On this episode writer Michael Graham makes the racial justice case for a progressive platform (single payer, #fightForFifteen, & #SinglePayer), & health care writer Natalie Schure makes the feminist case for #MedicareForAll in particular. Michael also talks about the "swiftboating" of Bernie Sanders, the importance of class solidarity, the talent of Nina Turner, & the racism of Hillary Clinton. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcir...
Apr 05, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Bonus: the rest of my Phyllis interview https://www.patreon.com/posts/17870986 Phyllis Bennis, of the Institute for Policy Studies talks about debating John Bolton, that time he helped the Iraq War happen, the undeserved rehabilitation of George Bush, and the problem with the way people talk about Syria. Quote of the ep: "There are Syrians who are calling for US intervention just as there were some Libyans who were calling for NATO intervention. The problem is, they were wrong. And the fact that...
Mar 30, 2018•29 min
Mini bonus & show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/17793385 Gabe & I talk about Iraq, Vietnam, Irish twins, horror films, Colin Powell's Yiddish, Mike Pence's social life and Danzig. Then I talk to Huffington Post journalist Paul Blumenthal about Sally Albright's network of bots, Shareblue, Correct the record and more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Mar 27, 2018•50 min
bonus ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/17463481 Comedian and talk show host Jimmy Dore becomes the interviewee and not the interviewer on this episode of the Katie Halper Show. We talk about nelibs, libs, CIA tools, Mother Jones, Rachel Maddow, Russiagate, PEPs (Progressive Except on Palestine), McCarthyism, & Trump. We also cite Phil Ochs' and I cut in his epic song "Love me I'm a Liberal." Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/pri...
Mar 09, 2018•50 min
Bonus: Peter Doau's "Get Out." https://www.patreon.com/posts/17365352 Gabe & I talk about the handful of Academy Award nominated films we actually got around to see. Gabe saw one. But that doesn't stop us from being major authorities on the subject. We take a stroll down memory lane and revisit the very scary lessons of Forrest Gump. Then I talk to writer Aditi Natasha Kini about the "White Mediocrity of Lady Bird," and why "Get Out" is so good. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/b...
Mar 05, 2018•55 min
show notes & extended interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/17180025 Journalist Max Blumenthal talks to us about the #Russiagate hysteria and why he's more hopeless than he's ever been about the world. We talk about hot dog vending and how on earth people are managing to "f*** up the resistance to Trump"? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Feb 24, 2018•33 min
We talk to Alex Vitale about his book The End of Policing. For the rest of our interview, go to Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/17039729 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Feb 16, 2018•37 min
BONUS: https://www.patreon.com/posts/16902912 Media critic Adam Johnson sheds light on United States of Care, the shadowy organization whose board members include health industry execs and right wing ex-Senator Bill Frist. Adam breaks down the mission statement's language & reveals how and why the organization takes the wind out of Medicare for All's sails. In our bonus we finish our chat with Adam and hear from health care writer Tim Faust who determines that the organization is the... outp...
Feb 09, 2018•35 min
Bonus with Juanita Broaddrick: https://www.patreon.com/posts/16748644 My NY Magazine interview: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/what-juanita-broaddrick-wants-you-to-know.html Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Jan 31, 2018•54 min
Bonus with Gerald Horne https://www.patreon.com/posts/16584864 A funny thing happened on the way to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I tweeted out a post I'd written a few years ago which was a listacle of "The 11 most anti-capitalist quotes from Martin Luther King Jr." I had no idea people on Twitter would accuse me of "whitesplaining," Martin Luther King and cherry picking his words and speeches in order to find the socialisty or capitalism-critiquing nuggets hidden in his free-market-praising rhet...
Jan 20, 2018•43 min
Bonus: standup from Kath Barbadoro, Gabe Pacheco & me https://www.patreon.com/posts/16245374 Comedy & sexual harassment! What's the deal? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Jan 05, 2018•53 min
Erica Garner spoke to me about why she became a Bernie Sanders surrogate, loved Nina Turner and respected Ja'Mal Green. First of the interview is here https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/erica-garner And my written interview for New York Mag is here http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/erica-garner-never-stopped-fighting.html Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Dec 31, 2017•15 min
Here' my oped on this: https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/mayor-de-blasio-not-late-honor-erica-garner-legacy-article-1.3761825 I interviewed Erica Garner a few weeks ago and was planning to release her interview next week or the week after. But on December 24, I learned that Erica had been hospitalized and put into a medically induced coma after suffering a heart attack. She's 27 and has two kids and is the daughter of Eric Garner, who was murdered by the NYPD in Staten Island. He was placed in...
Dec 26, 2017•55 min
Bonus chat with Adam Johnson: https://www.patreon.com/posts/16057461 We talk to investigative journalist Alex Kotch about the stories he and his colleagues David Sirota & Josh Keefe are breaking at IBT about the senators benefiting from the last minute real estate provision added to the tax bill. A great endorsement of their work is that it's been attacked by the very Republicans who will benefit from the provision, including Sen Bob Corker (R-Tenn), who was against the tax bill before he wa...
Dec 25, 2017•1 hr 9 min
Bonus extended interview with Alex Press: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15631574 We have an amazing chat with socialist feminist Jacobin editor DSA member Alex Press about sexual harassment and the Left. See her & Judah Fridlander & Kath Barbadoro live Dec 7. https://www.facebook.com/events/732784816915044/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Nov 30, 2017•42 min
Bonus: Norman Finkelstein & Todd Gitlin debate free speech. We talk to journalist Rula Jebreal about her school for young Syrian women, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, why Trump, Netanyahu & Berlusconi may be the same person and hummus. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Nov 18, 2017•49 min
Bonus: We talk to journalist Norman Solomon about the report he co-authored, "Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis." Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Nov 10, 2017•56 min
Bonus extended interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15197523 I talk to Marc Fliedner, who is running as a write-in candidate against Cy Vance the (up until now)unopposed candidate for Manhattan DA. Marc had already run for Brooklyn DA but when it was revealed that Vance had declined to prosecute Harvey Weinstein and had accepted money from Weinstein's lawyer, Fiedner decided to jump into the race. I talk to Marc about what and who convinced him to run, his historic conviction of NYPD officer...
Nov 03, 2017•50 min
Bonus: why Norm Finkelstein thinks BDS is a cult. https://www.patreon.com/posts/why-norm-thinks-15090184 We talk to Norm FInkelstein, controversial scholar, author, activist and the son of survivors of the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps. He busts myths about and repeated by Israel and reminisces on the dishonesty of Alan Dershowitz. He also wonders if Richard Goldstone was blackmailed into retracting his report on Gaza. If you want to support WBAI and get Norm's book as well as Eli V...
Oct 28, 2017•33 min
Bonus ep on Racist Statues & Columbus Day: https://www.patreon.com/posts/14965304 This episode is from our live taping at The Brooklyn Commons. Gabe Pacheco and I talk to Wendi Muse, historian and creator of the #LeftPOC hashtag and project, as well as Anoa Changa, organizer & host of The Way with Anoa, about the representation, or lack thereof, of People of Color on the political left. Are Wendy and Anoa real? Or Russian bots? Find out... Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/bra...
Oct 20, 2017•1 hr 3 min
Bonus with Adam Johnson is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/14836515 We speak to art critic and writer Kareem Estefan, co-editor of "Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production," about Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS), the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the lessons of the South African boycott. Then we bring you a live reading from Eli Valley, who was our guest last week, of his book "Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel," recorded at the McNally Jackson boo...
Oct 12, 2017•50 min
Extended interview with Eli https://www.patreon.com/posts/14767156 Don't forget to come to our next life taping: https://www.facebook.com/events/121219481913548/ We talk to Eli Valley, artistic genius, about his book "Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel." Endorsements include the following criticisms by right wing rapid zionists: “Your work is disgusting. And also stupid.” — Marty Peretz. “Grotesque. … Wretched.” — Bret Stephens. “Offensive and obnoxious and crosses the line. .....
Oct 08, 2017•55 min
Bonus ep with Moumita Ahmed here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/14616145 Next live show on October 9! https://www.facebook.com/events/121219481913548/ We talk to Moumita Ahmed, founder of Millennials for Bernie, about that time she got hit by an white male Hillary Bro (with his hand and cane!), which was captured on video!!! Given how much the #BernieBro narrative is being pushed by Hillary Clinton and even investigated by Senate Intelligence Committee investigators! Then we talk to standup come...
Sep 29, 2017•58 min
Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/14485685 This is our LIVE TAPING episode with Khader El-Yateem and Jabari Brisport, who were inspired to run for city council by Bernie Sanders (whom they admire) and by Trump (whose scary & destructive victory convinced them to enter politics). A Palestinian, Arab-American, socialist Khader El-Yateem is a community organizer & faith leader who is committed to social justice. He talks about how his experience being imprisoned & tortured by Israeli...
Sep 21, 2017•57 min
For our full interview with Thomas Frank: https://www.patreon.com/posts/14431054 Our live taping with Jabari Brisport & Khader El-Yateem: https://www.facebook.com/events/1467429373350975/ Gabe and I talk to writer Thomas Frank about Hillary Clinton's new book "What Happened." Then we talk to Nomiki Konst, a reporter at The Young Turks and a member of the DNC's Reform Unity Commission about what's happening in the Democratic Party. Nomiki also talks about neoliberal economics and online troll...
Sep 18, 2017•1 hr 7 min
For the rest of our interview and to hear Hillary Clinton appointees, including Neera Tanden, vote against SIngle Payer, join out patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/14392323. Actual Dr. Adam Gaffney, one of the biggest advocates for single payer talks to us about Bernie Sanders' medicare for all bill. Why it matters, where it comes from and the sneaky language libs use to undermine single payer while pretending to support it. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & O...
Sep 15, 2017•18 min
Full debate is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-medicare-14279019. We talk to Rev.Khader El-Yateem, a Lutheran pastor, Arab-American, proud immigrant, and father of four who is running for City Council in Brooklyn's 43rd District. Wait until you hear his story. Then we bring you some hot Left of Left debate between Dr. Adam Gaffney and journalist Josh Holland over Medicare For All. We will be posting the rest of the debate shortly for our Patreon supporters! Sit tight. Advertising Inqui...
Sep 07, 2017•55 min
For more go to: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-1-ny-times-14239759. This is a really jam-packed episode! First, I share my experience touching Bernie Sanders, then we play audio from a speech he gave at Riverside Church, the same church where Martin Luther King gave his "Beyond Vietnam" speech 50 years ago. Gabe and I discuss both speeches, Joe Arpaio and why a New York TImes journalist is repeating a smear first hatched in March 2016 about Jane Sanders. We even include a Woody Allen Woody ...
Sep 05, 2017•1 hr 5 min
To hear the list of our top picks of #pseudowoke #altWoke #Resistance Twitter, go to https://www.patreon.com/posts/14048928. We talk to Sam Knight and Sam Sacks from The District Sentinel about Afghanistan, RT, Putin, George Bush's painting career, Alex Jones, and an absurd listicle of Resistance twitter, published on a conservative outlet, and written by a friend of Sean Spicer, who happens to include herself. Also, I share memories of Jane Fonda workouts. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcirc...
Aug 25, 2017•1 hr 4 min
Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-chase-on-13929906/edit We talk to Shuja Haider about his recent piece in Jacobin, "One Has to Take Sides," and Nick Murray about his piece in Viewpoint "Defending Charlottesville: A Report from the Ground." Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Aug 18, 2017•38 min
