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Let’s take a look at the midterms: Democrats are looking pretty good in the polls, especially because Trump has betrayed two of his key promises, which was to have No New Wars and to address the cost of living.

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This week, we’re joined by Useful Idiots fan-favorite Muhammad Shehada, the political analyst and writer from Gaza who has guided us through the mirk of corporate media propaganda since the first week of Israel’s genocide three years ago.

On the week of the third anniversary of October 7, and as Gazans prepare for their fourth winter in these unimaginable conditions, Muhammad shares what he’s heard about the conditions on the ground from his friends and family, many of whom have been killed by the Is...

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This week we’re speaking with former Time Person of the Year Coleen Rowley, the FBI special agent who tried to sound the alarm about 9/11 based on FBI intel about the attackers received BEFORE the attacks.

Coleen Rowley: I found myself in a very...

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On this week’s show we find out that when you launch an unprovoked regime-change war against a big country like Iran, it turns out that not only is it a bad idea militarily, but it might also tank your economy.

The US debt just hit a record-setting $40 trillion, rising $3.6 trillion in the la...

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It’s a wild episode of Monday Mourning today: we mock Hakeem Jeffries, Todd Blanche, Haley Stevens, Don Bacon and more, all before a special guest appearance by Florida House candidate Oliver Larkin who takes on Rep. Jared Moskowitz in the primary Tuesday.

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This week, returning guest Sina Toossi joins us to check in on Trump’s regime change war on Iran: Trump is pausing the bombing campaign in an attempt to walk away from the war after realizing the total disaster it is for the US, falsely claiming that he controls the Strait of Hormuz, hoping that wi...

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Katie and Aaron react to Trump’s disastrous war on Iran as GOP senators rush to corporate media in a desperate attempt to hide just how much the US is losing.

Plus, this week in Michigan, progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed takes on Haley “Israel comes to me in my dreams” Stevens. We watch the corporate media meltdown as El-Sayed takes the lead.

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In a desperate attempt to pit progressive stars Zohran Mamdani and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed against each other, Israel-activist Jake Tapper thought he had the perfect gotcha when interviewing El-Sayed on CNN:

“Zohran Mamdani was asked if he thinks there’s room in the party for Democrats who work with AIPAC, and Mayor Mamdani said ‘if they are Democrats and they win as Democrats then they should be part of the Democratic Party.’

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Senator Lindsey Graham, who was scheduled to appear on Meet the Press Sunday, died suddenly this weekend. The corporate Sunday shows paused everything to heap praise on one of the most depraved people to ever sit in government.

Just listen to Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan giving an emotional tribute:

“A note on Senator Lindsey Graham, a fierce Ukraine supporter who had just returned from his tenth trip to that war zone...

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This week we have a powerhouse panel on Useful Idiots: Professor Sami al-Arian and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of DropSite News, who join us to analyze Trump’s wars in West Asia.

The breaking...

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After finally doing one thing to back up his campaign promise of being an anti-war president, has President Trump folded to pressure from Israel and its corporate media stooges to go back on his peace deal with Iran?

Because now the message seems to be that we’ll bomb their civilians and terrorize their economy so that the ceasefire holds. Which doesn’t quite make sense at all, if you think about it…

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On this week’s show we look at the Mamdani Sweep in New York City where progressive, populist, pro-Palestine candidates, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, won important elections across the board in a huge rebuke to AIPAC and Israel.

As AIPAC and the entire Democratic establishment freak out about this successful insurgency, we...

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This week, after months of demanding Iran’s unconditional surrender, Trump suddenly backed off his regime-change war, signing an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with Iran.

And what’s even more surprising than this apparent admission of defeat and push for peace is the Trump administration’s sharp turn on Isr...

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Since the beginning of Trump’s war-of-choice on Iran, the administration has been telegraphing its inability to defend US aggression by refusing to let real decision-makers like Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth do interviews on the Sunday morning news shows, instead only sending economic advisors to struggle to justify the war.

And in a move that only confirms this acknowledgement of indefensibility, this week Pete Hegseth finally gave S...

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This week we’re welcoming back to the show Useful Idiots fan-favorite California Congressman Ro Khanna to discuss his efforts to reign in Trump’s war on Iran, what’s happening with the Democrats in the aftermath of Graham Platner’s victory in Maine, and why he’s calling out other Dems like the AIPAC-owned Chuck Schu...

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Trump met up with Meet the Press’s Kristen Welker for a literally and metaphorically stormy interview in which he failed to defend his disastrous war on Iran and insisted that he never promised to be an anti-war president.

Right from Welker’s welcome, Katie and Aaron turn on the gas and don’t let up on the lying president, right up to the point where he storms out of the interview.

It’s a b...

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The Trump Administration just announced their latest achievement: it’s a ceasefire in Lebanon!

One problem: they excluded from their ceasefire talks Israel’s main target, Hezbollah. The US is fully backing Israel’s continued assault, which has included the bombing of civilian infrastructure, killing over 3,000 people since March and displacing over 1.2 million.

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After months of struggling and failing to inflict enough damage on Iran that they reopen the Strait of Hormuz to US ships, Trump is now coming out with a new talking point that he hopes will convince the world that defeating Iran militarily was never actually his goal:

“Their military we’ve sort of left it alone because we think their military is somewhat moderate. Mistakes have been made in wars where you wipe out...

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It’s been a while since we’ve covered the proxy war in Ukraine, so who better to give us an update than Useful Idiots fan-favorite Lev Golinkin, the Ukrainian-American journalist and author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka.

The big takeaway: remember Ukraine’s whole neo-Nazi problem? It’s gotten...

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After starting two regime change wars in Venezuela and Iran, Donald Trump is now ramping up his campaign to overthrow the government of Cuba, and in the process impose serious misery on its people by tightening his blockade and deepening the country’s humanitarian crisis.

And much like in Venezuela and Iran, there are suddenly reports of an im...

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From Lindsey Graham’s mouth to God’s ears: when asked on Meet the Press if the Iran War was worth losing the midterms over, Senator Lindsey Graham proclaimed: “It’s worth losing my job!”

Finally, something to agree with arch-Zionist warmonger Lindsey Graham on!

And speaking of God’s ears, Trump held a Christian Nationalist party to celebrate the US’s 250th birthday, where speakers claimed that it took God two centuries to b...

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It’s another classic Useful Idiots double header!

First up we’re speaking with Rami Elghandour, biotech CEO whose company is developing transformative immunotherapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases. He’s also executive producer of the Oscar-nominated film The Voice of Hind Rajab and The American Doctor. (note to other CEOs: it’s possible to do good things with your money)

Rami was scheduled to give the convocation speech at Rutgers this week but...

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From UN Ambassador Mike Waltz all the way up to the top: Benjamin Netanyahu, it was a disastrous affair watching the Sunday Morning News Shows. Katie and Aaron pick apart every lie: why oil prices are actually skyrocketing, how Iran never actually wanted to build nuclear weapons, why Trump’s fake negotiations will never work, and how Netanyahu, who seems to clearly own the 60 Minutes anchor, is deliberately sabotaging US-Iran peace talks.

It was a...

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Despite recent attacks from both sides, a ceasefire is technically in effect between the US and Iran: Is peace at hand? Or are these shaky truce talks just a break before the return to full-scale military conflict?

What’s likely to move the scale in one direction or another are re...

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“So, we are still at war with Iran?” CBS’ Margaret Brennan asked top White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett.

“I don’t know what the definition of war is,” responds the smiling Hassett.

It’s been over 60 days of Trump’s disastrous war-of-choice on Iran, the global economy is breaking, and Americans can’t afford gas and basic household items. Yet still Trump sends his economic team onto the corporate Sunday shows week after week...

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“Being anonymous is very important to this group. And they had really good OPSEC, which is security to make sure they’re not found. When we saw their internal documents and communications, we found a marketing PowerPoint where they listed core values. And one of the core values was Anonymity to Scare the Enemy.”

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