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The Yes Men (https://theyesmen.org/) stop by to talk about their latest hijinks.
Then Lee Camp comes (https://twitter.com/LeeCamp) on to talk about what happened to his show Redacted Tonight.
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Direct link to this full discussion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chris-hedges-on-63210770
Pulitzer Prize–winning Journalist Chris Hedges talks about Russia, Ukraine, Nato expansion and his experience on the ground reporting from Eastern Europe during the fall of the Soviet Union. Then Phyllis Bennis, of the Institute of Policy Studies, talks about what needs to happen next.
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact.
Link to Chris' article on Russia/ Ukraine “Chronicle of a War Foretold” at Sheer Post - https://scheerpost.com/2022/02/24/hedges-the-chronicle-of-a-war-foretold/
Included in the full discussion at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chris-hedges-on-63210770, along with the rest of the discussion with Chris Hedges, Katie also speaks with Phyllis Bennis.
Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, where she directs the New Internationalism project. Her books include Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror. In 2001 she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her latest piece on Ukraine appears in Foreign Policy in Focus.
Link to Phyllis' latest piece: https://fpif.org/putins-invasion-of-ukraine-is-illegal-and-wrong-respond-with-diplomacy-not-war/
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Here is a teaser segment of an interview recorded Wednesday evening just before we learned that Putin had invaded Ukraine.
Yasha Levine is a Soviet-American immigrant, the author of "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet," and co-host of the podcast "The Russians."
You can find his writing at: yasha.substack.com
Follow Yasha on Twitter at: @yashalevine
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Just wanted to make sure people knew that the last episode (https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/matt-taibbi-katrina-vanden-heuvel-on-ukraine) of The Katie Halper Show with Matt Taibbi & Katrina Van den Huevel was recorded on Tuesday evening before Russia's military actions. It's still incredibly useful, insightful and informative but letting people know to prevent confusion.
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Listen to the full interview with Katrina vanden Vuevel here https://www.patreon.com/posts/63015910. It starts at 24 minutes.
This episode was recorded on Tuesday February 22, 2022, prior to the latest developments regarding Russian military operations.
Matt Taibbi and Katrina vanden Heuvel talk about the latest news in Russia and Ukraine.
Katrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation. She served as editor of the magazine from 1995 to 2019.
She writes a weekly column for The Washington Post.
A frequent commentator on US and international politics for ABC, MSNBC, CNN, and PBS, her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. Vanden Heuvel is also the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama, and co-author of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers.
Vanden Heuvel has been recognized for her journalism and public service by organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the National Women’s Political Caucus, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Community Change, the Norman Mailer Center, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, American Rights at Work, Progressive Congress, and more.
Matt Taibbi is an award-winning author of several books including Hate Inc.: How, And Why, The Press Makes Us Hate One Another and The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing. He also co-hosts Useful Idiots with Katie. You can find his writing at his Substack TK Media.
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Adolph Reed talks about his new book "The South" and his new podcast "Class Matters" and what people keep getting wrong about "white supremacy" and racism.
Masuda Sultan and Medea Benjamin join the show to talk about Joe Biden's disgusting decision to divert Afghanistan's frozen funds to American families of 9/11 victims.
Then Adolph Reed talks about his new book "The South," his new podcast "Class Matters" and what people keep getting wrong about "white supremacy" and racism.
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Adolph Reed is an American professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in studies of issues of racism and U.S. politics. He's the author of "The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politic," "Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought," "Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene," and most recently "The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives."
Masuda Sultan is an Afghan-American women’s rights activist who has worked with NGOs on Afghan women’s rights and as an advisor on economic reform with the Asian Development Bank. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy Advisory Committee and the US-Afghan Women’s Council.
Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange.She received numerous prizes, including: the Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Peace Prize by the US Peace Memorial, the Gandhi Peace Award, and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Award. She is a former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization.
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Human Rights lawyer Steven Donziger has been locked up yet AGAIN! Amnesty International's Alli McCracken Jarrar and Amazon Watch's Paul Paz y Miño join the show to talk about the latest miscarriage of justice surrounding Donziger's case. Alli McCracken Jarrar is the Amnesty International Campaigner for North America. She’s an anti-imperialist feminist based in Washington DC. Paul Paz y Miño is Associate Director of @AmazonWatch, a Human Rights advocate and a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. He has the honor of being sued, along with Steven Donziger, by Chevron for defending the Amazon and the people to whom it actually belongs.
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Former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson (https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/) joins the show to talk about her thoughts on Biden, whether he should be primaried, and why it’s important to back non-corporate congressional candidates in the midterms.
Plus congressional candidates Rebecca Parson (https://www.rebeccaparson.com/about) and Jason Call (https://www.callforcongress.com/about) talk about whether the Democrats can be reformed and the congressional candidates livestream they're joining hosted by Marianne, Katie, Briahna Joy Gray, Krystal Ball & Juliana Forlano. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsc8kcXjtuE)
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Katie Halper, Briahna Joy Gray and historian Daniel Bessner break down Whoopi Goldberg's recent comments about the Holocaust, Jews, race and more as well as her non-apology, which actually raises some interesting questions about race, racism, identity politics and more.
Daniel Bessner is the co-host of the American Prestige podcast and Hanauer Honors Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington.
Briahna Joy Gray co-hosts the podcast Bad Faith, she is the former National Press Secretary for Bernie Sanders, as well as the former Senior Politics Editor for The Intercept.
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Gabor Maté talks to Katie about how his experience as a Holocaust survivor turned him into a critic of Israel and a Free Palestine activist.
Gabor Maté is a renowned speaker and best selling author who focuses on addiction, stress, childhood development and trauma. He is the author of "Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder," "When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress," "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction," and the forthcoming book "The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture." He's a developer of the therapeutic approach compassionate inquiry, now studied by hundreds of therapists, physicians, counselors and others internationally.
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