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The Katie Halper Show takes a humorous look at the news, politics, pop culture, and the arts through news segments and conversations with writers, journalists, activists, artists and political comedians.
The Katie Halper Show takes a humorous look at the news, politics, pop culture, and the arts through news segments and conversations with writers, journalists, activists, artists and political comedians.
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Nov 11, 2023 • 1h 35min
Jews Say NO To Israel's Genocide In Gaza & UN Official Craig Mokhiber RESIGNS
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A panel of Jewish activists against genocide join the show followed by leading human rights and UN Official Craig Mokhiber who resigned over the institution's failure of Palestinian people.
Rosalind P. Petchesky is a political scientist and member of Jewish Voice For Peace, who was arrested protesting outside of Chuck Schumer's house last month. Jay Saper is an artist, translator, educator, organizer and member of Jewish Voice for Peace. Brant Rosen is a reconstructionist rabbi of Tzedek Chicago, an anti-Zionist synagogue he founded in August 2015 and co-chair of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council.
Craig Mokhiber is a longtime international human rights lawyer who served as director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He has resigned after publicly accusing the U.N. of failing to address what he calls a "text-book case of genocide" unfolding in Gaza. His resignation letter has gone viral.
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Nov 6, 2023 • 2h 36min
Yumna Patel, Norman Finkelstein & Dan Kovalik On Israel's Genocidal War On Palestine
Bethlehem-based journalist Yumna Patel and political scientist Norman Finkelstein react to and analyze Israel's latest war on not just Gaza, but all of Palestine. And human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik talks about being assaulted by John Fetterman's staffer for daring to ask the senator why he won't support a cease fire.
Yumna Patel is a journalist based in Bethlehem. She is Palestine News Director at @Mondoweiss.
Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors. He 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, I'LL BURN THAT BRIDGE WHEN I GET TO IT! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world.
Dan Kovalik is a labor and human rights lawyer living in Pittsburgh. He taught International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 2012 to 2023. He is the author of several books, including "Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture" https://a.co/d/86FTTHP
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Oct 27, 2023 • 1h 27min
Ali Abunimah, Nour Jaghama & Atheer Yacoub React to Israeli GENOCIDE
Ali Abunimah, Nour Jaghama and Atheer Yacoub React to Israeli genocide.
Join CodePink's march here (Nov. 4th): https://www.codepink.org/palestinedc23
Ali Abunimah is executive director of the @TheElectronicIntifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine.
Nour Jaghama is CODEPINK's Palestine Campaigner and has been advocating for Palestinian liberation for over 5 years, including organizing within her university DePaul University. Atheer Yacoub is a Brooklyn based comedian and writer and she just released her first comedy album Denied Entry with Comedy Records.
Atheer has a half-hour special on Comedy Central Arabia and has been featured on AXSTV's Gotham Comedy Live. She has written for the Emmy award-winning channel BRIC TV on The Breakdown and Passport Control. She's also the co-creator of the sketch comedy show Muslim Girls DTF: Discuss Their Faith, which won many awards including Series Fest Best Independent Comedy Writing. She has been featured in numerous comedy festivals and tours domestically and internationally.
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Oct 21, 2023 • 2h 12min
Norman Finkelstein on Israel's BRUTAL Assault On Gaza
Norman Finkelstein, a political scientist and son of Holocaust survivors, debunks talking points used to justify Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Topics include Israel's brutal assault on Gaza, interpretations of 'never again,' the dire situation in Gaza, reactions to Nat Turner's rebellion, hypocrisy in condemning Hamas, the role of white abolitionists, analyzing Israeli propaganda, the rise of Hamas, the Mavi Marmara attack, and reflections on slavery and freedom.

Oct 13, 2023 • 1h 41min
Miko Peled On Israel's GENOCIDAL War On Gaza & GAZA RESISTS With Mohammed Hisam
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Israeli-American activist Miko Peled explains what Israel is doing and why they're doing it. Then I'm joined by Mohammed Hisam, a Palestinian-American community organizer and attorney based out of Houston, TX.
Miko Peled is an author, writer, speaker, and human rights activist living in the United States. He is the author of "The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine" and "Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five." His father was a high ranking Israeli general, his maternal grandfather was a signatory to Israeli independence, his niece was tragically killed in a suicide bombing and he's a staunch advocate for a one state solution.
He is considered by many to be one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and the creation of a single democracy with equal rights in all of historic Palestine. Educated in Jerusalem, Japan and the United States, Peled is also an accomplished professional martial artist. For 23 years, Peled ran a martial arts school that was dedicated to teaching leadership skills and non-violent conflict resolution through martial arts.
Miko is also a contributor to several online publications (Mint Press, The Electronic Intifada, Democracy Now, Mondoweiss), Mikopeled.com, and produces The Miko Peled Podcast, all of which he dedicated to advocating for the creation of one democratic state with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians. He travels regularly to Palestine where he speaks and works with the popular resistance, the BDS movement, and other justice groups. As a result, he has been arrested several times by the Israeli authorities for his activism.
Mohammed Hisam is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement and currently serves as Director of Advocacy and Education for the Palestinian American Cultural Center - Houston. As an community organizer, Hisam engages in advocacy on behalf of the Palestinian community and for the Palestinian cause through organizing demonstrations and educational events and overseeing two critical grants that support Palestinian students and student organizing on Texas campuses.
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Oct 6, 2023 • 42min
Ukrainian-Canadian Scholar EXPOSES Nazigate & The Truth Behind The Maidan Massacre + Zoe Alexandra
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Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist Ivan Katchanovski talks about exposing Yaroslav Hunka for being in a Nazi unit, the Ukraine War, the Maidan massacre and more. Then Peoples Dispatch's Zoe Alexandra explains The New York Times' connection to press crackdowns in India.
Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University of Ottawa. He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian at Harvard University. He is the author of "Cleft Countries: Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova," and the co-author of "Historical Dictionary of Ukraine." He has written for and/ or appeared on The BBC, CBC, Washington Post, The Guardian and more.
He specializes primarily in politics, conflicts, political violence, and the far right in Ukraine. He teaches at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Katchanovski was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His academic publications include 4 books, 19 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 12 chapters. His three books on the Russia-Ukraine war and its origins, the Maidan massacre in Ukraine, and modern Ukraine will be published by major Western academic presses.
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Oct 2, 2023 • 1h 13min
Marianne Williamson + Canada’s Ukrainian Nazis with Lev Golinkin, Mark Ames, & Yasha Levine
Marianne Williamson discusses her campaign and domestic/foreign politics. Lev Golinkin, Mark Ames, & Yasha Levine talk about Canada's Ukrainian Nazis. Topics include climate emergency, job creation in renewable energy, LGBTQ rights during the AIDS crisis, and the need for a Department of Peace. Also discussed are a monument to the Ukrainian SS division and concerns raised by Jewish organizations.

Sep 24, 2023 • 47min
UAW Workers STRIKE! Climate Protesters Get ARRESTED!
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Katie is joined by climate change activists, and labor organizers to talk about why they're risking arrest and their jobs.
First, Katie talks to Chris Falzone, a rank and file United Auto Workers (UAW) member who is on strike at Stellantis’s Toledo Assembly Complex; Marcelina Pedraza, a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and United Auto Workers Local 551 at Ford Chicago Assembly Plant; and Max Alvarez, a labor journalist, Editor-in-Chief of The Real News Network, the host of the Working People podcast and author of “The Work of Living Working People Talk about Their Lives and the Year the World Broke.”
Then Katie talks about climate week with two people who just got arrested blocking the Federal Reserve bank and calling for end to fossil fuel funding: Alicé Nascimento, an organizer, advocate and campaigns director of New York Communities for Change (NYCC), one of the largest community based advocacy organizations in the US; and Arn Menconi, the Founder and former Executive Director of SOS Outreach, one of the country’s largest outdoor experiential youth programs for low income children, a former Colorado County Commissioner and current writer on foreign policy, climate, and social justice.
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Sep 15, 2023 • 40min
BRICS Expansion & Africa Updates With Abayomi Azikiwe
Abayomi Azikiwe discusses BRICS expansion, Africa's admission into G20, France's war with Africa, and de-dollarization. They explore neglected stories in Africa, Africa's relationship with the West, and NATO countries' treatment of Russia.

Sep 1, 2023 • 59min
Lesley Blume, David Hecht, Alex Wellerstein & Jamie Peck
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Journalist, historian & author Lesley M. M. Blume, historian of science David Hecht, & nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein join Katie to discuss the film Oppenheimer, the legacy and future of nuclear war & what is happening in Fukushima Japan.
Then Jamie Peck joins to discuss the latest developments regarding the Stop Cop City Movement as well as her upcoming live show!
Lesley M. M. Blume is an award-winning journalist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, WSJ Magazine, Vanity Fair, Columbia Journalism Review, Vogue, Town & Country, Air Mail, The Hollywood Reporter, Slate, The Los Angeles Review of Books & The Paris Review Daily, among other publications. She often writes about historical nuclear events, historical war journalism & the intersection of war & the arts. Blume’s second major non-fiction book, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed it to the World, was released by Simon & Schuster on August 4, 2020, to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
David K. Hecht is a historian of science, focusing on the modern United States. His particular interest is in public images of science, & he has published on the phenomenon of "scientific celebrities." His first book, Storytelling and Science: Rewriting Oppenheimer in the Nuclear Age, was published 2015 (University of Massachusetts Press), & he is currently researching a second book project on the intersections between nuclear & environmental history. Other scholarly interests include the history of energy, as well as the role that popular rhetoric about science plays in reinforcing (and sometimes challenging) the status quo. His courses include "The Nuclear Age," "The History of Energy," "Image, Myth & Memory," & "Science on Trial." In 2011 he was awarded the Sydney B. Karofsky prize, Bowdoin's annual teaching prize for junior faculty.
Alex Wellerstein is a historian of science and nuclear technology. He is a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he is the Director of Science & Technology Studies in the College of Arts & Letters. His first book, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2021), is the first attempt at a comprehensive history of how nuclear weapons ushered in a new period of governmental & scientific secrecy in the USA. His current projects include: a new book about Harry Truman & nuclear weapons; research into the past, present & potential future of Presidential nuclear weapons use authority; & a video game about life after a full-scale nuclear war set in the early 1980s. His writings on the history of nuclear weapons have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Magazine, Harper’s Magazine & the Washington Post, among other venues. His online nuclear weapon effects simulator, the NUKEMAP, has been used by over 50 million people globally. He occasionally maintains a blog: Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog.
Link to tickets for Jamie Peck's upcoming live show on September 2, 2023 - https://wl.seetickets.us/event/THE-WOKE-MOB/564089?afflky=TVEye
Link to Defend the Atlanta Forest Movement - https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/
Link to Stop Cop City Movement - https://stopcop.city/
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