Pepe Escobar & Aaron Maté on Israel, America & Iran War: BRICS vs The West
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
Useful Idiots, LLC
4.5 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a live edition of Useful Idiots. |
| 0:03.4 | Now, we're doing something a little different this week. |
| 0:06.1 | Katie Halper went to Cuba and she was there to witness the impact of the U.S. siege to help bring humanitarian supplies. |
| 0:16.1 | And on her way back, her and a number of other people who were on this delegation were detained by U.S. |
| 0:22.8 | officials and questioned and had their devices seized. |
| 0:26.3 | So this has complicated our week, so our schedule has changed. |
| 0:31.3 | So I'm doing this live interview now with Pepe Ascabar, who will come in shortly. |
| 0:34.9 | And then if you're watching this live, later on today, which is Friday, March 27th, 3.15 p.m. Eastern Time will be doing a live edition of the Friday free-for-all. And if you're not watching this live and you're a free subscriber, if you want to get that, you go to useful idiots, podcast.com. With that, let's bring in our guests. We are very fortunate to be joined by Pepe Escobar. |
| 0:55.0 | He is a columnist at The Cradle and an independent geopolitical analyst focused on Eurasia. |
| 1:03.0 | Welcome to you Sphletiates, Pepe Escobar. |
| 1:05.0 | Hi, Aaron. |
| 1:06.0 | Greetings from a peaceful Buddhist Southeast Asian nation. |
| 1:10.0 | We're very grateful that you've made the time to join us. |
| 1:13.6 | I know it's very late where you are and you're very, very busy. |
| 1:16.6 | So thank you for taking the time. |
| 1:18.6 | I want to start with... |
| 1:19.6 | I work all night. |
| 1:20.6 | I sleep in the morning. |
| 1:22.6 | Well, I want to start with some of the latest developments as we're going to air right now. |
| 1:29.5 | Israel and the U.S. have carried out new attacks on Iranian infrastructure. |
| 1:34.8 | They bombed two of Iran's largest steel factories. |
| 1:41.1 | They've also bombed the Kandab heavy water research reactor. |
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