Aaron Maté: podcast appearances and interviews

Aaron Maté is a Canadian writer and journalist born on March 13, 1979. He hosts the show Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone and has also served as a fill-in host on the Useful Idiots podcast as of January 2022. Maté has a background working as a reporter and producer for various media outlets including Democracy Now!, Vice, The Real News Network, and Al Jazeera. He has contributed to The Nation and is currently employed as a reporter for The Grayzone, a news website and blog identified as fringe and far-left. Maté is known for challenging allegations of collusion between the Russian government and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, as well as the extent of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, work that earned him the Izzy Award. In addition to his reporting, he has testified at United Nations Arria meetings hosted by Russia and China, after being invited by the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations. These included discussions on what Maté described as a cover-up by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons regarding the April 2018 Douma chemical attack.