Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots is an informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalist Aaron Maté and podcaster/writer Katie Halper. Episodes feature on-the-road coverage of the 2020 campaign and exclusive interviews, with humor, commentary and dissection of the politics news of the week. Join Katie and Aaron as they examine important stories that have slipped through the cracks and what the media got wrong – and laugh about whatever is left to laugh about. www.usefulidiotspodcast.com

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté is a news podcast hosted by Katie Halper and Aaron Maté, with 515 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Katie Halper and Aaron Maté hosts Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté, a news show with 515 episodes published.

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  Trump Accidentally Admits His Strikes Haven't Damaged Iran's Military At All

  Jun 1, 20261h 4mS0

  <p>Don’t miss our weekly recap of the craziest moments in corporate media:</p><p>Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here:</p><p>After months of struggling and failing to inflict enough damage on Iran that they reopen the Strait of Hormuz to US ships, Trump is now coming out with a new talking point that he hopes will convince the world that defeating Iran militarily was never actually his goal:</p><p>“Their military we’ve sort of left it alone because we think their military is somewhat moderate. Mistakes have been made in wars where you wipe out...

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  Ukrainian Journalist DESTROYS Zelensky for Nazi Support

  May 29, 202649 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com<br/><br/><p>Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:</p><p>Subscribers also get our Friday Free-for-All:</p><p>It’s been a while since we’ve covered the proxy war in Ukraine, so who better to give us an update than Useful Idiots fan-favorite Lev Golinkin, the Ukrainian-American journalist and author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka.</p><p>The big takeaway: remember Ukraine’s whole neo-Nazi problem? It’s gotten...

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  “WORST CASE SCENARIO” Leaked in Secret Cuba Files—Here’s What They Hid

  May 22, 202651 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com<br/><br/><p>To support our work and go ad-free, click here.</p><p>Subscribers get our weekly recaps, the Friday Free-for-All:</p><p>After starting two regime change wars in Venezuela and Iran, Donald Trump is now ramping up his campaign to overthrow the government of Cuba, and in the process impose serious misery on its people by tightening his blockade and deepening the country’s humanitarian crisis.</p><p>And much like in Venezuela and Iran, there are suddenly reports of an im...

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  Lindsey Graham: "The Iran War is worth losing my job" (and how to make that happen)

  May 18, 20261h 8mS0

  <p>Don’t miss our weekly recap of the craziest moments in corporate media:</p><p>Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here:</p><p>From Lindsey Graham’s mouth to God’s ears: when asked on Meet the Press if the Iran War was worth losing the midterms over, Senator Lindsey Graham proclaimed: “It’s worth losing my job!”</p><p>Finally, something to agree with arch-Zionist warmonger Lindsey Graham on!</p><p>And speaking of God’s ears, Trump held a Christian Nationalist party to celebrate the US’s 250th birthday, where speakers claimed that it took God two centuries to b...

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  The Commencement Speech Israel Doesn't Want You To Hear

  May 15, 20261h 26mS0

  <p>Thanks for supporting our work! Watch our full, unpaywalled episode here:</p><p>Subscribers get our weekly recaps, the Friday Free-for-All:</p><p>It’s another classic Useful Idiots double header!</p><p>First up we’re speaking with Rami Elghandour, biotech CEO whose company is developing transformative immunotherapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases. He’s also executive producer of the Oscar-nominated film The Voice of Hind Rajab and The American Doctor. (note to other CEOs: it’s possible to do good things with your money)</p><p>Rami was scheduled to give the convocation speech at Rutgers this week but...

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