Mick Wallace and Clare Daly want to save us from NATO

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com “Democracy is about having a say in how your country is run. Right now, that’s not happening. The way the system works, the politicians don’t feel under pressure to answer to the majority of the people.” Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, members of the European Parliament, are Irish progressives. This means they speak out against the proxy war in Ukraine, Julian Assange’s torture, and the Syria dirty war. Elected progressives in the US are quite different. “From what we can see,” they tell us. “You don’t have any left politics in the US. The Democrats are indistinguishable from the Republicans and Bernie would be seen as just right of center in Europe.” And what does it take to get actual progressives like Clare and Mick in office? “Until people take to the streets, it’s going to be very hard for any left wing party to show its head in America.” Plus, subscribe for the extended interview where Claire and Mick discuss abortion rights in Ireland and the US, mainstream media’s constant attacks and misinformation about them, and why our government and media are too afraid to talk about Assange, the realities of the Ukraine proxy war, and US hegemony. As Mick always says, “democracy means you can say what you like, but you’ll do what you’re told.” And that’s this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-mick-wallace-and?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halper.
0:08.0	And I'm Mary Mette. How are you doing, Erin?
0:10.5	I'm well. How are you? Raving the heat wave?
0:13.4	Yeah. I've been staying in some AC.
0:17.5	I'm not in the city right now, which is nice, because it's not quite as hot and humid here.
0:23.0	But it's a very terrible thing that we're experiencing right now.
0:26.6	It's hard to make small talk about the weather now.
0:29.2	Yeah, no, it's true. This is the one time of the year when you, you know, the weather is not really,
0:34.0	I can't let it for small chat because it's diet.
0:36.1	Yeah, I mean, it's probably not just the one time of the year.
0:39.8	I think it's a constant, but it's hitting home for us, maybe, in ways that it doesn't usually.
0:45.7	Yeah. All right. Well, such an upbeat way to start the show.
0:50.1	Let's just move forward because we can't get any more positive than we can with the four basic food groups.
0:55.8	For this week's Democrat Suck, we have Jake Sullivan, who is the National Security Advisor of the
1:01.4	United States. He was speaking at something called the Aspen Security Forum, which is a gathering
1:06.5	of top national security officials and journalists who basically act as their synographers to talk about
1:13.7	US foreign policy. And Jake Sullivan was asked by Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the
1:18.7	Atlantic magazine and a propagandist for the Iraq War. So shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg,
1:24.1	about whether he's worried about US taxpayers being concerned that they're funding a proxy
1:32.1	where a new crane not taking care of needs at home. And Jake Sullivan's answer was very
1:36.8	eliminating. How worried are you about the American people staying power on this issue?
1:41.8	Granted, there are no American troops involved, but we do have a short attention span. The war has
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