The Katie Halper Show

Patreon-only https://www.patreon.com/posts/34554183

stand up comedian, activist and writer Kate Willett talks about how the death of her boyfriend, standup comedian Raghav Mehta pushed her to support medicareforall, fall in love with his friends she used to hate and turned into a Bernie Bro. Plus what she saw while canvassing in Iowa and New Hampshire, and what it's like being yelled at by Leftists online and liberals on the line, which is worse, how to convert liberals to the cause, why she likes bernie's yelling and what she wants people to know about Raghav. Check out Kate's piece at Elle https://www.elle.com/author/224656/kate-willett/

Despite Chris Matthews' insane claims that Sanders will have him shot in Central Park and wouldn't help someone one on the side of the road, Sanders is the first candidate who would help someone. Ask Amy Currotto, who he told to get out of the street, or Andrea Mitchell who was getting trampled, or the people who fainted at rallies he interrupted to get them help.

I chatted with organizer, artists and national Bernie Sanders surrogate Phillip Agnew about Iowa, the movement, how he evolved politically, that special Black and Jewish je ne sais quois, that special Muslim Bernie je ne sais quois and more! Plus I include some clips from an event that Phillip and I both took part in called "Class Warfare: The Future of Left Politics," organized by Harvard for Bernie and featuring two back to back panels: "“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” with Krystal Ball (The Hill, Rising), Meagan Day (Jacobin), Nomiki Konst (The Young Turks, the Nomiki Show) and me; and “Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party,” with Dr. Cornel West (philosopher, author, Harvard professor), Michael Brooks (The Michael Brooks Show), Esha Krishnaswamy (activist and host of historic.ly) and Phillip. Plus Harvard for Bernie's Piper Winkler!

Full ep is here https://www.patreon.com/posts/260-over-obama-33725119

Patreon-only chat with Margaret Kimberly is here https://www.patreon.com/posts/260-over-obama-33725119 Rep Ro Khanna (CA-D) talks to me about the measure he sponsored, which just passed the House!!!, to block funding for a military strike on Iran unless authorized by Congress; hawkish Dems, the impeachment, and the Bernie Bro narrative which never mentions the online harassment faced by Sanders supporters. Then Margaret Kimberley talks to me about her new book "Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents," what she learned while working on it, who the most racist president was, and how George Washington replaced his teeth. Hear Margaret speak here https://www.strandbooks.com/event/kimberly-prejudential

257 - Neoliberal Rot with Krystal Ball by Katie Halper

Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/33293653 main ep: writer, socialist, feminist, Jacobin editor Alex Press on why Sanders is the feminist candidate in the race.

Full Episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33125980 I speak to Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council about Iran's accidental downing of the Ukrainian airliner, the protests that followed, and how Iranians can have two thoughts in their heads at the same: they can oppose the assassination of Soleimani and protest the downing of the airliner; they can criticize their own government and oppose regime change and war.

I speak to Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, about Trump's killing of Soleimani and his military and economic treatment of Iran. Then I speak with Iranian-American journalist and Intercept editor Ali Gharib about his view of the conflict. Cole's His most recent book is Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires. He is also the author of The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East (2014); Engaging the Muslim World (2009); Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (2007); and many other books. He has appeared on PBS’s Lehrer News Hour, ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, The Today Show, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360, The Rachel Maddow Show, All In With Chris Hayes, The Colbert Report, Democracy Now!, and many others. He has written widely about Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and South Asia. the upheavals in the Arab World since 2011. He has regular columns at The Nation and Truthdig. Cole commands Arabic, Persian, and Urdu and reads Turkish, and knows both Middle Eastern and South Asian Islam. He lived in various parts of the Muslim world for more than a decade, and continues to travel widely there. He is the editor in chief of Informed Comment, which you can find here https://www.juancole.com/. You can follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/jricole Follow Ali Gharib here https://twitter.com/Ali_Gharib