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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
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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Don’t miss our weekly recap of the craziest moments in corporate media: Watch this week’s Monday Mourning here: From Lindsey Graham’s mouth to God’s ears: when asked on Meet the Press if the Iran War was worth losing the
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This week, after it went unreported on mainstream media that Israel destroyed a synagogue in Iran, Trump doubled down on the US-Israeli threat to Iranian civilization: “I could take out Iran in one day. In one hour, I co
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"Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell," wrote President Trump on Truth Social on Easter as he threatened to destroy more civilian infrastructure in Iran. Targeting civilian infrastruct
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This morning President Trump told Fox News that Iran “wants to make a deal badly,” and that the most recent talks happened last night with Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and their counterparts. Awkwardly, the Iranians cla
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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté is hosted by Katie Halper and Aaron Maté. The show is categorised under news (politics) and has published 515 episodes.
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