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An informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalists @kthalps & @aaronjmate Become a Useful Idiot at
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Last Seen Profiles
Watch
#Biden
in 2002 as he mocks US Marine Scott Ritter, calling him "Scotty Boy" and grinning as he repeats "it's above your pay grade."
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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Former US Marine Scott Ritter's opinion of
#JoeBiden
? He doesn't have much nice to say.
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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“The day the squad and Bernie voted for war credits for Ukraine, that whole progressive enterprise turned into a rotting corpse.”
– Norm Finkelstein on the failing left
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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Noam Chomsky says US and Britain are confused about Russia's invasion: 'Why isn't Russia invading like we do? Why aren't they destroying everything in their path? Why is Kyiv still standing? What's Russia's game here?'
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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President Biden, this is how you end the war and make peace – Fmr UN Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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"Israel is demonstrating the values of the Ku Klux Klan. What's going on in Gaza is a mass lynching."
Fmr US Ambassador Chas Freeman
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Laugh along with
@Trevornoah
and
#JoeBiden
as they celebrate US freedom of press. All while Julian Assange is tortured in prison for exercising it.
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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See
@mtaibbi
's extended return to Useful Idiots where he exposes the corporate frauds who still call themselves journalists.
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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Noam Chomsky: How the US suppresses the truth without throwing us in the gulag (hint: they're using our help)
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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The US will "use anything and anyone to win. That includes Neo-Nazis and sanctions and blowing up pipelines."
– Col. Doug Macgregor on the
@nytimes
describing the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion as "celebrated.”
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
Full interview:
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ABC's Martha Raddatz is embedded with the Third Assault Brigade in Ukraine, but she can't tell you where or who they are...
Because they're the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion
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"It's not about Hamas. It's about that refusal on the part of the people of Gaza to accept the fate that has been meted out to them by Israel: to languish and die in a concentration camp."
–
@normfinkelstein
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"A serious effort to replace the US global financial system has begun, where no one wants to buy our debt. And it's closer than we think. I don't think we're in control anymore."
– Col. Doug Macgregor on OPEC news
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
Full interview:
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In an embarrassing moment for Brooklyn, Hakeem Jeffries shows his cleverness by reading an acrostic poem.
With Jeffries at the head, this new Congress officially marks the most diverse Congress to ever crush the working class
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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US reporter
@wyattreed13
is in Ukraine learning about the
@nytimes
's "celebrated" Azov Battalion. Hear his full reporting
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
Full interview:
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Hear
@AdamSchiff
spill the US's foreign policy plan:
Use
#Ukraine
as a proxy state to fight
#Russia
.
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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The US blamed the Maidan Massacre on President Yanukovich, triggering a coup and civil war.
But when
@I_Katchanovski
revealed who really committed the massacre — including footage CNN tried to bury — he was ignored by mainstream media
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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New study declares
@aaronjmate
a top Russian-influenced account for such offenses as "promoting general mistrust in institutions and elites." He proudly accepts the award.
@kthalps
Full episode:
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If you thought beef with Elon Musk and threats of imprisonment from Congress would stop
@mtaibbi
from breaking more
#TwitterFiles
, you underestimate the power of a Useful Idiot
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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New report: Peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, in which Russia would release Ukraine territories in return for Ukraine not joining NATO, were knowingly sabotaged by the west.
The US does not care about Ukrainians.
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
Full episode:
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Palestinian academic
@itranslate123
, currently sheltering 15 children in his Gaza apartment, explains the trauma faced by Palestinian children.
Bombs can be heard exploding in the background of the interview.
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Our guest Refaat Alareer, who in this clip was sheltering 15 children in his Gaza apartment, has been killed by Israel.
@itranslate123
Palestinian academic
@itranslate123
, currently sheltering 15 children in his Gaza apartment, explains the trauma faced by Palestinian children.
Bombs can be heard exploding in the background of the interview.
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"The radical center is a far greater threat to the constitution than the radical right. They're determined to impose a technocratic, undemocratic system on us from behind the guise of liberal democracy."
@MaxBlumenthal
&
@mtaibbi
on neoliberal censorship
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“My conclusion was that identity politics is fundamentally a weapon of the Democratic party to derail, deflect, and diffuse a radical class-based politics.” Norm Finkelstein on cancel culture
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
Full interview:
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"If we survive this moment, I think we'll look back on these progressives in Congress as being of historic irresponsibility in refusing to stand up to a neocon proxy war that could have been avoided with diplomacy."
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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“I’m tired of the language of peace and reconciliation. It gives the impression there are two men fighting. We don’t have two men fighting, we have one man stepping on the throat of the other and you lecturing the person who’s on the ground about peace.”
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No other wartime president in history has spent this much time addressing Hollywood award shows: Zelenskyy spoke at the Grammys, the Golden Globes, and got slimed at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards after winning Coolest Funny Guy.
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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"Sending a missile into Iranian diplomatic territory is attempting to widen the war. The Israeli government is extremely eager that their vassal state, also known as the US, will join in a war against Iran."
– Jeffrey Sachs
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Trump spills the US policy to cripple Venezuela to steal their oil, then mocks Biden who's failing to carry out the plan.
It's another example of how the security state agrees with Trump on policy, they just don't like when he tells us.
Full episode:
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"The reigning philosophy is to eliminate the cost of treating your workers like human beings. If you treat workers like faceless meatbags and no one stops you, you can exploit the sh*t out of them."
@maximillian_alv
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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“The idea is to demonize all Palestinians and promote the narrative that Christians are persecuted in the Middle East and in Palestine. If people really cared, they would listen to us. We will tell you how we’re doing.”
Palestinian Pastor Munther Isaac
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"The decision by Ukrainian soldiers to wear patches with Nazi icons threatens to reinforce Russian propaganda." –
@nytimes
For the Times, the problem with soldiers we're arming being Nazis is not that they're Nazis.
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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"A hurricane hit Cuba and Puerto Rico. The next day Cuba had the lights on. Many Puerto Ricans were out for a year. Capitalism has devastated the ability of people to control their own lives."
@vijayprashad
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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“These self-destructive sanctions are going to have a bigger impact on the people of Europe than on the Kremlin and Putin”
@wallacemick
on the EU ignoring its citizens
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews:
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As
@TheGrayzoneNews
continues its fight against
#GoFundMe
censorship,
@MaxBlumenthal
explains the digital de-democratization of the world under the guise of a NATO proxy war.
With
@mtaibbi
and
@kthalps
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“Israelis will not wake up one morning and say ‘oh this occupation, this apartheid, we don’t like it so much. Let’s put an end to it.’ This will never happen. It will only happen when Israel is punished for it."
–Israeli journalist
@gideonle
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What if Xi Jinping flew to Guam like Nancy Pelosi flew to Taiwan? What would the US do?
There are 29 US military bases in Africa. How many Chinese military bases are there? None.
@vijayprashad
explains the US attempt to rule the world
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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Growing up in the US,
@profwolff
was shown photos of shortages in Russia and told "See? Socialism doesn't work." Now, with shortages running rampant in the US, no one dares utter that capitalism doesn't work.
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
Full interview tomorrow
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“Unlike people in the US who believe everything they hear in the mainstream media about Ukraine, everyone outside the US understands that Ukraine has everything to do with pushing and maintaining US power."
– Jemima Pierre
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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Netanyahu will laugh off Biden's ceasefire call, says Jeffrey Sachs.
"All Biden has to do is stop providing munitions. That’s what an immediate ceasefire is. We don’t have to convince the Israeli government, we have to stop arming the war.”
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"Israeli leaders told us what they were going to do and they did it: destroy Gaza completely. They looked at all Palestinians and said there are no innocent civilians. Everybody's a target."
Palestinian pastor
@MuntherIsaac
calls out Israeli genocide
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"The US won't accept the UN Charter for a good reason: it rules out US foreign policy explicitly. It bans the use of force in international affairs. Can you think of a US president who hasn’t engaged in a use of force?”
–Noam Chomsky
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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"But what about those 1500 young men who were born into a concentration camp, and periodically were told 'We're going to mow the lawn in Gaza.' Would you need the Hamas leadership to inspire you in a rage?"
@normfinkelstein
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The US has finally stopped pretending to be pro-peace: with China proposing a plan for a ceasefire, Secretary of War Antony Blinken announced that stopping the war is unacceptable.
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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“Antony Blinken should be outraged because if Israel is guilty of genocide, then Blinken himself personally is complicit in genocide and would be hauled before a court and convicted for his role.”
Palestinian analyst
@MouinRabbani
on the ICJ hearing
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Biden, who attacked Trump for his veto, who campaigned on treating Saudi Arabia as a pariah, who promised to end US support for the Saudi war on Yemen, decided he actually agrees with Trump, now a major theme of his presidency.
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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Reuters calls Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh's groundbreaking report a "blog post."
Later in the article they announce Hersh's next blog to be “unboxing Scarlett Johansson’s new makeup line.” (probably)
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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US official John Sullivan says it's a complete lie that US policy in Ukraine is to fight to the last Ukrainian.
If only we had some evidence, like a clip...
Oh wait! Thanks, Lindsey Graham!
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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Kamala Harris admits US is using aid as a weapon in fake call for ceasefire in Gaza
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"There's a government angle that I didn't know about last week. There's a much deeper story about intelligence agencies introducing information operations in America. And people are going to be very upset."
@mtaibbi
announces next
#TwitterFiles
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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CBS reporter
@charliecbs
is way too excited to celebrate World War III
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
Latest episode:
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Israeli historian Ilan Pappé explains why Israel's treatment of Gaza fits the definition of GENOCIDE
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Ilan Pappé: “There is light at the end of the tunnel. That light is radiated by the younger Palestinian generation. They have the potential to challenge global Israel. I’ve never seen such a solidarity movement in history as we see now across the globe.”
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MSM guests push for weapons, weapons, more weapons. What they don't tell us? That these guests work for Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and BAE Systems.
Mashup by
@mtaibbi
@0rf
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
See the full episode:
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"You don’t have any left politics in the US. Until people take to the streets, it’s going to be very hard for any left wing party to show its head in America."
@ClareDalyMEP
@wallacemick
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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US wants to SHUT DOWN TikTok to censor Palestinian voices.
@Rahmazeinegypt
explains how lies from our government and media breed conspiracies and hatred
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•Witness admits to lying
•US caught plotting assassination
•UK judges have conflicts of interest
•Case somehow still continuing
“It seems like nothing can come out that will stop it.”
@kennardmatt
on Assange case
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
Full interview:
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Jake Tapper, who isn’t used to leaving the corporate-narrative echo chamber of CNN, is shocked to hear someone on the left calling out the “milquetoast neoliberals who aid fascism."
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Rachel Maddow is mad.
Elon Musk's Starlink is banned in Crimea under US sanctions, but he refused a Ukrainian request to run it for an attack.
Maddow told viewers it is treasonous for a private citizen to decline to increase the chances of nuclear war.
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Full interview:
@kennardmatt
on the crimes against Julian Assange and the right to free speech, plus why corporate media like the New York Times is suddenly backtracking its stance against the journalist.
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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“The Democrats made a conscious decision to become the Republican Party. The damage they did, the families they destroyed, we don’t talk about it. There’s no accountability.”
@ChrisLynnHedges
on the need for a left-right coalition
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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John Kirby's freudian slip reveals who he really works for while he whitewashes Israel's murder of seven World Central Kitchen workers
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Thank God we have a president like Joe Biden who reaches across the aisle to nominate warmongering death-squad-defending Gargamel-looking Elliot Abrams.
If you didn't already believe we're ruled by a uniparty that loves war, here you go.
Full episode:
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John Kirby calls YOU out for calling HIM out for committing genocide. And he’s very disappointed in you…
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“We’re angry at Putin because he shut down the money flow from the oligarchs that was going into the pockets of a lot of western capitalists. It’s that simple.”
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson on the Ukraine proxy war
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“Antony Blinken should be outraged because if Israel is guilty of genocide, then Blinken himself personally is complicit in genocide and would be hauled before a court and convicted for his role.”
Palestinian analyst
@MouinRabbani
on the ICJ hearing
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists turned the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds, “the closest to widespread calamity humanity has ever been judged to be.” So, by Washington Post logic, we’re the safest and richest we’ve ever been.
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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"This man really needs some sort of a hug because he's crying at such weird things"
–
@vijayprashad
on Jordan Peterson
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
Full interview:
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When independent journalists claim Russia invaded Ukraine to prevent further NATO expansion, we're called Putin agents.
But what does it mean when the Secretary General of NATO himself says it?
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Son of Israeli Oct. 7 victims
@maozinon
calls Benjamin Netanyahu "the worst Jewish leader ever"
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“The constitution is just a sideshow at this point.”
@mtaibbi
joins the show for a terrifying episode on censorship with
@MaxBlumenthal
after
#GoFundMe
freezes
@TheGrayzoneNews
' fundraiser for independent journalists
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"I believe that Israel is one of the most antisemitic entities there ever was."
@Rahmazeinegypt
on the difference between Judaism and Zionism
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Biden can’t use women to get away with genocide
"It's hypocritical to use reproductive rights to justify voting for Biden when Biden is aiding Israel's air strikes and blocking humanitarian aid, leading to pregnant women getting C sections without anesthesia."
@Sababa_saed
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"Unbeknownst to us, when we weren't watching over the last decade, capitalism was killed off and replaced by something worse."
@yanisvaroufakis
explains the new era of technofeudalism
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"Can the argument be made that Joe Biden is inciting genocide?"
“Absolutely.”
Former UN official
@CraigMokhiber
, who resigned over the UN's failure to stop a “textbook case of genocide” in Gaza
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“This is no different than killing Palestinians with snipers.” EU punishes Palestinian cancer patients to please Israel
@AliAbunimah
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
See the full interview:
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"It's complete sadism. Only psychopaths can think of such criminal acts. They're so obsessed with Assad they're ready to kill 16 million people stuck in Syria just to get rid of him."
@KevorkAlmassian
on US sanctions
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
Full interview:
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Washington’s most corrupt politicians melt down over
@mtaibbi
, lecturing him that he can’t make money in a capitalist system which they routinely exploit.
When a Useful Idiot gets attacked,
@kthalps
and
@aaronjmate
have no choice but to throw down.
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Western media ignored tapes of Biden phone call with Ukraine President Poroshenko calling for dismissal of prosecutor general and approval for next prime minister.
@I_Katchanovski
explains the unprecedented power play
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
Full interview:
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"The Democratic Party has no conception of ethics."
@ShahidForChange
on the body of insider-trading millionaires that pretends to care about the working class
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
Full interview:
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Full interview: Professor
@I_Katchanovski
's evidence on who really committed the Maidan Massacre, how the US media is covering it up, and that weird interview between David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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“Kier Starmer, you will pay a high price for the role that you have played in enabling, encouraging, and covering for the catastrophe in occupied Palestine.”
George Galloway on his return to Parliament
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MSNBC's
@RichardEngel
forgets to fact check and airs
#neonazi
propaganda. You've outdone yourself,
#MSM
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
See the full episode:
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FREAKS AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT
Matthew Miller loves to get caught in his cheeky little lies about genocide
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“America likes to talk about all its precision bombing and droning to avoid collateral damage,” Professor
@joshua_landis
explains. “But sanctions? It’s all about collateral damage. Very little of it is targeted.”
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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The war hawks at
@CNN
and
@ABC
can't fathom Trump's anti-war response:
CNN: "Can you say if you want Ukraine or Russia to win this war?"
Trump: "I want everybody to stop dying."
ABC: "I mean, what do you say to that?"
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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Nancy Pelosi calls pro-Palestinian protesters Russian agents:
"A call for a ceasefire is Mr. Putin's message."
She suggests they should be investigated by the FBI
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“There are three things that let Israelis live in peace with the occupation:
•The belief that they’re the chosen people
•The belief that they’re victims
•And the dehumanization of Palestinians.”
– Israeli journalist
@gideonle
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This week, Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces. The way
@nytimes
reported it: "Journalist Dies at 51"
@AlanRMacLeod
joins us to expose media bias and propaganda
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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AOC says Joe Biden is “one of the most successful presidents in modern American history.”
Since his successes are hard to find, she must mean the most successful president at mass murdering Palestinian civilians.
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The world's leading political scholar on Gaza explains Israel's attack on Palestine and the future of the war
@normfinkelstein
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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"That's the most shameful thing I've ever seen."
#NYTimes
quickly changes headline after accidentally telling the truth about sanctions
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
Full episode:
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After CIA officer
@JohnKiriakou
blew the whistle on US torture, no one in the CIA was arrested for their crimes. Except, of course,
@JohnKiriakou
.
He joins the Useful Idiots to uncover (freely) the war crimes of the US government.
@kthalps
@aaronjmate
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Extended episode: “The right to join NATO is the right to place a western military arsenal on Russia’s border. If Russia made a military alliance with Canada or Mexico, US leaders would not be talking about their right to do so.”
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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“The goal is not to save Ukrainians but to degrade Russia’s military. And while some say stopping Russia is a humanitarian goal, the way one would degrade Russia is to keep an extended war going and fight to the last Ukrainian."
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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"Number 1: Israel ALWAYS targets hospitals."
After the
@nytimes
retracts its reporting that Israel attacked the hospital in Gaza,
@normfinkelstein
lays out the evidence and explains Israel's long history of hospital bombings.
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Jewish South African who worked under Mandela
@andrewfeinstein
debunks Israel’s lie that South Africa represents Hamas
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"You’re telling me the people who are cheating and stealing your wealth are suddenly heartbroken by what’s happening to the Ukrainian people? The crooks metamorphosed into a band of angels?”
Norm Finkelstein on Bernie’s hypocrisy
@aaronjmate
@kthalps
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"Can the argument be made that Joe Biden is inciting genocide?"
“Absolutely.”
Former UN official
@CraigMokhiber
, who resigned over the UN's failure to stop a “textbook case of genocide” in Gaza
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