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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Did the FBI Kill Martin Luther King?

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

“There’s an underestimation of how dangerous the United States government is right now.” Prolific and esteemed historian Dr. Gerald Horne, who holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies and has authored over 40 books, warns that the greatest threat to world peace is the US government. Whether taking down civil rights leaders, starting countless wars, killing foreign civilians, using imperialism to rule other countries, causing economic ruin for entire regions… need we go on? Just this week, we got to see the FBI cheer on Dr. Martin Luther King after aiding his assassination. Plus, measures were introduced in the Senate to block the Nord Stream 2 pipeline…in another country. It’s US imperialism that would cause economic disaster in Europe. It’s not easy being the world’s policeman, but someone’s gotta do it. So join us as Dr. Gerald Horne unravels the danger of the United States government. But make sure not to speak up too much about it, or who knows what will happen. As the FBI wrote to Dr. King: “You are done.” It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. And come back Monday for the extended interview with Dr. Horne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Use Flity. It's I'm Katie Halper. I'm Aaron Atte sitting in from Atte

0:09.4

AB. And we have a great show for you today. We have the wonderful, incredibly prolific

0:13.5

historian Gerald Horn. But before that, we of course have our four basic food groups

0:18.7

which we bring you every week, which is Democrat, South, Republican, South, isn't that weird,

0:22.5

isn't that terrible. And those are the groups into which all news basically can be divided.

0:27.8

But Harry, you Aaron. I'm well. I'm well. I'm in my parents' basement. I'm in a good

0:32.1

time. So we're doing well. Yeah. Photo albums and some skis and some exercise equipment,

0:38.8

you know, so basement living. Yeah, basement living, healthy basement living though. That's

0:42.8

kind of, that's off brand for basement living, for like adult living in parents' basement.

0:48.6

That's true. Well, I'm glad you've been getting exercise. Thank you. Thank you. I mean, that

0:53.7

sounded like a dick. I didn't mean that. If anything I was saying for one or at least one

0:56.8

of us is getting exercise. I didn't take it as a dick. I took it as a genuine sign of

1:02.6

friendship and you're excited for my, for my health and excited that I've opened up

1:06.2

a whole new part of my life. I'm a skier now. You are a skier. Wow. I'm a, um, not books

1:12.3

on tape workouts on tape person. Are you listening to the workout to tell you what to do?

1:16.4

No, they're videos. They're videos that they're, yeah. That's cool. It's really fun, actually.

1:19.8

Yeah. That's cool. There's a world of workout videos out there, everybody. And, you know,

1:25.9

there are some of them cost money, some of them are free online on YouTube. There's so

1:29.0

many people who like just voluntarily put up their workout videos and I do those two

1:33.4

and there, there's some great people and I'm, I'm grateful to them for like just putting

1:37.0

it out there, giving people free classes. It's, um, it's cool. And it means, it makes it,

1:42.4

it makes, you know, fitness that much more accessible and I'm sorry to sound so corny,

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