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To hear the rest of the conversation with John Kiriakou, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/john-kiriakou-82209537 CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou and historian Gerald Horne discuss the justice department's indictment of 4 activists charged with "weaponizing free speech" and the history of the crack down on Black radicals, free speech and alleged foreign assets. Dr. Horne also discusses Harry Belafonte and the situation in Sudan. John Kiriakou discusses the leaked pentagon documents and the war in Ukraine. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at The University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of race in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights and war. He is the author of over forty books. John Kiriakou is the only person to go to jail over the CIA torture program, which he blew the whistle on. He is a former CIA analyst and case officer, a PEN USA Award Winner and best-selling author. He's the host of Political Misfits and writes at http://johnkiriakou.substack.com ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy

To hear the rest of the interview with Daniel Goldhaber, Jordan Sjol & Daniel Garber, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/would-you-blow-81822434 Katie interviews Daniel Goldhaber, Jordan Sjol & Daniel Garber the director, writer & editor of the film HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE. But first she talks to Karina Gonzalez & Juan C. Dávila about Puerto Rico, climate change & capitalism. Karina N. González is a bilingual speech-language pathologist at an elementary school in Brooklyn, NY & author of the Pura Belpré honor picture book THE COQUÍES STILL SING / LOS COQUÍES AÚN CANTAN (Roaring Brook Press, 2022), a powerful story about home, community & hope, inspired by the rebuilding of Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017. Her forthcoming picture book is CHURRO STAND / EL CARRITO DE CHURROS (Cameron Kids, 2024). Juan C. Dávila is a documentary filmmaker, news producer, & activist. His work focuses on climate justice, social movements & colonialism. He is the director of the feature-length documentary film, "Simulacros de Liberación" (2021), which was released in movie theaters around Puerto Rico. He directed two mid-length documentary films: "Compañeros de lucha" (2012) & "Vieques: una batalla inconclusa" (2016). His filmography also includes the award-winning short film, "La generación del estanbai" (2016), "Aftershocks of Disaster" (2020), "Networked Education" (2020), "Rayito de sol" (2021), & a TV pilot for the documentary series "The Response" (2019). Dávila is a former senior producer at "When We Fight, We Win! The Podcast!" & morning news producer for the newscast Democracy Now! where he continues to contribute. Daniel Goldhaber is a director, writer & producer based in Los Angeles & New York. His new film, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, premieres in the Platform Section of the 2022 Toronto Film Festival. Jordan Sjol is a filmmaker & a cinema & media studies scholar. He was a story editor on the 2018 horror thriller CAM & was a writer & executive producer on How to Blow up a Pipeline, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2022. He currently lives in Durham, NC, where he is finishing his PhD in Duke’s Program in Literature. Daniel Garber is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY, with work spanning documentary, fiction & experimental practices. Primarily employed as an editor, he was nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors award for his editing on Sierra Pettengill & Pacho Velez’s feature documentary The Reagan Show, which premiered at Tribeca & Locarno in 2017. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy Sign the petition calling on Germany to un-cancel Roger Waters' concert. https://chng.it/bBMJRgnRkn

To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/bryce-greene-81531108 You can also hear the entire discussion with Roger Waters on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/roger-waters-81620033 Legendary musician and activist Roger Waters talks about Frankfurt's attempt to cancel his concert and smear him as an antisemite over his defense of Palestinian Human Rights. If you haven't already done so, please sign this petition calling on Germany to un-cancel Roger Waters' concert. https://chng.it/bBMJRgnRkn Ahmad Abuznaid, executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights talks about what U.S. tax dollars are funding and how that money could be reinvested. Journalist Bryce Greene and media critic Bryce Greene discusses how the media manufactures pro-war consent around the proxy war in Ukraine, the Nordstream Pipeline, poverty and more. Join Anwar Hadid, Susan Sarandon, Peter Gabriel, Ken Loach, John Pilger, David Cross, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Gabor Maté and more and the petition calling on Germany to reverse its decision here: https://www.change.org/p/let-pink-floyd-s-roger-waters-perform-in-frankfurt-germany Bryce Greene is a journalist at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. Ahmad Abuznaid is a Florida-based attorney, director of the coming documentary film "Shukran 10 days in Palestine", and executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. Prior to joining USCPR, Ahmad co-founded the Dream Defenders, serving as its legal & policy director and coo during his time there. Ahmad then went on to serve as the executive director of the National Network for Arab American Communities from 2017 to 2019. USCPR is a political home for all who believe that freedom for the Palestinian people is an integral part of achieving our collective liberation. We provide resources and strategic support to the U.S.-based Palestine solidarity movement, channeling grassroots power into positive change in U.S. policy and public opinion. We work with local organizers and activists, policymakers, movement leaders, media, and advocacy organizations to advance a rights-based, accountability and justice-oriented framework from the U.S. to Palestine. Link to interactive map showing U.S. Military Funding to Israel: https://uscpr.org/activist-resource/us-military-funding-to-israel-map/ Photos of Roger Waters by KATE IZOR ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy

To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/aaron-good-81201647 Status Coup journalist Louis DeAngelis, who has been reporting on the ground in East Palestine talks about a bombshell investigation into the EPA coverup. Read Louis' reporting here - https://statuscoup.substack.com/p/east-palestine-bombshell-epa-official But first, Dr. Ana Malinow and union activist Kay Tillow talk about how residents of East Palestine could get medicare for all, how residents of Libby Montana already got it for asbestos poisoning and how Democrats need to improve their Medicare for All Bill before introducing it. Dr. Ana Malinow spent three decades working as a pediatrician with immigrant, refugee and underserved children in Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, and California. She is past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, co-founder of Health Care for All Texas, and a lead organizer for National Single Payer and The Movement to End Privatization of Medicare. She has authored opinion pieces on how national single payer will improve patient care and bring us closer to social justice. She has been a speaker on health care reform and the privatization of Medicare and featured on national and international television and radio. She recently retired as Professor of Pediatrics from the University of California in San Francisco. Learn more at - https://www.nationalsinglepayer.org Born in Paducah, Kentucky, Kay Tillow worked in the southern Civil Rights Movement, and worked for health care and nurses' unions on organizing and collective bargaining. She is currently chair of Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare and coordinator of the All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy If you haven't already done so, please sign this petition calling on Germany to uncancel Roger Waters' concert. https://chng.it/bBMJRgnRkn

To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/john-pilger-80862662 Legendary journalist, writer and filmmaker John Pilger joins the show to talk about "the unrelenting nature of propaganda," how to deconstruct the news, the proxy war in Ukraine, the coming war on China and more. Plus Human Rights and Environmental lawyer Steven Donziger reacts to the Supreme Court's terrible decision against him and the people of Ecuador who were poisoned by Chevron. And Susan Kang speaks out against the medicare "reform" for public sector workers retirees being pushed by NYC Mayor Adams as a "cost savings" measure. John Pilger has written dozens of books, including Heroes, Hidden Agendas, and Freedom Next Time. He's made over 60 documentaries, including Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny, Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia, The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back, The War You Don't See, The Coming War on China. He has appeared as a contributor on BBC Television Australia, BBC Radio, BBC World Service, London Broadcasting, ABC Television, ABC Radio Australia, among others, and his writing has appeared at The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation: New York, The Age: Melbourne, The Sydney Morning Herald and more. Learn more about him at https://johnpilger.com/ Susan Kang is an associate professor of political science at John Jay College, a member of the executive council of the Professional Staff Congress, CUNY (faculty and professional staff union at CUNY), and member of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America. *Attend the rally against the privatization of Medicare. https://psc-cuny.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/RallyFlyer033123.pdf *NYC Retirees is a group that is raising funds and hiring lawyers to fight the imposition of this impending change to their healthcare which is a for-profit scam. To learn more, donate to help their efforts and more, please visit: https://www.nycretirees.org The prosecution of Steven Donziger, which has been condemned by the United Nations, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Amazon Watch, and 64 Nobel Laureates, is a literal corporate prosecution. After the Southern District of New York refused to prosecute Donziger, the judge assigned a corporate firm which had represented Chevron to go after him. The judge also made the unusual move of handpicking the judge to oversee the case and chose a judge who is part of the Right Wing Federalist Society which gets funding from.... you guessed it... Chevron! Support Steven at: https://www.freedonziger.com https://substack.com/profile/7445653-steven-donziger ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/3rQPRRfZ Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps If you haven't already done so, please sign this petition calling on Germany to uncancel Roger Waters' concert. https://chng.it/bBMJRgnRkn

To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-matthew-80501714 Veteran Matthew Hoh and former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich discuss the legacy of the ongoing war in Iraq, why it's still relevant today and what it has to do with the proxy war in Ukraine. In 2009, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-5 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-7 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matthew worked on Afghanistan and Iraq war policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-8. Matthew has been a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. In 2010, Matthew was named the Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling and, in 2021, he was awarded as a Defender of Liberty by the Committee for the Republic. Matthew is a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Public Accuracy, an Advisory Board Member for the Committee to Defend Julian Assange and Civil Liberties, Expose Facts, North Carolina Committee to Investigate Torture, The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice, Veterans For Peace, and World Beyond War, and he is an Associate Member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). He is a 100% disabled veteran and was certified by North Carolina as a Peer Support Specialist for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder. View Matt's website at: https://matthewhoh.com Dennis Kucinich is an American politician and former U.S. Representative from Ohio. He was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2004 and 2008. He ran for governor of Ohio in the 2018 election. Follow him on here on Substack: https://substack.com/profile/2106461-dennis-kucinich If you haven't already done so, please sign this petition calling on Germany to uncancel Roger Waters' concert. https://chng.it/bBMJRgnRkn ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/3rQPRRfZ Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps

To hear the rest of the conversation, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast's discussion - https://www.patreon.com/posts/norman-barbara-d-80188734 Norman Finkelstein, Barbara Smith and Robin D.G. Kelley debate identity politics. First Barbara and Robin go over the College Board’s revision of its curriculum for its Advanced Placement African American Studies course. These revisions happened just weeks after Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis threatened to ban the class in Florida schools. Then Norman joins the discussion. Norman G. Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world. Link to purchase Norman's book: https://www.sublationmedia.com/books/i'll-burn-that-bridge-when-i-get-to-it Barbara Smith is an author, activist, and independent scholar who has played a groundbreaking role in opening up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. She was among the first to define an African American women’s literary tradition and to build Black women’s studies and Black feminism in the United States. She has been politically active in many movements for social justice since the 1960s. She has edited three major collections about Black women: Conditions: Five, The Black Women’s Issue (with Lorraine Bethel, 1979); All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies (with Gloria T. Hull and Patricia Bell Scott, 1982); and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, 1983 She was cofounder and publisher until 1995 of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U. S. publisher for women of color to reach a wide national audience. She is the 2022-23—Hess Scholar-in-Residence, Brooklyn College. Link to "There's a Lot More That Needs to Be Done" an interview with Barbara Smith: https://www.thedriftmag.com/theres-a-lot-more-that-needs-to-be-done/ Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. His books include, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression; Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class; Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. His essays have appeared in several publications, including The Nation, Monthly Review, New York Times, American Historical Review, American Quarterly, Social Text, Metropolis, Black Music Research Journal, and The Boston Review, for which he also serves as Contributing Editor. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/tWby973p Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps

To hear the rest of this discussion, receive bonus content, exclusive interviews, support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this broadcast's Patreon podcast with Bryce Greene: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nordstream-more-79929800 German-based artist Adam Broomberg talks about being smeared and literally canceled by German officials as an antisemite for the crime of defending Palestinian Human Rights and criticizing Israel. Broomberg, who is Jewish and who lost relatives in the Nazi Holocaust talks about having his latest show canceled by the German Government and what he's observed in Palestine. Then, journalist Bryce Greene updates us on the latest news about the Nordstream Pipeline explosion, discusses the smearing of journalist Seymour Hersh and talks to us about how Facebook is protecting Nazis to protect the Proxy War in Ukraine. Adam Broomberg (b. 1970, Johannesburg) is an artist, activist and educator. He currently lives and works in Berlin. He is on the faculty of the MA Photography & Society program at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague which he co-designed. His work is held in major public and private collections including Centres Pompidou, MoMA, The Stedelijk Museum, Tate, Yale University Art Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum. Bryce Greene is a student, writer, organizer and media critic based in Indianapolis. He is a contributor to Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/3rQPRRfZ Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps

Patreon: Briahna Joy Gray & Katie breakdown Joe Rogan's anti-semitic defense of Ilhan Omar: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rogan-gate-with-79524656 James Cavallaro and Lara Sheehi join the show to talk about being canceled over their criticism of Israel. James Cavallaro is a prominent Human Right expert who was blocked by Biden from his nomination to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) over his criticism of Israeli apartheid. Lara Sheehi is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University who is the subject of a Title VI complaint launched by the Right Wing organization Stand With Us. Then Tara Alami, a Palestinian writer and organiser from occupied Jerusalem and occupied Yafa, talks about the latest settler violence against Palestinians. James Cavallaro is a visiting professor at Columbia, UCLA and Yale and a professor of the practice at Wesleyan University. He is also the Executive Director of the University Network for Human Rights. He has taught human rights law and practice for nearly a quarter century, most recently at Yale Law School (Spring 2020), Stanford Law School (2011-2019), and Harvard Law School (2002-2011). At both Harvard and Stanford, he established and directed human rights clinics and ran human rights centers. Cavallaro has overseen dozens of projects with scores of students in over twenty countries. In June 2013, Cavallaro was elected to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He served as President of that body from 2016-2017. Lara Sheehi, PsyD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program where she is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps

Pat Tillman's Mother, Mary Tillman, and journalist Narda Zacchino join the show to talk about their efforts to uncover the truth surrounding the circumstances of Pat’s death and their book "Boots on the Ground By Dusk: Searching for Answers in the Death of Pat Tillman." But first, reporter Julia Rock talks about the Norfolk Southern train derailment, which she's covered for The Lever. Julia Rock is an investigative reporter at The Lever, covering business and politics. Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the U.S. Army Rangers after 9/11. In 2004, Pat was shot and killed in Afghanistan in a friendly fire gun battle. Yet the story told by the government was quite different. Mary Tillman, Pat’s mother, documents her family’s crusade to uncover the truth and expose the cover-up of Pat’s death orchestrated by senior military officials. Narda Zacchino is a lifelong journalist, former masthead editor at the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, author of two books, one on Pat Tillman and one a contemporary history of California. She is currently the editor of ScheerPost, a daily news website. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps