Extended Reed interview here (https://www.patreon.com/posts/51203261) Seattle City Council woman Kshama Sawant (https://www.kshamasolidarity.org/) talks about her resolution calling on the Biden administration to support patent waivers for U.S.-produced vaccines that would allow facilities in other countries to begin manufacturing generic vaccines based on Pfizer and Moderna's formulas. Sawant also discusses the Right Wing recall campaign being launched against her. Dr. Adolph Reed, professor e...
May 02, 2021•1 hr 40 min
SHIREEN AL-ADEIMI explains that Joe Biden didn't end the war in Yemen. He's merely rebranded it. Shireen Al-Adeimi (https://twitter.com/shireen818) is an assistant professor of education at Michigan State University. Since 2015, she has played an active role in raising awareness about the Saudi-led war on her country of birth, Yemen, and works to encourage political action to end U.S. support. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privac...
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Journalist, filmmaker (https://gazafightsforfreedom.com/) and Empire Files (https://twitter.com/EmpireFiles) host Abby Martin (https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin) refused to sign a pro-Israel pledge which promised to not participate or advocate the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. She was asked to sign the oath in January, 2020 when she was set to deliver a keynote speech at Georgia Southern University. When she refused, her talk was canceled. In February, 2020 Martin, together w...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Bolivia-based Journalists Ollie Vargas and Camila Escalante push back against the lies spread by Western media and The State Department. Then labor organizer and TwinkRev contributing editor Esperanza Fonseca talks about capitalism, feminism and imperialism. Camila Escalante is the co-founder of Kawsachun News (https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews) in Bolivia and known for her reporting on TeleSUR. Ollie Vargas (https://twitter.com/OVargas52) is a Bolivian journalist and writer. He has contributed ...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 29 min
Chris Smalls, who was fired by Amazon for protesting their abusive practices, & labor reporter Alex Press talk about the historic vote to unionize the amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. Chris Small was fired by Amazon for organizing a walkout to protest the way they were subjecting their worker to COVID-19. He is the founder of The Congress Of Essential Workers (https://twitter.com/TCOEW. Alex Press (https://twitter.com/alexnpress)Alex Press is a staff writer at Jacobin (https://twitter....
Mar 30, 2021•51 min
Celebrate International Women's Day with The Katie Halper Show and more importantly, Kristen R. Ghodsee, author "Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence." (https://kristenghodsee.com/) Ghodsee is a professor of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the author of nine books on European Communism and its aftermath, including, “Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th-Century Communism." She is also the host of the podcast...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Journalist Rania Khalek (https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek) breaks down why Biden bombed Syria, what any of this has to do with Iran, and Iraq, what life is like in Lebanon, where she lives, and how and why her views on Syria and the Middle East in general have changed. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Mar 06, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Today we welcome back to the program Matt Bruenig. Matt is an American lawyer, blogger, policy analyst, commentator, and founder of the left-wing think tank people's Policy Project. He was a blogger for the American think tank Demos covering politics and public policy — and has written on issues including income distribution, taxation, welfare, elections, and Scandinavian economic models. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Feb 27, 2021•50 min
Ali Abunimah (https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah) explains why SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's now infamous joke delivered by Michael Che about Israel's vaccination program is actually funny: because it's basically true. Medical Apartheid is always a knee slapper. Ali Abunimah is the founder of Electronic Intifada (https://electronicintifada.net/) and the author of "The Battle for Justice in Palestine" and "One Country: A Bold-Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse." (https://twitter.com/intifada) *...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr
Assemblyman Ron Kim talks (https://twitter.com/rontkim) about being threatened by Governor Andrew Cuomo for telling the truth about his administration's coverup of nursing home deaths. (https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Ron-Kim) David Sirota (https://twitter.com/davidsirota) talks about his own journalism on Cuomo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Feb 20, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Reporter Ryan Girdusky (https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky) explains how and why he broke the story about The Lincoln Project's Sexual Abuse Scandal and coverup and the roles played by John Weaver, George Conway, Rick Wilson, and Steve Schmidt. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 54 min
The Guardian fired its own columnist Nathan Robinson (https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson) over his totally inoffensive tweets about the special relationship between the governments of Israel and the United States, which both governments acknowledge and praise. Nathan (http://nathanjrobinson.com), Editor of @CurAffairs (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/0...) talks about his experience and if he feels the same way about "cancel culture" as he did before. He will then be judged by Katie and ...
Feb 14, 2021•1 hr 45 min
LA Charger and activist Justin Jackson (https://twitter.com/J_ManPrime21) and @blkagendareport Editor and Senior Columnist and Author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents (http://bit.ly/359cvPH) Margaret Kimberley (https://twitter.com/freedomrideblog) explain how Biden ended racism and saved The Republic and we can all go back to brunching. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 33 min
Kshama Sawant has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. She is a member of the political party Socialist Alternative. Her most recent re-election campaign was in 2019 in which Amazon spent an unprecedented $1.5m to defeat her. She has been a consistent advocate of raising taxes on the wealthy, expanding city services for the city’s workers and for environmental rights and Palestinian human rights. She is facing a right wing recall in retaliation for spearheading victories like $15 minim...
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr 33 min
PATREON ONLY EP https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/3/eyJhIjoxLCJwIjoxfQ%3D%3D/patreon-media/p/post/46557272/4663c612c16248a5858d987444e8ea8d/1.mp3?token-time=1611464766&token-hash=CUQ87Ayg9IjVCa-kJiEVy-AVuUdxUGSmrlA0DhTivPs%3D A man named Jonathan Sullivan appeared on The Katie Halper Show last week after appearing on Anderson Cooper to talk about the storming of the Capitol and the fatal shooting of one of the rioters, which he not only witnessed but filmed. Sullivan presented himself to Co...
Jan 18, 2021•42 min
Is Trump a fascist? Has he unleashed fascism? Was July 6 a coup? A failed coup? Never going to be a coup? Do these labels matter? To answer that question, Katie will chat with an amazing round table consisting of: philosopher Jason Stanley; historian and law professor Samuel Moyn; political scientist Jodi Dean; historian Daniel Bessner; and journalist Eugene Puryear. Jason Stanley (https://twitter.com/jasonintrator) is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University whose latest boo...
Jan 15, 2021•1 hr 45 min
Should Democrats prioritize impeaching Trump? Should Twitter have removed Trump? If so, when? Will there be a bipartisan expansion of the Surveillance State? Will it mirror what we saw after 9/11? Guests Kyle Kulinski, Zephyr Teachout, Shahid Buttar & Evan Greer will tackle these and other questions. Kyle Kulinski (https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski) is the host of The Kyle Kulinski Show and the co-host of Krystal Kyle & Friends. Shahid Buttar (https://twitter.com/ShahidForChange) is a con...
Jan 12, 2021•2 hr 6 min
Dallas Goldtooth (https://twitter.com/dallasgoldtooth), poet, journalist, traditional artist, powwow emcee, comedian, and activist joins the show tonight! Dallas is the Keep It In the Ground campaign organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network (https://twitter.com/IENearth) (https://linktr.ee/IndigenousRisingMedia). Keep It In the Ground is an anti-fossil fuel activism campaign, and while Dallas makes sure that this very serious work is taken care of, he’s also a member of The 1491s (http...
Nov 26, 2020•53 min
Dr. Adolph Reed, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, political scientist, and editor of Nonsite (https://nonsite.org/) and Jane McAlevey (https://twitter.com/rsgexp), organizer, author, and scholar join the show to talk about neoliberalism, identity politics, labor, the election, what happened, what's happening, and what needs to happen. Anders Lee guest co-hosts!(https://twitter.com/andersleehere). Adolph Reed writes about and works around racial and economic inequality; Ameri...
Nov 15, 2020•2 hr 33 min
Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-Muslim-American organizer and a surrogate for the Sanders Campaign and Chuck Rocha, Bernie 2020 Senior advisor and author of 'Tio Bernie,' talk about the successes and failures of getting out the Muslim and Latino Vote. Linda explains that it was the progressive movement, not the neoliberals patting themselves on the back, who defeated Trump. Chuck Rocha (https://twitter.com/ChuckRocha) was a Bernie 2020 Senior advisor, is the author Tio Bernie, president of Solidari...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 41 min
DEBATE ON ELECTIONS!!! With: Aaron Maté, Rania Khalek, Eugene Puryear, Omar Baddar, and Benjamin Studebaker. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 8 min
THE Noam Chomsky makes the case for voting for Biden but also warns against letting him off the hook the way The Left did with Obama. Plus his thoughts on China, Iran, and cancel culture. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Nov 01, 2020•45 min
Ollie Vargas (https://twitter.com/OVargas52), a Bolivian journalist with @KawsachunCoca @KawsachunNews talks about Bolivia's presidential election where Evo Morales' hand-picked candidate, Luis Arce, defeated Jeanine Añez, a right wing racist who came to power during a coup which illegally removed Morales. Organizer Joshua Kahn Russell, the Executive Director of The Wildfire Project, and facilitator with the Ruckus Society, talks about Choose Democracy, an effort to organize regular people to st...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 25 min
Paula Jean Swearengin (https://twitter.com/paulajean2020)is a coal miner's daughter, granddaughter, niece and step daughter who won the Democratic primary and is running for Senate in West Virginia. (https://paulajean.com/) Cori Bush (https://twitter.com/CoriBush) is a nurse, minister, activist who unseated a twenty-year incumbent Rep. William Lacy Clay in a Missouri Democratic primary and is now the Democratic nominee for Missouri's 1st congressional district. (https://coribush.org/) Rep. Ro Kh...
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 29 min
Patreon only ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42723956 Journalist Ken Klippenstein (https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein) and psychologist Steven Reisner (https://twitter.com/Drreisner) talk about white supremacist groups, Trump, the elections and more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Comedic genius James Adomian will come on the show to talk about Trump, Covid, how we may be on the brink of war not just here but also in a place the media is totally ignoring: Armenia. Brazilian journalist VIctor Pougy on having a Covid-19 positive president and how Trump could easily use this to his advantage like Bolsonaro did. For more on Armenia and how to help, check out https://www.armeniafund.org, http://anca.org/alert, https://zartonkmedia.com. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle....
Oct 04, 2020•1 hr 43 min
Historian Gerald Horne (https://www.uh.edu/class/history/facu...) talks about his latest book, of which he's written over three dozen, "The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century" (https://monthlyreview.org/product/the...) Along the way, we discuss racism, class-consciousness, Trumpism, 2020, The Supreme Court and the creation of White Supremacy. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privac...
Sep 30, 2020•2 hr 19 min
Excellent Patreon-only ep https://www.patreon.com/posts/41941054 warning against calling Trump a fascist, Trump-washing & making war more 'humane.' Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Prof. of Jurisprudence and Prof. of History, Yale, talks to me about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy, her decision not to retire earlier, what her death means for the country, the election, and world, and why we need to rethink and reshape and pack the Supreme Court. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Priv...
Sep 19, 2020•1 hr 11 min
Full Ep https://www.patreon.com/posts/41749767 Struggle Session's Leslie Lee & Jack Allison talk to me about what will happen if Trump sits through Hamilton, why McCain should be canceled and Liam Neeson should be uncanceled and how Trump is kinda right about the military Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Sep 18, 2020•6 min
Special livestream with Mike on Sunday at noon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA1sJg5Jp1w Mike Duncan, host of the Revolutions and HIstory of Rome podcasts talks to me about how and why he think America is on the verge of collapse or revolution or something in between. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Sep 11, 2020•1 hr 24 min
