, and journalist Narda Zacchino join the show to talk about their efforts to uncover the truth surrounding the circumstances of Pat’s death and their book "Boots on the Ground By Dusk: Searching for Answers in the Death of Pat Tillman." But first, reporter Julia Rock talks about the Norfolk Southern train derailment, which she's covered for The Lever. Julia Rock is an investigative reporter at The Lever, covering business and politics. Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the U.S. Army Rangers after 9/11. In 2004, Pat was shot and killed in Afghanistan in a friendly fire gun battle. Yet the story told by the government was quite different. Mary Tillman, Pat’s mother, documents her family’s crusade to uncover the truth and expose the cover-up of Pat’s death orchestrated by senior military officials. Narda Zacchino is a lifelong journalist, former masthead editor at the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, author of two books, one on Pat Tillman and one a contemporary history of California. She is currently the editor of ScheerPost, a daily news website. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Fri, February 17, 2023
Palestine & American Exceptionalism With Susan Abulhawa & Aaron Good
To hear the rest of this discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast - https://www.patreon.com/posts/aaron-good-and-78848682 Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of 'Mornings in Jenin,' which was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies, 'The Blue Between Sky And Water' and 'Against the Loveless World.' She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine and the Executive Director of Palestine Writes (https://palestinewrites.org/). Aaron Good is a political scientist and historian, the host of American Exception Podcast and the author of 'American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.' ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Fri, February 10, 2023
State Of The Union w/Gareth Reynolds, Daniel Bessner, Medea Benjamin, Norman Solomon & Jack Allison
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-post-of-78521041 Post State Of The Union panel with Katie and her special guest Gareth "Gary" Reynolds, co-host of The Dollop podcast, historian Daniel Bessner, Medea Benjamin, Norman Solomon and Jack Allison! We talk Biden's State of The Union speech, as well as the actual state of the nation and the world. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Fri, February 03, 2023
Dr. Gabor Maté & Daniel Maté: How Capitalism Is Killing You & The Myth of Normal - Patreon Preview
To hear the rest of this discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the full discussion with Dr. Gabor Maté & Daniel Maté - https://www.patreon.com/posts/dr-gabor-mate-on-77937326 Here is a preview of my conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté and his Son Daniel Maté, in which Dr. Maté talks about the way capitalism kills people, his latest book which he wrote with Daniel, the New York Times best-seller "The Myth Of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture," and more. After 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, Dr. Maté worked for over a decade in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. Gabor is an internationally renowned speaker highly with expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship of stress and illness. His book on addiction received the Hubert Evans Prize for literary non-fiction. For his groundbreaking medical work and writing he has been awarded the Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian distinction, and the Civic Merit Award from his hometown, Vancouver. His books include In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction; When the Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress; Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder; and (with Dr. Gordon Neufeld) Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. His next book is The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture is due out on September 13, 2022. His next book, Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and Their Adult Children is expected in 2023. Gabor is also co-developer of a therapeutic approach, Compassionate Inquiry, now studied by hundreds of therapists, physicians, counselors, and others internationally. Daniel Maté is a Vancouver-born, Brooklyn-based composer, lyricist, playwright, and co-author of the NYT best-seller The Myth of Normal. He's won several prestigious awards for his musical theatre songwriting, including the Edward Kleban Prize, Cole Porter Award, and Jonathan Larson Grant. He's the co-host, with Carice van Houten of Game of Thrones fame, of the new podcast Let's Get Lyrical with Carice and Daniel. He also runs the world's only mental chiropractic service, which is called Take A Walk With Daniel. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the full discussion with Dr. Gabor Maté & Daniel Maté - https://www.patreon.com/posts/dr-gabor-mate-on-77937326 Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Thu, February 02, 2023
Christian Parenti - 'Diversity' Is a Ruling-Class Ideology
For the full conversation, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon-only portion of this conversation with Christian Parenti - https://www.patreon.com/posts/christian-is-78103491 Katie Halper speaks with Christian Parenti about his recent article, “‘Diversity’ Is A Ruling-Class Ideology,” which appears in Compact Magazine. Christian Parenti is an Author and Professor of Economics at John Jay College - City University of New York. He’s the author of several excellent books, including, “Radical Hamilton: Lessons From A Misunderstood Founder,” “Tropic Of Chaos: Climate Change And The New Geography Of Violence,” The Freedom: Shadows And Hallucinations In Occupied Iraq,” “The Soft Cage: Surveillance From Slavery To The War On Terror,” and “Lockdown America: Police And Prisons In The Age Of Crisis.” Christian Parenti’s writing can also be found in places like The Nation, Fortune, The London Review Of Books, The New York Times, and other publications. Link to Christian's article in Compact Magazine - https://compactmag.com/article/diversity-is-a-ruling-class-ideology ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Sun, January 29, 2023
Issa Amro On Surviving Israel's New Government
Katie talks to Palestinian activist Issa Amro about Israeli's new government and how to survive it. Issa Amro is a Palestinian Human Rights Defender from Hebron, West Bank. He is the recipient of the One World Media Award in 2009 and recognized as Human Rights Defender of the Year in Palestine in 2010 by the United Nations. He is the founder of the Hebron-based direct action group Youth Against Settlements. UN Special Rapporteurs reported that Amro had been arrested and detained by Israel more than 20 times in the year 2012 alone. Amro was featured in Amnesty International’s global Write for Rights campaign in 2017 to support him through his trial in Israeli military court. In winter 2021, Amro was convicted on six charges related to his community activism, including three counts of participating in a protest without a permit.” The trial was criticized by prominent human rights organizations, international lawmakers and independent UN experts. He was also prosecuted by the Palestinian Authorities for “causing public strife” and insulting higher authorities” on social media under the draconian cybercrime law and 1960 Jordanian penal code. Amro has sporadically been arrested, jailed, tried and harassed by Palestinian authorities since 2017. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Thu, January 19, 2023
Retired Colonel Ann Wright On Ukraine, NATO and Pearl Harbor
Katie interviews Retired Colonel Ann Wright On Ukraine, NATO and Pearl Harbor. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Mon, January 16, 2023
Hawaii's Fight For Independence With Healani Sonoda-Pale, Dani Espiritu & Mikey Inouye
From Hawaii, Katie talks to three organizers who are protecting the water and future of Hawaii as well as organizing for its independence: Healani Sonoda-Pale, Dani Espiritu & Mikey Inouye. Healani Sonoda-Pale is a citizen leader of Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi a native initiative for self-determination and self-governance. She was born and raised on the island of O'ahu where her ancestors lived from time immemorial. For over 25 years Healani has served as an educator who has taught at Hawaiian immersion preschools and Hawai'i high schools and colleges for over 25 years. Currently, she is an outspoken advocate for the protection of Hawaiian lands, water, ocean resources and marine life, and iwi kūpuna. Healani sits on various community boards and is a member of the O'ahu Water Protectors, a group of leaders who are calling for the shut down of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. Dani Espiritu is a Kanaka Maoli educator from Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu currently living in Waimalu, where her mother's ʻohana is from. She is a member of the Oʻahu Water Protectors and is also dedicated to the restoration of loʻi kalo (irrigated taro fields) and traditional food systems. Mikey Inouye is an independent filmmaker and community organizer with O’ahu Water Protectors and the Shut Down Red Hill Mutual Aid Collective. Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen - https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/liliuokalani/hawaii/hawaii.html#I Recommended reading: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/from-a-native-daughter-colonialism-and-sovereignty-in-hawaii-revised-edition/ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Fri, January 06, 2023
Thomas Frank On Why Democrats Suck
Thomas Frank talks about what the Democrats get wrong and how we can build a real movement to defeat The Right. Thomas Frank is the author of the books What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America; Listen, Liberal; Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?; The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism among others. Link to Thomas' website - www.tcfrank.com ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For the entire discussion, bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Link to hear the rest of my discussion with Thomas Frank - https://www.patreon.com/posts/thomas-frank-76944272 Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Thu, December 29, 2022
2022 Year in Review with Samuel Biagetti
Katie and Sam look back on 2022 and its historical context. Samuel Biagetti holds a doctorate in early American history. He uses his knowledge in his antique dealership, in producing the podcast Historiansplaining, in his writings, and in giving college-level lectures. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For the entire discussion, bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon podcast with Samuel Biagetti - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-samuel-76527741 Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps Link to Historiansplaining podcast website - https://historiansplaining.com/ Link to Historiansplaining on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632
Fri, December 23, 2022
Vijay Prashad & Camila Escalante on Imperialism & Violence
Patreon-only chat with VIjay here: www.patreon.com/posts/vijay-prashad-76306160 Vijay Prashad talks about what just happened in Peru to Pedro Castillo as well as the state of the war in Ukraine and the New Cold War. Also, can the Left disagree without being disagreeable? Then we're joined by Camila Escalante to give us for her latest roundup of events in Latin America. Vijay Prashad (https://twitter.com/vijayprashad) is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter (https://independentmediainstitute.org...). He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books (https://mayday.leftword.com/) and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (https://t.co/evQYuwZXRJ). He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (http://en.rdcy.org/). He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma. Camila Escalante is the co-founder and editor of Kawsachun News. She co-hosts the English-language weekly podcast on Kawsachun News entitled ‘Latin America Review’ and is the Latin America correspondent for PressTV. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For the entire discussion, bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of the discussion with Vijay Prashad - https://www.patreon.com/posts/vijay-prashad-76306160 Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Fri, December 16, 2022
Lev Golinkin: Why Are Harvard And NASA Honoring Nazis? + Mick Wallace & Clare Daly Interview
Writer and journalist Lev Golinkin exposes how institutions like Harvard, NASA and Stanford honor Nazis they collaborated with. Read Lev's NY Times Oped here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/opinion/stanford-harvard-nasa-nazi-scientists.html?unlocked_article_code=p4n8LwvJXq7e2squiL-II82s85TzzGKyVApW1NzRyWwWUnsQpatugBwwJga8Avsa1q4z18QSarbzXDr3aJCW4WhOnPE57uX_Mhh8RpsCHfQab0w0Kpik17kfYt_opTTwlIt-MGPY7LSARULh5UCScYjPT1AXrY5usz9PVGQe0xeFRZ9rLH2jU74Ho8ohSL61qQn9bjeaVl6gnpveA_zkX_SckoHbqJ172a5pPxR6JwYSYSKI306tN6DFTf3ziWhhuFG_-0FfVReyVsYZL4ZpnRbop_HMBoHlB3Z9fEjw_dK5lmf8h_et9ZNI3VoiLYj3Jy2KetnMDbQkXqyMtAQLjyia0b0vkfu-aQd54_YH9A&smid=share-url Here is a link to a map of monuments and streets currently named after Nazi collaborators/Holocaust perpetrators - https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1sW6RPe7rwDKlFNa7micTeQezCpomKof3&ll=12.66413095381065%2C6.539605420576748&z=2 Lev Golinkin is the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka. Mr. Golinkin, a graduate of Boston College, came to the US as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His op-eds and essays on the Ukraine crisis have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and Time.com, among others; he has been interviewed by WSJ Live and Democracy Now! ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the full Patreon discussion with Mick Wallace and Clare Daly - https://www.patreon.com/posts/clare-daly-mick-76022787 Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Fri, December 09, 2022
Jeff Sachs On Ukraine Proxy War & Norman Solomon on 'Don't Run, Joe'
Patreon only: Jeff Sachs on Anthony Fauci and the lab leak theory. https://www.patreon.com/posts/75690871 Jeff Sachs talks about the proxy war in Ukraine and how the West provoked Russia. Norman Solomon talks about the "Don't Run, Joe" campaign, why Biden 2024 would be a "disaster," and the danger of corporate Democrats. Jeff Sachs is an economist, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and president of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Norman Solomon is an American journalist, media critic, author, activist and is co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org. His latest book, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine," will be published by The New Press in June 2023. For the rest of the discussion with Jeffrey Sachs, to receive bonus content, support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow
Fri, December 02, 2022
Maya Garner talks Issa Amro & Stefania Maurizi talks Julian Assange & New Book
Award-winning Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi talks about her award-winning book "Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies." She touches on what it was like meeting and working with Julian Assange, debunks commonly held myths about him and wiki-leaks and shares what it was like being spied on while visiting him. She also talks about her fight for secret documents. Plus a breaking news update from Maya Garner, a Scandinavian-American human rights advocate and coordinator for international advocacy for Youth Against Settlements and Friends of Hebron, about Israel's arrest of activist Issa Amro (https://twitter.com/Issaamro.) Stefania Maurizi is an Italian investigative journalist working for the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, after 14 years working for the Italian newsmagazine l'Espresso and the Italian daily La Repubblica. She has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents since 2009. She is also the only journalist who has conducted multi-jurisdictional litigation to defend the right of the press to access the full documentation on Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks journalists. In addition to her work on WikiLeaks, she has partnered with Glenn Greenwald to reveal the Snowden files about Italy. She has also interviewed A.Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistani atomic bomb, revealed the condolence payment agreement between the US government and the family of Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto, killed in a US drone strike, and investigated the harsh working conditions of Pakistani workers in a major Italian garment factory in Karachi. In her book "Secret Power. WikiLeaks and Its Enemies" (Pluto Press, foreword by Ken Loach), she reconstructs the Assange and WikiLeaks case based on her over ten years of investigative journalism. The Italian version of her book has won two major journalistic prizes: the European Award for Investigative and Judicial Journalism, and the 2022 Premio Alessandro Leogrande for investigative journalism in narrative form. Stefania has won a number of other major journalistic prizes, including the Armenise Harvard Fellowship and the Colomba D’Oro Award conferred by Archivio Disarmo. Maya Garner is a Scandinavian-American human rights advocate and coordinator for international advocacy for Youth Against Settlements and Friends of Hebron. At the age of 19, she spent more than a year in Hebron witnessing daily human rights violations and has since campaigned internationally. She wrote her Bachelor’s dissertation on the architecture and resistance in Hebron city at UCL in London. For the entire discussion, bonus content, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow
Fri, November 25, 2022
Sex Work & Desantis: Tami Gold, J. Leigh Oshiro-Brantly & Mike Prysner
For the entire discussion, bonus content, to support independent media and help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct Link to the Patreon-only portion of this broadcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mike-prysner-on-75086411 Anti-war Iraq War veteran Mike Prysner talks about a major story he broke about Governor Ron DeSantis's military experiences in GTMO and Iraq. But first, filmmaker Tami Gold and organizer J. Leigh Oshiro-Brantly talk about the fight for sex workers' rights and the forthcoming documentary "It's Just A Job." Mike Prysner joined the Army 3 months before the 9/11 attacks, and in March 2003 was part of the invasion of Iraq. After 12 months in the occupation he became an outspoken opponent of the war, and became known for speeches, protests, and veterans' organizing against US imperialism. Since 2015 he has been the producer & co-writer for Abby Martin's show The Empire Files, and is also the host of Eyes Left, a socialist anti-war military podcast. J. Leigh Oshiro-Brantly is an organizer, sex worker and survivor who does advocacy and research around disabilities, poverty, food/housing instability and violence. They have co-authored academic papers, conducted interviews and focus groups, done community organizing, made documentaries and served at organizations like The Ishtar Collective, GLITS, SOAR Institute, Decriminalize Sex Work, and New York Transgender Advocacy Group. They were an advisor for the Museum of the City of New York’s Transgender Activism Exhibit and received the 2019 Marsha P. Johnson Community Leader Award from New York Transgender Advocacy Group, where they have served as the president of the NY State Gender Diversity Coalition since 2019. Tami Kashia Gold is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural worker and a professor at Hunter College CUNY. Her teaching focuses on documentary production and LGBTQ non-fiction studies. As a filmmaker, Tami has produced Every Mother’s Son; Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex And Identity; Out At Work: Lesbian And Gay Men On The Job; Making the Impossible Possible: The Story of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College; Passionate Politics: The Life and Work Of Charlotte Bunch; RFK In The Land Of Apartheid; Signed, Sealed and Delivered: Labor Struggle in the Post Office; The Last Hunger Strike: Ireland 1981; Another Brother, among others. Tami is a recipient of a Rockefeller, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships; NY/NJ Video Arts Fellowships; AFI Independent Filmmakers Fellowship and Tribeca Audience Award; GLAAD Media Award; Urban Visionaries Award, Museum of Television and Radio; Excellence in the Arts Award from the Manhattan Borough President; Cine Golden Eagle Award;1st Place Athens International Film and Video Festival; HUGO Award; Gold Plaque Chicago International Film Festival; Director’s Choice Award, Black Maria; Video Golden Apple Award; National Media Network Festival among others.
Sat, November 19, 2022
Miko Peled Live at The People's Forum
Katie interviews Miko Peled about Israel, Palestine, and his book! This interview is recorded live at The People's Forum! Miko Peled (https://twitter.com/mikopeled) is a speaker, writer, human rights activist, Karate instructor and a sixth-degree black belt. His maternal grandfather was one of the signatories of Israel’s Declaration of Independence. Miko's father was Mattityahu Peled, a decorated general who fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and served as a general in the Six-Day War of 1967. Mattityahu became a critic of Israel and a participant in dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Miko himself started out as a proud Zionist and is now an anti-Zionist. He is the author of The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five. You can find his blog and podcast at https://mikopeled.com/. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Thu, November 10, 2022
Midterm Madness with Olayemi Olurin & Ross Barkan
Midterm Madness with Olayemi Olurin & Ross Barkan by Katie Halper
Fri, November 04, 2022
How Lula Won Brazil's Election With Mariana Simões & Ollie Vargas
Brazilian journalist Mariana Simões and Bolivian journalist Ollie Vargas talk about Brazil's elections. Mariana covers how and why Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (AKA Lula) defeated Right Wing Authoritarian President Jair Bolsonaro. Ollie will talk about what this mean for Latin America and the role played by the U.S. and The West. Mariana Simões is a journalist at Brazil's "Publica" website. She's also worked as a reporter for The New York Times, The Economist, Al Jazeera, Vice, Hyperallergic e outros. Ollie Vargas is co-founder of @KawsachunNews and the host of the Latin America Review podcast. He is based in Bolivia. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Fri, October 28, 2022
Ryan Grim, Phyllis Bennis & Dems' Ukraine Cave
I talk to Ryan Grim, The Intercept’s D.C. Bureau Chief, about how the Democrats wrote Biden a letter on Ukraine, then walked it back and then actually blamed their staffers for releasing it in the first place. Then we're joined by Phyllis Bennis to talk about why negotiation and diplomacy is more important than ever. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at -https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Sat, October 22, 2022
Noura Erakat And Miko Peled - Israel's Undeniable Apartheid
Palestinian-American Noura Erakat and Israeli-American Miko Peled discuss Israel's occupation and Palestinian resistance. They also debunk some common talking points used to argue that Israel isn't imposing apartheid. Noura Erakat (https://twitter.com/4noura) is a human rights attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. She is an editorial committee member of the Journal for Palestine Studies and a co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic magazine on the Middle East that combines scholarly expertise and local knowledge. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019). Noura served as Legal Counsel for the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee in the House of Representatives from 2007-2009. Noura worked as the Legal Advocacy Coordinator for the Badil Center for Refugee and Residency Rights from 2010-2013. Miko Peled (https://twitter.com/mikopeled) is a speaker, writer, human rights activist, Karate instructor and a sixth-degree black belt. His maternal grandfather was one of the signatories of Israel’s Declaration of Independence. Miko's father was Mattityahu Peled, a decorated general who fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and served as a general in the Six-Day War of 1967. Mattityahu became a critic of Israel and a participant in dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Miko himself started out as a proud Zionist and is now an anti-Zionist. He is the author of The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five. You can find his blog and podcast at https://mikopeled.com/. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Thu, October 13, 2022
Bush's MasterClass With Dave Anthony, Josh Olson & Kate Willett
Comedian Dave Anthony (@daveanthony) and screenwriter Josh Olson (@josholson), co-hosts of the recently completed "West Wing Thing" podcast discuss "The Audit," their new podcast in which they audit various online classes, talks and docuseries. Their first audit is of George Bush's masterclass, which they took so that you don't have to, and their special guest is comedian and writer Kate Willett (@katewillett). Dave, Josh, Kate and Katie talk about the lessons they learn from Bush, the rehabilitation of war criminals and, on another note, the recent leaks of the LA City Council meeting. Link to "The Audit" podcast - Apple podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-audit/id1646493564 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4fK4XZf9IdtmMVtJ2CFFO9?si=d6a9968e71d64973 Link to donate and/or for tickets to the October 30, 2022 "Stand-Up For Hamasaki" comedy show fundraiser for John Hamasaki's campaign for San Francisco DA, featuring Kate Willett! https://secure.actblue.com/donate/comedyshowforhamasaki ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Sun, October 09, 2022
Ali Abunimah On Palestine, Karen & Jamie Zelermyer On 'I Was Never There'
Ali Abunimah talks about Israel and Palestine and the New York Times piece blaming Russia for the hate and Islamophobia faced by Linda Sarsour and the organizers of The Women's March. But first Karen and Jamie Zelermyer talk about their award winning podcast "I Was Never There," which looks at what happened to their friend Marsha "Mudd" Ferber, a rock-club owner and low-level drug dealer who went out for an errand in 1988 — and never came home. Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian-American journalist who has been described as "the leading American proponent of a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict." He's the co-founder of The Electronic Intifada website and the author of 'One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse' and 'The Battle for Justice in Palestine: The Case for a Single Democratic State in Palestine..' Jamie Zelermyer has been a New York based Producer and Production Executive for the past twenty plus years. Currently, she is the co-host and creator of I Was Never There, a serialized eight episode non- fiction podcast, made in collaboration with Wonder Media Network. The series premiered at The Tribeca Festival in 2022 garnering a Special Jury Mention and has cracked the top 20 on ApplePodcasts. She was the VP, Physical Production at Focus Features / Rogue Pictures for six years. Prior to Focus Jamie was a Line Producer and Production Manager working on films such as Igby Goes Down, Boys Don’t Cry and You Can Count on Me. Jamie is the President of the Board of Directors of New York Women In Film and Television, and is an adviser on NYWIFT’s The Writer Lab, a program for female Writer’s over 40 funded by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. In her 73 turns around the sun, Karen Zelermyer has held a multiplicity of job titles including President and CEO of a philanthropic advocacy organization, Deputy Director of an LGBTQ foundation, Development Director of a women’s social service organization, Board Chair and foundation consultant. Karen is also a life-long social justice feminist activist. She cut her activism teeth in the Vietnam anti-war movement and continues to have an unwavering commitment to the dismantling of racism and white privilege, heteronormativity and misogyny. She is the co-host and creator of the podcast I Was Never There. She also has a few degrees but that was a really long time ago. Links to "I Was Never There" podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1crmHd7u1dLqfw9NJa82xc Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-was-never-there/id1619387402 Link to The Electronic Intifada - https://electronicintifada.net/ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Fri, September 30, 2022
The Monologue That Got Me Fired: Israel IS An Apartheid State
Here's the video that got be censored, fired, and canceled by Next Star media, which owns The Hill and Rising, a show I've been a weekly contributor to for three years. Thanks to Breakthrough News for making this video with me and actually being an independent and uncensored media outlet. *** MORE THAN EVER Please support The Katie Halper Show *** On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Fri, September 23, 2022
Rania Khalek LIVE!
Rania Khalek joins The Katie Halper Show to talk about the UN General Assembly, which she's covering in NYC, life in Beirut, The War in Ukraine and more. Rania Khalek (https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek) is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. Her work has also appeared at The Grayzone, The intercept, Truthout, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Al Jazeera, The Nation, Salon, AlterNet, Vice and more. For the entire discussion, bonus content, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow
Fri, September 16, 2022
Gerald Horne, Queen Elizabeth & Empire
Direct link to this broadcast's Patreon with Eugene Puryear and William Whiteman: https://www.patreon.com/posts/eugene-puryear-72095852 Historian Gerald Horne discusses the relationship between the British Crown and empire, how historians should look at the legacy of the Queen and the how countries are severing ties with The British monarchy. Then British-born Iraqi journalist Ahmed Twaij and Mish Rahman, an elected member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) for the Labour Party discuss join us from across the pond to talk about the legacy of the Queen Elizabeth and whether the monarchy should be finished. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at The University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of race in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights and war. He is the author of over forty books. Ahmed Twaij is a journalist and filmmaker, whose bylines include The Independent, The Guardian, Foreign Policy and more. His latest piece is "There are lots of reasons to end the British monarchy. King Charles III is the best." (https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/queen-elizabeth-king-charles-iii-end-monarchy-rcna47104) Mish Rahman is an elected member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) for the Labour Party and also elected Vice Chair of Momentum, which is the largest left wing campaign group in the UK, set up to support Jeremy Corbyn during his time as leader. He's a socialist and trade unionist as well as being an anti racist campaigner. For the full discussion, bonus content, to support independent media & help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Link to full broadcast - https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-broadcast-71954212
Thu, September 08, 2022
San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin On Who Was Behind His Recall
Why was San Francisco reformist District Attorney Chesa Boudin recalled? Who was really behind it? What does it mean for the future of the reformist DA movement? And what's next for Chesa? We ask Chesa himself. District Attorney Chesa Boudin was sworn in as San Francisco District Attorney in January 2020 to implement urgently needed reforms to our criminal justice system. Chesa personally understands the impact of incarceration; both of his parents were incarcerated throughout his childhood. Despite tremendous obstacles, Chesa graduated from top schools, became a lawyer, and dedicated his career to public service. Chesa’s personal experience with parental incarceration inspired him to dedicate his career to making our country safer and more just by working to reform our criminal justice system. Chesa is a Rhodes Scholar who graduated from Yale Law School. After obtaining his law degree, he worked as a law clerk to the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and later for the Honorable Charles Breyer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. As an attorney, Chesa has litigated more than 300 felony cases including murder, attempted murders, shootings, stabbings, home break-ins, drug sales, kidnappings, and auto burglaries. Under Chesa’s leadership, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office has increased its prosecution rates; expanded victim services; and added new prosecution units, all while making investments to reduce recidivism and redirect towards education and employment. Chesa believes we must hold accountable those who violate the law; and he also recognizes that we are all safer when we can and address the root causes of crime to prevent crime before it happens. District Attorney Boudin’s innovative work has focused on three main areas: 1) centering and increasing support for crime victims and survivors; 2) ensuring equal justice under the law; 3) developing new programs and reforms to ensure a more fair and just criminal legal system. Chesa, his wife, and their newborn son live in the Sunset District of San Francisco. For bonus content, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow
Mon, September 05, 2022
Chris Hedges & Robert Scheer on Gorbachev, Russia & Ukraine
Link to extended Robert Scheer interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/legendary-robert-70803500 Journalists Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer discuss Mikhail Gorbachev, his life, his role in the end of the Cold War and his legacy today. How does he relate to Vladimir Putin, the state of Russia today and the war in Ukraine. Plus Hedges discusses his latest piece "Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War." Chris Hedges (https://chrishedges.substack.com/) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He was the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact and now has a show at The Real News. Find all of his work at https://chrishedges.substack.com/ Robert Scheer is the publisher of Scheer Post (https://scheerpost.com/). Robert Scheer has written eight books, including two this decade: "The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street while Mugging Main Street," and his newest book is "They Know Everything about You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy." He is a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. He has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and others. Between 1964 and 1969 he was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. For bonus content, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow
Thu, August 25, 2022
Abolish The FBI? African Socialist Leader Omali Yeshitela On Being Raided By The FBI & Alex Vitale
Alex Vitale debunks The Young Turks On Full Patreon-only stream: https://www.patreon.com/posts/omali-yeshitela-71042747 While the FBI raid on Trump's Mar-A-Lago home has been in the headlines and provoked a discussion about the abolition of the FBI another raid has received far less attention. In July the FBI carried out a violent raid using flash grenades and drones of the properties of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP, https://apspuhuru.org/) in Missouri and Florida. Omali Yeshitela (https://twitter.com/OmaliYeshitela), chairman of the APSP joins the show to talk about the raid, being an unindicted co-conspirator of a Russian man accused of spreading propaganda, the work the APSP does, the FBI's history of attacking Black radicals and his revolutionary past. Then sociologist Alex Vitale, author of The End Of Policing (https://twitter.com/avitale) talks about why the "tough on crime narrative" is being bought into by so-called Leftists and why it's so dangerous.
Sat, August 20, 2022
Legend Robert Scheer on the end of humanity, Laura Hazard Owen & Andrew Perez fact check WaPo
***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the full podcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/legendary-robert-70803500 Legendary reporter Bob Scheer discusses a long career reporting on war all over the world; Laura Hazard Owens discusses how to report on abortion in a post-Roe world; Andrew Perez discusses fact checking the Washington Post Fact checker. Bob Scheer is the editor of Scheer Post. Scheer has written eight books, including two this decade: "The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street while Mugging Main Street," and his newest book is "They Know Everything about You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy." He is a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. He has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and others. Between 1964 and 1969 he was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. Link to Bob's work: https://scheerpost.com/ Link to Bob's radio program: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence Laura Hazard Owen is the editor of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University's Nieman Foundation. She writes a weekly column on fake news and misinformation research. She was previously the deputy editor of Nieman Lab. Before that, she was the managing editor of Gigaom and wrote about book publishing for seven years. Link to Laura's piece: https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/07/unimaginable-abortion-stories-will-become-more-common-is-american-journalism-ready/ Andrew Perez is senior editor and reporter at The Lever covering money and influence. Link to Andrew's piece: https://www.levernews.com/emails-raise-questions-about-washpost-fact-checker/ Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Sat, August 13, 2022
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly On Imperialism, Black August & Anti-Communism
For bonus content, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Katie Halper is joined by Joshua Bregman to review news clips. Then, Katie is joined by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly (https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/). Dr. Burden-Stelly talks about race, capitalism, imperialism, hegemony, anti Blackness and anti-communism. Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly (https://twitter.com/blackleftaf) is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. She was the 2020-2021 Visiting Scholar in the Race and Capitalism Project at the University of Chicago and an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College. A scholar of political theory, political economy, and intellectual history, Dr. Burden-Stelly is the co-author, with Dr. Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History. Her published work appears in journals including Small Axe, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies, and the CLR James Journal. She is also the guest editor of the forthcoming “Claudia Jones: Foremother of World Revolution” special issue of The Journal of Intersectionality and a regular contributor to Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. As a visiting scholar, she will complete her book manuscript, tentatively titled Black Scare/Red Scare, in which she examines the rise of the United States to global hegemony between World War I and the early Cold War at the intersection of racial capitalism, imperialism, anticommunism, and the superexploitation and oppression of Blackness.
Sat, August 06, 2022
Carl Zha on Taiwan & John Ruehl on Ukraine
For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content, support independent media and to make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-carl-zha-70174797 Katie Halper is joined by perennial show favorite Leslie Lee to discuss popular culture as well as some mainstream media "news" clips. But first they Katie and Leslie are joined by friend of the show and Green Party candidate Matthew Hoh. Matthew stops by to give us the latest updates regarding his and the Green Party's continuing struggle to simply be allowed to participate in the upcoming election for US Senate in North Carolina. Next Katie speaks with journalist John P. Ruehl about the ongoing Russia & Ukraine conflict, including the presence of private military and security companies in Ukraine. And last but certainly not least, Carl Zha makes his debut appearance on The Katie Halper Show to discuss Nancy Pelosi's recent questionable decision to travel to Taiwan. Matthew Hoh (https://twitter.com/MatthewPHoh) is a disabled Marine combat veteran for peace who is running as a Green Party candidate for the US Senate to represent the people of North Carolina. The North Carolina Democrats have refused to certify the Green Party Ballot access petition required to run. Matthew Hoh is a senior fellow with the Center for International Policy. He is a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran and, in 2009, he resigned his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the war. He is a candidate with the Green Party to represent North Carolina in the US Senate in 2022. John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington D.C. He writes for The Independent Media Institute, is a contributing editor to Strategic Policy, runs the Geopolitics General Channel on Roundtable Media, and his book "Budget Superpower" will be available later this year. Carl Zha (Twitter @CarlZha) is the host of the Silk and Steel podcast focusing on China and surrounding regions, history, politics and culture. Links to Carl's Silk and Steel podcast: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/silknsteel Apple podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/silk-and-steel-podcast/id1451115518 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4FWQalj04F4Gu9APMbR9nZ?si=224730f3ccaa4f74 Stitcher - https://listen.stitcher.com/yvap/?af_dp=stitcher://show/377726&af_web_dp=https://www.stitcher.com/show/377726 Podbean - https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-py9z6-4206c4
Thu, July 28, 2022
Ben Norton on NATO, China, Russia & A Multipolar World
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Mon, July 25, 2022
Dems' Dirty Tricks To Ban Green Party Candidate Matthew Hoh, Rashida Tlaib's Espionage Act Bill
To receive bonus content, support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Matthew Hoh (https://twitter.com/MatthewPHoh) is a disabled Marine combat veteran for peace who is running as a Green Party candidate for the US Senate to represent the people of North Carolina. The North Carolina Democrats have refused to certify the Green Party Ballot access petition required to run. Matthew Hoh is a senior fellow with the Center for International Policy. He is a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran and, in 2009, he resigned his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the war. He is a candidate with the Green Party to represent North Carolina in the US Senate in 2022. Plus journalist Chip Gibbons (https://twitter.com/ChipGibbons89) with a Julian Assange update and Leslie Lee (https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii) and Katie react to infuriating media clips. Chip Gibbons is policy director of Defending Rights & DIssent, where he has advised multiple congressional offices on reforming the Espionage Act. He covered the legal proceedings against Julian Assange and Daniel Hale as a correspondent for Jacobin. He is currently working on a book on the history of the FBI for Verso. Leslie Lee is co-host of the program Struggle Session (https://www.patreon.com/strugglesession).
Thu, July 07, 2022
Chris Hedges On Christian Fascism And Democrats' Hypocrisy
For bonus content, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chris-hedges-on-68793292 Pulitzer Prize–winning Journalist Chris Hedges talks about the war in Ukraine, endless war, America's gun fetish, abortion, the fascists in our midst, and the Democrats, who enable them. Chris Hedges (https://chrishedges.substack.com/) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He was the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact and now has a show at The Real News. Find all of his work at https://chrishedges.substack.com/ Relevant articles: Fascists In Our Midst (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/fascists-in-our-midst) Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of American Fascism (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/jesus-endless-war-and-the-rise-of) America's Gun Fetish (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-gun-fetish) The Triumph Of Death (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-triumph-of-death) No Way Out But War (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/no-way-out-but-war)
Fri, July 01, 2022
Freddie DeBoer, Afeni, Molly Shah & Amy Merrill On How To Fight Back
For bonus content, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Writer Freddie DeBoer, organizer Afeni, former lawyer current writer Molly Shah and Plan C Pills co-founder Amy Merrill discuss how the hell we can fight back against the Ascendant Right Wing, its Supreme Court and the Democrats who refuse to do anything about them. Freddie deBoer is a writer and academic and the author of The Cult of Smart. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Politico. Find his work at https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/ Afeni (https://twitter.com/ReddIsAri) is a Black queer activist and core organizer with Freedom Fighters DC. During the George Floyd Uprisings Afeni saw first-hand how abusive the police are towards human rights protesters. Her advocacy and voice is lended to all marginalized people from our Palestinian cousins to protesters being brutalized in Nigeria, Afeni's voice knows no border. Afeni is passionate about equity, anti-racism and transformative mutual aid. Molly Shah (https://twitter.com/MollyOShah) is a contributing writer to The Real News and social media consultant based in Berlin. Prior to moving to Germany Molly was an activist, teacher and lawyer in Louisville, Kentucky. Amy Merrill is an artist and activist, and cofounder and digital director of abortion pill access campaign Plan C at plancpills.org (https://www.plancpills.org/). She also leads a web design and communications studio Eyes Open at eyesopendesign.com. Amy has a background in nonprofit management and social impact startups, choosing complex issues like voluntourism, human trafficking and gender inequality - which ultimately led her to focus on reproductive health equity and self-determination, and to cofounding Plan C.
Thu, June 23, 2022
How Russian Sanctions Are Backfiring with Derek Davison
For the rest of this discussion, to support independent media, receive bonus content and to make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/derek-davison-68134804 Link to post-broadcast Callin discussion: https://www.callin.com/room/russian-sanctions-brie-vs-cenk-tHboaWPyoB Journalist Derek Davison (https://twitter.com/dwdavison) discusses how Russian sanctions are backfiring, plus the latest elections in Colombia, France and Israel. Derek Davison began his journalistic career by covering the 2014 Ukraine crisis and the 2015 Iran nuclear deal talks for LobeLog, where he later served as editor. Around that time, he started a blog that eventually evolved into the Substack newsletter Foreign Exchanges (https://fx.substack.com/). He is the co-host of the American Prestige podcast. He has degrees in Middle East Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago.
Mon, June 20, 2022
Briahna Joy Gray on Cenk Uygar and Tucker Carlson
For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-podcast-67992439 Briahna Joy Gray joins the show and responds to Cenk Uygur's video claiming she's "not a real leftist." Briahna Joy Gray is a journalist, the host of the Bad Faith podcast (https://www.patreon.com/badfaithpodcast), a co-host of The Hill's Rising, and Bernie Sanders' former press secretary.
Thu, June 16, 2022
Biden's Laughable Summit Of The Americas With Jemima Pierre And Peter James Hudson
For bonus content and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Anthropologist Jemima Pierre & Historian Peter James Hudson on the connection between imperialism & capitalism, what The NY Times gets wrong about Haiti, the Summit Of The Americas and more. Jemima Pierre is the Haiti/Americas Co-Coordinator with the Black Alliance for Peace; an editor at the Black Agenda Report; and a professor of Black Studies and Anthropology at UCLA She is the author of The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race. Her research and teaching interests are located in the overlaps between African Studies and African Diaspora Studies and engage three broad areas: race, racial formation theory, and political economy; culture and the history of anthropological theory; and transnationalism, globalization, and diaspora. She is currently completing a manuscript whose working title is “Racial Americanization: Conceptualizing African Immigrants in the U.S.,” and working on a project on the racialized political economy of multinational resource extraction in Ghana. Dr. Pierre’s essays on global racial formation, Ghana, immigration, and African diaspora theory and politics have appeared in a number of academic journals including, Cultural Anthropology, Feminist Review, Social Text, Identities, Cultural Dynamics, Transforming Anthropology, Journal of Haitian Studies, Latin American Perspective, American Anthropologist, and Philosophia Africana. Peter James Hudson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at UCLA. His research interests are in the history of capitalism, white supremacy, and U.S. imperialism; the intellectual and political-economic history of the Caribbean and the Black world; and the history of Black radicalism and global anti-imperialism. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Thu, June 09, 2022
DSA Drama & Twitter Censorship
For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this broadcast's Patreon segment - https://www.patreon.com/posts/truth-about-with-67549664 Organizers Illapa Sairitupac and Kristen Gonzalez talk about why they're running as Democratic Socialists in New York City. Then journalist Danny Haiphong talks about being locked out of Twitter over tweets on China. Illapa Sairitupac (https://twitter.com/illapa4NY) is a social worker, climate organizer, son of indigenous Peruvian immigrants and running for Assembly District 65. Kristen Gonzalez (https://twitter.com/Gonzalez4NY) is a tech worker, Queens native, DSA organizer running for the new State Senate District 59. Danny Haiphong (https://www.patreon.com/dannyhaiphong)(t.me/dannyhaiphong) is a journalist at Black Agenda Report (https://blackagendareport.com) and an editor of Friends Of Socialist China (https://socialistchina.org). Link to Danny's upcoming webinar: https://socialistchina.org/2022/05/21/webinar-the-empire-strikes-back-imperialisms-global-war-on-multipolarity/ Link to the following Callin discussion where members of the audience call in with questions! https://www.callin.com/room/danny-haiphong-on-being-censored-by-twitter-BJbDctbcHp
Thu, June 02, 2022
Colombia's SHOCKING Elections + Texans React To Shooting
To hear the entire discussion, receive bonus content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this broadcast's Patreon segment: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bidens-nato-to-67231464 Journalists Camila Escalante and Ollie Vargas talk about Colombia's surprising election between a Right wing self-avowed Hitler follower and a Leftist former guerilla member. Then we go to Texas for reactions to the shooting from community organizers Sema Hernandez, Ashton Woods and Claudia Zapata. Camila Escalante is the co-founder of Kawsachun News (https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews) in Bolivia and known for her reporting on TeleSUR. Ollie Vargas (https://twitter.com/OVargas52) is a Bolivian journalist and writer. He has contributed to teleSUR, Morning Star, and other media outlets and is part of Kawsachun News. Ashton Woods is the founder of Black Lives Matter Houston (https://twitter.com/AshtonPWoods). Claudia Zapata (https://twitter.com/PoderConClaudia) is a Democratic nominee for Congress in #TX21. Former legislative, workforce & budget analyst. Sema Hernandez (https://twitter.com/_SemaHernandez_) is a community and climate change organizer. Join us on Callin after the broadcast where Katie and panelists will answer your questions! https://www.callin.com/room/colombia-elections-texas-shooting-zNSOTWdXnd ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Mon, May 30, 2022
Pete Buttigieg & Hungry Babies + Mass Shootings With Branko Marcetic
Patreon-only full interview here https://www.patreon.com/posts/67069775 Journalist Branko Marcetic (https://twitter.com/BMarchetich) talks to Katie about mass shootings, what people don't get about guns in his native New Zealand, online censorship and why Mayo Pete is so OK with babies being hungry. Branko is a writer at Jacobin, the co-host of the 1 of 200 podcast and the author of "Yesterday's Man: the Case Against Joe Biden" relevant articles Progressives Need to Resist the Domestic “War on Terror” (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/domestic-terrorism-prevention-act-biden-house-squad) Pete Buttigieg: Hungry Babies, Regrettably, Are Just the Price of the Free Market (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/pete-buttigieg-free-market-hungry-baby-formula-capitalism) The Buffalo Attack Is a Reminder That Mass Surveillance Doesn’t Protect Us (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/buffalo-attack-mass-surveillance-terrorist-security-state-protection)
Thu, May 19, 2022
Chris Smalls Taking On Amazon & Brittany Ramos DeBarros Running For Congress
***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For extra content and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps See Brittany talk about her striptease against the Military Industrial Complex here. https://www.patreon.com/posts/66569687 Christian Smalls, President of Amazon Labor, the 1st Independent worker-lead Union in America for Amazon workers, talks about his victory against the corporation, how it happened, testifying in front of Congress, what's next for the Labor Movement and beyond. Plus Brittany Ramos DeBarros talks about being an antiwar veteran running for congress against a major Israel hawk. https://twitter.com/Shut_downAmazon https://twitter.com/britt4congress
Thu, May 12, 2022
Will Nina Turner Run Third Party & Why Amy Vilela Is Running
Nina Turner talks about her latest congressional race, which she lost, where the Congressional Progressives Caucus was, & what's next for her. Amy Vilela talks about her own congressional race for Nevada's First District. https://twitter.com/amy4thepeople https://twitter.com/ninaturner Amy Vilela grew up in poverty, relying on programs like WIC & SNAP in order to make ends meet as a single-mother. She took classes at night while working multiple jobs to become the first in her family to earn a degree. She became a national advocate for Medicare for All after her daughter Shalynne died at the hands of our nation’s profit-driven healthcare system. After working her way up to become a CFO, Amy has since retooled her professional experience to provide vital campaign services to other progressive candidates. In 2020, serving as a State Co-chair, Amy led the charge for Bernie Sanders’ landslide victory in the Nevada caucuses. The Vilelas first moved to Nevada when her husband, Major David Vilela, was transferred to Creech Air Force Base. If elected, she would be the first ever active duty military spouse to serve in Congress. In addition to Congresswoman Cori Bush & Senator Nina Turner, Amy’s campaign has attracted national attention and has been endorsed by Brand New Congress, Sunrise Movement Las Vegas, the Center for Biological Diversity & more. Nina Turner, the oldest of seven children, grew up in a working-class family in Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard community. Her Mother was a nurse’s aide & her Father was a truck driver. Experiencing the impact of income inequality firsthand, Turner took her first job at age 14 to help support her siblings & keep the family afloat. Turner’s Mother battled high blood pressure her entire life & died at age 42. This experience exposed to Turner the serious problems with our health care system, especially for Black & lower-income families. After working her way through college and graduate school (she earned an Associate’s Degree from Cuyahoga Community College & a Bachelor’s and Master’s from Cleveland State University), she started a career dedicated to keeping Ohio working families afloat too. Turner made history in 2005 as the first African American woman to represent Ward One on the Cleveland City Council, & again in 2008 as the first African American woman to serve as a State Senator in Ohio’s 25th District. In the legislature, Turner repeatedly defended against attacks on women’s health care freedom & partnered with working families & organized labor to protect collective bargaining rights. As a champion for criminal justice reform, she led the effort to create Ohio’s first task force on police & community relations in the wake of tragic police killings in Ohio & across the country. Turner went on to serve as the Chair of Party Engagement for the Ohio Democratic Party, leading the effort to build a more robust & inclusive organizing infrastructure & support for local Democratic candidates across the State. Turn
Fri, May 06, 2022
How Dems Sold Out Roe V Wade With Amy Littlefield, Rebecca Parson & Shahid Buttar
To receive bonus content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow In light of the leaked SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v Wade, Journalist Amy Littlefield, activist & Congressional candidate Rebecca Parson along with Constitutional lawyer Shahid Buttar discuss how the Democrats enabled the attack on reproductive rights and continue to do so literally as we speak. Amy Littlefield is The Nation's abortion access correspondent and a journalist who focuses on reproductive rights, health care, and religion. https://www.amylittlefield.com/ https://twitter.com/amylittlefield Rebecca Parson, a commissioner on the Tacoma Area Commission on Disabilities, an organizer with the Tacoma Tenants Organizing Committee and a congressional candidate for Washington's Sixth District. She’s the only candidate in the race supporting a $30 minimum wage, Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and national rent control. https://www.rebeccaparson.com/ https://twitter.com/RebeccaforWA Shahid Buttar is a constitutional lawyer, national non-profit leader, and musical artist who won over 81,000 votes from San Franciscans in 2020 to replace the most powerful member of the House. https://shahidforchange.us/ https://twitter.com/ShahidForChange https://twitter.com/sheeyahshee
Thu, April 28, 2022
Freed Chevron Prisoner Steven Donziger & Amazon Watch's Paul Paz y Miño On What's Next
For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Joing our Callin discussion on Friday April 29 at 1pm EST with Paul Paz y Miño! about suing the CIA over Pablo Escobar- https://www.callin.com/room/suing-the-cia-with-paul-paz-y-mio-mOpBqTeQrS Steven Donziger, is free at last, for now. What's next? Find out from Steven Donziger (the human rights and environmentalist lawyer who served a six month prison sentence for successfully suing Chevron for poisoning the water in the Ecuadorian Amazon) and Paul Pan y Miño of Amazon Watch. Steven Donziger, is free at last, for now. What's next? Find out from Steven Donziger (the human rights and environmentalist lawyer who served a six month prison sentence for successfully suing Chevron for poisoning the water in the Ecuadorian Amazon) and Paul Pan y Miño of Amazon Watch. https://substack.com/profile/7445653-steven-donziger The prosecution of Donziger, which has been condemned by the United Nations, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Amazon Watch, and 64 Nobel Laureates, is a literal corporate prosecution. After the Southern District of New York refused to prosecute Donziger, the judge assigned a corporate firm which had represented Chevron to go after him. The judge also made the unusual move of handpicking the judge to oversee the case and chose a judge who is part of the Right Wing Federalist Society which gets funding from.... you guessed it... Chevron! Paul Paz y Miño, Associate Director at Amazon Watch, has overseen its Clean Up Ecuador campaign since 2007. He has been a professional human rights, corporate accountability and environmental justice advocate for over 25 years. He has been Colombia Country Specialist for Amnesty International USA since 1995, served on staff at Human Rights Watch/Americas in 1995-1996, and was the Guatemala/Chiapas Program Director at the Seva Foundation for seven years.
Wed, April 20, 2022
Richard Wolff on Ukraine, Sanctions & War
Listen to the patreon-only interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/prof-richard-65362957 Economist Richard Wolff talks about Ukraine, Russia, sanctions, and why this moment is similar to World War One. Richard Wolff is the host of #EconomicUpdate, Professor of Economics Emeritus at @UMassAmherst, visiting professor at The New School, founder of @democracyatwrk and the author of several books including Democracy at Work, Understanding Marxism, and Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. He's been called "America's most prominent Marxist economist" by The New York Times.
Thu, April 14, 2022
Vijay Prashad on Ukraine and Pakistan
For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content, support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this episode's Patreon segment: https://www.patreon.com/posts/vijay-prashad-on-65119033 Vijay Prashad discusses the latest fallout from the war in Ukraine and how it's impacting the rest of the world and his essay on Pan-Asianism. Plus the removal of Pakistan's Imran Khan: is it the will of the Pakistani people or Western-backed regime change, as Khan is claiming? Read Vijay's latest piece here (https://www.newsclick.in/is-asia-possible) Vijay Prashad (https://twitter.com/vijayprashad) is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter (https://independentmediainstitute.org...). He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books (https://mayday.leftword.com/) and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (https://t.co/evQYuwZXRJ). He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (http://en.rdcy.org/). He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma.
Thu, April 07, 2022
Israel Lobby Pressures Spotify To Remove Pro-Palestinian Rapper Lowkey
To support independent media, receive bonus content and to help make this show possible, please join us at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Rapper and campaigner Lowkey (https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline) talks about the Israel Lobby's campaign to get Spotify to remove him from their platform. Sign the petition telling Spotify not to cave here (https://www.change.org/p/spotify-do-not-buckle-to-pressure-from-the-israel-lobby-to-deplatform-lowkey?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=0ccb39d0-b020-11ec-b015-6f843b977d7f). Lowkey is a British-Iraqi hip hop artist, academic and political campaigner. He is a patron of Stop The War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Racial Justice Network and The Peace and Justice Project founded by Jeremy Corbyn. He has a Masters in Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS university and is an advisor to the website Declassified which investigates the activities of the Ministry of Defence and British Intelligence Services. He has spoken and performed on platforms from the Oxford Union to the Royal Albert Hall and Glastonbury. His latest album Soundtrack To The Struggle 2 featured Noam Chomsky, Frankie Boyle and Ken Loach and has been streamed millions of times. He produces and hosts his own weekly podcast for Mintpress and has interviewed US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Roger Waters, Naom Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Ahed Tamimi, Ken Loach and Stella Moris (wife of Julian Assange). Lowkey has become the target of a coordinated smear campaign to demonize, defame and deplatform him. Earlier this month, organised groups forced the University of Cambridge Palestine Solidarity Society to postpone his lecture and were able to stop his appearance at the National Union of Students in Liverpool. Now, a campaign by lobby group "We Believe in Israel" is demanding that his content be removed from music streaming service Spotify. This is unacceptable censorship. The campaign against Lowkey is designed to silence Palestinians and their supporters. Anti-Palestinian censorship is now reaching into the artistic realm.
Tue, March 29, 2022
Brian Becker On Regime Change & Biden; Andrew Gold On Exorcisms
For bonus content & to help make the show possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Brian Becker talks about the latest in Ukraine, Biden's statements about Putin, and the history that got us here in the first place. Andrew Gold talks about his reporting on true crime as well as on exorcism. Brian Becker (https://mobile.twitter.com/BrianBeckerDC) is the host of The Socialist Program. He is the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition and the author of Imperialism in the 21st Century. Andrew Gold (https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok) is a journalist, documentary maker (HBO, BBC) and podcast host of On the Edge with Andrew Gold. He speaks five languages, and documents the world’s strangest and most controversial people, from true crime and paranormal to science and politics.
Tue, March 22, 2022
Vijay Prashad on Ukraine, Russia, NATO & The Media
For the entire discussion, bonus content & to help make the show happen, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this broadcast's Patreon podcast (patreon-only content begins at 29min09sec, start there to pick-up where you left off) Journalist and historian Vijay Prashad (https://twitter.com/vijayprashad) talks about the current conflict in Ukraine and the history that got us there, especially the role of NATO. He also discusses what the Left should be doing right now. Then join our callin where Katie will be taking some of your questions [https://www.callin.com/room/ukraine-what-should-the-left-do-about-it-hxuXjCtKXb] Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter (https://independentmediainstitute.org/globetrotter/). He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books (https://mayday.leftword.com/) and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (https://t.co/evQYuwZXRJ). He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (http://en.rdcy.org/). He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma.
Tue, March 15, 2022
Ukraine's Worthy (White) Victims With Alan MacLeod
For the entire discussion, bonus content & to help make the show happen, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow. Direct link to Alan MacLeod Patreon Only segment on Bill Gates and Sascha Baron Cohen: https://www.patreon.com/posts/alan-macleod-63817711 Join our callin: https://callin.com/link/FtXgkfkOfV Journalist Alan MacLeod discusses his article "It’s Different, They’re White: Media Ignore Conflicts Around the World to Focus on Ukraine," Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Israel's attacks on Palestine and the United States' bombing of Somalia. Plus a short history of U.S. bombings of hospitals. Alan MacLeod (https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod) is Senior Staff Writer and Podcast Producer for MintPress News. He's also written two books about the media: "Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting", and "Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent." He has also contributed to FAIR.org, The Guardian, Salon, Jacobin Magazine, and more. Read his latest piece here (https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-russia-war-media-bias-study/279847/)
Wed, March 09, 2022
Lee Camp on RT America + The Yes Men
For bonus content & to help make the show happen, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow. The Yes Men (https://theyesmen.org/) stop by to talk about their latest hijinks. Then Lee Camp comes (https://twitter.com/LeeCamp) on to talk about what happened to his show Redacted Tonight.
Tue, March 01, 2022
Chris Hedges On Ukraine, Russia, NATO & Why We Shouldn't Arm Ukraine
For the full discussion, extra content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this full discussion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chris-hedges-on-63210770 Pulitzer Prize–winning Journalist Chris Hedges talks about Russia, Ukraine, Nato expansion and his experience on the ground reporting from Eastern Europe during the fall of the Soviet Union. Then Phyllis Bennis, of the Institute of Policy Studies, talks about what needs to happen next. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact. Link to Chris' article on Russia/ Ukraine “Chronicle of a War Foretold” at Sheer Post - https://scheerpost.com/2022/02/24/hedges-the-chronicle-of-a-war-foretold/ Included in the full discussion at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chris-hedges-on-63210770, along with the rest of the discussion with Chris Hedges, Katie also speaks with Phyllis Bennis. Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, where she directs the New Internationalism project. Her books include Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror. In 2001 she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her latest piece on Ukraine appears in Foreign Policy in Focus. Link to Phyllis' latest piece: https://fpif.org/putins-invasion-of-ukraine-is-illegal-and-wrong-respond-with-diplomacy-not-war/
Fri, February 25, 2022
Teaser - Russian-Ukrainian Immigrant Yasha Levine On The Avoidable Crisis
For the entire discussion, other bonus content & to help make the show possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the entire discussion with Yasha Levine: https://www.patreon.com/posts/russian-yasha-on-63047290 Here is a teaser segment of an interview recorded Wednesday evening just before we learned that Putin had invaded Ukraine. Yasha Levine is a Soviet-American immigrant, the author of "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet," and co-host of the podcast "The Russians." You can find his writing at: yasha.substack.com Follow Yasha on Twitter at: @yashalevine
Thu, February 24, 2022
Heads Up About The Last Episode
Just wanted to make sure people knew that the last episode (https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/matt-taibbi-katrina-vanden-heuvel-on-ukraine) of The Katie Halper Show with Matt Taibbi & Katrina Van den Huevel was recorded on Tuesday evening before Russia's military actions. It's still incredibly useful, insightful and informative but letting people know to prevent confusion.
Thu, February 24, 2022
Matt Taibbi & Katrina vanden Heuvel on Ukraine
Listen to the full interview with Katrina vanden Vuevel here https://www.patreon.com/posts/63015910. It starts at 24 minutes. This episode was recorded on Tuesday February 22, 2022, prior to the latest developments regarding Russian military operations. Matt Taibbi and Katrina vanden Heuvel talk about the latest news in Russia and Ukraine. Katrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation. She served as editor of the magazine from 1995 to 2019. She writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. A frequent commentator on US and international politics for ABC, MSNBC, CNN, and PBS, her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. Vanden Heuvel is also the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama, and co-author of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers. Vanden Heuvel has been recognized for her journalism and public service by organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the National Women’s Political Caucus, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Community Change, the Norman Mailer Center, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, American Rights at Work, Progressive Congress, and more. Matt Taibbi is an award-winning author of several books including Hate Inc.: How, And Why, The Press Makes Us Hate One Another and The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing. He also co-hosts Useful Idiots with Katie. You can find his writing at his Substack TK Media.
Sat, February 19, 2022
Biden's Afghan Fund Freeze w/Madea Benjamin & Masuda Sultan + Patreon Preview Adolph Reed Interview
Please join us on Patreon for the entire discussion, to help make the show possible as well as receive exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Join us on Callin with your questions, link to Callin broadcast with Adolph Reed: https://www.callin.com/room/adolph-reed-sZqwbUiGQZ Adolph Reed talks about his new book "The South" and his new podcast "Class Matters" and what people keep getting wrong about "white supremacy" and racism. Masuda Sultan and Medea Benjamin join the show to talk about Joe Biden's disgusting decision to divert Afghanistan's frozen funds to American families of 9/11 victims. Then Adolph Reed talks about his new book "The South," his new podcast "Class Matters" and what people keep getting wrong about "white supremacy" and racism. For the entire discussion, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Adolph Reed is an American professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in studies of issues of racism and U.S. politics. He's the author of "The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politic," "Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought," "Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene," and most recently "The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives." Masuda Sultan is an Afghan-American women’s rights activist who has worked with NGOs on Afghan women’s rights and as an advisor on economic reform with the Asian Development Bank. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy Advisory Committee and the US-Afghan Women’s Council. Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange.She received numerous prizes, including: the Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Peace Prize by the US Peace Memorial, the Gandhi Peace Award, and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Award. She is a former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization.
Tue, February 15, 2022
Human Rights Lawyer Steven Donziger LOCKED UP AGAIN With Alli McCracken Jarrar & Paul Paz Y Miño
Human Rights lawyer Steven Donziger has been locked up yet AGAIN! Amnesty International's Alli McCracken Jarrar and Amazon Watch's Paul Paz y Miño join the show to talk about the latest miscarriage of justice surrounding Donziger's case. Alli McCracken Jarrar is the Amnesty International Campaigner for North America. She’s an anti-imperialist feminist based in Washington DC. Paul Paz y Miño is Associate Director of @AmazonWatch, a Human Rights advocate and a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. He has the honor of being sued, along with Steven Donziger, by Chevron for defending the Amazon and the people to whom it actually belongs. Also, please join us on Patreon to help make the show possible as well as receive exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow
Fri, February 11, 2022
Challenging Biden With Marianne Williamson, Jason Call & Rebecca Parson
Former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson (https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/) joins the show to talk about her thoughts on Biden, whether he should be primaried, and why it’s important to back non-corporate congressional candidates in the midterms. Plus congressional candidates Rebecca Parson (https://www.rebeccaparson.com/about) and Jason Call (https://www.callforcongress.com/about) talk about whether the Democrats can be reformed and the congressional candidates livestream they're joining hosted by Marianne, Katie, Briahna Joy Gray, Krystal Ball & Juliana Forlano. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsc8kcXjtuE) Join Katie for her program on the Callin App: https://www.callin.com/room/marianne-williamson-on-challenging-joe-biden-XlyoISBlPi Also, please join us on Patreon to help make the show possible as well as receive exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow
Thu, February 03, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg's Holocaust Mishegas With Briahna Joy Gray & Historian Daniel Bessner
Katie Halper, Briahna Joy Gray and historian Daniel Bessner break down Whoopi Goldberg's recent comments about the Holocaust, Jews, race and more as well as her non-apology, which actually raises some interesting questions about race, racism, identity politics and more. Daniel Bessner is the co-host of the American Prestige podcast and Hanauer Honors Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. Briahna Joy Gray co-hosts the podcast Bad Faith, she is the former National Press Secretary for Bernie Sanders, as well as the former Senior Politics Editor for The Intercept.
Fri, January 28, 2022
(Preview) Gabor Maté: Holocaust Survivor & Free Palestine Activist
Hear the full interview with Gabor Mate at Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/posts/gabor-mate-free-61785859 Gabor Maté talks to Katie about how his experience as a Holocaust survivor turned him into a critic of Israel and a Free Palestine activist. Gabor Maté is a renowned speaker and best selling author who focuses on addiction, stress, childhood development and trauma. He is the author of "Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder," "When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress," "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction," and the forthcoming book "The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture." He's a developer of the therapeutic approach compassionate inquiry, now studied by hundreds of therapists, physicians, counselors and others internationally.
Fri, January 28, 2022
Israel Plants Trees Over Its Ethnic Cleansing With Ali Abunimah & Ariel Gold
(Patreon-only interview with Gabor Mate https://www.patreon.com/posts/61785859) What better way to cover up ethnic cleansing than by literally planting trees over it? The Jewish National Fund, a non-profit founded in 1901 is doing just that through its afforestation projects. The latest one is on land used by Bedouin Palestinian communities for agriculture in Southern Israel. Ali Abunimah, of Electronic Intifada talks about Israel's latest assaults on Palestine and Palestinians and Ariel Gold, of CODEPINK talks about what her organization is doing about it. Ali Abunimah is director of The Electronic Intifada, an independent nonprofit publication focusing on Palestine. He is the author of "One Country, A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse" and "The Battle for Justice in Palestine." Ariel Gold is the national co-director of CODEPINK, a women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect our tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming programs. Before being banned from entering Israel in June 2018, Ariel used to travel to the West Bank one to two times per year to work with Palestinian individuals and organizations on the ground in their struggle for freedom and justice. To support the program as well as hear extended interviews, bonus content and more, please join us at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow
Wed, January 19, 2022
Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr? with Eugene Puryear
Who actually killed Martin Luther King Jr? The answer may surprise you. Author, journalist and activist Eugene Puryear fills us in. Eugene Puryear is the author of "Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America," a journalist at Breakthrough News and the host of the Punch Out podcast. Hear our patreon-only chat with Eugene about the latest in Ethiopia, what he learned when he went there, his father's role in the Civil Rights Movement, and the worst Happy MLK tweets here https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-with-khs-61390129
Sat, January 15, 2022
Richard Wolff & Matt Bruenig
Full chat with Richard Wolff is here (https://www.patreon.com/posts/audio-richard-61093872) This episode of the Katie Halper show combines two interviews! One with Richard Wolff and one with Matt Bruenig. Richard Wolff is the host of #EconomicUpdate, Professor of Economics Emeritus at @UMassAmherst, visiting professor at The New School, founder of @democracyatwrk and the author of several books including Democracy at Work, Understanding Marxism, and Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. He's been called "America's most prominent Marxist economist" by The New York Times. Matt Bruenig is the founder of the crowdfunded think tank the People's Policy Project, and the co-host of the podcast The Bruenigs with Elizabeth Bruenig
Fri, January 07, 2022
Rania Khalek on The War On Ethiopia
Found our discussion with Rania about the two year anniversary of the killing of Qassam Suleimani here plus getting censored by Instagram here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/60843466) Beirut-based journalist Rania Khalek reports back from being on the ground in Ethiopia and shares what she learned and what the media is getting wrong about it.
Fri, December 31, 2021
CDC Guidelines Are Based on Business, Not Science W/ Dr. Oni Blackstock & Justin Feldman
The CDC has just shortened its recommended isolation period. But what's behind the change? Science? Or corporate profit? Is it a mere coincidence that the new number of days matches the number of days asked for by the CEO of Delta Airlines? And Joe Biden says there's "no federal solution" to Covid? Is that true? Joining us to discuss this and more is Dr. Oni Blackstock, a primary care and HIV physician, founder and Executive Director of Health Justice, and former Assistant Commissioner at the New York City Health Department as well as Justin Feldman, an epidemiologist and research fellow at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.
Tue, December 21, 2021
Build Back Worser With Briahna Joy Gray & David Dayen
Full chat with Briahna Joy Gray is here (https://www.patreon.com/posts/briahna-joy-gray-60142671) Bad Faith podcast host & Bernie Sanders' former press secretary Briahna Joy Gray responds to the Build Back Better debacle. what it means about Biden, and the really awkward moment when Charlamagne Tha God asked Kamala Harris if Joe Biden or Joe Manchin was the President. Then journalist and editor of The American Prospect David Dayen breaks down all things Build Back Better like only he can.
Fri, December 17, 2021
Lucy Lawless, Cornel West & Steven Donziger: Free Assange, Free Donziger
Cornel West talks about the persecution of Julian Assange. Then Lucy Lawless and Steven Donziger talks about Chevron's poisoning the Ecuadorian Amazon and the case against Donziger and Dr. West sits in and listens.
Mon, December 13, 2021
Free Assange Protest with Roger Waters & Randy Credico
Roger Waters and Randy Credico respond to the Assange verdict and talk about what's next, including the protest they're attending Monday December 13 at noon at The British Consulate at 885 2nd Ave
Sun, December 12, 2021
Krystal Ball, Briahna Joy Gray, Marianne Williamson + more! Free Donziger
Katie Halper, Krystal Ball, Marianne Williamson & Briahna Joy Gray join forces to host a livestream to free Steven Donziger, the human rights and environmentalist lawyer serving a six month prison sentence for successfully suing Chevron for poisoning the water in the Ecuadorian Amazon. We're joined by special guests including Susan Sarandon, Chris Hedges, Richard Wolff, Roger Waters, Lucy Lawless (XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS!), David Sirota, Kyle Kulinski, Nina Turner, Paul Paz y Miño, Alli Jarrar, attorneys Ron Kooby, Marty, Martin Garbus and Natali Segovia and more!
Thu, December 02, 2021
Who Is Ghislaine Maxwell W/ Kim Iverson & Garland Nixon
Patreon only ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59449701 Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? And what has the trial against her revealed so far about her & her partner in literal crime Jeffrey Epstein? And what are their connections to "The Intelligence Community"? Kim Iversen, the host of the Kim Iversen Show and Garland Nixon a former police officer and criminal justice teacher turned political analyst & radio show host join the show to share their thoughts. Plus Katie shares how she got the first woman elected president of Honduras, the sleazeballs who went to, taught at and directed her alma mater and Katie Halper Show Merch!
Thu, November 25, 2021
“We Have Our Own A**holes” with Ryan McMahon
Ryan McMahon is a writer, documentarian, funny comedian, and serious host of the podcast Thunder Bay, which explores the systemic racism, human trafficking, extortion, corruption, police misconduct, clowns, hate crimes and the mysterious deaths of first nation youth in Thunder Bay, Canada. He talks about comedy, culture, history, Thanksgiving in Canada vs. Thanksgiving in the United States and more.
Mon, November 15, 2021
Greenwashing Climate Change With Indigenous Leader Mindahi Bastida
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 member of the Alliance Guardians of Mother Earth and a spokesperson of the recently created Grand Council of the Eagle and the Condor. He is also the General Coordinator of the Otomi Regional Council of the High Lerma River Basin, Mexico, that promotes the rights of nature and Mother Earth as well as the rights to self- determination of original nations. Mindahi holds a PhD in rural development from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and his scholarship addresses subjects such as the state and Indigenous Peoples, intercultural education, collective intellectual property rights and traditional knowledge, sacred sites, and saving Mother Earth.
Sun, November 07, 2021
Virginia's Culture Wars With Virginians YB & Leslie Lee
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 Virginia education system and is the host of the podcast This Is A True Story (https://thisisatruestory.show/). Leslie Lee is the host of the podcast Struggle Session (https://www.patreon.com/strugglesession/).
Fri, October 29, 2021
Alec Baldwin Shooting 'NOT a Freak Accident' With Alex Press & Jonah Furman
(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 Jacobin Magazine, whose latest article is "Halyna Hutchins’s Death on the Set of Rust Was 'Not a Freak Accident'."Jonah Furman is a labor movement organizer and writer for Labor Notes (https://twitter.com/labornotes), the media and organizing project that since 1979 has amplified the voice of workers and labor militants. He is also a frequent contributor to The Intercept.
Fri, October 22, 2021
Cowardly Colin Powell With Iraqi Journalist Ahmed Twaij
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. His work focuses on US politics, social justice issues and the Middle East. He zealously tells stories as a means to promote equality, as well as holding those in power to account. His work has taken him across the US, UK, Europe and the Middle East. Ahmed is also passionate about photography and filmmaking and has previously worked with a number of international humanitarian and human rights organizations. He is currently working as a director of an, as yet, undisclosed feature length documentary produced by multiple Oscar winning John Battsek. He is also developing a podcast series on Racism in the Arab World. After initially graduating as a medical doctor from Imperial College London in 2012, Ahmed found his passion in storytelling and became a self-taught journalist. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in Medical Humanities. After working as a doctor in London for a number of years, Ahmed began volunteering abroad, namely helping with the refugee crisis across Europe, where he developed his desire for storytelling. This passion drove Ahmed to pursue a master’s degree in Conflict, Security and Development, with Global Health. Ahmed has also produced and directed a number of videos for which he has been nominated for awards, as well as podcasts. His photography has been featured in various exhibitions across the globe. Ahmed is a member of the Everyday Projects and is manager of everydayiraq, an online social media platform dedicated to shedding light on the daily life of Iraqis and providing a new narrative for the nation. The project has been featured by numerous international outlets, including BBC and Metro.
Fri, October 15, 2021
Military Sexual Assault WhistleBlowers with Amy Franck, Amber Fitzwater & Rich McHugh
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 deals, or doesn't deal, with the its endemic sexual assault problem. Amy Braley Franck began her career as a Department of the Army Civilian in July of 2013 as a Victim Advocate and has held the position of Sexual Assault Response Coordinator and Sexual Assault Program Manager for a 2- and 3-star Army Service Component Commands. Ms. Braley Franck has been identified on two separate occasions as a whistleblower for her actions to protect her clients. Ms. Braley Franck holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology and Business from the University of Maryland. Ms. Braley Franck is credentialed through NOVA D-SCAAP as Level IV Military Advocate. She is a certified Child Abuse Investigator and Nationally certified Forensic Interviewer, conducting interviews for local law enforcement, Army CID, FBI and Homeland Security and has been tendered an expert witness in Child Molestation and Abuse hearings. She has been recognized for her contributions and service to President Biden’s Independent Review Commission to implement the change needed to shift to a proactive prevention model throughout the DoD. She is the founder of non-profit Never Alone Advocacy (http://www.neveraloneadvocacy.org/). Amber Fitzwater is a sexual assault response coordinator with the Army and has worked in the SHARP program since 2013. She is a level IV advocate, a certified clinical trauma intervention specialist, and is currently enrolled at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology working on her PhD in international psychology. She has over 16,000 hours of advocacy and has provided training to law enforcement and prosecutors about the neurobiological effects of trauma and the impacts on victim's memory to assist them in working with victims of sexual assault when it comes to interviewing and questioning them at trial. Ms. Fitzwater is also a survivor of sexual assault while working with the Army, and is a member of Ms. Braley Franck's non profit "Never Alone advocacy." Rich McHugh is an investigative reporter and serves as a correspondent for NewsNation. Over the past year, McHugh has reported extensively on the issue of sexual assault in our military. Prior to NewsNation, McHugh spent over twenty years as a producer in network television news. He served as a Supervising Producer in the NBC News Investigative Unit, where he and correspondent Ronan Farrow spent a year investigating sexual misconduct allegations against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. After their investigation was shut down at NBC, it was was published in The New Yorker magazine and won the Pulitzer priz
Fri, October 08, 2021
Free Donziger With Chris Hedges, Marianne Williamson & Steven Donziger
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 Ecuadorian Amazon. Steven, along with outspoken ally and activist in her own right Marianne Williamson join the show.
Fri, October 01, 2021
Michael Moore, Max Blumenthal, Jerome Foster & Alexandria Villaseñor
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.
Mon, September 27, 2021
Haiti, Imperialism & Vaccine Apartheid With Jemima Pierre & Reshma Ramachandran
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, discusses Haiti and what the media misses.
Sat, September 18, 2021
Former CIA Analyst John Kiriakou on Declassified 9/11 Documents
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 the hell it says. The report was declassified by Biden. John Kiriakou (https://twitter.com/JohnKiriakou) is a former CIA analyst and case officer, and counterterrorism consultant. Upon leaving the CIA, Kiriakou was the first whistleblower to reveal the torture policy practiced by the US government. While employed by the CIA he was involved in critical counterterrorism missions following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He refused to be trained in “enhanced interrogation techniques” and never authorized or engaged in these, however he is the only person to have served prison time for revealing that there was a torture program. He was the 6th whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act, a law that was supposed to punish spies not whistleblowers.
Sat, September 11, 2021
Big Pharma Is Bad, Vaccine Is Good, Jimmy Kimmel Is Unethical With Dr. Adam Gaffney
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 Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on healthcare financing, reform, and equity, and disparities in lung health. He writes about the policy, politics, and history of health care. He is the immediate past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, a non-profit organization that advocates for Medicare-for-All healthcare reform. He is on twitter @awgaffney.
Wed, September 08, 2021
Could The Anti-Slavery Amendment Protect Abortion w/ Sam Moyne, Justice Emily Jane Goodman + More
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 and Ralph Nader.
Sun, August 29, 2021
The Militarized Media Coverage Of Afghanistan With Vet & Nobel Peace Prize Nom
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. Kathy Kelly, a peace activist and author, made over two dozen trips to Afghanistan from 2010 – 2019, living with Afghan Peace Volunteers in a working class neighborhood in Kabul. She and her companions in various peace team delegations believe that where you stand determines what you see. Kelly lived with families in Baghdad throughout the 2003 Shock and Awe invasion and during the first weeks of the U.S. occupation. Kelly is now campaigning for an international treaty to ban weaponized drones. Danny Sjursen is an anti-war veteran; the director of @mediaeisenhower (EMN); Senior Fellow at @CIPolicy; contributing editor at @Antiwarcom. He was recently selected as the 2019 Lannan Foundation cultural freedom fellow. He is the author of a memoir and critical analysis of the Iraq War, Ghostriders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge; Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War; and A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism He is a member of several activist organizations, including Veterans for Peace and About Face: Veterans against the War. Follow him on Twitter at @SkepticalVet.
Fri, August 20, 2021
'Impeach Cuomo' With NY Assemblyman Ron Kim Who Cuomo Threatened to 'Destroy'
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 landing," and demands transparency about the nursing homes scandal from Cuomo's replacement. Plus https://twitter.com/PramillaSMalick on Cuomo's connections to a shady power plant & https://twitter.com/jackAMtheShow on the corporate cooptation of #MeToo.
Fri, August 13, 2021
Tara Reade On Cuomo, Biden & #MeToo
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/AvalonClare)on why she started We Believe Tara Reade & journalist Kevin Gosztola (https://twitter.com/kgosztola)on the latest in Julia Assange's case.
Fri, August 06, 2021
Cuomo's Corruption W/ Actor James Cromwell & Activists Alexandria Villaseñor & Pramilla Malick
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 Cuomo's corruption, climate change, capitalism and share a hot take on Michael Moore-produced doc "Planet of the Humans." Plus Leslie & Katie talk about Nina Turner, Don Lemon, Jim Clyburn & Al Sharpton. Alexandria Villaseñor - Her organization is Earth Uprising and the Twitter and Instagram is @Earth_Uprising The link to her non-profit organization which supports youth-led climate education is: http://www.EarthUprising.org Pramilla Malick: www.protectorangecounty.org https://www.facebook.com/protectorang... Pramilla and Jamie are asking for an investigation into the corruption of the CPV power plant and for the plant's permits to be revoked. its at tinyurl.com/BuiltOnBribes and use Pramilla's handle; twitter.com/pramillasmalick
Mon, August 02, 2021
Dems Let #EvictionMoratorium Expire With Sam Stein, Amye Cutlip & Paul Williams
#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 the author of "Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (https://www.shapeofthecity.blogspot.c... Amye Cutlip is an independent data journalist and a housing rights advocate; Maebe A. Girl (https://twitter.com/Maebe_A_Girl) is a U.S. House Candidate, Paul Williams is a fellow at Jain Family institute, grad student in John Jay masters program in economics (https://twitter.comJJayEcon); Rebecca Parson (https://twitter.com/RebeccaforWA) is a housing organizer, formerly homeless, and a candidate for Congress in Washington‘s 6th District. She’s running against the 13th most conservative Democrat in the House and has been endorsed by Brand New Congress.
Fri, July 30, 2021
Who Killed Haiti's President? With Kevin Pina
Who Killed Haiti's President? With Kevin Pina by Katie Halper
Tue, July 27, 2021
A Moral Resurrection With Reverend William Barber
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 filibuster, passage of the full For the People Act, and complete restoration of the Voting Rights Act. The group is also urging passage of a minimum living wage of $15 per hour. The Poor People’s campaign and partners will begin the Texas events with meetings with Democratic and Republican legislators on June 26, before engaging in a 27-mile trek from Georgetown to Austin, Texas, July 27 through July 30. As Democratic legislators in Texas fled the state in search of federal assistance pushing back on anti-voting measures there, the Rev. Liz Theoharis and the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II are organizing a march involving members of the Poor People’s Campaign, including clergy, religious and moral leaders, who earlier called for a season of nonviolent direct action in support of voting rights, a $15 minimum wage, and an end to the filibuster. “It is a mistake to think that racism only impacts Black people,” said the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. “It impacts us all and the collective impact necessitates a collective response.” Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) is the president of Repairers of the Breach, a co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and the author of “We Are Called to Be a Movement.”
Sat, July 24, 2021
Medicare For All March + Lee Camp & Tara Reade!
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.
Mon, July 19, 2021
The War On Cuba W/ Actual Cuban Journalist Liz Oliva Fernández & Cuba-based U.S. Journo Reed Lindsay
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 project Belly Of The Beast Twitter: twitter.com/bellybeastcuba Instagram: isntagram.com/bellyofthebeastcuba Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bellyofthebeastcuba
Fri, July 09, 2021
Julian Assange's Fiancée Blasts Media Silence & Political Cowardice
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 of press has already been harmed by the treatment of Assange. Of course, it will only get worse unless and until he is finally free. The United Kingdom’s High Court has granted the Biden administration the right to appeal a lower court’s ruling which blocked the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States.
Wed, June 30, 2021
#RIP Mike Gravel W/ Dan Ellsberg & Gravel's Daughter
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 honor his memory by challenging political cowardice. Gravel's daughter Lynne Mosier shares her memories, talks about what was important to her father and calls out The New York Times for disrespecting him in an obit written by someone who died in 2018. Ellsberg warns, "we humans won't get through this nuclear era, this era of climate change without a lot more moral courage of the kind that is extremely rare and that Mike Ravel showed."
Mon, June 28, 2021
'Histories Of The Transgender Child' with Jules Gils Peterson
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 writing can be found in places like The New York Times, The Guardian, and more. Find out more about Jules at https://www.jgillpeterson.com/, follow her on twitter at twitter.com/gp_jls and check out her substack Sad Brown Girl https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/ .
Fri, June 18, 2021
Aaron Mate vs The Young Turks
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 for dictators & denying the murder of children, went on to do a segment on the Syrian elections: "They will claim to be anti us intervention, they'll claim to be leftist while simultaneously, in the case of this segment, omitting any of the most minimal facts about us intervention, the ten-year dirty war launched by the CIA, the occupying one third of the country, and the murderous sanctions that prevent it from rebuilding. Imagine doing a segment about Syria right now, claiming that you're against intervention and not being able to name or acknowledge the most basic facts about the ongoing U.S. intervention that is making Syrians' lives miserable. And then proceeding to advance all of the current talking points that are being used to justify U.S. intervention. It's this cowardly thing of not wanting to own your actual position, which is simply 'I'm going to be a useful idiot for imperialism' and do exactly what the rest of the established media is doing to the extent that it's talking about Syria at all and parrot all the talking points.
Fri, June 04, 2021
Chevron's Poison w/ With Roger Waters & Steve Donziger
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 under house arrest for over 650 days in a case Manhattan's prosecutor declined to prosecute. Instead, the judge had to appoint a corporate firm with Chevron ties to prosecute Donziger.
Mon, May 24, 2021
Natenyahu's Wife's Dirty Laundry w/Jim Zogby
Patreon only: Max Blumenthal on experiencing more antisemitism in Israel from Israeli Jews than anywhere else & the idiocy of Debra Messing. https://www.patreon.com/posts/51641714 Katie & Leslie talk pop culture, the death of Kentaro Miura, trolls, and Leslie's past cold weather naivety. Then, Arab-American Institute (https://twitter.com/AAIUSA) founder Jim Zogby (https://twitter.com/jjz1600) reflects on the state of affairs in Israel Palestine, the shift in the US political status quo, Netanyahu’s corruption trial, his wife's dirty laundry, how we got here & what’s next. Max Blumenthal also drops by to provide his take, as well as agree to be made aware of the dumpster fire that keeps on giving that is Debra Messing, which you can check out in full at Patreon.
Tue, May 18, 2021
Debunking Pro-Israel Propaganda With Noura Erakat & Yumna Patel
Yumna Patel (https://mondoweiss.net/author/yumnapatel/) joins the show live from Bethlehem where she reports on the Occupation and talks about the facts on the ground, debunks some talking points and shares what it's like to be a journalist in a state that bombs AP buildings. Then Palestinian human rights attorney, author and writer Noura Erakat (http://www.nouraerakat.com/) talks about Palestinian resistance, solidarity, the death of her cousin and reads the names of her friend's family members who were killed by the IDF this weekend.
Wed, May 12, 2021
"Israel Is A Lunatic State" With Norman Finkelstein
Political scientist, prolific author, son of Holocaust survivors and fearless critic of Israel Norman Finkelstein joins Katie Halper for a livestreamed discussion about Israel's attacks on Palestinians, the significance of the reports on its apartheid state by Human Rights Watch and Israel's own human rights organization B'Tselem, why he thinks Israel may be at a turning point and overplayed its hand, and why it's a lunatic state. Finkelstein is the author of 11 books, including Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Human Suffering and Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel Is Coming to an End. http://normanfinkelstein.com/
Sun, May 02, 2021
Adolph Reed on Black Lives Matter, Kshama Sawant On Vaccine Imperialism & Kate Willett
Extended Reed interview here (https://www.patreon.com/posts/51203261) Seattle City Council woman Kshama Sawant (https://www.kshamasolidarity.org/) talks about her resolution calling on the Biden administration to support patent waivers for U.S.-produced vaccines that would allow facilities in other countries to begin manufacturing generic vaccines based on Pfizer and Moderna's formulas. Sawant also discusses the Right Wing recall campaign being launched against her. Dr. Adolph Reed, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, political scientist, and editor of Nonsite (https://nonsite.org/), talks about identity politics, the NGO-ization of Black Lives Matter, and the state of The Left. Reed is the author of "Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene," "W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line," "The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics," "Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era." Sawant has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. She is a member of the political party Socialist Alternative. Her most recent re-election campaign was in 2019 in which Amazon spent an unprecedented $1.5m to defeat her. She has been a consistent advocate of raising taxes on the wealthy, expanding city services for the city’s workers and for environmental rights and Palestinian human rights. She is facing a right wing recall in retaliation for spearheading victories like $15 minimum wage and the Amazon Tax and supporting Black Lives Matter.
Thu, April 29, 2021
Biden's "Rebranding" of The War On Yemen With Shireen Al-Adeimi
SHIREEN AL-ADEIMI explains that Joe Biden didn't end the war in Yemen. He's merely rebranded it. Shireen Al-Adeimi (https://twitter.com/shireen818) is an assistant professor of education at Michigan State University. Since 2015, she has played an active role in raising awareness about the Saudi-led war on her country of birth, Yemen, and works to encourage political action to end U.S. support.
Tue, April 13, 2021
Why Abby Martin is 'almost a free speech absolutist' & suing Georgia Over Israel Loyalty Oath
Journalist, filmmaker (https://gazafightsforfreedom.com/) and Empire Files (https://twitter.com/EmpireFiles) host Abby Martin (https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin) refused to sign a pro-Israel pledge which promised to not participate or advocate the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. She was asked to sign the oath in January, 2020 when she was set to deliver a keynote speech at Georgia Southern University. When she refused, her talk was canceled. In February, 2020 Martin, together with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF), filed a federal free-speech lawsuit against the University System of Georgia, for the “unconstitutionality” of its decision. The law suit reads that, "The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia... conditioned an invitation to speak at an academic conference on the Plaintiff agreeing in writing to abandon her First Amendment-protected journalism about and political advocacy for the rights of Palestinians. The Complaint alleges violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983." Abby talks about the status of her lawsuit, the media landscape, censorship, free speech and covering taboo subjects including, but not limited to, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Fri, April 09, 2021
Pathologizing South American Democracy w/ Camila Escalante & Ollie Vargas + Esperanza Fonseca
Bolivia-based Journalists Ollie Vargas and Camila Escalante push back against the lies spread by Western media and The State Department. Then labor organizer and TwinkRev contributing editor Esperanza Fonseca talks about capitalism, feminism and imperialism. Camila Escalante is the co-founder of Kawsachun News (https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews) in Bolivia and known for her reporting on TeleSUR. Ollie Vargas (https://twitter.com/OVargas52) is a Bolivian journalist and writer. He has contributed to teleSUR, Morning Star, and other media outlets and is part of Kawsachun News. Esperanza Fonseca (https://twitter.com/endclasssociety) is a member of the anti-imperialist feminist organization AF3IRM, contributing editor to the LGBTQ Marxist magazine TwinkRev, and a labor organizer.
Tue, March 30, 2021
Amazon Workers Have Already Changed History W/ Chris Smalls & Alex Press
Chris Smalls, who was fired by Amazon for protesting their abusive practices, & labor reporter Alex Press talk about the historic vote to unionize the amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. Chris Small was fired by Amazon for organizing a walkout to protest the way they were subjecting their worker to COVID-19. He is the founder of The Congress Of Essential Workers (https://twitter.com/TCOEW. Alex Press (https://twitter.com/alexnpress)Alex Press is a staff writer at Jacobin (https://twitter.com@jacobinmag), whose writing has appeared in the Washington Post , The New Republic, The Nation and more.
Tue, March 09, 2021
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
Celebrate International Women's Day with The Katie Halper Show and more importantly, Kristen R. Ghodsee, author "Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence." (https://kristenghodsee.com/) Ghodsee is a professor of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the author of nine books on European Communism and its aftermath, including, “Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th-Century Communism." She is also the host of the podcast A.K. 47 - 47 Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai. (https://kristenghodsee.com/podcast)
Sat, March 06, 2021
Why Biden Bombed Syria With Rania Khalek
Journalist Rania Khalek (https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek) breaks down why Biden bombed Syria, what any of this has to do with Iran, and Iraq, what life is like in Lebanon, where she lives, and how and why her views on Syria and the Middle East in general have changed.
Sat, February 27, 2021
Fired By Neera Tanden With Matt Bruenig
Today we welcome back to the program Matt Bruenig. Matt is an American lawyer, blogger, policy analyst, commentator, and founder of the left-wing think tank people's Policy Project. He was a blogger for the American think tank Demos covering politics and public policy — and has written on issues including income distribution, taxation, welfare, elections, and Scandinavian economic models.
Tue, February 23, 2021
Israel Is Wrong & SNL Is Right with Ali Abunimah
Ali Abunimah (https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah) explains why SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's now infamous joke delivered by Michael Che about Israel's vaccination program is actually funny: because it's basically true. Medical Apartheid is always a knee slapper. Ali Abunimah is the founder of Electronic Intifada (https://electronicintifada.net/) and the author of "The Battle for Justice in Palestine" and "One Country: A Bold-Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse." (https://twitter.com/intifada) ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Sat, February 20, 2021
Exposing Cuomo’s Crimes With David Sirota And Ron Kim
Assemblyman Ron Kim talks (https://twitter.com/rontkim) about being threatened by Governor Andrew Cuomo for telling the truth about his administration's coverup of nursing home deaths. (https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Ron-Kim) David Sirota (https://twitter.com/davidsirota) talks about his own journalism on Cuomo.
Tue, February 16, 2021
Lincoln Project Sex Scandal & Cover Up With Reporter Ryan Girdusky
Reporter Ryan Girdusky (https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky) explains how and why he broke the story about The Lincoln Project's Sexual Abuse Scandal and coverup and the roles played by John Weaver, George Conway, Rick Wilson, and Steve Schmidt.
Sun, February 14, 2021
Fired By The Guardian Over Israel Tweets w/ Nathan Robinson
The Guardian fired its own columnist Nathan Robinson (https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson) over his totally inoffensive tweets about the special relationship between the governments of Israel and the United States, which both governments acknowledge and praise. Nathan (http://nathanjrobinson.com), Editor of @CurAffairs (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/0...) talks about his experience and if he feels the same way about "cancel culture" as he did before. He will then be judged by Katie and her council of two Bens, Ben Burgis (https://twitter.com/BenBurgis) & Ben Spielberg (https://twitter.com/BenSpielberg). Thursday-night co-host Leslie Lee (https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii) renders his own verdict as well. Ben Spielberg will also talk about Neera Tanden and Jared Bernstein, his colleague, as well as other wonky things. And Ben Burgis will talk about some nerdy theory things.
Wed, February 03, 2021
How Biden Ended Racism w/ Justin Jackson & Margaret Kimberley
LA Charger and activist Justin Jackson (https://twitter.com/J_ManPrime21) and @blkagendareport Editor and Senior Columnist and Author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents (http://bit.ly/359cvPH) Margaret Kimberley (https://twitter.com/freedomrideblog) explain how Biden ended racism and saved The Republic and we can all go back to brunching.
Thu, January 28, 2021
Impeachment, Death Threats & Neoliberal Rot W/ Kshama Sawant & Corey Robin
Kshama Sawant has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. She is a member of the political party Socialist Alternative. Her most recent re-election campaign was in 2019 in which Amazon spent an unprecedented $1.5m to defeat her. She has been a consistent advocate of raising taxes on the wealthy, expanding city services for the city’s workers and for environmental rights and Palestinian human rights. She is facing a right wing recall in retaliation for spearheading victories like $15 minimum wage and the Amazon Tax and supporting Black Lives Matter. Corey Robin (https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin) talks about impeachment, The Democrats, Barack Obama, "ongoing neoliberal rot," why Margaret Thatcher said her greatest achievement was Tony Blair and what that means for us today. is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, a journalist, a political theorist, a writer and an author of several political books, including The Reactionary Mind.
Mon, January 18, 2021
Exposing A Fake "Left Wing #BLM Activist" At Capitol Riot w/ Max Blumenthal
PATREON ONLY EP https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/3/eyJhIjoxLCJwIjoxfQ%3D%3D/patreon-media/p/post/46557272/4663c612c16248a5858d987444e8ea8d/1.mp3?token-time=1611464766&token-hash=CUQ87Ayg9IjVCa-kJiEVy-AVuUdxUGSmrlA0DhTivPs%3D A man named Jonathan Sullivan appeared on The Katie Halper Show last week after appearing on Anderson Cooper to talk about the storming of the Capitol and the fatal shooting of one of the rioters, which he not only witnessed but filmed. Sullivan presented himself to Cooper, The Washington Post, Chris Hayes, Katie and more as a "Civil Rights Activist," Black Lives Matter supporter, who was documenting the riot and trying to diffuse the situation. In fact, Katie was introduced to Sullivan by another guest on the show, filmmaker Dan Cohen, who arrived at the Capitol right after the shooting. During the show, Katie realized Sullivan wasn't exactly what he presented himself as to Cohen and others. One of the people she shared her concerns with was journalist and frequent guest Max Blumenthal (https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal), who was also covering the Capitol breach. Katie and Max reviewed the footage that Sullivan released later and discovered it contradicted what he said to Katie on the show. Max then took a deep dive into the bizarre story of John Sullivan, aka JaydenX, aka Activist John, interviewing not only John, but his brother, the woman making a documentary about them and actual Black Lives Matters activists who have tried to warn people that Sullivan is an instigator who puts the movement and people's lives at risk. Read Max's piece at The Grayzone (https://twitter.com/TheGrayzoneNews) here (https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/12/ch...) ***Please support The Katie Halper Show*** On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpe... Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps
Fri, January 15, 2021
Is Trumpism Fascism? Debate w/ Jason Stanley, Jodi Dean, Sam Moyn, Daniel Bessner, Eugene Puryear
Is Trump a fascist? Has he unleashed fascism? Was July 6 a coup? A failed coup? Never going to be a coup? Do these labels matter? To answer that question, Katie will chat with an amazing round table consisting of: philosopher Jason Stanley; historian and law professor Samuel Moyn; political scientist Jodi Dean; historian Daniel Bessner; and journalist Eugene Puryear. Jason Stanley (https://twitter.com/jasonintrator) is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University whose latest book is "How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them." He's a contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Review, The Guardian, Project Syndicate and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Jodi Dean (https://twitter.com/Jodi7768) is a political theorist who teaches political, feminist, and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited thirteen books, including The Communist Horizon, Crowds and Party, Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging. Samuel Moyn (https://twitter.com/samuelmoyn), is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at and Professor of History at Yale University. His latest books are "Christian Human Rights" and "Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World." Daniel Bessner is a historian, non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Contributing Editor at Jacobin, and the author of "Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual" and is co-editor of "The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science, and Democracy in the 20th century" Eugene Puryear (https://twitter.com/EugenePuryear) is the host for Break Through News (https://twitter.com/btnewsroom) and The Punchout podcast; a member of the PSL Party For Socialism and Liberation (https://twitter.com/pslweb) and the author of "Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America."
Tue, January 12, 2021
Kyle Kulinski On The Squad, Zephyr Teachout, Shahid Buttar & Evan Greer on Big Tech
Should Democrats prioritize impeaching Trump? Should Twitter have removed Trump? If so, when? Will there be a bipartisan expansion of the Surveillance State? Will it mirror what we saw after 9/11? Guests Kyle Kulinski, Zephyr Teachout, Shahid Buttar & Evan Greer will tackle these and other questions. Kyle Kulinski (https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski) is the host of The Kyle Kulinski Show and the co-host of Krystal Kyle & Friends. Shahid Buttar (https://twitter.com/ShahidForChange) is a congressional candidate, Constitutional attorney, activist, and organizer Shahid Buttar (https://twitter.com/ShahidForChange) (https://shahidforchange.us/), ran against Nancy Pelosi in CA-12 in 2020, and will challenge her again in 2022. Evan Greer (https://twitter.com/evan_greer) is an activist singer/songwriter, parent, and she is an organizer based in Boston. Zephyr Teachout (https://twitter.com/ZephyrTeachout) is a Fordham Law professor and the author of “Break 'em Up” (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200891).
Thu, November 26, 2020
Happy ThanksTaking With Dallas Goldtooth
Dallas Goldtooth (https://twitter.com/dallasgoldtooth), poet, journalist, traditional artist, powwow emcee, comedian, and activist joins the show tonight! Dallas is the Keep It In the Ground campaign organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network (https://twitter.com/IENearth) (https://linktr.ee/IndigenousRisingMedia). Keep It In the Ground is an anti-fossil fuel activism campaign, and while Dallas makes sure that this very serious work is taken care of, he’s also a member of The 1491s (http://www.1491s.com/).
Sun, November 15, 2020
F*ck Pollsters & Neoliberalism with Adolph Reed & Jane McAlevey
Dr. Adolph Reed, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, political scientist, and editor of Nonsite (https://nonsite.org/) and Jane McAlevey (https://twitter.com/rsgexp), organizer, author, and scholar join the show to talk about neoliberalism, identity politics, labor, the election, what happened, what's happening, and what needs to happen. Anders Lee guest co-hosts!(https://twitter.com/andersleehere). Adolph Reed writes about and works around racial and economic inequality; American and African-American politics and political thought; urban politics, and American political development. Jane McAlevey (https://janemcalevey.com/) is currently a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s Labor Center, part of the Institute for Labor & Employment Relations. Her third book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, argues that despite, if not because of, the withering attacks on working people from the US Supreme Court, conservative state and local governments, and the corporate class, the survival of American democracy depends on rebuilding unions. Her first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by Verso Press, was named the “most valuable book of 2012” by The Nation Magazine. Her second book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, published by Oxford University Press, was released late in 2016. From 2010-2015, she earned a Ph.D., followed by a two-year Post Doc at the Harvard University Law School. She is a regular commentator on radio and TV.
Tue, November 10, 2020
Can Biden Move Left? With Chuck Rocha & Linda Sarsour
Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-Muslim-American organizer and a surrogate for the Sanders Campaign and Chuck Rocha, Bernie 2020 Senior advisor and author of 'Tio Bernie,' talk about the successes and failures of getting out the Muslim and Latino Vote. Linda explains that it was the progressive movement, not the neoliberals patting themselves on the back, who defeated Trump. Chuck Rocha (https://twitter.com/ChuckRocha) was a Bernie 2020 Senior advisor, is the author Tio Bernie, president of Solidarity Strategies and a contributor to The New York Times, MSNBC, The Hill and CNN. Linda Sarsour (https://twitter.com/lsarsour) is the co-founder of Until Freedom (https://twitter.com/untilfreedom) and was co-chair of the 2019 Women's March. She is also a former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and the co-founder and executive director of MPower Change (https://www.mpowerchange.org/) the first Muslim online organizing platform.Please support The Katie Halper Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow
Tue, November 03, 2020
2020 Debate w/ Aaron Mate,Aaron Mate, Rania Khalek, Omar Baddar, Benjamin Studebaker, Eugene Puryear
DEBATE ON ELECTIONS!!! With: Aaron Maté, Rania Khalek, Eugene Puryear, Omar Baddar, and Benjamin Studebaker.
Sun, November 01, 2020
Noam Chomsky: Vote For But Beware Of Biden
THE Noam Chomsky makes the case for voting for Biden but also warns against letting him off the hook the way The Left did with Obama. Plus his thoughts on China, Iran, and cancel culture.
Tue, October 27, 2020
Defeating Christo Fascists in Bolivia & The US W/ Ollie Vargas & Joshua Kahn Russell
Ollie Vargas (https://twitter.com/OVargas52), a Bolivian journalist with @KawsachunCoca @KawsachunNews talks about Bolivia's presidential election where Evo Morales' hand-picked candidate, Luis Arce, defeated Jeanine Añez, a right wing racist who came to power during a coup which illegally removed Morales. Organizer Joshua Kahn Russell, the Executive Director of The Wildfire Project, and facilitator with the Ruckus Society, talks about Choose Democracy, an effort to organize regular people to stop the 2020 election from being stolen. (https://choosedemocracy.us/)
Fri, October 23, 2020
The Insurgents with Cori Bush, Paula Jean Swearengin, & Ro Khanna
Paula Jean Swearengin (https://twitter.com/paulajean2020)is a coal miner's daughter, granddaughter, niece and step daughter who won the Democratic primary and is running for Senate in West Virginia. (https://paulajean.com/) Cori Bush (https://twitter.com/CoriBush) is a nurse, minister, activist who unseated a twenty-year incumbent Rep. William Lacy Clay in a Missouri Democratic primary and is now the Democratic nominee for Missouri's 1st congressional district. (https://coribush.org/) Rep. Ro Khanna (https://twitter.com/RepRoKhanna) has represented California's 17th congressional district since 2017 and was the national co-chair of Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign. (https://khanna.house.gov/)
Tue, October 13, 2020
Right Wing Extremism w/ Ken Klippenstein & Steven Reisner
Patreon only ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42723956 Journalist Ken Klippenstein (https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein) and psychologist Steven Reisner (https://twitter.com/Drreisner) talk about white supremacist groups, Trump, the elections and more.
Sun, October 04, 2020
How Trump Could Benefit from Covid + War in Armenia with James Adomian & Victor Pougy
Comedic genius James Adomian will come on the show to talk about Trump, Covid, how we may be on the brink of war not just here but also in a place the media is totally ignoring: Armenia. Brazilian journalist VIctor Pougy on having a Covid-19 positive president and how Trump could easily use this to his advantage like Bolsonaro did. For more on Armenia and how to help, check out https://www.armeniafund.org, http://anca.org/alert, https://zartonkmedia.com.
Wed, September 30, 2020
The Roots of Settler Colonialism with Historian Eugene Horne
Historian Gerald Horne (https://www.uh.edu/class/history/facu...) talks about his latest book, of which he's written over three dozen, "The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century" (https://monthlyreview.org/product/the...) Along the way, we discuss racism, class-consciousness, Trumpism, 2020, The Supreme Court and the creation of White Supremacy.
Sat, September 19, 2020
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Death Means w/ Law Prof Samuel Moyn
Excellent Patreon-only ep https://www.patreon.com/posts/41941054 warning against calling Trump a fascist, Trump-washing & making war more 'humane.' Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Prof. of Jurisprudence and Prof. of History, Yale, talks to me about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy, her decision not to retire earlier, what her death means for the country, the election, and world, and why we need to rethink and reshape and pack the Supreme Court.
Fri, September 18, 2020
Teaser: What Will Happen if Trump Sits Through Hamilton
Full Ep https://www.patreon.com/posts/41749767 Struggle Session's Leslie Lee & Jack Allison talk to me about what will happen if Trump sits through Hamilton, why McCain should be canceled and Liam Neeson should be uncanceled and how Trump is kinda right about the military
Fri, September 11, 2020
12 Step American Collapse Program with Revolutions podcast host Mike Duncan
Special livestream with Mike on Sunday at noon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA1sJg5Jp1w Mike Duncan, host of the Revolutions and HIstory of Rome podcasts talks to me about how and why he think America is on the verge of collapse or revolution or something in between.
Wed, September 09, 2020
Dad Jokes & collateral education with Qasim Rashid
Qasim Rashid https://rashidforva.com/ an activist, author, human rights lawyer & dad joke maven talks about running for congress, reaching out to enemies, collateral education and why he's running.
Fri, September 04, 2020
The Media's War on Alex Morse with Eoin Higgins
The Media's War on Alex Morse with Eoin Higgins by Katie Halper
Mon, August 31, 2020
Alex Morse & Ihssane Leckey vs. the Masshole Establishment
Alex Morse & Ihssane Leckey vs. the Masshole Establishment by Katie Halper
Thu, August 20, 2020
Responding to DNC's Typical, Vapid, Empty Rhetoric with Malaika Jabali & Ben Burgis
https://youtu.be/Bb5tMUYQMps Join me and Matt Taibbi Thursday night to watch the DNC Live and play Matt's drinking game. Malaika Jabali and Ben Burgis respond to the "typical, vapid, empty rhetoric of the DNC and Kamala Harris, in particular. Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Check out Malaika at https://twitter.com/MalaikaJabali and her teach-in here bit.ly/3ecdpiD Check out Ben at https://twitter.com/BenBurgis
Sun, August 09, 2020
Beirut, Chuck Todd & "RUSSIAN-STATE CONTROLLED MEDIA" with Rania Khalek
Rania on actual cancel culture, sleep, and makeup. https://www.patreon.com/posts/40278657 Rania Khalek talks about Beirut, why Facebook is labeling her work "Russian-State-Controlled Media," why the company she works for is suing them.
Tue, August 04, 2020
Briahna Joy Gray Defends Litmus Tests, Eva Putzova for Congress, Brent Welder Against Corruption
Eva Putzova for Congress (https://twitter.com/EvaPutzova), Briahna Joy Grey (https://twitter.com/briebriejoy) for litmus tests, Brent Welder (https://twitter.com/BrentWelder)on trying to save the DNC from itself.
Fri, July 31, 2020
Nina †urner, Marianne WIlliamson & Tim Black on 2020, Aaron Mate on Syria
To hear Aaron Maté on #BountyGate & #CheneyGate, Marianne Williamson on Marx, & Nomiki Konst on the DNC suckage, go to Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/40021342
Fri, July 24, 2020
Michael Brooks' podcast host remembers him with Nando Vila And Daniel Bessner
Please support the Katie Halper Show at https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Nando Vila and Daniel Bessner talk about Michael Brooks, his political theory, his legacy and his friendship. Then Teen Vogue's Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Historicly's Esha Krishnaswamy share their thoughts and memories.
Wed, July 22, 2020
Portland's Racist Roots & Current Protests w/ Sergio Olmos, Alex Zielinski, Tuck Woodstock
Journalist Sergio Olmos (https://twitter.com/mrolmos), Journalist and podcast host Tuck Woodstock (https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock) (https://twitter.com/Gendereveal), and "Portland Mercury"(https://twitter.com/portlandmercury) news editor Alex Zielinski (https://twitter.com/alex_zee) share their impressions from covering Portland's protests. Journalist Arun Gupta talks about the racist origins or Portland and why it's being used as a testing ground. Thumbnail from video courtesy of Zane Sparling (https://twitter.com/PDXzane) of the "Portland Tribune" (https://twitter.com/theportlandtrib).
Fri, July 17, 2020
Melba Pearson on Challenging DA who covered up boiling man to death + Ross Barkan & Jen Perelman
https://melbaformiami.com/ https://jen2020.com/ https://rossbarkan.substack.com/ Melba Pearson is challenging Katherine Rundle Fernandez, Miami-Dade's corrupt and craven State Attorney who the local Democratic has asked to step down over her failure to prosecute abusive police. In one infamous case Rundle Fernandez exonerated the prison guards who essentially boiled Darren Rainey, a Black schizophrenic inmate, to death by keeping him in a scalding shower for two hours. In another case, she refused to prosecute a police officer accused of sexual assault. Her office only interviewed one of his alleged survivors. Then I speak to Journalist Ross Barkan about why the media gives Andrew Cuomo such a free pass and congressional candidate Jen Perelman who is challenging Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Fri, July 10, 2020
Mondaire Jones, Chesa Boudine & Ali Abunimah on Corporate Dems, Police & Cancel Culture
Mondaire Jones, Chesa Boudine & Ali Abunimah on Corporate Dems, Police & Cancel Culture by Katie Halper
Tue, July 07, 2020
Arati Kreibich on primarying Trumpian Dem, Donna Imam on Vanilla Ice, Russ Cirincione on Joisey
Arati Kreibich on why she's running against Trump's favorite Democrat, Donna Imam on Covid and Vanilla Ice & Russ Cirincione on primarying a anti-medicare for all & anti-green new deal Dem. https://www.aratiforcongress.com/index.html https://votefordonna.com/ https://www.cirincione2020.com/
Fri, June 26, 2020
White Hawk Down: Ken Klippenstein & Julia Salazar on Eliot Engel
Recently re-elected State Senator Julia Salazar and journalist Ken Klippenstein talks about Jamal Bowman's defeat of congressman Eliot Engel. Nandi Vila and I talk about documented liar and Bernie-hater Joy Ann Reid is poised to replace lunatic and Bernie-hater Chris Matthews. Stand by for patreon-only chat with Ken Klippenstein on antifa and why nobody is talking about the right wing and neo Nazi violence.
Mon, June 22, 2020
The End of Policing with Isiah James, Pete Harrison & Alex Vitale
I chat with Alex VItale, author of The End of Policing and then we're joined by congressional candidates Isiah James and Pete Harrison Vote June 23! https://www.isiahforcongress.com/ https://www.peterfornewyork.com/ http://www.alex-vitale.info/
Fri, June 12, 2020
"The only people responsible for police violence are the police" with Samelys López & Asad Haider
Samelys López talks why she's running for congress, how her experience with child homelessness has shaped her platform, the kind of music her neighbors are playing in the background during our interview, the corporate centrist democrats she's challenging in the primary and her humanist anti-imperialist foreign policy. Asad Haider talks about police violence, the Sanders campaign, political violence, and how rational looting is.
Sat, May 30, 2020
277- CIA Spies & Julian Assange's baby's stool samples with Max Blumenthal
Journalist Max Blumenthal talks about his latest investigation into the way Sheldon Adelson and the CIA worked together to spy on Julian Assange, thwart his asylum plan and analyze his baby's stool. Plus how Bernie should have responded to media attacks, what the Left needs to do if it wants to gain power, how a Biden presidency would compare to a Trump one, Michael Flynn and Syria.
Fri, May 15, 2020
276 - Primarying Debbie Wasserman Schultz & why Pelosi likes Trump with Jen Perelman
Jen Perelman https://jen2020.com/ talks to me about why she is primarying Debbie Wasserman Schultz, what she would do in congress, which other candidates she likes (spoiler alert: Shahid Buttar) and how Nancy Pelosi, despite her performative protests prefers president Trump to a president Sanders. Plus #Russiagate, #McResistance, Jewish geography and more.
Sat, May 09, 2020
275 - Pulitzers & Rent Strikes with Michael Jackson and Ava Farkas
Michael Jackson talks about winning a Pulitzer Prize for his musical "A Strange Loop" and struggling to pay the rent. Ava Farkas tells Michael what his rights are as a tenant during covid and tells me why Cuomo is so bad.
Sat, May 02, 2020
274- Tara Reade's Mom calls into Larry King with Ryan Grim
Stand by for interview with Rich McHugh and Tara's friend Lynda LaCasse. Ryan's piece https://theintercept.com/2020/04/24/new-evidence-tara-reade-joe-biden/ Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke0xtGxeGP0
Wed, April 22, 2020
273-Tara Reade's friend speaks out on Joe Biden sexual assault allegation + Ryan Grim & Rich McHugh
NPR interviewed Tara's friend, who we'll call Jane Doe, but wouldn't air it because she wouldn't give her name. NPR plays anonymous interviews all the time, but wouldn't play hers. Jane was one of the two people I spoke to who corroborated Tara Telling them about the assault. Plus Ryan Grim on breaking the story and Rich McHugh on reporting on it.
Mon, April 20, 2020
272 - Debunking the Smears against Biden's accuser Tara Reade with Nathan Robinson
272 - Debunking the Smears against Biden's accuser Tara Reade with Nathan Robinson by Katie Halper
Thu, April 09, 2020
271 - Biden Lied, Voters Died with Malaika Jabali, Tiffany Caban, and Adam Johnson,
271 - Biden Lied, Voters Died with Malaika Jabali, Tiffany Caban, and Adam Johnson, by Katie Halper
Sat, April 04, 2020
#COVID-19 Mutual Aid with Dean Spade, #CancelRent with Ava Farkas & listeners call-in
Dean Spade, foun
Thu, March 26, 2020
Biden accuser Tara Reade: "I wanted to be a senator; I didn't want to sleep with one"
Read Ryan Grim's article theintercept.com/2020/03/24/joe-b…-metoo-times-up/ Support the show www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Hear my interview with Lucy Flores here Katie-halper – Lucy-flores-final-4-2 Hear and share an excerpt of what Tara says here https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/joe-bidens-accuser-finally-tells-her-full-story
Wed, March 25, 2020
Tara Reade, Joe Biden's accuser, finally tells her full story (excerpt)
Hear the full interview https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/tara-to-post Read Ryan Grim's article https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/joe-biden-metoo-times-up/ Support the show https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Hear my interview with Lucy Flores here https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/lucy-flores-final-4-2 Tara Reade has been trying to tell her story since it happened in 1993, when she was working as a staff assistant for Joe Biden. She told part of her story-- about how Biden would put his hands on her shoulders and run his fingers up and down her neck-- in the spring of 2019 after Lucy Flores accused Biden of kissing the top of her head and smelling her hair inappropriately. But Reade didn't tell her full story. As Ryan Grim reveals at The Intercept, Reade asked for help from Time's Up, but the organization said it could not support her because a case taking on Biden would jeopardize their non-profit status. Tara is finally telling the story she's been trying to tell for decades. While there were no witnesses to Biden's alleged sexual assault of Tara Reade, her brother and close friend, both of whom I've spoken to, recall Reade telling them about it at the time. The rest of the interview will be released shortly.
Thu, March 19, 2020
268 "No polling sites I went to were in compliance with CDC advisory"- Bernie organizer Abshir Omar
Abshir Omar, Bernie's Iowa-Minnesota-Michigan-Illinois Political Coordinator, reports back from visiting over a dozen polling places in Illinois: not a single one complied with CDC recommendations.
Thu, March 12, 2020
266 - "Bernie is Running on All Cylinders" with Briahna Joy Gray + Eugene Puryear & Rebecca Nagle
Patreon only ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/msnbc-headlock-34867246 I speak to Bernie press secretary Briahna Joy Gray, who tells me "it is by no stretch of the imagination over." Plus Cherokee writer and This Land podcast host Rebecca Nagle on the #NativeVote and Breakthrough News host Eugene Puryear on false media narratives
Thu, March 05, 2020
265 - Bernie's path forward Jim Zogby, Carl Beijer, and Kate Willett
Support the show/ get extra episodes at https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Pollster Jim Zogby and writer-wonk Carl Beijer lay out how Bernie Sanders can win and why the media is pretending he can't. Stand up comedian and Bernie Bro Kate Willett and I are convinced.
Tue, March 03, 2020
Teaser: 264 - The Island of misfit Jason Johnsons with Reggie Johnson & Shuja Haider
Full ep https://www.patreon.com/posts/34554183
Mon, March 02, 2020
263 - superdelegates vs Democracy with Cori Bush & Shuja Haider
Patreon-only https://www.patreon.com/posts/34554183
Fri, February 14, 2020
262 - I Hated Bernie Bros until I Loved & Lost One with Kate Willett
stand up comedian, activist and writer Kate Willett talks about how the death of her boyfriend, standup comedian Raghav Mehta pushed her to support medicareforall, fall in love with his friends she used to hate and turned into a Bernie Bro. Plus what she saw while canvassing in Iowa and New Hampshire, and what it's like being yelled at by Leftists online and liberals on the line, which is worse, how to convert liberals to the cause, why she likes bernie's yelling and what she wants people to know about Raghav. Check out Kate's piece at Elle https://www.elle.com/author/224656/kate-willett/
Wed, February 12, 2020
BONUS - Bernie Saving Lives with Amy Curotto dedicated to Chris Matthews & Andrea
Despite Chris Matthews' insane claims that Sanders will have him shot in Central Park and wouldn't help someone one on the side of the road, Sanders is the first candidate who would help someone. Ask Amy Currotto, who he told to get out of the street, or Andrea Mitchell who was getting trampled, or the people who fainted at rallies he interrupted to get them help.
Thu, February 06, 2020
261-Revolutions Are Moved By Love with Sanders surrogate Phillip Agnew + Harvard for Bernie
I chatted with organizer, artists and national Bernie Sanders surrogate Phillip Agnew about Iowa, the movement, how he evolved politically, that special Black and Jewish je ne sais quois, that special Muslim Bernie je ne sais quois and more! Plus I include some clips from an event that Phillip and I both took part in called "Class Warfare: The Future of Left Politics," organized by Harvard for Bernie and featuring two back to back panels: "“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” with Krystal Ball (The Hill, Rising), Meagan Day (Jacobin), Nomiki Konst (The Young Turks, the Nomiki Show) and me; and “Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party,” with Dr. Cornel West (philosopher, author, Harvard professor), Michael Brooks (The Michael Brooks Show), Esha Krishnaswamy (activist and host of historic.ly) and Phillip. Plus Harvard for Bernie's Piper Winkler!
Tue, February 04, 2020
TEASER 260 - Over Obama with Margaret Kimberley
Full ep is here https://www.patreon.com/posts/260-over-obama-33725119
Fri, January 31, 2020
259 - Endless Wars, Racist Presidents with Rep Ro Khanna & Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report
Patreon-only chat with Margaret Kimberly is here https://www.patreon.com/posts/260-over-obama-33725119 Rep Ro Khanna (CA-D) talks to me about the measure he sponsored, which just passed the House!!!, to block funding for a military strike on Iran unless authorized by Congress; hawkish Dems, the impeachment, and the Bernie Bro narrative which never mentions the online harassment faced by Sanders supporters. Then Margaret Kimberley talks to me about her new book "Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents," what she learned while working on it, who the most racist president was, and how George Washington replaced his teeth. Hear Margaret speak here https://www.strandbooks.com/event/kimberly-prejudential
Fri, January 24, 2020
257 - Neoliberal Rot with Krystal Ball
257 - Neoliberal Rot with Krystal Ball by Katie Halper
Fri, January 17, 2020
256 - Warren isn't the Feminist Candidate with Alex Press
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/33293653 main ep: writer, socialist, feminist, Jacobin editor Alex Press on why Sanders is the feminist candidate in the race.
Mon, January 13, 2020
255 - Bonus! Nuanced Iranians with Trita Parsi, Quincy Institute & National Iranian American Council
Full Episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33125980 I speak to Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council about Iran's accidental downing of the Ukrainian airliner, the protests that followed, and how Iranians can have two thoughts in their heads at the same: they can oppose the assassination of Soleimani and protest the downing of the airliner; they can criticize their own government and oppose regime change and war.
Fri, January 10, 2020
253-Juan Cole: Trump's Iran sanctions like "putting a pillow over a baby in its crib" + Ali Gharib
I speak to Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, about Trump's killing of Soleimani and his military and economic treatment of Iran. Then I speak with Iranian-American journalist and Intercept editor Ali Gharib about his view of the conflict. Cole's His most recent book is Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires. He is also the author of The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East (2014); Engaging the Muslim World (2009); Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (2007); and many other books. He has appeared on PBS’s Lehrer News Hour, ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, The Today Show, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360, The Rachel Maddow Show, All In With Chris Hayes, The Colbert Report, Democracy Now!, and many others. He has written widely about Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and South Asia. the upheavals in the Arab World since 2011. He has regular columns at The Nation and Truthdig. Cole commands Arabic, Persian, and Urdu and reads Turkish, and knows both Middle Eastern and South Asian Islam. He lived in various parts of the Muslim world for more than a decade, and continues to travel widely there. He is the editor in chief of Informed Comment, which you can find here https://www.juancole.com/. You can follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/jricole Follow Ali Gharib here https://twitter.com/Ali_Gharib
Tue, January 07, 2020
252 - Corbynism Isn't Dead with Faiza Shaheen, the British AOC
(Faiza answers your questions on Patreon-only here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32985153) I talk to Faiza Shaheen about running as a labour candidate, what she learned from the British elections, what the Left can learn from them, what's next for her and what Hugh Grant (who stumped for her, along with Eddie Izzard) is like in real life.
Tue, December 24, 2019
251 - Why Sanders Beats Trump with Meagan Day, Bernie's gay wife & Jacobin's cool kid
Jacobin magazine "cool kid" Meagan Day on her piece (co-written with friend of the show & recent father Matt Karp) "Bernie Is the Candidate Who Can Beat Trump. Here’s Why." Plus why Sanders is the most feminist candidate and is married to Meagan and her girlfriend. Just in time for the holidays so you can convince your family to believe in St. Bernard over Christmas dinner or latkes or Chinese food.
Tue, December 10, 2019
251 TEASER - Weaponized Immigrants, antisemitism & Russophobia with Yasha Levine
Full episode https://www.patreon.com/posts/251-weaponized-32230674
Sat, December 07, 2019
250 - Yasha Levine, Lauren Ashcraft, Aaron Mate, Uncle Bobby, and Ron Davis
250 - Yasha Levine, Lauren Ashcraft, Aaron Mate, Uncle Bobby, and Ron Davis by Katie Halper
Thu, December 05, 2019
249 - Mayor Pete's Black Voter Problem with Ryan Grim
249 - Mayor Pete's Black Voter Problem with Ryan Grim by Katie Halper
Fri, November 22, 2019
247 - Running Against Pelosi with Shahid Buttar
Shahid answers your twitter questions on this Patreon only episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31778218
Mon, November 18, 2019
Teaser 246: The Cold War Impeachment with Aaron Mate
Find the full ep on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/posts/246-cold-war-31641542
Sat, November 16, 2019
245 - Bolivia's Christo-Fascist Racist President with Ben Norton
Bonus! Aaron Mate on the impeachment
Fri, November 08, 2019
TEASER - 244 - Shredded Wheat Bod with Matt Bruenig
Full bonus https://www.patreon.com/posts/244-shredded-bod-31421316
Fri, November 08, 2019
243 - Warren's Middle Class Tax with Matt Bruenig and Tim Higginbotham
Pareon only ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/244-shredded-bod-31421316 Matt Bruenig and Tim HIgginbotham talk about why Warren's plan to cover #MedicareForAll actually is a tax on the middle class and why Sanders' plan to pay for it is both better and not his focus. On bonus, Matt answers your twitter questions, talks about the Bernie Bro narrative and how Working Families Party membership almost certainly voted for Sanders.
Mon, October 28, 2019
242 - Decarcerate the DA with candidate Chesa Boudin
HUGE UPDATE! Chesa WON! Chesa Boudin knows prison and the criminal justice system very well. When he was 14 months, his parents, Weather Underground members Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, were incarcerated for driving a get away car in a robbery that wound up killing three men. Chesa's mother was released after 22 years, but his father will never leave prison. Boudin became a public defender and is now the latest example of a progressive, decarceral lawyer running for the DA's office, in the tradition of Larry Krasner and Tiffany Caban. The San Francisco mayor pulled what many, including the ACLU, see as a dirty trick by naming her favored candidate the interim DA. For more info go to chesaboudin.com https://www.chesaboudin.com/
Fri, October 18, 2019
241 - We are the Feminist Left with Liza Featherstone
Patreon only ep: Liza Featherstone of "feminist" bullies; Leslie Lee on "The Joker." https://www.patreon.com/posts/30860394 Journalist Liza Featherstone talks to me about what it means to be a Leftist Feminist; why Warren is not Sanders but also not Hillary; why Sanders is the preferable candidate; how Donald Trump is a like a teenager who trolls his parents who are in this case most Democratic candidates; why socialists should supporter sex workers; and how we should be wary of the insurgent narrative which neoliberals can and will co-opt.
Tue, October 08, 2019
TEASER 240 - Centrist Child Syndrome with Shuja Haider
Full episode https://www.patreon.com/posts/240-impeach-deez-30584798 Shuja Haider discusses his pieces on Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg rebelling against their Marxist fathers, why Bernie Sanders is such a threat to the establishment, and how racism didn't start under Trump.
Fri, October 04, 2019
239 - Marxist Environmentalism with Christian Parenti, Bernie's heart with Dr. Dooley
Christian Parenti on how to save the planet without self-loathing, a Marxist "more butch take on the environment," giving Friedrich Engels his due, Bernie Sanders, Evo Morales and more.
Sat, September 28, 2019
teaser 238 Our Man in Damascus with Max Blumenthal
full interview with Max on Biden, Syria, Venezuela and Palestine https://www.patreon.com/posts/238-our-man-in-30292502
Fri, September 27, 2019
237- From Venezuela to Syria with Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil & Ben Norton
Bonus: Max Blumenthal on Joe Biden and Greta Thunberg https://www.patreon.com/posts/30292502 I talk to journalists Anya Parampil, Max Blumnthal and Ben Norton, who back their travels to Honduras, Nicaragua, Syria and Venezuela. Then I do a one on one with Anya about her reporting and occupying the Venezuelan embassy in Washington DC.
Mon, September 23, 2019
236- Benny Gantz is the Pepsi & Bibi is the Coke with Diana Buttu UNLOCKED
Palestinian-Canadian lawyer, analyst and former PLO negotiator Diana Battu on the Israeli elections and her latest piece in The Nation "The Israeli Elections Are a Referendum on Who Can Treat Palestinians Most Harshly." Plus what it's like to raise a child in a country where he's told he doesn't belong. It's too important to be patreon only so it's for everyone! Stand by for some Patreon only eps dropping soon.
Fri, September 20, 2019
FIXED! WTF? WFP? with Susan Kang, who quit her working families party membership
Political Scientist Susan Kang talks about quitting the Working Families Party over its endorsement of Elizabeth Warren over Bernie Sanders and its lack of transparency. Instead of paying WFP dues, she'll give her money to the Sanders campaign. Plus the differences between Sanders and Warren and the cynical accusation that criticism of WFP's endorsement is an attack on people of color.
Fri, September 20, 2019
235- WTF? WFP! with Susan Kang
THE AUDIO ON THIS IS NOW FIXED! IF YOU SUBSCRIBE TO MY PODCAST AND IT AUTOMATICALLY DOWNLOADS THE SHOW, MAKE SURE YOU LISTEN TO THE FIXED ONE! https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/fixed-wtf-wfp-with-susan-kang-or-why-this-woman-of-color-quit-her-working-families-party-membership Political Scientist Susan Kang talks about quitting the Working Families Party over its endorsement of Elizabeth Warren over Bernie Sanders and its lack of transparency. Instead of paying WFP dues, she'll give her money to the Sanders campaign. Plus the differences between Sanders and Warren.
Fri, September 13, 2019
233 - Fact Checking with Ro Khanna, Anders Lee, and Brad Johnson + Dov Hikind's black face
bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29973323 I speak to Congressman Ro Khanna about foreign policy and why he supports Sanders. Then I talk to Brad Johnson about the AP's not factual fact checking of the Democratic candidates climate town halls. Pod Damn America's Anders Lee is with me live in studio talking about his one person show Dummy and why he's moving to DC. (Spoiler alert: to work on "Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp.") Plus Dov Hinkind's tweets and black face.
Fri, September 06, 2019
232 - Becoming Mexican-American with Renato Rosaldo
Anthropologist Renato Rosaldo talks to me about (and reads from) his latest book of poetry which is about his high school group of friends the Chasers which let him "become" Mexican American, "going native" anthropologically speaking, his dad's contribution to the study of Mexican literature, and the relationship between anthropology and politics.
Fri, August 30, 2019
230 - Bugging Bret Stephens with Dave Karpf
Hear the rest of this episode here https://www.patreon.com/posts/29559089 I talk to the man who called Brett Stephens a bedbug about the hypocrisy and entitlement of the NY op-ed writer.
Fri, August 23, 2019
Teaser: 229 - Meritocracy with John Pat Leary
Hear the full bonus chat here! It's really good! https://www.patreon.com/posts/229-elizabeth-is-29396949
Fri, August 16, 2019
228 - The New Language of Capitalism with John Patrick Leary
REALLY GOOD BONUS CHAT! https://www.patreon.com/posts/229-elizabeth-is-29396949 Gabe Pacheco and I talk to John Pat Leary about his innovative and disruptive book "Key Words: The New Language of Capitalism." Full of grit, passion, and competence, Leary proves himself to be a curator of content, a creative thought leader and a smart stakeholder in the market place of ideas. Anyone who doesn't want to fail in life but who is interested in empowerment, engagement and human capital has to read this.
Sun, August 11, 2019
Teaser: 227 -The Two Faces of Kamala Harris and Why They Hate Bernie with Branco Marcetic
To hear the rest of this episode go to patreon.com/TheKatieHalperShow
Fri, August 09, 2019
226 - Tone Down for What? With Doctor and Sanders Surrogate Victoria Dooley
Dr. Victoria Dooley explains why she, as a Black woman, physician and mother, supports Bernie Sanders and became a surrogate for his campaign. She shares a story about a patient who died because she put off going to the doctor and shows the life and death importance of #medicareforall. Plus she pushes back on the Bernie Bro myth, addresses what issues won't be solved by medicare for all, the importance of having more Black doctors, what got her into medicine and tells us about being RT'd by Cardi B. And how people could be angrier about Bernie raising his voice then they are about the injustices he's raising his voice (and awareness) around.
Sat, August 03, 2019
224 - Polling at 1%, For the 1% - Debate Night 1 with Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola
ep 225 is here https://www.patreon.com/join/thekatiehalpershow/signup?ru=%2Fjoin%2Fthekatiehalpershow%2Fcheckout%3Frid%3D881089%26 Rania Khalek & Kevin Gosztola join us to discuss the first of the July Democratic Debates. Find the rest of our debate commentary at Patreon.com/TheKatieHalperShow
Sun, July 28, 2019
223 - Chuck Boris (Johnson) with Riley Quinn of Trashfuture Podcast
223 - Chuck Boris (Johnson) with Riley Quinn of Trashfuture Podcast by Katie Halper
Thu, July 25, 2019
Teaser: Dean Spade, Rania Khalek, and NOlympics LA
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
Fri, July 19, 2019
221 - Axios of Evil: with Jim Zogby, Malaika Jabali, Jordan Chariton, and Aaron Mate
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.
Fri, July 12, 2019
219- why gay marriage is conservative with Dean Spade
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
Wed, July 03, 2019
218: queers for bell hooks/Jews against ICE with Michael Jackson & Sophie Ellman-Golan
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 center in New Jersey. Plus HIV, AIDS, pogroms, concentration camps and Devil's spawn Liz Cheney.
Thu, June 27, 2019
teaser: 217- no war against Iran with Ro Khanna
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 federal funds from being used for any military force against Iran without congressional authorization. Khanna also talks about Venezuela, North Korea and reminds us that "half of the Democrats got us into the War in Iraq."
Tue, June 25, 2019
216-Reclaim Pride and Rent Control with Terry Roethlein & Ava Farkas
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 march. Plus Ava and I come out about our struggle with punctuality.
Sat, June 22, 2019
215- Third Way's abortion puns with Carl Beijer
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 but Bernie and works to cut social security and medicare, is so bad, the media's anti Bernie Bias and why Bernie should run as a socialist. I include clips of Sanders' speech on democratic socialism and Jim Kessler (of Third Way, ) bragging about working with Claire McCaskill (who lost her latest election), compromising on abortion, making abortion puns (the legislation had been "still born" "in gestation"), urging the Dems to focus less on climate change and minimum wage. I also include Third Way's Matt Bennett refusing to say how much money Third Way gets from Wall Street.
Fri, June 14, 2019
Teaser: 214- Youtube's left purge with Matt Taibbi
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.
Wed, June 12, 2019
214: Steven Crowder's virginity with Francesca Fiorentini & Esha Krishnaswamy
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.
Tue, June 04, 2019
213 re-educating Jonathan Chait & Sydney Ember with Greg Grandin
(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
Mon, May 27, 2019
preview: 211 & 212- Matt Taibbi & Alice Speri
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
Fri, May 24, 2019
211 - Reading in Solitary with Kraig Lewis and Alex VItale
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 most of the people arrested weren't even charged with being gang members. Alex VItale is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the author of "The End of Policing." They're both part of a network of researchers and advocates working to end large gang conspiracy cases. And I spoke with them about the Bronx 120 and why policing doesn't work and won't be saved by body cams or more training.
Sun, May 19, 2019
209- Desanctifying the Defense State with Marcie Smith and Max Blumenthal
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 defense state intellectual and Cold War champion. This I play the audio of a book talk I attended by Max Blumenthal about his latest book The Management of Savagery How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump.
Tue, May 07, 2019
preview: 208- Joe Biden is Godzilla with Street Fight Radio
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 and Bryan's families, Bryan's father in law and how fatherhood politicized them.
Thu, May 02, 2019
207- Neoliberalism and Depression with Johann Hari
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.
Sat, April 27, 2019
205 - Tiffany Caban for DA + Struggle Session
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
Sat, April 20, 2019
Preview: 204 - Being Censored by CAP with Zaid Jilani
To hear the full interview go to https://www.patreon.com/posts/being-censored-26205426
Thu, April 18, 2019
203 - Working For Neera Tanden with Ben Armbruster & Zaid Jilani
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 Vilkomerson of Jewish Voice for Peace and a student organizer named Sarah about BDS.
Mon, April 15, 2019
202 - The Arrest of Assange with Ryan Grim
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.
Thu, April 11, 2019
201 - Making Bernie Better with Daniel Denvir & Karina Moreno
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.
Thu, April 04, 2019
preview: 200- Biden's Black Pride with Branko Marcetic
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
Tue, April 02, 2019
199- Lucy Flores on Biden & #MeToo
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.
Tue, March 26, 2019
197: Worst RussiaGate Conspiracy Theorists w/ Matt Taibbi & Aaron Mate
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.
Thu, March 21, 2019
Unlocked: 196 Lying about Venezuela with Max Blumenthal
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 and talks about the opposition there, as well as AIPAC here and Meghan McCain "crying over AIPAC, which is one of the most sociopathic institutions."
Tue, March 12, 2019
Preview: Lying about Venezuela with Max Blumenthal
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.
Sun, March 10, 2019
195. Israel Lobbies & Anti-Muslim tropes with Juan Cole
195. Israel Lobbies & Anti-Muslim tropes with Juan Cole by Katie Halper
Thu, February 28, 2019
194. Regime Change in 4 Steps with Rania Khalek
Bonus on how Rania overcame the Facebook ban https://www.patreon.com/posts/25084293 Journalist Rania Khalek talks to me about being investigated by CNN at the behest of a Neo-liberal-Neo-Con think tank and censored by Facebook. She also presents U.S. regime change wars in 4 steps. 1. Paint leader as cartoon villain. 2. Impose sanctions to destroy economy & create humanitarian crisis. 3. fund & recognize opposition 4. Overthrow government, country goes to s***
Fri, February 22, 2019
193. Running for Public Advocate with Nomiki Konst
193. Running for Public Advocate with Nomiki Konst by Katie Halper
Sun, February 17, 2019
192. Teaser: Listen to SOME Black women with Adam Johnson
full ep https://www.patreon.com/posts/bipartisan-of-24735765 Adam Johnson, media critic and co-host of the Podcast "Citations Needed" with Nima Shirazi, talks to me about the bipartisan effort to throw Ilhan Omar under the bus, the disingenuous & exploitative behavior of AIPAC & The Forward, the Democrats' caping for Republican war criminal Elliot Abrams and more.
Fri, February 15, 2019
Not Just AIPAC with Jeff Halper
Bonus Ep: Adam Johnson on Ilhan Omar https://www.patreon.com/posts/24735765 Jeff Halper, no relation, talks about what a one state solution could look like and the influences, besides AIPAC, that get other governments to offer Israel such unwavering support. Jeff is an American-born Israeli anthropologist, works with The One Democratic State Campaign, a Palestinian-Israeli initiative and is the founder of the Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolition. He's the author of several books including 'War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinans and Global Pacification," "Obstacles to Peace: A Reframing of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, ICAHD," "An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel." I chatted with him at the bookstore McNally Jackson on February 9th, one day before the Ilhan Omar tweet on AIPAC which was followed by a smear campaign against her. Stand by for a patreon episode with Adam Johnson about the media's framing of her comments.
Fri, February 08, 2019
Reverse Hitler with Ted Alexandro
Reverse Hitler with Ted Alexandro by Katie Halper
Thu, January 31, 2019
Dog Talk with Glenn Greenwald
Bonus chat with Glenn on MSNBC & the media https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-glenn-on-23827350 Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald on the unexpected joys of fatherhood, his love of dogs and Brazil's scary political climate.
Tue, January 29, 2019
Teaser: The Case Against Kamala Harris with Trevor "@RickyRawls" Beaulieu
full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/case-against-24316088
Thu, January 24, 2019
The Russiagate Racket with Aaron Maté
New bonus coming soon, but catch up on the related bonus eps with Aaron https://www.patreon.com/posts/19418558 and Glenn Greenwald https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-glenn-on-23827350. We chat with journalist and rational skeptic Aaron Maté about why he calls the Russiagate narrative a "privilege protection racket." Maté debunks the latest smoking gun which this time comes from Buzzfeed, talks about the sad state of journalism, who else is doing good work on the issue, Noam Chomksy, Sarah Palin, Bernie Sanders, the Clintons and what MSNBC and the Dems could be doing if they spent less talk talking about Russia.
Thu, January 17, 2019
Katie's mom/novelist/journalist Nora Eisenberg on Gulf War Syndrome & serial killers
Related bonus: Nora reading from her short story https://www.patreon.com/posts/11196692 & Dennis Mora on going to jail for refusing to serve in Vietnam https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-dennis-on-23917536 Journalist, novelist and mother of Katie Halper Nora Eisenberg talks to us about George Herbert Walker Bush's legacy, the "Good" (but actually really bad) Gulf War, Gulf War Syndrome, manufacturing consent, and how the U.S. Military creates and the executes terrorists & serial killers.
Fri, January 11, 2019
Nostalgia Trap's David Parsons on the Vietnam War, military dissent coffeeshops, AOC & Jane Fonda
Bonus with Dennis Mora, who went to jail for three years for refusing to go to Vietnam https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-dennis-on-23917536 We speak to David Parsons, a historian, professor, host of The Nostalgia Trap podcast and author of "Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era." David talks to us about his research, things you probably don't know about Jane Fonda and what the anti-war movement can teach us about today.
Thu, January 03, 2019
Joshua Kendall on "Clintons' Misogynistic Slime Machine," me on seeing Joan Baez w/ the Clintons
First, I tell Gabe about seeing a Joan Baez concert with the Clintons in the audience, which gets kind of awkward when Baez sings a song about a rape survivor killing her rapist. Speaking of which, we're in the midst of the 20 year anniversary of the impeachment of Bill Clinton, which was sparked by Paula Jones' sexual harassment allegations and wound up exposing Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky and bringing Juanita Broaddrick out of the woodwork. While Lewinsky's case has been re-examined through the #MeToo lens, Broaddrick, who alleges that Bill Clinton raped her, remains ignored or smeared and lied about. I spoke to journalist Joshua Kendall about Bill Clinton's treatment of women and the multiple allegations of rape made by women we haven't even heard of.
Tue, December 25, 2018
David Sirota on his Beto tweet which launched "an epic freakout"
Bonus interview with David https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-david-on-23551019 award-winning journalist David Sirota finally admits that he's biased towards saving the planet. We chat about the backlash he provoked with a factual tweet about Beto O'Rourke, antisemitic criticism of Sanders, and the media's fear of issues-driven politics.
Mon, December 17, 2018
Roseann DeMoro on ageism, Abdul El-Sayed on empathy, Maria Svart on socialist feminism
Roseann DeMoro on ageism, Abdul El-Sayed on empathy, Maria Svart on socialist feminism by Katie Halper
Wed, December 12, 2018
Yemen media censorship & blackout with Walker Bragman & Rabyaah Althaibani
As the Senate gets ready to vote on #SJRes54, the resolution to stop US support of Saudi bombing of Yemen, we talk to Walker Bragman, whose @opdesanitize #opdesanitize twitter account publishes graphic photos from war zones the US is involved in--mainly Yemen, which has been blocked by Twitter. Then I speak to Yemeni-American activist Rabyaah Althaibani. #coveryemen
Sun, December 09, 2018
Teaser: Naomi Klein
Here's a teaser of my bonus interview with Naomi Klein. I interview Roseann DeMoro on the same episode. Both of them were done at The Sanders institute gathering. To access the full episode, go to https://www.patreon.com/posts/naomi-klein-on-23210628 And to hear my interview with Bernie Sanders listen here https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/burlington-woke-factory-naomi-klein-gus-newport
Fri, December 07, 2018
Burlington Woke Factory: Bernie Sanders, Naomi Klein, Gus Newport, Michael Tubbs & the Sanders Inst
Bonus! Naomi Klein & Roeseann DeMoro https://www.patreon.com/posts/23210628 I report back from the Sanders Institute Gathering in Burlington VT, where I spoke to... wait for it... Senator Bernie Sanders himself! I also interview Naomi Klein, 83 year old former Mayor Gus Newport, 28 year old current Mayor Michael Tubbs and hotel security guard who moved from Louisiana. Plus I bring you clips from panels with Nina Turner, Ben Jealous, Jim Zogby, Susan Sarandon, Roseann DeMoro and the call for the #ProgressiveInternational from Yanis Varoufakis. #sandersinstitute #sandersgathering
Thu, November 29, 2018
Rep Ro Khanna on Yemen & why Hakeem Jeffries defeated Barbara Lee
I spoke to Ro Khanna whose own Yemen legislation was killed by Paul Ryan about the Yemen resolution that just passed. Also, during our interview ge responded to the breaking news that Hakeem Jeffries had defeated Barbara Lee in the race for Democratic Caucus Chair, which "broke his heart."
Tue, November 27, 2018
The definitive case for Sanders 2020 with Nathan Robinson (unlocked)
This is one of the most important episodes we've done! Nathan Robinson goes through why Sanders is the best person to run against Donald Trump. He goes through the weaknesses of every other potential candidate like Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, & Joe Biden. I challenge anyone who doesn't think Sanders is the best option to respond to this.
Thu, November 22, 2018
Jon Schwarz on social silence, hidden history, and why Trump is our most honest president
We speak to The Intercept's Jon Schwarz about his latest piece "This Thanksgiving, I’m Grateful for Donald Trump, America’s Most Honest President." Jon also goes over why Thanksgiving is the second most important day every year, after Columbus Day, and how Hitler drew inspiration from the slaughter of Native Americans.
Wed, November 21, 2018
Matt Karp Teaser: Dems are handcuffing themselves before the battle
Here's a teaser of an excellent interview I did with historian and Jacobin writer Matt Karp. His Jacobin piece on the Democratic Party's victories went viral, so I made him talk to me. He shares his mixed emotions of relief and pessimism about the midterms Hear the rest on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/historian-matt-22789917
Thu, November 15, 2018
TEASER: Matt Christman on being an adolescent Civil War history nerd
TEASER: Matt Christman on being an adolescent Civil War history nerd by Katie Halper
Thu, November 15, 2018
Matt Christman on the history of fascism & the liberal hot takes that enable Trump
bonus: Matt talks about being an "insufferable" Civil War History nerd when he was in middle school. https://www.patreon.com/posts/22742080 Related bonus: Matt Karp, who will be joining Matt Christman for our live taping Civil War History-themed Katie Halper Show (date, TBD)talks to me about why the Dems are "handcuffing themselves before the battle". Matt talks about fascism, pseudo-woke gatekeepers, how and why Chapo appeals to the audience it does, and how the Left can maybe win. He also trashes some really stupid and counterproductive liberal hot takes like "economic anxiety doesn't influence people's politics," universal and class-based programs are only good for white people etc. He posits that for fascism to be here, we'd need a more robust Left, which we don't have at the moment. We also reminisce about the live Katie Halper Show taping with Chapo Trap House, which was the first time Matt met Felix in person, and which Matt still considers "one of the best" times of his life.
Tue, November 13, 2018
Paste Politics Panel with Nomiki Konst, Aaron Mate, Malaika Jabali, and Walker Bragman
find the video at pastemagazine.com/studio
Sun, November 11, 2018
TEASER: Matt Christman on the Midterm elections
Stand by for more with Matt, but for now, here's a little nugget of Matt sharing his thoughts on the midterms. We'll be posting a full episode with him this week, where he talks to us about fascism, history, politics and his nerdy youth this week!
Sat, November 10, 2018
Liza Featherstone on how focus groups are ruining politics
Bonus: Liza reads for piece & talks Bernie & more! https://www.patreon.com/posts/22644724 Liza Featherstone talks to me and Gabe about focus groups and how they're ruining politics. We discuss her latest book "Divining Desire: the Culture of Consultation," her latest piece in The Baffler "Sorry to Bother You," and the midterms. Plus I report back from Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's victory party. Stand by for our bonus in which we talk about Bernie Sanders' controversial comments, communist vaginas, and that time Gabe was in a focus group. Also, Liza reads part of her piece!
Wed, October 31, 2018
Horror films and horror politics with Leslie Lee
Bonus https://www.patreon.com/posts/leslie-lee-on-in-22464009 on this spooky episode, we celebrate Halloween with Leslie Lee by chatting about scary movies and the greatest horror story of all, which would be Hillary Clinton running for president in 2020. Leslie talks to us about being a black raver, knowing white ravers who dressed up as stereotypes of "ghetto" Black people for Halloween being called white for having Leftist politics. Plus we discuss gay horror movies, the radical politics of "The Purge" movies, Bill Clinton's book, and why it kills off the first lady. Gabe does a great Bill Clinton impersonation! Stand by for our bonus on where we talk about the film Mandy, hippy-punching, Linus Roache's penis, Ronald Reagan and whether we'd rather be stuck on a desert island with him or Donald Trump.
Fri, October 26, 2018
Brazilian journalist Mariana Simoes on Jair Bolsonaro, the torture advocate & likely next president
Bonus: Roger Waters on Brazil's election https://www.patreon.com/posts/22343702 Mariana Simoes talks about the elections in Brazil and why and how someone like Jair Bolsonaro, who openly praises torture and the country's military dictatorship, could become president of the largest country in Latin America. She tells me about the rise in hate crimes and violence that has been spurred by Bolsonaro's rhetoric and what happened to her on the street when she threw out a Bolsonaro flyer that someone had handed her.
Sat, October 20, 2018
Jake Flores' ICE Cold Hot Takes: Sex Work, Nike & Cultural Appropriation
We talk to standup comedian and Pod Damn America host Jake Flores about his personal political revolution, how his anarchist ancestor rose (no pun intended) up against Porfirio Diaz, and that time he got visited by Homeland Security for a tweet about cultural appropriation and ICE. Plus we all talk about Amsterdam, the lie that is the cliche about how something is like "riding a bike," sex work and more.
Wed, October 17, 2018
"Nominating Bernie is what we have to do if we want to defeat Trump. There's no alternative."
Hear the rest here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/22089232 This is a free teaser of our bonus episode with Nathan Robinson.
Fri, October 12, 2018
Nathan Robinson: Impeach Kavanaugh, nominate Michelle Alexander
Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/22089232 Gabe and Katie go on their first movie outing. We talk about the popcorn but leave you in suspense about the movie. Then we talk to Nathan Robinson, editor of the magazine Current Affairs, about why the Democrats should vote to impeach Kavanaugh even if they won't be able to get the majority required to actually succeed. Plus how ridiculous it is that Brett Kavanaugh's dad is alive.
Fri, October 05, 2018
Ro Khanna on targeting Jeff Bezos to raise Amazon's minimum wage, Nathan Robinson on Kavanaugh
I talk to Rep Ro Khanna (CA-D) about the STOP BEZOS Act, which encouraged Jeff Bezos to raise the minimum wage he's paying Amazon workers in the U.S. We also talk about Rep. Khanna's fellow Yale Law School alum Brett Kavanaugh and how the Dems can defeat Trump and Trumpism. Then Nathan Robinson talks about his piece "How we Know Trump is Lying," which he wrote for Current Affairs, the excellent magazine of which he's the editor. Bonus coming soon with Ro Khanna on Yemen and more of Nathan on Kavanaugh and how it could have been prevented.
Sat, September 29, 2018
Free teaser: Ian Samuel on packing the courts & clerking for Scalia while socialist,
Here's a teaser of our bonus episode, which you can access in its entirety here. https://www.patreon.com/posts/law-prof-ian-on-21703637 I continue my chat with law professor Ian Samuel, and ask him how a socialist wound up clerking for Antonin Scalia, and how he shaped some of his decisions. He also tells me how he wound up going to law school, and, more importantly, if *I* should go to law school. I encourage him to create a DSA Supreme Court Working Group because the DSA definitely doesn't have enough of those. Plus, he explains why it's ok to go on Tucker Carlson.
Thu, September 27, 2018
Law Professor Ian Samuel: Pack the Courts, Abolish ICE, Delay Kavanaugh
Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/law-prof-ian-on-21703637 We talk to #KTHSLC (Katie Halper Show Legal Correspondent) Ian Samuel about Brett Kavanaugh, his virgin/ catholic/ calendar excuse, packing the courts from the Left, Clarence Thomas and "no chalance." Ian talks about the similarities and differences between Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.
Mon, September 24, 2018
Sex(Work) in The City: Julia Salazar & organizers on how her victory made sex work history
Julia Balcon and a sex worker who goes by "Eve," talk to me about how state senator Julia Salazar became the first candidate in U.S. history to win a state race as a very public sex worker advocate. Plus we talk to Julia on why and how she chose to incorporate sex work decriminalization into her platform. And Julia shares her thoughts on the Democratic Primaries.
Thu, September 13, 2018
NY election guide, #MailerGate & #BagelGate: Cuomo's smear & Nixon's shmear
I talk to Katie Unger of The Jewish Vote about who they're endorsing (which happens to be who the Katie Halper Show is endorsing), Cuomo's dishonest & disgusting smear against Cynthia Nixon, how you don't have to be Jewish to get the Jewish Vote's endorsement. Then I talk to Sam Adler Bell and Georgia Kromrei about Martin Dilan's lies and Julia Salazar's campaign.
Fri, September 07, 2018
Julia Salazar on State Senate run, Ted Hamm on Tish James support of racist former Brooklyn DA
Bonus chat with Julia on her political evolution https://www.patreon.com/posts/21319406 I talk to Julia Salazar, a DSA candidate running against Martin Dilan, the state senator in New York's 18th District. Salazar has been compared to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortéz for being a young, Latina, DSA member and first time candidate taking on the Democratic Machine. Julia talks to me about the difference between her and Dilan and addresses his bad record on housing and tenants rights, which the media almost entirely ignored until a Gothamist piece published this week which exposed that Dilan takes more money from the real estate industry than all but one Democratic state senator. And I talk to Ted Hamm about Letitia James, who is running for Attorney General of NY against friend-of-the-show and anti corruption crusader Zephyr Teachout. Hamm talks about James' troubling support of former Brooklyn DA Charles J. Hynes
Fri, September 07, 2018
Matt Bruenig & Cara McClure on Doug Jones and rapping senators (free bonus)
Bonus with Matt Bruenig https://www.patreon.com/posts/21259124This free bonus is a blast from the past! We revisit the election of Alabama Senator Doug Jones, given that Jones hasn't decided whether he will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee. Gabe and I talk about how Doug Jones should go full "Bullworth," and why he can't. Then I play an interview I recorded in December on the even of Jones' election with Cara McClure, a Poor People's Campaign and Black Lives Matter organizer from Birmingham Alabama, who predicted Jones would be a disappointment. McClure is now running for office! For Public Service Commission place 1!
Sat, September 01, 2018
Asad Haider on the betrayal of Identity Politics
Bonus here https://www.patreon.com/posts/21147662 Asad Haider talks about Identity Politics and his book "Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump."
Thu, August 23, 2018
Suzi Weissman: "Sanders has reclaimed democracy as integral to the socialist project ."
bonus https://www.patreon.com/posts/20945628
Fri, August 17, 2018
Saved by The Bell & crucified by the Saudis with Travis Irvine
Bonus: #BelieveWhichWomen, Keith Ellison, Alex Jones https://www.patreon.com/posts/keith-ellison-20882230 Gabe and I talk about what we learned about the service industry from "Saved by the Bell" and what we learned about Salvadoran death squads from "21 Jump Street." Then we talk to comedian and journalist Travis Irvine who's seeking the Libertarian Party's nomination to run for Governor of Ohio about his campaign; about the pope's decision to condemn the death penalty (which is good) and the fact that he had to change the catechism on this (which is weird. given the whole Jesus story); speaking of which, we also talk about a recent crucifixion in Saudi Arabia; plus slave labor in California.
Mon, August 06, 2018
Brent Welder and James Thompson: What's (hopefully not) the matter with Kansas
Brent Welder and James Thompson: What's (hopefully not) the matter with Kansas by Katie Halper
Fri, July 27, 2018
Thomas Frank LIVE: What's the Matter with Liberals?
bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/20353124 Gable Pacheco and I talk to Thomas Frank at a live taping of the Katie Halper Show. Frank, the author of "What's the Matter with Kansas" and "Listen Liberal," whose writing appears in The Guardian and Harpers has just come out with "Rendezvous with Oblivion," a collection of essays. Thomas talks to us about how Hillary Clinton could have won, what turned him from Republican to Democrat, what turns him off about the Democrats, and what turned him from academic to journalist.
Wed, July 18, 2018
Ro Khanna and Jumaane Williams on Cuomo's god-given feminism and #SCOTUS
Bonus: Ro Khanna on dual endorsing Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Crowley and Julia Salazar and Matt Stoller on the significance of Ocasio-Cortez's victory https://www.patreon.com/posts/20176305. I talk to Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-D) about how we can block the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. As a fellow Yale law grad, Khanna "knows the type" of person Kavanaugh is: "he's a partisan hack, careerist, who sucks up to people in power. it's the worst kind of elitism." We also talk about the disgusting deputy DA who called Maxine Waters a "loud-mother c*** and said, "you would think someone would have shot this bitch by now." Then I talk to Councilman Jumaane Williams who got arrested at Trump Tower protesting Kavanaugh about why he's running for Lieutenant Governor of New York and the racist hypocrisy and cowardice of the #McResistance.
Wed, July 04, 2018
The politics of The World Cup with Nando Vila! plus reformist self-care & golden anuses
Bonus on Catalan independence & dating a professional Spanish soccer player: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nando-vila-on-on-19868254 Gabe Pacheco and I talk about reformist self-care and what happens when you can't pronounce the Spanish ñ (spoiler alert: you may say anus instead of year). Then I talk to Nando Vila, host of the World Cup podcast We Came to Win and the show Soccer Gods about world cup history and politics, fascism and partisans.
Sat, June 30, 2018
Virgil Texas, Alex Press, Sean McElwee & more on the best & worst takes on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Virgil Texas, Alex Press, Sean McElwee, Jabari Brisport, Emma Vigeland, Jake Flores and even Thomas Frank (for 10 seconds) on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez win and some fo the worst take aways on it. Hear more from Thomas Frank tonight! http://caveat.nyc/event/the-katie-halper-show-with-gabe-pacheco-special-guest-thomas-frank/ Hear my interview with Ocasio-Cortez (which I did BEFORE she won) here https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/primary-challenger-ocasio-cortez-vs-old-boy-network! Watch my interview with her here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTY8k6hesr8
Mon, June 25, 2018
Actual sex worker on why legalizing sex work is good & Gay pride needs to be cop-free
I talk to Phoenix Calida and William Jackson, co-hosts of The Black Podcast about sex why they don't celebrate pride and how SESTA and FOSTA is killing sex workers, Check out #BlackPodcast https://twitter.com/uppittynegress & https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-black-podcast-with-wine-cellar-media/id581644025
Fri, June 22, 2018
Christine Ahn: "We should be celebrating The North Korea Summit"
Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/19613514 I talk to Christine Ahn Founder & International Coordinator of Women Cross DMZ, an organization of women mobilizing for peace in Korea about the North Korea Summit, what it means, and what the media is getting wrong about it. Then I talk to Emma Vigeland about Trump's immigration policy, how it's similar to and different from Obama's legacy and tender age shelters. And we talk about Israel and the Trump administration's withdrawal from the UN's Human Rights Council.
Mon, June 18, 2018
Vote yes on 77 or the lying restaurant lobby wins! With Ben Spielberg (free bonus)
On this breaking news-ish campaign free bonus ep, I talk to Ben Spielberg about the very important Initiative 77, which requires employers in Washington DC to pay their workers the full minimum wage PLUS TIPS. As of now, tipped workers don't get the minimum wage that non-tipped workers get.
Fri, June 15, 2018
Primary challenger Ocasio-Cortez vs. Old Boy Network
Bonus chat: https://www.patreon.com/posts/19476905 I talk to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about why she's running for Congress, how her personal story as a child of Puerto Rican parents influenced her politics, what she's running for and why her opponent, who writes op-eds about his Irish America pride, accuses her of making the election "about race." Plus she talks about the amazing candidates being supported and recruited by Justice Democrats, Brand New Congress, and Democratic Socialists of America. Gabe & and I talk about Anthony Bourdain, his hatred of Henry Kissinger, and his commitment to social justice and human rights not just for "Americans" but for... wait for it... Palestinians. And Gabe and I talk about another tragic suicide: Marco Antonio Muñoz who died in a Texas jail after being separated from his wife and three-year-old son. The family had fled Honduras after the wife's brother had been killed. The apparent suicide (though it's not clear he wasn't killed) sheds light on the new zero tolerance policy around immigration. How much of a departure is Trump from other presidents on immigration, though? Alexandria and I discuss this in the bonus episode.
Fri, June 08, 2018
Zephyr Teachout on why she will sue Trump as NY attorney general
https://zephyrforny.com/ Legal scholar, activist, and Berniecrat Zephyr Teachout shocked the NY and the country when she came close to defeating Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for governor of New York. Now she's running for Attorney General. And she plans to sue Donald Trump over his conflict of interest as a business man. Zephyr also talks about neoliberalism, why the Dems need to be on offense, not defense, and why "it's time for a new 21st century trust-busting."
Fri, June 01, 2018
Aaron Maté on Trump's collusion (with Israel)
Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/aaron-mate-on-19418558 Aaron Maté talks to me about Trump's collusion... with Israel, why there isn't an #IsraelGate, why everything you thought you knew about #Russiagate is wrong, how the Russiagate narrative emboldens Trump, undermines #TheTheResistance and protects the privileges of the political elites. Plus what's the deal with Robert Mueller's suits and Democrats being as hawkish as John Bolton?
Wed, May 23, 2018
Kara Eastman: the pro-choice candidate the pro-choice establishment ignored
I spoke to Kara Eastman the day after she won her primary against Blue Dog Democrat Brad Ashford in Nebraska's congressional second district. Ashford, a former Republican who likes to "govern from the Center" and has an anti-choice record, was endorsed by The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). What's more surprising, kinda, is that Kara Eastman, who is openly pro-choice wasn't endorsed by a single high profile pro-choice organization. The only pro-choice organization to endorse her was Vote Pro Choice. The silence of groups like NARAL, Planned Parenthood and Emily's List is especially frustrating, given that they vocally opposed Heath Mello, the Democrat who ran for mayor of Omaha, because of his anti-choice record, which was better than Ashford's, and despite his promise to be a pro-choice mayor. Not to mention that mayor's have less influence on abortion than members of congress. But I digress.
Thu, May 10, 2018
Rania Khalek: "the issue isn't if the Syrian government is good or bad; it's what replaces it"
Journalist Rania Khalek talks about Syria, being smeared as an Assadist, and the weakening and silencing of the anti-war Left.
Mon, April 30, 2018
James Adomian on his political awakening, his mathematician grandfather & coming out
To hear the rest of my chat with James, go https://www.patreon.com/posts/18505673 I talk to stand up comedian and amazing impersonator James Adomian about being quarter Armenian, growing up conservative and religious, his self-designed major, finding the Left, coming out, and the birth of Trump vs. Bernie
Fri, April 20, 2018
Kaniela Ing on being a pro DSA, anti Mark Zuckerberg & Anti-incrementalist congressional candidate
I talk to Kaniela Ing Democratic member of the Hawaii State House of Representatives, who is running for Congress, is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and taking on the modern day colonialism of Mark Zuckerberg. Ing talks to me about his family, Hawaiian history, and how the death of his father politicized him. Plus, Gabe and I talk about how veganism can be deadly, and talk about the movies "The Founder" and "The Social Network." Bonus ep coming this weekend but for now... bonus show notes are here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/18305177
Fri, April 13, 2018
Street Fight Radio's Brett Payne & Bryan Quinby on anarcho-comedy & small business tryants
We talk to Bryan Quinby & Brett Payne, the co-hosts of Street radio, about their origin stories, small business tyrants, & how their show turned into a hotline for labor issues.
Thu, April 12, 2018
Adam Johnson on NPR's regurgitation of IDF Talking Points
Extended interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/18141530 In this free bonus, Adam Johnson goes over how NPR misrepresents the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in general and the latest Israeli attack on Palestinian protestors in particular.
Thu, April 05, 2018
The racial justice case for free college, the feminist case for single payer
On this episode writer Michael Graham makes the racial justice case for a progressive platform (single payer, #fightForFifteen, & #SinglePayer), & health care writer Natalie Schure makes the feminist case for #MedicareForAll in particular. Michael also talks about the "swiftboating" of Bernie Sanders, the importance of class solidarity, the talent of Nina Turner, & the racism of Hillary Clinton.
Fri, March 30, 2018
Phyllis Bennis on debating John Bolton & listening to (certain) Syrian voices
Bonus: the rest of my Phyllis interview https://www.patreon.com/posts/17870986 Phyllis Bennis, of the Institute for Policy Studies talks about debating John Bolton, that time he helped the Iraq War happen, the undeserved rehabilitation of George Bush, and the problem with the way people talk about Syria. Quote of the ep: "There are Syrians who are calling for US intervention just as there were some Libyans who were calling for NATO intervention. The problem is, they were wrong. And the fact that they were Libyans, the fact that there are currently Syrians saying it, that doesn't make it right. When people say we have to lift up Syrian voices, that's absolutely true. But Syria is a country of 24 million people. The Syrian voice doesn't exist. There are many Syrian voices. We need to hear Syrian voices but if the solution is just we need a Syrian voice to say what I believe, that's not the answer."
Tue, March 27, 2018
Bots of Hashtag Resistance & Weapons of Mass Destruction with Paul Blumenthal
Mini bonus & show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/17793385 Gabe & I talk about Iraq, Vietnam, Irish twins, horror films, Colin Powell's Yiddish, Mike Pence's social life and Danzig. Then I talk to Huffington Post journalist Paul Blumenthal about Sally Albright's network of bots, Shareblue, Correct the record and more.
Fri, March 09, 2018
Jimmy Dore on libs, neolibs, CIA tools & PEPs & "Love me I'm a Liberal"
bonus ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/17463481 Comedian and talk show host Jimmy Dore becomes the interviewee and not the interviewer on this episode of the Katie Halper Show. We talk about nelibs, libs, CIA tools, Mother Jones, Rachel Maddow, Russiagate, PEPs (Progressive Except on Palestine), McCarthyism, & Trump. We also cite Phil Ochs' and I cut in his epic song "Love me I'm a Liberal."
Mon, March 05, 2018
The Academy Awards: Get Out, white mediocrity, Forrest Gump, brain scramble & devil rape
Bonus: Peter Doau's "Get Out." https://www.patreon.com/posts/17365352 Gabe & I talk about the handful of Academy Award nominated films we actually got around to see. Gabe saw one. But that doesn't stop us from being major authorities on the subject. We take a stroll down memory lane and revisit the very scary lessons of Forrest Gump. Then I talk to writer Aditi Natasha Kini about the "White Mediocrity of Lady Bird," and why "Get Out" is so good.
Sat, February 24, 2018
Max Blumenthal on #Russiagate & "How do you f*** up the resistance to Trump?"
show notes & extended interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/17180025 Journalist Max Blumenthal talks to us about the #Russiagate hysteria and why he's more hopeless than he's ever been about the world. We talk about hot dog vending and how on earth people are managing to "f*** up the resistance to Trump"?
Fri, February 16, 2018
Alex Vitale: The End of Policing
We talk to Alex Vitale about his book The End of Policing. For the rest of our interview, go to Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/17039729
Fri, February 09, 2018
Adam Johnson: "United States of Care is taking the wind out of Single Payer's sails."
BONUS: https://www.patreon.com/posts/16902912 Media critic Adam Johnson sheds light on United States of Care, the shadowy organization whose board members include health industry execs and right wing ex-Senator Bill Frist. Adam breaks down the mission statement's language & reveals how and why the organization takes the wind out of Medicare for All's sails. In our bonus we finish our chat with Adam and hear from health care writer Tim Faust who determines that the organization is the... output of a certain mammal. Stand by for even more bonus from health care writer Natalie Shure and my appearances on Struggle Session & the Jimmy Dore show.
Wed, January 31, 2018
Bill Clinton's rape survivor Juanita Broaddrick on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump & #Metoo
Bonus with Juanita Broaddrick: https://www.patreon.com/posts/16748644 My NY Magazine interview: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/what-juanita-broaddrick-wants-you-to-know.html
Sat, January 20, 2018
Martin Luther King's socialism: with historians Gerald Horne & Justin Williams
Bonus with Gerald Horne https://www.patreon.com/posts/16584864 A funny thing happened on the way to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I tweeted out a post I'd written a few years ago which was a listacle of "The 11 most anti-capitalist quotes from Martin Luther King Jr." I had no idea people on Twitter would accuse me of "whitesplaining," Martin Luther King and cherry picking his words and speeches in order to find the socialisty or capitalism-critiquing nuggets hidden in his free-market-praising rhetoric. I decided to talk to some experts: historian and comedian Justin Williams and historian and prolific, eminent, scholar, writer, radical Gerald Horne. Williams talks to us about Pan-Africanism, Ghanaian independence, and Fred Hampton. Horne talks to us about MLK and W. E. B. Du Bois. Stand by for the bonus on to multi-racial organize, or not to multi-racial organize: that is the question.
Fri, January 05, 2018
Judah Friedlander, Kath Barbadoro & Alex Press on sexual harassment (& comedy)
Bonus: standup from Kath Barbadoro, Gabe Pacheco & me https://www.patreon.com/posts/16245374 Comedy & sexual harassment! What's the deal?
Sun, December 31, 2017
Erica Garner On Bernie Sanders, Nina Turner & who she wanted to be president
Erica Garner spoke to me about why she became a Bernie Sanders surrogate, loved Nina Turner and respected Ja'Mal Green. First of the interview is here https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/erica-garner And my written interview for New York Mag is here http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/erica-garner-never-stopped-fighting.html
Tue, December 26, 2017
Erica Garner
Here' my oped on this: https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/mayor-de-blasio-not-late-honor-erica-garner-legacy-article-1.3761825 I interviewed Erica Garner a few weeks ago and was planning to release her interview next week or the week after. But on December 24, I learned that Erica had been hospitalized and put into a medically induced coma after suffering a heart attack. She's 27 and has two kids and is the daughter of Eric Garner, who was murdered by the NYPD in Staten Island. He was placed in a choke hold despite saying "I can't breath," 11 times. This episode consists of two interviews, done a week apart, I conducted with Erica over the phone. She talked about her demands for DiBlasio, her hopes for the future and the work she's doing. She also shared insights and stories about her father, who she called a gentle giant. I will update this when I hear any updates about Erica. Someone who tweeted out that they work with Erica has been has been tweeting updates about her condition at es_snipes.
Mon, December 25, 2017
Adam Johnson & Alex Kotch: deficit hawks & tax scams
Bonus chat with Adam Johnson: https://www.patreon.com/posts/16057461 We talk to investigative journalist Alex Kotch about the stories he and his colleagues David Sirota & Josh Keefe are breaking at IBT about the senators benefiting from the last minute real estate provision added to the tax bill. A great endorsement of their work is that it's been attacked by the very Republicans who will benefit from the provision, including Sen Bob Corker (R-Tenn), who was against the tax bill before he was for it. Despite vowing to vote against the bill if it added one penny to the deficit, Corker, the only Republican to vote against the bill, miraculously voted for it, once the real estate provision was slipped in! We then talk to media critic Adam Johnson, who sheds light on just how full of it so-called deficit hawks actually are. Somehow, they oppose programs that benefit the poor and people of color, but are OK with military spending and tax cuts. Adam also talks to us about the worst people in media.
Thu, November 30, 2017
Socialist Feminist Alex Press on Sexual Harassment
Bonus extended interview with Alex Press: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15631574 We have an amazing chat with socialist feminist Jacobin editor DSA member Alex Press about sexual harassment and the Left. See her & Judah Fridlander & Kath Barbadoro live Dec 7. https://www.facebook.com/events/732784816915044/
Sat, November 18, 2017
Rula Jebreal on Trump, Bibi, Berlusconi, white supremacy & Hummus
Bonus: Norman Finkelstein & Todd Gitlin debate free speech. We talk to journalist Rula Jebreal about her school for young Syrian women, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, why Trump, Netanyahu & Berlusconi may be the same person and hummus.
Fri, November 10, 2017
Autopsy Report on the Democratic Party in Crisis with Norman Solomon
Bonus: We talk to journalist Norman Solomon about the report he co-authored, "Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis."
Fri, November 03, 2017
Marc Fliedner for DA: the write-in candidate who would have charged Harvey Weinstein
Bonus extended interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15197523 I talk to Marc Fliedner, who is running as a write-in candidate against Cy Vance the (up until now)unopposed candidate for Manhattan DA. Marc had already run for Brooklyn DA but when it was revealed that Vance had declined to prosecute Harvey Weinstein and had accepted money from Weinstein's lawyer, Fiedner decided to jump into the race. I talk to Marc about what and who convinced him to run, his historic conviction of NYPD officer Peter Liang in the killing of Akai Gurley, and what he would do as DA.
Sat, October 28, 2017
Norm Finkelstein on Israel's lies about Hamas & his fights with Alan Dershowitz
Bonus: why Norm Finkelstein thinks BDS is a cult. https://www.patreon.com/posts/why-norm-thinks-15090184 We talk to Norm FInkelstein, controversial scholar, author, activist and the son of survivors of the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps. He busts myths about and repeated by Israel and reminisces on the dishonesty of Alan Dershowitz. He also wonders if Richard Goldstone was blackmailed into retracting his report on Gaza. If you want to support WBAI and get Norm's book as well as Eli Valley's amazing book of political cartoons and Kareem Estefan's book "Assuming Boycott," about BDS.
Fri, October 20, 2017
#LeftPoc or Elaborate Russian PsyOp? with Wendi Muse & Anoa Changa
Bonus ep on Racist Statues & Columbus Day: https://www.patreon.com/posts/14965304 This episode is from our live taping at The Brooklyn Commons. Gabe Pacheco and I talk to Wendi Muse, historian and creator of the #LeftPOC hashtag and project, as well as Anoa Changa, organizer & host of The Way with Anoa, about the representation, or lack thereof, of People of Color on the political left. Are Wendy and Anoa real? Or Russian bots? Find out...
Thu, October 12, 2017
BDS & Self-Hating Jews
Bonus with Adam Johnson is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/14836515 We speak to art critic and writer Kareem Estefan, co-editor of "Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production," about Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS), the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the lessons of the South African boycott. Then we bring you a live reading from Eli Valley, who was our guest last week, of his book "Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel," recorded at the McNally Jackson bookstore in NYC.
Sun, October 08, 2017
Eli Valley: the artist Right Wing zionists love to hate (& call "ferociously repugnant")
Extended interview with Eli https://www.patreon.com/posts/14767156 Don't forget to come to our next life taping: https://www.facebook.com/events/121219481913548/ We talk to Eli Valley, artistic genius, about his book "Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel." Endorsements include the following criticisms by right wing rapid zionists: “Your work is disgusting. And also stupid.” — Marty Peretz. “Grotesque. … Wretched.” — Bret Stephens. “Offensive and obnoxious and crosses the line. ... Bigoted, unfunny.” — Abe Foxman. “Ferociously repugnant.” — Commentary
Fri, September 29, 2017
White ClintonBro hits woman of color & American Mayor
Bonus ep with Moumita Ahmed here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/14616145 Next live show on October 9! https://www.facebook.com/events/121219481913548/ We talk to Moumita Ahmed, founder of Millennials for Bernie, about that time she got hit by an white male Hillary Bro (with his hand and cane!), which was captured on video!!! Given how much the #BernieBro narrative is being pushed by Hillary Clinton and even investigated by Senate Intelligence Committee investigators! Then we talk to standup comedian, writer and filmmaker Travis Irvine about his run for mayor and his documentary about it, American Mayor, and his stand up album, "Guy from Ohio."
Thu, September 21, 2017
Running While Socialist! LIVE! Jabari Brisport & Rev. Khader El-Yateem
Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/14485685 This is our LIVE TAPING episode with Khader El-Yateem and Jabari Brisport, who were inspired to run for city council by Bernie Sanders (whom they admire) and by Trump (whose scary & destructive victory convinced them to enter politics). A Palestinian, Arab-American, socialist Khader El-Yateem is a community organizer & faith leader who is committed to social justice. He talks about how his experience being imprisoned & tortured by Israeli soldiers inspired him to seek understanding and dialog. He ran as a Democrat and though he lost the primary by 7 points, he scored an amazing victory by coming so close and taking on the Democratic Machine. Like Rev. El-Yateem, Jabari Brisport was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). A third generation Brooklyn resident, Jabari is still in the race, having run on the Green Party ticket. We discuss the Bernie Bro Myth, which they shatter as an Arab-American and African American, "coming out," as socialist and why they ran in the parties they did.
Mon, September 18, 2017
Thomas Frank on Clinton's book & Nomiki Konst on Clinton's trolls
For our full interview with Thomas Frank: https://www.patreon.com/posts/14431054 Our live taping with Jabari Brisport & Khader El-Yateem: https://www.facebook.com/events/1467429373350975/ Gabe and I talk to writer Thomas Frank about Hillary Clinton's new book "What Happened." Then we talk to Nomiki Konst, a reporter at The Young Turks and a member of the DNC's Reform Unity Commission about what's happening in the Democratic Party. Nomiki also talks about neoliberal economics and online trolls who spread dangerous messages. We also go over the #AltWoke
Fri, September 15, 2017
actual Dr. Adam Gaffney: Bernie's Medicare for All Bill & the "sneaky phrase" of universal coverage
For the rest of our interview and to hear Hillary Clinton appointees, including Neera Tanden, vote against SIngle Payer, join out patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/14392323. Actual Dr. Adam Gaffney, one of the biggest advocates for single payer talks to us about Bernie Sanders' medicare for all bill. Why it matters, where it comes from and the sneaky language libs use to undermine single payer while pretending to support it.
Thu, September 07, 2017
Palestinian-Socialist-Pastor Khader El-Yateem takes on Dems. A Lefty & Lib debate #Medicare4All
Full debate is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-medicare-14279019. We talk to Rev.Khader El-Yateem, a Lutheran pastor, Arab-American, proud immigrant, and father of four who is running for City Council in Brooklyn's 43rd District. Wait until you hear his story. Then we bring you some hot Left of Left debate between Dr. Adam Gaffney and journalist Josh Holland over Medicare For All. We will be posting the rest of the debate shortly for our Patreon supporters! Sit tight.
Tue, September 05, 2017
"Obama betrayed DREAMers by putting their personal information in Trump's hands"
For more go to: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-1-ny-times-14239759. This is a really jam-packed episode! First, I share my experience touching Bernie Sanders, then we play audio from a speech he gave at Riverside Church, the same church where Martin Luther King gave his "Beyond Vietnam" speech 50 years ago. Gabe and I discuss both speeches, Joe Arpaio and why a New York TImes journalist is repeating a smear first hatched in March 2016 about Jane Sanders. We even include a Woody Allen Woody Guthrie mashup, and you will see why. Then I talk to Karina Moreno, a professor at LIU, who specializes in immigration about Donald Trump's decision on DACA. Karina, who was once undocumented herself, shares her experience living "with a black cloud of dread" over her head, and how President Obama betrayed the DREAMers by handing over their personal information to Donald Trump. Were dreamers better off before DACA? Listen to find out.
Fri, August 25, 2017
The #TheResistance Awards with District Sentinel
To hear the list of our top picks of #pseudowoke #altWoke #Resistance Twitter, go to https://www.patreon.com/posts/14048928. We talk to Sam Knight and Sam Sacks from The District Sentinel about Afghanistan, RT, Putin, George Bush's painting career, Alex Jones, and an absurd listicle of Resistance twitter, published on a conservative outlet, and written by a friend of Sean Spicer, who happens to include herself. Also, I share memories of Jane Fonda workouts.
Fri, August 18, 2017
#AllSidesMatter & #NaziSelfLove with Shuja Haider & Nick Murray
Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-chase-on-13929906/edit We talk to Shuja Haider about his recent piece in Jacobin, "One Has to Take Sides," and Nick Murray about his piece in Viewpoint "Defending Charlottesville: A Report from the Ground."
Sun, August 13, 2017
Jack Smith reporting from Charlottesville, VA: why this is a historic moment & Neera Tanden is wrong
The rest of the interview is available here for Patreon subscribers. https://www.patreon.com/posts/13834332 Mic reporter Jack Smith IV talks to me about the #AltRight rally in Charlottesville, VA, where he's been reporting from on the ground. He shares what he observed, his take on the police, which isn't what you'd expect, and why Neera Tanden is so wrong.
Thu, August 10, 2017
Larry Krasner, Paula Jean Swearengin, Stephen Jaffe, Ginger Jenzten, Andre Vasquez
This ep is like a Variety Show for the Left. We bring you 5 interviews I did at The People's Summit in Chicago. Meet Larry Krasner, the anti-death penalty, civil rights attorney who won the Democratic primary and is running for Philadelphia DA; Paula Jean Swearengin, a real-life coal miner's daughter, running against Senator Joe Manchin to represent West Virginia; Stephen Jaffe running against Nancy Pelosi; Ginger Jantzen, running for Minneapolis City Council Ward 3, and Andre Vasquez, who should run for office but is currently executive director of Reclaim Chicago/Chicago Progress.
Fri, July 28, 2017
John McCain is still a racist war criminal & other nuanced observations with Adam Johnson
Bonus of James Adomian as John McCain is here. https://www.patreon.com/posts/13472544. Bonus of Adam Gaffney on Single Payer & Skinny Repeal fail here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-actual-dr-13477726 We talk to journalist Adam Johnson about his piece "WaPo Worships Principled, Humanitarian McCain That’s Never Existed" and why John McCain is still a war criminal who is fetishized for his tone and decorum, even though he has a pretty terrible temper and gross tone. We go over why McCain refuses to stop using racial slurs, setting bombing campaigns to pop music, and whether we agree with Donald Trump's assessment of McCain.
Thu, July 20, 2017
Teaser: Bonus episode with Adam Johnson
to hear the full episode please join our patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/13126341
Wed, July 19, 2017
Randy "@IronStache" Bryce: The iron worker veteran running against Paul Ryan!
MAKE SURE YOU HEAR OUR BONUS EP: https://www.patreon.com/posts/13126341 On this episode we talk to Randy @IronStache Bryce, the union iron worker running to defeat Paul Ryan about his campaign, his time in the military, what he learned from being stationed in Honduras and his interesting ethnic identity. Then we talk to Karina Moreno about "The politics of Solidarity, Muslim and Latino immigrants " and the silver lining of the Trump presidency.
Sun, July 16, 2017
Neoliberalism's covert racism & overt classism with "progressive warrior" Anoa Changa
We talk to "progressive warrior" Anoa Changa, host of The Way with Anoa, about the difference between shallow identity politics and real intersectionality, the relationship between economic and racial justice, fighting racism within the progressive movement & calling out the "covert racism & overt classism" of North Eastern liberals. Anoa talks James Baldwin, Adolph Reed, W.E.B DuBois, offers tips & insights into how we become a movement of the 99%. And Anoa and I discuss the value of talking about Sanders' campaign and the response it garnered from critics. Plus Gabe and I talk about my birthday, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Joy Reid and Neera Tanden.
Fri, June 30, 2017
Thomas Frank, dead people's birthdays, worst health care takes yet
To access out bonus Thomas Frank Interview, join our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/12313026 This is a really fun ep! We talk about pushup bras, Salvador Allende, gun violence vs violence, worst health care takes and then we talk to THOMAS FRANK! Also, there is indeed documentary evidence that Pinochet et al were going to kill Allende, despite claiming to offer him exile.
Wed, June 21, 2017
Historian Matt Karp: "Woke Goldman Sachs" Democratic Coalition Keeps Losing
This episode is a live taping we did with PRINCETON historian Matt Karp. Matt talks about Frederick Douglas, the Civil War, the inspiration he takes from the periodic over throw of the ruling class, themistake the Dems make in courting woke Goldman Sachs, and the value of "Bernie Would have Won". Matt's analysis of the Kansas special election is especially relevant to Ossoff's loss.
Mon, June 19, 2017
The Left case against "No Platforming": Freddie DeBoer & Angela Nagle
Bonus is some of the standup I did after the show: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-katie-does-11813787 On this live taping of The Katie Halper Show, we talk to writer Angela Nagle (Kill All Normies) & Freddie DeBoer live and in person! We talk about free speech, why "No Platforming" is so annoying as a term and a practice, what a better word for it is, and one of the most annoying things about the Alt Right. DeBoer and Nagle make a great argument against no platforming from the Left.
Fri, June 09, 2017
Ben Jealous on running for MD Governor & Winnie Wong on The People's Summit
Ben Jealous, the former president of NAACP, and Bernie Sanders surrogate returns to the show to talk running for governor of MD. He also reflects on the connection between racial and economic (in)justice and the false dichotomy of one or the other. Then we talk to Winnie Wong about the People's Summit people like Ben Jealous and Bernie Sanders as well as countless organizers will be gathering... Stay tuned for more from there.
Thu, June 08, 2017
Sam Kriss: Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa May & chinless, witless aristocrats
We talk to writer, essayist and extremely smart (not JUST because of his British accent) person Sam Kriss about the British elections. Who will win? Why? When? How? Where? Why do Donald Trump and Theresa cling to each other, physically? And spiritually? Is Barack Obama more like Corbyn or Le Pen? The answer just might surprise you! Plus Gabe and I talk about public transportation, the movie Seven, the number 7, My (literal) best friend's wedding and more.
Fri, June 02, 2017
Freddie DeBoer: "the threat of Left Wing political violence is laughable"
See Freddie LIVE at our June 14 event! http://www.give2wbai.org/product_p/ot0738-sp17.htm On this episode we talk to writer and academic Freddie DeBoer about political violence, no platforming and how the political Left needs more, not less, theory. Freddie argues against political violence and restriction of free speech (no-platforming) as viable tactics, saying, that the appeal some on the Left find in the idea of political violence "is more about managing disappointment that asking how we can actually win." Because "the Left lacks power in most contexts," no platforming would mean, "we're not going to be the censors. We're going to be the censored." Guest co-host Josh brings us headlines in the voice of a certain singer from the 1990s.
Wed, May 31, 2017
Black Lung/ White Privilege: Trillbilly Worker's Party
This was supposed to be a bonus episode, but it's too good to not be available for all! We talk to the Trillbillies Workers' Party about their podcast, one of the top ten Left podcasts to come out of Appalachia. Based out of Whitesburg, KY, Trillbillies Tanya Turner, Tom Sexton, and Tarence Ray blow J.D. Vance and his "Hillbillies Elegy" book out of the... coal mine... We talk to them about the white privilege that protects coal miners from the Black Lung which kills them, a homecoming welfare Queen AND King!, sex ed, pervie Marxist professors, and that one time Tom worked at the Clinton Foundation and had a heart to heart with Hillary Clinton's brother. Before that, Gabe and I go over the news, the Roger Stone documentary, and the time I saw Roger Stone, but didn't notice because I was too distracted by Alex Jones, who was waddling behind him. As you will see, there is a lot of REM in this episode. Coming soon: bonus content from this ep, which includes a discussion about J.D. Vance and the stupid racism vs. economic anxiety false dichotomy.
Wed, May 24, 2017
khalid kamau: the 1st #BlackLivesMatter & Democratic Socialist elected official!
On this episode, we talk to khalid kamau, the 1st ever #BlackLivesMatter organizer elected to office! A member of DSA(Democratic Socialists of America), kamau worked for the Bernie Sanders campaign and was endorsed by Sanders and Our Revolution. Councilman kamau (South Fulton, Georgia City Council District 6)talks to us about the walk out he organized as a 12-year-old, Hillary Clinton's hot sauce, Bernie Sanders' messaging, why we need Black & Brown candidates, & why he can't tell the difference between Neil Diamond & Paul Simon.
Wed, May 10, 2017
Angela Nagle: how precious liberals kind of helped create the Alt Right
We talk to Angela Nagle about her forthcoming book "Kill All Normies: Online culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right" about how liberals kinda sorta emboldened the Alt Right by being so grating. OK. My words, not Angela's. She's smarter and more nuanced, of course. Make sure you look out for the RIchard Spencer Corky St. Clair mashup. They may or may not be the same person. Also, something kind of meta is that I CANNOT tag RIchard Spencer in this soundcloud.
Fri, April 28, 2017
Meet the people who got Bill O'Reilly Fired: Rashad Robinson & Color of Change
We talk to Rashad Robinson, the executive director of Color of Change about how they got Bill O'Reilly fired (finally!). Rashad also talks about organizing under Trump and finds the perfect movie analogy for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. But first Gabe and I talk about abortion, the death penalty and everything in between. We also bring some bad news to the people pushing the Bernie Bro myth and have a special report form Carl Beijer! Make sure you come for the bonus content in which I share my story about meeting Sean Hannity and Sarah Jaffe breaks down the hypocrisy of the Democrats and mainstream feminists when it comes to abortion. Trigger warning: she criticizes Bernie, too.
Wed, April 26, 2017
Rania Khalek on Syria and being a "generic Druze"
I talk to Rania Khalek the day before she heads back to the Middle East to report from Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. Rania talks about what nobody wants to say about Syria, the efforts to ban her from speaking, and the claim that she has a "generic Druze position," which she uses trickery to conceal. We also talk to Ben Norton about the 5 best (or worst) hype men for the Syrian War (a bunch are at The New York Times), and we talk to Nando Vila about Brian Williams & how little we've learned from Iraq.
Mon, April 17, 2017
DSA's Erin Neff on socialism & feminists who over identify with Clinton
Dating While Socialist Bonus Ep https://www.patreon.com/posts/8888812 On this episode, Gabe Pacheco and I talk to Erin Neff of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) about how Bernie Sanders AND Trump helped socialism grow: "Bernie planted the seeds and then Trump sh*t on them." Plus, how woke is Trump? How political is The Wizard of Oz? How helpful are dogs to homeless people? Then Erin and break down Susan Bordo's piece "The Destruction of Hillary Clinton," paragraph by paragraph. It's a good time.
Fri, March 31, 2017
Actual Dr. Adam Gaffney debunks 5 annoying myths used against universal health care
Subscribe to Patreon for bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/posts/8635065 DOCTOR Adam Gaffney (MD!!)explains why single payer health care is, in fact, doable, feasible, affordable and the only option. We talk to Adam about his pieces (from this week) in The Guardian and Jacobin, the difference between Trumpcare and Obamacare, the most persistent myths used against single payer, and the two types of people who spread them. Also, Gabe and I do a deep dive (for about 5 minutes) into Iron Fist.
Fri, March 24, 2017
Florida clears men who burned inmate to death, removes law-abiding 1st Black state attorney
Bonus: extra interview with Allegra Love https://www.patreon.com/posts/8554342 On this episode we talk to immigration lawyer Allegra Love about what undocumented workers can do and what we can do to support them. Then we talk to Christine Henderson of Equal Justice USA, about Rick Scott's unprecedented removal of a state attorney who won't be seeking the penalty. She happens to be the first African American state attorney in Florida's history. At the very same time, another state attorney, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, is still in power after deciding not to prosecute a single person involved in the death of a schizophrenic African American inmate who was burned to death in a shower whose temperature was caused by guards. It turns out Rundle has two loser sons with multiple arrests. They're alive, however, and one is even a lawyer. I go over Rundle's pathetic and dishonest q & a on why she won't prosecute anyone. Plus Gorsuch's demon mother and demon voice.
Thu, March 16, 2017
Matt Bruenig on liberals who are actually conservative + Get Out!
I make guest co-host Jesse Myerson very uncomfortable through my analysis of the film Get Out. Then guest Matt Bruenig talks about why liberals are like conservatives but without the coherence. Also, check out our bonus ep with Nando Vila in which we talk about the #BernieAllIn Town Hall with coal miners in Kentucky & #MaddowGate https://www.patreon.com/posts/8465126
Wed, March 08, 2017
#womenStrike organizers Tithi Bhattacharya & Kate D Griffiths
Tithi Bhattacharya & Kate D Griffiths talk about what inspired the #womenstrike & respond to think pieces written by privileged white women criticizing the strike for being only for privileged white women without bothering to talk to anyone striking or organizing it.
Mon, March 06, 2017
Jane McAlevey on winning & No Short Cuts. Nomiki Konst on what the DNC is hiding
On this episode Gabe and i talk to Jane F. McAlevey who has been an organizer in the environmental and labor movements for over 20 years. She A Post Doctoral Fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the author "Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement." We talk to Jane about her latest book, "No Short cuts: organizing for power in the New Guilded Age." She even tells us something she has never said before! After the interview, Gabe and I talk about identity politics, DNC chair race and some surprisingly racists things Garrison Keeler said. Then we get into some not at all surprisingly racist things that renowned bigot Alan Dershowitz said. And as a bonus, I talk to Nomiki Konst, a reporter at the Young Turks, who has done the best and most thorough reporting on the conflicts of interest rampant at the DNC and the DNC chair race. This was going to be patreon premium content but it's too important for me not to share part of it with everyone. But to hear the rest of the interview with Nomiki Konst, go to patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow https://www.patreon.com/posts/8346121. And major shout out to Kathleen Hancock who answered the call I put out on twitter and Facebook asking for a bumper we could use at the beginning and end of videos we make out of our some of our shows. She's extremely talented and donated her talent and time to us.
Sat, February 25, 2017
Why we must shame neolib shills to defeat Trump & Dems supporting Perez must like Trump
Guest host Jesse Myerson and I talk to Becky Bond about concrete ways to organize against Trump, what big organizing means and why the Revolution will be neither staffed nor exploitative. We also go over the role of podcast hosts and whether I can some how subsidize good organizations fighting against Trump by fighting with shills on Twitter. And then we talk about the #DNCchair race and how it reveals the utter stupidity of some establishment dems (my words not Becky's). We have great bonus content coming up tomorrow, which consists of my reading the best and worst tweets of the week, thoughts on Sally Albright and Jen Palmieri and a bonus interview with Sarah Jaffe. But we have a freebie bonus at the end of the episode in which Sarah shares her thoughts on the #DNCchair race.
Fri, February 17, 2017
Nina Turner on whether the Dems can be saved, Melissa Byrne on why she's running for #DNCViceChair
On this episode, we talk to former State Senator Nina Turner on why the Democrats need to apologize and confess their sins and how Democrats can actually win elections. She also tells us how the #DNCChair race will be a litmus test for whether the party want the reform it so desperately needs. Then we talk to former Sanders digital organizer Melissa Byrne on why she's running for DNC chair.
Fri, February 10, 2017
Nelini Stamp & Sarah Jaffe: #ResistTrumpTuesdays, & fat bottomed girls punching Nazis
We talk to Nelini Stamp, organizer of #ResistTrumpTuesdays & Working Families Party national membership director and Sarah Jaffe, writer, journalist and author of "Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt."
Fri, February 03, 2017
To General Strike Or Not To General Strike, That Is The Question.
On this very exciting episode of the Katie Halper Show, Gabe Pacheco and I talk about the Trump administration's decision to omit the words "Jews" and"antisemitism" from its Holocaust Memorial Day statement. While the administration seriously pretends they did so because they have an intersectional understand of the Holocaust and want to honor all victims, we're pretty sure it's because they're Nazi-courting. Then we talk to journalist Eoin Higgins about why he called for a general strike. We bring in journalists Natasha Lennard and Arun Gupta to debate the if, when, why and how of a general strike and what opposition to Trump can and will look like. Check out the bonus debate between Gupta and Lennard over the role of black block, violence and Nazi-punching in organizing against Trump. https://www.patreon.com/posts/7982160
Sun, January 29, 2017
Chase Madar on Chelsea Manning & sadism, Ben Adler on Governor Moonbeam, Katie on Bear Sex
On this episode of the Katie Halper, we talk Chelsea Manning, the fate of the planet, Judith Miller's tweets and sex with Bears (oh my!) We speak to journalist Ben Adler about what Trump can and can't do to ruin the planet and what states can do to try to save it. Ben and I get into a debate over Chelsea Manning being a litmus test for political orientation, which is funny because Ben doesn't cover that and doesn't know a lot about the case and neither did I, though that didn't stop either of us from arguing about it. To be fair, I'm the host and Ben was admitted upfront this wasn't his area of expertise. So, I then talk to Chase Madar, a lawyer, writer ad author of The Passion of Bradley Manning (written and published before Chelsea had come out as transgender and changed names)about the case, Judith Miller's tweets, and why journalists need to stop treating politicians the way Park Slope parents treat their enabled and coddled children. When it comes to criminal justice reform, "the time for positive reenforcement is past."
Mon, January 23, 2017
Women's March special with Karina Moreno
Our latest episode, which is a great one, is coming ASAP! Sorry for delay. Got distracted by the whole Trump becoming president thing. But, speaking of the devil, pun maybe intended?, we have a great bonus ep about the Trump-inspired Women's March and we're making it available for errrbody, even if you're not a Patreon subscriber. We wanted to make sure you could hear it and also thought it would be medically irresponsible for us to induce withdrawal in our loyal listeners... So, here is the (only one hour) discussion I had with special guest Karina Moreno, a professor at LIU who writes and focuses on immigration and is herself a native of Monterey, Mexico. and with Reggie Johnson that was part of a three hour special covering the women's march.
Fri, January 13, 2017
Abby Martin: the Empires Files host on being accused of helping Russia hack the election
We talk to Abby Martin and Mike Prysner, the host and producer of the Empire Files, about why the DNI intelligence report named Martin as responsible for helping Russia Putin hack the elections. Spoiler alert: she didn't. And we go over Trump's presser, the headlines, why the intelligence community needs better interns and more. We also bring up Nando Vila of Fusion and Sam Alcoff of DemocracyNow! and start a larger conversation about the media under Trump. In order to hear the rest of that conversation, which I really recommend, join our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/7760961
Sat, January 07, 2017
Doug Henwood: in defense of recriminations & not moving on
In this really, really good ep, if I do say so myself, Doug Henwood and go over the refusal of the DNC & the Clinton campaign to acknowledge or learn from their mistakes, even when their mistakes helped bring us Trump. Henwood points out that if you care about the people who will most suffer under Trump, you can't shield Clinton or the DNC. You have to actually look at what happened so it doesn't happen again. We also look at why the same liberals who loudly insist that all Trump voters are bigots have zero interest in actually coming up with any solutions to this problem. Their only solution seems to be to wait around for decades until the demography shifts. As a bonus we are offering a video of Doug and Liza Featherstone to everyone at Patreon. And we will have bonus content for our Patreon supporters. Make sure you come to our next live show! https://www.facebook.com/events/1190832977697158/
Fri, December 30, 2016
All professor George Ciccariello-Maher wants for Christmas is white genocide
Drexel professor George Ciccariello-Maher caused quite the controversy and white supremacist melt down when he tweeted on Christmas Eve, "all I want for Christmas is White Genocide," a satirical reference to a concept that Ciccariello-Maher describes as a "figment of the racist imagination." To clarify, to white supremacists, white genocide consists of things like interracial dating and biracial families. Ciccariello-Maher was responding to to the white supremacists backlash against an All State insurance add which deigned to feature a Black man proposing to a white woman. Ciccariello-Maher was immediately attacked by white supremacists and their publications like Breitbart, which knowingly distorted what he said into a literal call for the massacring of white people and the elimination of the (socially constructed)white race. Not only did Ciccariello-Maher get death threats but his employer, Drexel University threw him under the bus when it kinda sorta defended his right to free speech but condemned his comments, which they didn't bother to, like, google, as "utterly reprehensible, deeply disturbing." We talk to Ciccariello-Maher about his tweet, the response it provoked, how Drexel has come around, the role of violence, why the "massacre" of "whites during the Haitian revolution... was a good thing indeed," and how to resist Trumpism.
Fri, December 23, 2016
Suzi Weissman & Robert Brenner on the lack of evidence behind Russian government hacking elections
For the full extended interview, join our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-why-didnt-7564559 We talk to award winning journalist Suzi Weissman and historian Robert Brenner, the Beyonce & Jay Z of the left, about Hillary Clinton running against herself, why Bernie Sanders is the story of the century and why the media is so out of touch, it blames Trump's victory on the fight for the $15 minimum wage. Plus Suzi, a Sovietologist, sheds lights on the ridiculous claims about the Russian government. And we talk to to Leila Ben-Abdallah about her one-woman puppet-based show, Good Morning Zitounia, about the Arab Spring. Gabe reviews the film Allende.
Fri, December 16, 2016
Drinking tea with bigots & reading Baldwin to Trump: Zaid Jilani, Kazembe Balagun, Karina Moreno
In this live show show we talk to Zaid Jilani (The Intercept), Karina Moreno (LIU, Brooklyn), and Kazembe Balagun (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung NYC) about how neoliberal centrists hide behind identity politics to push their awful agenda which, of course, hurts the very marginalized people they claim to be concerned with. Make sure you sign up as a patreon member so you can hear the full discussion and the Q&A, which features questions from former guests Brendan James & Freddie DeBoer. https://www.patreon.com/posts/7509838
Mon, December 12, 2016
Lucy Flores on Emily's List's not so pro-choice choices, Keith Ellison, and being a troll warrior
Outspoken pro-choice advocate Lucy Flores, who still faces death threats for revealing having had an abortion at the age of 16, was backed by the influential pro-choice PAC "Emily's List," the two times she ran for Nevada State Assembly. But when Flores ran for Congress this year, they decided to back her primary opponent. Why? Spoiler alert/ hint: she didn't back Clinton & isn't a millionaire. Speaking of the political establishment, Flores talks about why she's been tempted to leave the Democratic Party, the new direction she hopes it moves in, why she wound up endorsing Keith Ellison for DNC chair, and how the murder of her two older brothers, the departure of her mother, and her trouble with the law as a teenager influenced her life and her politics. Plus we anoint Lucy a troll warrior.
Thu, December 01, 2016
Matt Stoller on the rise of autocracy & Krugman, Leslie Lee on Sanders excellent identity politics
Make sure you join our Patreon to get the extra interview chunk with Matt Stoller. On this episode of the Katie Halper Show, we dissect the way the media smeared Bernie Sanders and his position on identity politics, which, it turns out, is much more nuanced than the position of his peers. Lee argues that the media disingenuously and intentionally distorts what Sanders says for political and ideological reasons and that people who are honest mistakenly pick up this manufactured narrative. We then talk to Matt Stoller about how and why Trump was elected and how our response to him will shape the agenda. He also warns us against taking economists seriously and shares his thoughts on Paul Krugman and populism vs progressivism. And he kills some narratives with his own bare hands. He's also a surprisingly good motivational speaker.
Fri, November 25, 2016
#NoDAPL special: Josh Fox, Neasa Seneca, Deia Schlosberg & 45 years for filming at Standing Rock
Climate Change activist & filmmaker Josh Fox (Gasland, How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can't Change) calls us from the bus on his way back to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation; Neasa Seneca tells us what made her, her brothers, fathers and cousins drive 25 hours to Standing Rock; and Deia Schlosberg talks to us about her arrest and 45 year sentence for filming a non violent protest. Police have responded to these peaceful to protect the water and the earth with violence and dishonesty, shooting rubber bullets, spraying mace and tear gas and water cannons at protestors in sub-zero temperatures. The latest act of brutality was a concussion grenade which blew off part of the arm of Sophia Wilanksy. She is 21 and her arm might be amputated. The police have denied using water cannons and concussion grenades despite eye witnesses and even shrapnel removed from Sophia's arm.
Thu, November 17, 2016
Judah Friedlander, Arish Singh, Zack Exley, Becky Bond & Rules for Revolutionaries
"Trump was an excellent candidate for hate. Bernie was a good candidate for love. Hillary was...neither. So, love didn't even get into the finals." - JUDAH FRIEDLANDER (more quotes below) For this week's episode, we talk to comedians Arish Singh and Judah Friedlander about the causes and outcome of the 2016 Presidential election! We also speak to former Sanders campaign organizers Zack Exley & Becky Bond about their brand new book, Rules for Revolutionaries, what the Clinton campaign got wrong, and what we can get right. "How can you blame people for not participating when politicians are promising more of the same system and call you naive if you want something more? I think the Democrats treated the base like they were takers. And that’s Paul Ryan’s line. It shouldn’t be the democrats." - BECKY BOND "With Dems like these, who needs Paul Ryan?" - KATIE HALPER MORE QUOTES HERE! https://www.patreon.com/posts/7271387
Wed, November 16, 2016
Why Trump Won: Freddie DeBoer, Amber A'Lee Frost, Juan Mejia
the night after Trump is elected president, Amber A'lee Frost, Freddie DeBoer and Juan Mejia talk about what just happened. Make sure you check out the whole interview here https://www.patreon.com/posts/7262740.
Mon, November 14, 2016
Ben Jealous predicts & explains a Trump victory hours before anyone else saw it coming
At 6pm on November 8th, while the rest of us were trying to figure out how to hold soon to be president-elect Hillary Clinton's feet to the progressive fire, our guest had already figured out how and why we Trump would likely win. The guest was Ben Jealous, former NAACP president & Sanders surrogate, who wound up endorsing Hillary Clinton and forming Our Revolution, the continuation of the movement inspired by Sanders campaign. And his prediction was based on the Sonny and Cher show and cicadas. Ben also talked to us about the fight for marriage equality in Maryland, which was won, the fight to save Troy Davis's life, which was lost, and how to get out of bed the morning after the state murders a man it knows is innocent.
Sat, November 05, 2016
Jill Stein Live Taping! Beatles or Elvis, third party dating, vaccines & wifi.
On this week's episode we talk to Jill Stein, Green Party Candidate for president. We ask her about spices, Trump vs. Clinton, BDS, what keeps her healthy, Beatles, Stones, Elvis, vaccines and wifi. In a historic moment, Jill Stein sings a snippet of her favorite song. For bonus content and the entire interview, join our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/TheKatieHalperShow Our next live show will be with Jeremy Scahill & Amber A'Lee Frost at Brooklyn Commons on November 9 at 7pm!
Sun, October 30, 2016
Greg Grandin: "Over the top descriptions of Trump as unprecedented in U.S. history are not true."
During this live show, Latin American historian Greg Grandin talks to us about how Donald Trump fits into U.S. history and the "cycles of insanity." He also goes over why Human Rights Watch actively opposed the peace process in Colombia, that time Bill Clinton threw Hillary's health care project under the bus, and why we can expect worse than Trump. For the full interview plus q & a, become a Patreon supporter!
Thu, October 27, 2016
David Dayen on AT&T merger & woke neoliberalism, Becky Bond plans my Hillary wedding
David Dayen talks to us about the AT&T merger and what it means for fans of Game of Thrones. And he explains one of the biggest revelations from Wikileaks. Becky Bond tells us why a Clinton win would be one step forward but two steps back. She talks about the Left's shotgun wedding to Hillary Clinton. And then things get personal... between me and Hillary.
Fri, October 14, 2016
Zaid Jilani on wikileaks & being called a "freak" by Clinton's "loyal foot soldier" Neera Tanden
Intercept Journalist, Zaid Jilani, talks about his experience reporting on Wikileaks and discovering that he is the subject of a leaked e-mail from a Clinton confidant, who calls him a freak. We also talk about minimum wage and Sanders' wokeness, not in those exact words...
Thu, September 29, 2016
Emmett Rensin, Nando Vila, Woke Trump, dumb millennials & Bernie Sanders legs
This episode of the Katie Halper comes from Miami. Nando Vila and I discuss the presidential debates, woke Trump, meeting Bernie Sanders and the rom-com that would star Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and David Brock. We also go over the conservitization of liberals and Hillary's smiles. Then we talk to Emmett Rensin about his great Newsweek piece on Millennials.
Thu, September 22, 2016
Glenn Greenwald on Clinton supporters, the Edward Snowden playlist & the afterlife
On this really amazing episode of the Katie Halper show, we talk to Glenn Greenwald, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and founder of The Intercept. We talk about why some Hillary Clinton's supporters are attacking the very voters they should be courting if they are being sincere when they call Trump a fascist; how we're relieved that there is no afterlife; if the Washington Post should give back its pulitzer; whether Kevin Drum actually has a crush on Bernie; Which song Hillary Clinton should play for Edward Snowden; and why Glenn is kind of like a certain character from The Wire.
Fri, September 16, 2016
the 9/11 family that helped save the so-called 20th hijacker
On this week's show we talk about Pinochet, Hillary Clinton, Colin Kaepernick, Rob Lowe and Kate Upton. We talk about my least favorite person in the world and play an interesting and exposing trivia game. And we have the perfect plan for Henry Kissinger and Ari Fleischer, which involves daiquiris and foot rubs. Then we talk to Phyllis Rodriguez. She and her husband Orlando lost their son Greg on 9/11. He was 31 years old and worked on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center. They urged the U.S. Government to not kill innocent civilians in Afghanistan in the name of their son. Phyllis befriended the mother of the so-called 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui and Orlando testified for his defense and against the death penalty. We talk to Phyllis about how and why they were able to be so compassionate despite the loss of their son and despite the jingoism and blood lust that swept the country and appealed to people who hadn't lost any loved ones in the attack.
Mon, September 12, 2016
Before Colin Kapernick, There Was Toni Smith
In 2002 years ago, college basketball player Toni Smith-Thompson turned her back on the American flag during the national anthem. sparking protests, death threats and hate mail. Today, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kapernick is refusing to stand during the national anthem. But 14 years later, the same attacks are still being used against athletes who take political stands. Toni goes through some of them and debunks the worst arguments being made then and now.
Thu, September 08, 2016
The worst thing Obama has ever done, pipeline fever & attack dogs
On this episode of the Katie Halper Show we present the most Orwellian thing Obama has ever done and wonder if he's trying to destroy his own legacy. We chat with Credo Political director Murshed Zaheed about the TPP, secret courts, and Naughty by Nature. And we talk to Krystal Two Bulls (Oglala Lakota) from the Red Warrior Camp about the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, and why security guards sicked attack dogs on non-violent protestors and the company has already bulldozed sacred Native American burial grounds.
Thu, September 01, 2016
Katie Baker, Juanita Broaddrick & "Believe Women [unless it's politically inconvenient]"
INTERVIEW WITH BROADDRICK https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/juanita-broaddrick-on-being-raped-by-bill-clinton-thrown-under-the-bus On this episode of The Katie Halper Show, Katie Halper and Gabe Pacheco talk to Katie Baker, who wrote the Buzzfeed profile on Juanita Broaddrick. In 1999, Broaddrick accused Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978 in her hotel room in Little Rock Arkansas. Not surprisingly, the mainstream-liberal feminist media responded with a deafening silence, which was shattered by Wonkette's Rebecca Schoenkopf. Schoenkopf, who is a Hillary Clinton supporter, was the only one not on the right wing to respond to the story and wound up issuing a bit of a rape apology. The same week that the Buzzfeed story came out, feminists were tweeting "believe women." But it wasn't in reference to Broaddrick. It was in reference to the women who had accused a New York comedian of raping them. Gabe talks about the rape controversy rocking the NYC comedy scene, Kurt Metzger and Amy Schumer.
Thu, August 18, 2016
Brendan James, Becky Bond, good rape etiquette, & "progressives" for Clinton
Former Bernie Sanders organizer & senior advisor Becky Bond has a wake up call for the "progressives" who helped defeat Sanders: "You broke it, you bought it." Chapo Traphouse producer & journalist Brendan James (Slate, Guardian, Vice)talks to us about Donald Trump, Roger Ailes, and Juanita Broaddrick.
Thu, August 11, 2016
Benjamin Dixon, Jimmy Dore, punching down & punching left.
I talk to Benjamin Dixon of the Benjamin Dixon Show and Jimmy Dore of the Jimmy Dore show about how Clinton supporters are kinda sabotaging her and her campaign.
Fri, July 15, 2016
#WeAreTheLeft with Amber A'Lee Frost & Carl Beijer. #StillSanders with Josh Fox & Nomi Konst
On this episode of The Katie Halper Show we talk to Amber A'Lee Frost and Carl Beijer about the #WeAreTheLeft manifesto. Then we talk to Sanders surrogates Josh Fox and Nomiki Konst about what they witnessed at the Democratic Platform, Josh's historic amendment and what's next for the movement inspired by Bernie Sanders.
Thu, July 07, 2016
Max Blumenthal on getting called out by Clinton, Carl Diggler on love, life, & loss
Max Blumenthal explains why an article he wrote this week about Eli Wiesel provoked the wrath of the Right Wing and earned him a personalized admonishment from the Clinton campaign. Plus he exposes the less admirable parts of Eli Wiesel's life, ideas, and positions on Palestinians, evangelical pastors. Then Carl "The Dig" Diggler opens up about love, life, loss, and elections.
Fri, July 01, 2016
Rania Khalek on Sanders vs Clinton & her 9-year-old niece who impersonates Hillary Clinton
Rania Khalek talks about the Democratic Platform Committee and the battle between #1 Sanders appointees who are doing his racist, misogynist bidding by voting to raise the minimum wage and save the planet)#2. and Clinton's appointees who are voting against those things. Also, we learn how Israel's fabulous gay culture is the perfect match for its oppression of Palestinians, which really matches with everything. Israel: come for the gay bars, stay for the housing demolitions
Thu, June 30, 2016
Lee Fang on John Lewis defending a racist no fly list HE was on, Nomiki Konst violent #hillbros
Lee Fang explains the racist no fly list that John Lewis is supporting even though he himself was placed on it! Nomiki Konst talks about the DNC NY delegation, where the rules were, OF COURSE, violated and an old white man hit a young woman of color with a cane.
Fri, June 17, 2016
The Intercept's Zaid Jilani on Trump, Terrorism & the connection between Taylor Swift & ISIS
We are joined by Zaid Jilani of The Intercept about the Orlando shooting, Islamophobia, Trump, Clinton, and the connection between ISIS & Taylor Swift. Quote gem: "any terrorist organization is going to use grievances to recruit people. And those grievances that do have some legitimacy, we do want to pay attention to them because we do want to deprive terrorist organizations of recruits. That doesn't mean if someone says i'm going to shoot up a gay bar unless you give me a million dollars, then we should give into that. But killing less people is a positive concept. And that is something we should take into consideration and understand."
Wed, June 15, 2016
Chapo Trap House's Historic Physical Meetup & Rania Khalek on identity Politics
In this live show recording, we talk identity politics with independent journalist, Rania Khalek, and the trio behind podcast Chapo Trap House: Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, and Will Menaker. We take on ERRbody from Neera Tanden to liberals to Amy Goodman! Well, we kind of try to talk like her. Nothing but love for Amy & Democracy Now! Wanna get your hands on an exclusive unedited video of the live show ASAP? Donate to WBAI here & pick The Katie Halper Show as your favorite show! http://www.give2wbai.org/category_s/1830.htm Choose $25 or more. Select if you want to be thanked on air. YOU MUST SELECT Katie Halper Show under the show you want to donated under. And you will be sent a link to the top secret (for now) video.
Mon, May 16, 2016
Babes for Bernie: Coast to Coast
This week episode is brought to you from sea to shining sea as Katie Halper calls in from her trip to California while Kathleen Graves holds it down on the east coast. From voter registration drives in Jersey to panel discussions in LA the Babes for Bernie, Kathleen Graves and Katie Halper, are feelin' the Bern. They also welcome Kate Levin, writer and lecturer, to discuss the labor movement, the ubiquitous Bernie support at USC, and her very own Bernie baby bro.
Tue, May 10, 2016
Media Bias
Columnist and academic Freddie duBore joins Kathleen Graves and Katie Halper to discuss media bias in the 2016 Presidential race.
Tue, May 03, 2016
Jimmy Dore, Jordan Chariton, The Young Turks, Still Sanders, Never Neoliberal, Falling Tights
Jimmy Dore, Jordan Chariton, The Young Turks, Still Sanders, Never Neoliberal, Falling Tights by Katie Halper
Mon, April 25, 2016
Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
Regardless of whether or not you like Bernie Sanders (which of course you do) you should be concerned about voter disenfranchisement. In this episode, Katie and Kathleen talk to Johnathan Clarke, the lawyer who filed a lawsuit against the Board of Election for the way they switched voter's registration for the New York Primary (http://bit.ly/20VcJCc). This episode is not about open vs. closed primaries, which is a legislative decision. This episode is about a different type of disenfranchisement: one that can be challenged in the courts.
Sun, April 24, 2016
99+ Problems and Voter Suppression is One
Babes for Bernie Kathleen and Katie are joined by voting rights activist Yvonne Gougelet to discuss what exactly happened at the New York Primary. Why were so many voters purged, especially in Brooklyn? Why did polls in upstate New York open at noon? How many voters filled out affidavits? They are also joined a poll worker who witnessed it all first hand.
Fri, April 22, 2016
Jonathan Clarke: the lawyer suing NY over voter purges & running for Congress & filmmaker Josh Fox
We talk to Jonathan Clarke, an attorney who filed the law suit against New York Board of Elections over voter purges about what the hell happened, what he hopes to achieve and if it could effect the presidential race. We ask Hillary Clinton to apologize for the remarks of one of her surrogate (we think this may be a recurring segment, unfortunately)and talk about why Jonathan may be the Irish-American Bernie Sanders (my words, not his.) Gabe offers a list of women role models. And finally, Oscar-nominated director Josh Fox (Gasland)talks to us live from outside of the IFC movie theater where his latest film “How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change."
Fri, April 08, 2016
Freddie DeBoer, #BernieMadeMeWhite, #CruzMadeMeUncomfortable
On this episode we talk to writer, professor, and thinker Freddie DeBoer about identity politics, political organizing and which Gummy Bear character Ted Cruz resembles. Then we talk to Leslie Lee, the Black writer and fan of Japanese wrestling, who created the #BernieMadeMeWhite hashtag and Jacob Bridge, a veteran and a conscientious objector, about what makes a Bernie Bro a Bernie Bro.
Mon, April 04, 2016
Hillary Clinton's Tone & Robert Scheer on what he learned from interviewing Bill Clinton
In this amazing episode we go over the tone of the Clinton's, and how they described Jesse Jackson and played with the truth in 2008. We play a mashup of Clinton's campaign in 2008 and today and wonder why she was so open to debating in 2008 but not in 2015. Then we talk to Bob Scheer, who interviewed Bill Clinton for the LA Times when bubba was governor of Arkansas and interviewed Jimmy Carter for Playboy! Bob tells us about why he thinks Hillary Clinton has no shame, the difference between Trump and Sanders and Goldwater and McGovern.
Fri, March 25, 2016
Meet Erika Andiola, Bernie's undocumented & unafraid Latinx Press Secretary & Ron and Laura
Erika Andiola, dreamer, organizer and the national press secretary for Bernie Sanders who saved her mother from being deported talks to us about the campaign, the election, what got her into politics and the one thing that made her get behind Bernie Sanders.
Mon, March 21, 2016
Feminists gone wild: Hillary vs Bernie, Clintons vs Reagans, Rubio vs Dry Mouth
on this episode feminists debate Clinton and Sanders, we say goodbye to Marco Rubio the way his brother had to say goodbye to his own two front teeth, we talk about how the debate that changed immigration policy, and Premilla Nadasen discusses her new book Household Workers Unite! The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement, the legacy of Bill Clinton, and welfare reform. You can also catch Premilla at the Tamiment Library on Tuesday March 22 at 6:00 PM. Copies of the book will be available to purchase. https://events.nyu.edu/#event_id/100056/view/event
Fri, February 26, 2016
Bernie Sanders arrest, DoloresHuertaGate, & Climate checks
On today's episode we talk to the Gordon Quinn and Rachel Dickson, the filmmakers who discovered the footage of Bernie Sanders arrest! We also talk to blogger Adriana Maestas and climatologist Brad Johnson.
Fri, February 19, 2016
Meet Jane Elliott: feminist educator quoted by Killer Mike who the media calls "the woman"
Rapper and Bernie Sanders endorser Killer Mike made a terrible mistake on Tuesday night when he quoted “a woman” who used the word “uterus,” during a speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Twitter and several media outlets blasted Michael Render, AKA Killer Mike, for sexism. Interestingly, most of them didn’t bother to explain what he was really saying or who the woman he had cited was: feminist, anti-racist educator and activist Jane Elliott.
Mon, February 15, 2016
Anna Day
Anna Day has been arrested in Bahrain. http://bit.ly/FreeAnna
Thu, January 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton on Reparations, Bernie Sanders & Killer Mike Cop Buddy Movies
On this episode of The Katie Halper Show, we are joined by Fusion journalist Nando Vila, the man who asked Bernie Sanders about his position on reparations which reignited the debate started by Ta-Nehisi Coates. While Sanders is being criticized about his position of the issue, what is Clinton's position? Find out here, where we play the response she gave which nobody is talking about for some reason. Plus Reagan's reparations support, Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders cop buddy films and more! Next Wednesday, Feb 3, join us on the radio at 6pm AND In person at 8pm for our #OscarsNotAtAllWhite ceremony and show!
Thu, January 21, 2016
Greg Grandin: U.S. created the Central American gangs & violence people are fleeing
On this really, really engaging and informative episode historian Grandin takes us on a virtual tour of Central America, a land of beauty, enchantment, and U.S.-supported death squads. Then let Bill Conroy exposes the hypocrisy and opportunism behind mainstream media's contempt for Sean Penn and his interview with El Chapo. Grandin goes over government's rich contributions to the violence of Central America, starting with the 1950s (or else we'd be here all day) when we helped the coup in Guatemala that set off a civil war; the 1980s when we trained the Contras in Nicaragua and the death squads in El Salvador; the 1990s when we imposed "free market" neoliberal policies AND tightened border security to keep out the people we knew would be displaced (because we think of EVERYTHING!); the 21st century when we continued those policies, did jack s&*^ over the coup in Honduras... and we're not even talking about Mexico or Colombia yet! Then Bill Conroy who has worked as an investigative journalist covering the drug wars and law enforcement corruption debunks what the mainstream media and Mexican authorities are saying about Sean Penn and his interview with El Chapo. Conroy frames the freakout as part of a larger fear on the part of gatekeeping journalists and reveals one of the things they are attacking Penn over is something they routinely do, but don't even admit it. Follow us on Soundcloud, like us on Facebook and subscribe on iTunes!
Fri, January 15, 2016
Jay Smooth: The Ill Doctrine, Underground Railroad & Disenfranchised cheese puffs
On our first episode of the Live Katie Halper Show i front of an audience we talk to Jay Smooth, founder and host of The Underground Railroad and of the ill Doctrine video series. His videos have garnered millions of views and praise from people like Rachel Maddow who has called his work genius. Find out what Jay Smooth's favorite drink and snack are, what he thinks of gun violence, Empire, gentrification and what his grandfather said about The Beatles in the New York Times.
Fri, January 08, 2016
ep 13: Bill Cosby: Jay Smooth & comedians Rae Sanni &Tarik Daniels.
ep 13: Bill Cosby: Jay Smooth & comedians Rae Sanni &Tarik Daniels. by Katie Halper
Mon, January 04, 2016
Sarah Jones on sex work, Patrick Hilsman on heroin and ISIS
On this episode of The Katie Halper show, genius writer, performer and channels multiple characters from latest one woman show Sell/Buy/Date on sex work. You can catch the show at New York Live Arts Jan 6-16. Journalist Patrick Hilsman talks about his addiction to heroin versus his addiction to reporting on the Middle East.
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