The Katie Halper Show

For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content, support independent media and to make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-carl-zha-70174797 Katie Halper is joined by perennial show favorite Leslie Lee to discuss popular culture as well as some mainstream media "news" clips. But first they Katie and Leslie are joined by friend of the show and Green Party candidate Matthew Hoh. Matthew stops by to give us the latest updates regarding his and the Green Party's continuing struggle to simply be allowed to participate in the upcoming election for US Senate in North Carolina. Next Katie speaks with journalist John P. Ruehl about the ongoing Russia & Ukraine conflict, including the presence of private military and security companies in Ukraine. And last but certainly not least, Carl Zha makes his debut appearance on The Katie Halper Show to discuss Nancy Pelosi's recent questionable decision to travel to Taiwan. Matthew Hoh (https://twitter.com/MatthewPHoh) is a disabled Marine combat veteran for peace who is running as a Green Party candidate for the US Senate to represent the people of North Carolina. The North Carolina Democrats have refused to certify the Green Party Ballot access petition required to run. Matthew Hoh is a senior fellow with the Center for International Policy. He is a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran and, in 2009, he resigned his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the war. He is a candidate with the Green Party to represent North Carolina in the US Senate in 2022. John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington D.C. He writes for The Independent Media Institute, is a contributing editor to Strategic Policy, runs the Geopolitics General Channel on Roundtable Media, and his book "Budget Superpower" will be available later this year. Carl Zha (Twitter @CarlZha) is the host of the Silk and Steel podcast focusing on China and surrounding regions, history, politics and culture. Links to Carl's Silk and Steel podcast: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/silknsteel Apple podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/silk-and-steel-podcast/id1451115518 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4FWQalj04F4Gu9APMbR9nZ?si=224730f3ccaa4f74 Stitcher - https://listen.stitcher.com/yvap/?af_dp=stitcher://show/377726&af_web_dp=https://www.stitcher.com/show/377726 Podbean - https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-py9z6-4206c4

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To receive bonus content, support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Matthew Hoh (https://twitter.com/MatthewPHoh) is a disabled Marine combat veteran for peace who is running as a Green Party candidate for the US Senate to represent the people of North Carolina. The North Carolina Democrats have refused to certify the Green Party Ballot access petition required to run. Matthew Hoh is a senior fellow with the Center for International Policy. He is a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran and, in 2009, he resigned his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the war. He is a candidate with the Green Party to represent North Carolina in the US Senate in 2022. Plus journalist Chip Gibbons (https://twitter.com/ChipGibbons89) with a Julian Assange update and Leslie Lee (https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii) and Katie react to infuriating media clips. Chip Gibbons is policy director of Defending Rights & DIssent, where he has advised multiple congressional offices on reforming the Espionage Act. He covered the legal proceedings against Julian Assange and Daniel Hale as a correspondent for Jacobin. He is currently working on a book on the history of the FBI for Verso. Leslie Lee is co-host of the program Struggle Session (https://www.patreon.com/strugglesession).

For bonus content, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chris-hedges-on-68793292 Pulitzer Prize–winning Journalist Chris Hedges talks about the war in Ukraine, endless war, America's gun fetish, abortion, the fascists in our midst, and the Democrats, who enable them. Chris Hedges (https://chrishedges.substack.com/) 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 was the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact and now has a show at The Real News. Find all of his work at https://chrishedges.substack.com/ Relevant articles: Fascists In Our Midst (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/fascists-in-our-midst) Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of American Fascism (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/jesus-endless-war-and-the-rise-of) America's Gun Fetish (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-gun-fetish) The Triumph Of Death (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-triumph-of-death) No Way Out But War (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/no-way-out-but-war)

For bonus content, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Writer Freddie DeBoer, organizer Afeni, former lawyer current writer Molly Shah and Plan C Pills co-founder Amy Merrill discuss how the hell we can fight back against the Ascendant Right Wing, its Supreme Court and the Democrats who refuse to do anything about them. Freddie deBoer is a writer and academic and the author of The Cult of Smart. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Politico. Find his work at https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/ Afeni (https://twitter.com/ReddIsAri) is a Black queer activist and core organizer with Freedom Fighters DC. During the George Floyd Uprisings Afeni saw first-hand how abusive the police are towards human rights protesters. Her advocacy and voice is lended to all marginalized people from our Palestinian cousins to protesters being brutalized in Nigeria, Afeni's voice knows no border. Afeni is passionate about equity, anti-racism and transformative mutual aid. Molly Shah (https://twitter.com/MollyOShah) is a contributing writer to The Real News and social media consultant based in Berlin. Prior to moving to Germany Molly was an activist, teacher and lawyer in Louisville, Kentucky. Amy Merrill is an artist and activist, and cofounder and digital director of abortion pill access campaign Plan C at plancpills.org (https://www.plancpills.org/). She also leads a web design and communications studio Eyes Open at eyesopendesign.com. Amy has a background in nonprofit management and social impact startups, choosing complex issues like voluntourism, human trafficking and gender inequality - which ultimately led her to focus on reproductive health equity and self-determination, and to cofounding Plan C.

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For bonus content and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Anthropologist Jemima Pierre & Historian Peter James Hudson on the connection between imperialism & capitalism, what The NY Times gets wrong about Haiti, the Summit Of The Americas and more. Jemima Pierre is the Haiti/Americas Co-Coordinator with the Black Alliance for Peace; an editor at the Black Agenda Report; and a professor of Black Studies and Anthropology at UCLA She is the author of The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race. Her research and teaching interests are located in the overlaps between African Studies and African Diaspora Studies and engage three broad areas: race, racial formation theory, and political economy; culture and the history of anthropological theory; and transnationalism, globalization, and diaspora. She is currently completing a manuscript whose working title is “Racial Americanization: Conceptualizing African Immigrants in the U.S.,” and working on a project on the racialized political economy of multinational resource extraction in Ghana. Dr. Pierre’s essays on global racial formation, Ghana, immigration, and African diaspora theory and politics have appeared in a number of academic journals including, Cultural Anthropology, Feminist Review, Social Text, Identities, Cultural Dynamics, Transforming Anthropology, Journal of Haitian Studies, Latin American Perspective, American Anthropologist, and Philosophia Africana. Peter James Hudson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at UCLA. His research interests are in the history of capitalism, white supremacy, and U.S. imperialism; the intellectual and political-economic history of the Caribbean and the Black world; and the history of Black radicalism and global anti-imperialism. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this broadcast's Patreon segment - https://www.patreon.com/posts/truth-about-with-67549664 Organizers Illapa Sairitupac and Kristen Gonzalez talk about why they're running as Democratic Socialists in New York City. Then journalist Danny Haiphong talks about being locked out of Twitter over tweets on China. Illapa Sairitupac (https://twitter.com/illapa4NY) is a social worker, climate organizer, son of indigenous Peruvian immigrants and running for Assembly District 65. Kristen Gonzalez (https://twitter.com/Gonzalez4NY) is a tech worker, Queens native, DSA organizer running for the new State Senate District 59. Danny Haiphong (https://www.patreon.com/dannyhaiphong)(t.me/dannyhaiphong) is a journalist at Black Agenda Report (https://blackagendareport.com) and an editor of Friends Of Socialist China (https://socialistchina.org). Link to Danny's upcoming webinar: https://socialistchina.org/2022/05/21/webinar-the-empire-strikes-back-imperialisms-global-war-on-multipolarity/ Link to the following Callin discussion where members of the audience call in with questions! https://www.callin.com/room/danny-haiphong-on-being-censored-by-twitter-BJbDctbcHp

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