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On this weekâs show, youâre getting two scoops.
Itâs a Useful Idiots double header, with former CIA Agent Barry Eisler, who left the CIA to become a spy-thriller novelist (get his latest book The System at barryeisler.com), and Ben & Jerryâs Cofounder Ben Cohen, who was arrested recently for interrupting RFK Jr.âs congressional testimony to protest US funding of Israelâs genocide in Gaza.
First, Barry Eisler explains his role as a covert operative in the CIA, and the truth it taught him about American tribalist politics.
I spent three years in a covert position in the CIA. It taught me a lot about the culture and machinations of the U.S. government and what some call the deep state. And it became great fodder for a guy who then went on to become a full-time thriller writer.What I found there is in some ways a microcosm of tribalism politics in America. And it's this.A lot of people think, âoh, is it a bunch of liberals there? Or is it a bunch of conservatives?â But the fundamental, underlying, and much more meaningful political culture in the CIA is the belief that âHey, America is a force for good in the world. And everything we do, whether it's traditional espionage or shading off into coups or even invasions and occupations, that's all just to make the world a better place.âIt's that more fundamental thing where they really believe that America is a force for good in the world and that our mistakes are just innocent mistakes, rather than something much more nefarious.Subscribe for the full interview with Barry Eisler, where we discuss Russiagate from a CIA perspective, watch Palantirâs Alex Karp let slip that his AI kills people, and the connection Barryâs spy thrillers have to Aaronâs nonfiction writing.
Next we talk to Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerryâs.
After disrupting a Senate testimony from RFK Jr. to protest US funding of weapons for Israelâs mass assault on Gaza, he was hauled out by police and arrested. He explains why he did it:
Everybody has their breaking point. I was reading about the slaughter of all these innocent children in Gaza. And then I read another article in the paper about another outbreak of lead poisoning in Milwaukee. Lead poisoning creates irreversible brain damage and there's nothing you can do about it.And we know how to prevent it! It's chipping lead paint and lead in plumbing pipes and we could fix it, for a minuscule five percent of the Pentagon budget!And so those two things: weâre making a conscious decision to provide the bombs as a gift to Israel that they use to kill kids in Gaza. And we're kicking kids off Medicaid and not preventing lead poisoning, an easily preventable permanent disease.So I said, Iâve got to make my voice heard. Iâve got to take the most serious action that a citizen can take, which is an act of civil disobedience. And so that's what I did.00:00 Intro
01:06 Matthew Miller FLIPS
04:30 Musk and Trump break up over Epstein
08:20 Indian Lt Gov's CRAZY evolution take
12:57 Israel runs NYC mayor debate
17:50 Barry Eisler interview
33:57 Ben Cohen interview
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00:00 Intro
01:02 Dems SUCK at foreign policy
06:06 Marco Rubio is ending student visas
09:34 Jake Tapper just learned how to do journalism
12:52 The US's big lie at the UN
15:59 Muhammad Shehada interview
16:55 What is the fake Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?
24:09 Is this Hamas's fault?
30:03 Israel's war on UNRWA
38:10 Germany ADMITS it condoned genocide
42:49 Even more Nazi comparisons
46:46 Is the new ceasefire deal real?
54:12 Muhammad's family in Gaza
1:00:24 Is this assault different than Israel in the past?
1:06:27 Death Squads running a Humanitarian Foundation
1:13:19 Is Trump different than Biden?
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Two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot and killed on Wednesday evening by a man who yelled âFree Palestine.â The man allegedly wrote a manifesto, and it isnât clear yet what his motives are, his mental state, if he was a lone actor, or as our guest today puts it: âcrazy.â
That guest is Useful Idiots fan-favorite Professor Norman Finkelstein, who gives his analysis of the shooting, beginning with a historical connection he made in his initial reaction.
Useful Idiots: Let's start with the top news in the US: the shooting of two Israeli embassy officials outside an event in Washington, DC. What we know so far is that the alleged shooter chanted Free Palestine. There's also a manifesto that's been purported to be written by him, although we haven't confirmed that. With so much going on in Gaza, atrocities day by day, it feels a little inhuman to talk about two deaths in Washington when there's thousands of deaths going on in Gaza. But what is your reaction?
Norman Finkelstein: Well, my first reaction is that you have to have the facts and make a careful evaluation on the basis of the facts. When I first read about it this morning, I thought it had occurred at the Israeli consulate. And I assumed it was a Palestinian who had committed the action. And my first reaction was to remember the [Polish Jewish] fellow Herschel Grynszpan, who assassinated the second-level diplomat in the German legation in Paris in 1938.
He reacted in sheer horror at what was being done to the Jews. And he did an act. Of course, the Germans called it an act of terrorism, and that's what triggered Kristallnacht. I'm not aware of any [historians] who condemned him for the act, even though you could say it was not a very smart thing to do because it triggered Kristallnacht.
So that was my initial reaction. But then that turned out to be wrong because of two things. It didn't occur in the Israeli consulate. It occurred in front of a Jewish museum in Washington. And secondly, it's unclear at this point whether the alleged perpetrator was even aware that these two people worked in the Israeli consulate. So that throws a large number of variables into the equation. There seems to be this big disconnect between a sophisticated manifesto and a fellow just going randomly in front of a Jewish museum in Washington and attempting to assassinate two people who presumably he thought were Jewish.
So everything remains foggy now. I would say for me, the bottom line is it could have been a nutty guy. That's always possible. It could be a smart guy with a crazy project. It could be a crazy guy with a crazy project.
Useful Idiots: Letâs talk about Israel itself. You have Israeli politicians openly talking about how every baby in Gaza is our enemy. And unfortunately, these views are widely held. What are your thoughts on Israel right now in terms of its place as a unique society on the spectrum of lunacy, of collective insanity in the same way that Nazi Germany was an example of outright collective insanity? Where do you situate Israel in that right now?
Norman Finkelstein: All the demons in Israeli society, which they had to repress, all the demons rose to the surface after October 7: they had moral license to publicly espouse. It was there. If you scratch the surface with any Israeli, their loathing and contempt for Arabs in general and Gazans in particular, it was there. So there was a veneer of being civilized and what October 7 did was it enabled the Israelis to free themselves from that veneer and for all the demons to rise to the surface.
On the other hand, I would say Israelis, unlike Nazi Germany, don't have the pretense or the pretext that they didn't know what was happening. Now, I'm not saying Germans didn't know. They may not have known about the death camps. They knew about the concentration camps. Did they know about the systematic extermination? There is debate about that.
In Israel, everybody knows. Israel has the highest usage of the Internet of any country on Earth. The Israelis were posting on social media what they were doing. The Israeli soldiers were posting and boasting of what they were doing. Every Israeli knew and knows exactly what's happening. What has happened since October 7, it is incorrect to describe it as a state project. That's incorrect. It's a national project.
Every poll taken since October 7 has shown that roughly 95% of Israelis believe that Israel is using enough or too little force in Gaza. I do think that at least in the current world, let's say since World War Two, this is in a class all its own. The sheer numbers, since the twenty-first century, it's unique in every category. There's just nothing like it.
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00:00 Intro
01:14 Dems want power until death
03:20 Trump's Big Beautiful Bill
08:10 MSM coverage of Israeli embassy shooting
10:26 ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt on the shooting
14:31 Norman Finkelstein interview preview
15:50 Israeli Embassy Shooting: Norm's Initial Reaction
21:58 GOP Congressman wants to NUKE Arab countries
25:05 Norm's Take on Israel
38:56 The "Main Enabler" of the Genocide
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00:00 Intro
00:43 Dems ADMIT the Truth about Biden
07:53 Kristi Noem is so weird
12:48 US Empire changes mind about Syrian civilians
15:52 Ms. Rachel's Re-Education Camps
21:17 Sana Saeed interview
21:37 Did Trump betray Israel?
25:06 Can we USE Trump's opportunism?
29:40 The End of US Intervention?
36:56 A Deal with Iran
38:10 Bari Weiss's Dumb Tweet
42:59 The NYT Justifies BOMBING A HOSPITAL
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The Conscience, a civilian ship that is part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was attempting to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza when it was was attacked by drones last week. Greta Thunberg, who was scheduled to board the ship on its way to Gaza, as well as organizers of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Israeli media, blamed Israel for the attack. Israel, for its part, has not denied responsibility.
We spoke with Freedom Flotilla organizers Huwaida Arraf and Thiago Ăvila who explain the mission of the Conscience, describe the attack, and their commitment to breaking the ilegal and inhumane siege on Gaza.
Useful Idiots: There were calls from the ship during the attack. Were you guys scared at this point that people were potentially going to die?
Huwaida Arraf: We lost contact with them for many hours and we knew that the ship was bombed and that it was taking on water. So we were very concerned. We organized people to take a couple of boats and sail out to them, but they were prevented from reaching them twice. The Maltese authorities prevented them from reaching the ship. We were pressuring the Maltese authorities to let them get the people off the ship. And the requests continue to be inexplicably denied.
The vessel right now is still in the place where it was bombed. We are still asking the Maltese authorities to let us in. But the crew all remains on the ship for now.
Useful Idiots: Have you confirmed that this drone attack was carried out by Israel?
Thiago Ăvila: It has come to light that just hours before Israel bombed our ship, there was an Israeli military plane in Maltese airspace that flew right over the area where the ship was bombed before going back to Israel. And there are a lot of other factors that indicate that there are other countries that knew.
We have a situation where not only is the United States obviously fully on board with what Israel is doing and enabling it, but other countries are not only not living up to their obligations under international law, but they're also hampering civilian efforts to do something about it. People should ask themselves âwhy should civilians try to organize a boat and aid and try to confront the Israeli military to make their way into Gaza which is illegally besieged like this, when countries should be doing this?â But not only are countries not putting aid on ships and insisting on getting into Gaza, they are doing Israel's work by trying to sabotage our efforts.
Huwaida also recalls being on another ship in 2010 which suffered a lethal attack from Israel that killed nine humanitarians.
Huwaida Arraf: The reason why the flotillas exist is because the people of Gaza are suffering a genocide and they're under illegal Israeli blockade for eighteen years. And now for more than two months without a single bottle of water entering Gaza. So that's why people are not with their families here on the flotilla, because we are here for a purpose, to serve as a solidarity mission to the Palestinian people.
Watch our full, unpaywalled talk with the Freedom Flotilla organizers where we watch video of the crew during the attack, Thiago explains the role that President Lulaâs Brazil has in Israelâs destruction of Gaza, and Huwaida lays out a plan for their next attempt to get aid past the siege.
00:00 Intro
00:25 John Fetterman in the deep end
06:59 Republican Congressman SCREAMS about Medicaid
10:57 Trump's most ridiculous pardon
13:18 Is the Palantir CEO the most evil man?
18:14 Huwaida Arraf and Thiago Ăvila interview
20:02 What is the Freedom Flotilla?
25:19 What happened to The Conscience?
31:57 Did Israel do it?
34:53 Video of the attack
41:30 Are other governments complicit?
49:58 Israel's SCAM Gaza foundation (don't give the GHF money!)
53:56 The last time Israel attacked the Freedom Flotilla
58:16 Is this a surprise?
1:02:21 Is Lula's Brazil doing anything?
1:05:04 What's the next plan?
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The new podcast Dystopia Now, hosted by comedian Kate Willett and philosopher Ămile Torres, has been unveiling a disturbing new story from the tech world that comes straight out of The Matrix. It involves transhumanism, a tech-bro update to eugenics, in which billionaires can digitize their minds with AI, transcending humanity and achieving immortality.
If this sounds disturbing, just wait until you hear our full chat with Kate and Ămile.
Useful Idiots: Can you define transhumanism?
Ămile Torres: The key idea is this techno-utopian vision. And transhumanism is this ideology that says we ought to develop advanced technologies to radically re-engineer the human organism, ultimately creating a new and supposedly superior post-human species. Elon Musk is a transhumanist. His company Neuralink is all about merging our brains with AI. Mark Zuckerberg is a transhumanist. Peter Thiel has invested millions and millions of dollars into radical longevity research. The goal then would be to attain immortality.
Useful Idiots: Can you talk about network states?
Kate Willett: They wanted to have these little anarcho-capitalist communities. It was all about getting out of the United States to do this. But what seems to have changed recently is that a lot of these billionaire dudes seem to have decided that maybe the best way for them to realize their illiberal, anti-democratic vision of running the government more like a business is making the United States that versus leaving.
Curtis Yarvin talks about this idea he calls RAGE: Retire All Government Employees. And now we have DOGE, which is also a four-letter acronym for getting rid of the administrative state. It just seems like these dudes are making a lot of progress. Their previous vision was leaving somewhere and having these little tech utopias, network states. Now they're trying to do it here.
Ămile Torres: DOGE seems to be RAGE in action.
Useful Idiots: What are some of the craziest, scariest ideologies, that come out of this movement?
Ămile Torres: The one thing I would want people to know is that part of what it means for us to bring about utopia, to transition from our current human era to this paradisiacal post-human era, is for our species to be disempowered, marginalized, or eliminated. I think that at the heart of this ideology is a pro-extinctionist view.
They say once we create post-humans, our digital successors, then we should bow out. Because we're just going to be inferior beings that are using up valuable resources on Earth. So really, at the heart of this idea is this eschatological end times vision that we're going to transition from a biological world to a digital world. And our species is going to disappear.
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Subscribe for the full interview with Kate and Ămile where we discuss the pseudo-utopian autocratic book Abundance by the New York Timesâ Ezra Klein and the Atlanticâs Derek Thompson, how older billionaires are cryogenically freezing themselves to be revived once the immortality AI is ready, why that tech may be ready a lot sooner than we think, and what the relationship is between transhumanism and Zionism.
00:00 Intro
00:27 Israel says Biden NEVER ordered a ceasefire
06:41 Mike Waltz is FIRED
12:52 Antisemitism at the anti-antisemitism conference
18:15 Manchild Zionists boys beat up women in NYC
26:04 Kate Willett and Emile Torres interview
26:35 Dystopia Now podcast
30:58 What is transhumanism?
33:08 Elon Musk wants to grow the White race
42:14 Abundance from the NYT and Atlantic
53:47 The dark side of effective altruism
56:12 Why Dems don't want Medicare for All
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A lot is happening in Ukraine this week, so we start there with our two guests: retired Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis and Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen.
After Russia launched its largest strike on Kyiv in a long time, peace talks between the two sides with the US as intermediary are stalled, with Trump appearing to blame Volodymyr Zelensky for the impasse.
Useful Idiots: What is your assessment of where we are in the Ukraine proxy war?
Lt. Col. Daniel Davis: We need to understand from the first point here that this war is already concluded. Ukraine lost, Russia won. That's the entry point that we have to start with because there's too many people in the West who still operate like there's a choice that can be made, that Trump can either press for a good outcome or he can quote âabandon Ukraineâ and give in to a bad outcome.
There isn't. There is no good deal here to be had. We can get an ugly peace deal right now or we can avoid that yet again and end up setting the stage for a Ukraine military outright defeat.
Useful Idiots: Meanwhile, you had these talks this week that were supposed to happen in London, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio skipped out, saying that Ukraine is not ready to come to the table. And Volodymyr Zelensky is openly rejecting one of the key U.S. concessions so far, which was to recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Glenn Diesen: I think it was a poor play by Zelensky, because this is Trump's hundred-day plan to finish off the war. The United States is preparing to walk away and wash its hands of this war if it can't get a peace deal, and the Russians are making real concessions, so obviously you want to at least appear to accommodate Trump's proposal. But Zelenskyy shut it down before the meeting even took place.
Our chats with the two experts cover the history and future of the war in Ukraine, the âcatastrophicâ prediction they have for Trumpâs China plans, and why the role of Deputy Director of National Intelligence was taken from Lt. Col. Davis at the last moment.
Davis: I actually was going to be the Deputy Director of National Intelligence, but that got sank. There were these voices: the Jewish Insider, Mark Levin, the ADL, spreading all kinds of stuff. That's a shame, because what that's telling you is that there is some external entity that has power over who gets to serve in the United States government at even the highest levels.
When you say, âWe're going to follow one path here that harms another group of people writ large, not just Hamas but all of the Palestinian people, and if you don't hold that view, you're going to be prevented from serving in the United States government,â something is desperately wrong and we need to get that fixed.
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Attorney Jenin Younes has a long career defending free speech. This has brought her across both sides of the political aisle, with Democrats and Republicans trading places on civil liberty abuses. After four years of defending conservatives against Joe Biden, sheâs now leading the fight against Donald Trump and his administration as they censor, kidnap, and deport foreign nationals who stand up to genocide.
Useful Idiots: Now must be a really crazy time to be a civil liberties lawyer. Tell us what you do and how you are trying to fight for civil liberties under this administration in particular.
Jenin Younes: I have a focus on First Amendment free speech rights. I was a public defender in New York, which is a very left-wing career. I ended up going into the civil liberties practice of law because I was really opposed to COVID restrictions. I thought it might hurt the poor and working class the most. I actually started defending what would largely be called conservative speech, people who questioned the lockdowns, vaccine mandates, the vaccines themselves, and the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
For the last four or so years, I've worked mainly with conservatives, even though that's not really my political persuasion. Obviously, that's changed since October 7. A lot of the speech suppression that's been going on has been pro-Palestine speech. What is happening now under Trump is probably the most severe civil liberties and free speech violation of not just my lifetime, I would say modern history and possibly all of American history.
Useful Idiots: Why is the current censorship so historic?
Jenin Younes: Throwing people in ICE detention and putting them in deportation proceedings for writing op-eds is historically unprecedented. I don't think there's been anything like that ever. You had some during the Red Scare. There was some sort of echoes of that.
The fact that we are throwing people in ICE detention, tearing them away from their families, and deporting them out of the country for criticizing a foreign nation is so without precedent in this country that I really don't even have words for it. I don't know how many people they're going to eventually punish. I don't know if they're going to go after citizens next. I think they might because they've indicated they could. But what they're doing is chilling everybody's speech. That's a major concern in First Amendment law, that when people see others being punished for the same kind of speech they want to engage in, that they're going to say, âI can't risk that. I can't risk being deported. I can't risk going to prison. So I'm just going to shut up.â And I would say that the ultimate aim is to entirely suppress any pro-Palestine advocacy.
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00:00 Intro
01:11 Jake Sullivan's WWIII Lie
04:42 Marco Rubio's Blatant Hypocrisy
11:58 Harry and Meghan are more racist than the Queen??
15:15 Betar doxxed Aaron (and rudely ignored Katie)
20:15 Jenin Younes interview
21:25 Defending both sides as a civil liberties lawyer
23:16 The most severe free speech violation in American history
24:55 Is there legal justification for the ICE arrests?
29:22 Will this go to the Supreme Court?
30:58 Rubio's Still Lying
36:19 Why they PURPOSEFULLY choose innocent protesters
42:43 What are Dems doing?
46:21 The most unlikely person we agree with
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In a week of market turmoil, we need a real expert to explain WTF is going on with Trump, tariffs, reversals, and crashes. So weâre talking to Useful Idiot-favorite, economist Richard Wolff, who sheds light on a tumultuous week and gives a fascinating lecture on what Trump should be doing to save the economy, and why he wonât.
Useful Idiots: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just gave a speech saying âyes, the market is tumbling, but too bad, Wall Street. It's not your turn. This is the era of Main Street.â This is the Trump administration's message now: The stock market has taken a huge hit, but that's because we're focused on restoring Main Street. How do you respond to that?
Richard Wolff: This is all advertising noise. It has nothing to do with anything. The reason that Wall Street is yelling is that they don't want to be pinched. They're perfectly happy to have Mr. Trump do most of the things he wants to do. But they don't want to pay even this much of a fee for the benefits.
Let me give you an example. When Mr. Trump was president the first time, the only basic economic achievement was the tax cut of 2017, an enormous tax cut given to corporations and the rich. The thirty years before 2017 were an enormous and unprecedented redistribution of wealth and income from the bottom and the middle to the top. If ever you didn't need a tax cut for those people, it was then.
The only opposition to it that the Democrats could achieve was a sunset. It would expire this year, 2025. And so Mr. Trump has an urgent need, which all of Wall Street understands. He can't allow that to happen because they would all blame him.
So that's what he's about to do. And the major way he thinks he can do that is by savaging public employment through all the firings, and by income from tariffs. I want people to understand this means that the Republican Party, which for a hundred years has branded itself the anti-tax party, has overnight become the mammoth tax-imposing economy, because a tariff is just a tax. And so what they're achieving is huge increase in taxes and firing large numbers of public employees. That's what it's about. The Main Street/Wall Street nonsense is pure fluff and shouldn't detract anyone from the underlying realities.
Useful Idiots: Trump announced [on Wednesday] that heâs authorized a 90-day pause and a substantially lowered reciprocal tariff of 10% during that period. Help us make sense of what heâs doing here.
Richard Wolff: I'm mystified. In my wildest imagination. Since I've just explained about uncertainty â I'm blown away â it's just incredible what he's doing. Itâs beyond anything I can give you a rational answer for because this is no longer a rational behavior pattern.
Useful Idiots: âIncredibleâ like incredibly stupid?
Richard Wolff: Yeah incredibly self-defeating. It undercuts any calculation. Even Jamie Dimon said that the uncertainty is the issue. This is just revving up uncertainty by cutting it down, making it not effective for ninety days. Everybody has to wonder: what happens at the end of ninety days? Another thirty days? Another twelve? I mean, this is beyond words.
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00:00 Intro
01:01 Fetterman's revenge-porn friend
08:34 Trump's $TRILLION Pentagon
14:40 Pro-Israel protester throws feces at people
19:46 Trump cancels right to free speech for anti-genocide protestors
23:22 Professor Richard Wolff interview
24:30 Why does Trump really want tariffs?
29:41 It's about tax cuts for billionaires
34:18 How does this enrich Trump?
38:17 Why did Trump reverse the tariffs?
47:57 Will there be a RECESSION?
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Activists and former Members of the European Parliament Clare Daly and Mick Wallace return to the show a day after returning from a momentous trip to Yemen where they attended (and Mick spoke at) a Palestine Solidarity rally of over a million people. We discuss the US bombing campaign they witnessed first-hand in Yemen, the resilience of the Yemeni people, the history of terror against their people, and their attempt to block Israelâs genocide against Palestinians, which continues to be enabled by the West.
Katie Halper: Tell us what you were just doing in Yemen, what brought you there and what you observed.
Clare Daly: We're a bit overwhelmed still. We only came back yesterday. We were there on invitation at the National Conference on Solidarity with Palestine, the theme being You Are Not Alone. And this was the first time that they had international visitors in Yemen, in the midst of a US blitz. We were not disappointed, it was just from start to finish an absolutely incredible experience in terms of both the solidarity with Palestine but also the absolute resilience of the Yemeni people.
Mick Wallace: You'd struggle to find a people so determined and so united. It's hard to imagine that any state has opposed Western imperialism in quite the same way as Yemen has.
KH: Much like the situation in Gaza âstarts on October 7â for lots of people, what's happening in Yemen just âstarts with the Houthis blocking shipsâ and being âbad menâ and âterrorists.â But why does Saudi Arabia, with U.S. support, want to destroy Yemen? And why did the U.N. give them permission to do so?
Mick: The Yemenis had done nothing to anybody other than the fact that [in 2011 the president] had been pushed aside and the assistant Hadi had been put in power with a program of introducing neoliberalism and facilitating Western investment and plunder. They wanted to raze the place blind and get control of yemeni assets and resources.
Yemen was one of the most self-sufficient food countries on the planet. And Hadi manufactured loans from the likes of the IMF and the World Bank with a view to changing how they did agriculture so that they would produce food for export instead of for themselves. And it was a disaster. Before long, people actually found themselves short of food. And they said no to this.
There was an insurrection and of course the insurrection wasn't to the pleasing of the West and so in March 2015 [the West] said âwe have found it impossible to subdue these people so we'll do it the other way.â That was with military might. It's what's normal for settler colonials, be it America, Europeans or Israel. And that's what happened. Sanctions and blockades still continue to this day. And it's an enormously difficult situation for people living there now.
KH: What do you think of the way that the Houthis [Ansar Allah] are portrayed as terrorists, given that, as you pointed out, they're actually the ones following the law when it comes to genocide?
Clare: Isn't it amazing? It's deliberately portrayed as marginal and as terrorist. But in actual fact, this government is one of very few internationally which is fulfilling its responsibility under the Geneva Convention, which says that the obligation on all signatories is not just to not commit genocide yourself, but to actively prevent and punish those who do. And the Houthi-led government in Yemen is one of the few doing that. Their actions are directly targeted at interfering with international shipping, which is on its way to enable genocide.
Meanwhile, the Israelis are targeting civilians and deliberately killing ordinary people and they're the ones enabled by the West but the Houthis are the ones who are demonized as terrorists. They've been incredibly restrained, they did not attack the ships when the ceasefire was in place and they only resumed the action when the ceasefire was broken with the implementation of the mass starvation again and targeted killing of civilians by the Israelis.
The Houthis clearly have the support of their people. We were on a march of over a million people. It happens every Friday. People come out, and bear in mind that these are now the victims of American bombings. every night, to say âwe stand with Palestine.â
We had a meeting with the former prime minister. And he said, âlook, it's very simple for us. We are not going to stand by. When children are being murdered and starved, we have an obligation to do something and we are going to do it.â For us, that's heroism. That's not terrorism.
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ï»ż00:00 Intro
01:01 Cory Booker's 25 Hours of Nothing
09:57 Should Trump run the global economy?
12:51 Trump makes up story about soldier saying I Love You
15:54 Matt Taibbi slandered in Congress
26:13 Clare Daly and Mick Wallace interview
26:56 A Trip to Yemen
29:22 They saw the US bombs drop
34:05 Why destroy Yemen?
38:00 Are the Houthis terrorists?
42:11 Why is Israel allowed to kill?
49:38 Yemenis are too cool for US bombs
57:26 Mick's speech to a million people
1:04:32 PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH: WTF is happening in Europe?
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Thereâs a lot going on in the world this week: Israel is increasing nuclear tensions with Iran, the Trump Administration leaked on Signal its plans to attack a civilian apartment building in Yemen, US federal officials kidnapped another college student for pro-Palestine speech, and the JFK files unveiled decades of new classified information.
This is high level stuff, which means weâve got to go high up to get real answers.
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who served in the CIA at the time of JFKâs assassination, has become one of the most important peace activists in the country, breaking important classified stories and fighting the military industrial complex. He also cofounded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity to âprotest the use of faulty intelligenceâ to justify US wars.
Ray breaks down SignalGate, US terror in Yemen, the JFK files, the latest in the proxy war in Ukraine, and how the intelligence community uses the threat of Iranian nukes an excuse for Israeli aggression.
This week, the Tulsi Gabbard-controlled Office of National Intelligence put out a threat assessment that flies in the face of Israeli officials who are constantly fear-mongering about Iranâs nuclear program and encouraging the U.S. to bomb Iran accordingly.
âThis is the front burner question right now,â Ray says. âIt's worth reading because I think it will be a very great disincentive for the administration to claim that the reason they are with Israel attacking Iran is because Iran has a nuclear weapon.â
He reads the report: âThe threat assessment dated two days ago says this, âWe continue to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.ââ
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Ray explains what all this means for the Middle East, analyzing all the players from the Houthis in Yemen and their effort against Israel to Marco Rubioâs State Department and its funding of the ongoing genocide.
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00:00 Intro
01:43 Chuck Schumer is fine with Trump kidnapping students
11:18 ICE agents kidnap Tufts student
18:40 "Thank You Elon Musk" Country Song
22:26 Misogynist Christian Pastor needs more women for singles event
26:55 Ray McGovern interview
27:47 SignalGate
30:21 US terror in Yemen
32:37 Why did the US attack the Houthis?
37:52 When Israel killed US soldiers
42:28 Does Iran have nukes?
50:48 What does Iran want?
53:38 Why does Israel have nukes?
59:59 JFK files UNCLASSIFIED
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According to western corporate media, the Israel-Hamas ceasefire was firmly in place until the events of this week. Just look at this Guardian article from March 15:
It is reported that at least 150 Palestinians were killed during the ceasefire, and that Israelâs continued blockage of humanitarian aid has led to the deaths of many more in that time. Somehow, this still fits into corporate mediaâs definition of a ceasefire.
This week, however, Israel ramped up itâs mass assault on Gaza, wiping out huge areas of people, including hundreds of children. The attack was too deadly even for corporate media to whitewash. So we have shameless headlines like this:
To discuss this, we are joined by Haifa-based Palestinian-Canadian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu and Gazan journalist Abubaker Abed. They explain the devastating destruction by Israel this week, why there was never a ceasefire to begin with, how Trump has been pushing forward this violence, and the genocidal flyers that Israel dropped over Gaza.
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âThere have been widespread massacres along the coast of Alawites,â reports Professor Joshua Landis, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma. âThis is a religious minority in Syria. They're also the community that backed Bashar al-Assad's regime. Most of the top officers in his security forces and intelligence service were Alawites. And so for that reason, the entire Alawite community has been labeled as guilty and is accused by these Jihadi militias of being guilty.â
We donât show the videos coming out of Syria this week in this episode, but Professor Landis describes the disturbing footage heâs seen.
âThey just slaughtered every Alawite male they could find along the coast. And not just men, although the vast majority were men. But in many instances, entire families were killed in their apartments. And we have a number of videos of mothers showing you their kids and their entire household who have been shot. A hundred and forty people were just slaughtered in the main town on the roads and the square. And you can see just horrible videos.â
The narrative that we've been told in the west is that regime change is necessary to promote democracy around the world. But, Landis explains, though many Syrians justifiably hated the Assad government, the results of US foreign policy make things worse.
âAmericans believe that when they overturn dictatorships, they're going to get a democratic outcome. We convinced ourselves of this in Iraq, in Libya, in Afghanistan, that we could somehow mold these societies in our own image. And we've discovered that time and time again: we're wrong. And what has happened throughout the Middle East, whether it's the Taliban or Al-Qaeda or ISIS, is you're going to get these extremist militias.â
Weâre also joined by former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who has visited Syria over a dozen times and studied its history.
âThis was so predictable,â he says of this weekâs massacres. âThe US has been involved for thirty years in an effort to take over Syria.â Kucinich explains the US role in Syria since his time serving in Congress, when he saw firsthand how Bush administration officials focused on helping Israel by employing disruption tactics throughout the Middle East.
âThe ongoing humanitarian crisis and severe sectarian violence in Syria are direct outcomes of policies dating back to the Clean Break doctrine of 1996, by a D.C. think tank which counseled Benjamin Netanyahu.â
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âThe Clean Break doctrine laid the groundwork for aggressive policies toward Syria which emerged through an effort coordinated by the Bush White House as several authors of the Clean Break strategy ascended to federal government policy-making positions.â And as always, this was a bipartisan strategy. âThe "Clean Break" approach was further advanced by Hillary Clinton, who, as Secretary of State, together with CIA Director David Petraeus, proposed arming Syrian rebels.â
This, Kucinich explains, led to the CIAâs plot to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, replacing him in 2024 with a new al-Qaeda-led government.
Subscribe for the full interview with Dennis Kucinich in which he recounts his trip to Syria with now-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, what Elon Musk should be doing with DOGE, and how he would end Americaâs debt crisis.
00:00 Intro
00:42 Chuck Schumer slanders Mahmoud Khalil
08:32 Mike Johnson and Republicans gloat about arresting Mahmoud Khalil
19:04 Trump's racist insult to Schumer
20:36 Katie's shark-infested travel experience
22:40 Joshua Landis interview
23:02 What happened in Syria this week?
24:36 Was this started by Assad-regime loyalists?
31:37 Obama's Syria lie
36:20 Will the al-Qaeda leader condemn these massacres?
39:05 Is this what Israel wanted?
43:11 Will sanctions finally be lifted?
45:56 The Balkanization of Syria
48:41 Dennis Kucinich interview
49:03 The genesis of sectarian death squads in Syria
52:20 Congressman goes to Syria
55:12 Israel's Clean Break policy
58:23 Tulsi Gabbard on Syria
1:04:10 Trump's foreign policy
1:07:34 What should Elon and DOGE really do?
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This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a stunning and unprecedented statement to the world: he called the Ukraine war a proxy war.
Rubioâs statement makes him the highest ranking official to admit what has been happening in Ukraine since the start of this war. Adam Schiff said it: âThe United States aids Ukraine and her people so that we can fight Russia over there and we donât have to fight Russia over here.â Lindsey Graham said it: âAs long as we help Ukraine with the weapons they need and the economic support, they will fight to the last person.â
Now Rubio: âIâve been very clear from the beginning that President Trump views this as a protracted stalemated conflict, and frankly itâs a proxy war betweenâŠthe United States and Russia.â
The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris join the show this week to explain the history of the proxy war, the magnitude of this unprecedented statement, and why it could represent a major shift away from the last 30 years of US foreign policy.
âSince 2014,â Alexander explains, â[the CIA] has basically been controlling Ukraine's intelligence services and has even trained people who have taken part in the assassinations of rebel leaders in the Donbas. Admissions are slowly coming out about what has preceded all of this and what helped provoke Russia to invade.â
But Rubioâs statement could be more than an admission; it could be a policy shift. âIt's just so unprecedented to get at this level. The secretary of state saying, âThis is indeed a proxy war. It has to come to an end.â I think Rubio knew exactly what he was doing. He made this extraordinary statement a few weeks ago that the unipolar moment is over, that the United States is one great power amongst several, that it must pursue its own interests, that the entire history period of American foreign policy has essentially come to an end. Which is a massive reversal of everything that the US has been saying it's been doing for the last thirty years.â
Subscribe to hear the full interview with Alex and Alexander on whether a proposed peace deal would actually be accepted by Russia, why there hasnât been a single US lawmaker to oppose any military spending for Ukraine, and if the Trump administrationâs peace messaging will extend to their policies in the Middle East.
00:00 Intro
00:16 Dems protest Trump's speech by doing nothing
07:41 Trump attacks free speech on college campuses
13:38 "Jewish women with big racks" go to the ADL
16:10 Democrats TikTok malfunction
18:25 Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris interview
19:27 Will Trump end the Ukraine War?
22:26 Rubio said it!
25:09 The CIA is more involved than we realize
30:55 Is Trump meeting with Zelensky's political opponents?
37:22 The EU is all in on the war
41:25 A pacified Russia
45:30 Will Russia accept a deal?
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Useful Idiotsâ resident economist Yanis Varoufakis returns to the show this week to analyze Trump and Muskâs chainsaw cuts to Medicaid, USAID, and other government programs, answering the important question: is it actually bad for a government to run a deficit?
But before getting into the DOGE of it all, Varoufakis gives an economic explanation for how Trump reclaimed power, and whose fault it is.
âDonald Trump is the creation of the Democratic Party's spectacular, lamentable failures,â he says. âThe first time he was elected, it was entirely due to Barack Obama. Barack Obama betrayed every single promise or principle that he put forward in 2008.â
And his reelection was a result of the same calculated missteps by the Dems. âThe average American couldn't make ends meet. And yet the liberal establishment were saying you've never had it so good and you should celebrate the fact that we've had a recovery in the labor market and inflation. People couldn't make ends meet. And there was a Democratic establishment telling them that it was the best of all possible worlds. How dare you complain about your finances?â
Just as he did after Obama, Trump capitalized on this: âTrump comes again and says, I'm looking you in the eye and I can recognize your pain and I'm going to make you great. So he got elected as a result of very concerted efforts by the Democrats to lose.â
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But will Trump follow through on these promises to help the working class, or will the donors in Mar-a-Lago trump the voters?
âThe Republicans,â Yanis explains, âare notorious for being exceptionally liberal when it comes to handing money to themselves, to their friends, to the financial and real estate community. They have no problem doing that. But they look at a single cent, nickel, or dime being spent on a poor person and they scream blue murder. Why? Because they are class warriors. They're in the business of conducting a vicious class war against the little people.â
But the even harsher reality, he says, is the reason it will be so challenging to fix any of these problems: âUnfortunately, the Democrats have been even more efficient class warriors than the Republicans.â
Subscribe for the full interview with Yanis Varoufakis where he explains this, plus why Amazon is âthe wet dream of the Soviet Economic Planning Ministry,â how technofeudalism killed capitalism, and the real reason that Germany is so beholden to Israel (hint: itâs not Holocaust guilt like they say).
00:00 Intro
01:01 Dems are MAD about peace talks with Russia
09:20 Trump's totally gonna cut Medicaid
20:30 Jake Tapper lied about everything
24:38 Meet the Snowflake: Christopher Rufo
28:50 Yanis Varoufakis interview
29:54 Less evil voting
34:44 Will Trump lower the cost of eggs?
38:59 Does government spending cause inflation?
42:36 What is the impact of a deficit?
45:30 Is it bad to run a deficit?
51:15 They're lying through their teeth
53:44 What is Elon Musk doing?
58:22 What is technofeudalism?
1:02:34 How do we stop Amazon?
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âEvery single day, we are losing territories. Every single day, we are losing people. Every single day, our children in Ukraine are suffering from these rocket attacks, drone attacks. And nobody knows what happened next.â
Dr. Marta Havryshko is a Ukrainian historian and professor at Clark University. She has watched as the proxy war between the United States and Russia has destroyed her country.
âThose who want to continue this disaster and this hell,â she says, calling out the proxy warriors and those who have criticized her for seeking peace, âare you ready to sacrifice your life? Are you ready to sacrifice the life of your brother, son, and other loved ones for this crazy idea that victory can be achieved?â
Ukraine, she believes, was doomed from the beginning of the war.
âRussia is bigger, Russia has a lot of resources, Russia has powerful friends. I can't even understand who in their right mind actually can believe that Ukraine can change the situation on the front line and retake all those territories.â
Marta has watched as her family members were forced to fight and die for this proxy war. She shows us footage of the Ukrainian army chasing and kidnapping men as a method of forced conscription as the fighting population wanes.
âWho will retake those territories? Many of my friends, many of my relatives are in the army now. They suffer from suicidal thoughts. They suffer from this desperation, frustration. But nobody can replace them because we have this problem with mobilization, we are running out of manpower.â
And she explains who Ukrainians are blaming: âThat's why the popularity of Zelensky nowadays is really low. Ukraine under Zelensky is not a democracy.â
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00:00 Intro
01:43 Chuck Schumer: Influencer
08:22 Trump's cutting Medicaid
14:58 Fighting Trump with Dance
17:25 NYT covers for a Hate Crime
20:22 Marta Havryshko interview
21:53 Will Trump Make Peace in Ukraine?
31:48 Why she voted for Zelensky in 2019
35:29 WaPo's Scantily Clad War Propaganda
40:08 Death Threats for Criticizing Nazis
45:18 Zelensky, the Azov Battalion, and Corporate Media
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This week, the world saw the president of the United States sit quietly at his desk while the richest person in the world stood over him to take questions from reporters. It comes only days after another subservient look from âtough guyâ Trump when he pushed in his bossâs chair like a waiter:
While Netanyhu seems to be in complete control of Trump internationally, weâre turning to the domestic front to ask: how much power do Musk and the Broligarchy have over the presidentâs decisions?
Quinn Slobodian, professor of international history at Boston University and author of the upcoming book Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, and journalist Michael Tracey join the show to unravel the mystery around Elon Musk, analyzing what heâs already done, what DOGE has the power to do, and how he plans to build his influence.
Quinn explains the difficulty in putting a label on Musk, which he says is often helpful in giving a historical analysis for a person. Some call Musk a techno-fascist, others call him a libertarian, and others a tech oligarch. Quinn doesnât quite agree with any of these labels, and begins building a new one.
We also ask him about Steve Bannon, who has been replaced at Trumpâs side by Musk, and whether there will be some kind of MAGA civil war between the pseudo-populists and the tech elites. And dive into how Elon Musk was shaped by the South African apartheid.
Michael Tracey discusses Trumpâs role in the Ukraine War. After Trumpâs failed promise to end the war in â24 hours,â itâs become clear that he doesnât plan to stop giving aid to Ukraine. And with reports of a historic phone call this week between Trump and Putin, what is next for Ukraine?
Subscribe for the full interview with Michael Tracey on what Russia is willing to accept from Trump, the hypocrisy of the culture wars, and what Tulsi Gabbardâs confirmation as director of national intelligence means for foreign policy.
00:00 Intro
01:26 Dems are PISSED at constituents and activists
09:49 Republicans are slashing Medicaid
21:05 Trump calls FRAUD on policy he doesn't like
24:39 Plastic straws and sharkaganda
26:57 Quinn Slobodian interview
27:40 How much power does Elon Musk have?
31:12 The PayPal Mafia
35:43 DOGE targets the Pentagon
40:56 Musk got his contract under Biden
48:23 Elon's obsession with population
53:33 A MAGA civil war?
57:02 The 5 Core Propositions of Elon Musk
1:04:16 Michael Tracey interview
1:04:54 Trump called Putin
1:08:21 KGB spies in the White House
1:13:13 How does Trump view Ukraine?
1:20:47 Trump wants to raise military spending??
1:24:12 What will Russia accept?
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Former U.S. Marine Brian Berletic, who focuses on geopolitics in Eurasia and hosts the informative Youtube show The New Atlas, joins Useful Idiots this week as Elon Musk and the Trump administration are gutting USAID and attempting to move it under the control of Marco Rubioâs State Department.
Musk claims heâs âdismantling the Deep State.â Berletic, whose years as a marine gave him a harsh awakening about the reality of US hegemony, gives an in-depth analysis of whatâs really going on.
He explains why each side is up-in-arms over the issue: Dems are painting USAID as an all-loving agency that is essential to upholding Democracy around the world, while Republicans are crying wokeism by finding relatively trivial expenses in the fine print. Neither, Berletic says, are highlighting the real, and much more nefarious issues with USAID.
âThey have not mentioned foreign interference, regime change, subversion, stifling development, and they have not said that they are going to stop any of that.â
âAnd here's a photo,â he shows us from the U.S. Government Counterinsurgency Guide, drafted in part by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). âJust think about how tone deaf or brazen they are to post this picture. This is a picture of the Philippines, the U.S. conquered the Philippines. There was an uprising because they wanted to be an independent nation. The US military brutally suppressed it. Mass murder, concentration camps. This is all listed on the State Department's website And so they're talking about insurgency, counterinsurgency, and USAID's role in the counterinsurgency process.â
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00:00 Intro
00:30 Schumer's embarrassing leadership
05:52 Trump's ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza
10:46 The most Trumpian exchange of all time
12:29 Pro-Israel group threatens Norm Finkelstein with a pager
16:10 Brian Berletic interview
16:48 Debunking USAID rumors
18:58 What USAID actually does
23:47 Is Trump WITH the Deep State?
26:15 The myth of the Radical Left
27:28 Marco Rubio on USAID
31:30 Trump tariffs vs Biden tariffs
34:21 USAID and it's "open source" cronies like Bellingcat
39:04 Talk about Russia meddling in elections!
42:50 CIA's new priority: UNDERMINE CHINA
45:30 The China Obsession
48:59 How will China respond?
50:54 WHAT IS THE DEEP STATE?
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This week we are joined by two guests, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha and tech Professor Ramesh Srinivasan. First is Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha, who recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his âLetter from Gazaâ columns for The New Yorker, and authored the new poetry book is Forest of Noise. He is also the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which was destroyed by Israel.
Over the course of Israelâs mass assault on Gaza, Mosab has lost 31 members of his family. He has expressed his catastrophic loss through poetry:
âAll of Gaza has become a funeral home,â Mosab explains to us, âbecause the mourners themselves are killed. Who is going to mourn the death of someone when their father, their mother, their siblings were killed? And sometimes we do the funeral on the phone. We call someone and say, âI'm so sorry to hear about your loss.â And then a few minutes later, that person, the caller or the recipient of this condolence, would be killed.â
Mosab also explains why he doesnât consider this pause in Israelâs attacks on Gaza to be a ceasefire.
âThe whole area is a pile of rubble, so where do you place your tent? People are deciding to go back. Going back for what and for how long? No one knows. This is why it's not a ceasefire.â
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We also talk to Ramesh Srinivasan, professor of information studies at UCLA and author of Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow.
The big news out of the tech world this week is that Chinese AI company DeepSeek has surpassed the abilities of ChatGPT. In response, the Trump administration imposed new tariffs against China, a move that exposes a fear of falling behind.
We ask Ramesh: why does the US government see DeepSeek as a threat, and should regular Americans see this new AI as a potential for human progress or as a dangerous new advancement? His answer gives a clear explanation for why the US is losing the AI War so far.
Ramesh also explains the surprising effect AI usage has on depleting natural resources.
Subscribe for the full interview with Ramesh Srinivasan on how the government uses tech companies to spy on Americans through the Patriot Act, the lack of disclosure by Big Tech of anything that theyâre doing behind the scenes, and what the oligarchs who sat front row at Trumpâs inauguration are planning next to tighten their control.
Plus, catch this weekâs Thursday Throwdown: Trump Exposes Hamas Condom Bombs
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00:00 Intro
01:05 Tulsi calls out Dems' support of Al Qaeda
12:32 Tom Cotton admits democracy doesn't matter
16:30 CNN fires Jim Acosta (and he tries to go Network)
20:25 GOP calls it a DEI plane crash
22:58 Mosab Abu Toha interview
23:32 Is the ceasefire real?
24:54 Poem: Gaza Has Become a Funeral Home
28:28 The Edward Said Library
31:26 His family in Gaza
34:21 How Palestinians see Trump
39:28 Ramesh Srinivasan interview
40:12 DeepSeek beats ChatGPT
42:01 Trump is afraid
44:23 Is Chinese AI more nefarious?
47:24 AI's impact on natural resources
52:11 DeepSeek's energy consumption
56:12 They're using the Patriot Act to watch us
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What is really behind the TikTok wars? According to Arnaud Bertrand, our guest this week, itâs less about Palestine content and more about good, old-fashioned American colonialism and hypocrisy.
Bertrand, a French entrepreneur and political analyst based in Malaysia, who lived in China for eight years and has debated China with the likes of Adrian Zenz, reflects on the hypocrisy of the American government, which claims to respect the free market, but actually intervenes in business in order to ban a company for simply being Chinese:
âThis is the kind of stuff that Cuba would get accused of,â he explains, âtalking about the evils of communism, like appropriating enterprises. Itâs ironic that the United States government, which presents itself as this bastion of entrepreneurship, free market, where the government doesn't meddle, is doing exactly that.â
âIf [the Tik Tok ban] goes through, it sets a very worrying precedent because basically what it's saying is that, if as a non-American tech company, you make it big, then basically we're going to try to colonize you. It's digital colonialism.â
The fairness of the free market, Arnaud explains, is reserved only for American companies. Beyond that, the government steps in for control.
âIt completely destroys the incentive for any country. It's already so hard to succeed given the odds on how dominated the landscape is by American VCs and American tech companies. If you're one of the lucky few that finally make it, then you're forced to sell to the Americans. It's definitely not right and that's a precedent that I don't think should be set.â
The irony is that the crackdown on TikTok has brought Chinese people and American people together as Americans are migrating to the Chinese platform Red Note.
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00:00 Intro
00:55 Fmr CIA Director is still lying about Hunter's laptop
06:14 Elise Stefanik goes biblical on Israel
10:10 Trump wants Gaza's real estate
12:29 The ADL loves Elon's N*zi salute
22:35 Israeli throws a kitten off a roof
27:00 Arnaud Bertrand interview
27:40 The TikTok War
34:55 DeepSeek and OpenAI
37:36 Israeli censorship on TikTok
39:57 Digital Colonialism
45:14 Neocolonialism
47:23 Trump's new tariffs
54:07 China's role in the Ukraine/Russian War
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