The Katie Halper Show

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 Joing our Callin discussion on Friday April 29 at 1pm EST with Paul Paz y Miño! about suing the CIA over Pablo Escobar- https://www.callin.com/room/suing-the-cia-with-paul-paz-y-mio-mOpBqTeQrS Steven Donziger, is free at last, for now. What's next? Find out from Steven Donziger (the human rights and environmentalist lawyer who served a six month prison sentence for successfully suing Chevron for poisoning the water in the Ecuadorian Amazon) and Paul Pan y Miño of Amazon Watch. Steven Donziger, is free at last, for now. What's next? Find out from Steven Donziger (the human rights and environmentalist lawyer who served a six month prison sentence for successfully suing Chevron for poisoning the water in the Ecuadorian Amazon) and Paul Pan y Miño of Amazon Watch. https://substack.com/profile/7445653-steven-donziger The prosecution of Donziger, which has been condemned by the United Nations, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Amazon Watch, and 64 Nobel Laureates, is a literal corporate prosecution. After the Southern District of New York refused to prosecute Donziger, the judge assigned a corporate firm which had represented Chevron to go after him. The judge also made the unusual move of handpicking the judge to oversee the case and chose a judge who is part of the Right Wing Federalist Society which gets funding from.... you guessed it... Chevron! Paul Paz y Miño, Associate Director at Amazon Watch, has overseen its Clean Up Ecuador campaign since 2007. He has been a professional human rights, corporate accountability and environmental justice advocate for over 25 years. He has been Colombia Country Specialist for Amnesty International USA since 1995, served on staff at Human Rights Watch/Americas in 1995-1996, and was the Guatemala/Chiapas Program Director at the Seva Foundation for seven years.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to the patreon-only interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/prof-richard-65362957 Economist Richard Wolff talks about Ukraine, Russia, sanctions, and why this moment is similar to World War One. Richard Wolff is the host of #EconomicUpdate, Professor of Economics Emeritus at @UMassAmherst, visiting professor at The New School, founder of @democracyatwrk and the author of several books including Democracy at Work, Understanding Marxism, and Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. He's been called "America's most prominent Marxist economist" by The New York Times.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For the entire discussion, to receive bonus content, support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this episode's Patreon segment: https://www.patreon.com/posts/vijay-prashad-on-65119033 Vijay Prashad discusses the latest fallout from the war in Ukraine and how it's impacting the rest of the world and his essay on Pan-Asianism. Plus the removal of Pakistan's Imran Khan: is it the will of the Pakistani people or Western-backed regime change, as Khan is claiming? Read Vijay's latest piece here (https://www.newsclick.in/is-asia-possible) Vijay Prashad (https://twitter.com/vijayprashad) is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter (https://independentmediainstitute.org...). He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books (https://mayday.leftword.com/) and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (https://t.co/evQYuwZXRJ). He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (http://en.rdcy.org/). He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

To support independent media, receive bonus content and to help make this show possible, please join us at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Rapper and campaigner Lowkey (https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline) talks about the Israel Lobby's campaign to get Spotify to remove him from their platform. Sign the petition telling Spotify not to cave here (https://www.change.org/p/spotify-do-not-buckle-to-pressure-from-the-israel-lobby-to-deplatform-lowkey?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=0ccb39d0-b020-11ec-b015-6f843b977d7f). Lowkey is a British-Iraqi hip hop artist, academic and political campaigner. He is a patron of Stop The War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Racial Justice Network and The Peace and Justice Project founded by Jeremy Corbyn. He has a Masters in Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS university and is an advisor to the website Declassified which investigates the activities of the Ministry of Defence and British Intelligence Services. He has spoken and performed on platforms from the Oxford Union to the Royal Albert Hall and Glastonbury. His latest album Soundtrack To The Struggle 2 featured Noam Chomsky, Frankie Boyle and Ken Loach and has been streamed millions of times. He produces and hosts his own weekly podcast for Mintpress and has interviewed US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Roger Waters, Naom Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Ahed Tamimi, Ken Loach and Stella Moris (wife of Julian Assange). Lowkey has become the target of a coordinated smear campaign to demonize, defame and deplatform him. Earlier this month, organised groups forced the University of Cambridge Palestine Solidarity Society to postpone his lecture and were able to stop his appearance at the National Union of Students in Liverpool. Now, a campaign by lobby group "We Believe in Israel" is demanding that his content be removed from music streaming service Spotify. This is unacceptable censorship. The campaign against Lowkey is designed to silence Palestinians and their supporters. Anti-Palestinian censorship is now reaching into the artistic realm.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For bonus content & to help make the show possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Brian Becker talks about the latest in Ukraine, Biden's statements about Putin, and the history that got us here in the first place. Andrew Gold talks about his reporting on true crime as well as on exorcism. Brian Becker (https://mobile.twitter.com/BrianBeckerDC) is the host of The Socialist Program. He is the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition and the author of Imperialism in the 21st Century. Andrew Gold (https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok) is a journalist, documentary maker (HBO, BBC) and podcast host of On the Edge with Andrew Gold. He speaks five languages, and documents the world’s strangest and most controversial people, from true crime and paranormal to science and politics.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For the entire discussion, bonus content & to help make the show happen, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this broadcast's Patreon podcast (patreon-only content begins at 29min09sec, start there to pick-up where you left off) Journalist and historian Vijay Prashad (https://twitter.com/vijayprashad) talks about the current conflict in Ukraine and the history that got us there, especially the role of NATO. He also discusses what the Left should be doing right now. Then join our callin where Katie will be taking some of your questions [https://www.callin.com/room/ukraine-what-should-the-left-do-about-it-hxuXjCtKXb] Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter (https://independentmediainstitute.org/globetrotter/). He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books (https://mayday.leftword.com/) and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (https://t.co/evQYuwZXRJ). He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (http://en.rdcy.org/). He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For the entire discussion, bonus content & to help make the show happen, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow. Direct link to Alan MacLeod Patreon Only segment on Bill Gates and Sascha Baron Cohen: https://www.patreon.com/posts/alan-macleod-63817711 Join our callin: https://callin.com/link/FtXgkfkOfV Journalist Alan MacLeod discusses his article "It’s Different, They’re White: Media Ignore Conflicts Around the World to Focus on Ukraine," Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Israel's attacks on Palestine and the United States' bombing of Somalia. Plus a short history of U.S. bombings of hospitals. Alan MacLeod (https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod) is Senior Staff Writer and Podcast Producer for MintPress News. He's also written two books about the media: "Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting", and "Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent." He has also contributed to FAIR.org, The Guardian, Salon, Jacobin Magazine, and more. Read his latest piece here (https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-russia-war-media-bias-study/279847/)Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For bonus content & to help make the show happen, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow. The Yes Men (https://theyesmen.org/) stop by to talk about their latest hijinks. Then Lee Camp comes (https://twitter.com/LeeCamp) on to talk about what happened to his show Redacted Tonight.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For the full discussion, extra content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this full discussion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chris-hedges-on-63210770 Pulitzer Prize–winning Journalist Chris Hedges talks about Russia, Ukraine, Nato expansion and his experience on the ground reporting from Eastern Europe during the fall of the Soviet Union. Then Phyllis Bennis, of the Institute of Policy Studies, talks about what needs to happen next. Chris Hedges 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 is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact. Link to Chris' article on Russia/ Ukraine “Chronicle of a War Foretold” at Sheer Post - https://scheerpost.com/2022/02/24/hedges-the-chronicle-of-a-war-foretold/ Included in the full discussion at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chris-hedges-on-63210770, along with the rest of the discussion with Chris Hedges, Katie also speaks with Phyllis Bennis. Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, where she directs the New Internationalism project. Her books include Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror. In 2001 she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her latest piece on Ukraine appears in Foreign Policy in Focus. Link to Phyllis' latest piece: https://fpif.org/putins-invasion-of-ukraine-is-illegal-and-wrong-respond-with-diplomacy-not-war/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For the entire discussion, other bonus content & to help make the show possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the entire discussion with Yasha Levine: https://www.patreon.com/posts/russian-yasha-on-63047290 Here is a teaser segment of an interview recorded Wednesday evening just before we learned that Putin had invaded Ukraine. Yasha Levine is a Soviet-American immigrant, the author of "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet," and co-host of the podcast "The Russians." You can find his writing at: yasha.substack.com Follow Yasha on Twitter at: @yashalevineAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy