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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Ukrainian scholar calls out US media's lies about war

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.54.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the full interview with Ukrainian Professor Ivan Katchanovski: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-ukrainian-scholar?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Ivan Katchanovski, Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist who teaches at the University of Ottawa, is exposing US media lies about the Ukraine proxy war. And, like many Useful Idiot guests, no one will report on his story. This week, Katchanovski shares his research on the Maidan Massacre, a mass killing of Ukrainians protesting the Yanukovich government in February 2014. The US and opposition leaders blamed Yanukovich, triggered a coup and the ensuing civil war that radically escalated with Russia’s invasion eight years later. But when Professor Katchanovski dug into video, witness testimony, and other evidence which reveals who really committed the massacre — including footage that CNN tried to bury — he was ignored by mainstream media for attempted disruption of the approved narrative. But now he’s joining the Useful Idiots to tell us what really happened: the massacre, he argues, was carried out by pro-Maidan snipers. Watch the full interview with Professor Katchanovski for his take on who committed the massacre, how the US media is covering it up, and that weird interview between David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “We did a survey,” Zelenskyy told Letterman. “It showed that 98% of our country’s population today would rather stay without electricity and water as long as they are free from Russia.” Ivan responds to that seemingly impossible statistic. Plus, catch this week’s Thursday Throwdown on how our “free press” is really just US-state media. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Our Sponsors: * Check out Chilipad and use my code sleep.me/USEFUL for a great deal: https://sleep.me * Check out Mint Mobile and use my code mintmobile.com/USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.mintmobile.com * Check out Quince and use my code quince.com/useful for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Yous Flity. It's I'm Katie Halford, one of your hosts.

0:11.0

And I am the other host, Aaron Batchay. Happy New Year, everybody. Happy New Year, Katie.

0:15.0

Happy New Year, everybody. And happy New Year, Aaron. That's a good order because we put

0:18.8

the guests and viewers and listeners like you first before we put each other. So we take

0:24.3

that whole moment, that whole moment of just wishing a New Year to everyone, then we do

0:31.0

it to the co-host. It's not every show does that. Most shows are much more self-obsessed,

0:35.8

not this show, which makes us the best show in the world because we're not self-obsessed with

0:40.1

how amazing we are. The least self-centered show on YouTube. That's right. Yeah, we are,

0:44.7

which makes us the number one show. So be join us at Yous Flity. It's at substack.com. You get all

0:49.1

kinds of bonus content. You get our extended interviews. And you also get access to the absurd

0:53.3

arena where you can interact with fellow Yous Flity. It's an access to this question. So Wilson,

0:57.2

what do we have this week from the absurd arena? Well, every Yous Flity, it should go check out

1:01.6

the absurd arena because I posted your, someone say eerily accurate predictions for 2022,

1:08.4

that all came exactly true. And now we're looking at our craziest predictions for 2023. So we want

1:15.5

you to head over to the absurd arena and tell us what your predictions are for this year.

1:20.0

And now, Katie and Aaron, please enter the absurd arena and let us know your crazy predictions

1:24.8

for 2023. Aaron, you want to go first? So my prediction for 2023, I'm stealing this from Michael

1:30.4

Tracy on Twitter who observed that Republicans are in turmoil over the house speakership.

1:37.6

And on the first round of voting, as we're recording this, they denied Kevin McCarthy the job.

1:41.9

And so Michael Tracy predicted that in fact, Voldemort is a lensky, the president of Ukraine will

1:46.3

become the universally approved by Congress next house speaker. So congratulations to president

1:55.3

slash house speaker is lensky on becoming the new house speaker in 2023.

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