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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Matt Taibbi Exposes Neocon Frauds

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Yous Fliddiets. I'm one of your host, Katie Halper.

0:08.6

And I'm the other host, Erin Matek. How are you, Katie?

0:11.5

I'm good, you. I'm good. You're around the world right now.

0:15.9

I am. I'm traveling. Should I reveal where I am?

0:19.0

Yeah, do it. Doha for a conference on Palestine.

0:23.5

And how is Doha doing? Doha seems nice. I really didn't get to see very much of it.

0:29.9

Because I was really involved in this conference. It was the Palestine annual forum in Doha.

0:38.3

You are there because you were recently centered for speaking out about Palestine by the hills.

0:43.6

So it's great opportunity to go and speak to other people. I'm sure centered as well.

0:49.3

Oh, yeah, lots of people. It was a very, it was very Palestinian in attendance,

0:55.3

which was really cool. There were some panels that were only in Arabic, which I wasn't expecting,

1:02.0

but which was very cool. And it was cool when there was translation. There wasn't always,

1:05.5

but when there was translation, it was great.

1:07.6

All right. Well, as you know, you can go to usefliddiets.substec.com to support us and get

1:13.2

bonus content. And among the features you get is access to the absurd arena, where you interact

1:18.0

with us and other useful idiots and get to ask us questions. So Wilson, what do we have this

1:22.8

week from the absurd arena? So us week in our excellent interview with Darshan Navias,

1:29.2

Aaron, you have the quote that useful idiots has an audience that really cares about the world and

1:34.6

that they're troubled about the state of the world right now. And living in New York City,

1:39.6

the problem that I noticed the most is the homelessness crisis. And I've noticed that a lot of

1:44.8

people who are liberals and progressives speak a lot about fighting poverty and helping the work

1:50.0

in class, but that it's also pretty much fully acceptable in those same circles to say no to helping

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