The Katie Halper Show

Patreon-only: how the CIA controls the media & why former CIA directors are the same mean, loud, cigar-smoking, wife-cheating. https://www.patreon.com/posts/56317591 Former CIA analyst and case officer, who blew the whistle on its torture program, breaks down the newly declassified FBI document on the Saudi connection to 9/11 so that people who haven't been in the CIA or FBI can understand what the hell it says. The report was declassified by Biden. John Kiriakou (https://twitter.com/JohnKiriakou) is a former CIA analyst and case officer, and counterterrorism consultant. Upon leaving the CIA, Kiriakou was the first whistleblower to reveal the torture policy practiced by the US government. While employed by the CIA he was involved in critical counterterrorism missions following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He refused to be trained in “enhanced interrogation techniques” and never authorized or engaged in these, however he is the only person to have served prison time for revealing that there was a torture program. He was the 6th whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act, a law that was supposed to punish spies not whistleblowers.

What is the deal with Covid? Vaccines? Masks? What works? What doesn't work? Who *are* the unvaccinated? What is vaccine apartheid? What's the deal with boosters? Dr. Adam Gaffney answers your questions. He is a physician, writer, public health researcher, and advocate. He practices pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance and is an Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on healthcare financing, reform, and equity, and disparities in lung health. He writes about the policy, politics, and history of health care. He is the immediate past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, a non-profit organization that advocates for Medicare-for-All healthcare reform. He is on twitter @awgaffney.

Law Professor & historian Sam Moyn and retired NY State Supreme Court Judge Emily Jane Goodman talk about what should and could be done about the Texas abortion ban and Roe v. Wade more generally. Then an all-ladies panel with Kate Willett, Esha Krishnaswamy, Esperanza Fonseca, and Rebecca Parson discusses the ban as well as the people blaming it on Susan Sarandon, Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders and Ralph Nader.

Three times Nobel Peace Prize nominated peace activist Kathy Kelly and anti war veteran and author Danny Sjursen discuss Afghanistan, what the war was about, what the war was not about, why Biden's statements on the terrorist "threats" in other countries & on the Kabul blast were troubling. And they debunk the disingenuous media narrative about women's rights and human rights. Kathy Kelly, a peace activist and author, made over two dozen trips to Afghanistan from 2010 – 2019, living with Afghan Peace Volunteers in a working class neighborhood in Kabul. She and her companions in various peace team delegations believe that where you stand determines what you see. Kelly lived with families in Baghdad throughout the 2003 Shock and Awe invasion and during the first weeks of the U.S. occupation. Kelly is now campaigning for an international treaty to ban weaponized drones. Danny Sjursen is an anti-war veteran; the director of @mediaeisenhower (EMN); Senior Fellow at @CIPolicy; contributing editor at @Antiwarcom. He was recently selected as the 2019 Lannan Foundation cultural freedom fellow. He is the author of a memoir and critical analysis of the Iraq War, Ghostriders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge; Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War; and A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism He is a member of several activist organizations, including Veterans for Peace and About Face: Veterans against the War. Follow him on Twitter at @SkepticalVet.

Patreon only discussion on Afghanistan and the fight between Larry David & Alan Dershowitz: https://www.patreon.com/posts/55207742 Ron Kim, https://twitter.com/rontkim, the Queens Assemblyman whose uncle died in a nursing home of covid and whom Cuomo threatened to "destroy" argues for Cuomo's impeachment, warns that his political career isn't over, discusses his "soft landing," and demands transparency about the nursing homes scandal from Cuomo's replacement. Plus https://twitter.com/PramillaSMalick on Cuomo's connections to a shady power plant & https://twitter.com/jackAMtheShow on the corporate cooptation of #MeToo.

Patreon only! https://www.patreon.com/posts/54900465 Katie and guest co-host Kate Willett (https://twitter.com/katewillett) talk to Tara Reade (https://tarareadeauthor.com/) about Cuomo, Biden & #MeToo. But first journalist Liza Featherstone (https://twitter.com/lfeatherz) discusses her piece "Elite Feminists Ran Cover for Andrew Cuomo." Plus Avalon Clare (https://twitter.com/AvalonClare)on why she started We Believe Tara Reade & journalist Kevin Gosztola (https://twitter.com/kgosztola)on the latest in Julia Assange's case.

Patreon only! https://www.patreon.com/posts/54643422 Actor & activist James Cromwell (https://twitter.com/jamesocromwell) of "Six Feet Under" and "Babe," climate change activist Alexandria Villaseñor (https://twitter.com/AlexandriaV2005) & environmental activist Pramilla Malick (https://twitter.com/pramillasmalick) join the show to talk about the connections between Andrew Cuomo's corruption, climate change, capitalism and share a hot take on Michael Moore-produced doc "Planet of the Humans." Plus Leslie & Katie talk about Nina Turner, Don Lemon, Jim Clyburn & Al Sharpton. Alexandria Villaseñor - Her organization is Earth Uprising and the Twitter and Instagram is @Earth_Uprising The link to her non-profit organization which supports youth-led climate education is: http://www.EarthUprising.org Pramilla Malick: www.protectorangecounty.org https://www.facebook.com/protectorang... Pramilla and Jamie are asking for an investigation into the corruption of the CPV power plant and for the plant's permits to be revoked. its at tinyurl.com/BuiltOnBribes and use Pramilla's handle; twitter.com/pramillasmalick

#EvictionMoratorium A panel of housing organizers, unhoused activists & policy wonks talk about the recent expiration of the eviction moratorium. Ava Farkas is the head of Met Council On Housing (https://www.metcouncilonhousing.org/); Milton Perez is an organizer with VOCAL (https://www.vocal-ny.org/); Samuel Stein researchers and writes about the politics of housing and urban planning and is the author of "Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (https://www.shapeofthecity.blogspot.c... Amye Cutlip is an independent data journalist and a housing rights advocate; Maebe A. Girl (https://twitter.com/Maebe_A_Girl) is a U.S. House Candidate, Paul Williams is a fellow at Jain Family institute, grad student in John Jay masters program in economics (https://twitter.comJJayEcon); Rebecca Parson (https://twitter.com/RebeccaforWA) is a housing organizer, formerly homeless, and a candidate for Congress in Washington‘s 6th District. She’s running against the 13th most conservative Democrat in the House and has been endorsed by Brand New Congress.

Who Killed Haiti's President? With Kevin Pina by Katie Halper

Dr. Reverend William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, initiated by Dr. Martin Luther King, talks about the Selma-to-Montgomery Style, 4-Day march in Texas to Challenge Attacks on the Right to Vote, which consists of a 27 mile trek from Georgetown to Austin, TX. The event is part of the organization’s national Moral Monday direct actions which are designed to demand an end to the filibuster, passage of the full For the People Act, and complete restoration of the Voting Rights Act. The group is also urging passage of a minimum living wage of $15 per hour. The Poor People’s campaign and partners will begin the Texas events with meetings with Democratic and Republican legislators on June 26, before engaging in a 27-mile trek from Georgetown to Austin, Texas, July 27 through July 30. As Democratic legislators in Texas fled the state in search of federal assistance pushing back on anti-voting measures there, the Rev. Liz Theoharis and the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II are organizing a march involving members of the Poor People’s Campaign, including clergy, religious and moral leaders, who earlier called for a season of nonviolent direct action in support of voting rights, a $15 minimum wage, and an end to the filibuster. “It is a mistake to think that racism only impacts Black people,” said the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. “It impacts us all and the collective impact necessitates a collective response.” Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) is the president of Repairers of the Breach, a co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and the author of “We Are Called to Be a Movement.”