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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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

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59:55

"A couple of second chances" – Trump Bends the Knee...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/12/31

Breaking News: it was just announced that for the first time ever, the 2026 winner of the Israel Prize will not be an Israeli. It will instead be Donald Trump.Netanyahu visited the Israel-firster this week to shower him with praise, and in response, Trump bent the knee to proclaim that Israel can have as many second chances as they’d like to prove they’re not committing genocide. In the same speech, Trump kind of lets slip that he’s maybe thinking of shooting missiles into Iran on behalf of Israel,

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86:57

What were those photos of Trump in the Epstein...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/12/22

Get extended episodes, Friday Free-For-Alls, and TWO MONTHS of Useful Idiots FREE.The Epstein files are out…mostly. The Trump Admin seemed to think it could get away with yet another partial dump, but one of their redactions got leaked when a photo of a desk drawer filled with photos of Trump and young women went public.What was that about?Katie and Aaron analyze Deputy AG Todd Blanche’s Epstein performance on Meet the Press and debunk the lies after lies he tells.Also in this Monday Mourning: Bari

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33:04

Trump's Venezuela War BACKFIRES, Maduro Calls His...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/12/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comGet the extended episode, Friday Free-For-All, and TWO MONTHS of Useful Idiots FREE.Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:For this week’s interview, we’re speaking with Francisco Rodríguez about the latest in Trump’s regime-change campaign in Venezuela. Rodríguez, a member of the Venezuelan opposition who formerly advised a challenger to President Nicolás Maduro,

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67:33

US Senators Politicize Australia Mass Shooting to...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/12/15

This weekend, a mass shooting in Australia killed at least 16 people at a Hanukkah celebration. Australian lawmakers responded to the incident rationally: they’re creating new policy to tighten gun restrictions in the country. US politicians, who responded to their own mass shooting at Brown University with the usual “thoughts and prayers,” had a much more ridiculous takeaway:“My heart goes out to all of the Jewish citizens of America and around the world,” says Senator Jim Banks (R-IN). “In America

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55:52

Why the UAE Secretly Funds a Genocide in Sudan

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/12/12

Time is running out: get this episode and 2 MONTHS of Useful Idiots FREE.This week we speak with Suad Abdel Aziz, a Sudanese-American lawyer and founder of the human rights advocacy organization Decolonize Sudan. The Sudan genocide is a topic we haven’t covered extensively at Useful Idiots, so Suad educates us with a history of the region, explains what’s going on now, and reveals how the US is involved.Useful Idiots: Can you give us a brief history of Sudan and how we got to where we are?Suad Abdel

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33:29

CIA's Secret Drug War, Exposed

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/12/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comGet the extended episode, Friday Free-For-All, and TWO MONTHS of Useful Idiots FREE.Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:This week we’re speaking to Pulitzer-Prize winner Greg Grandin about the Trump Administration’s regime-change war in Venezuela, which now is mired in controversy not just because we’re trying to overthrow a foreign government yet again, but also

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68:29

Will the US go on trial for this weekend's war crime...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/12/01

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65:12

What Are Senate Democrats Gaining From Blocking Peace...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/11/24

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65:05

Marjorie Taylor Greene tells CNN that Israel is...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/11/17

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29:19

Richard Wolff’s GRAVE WARNING for America

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/11/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Support independent media here to watch our full interview with Richard Wolff!

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52:33

Jewish Journalist EXPOSES the Truth about the State...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/11/14

This week’s interview with Jasper Nathaniel is free to all. For our news of the week segment, check out our Friday Free-For-All: JD Vance Can’t Stop Laughing at Trump’s al-Qaeda Joke. Thanks for supporting independent media!If you’re wondering about how the so-called ceasefire in Gaza is going, look no further than this BBC News headline:Some ceasefire. And if you want to know about the even-less-reported-on West Bank, where settlers are committing unwatchable atrocities as you read this, listen to

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65:24

Did Dems FAIL on the Shutdown Deal?

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/11/10

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31:45

Israel PANICS After Zohran’s NYC Win

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/11/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:*Don’t miss our new segment, the Friday Free-For-All: Elon Musk Short Circuits on Joe Rogan Over Zohran Mamdani*In 2018, Ross Barkan ran for New York State Senate. His campaign manager was Zohran Mamdani.This week, after an unprecedented surprise campaign, which began polling at 0% on announcement day, Zohran Mamdani pulled off

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65:45

Zohran Mamdani VS the Democratic Party

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/11/03

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29:47

Netanyahu IGNORES Trump on Ceasefire w/ Rami Khouri

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/11/01

Thanks for being a member of the Useful Idiots community. Your support fuels the work we do! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/subscribe

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56:33

“1,000 Hiroshimas”: Chemical Engineer Explains...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/10/31

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:This week, Trump made a dangerous announcement on Truth Social: “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”Chemical engineer Ivana Nikolić Hughes joins Useful Idiots to debunk Trump’s claim that other countries have conducted tests,

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59:57

Aaron Maté and Comedian Pranav Behari Take Down...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/10/27

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30:45

Kushner’s “Investment” EXPOSED: Is Gaza Under New...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/10/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:New York Times investigative reporter Ken Vogel’s new book, Devils’ Advocates: How Washington Lobbyists Get Rich Enabling Dictators, Oligarchs, and Arms Dealers, unearths the shrouded power that lobbyists hold over the US government, from AIPAC, Soros, and Kushner to powers you’ve never even heard of.We begin with the president’s

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46:46

Trump’s Fake Peace Plan EXPOSED By Ex-UN Lawyer &...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/10/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.comSubscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:This week we’re speaking to two Useful Idiots return guests: Mouin Rabbani, co-editor at Jadaliyya and non-resident fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, and human rights attorney Craig Mokhiber, who resigned from the United Nations over its failure to act on Gaza.Useful Idiots: What is your response to

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60:40

The Truth About Trump's Gaza "Peace Deal"

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté ·

2025/10/13

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