Aaron Mate

New York

Contributor at The Nation

Journalist and Host of Pushback at The Grayzone

Co-Host at Useful Idiots

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Articles

Trump Outsources Iran WMD Lies to Israel

1 week ago | usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate |Katie Halper

Reporter to Trump: “Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon.”Trump responds: “I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to having one.”After Tulsi Gabbard sold her soul to MAGA in service of Donald Trump and Israel, Donald Trump has thrown her under the bus for opposing nuclear war. It’s a dangerous game out there.
Trumps falske diplomati gjorde Israels krig mot Iran mulig

1 week ago | steigan.no | Aaron Mate

13. juni 2025Kort tid etter at Israel startet et ødeleggende angrep på Iran – som så langt har drept iranske militærledere, atomforskere, en rekke sivile, ødelagt viktige militære ressurser og skadet atomkraftverk – holdt Israels statsminister Benjamin Netanyahu en tale fylt med løgner og forvrengninger. Likevel var det én bemerkelsesverdig erkjennelse av virkeligheten. «Jeg vil takke president Trump for hans lederskap i konfrontasjonen av Irans atomvåpenprogram», sa Netanyahu.
Trump’s pretend diplomacy enabled Israel’s war on Iran

2 weeks ago | aaronmate.net | Aaron Mate

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Is Iran-Israel About to Go Nuclear? with Professor Vali Nasr

2 weeks ago | usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate |Katie Halper

Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Hours after we spoke to Johns Hopkins Professor of Advanced International Studies Vali Nasr, Israel killed multiple Iranian military officials in a strike against “Iranian nuclear sites.” Both Israel and the United States threatened “even more brutal” attacks to come.
Trump Claims No One Wants to Protest His Birthday Parade (but threatens them just in case)

2 weeks ago | usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate |Katie Halper

News alert not in our Thursday Throwdown: Our guest Thiago Ávila, who was part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, has been forced into solitary confinement by Israel. He is reportedly on Day 3 of a hunger strike in a "small, dark, airless, and contactless cell." Hear him speak last month about why he's risking his life for Gaza. We will give updates on his condition as soon as we have them.
Ukraine Proxy Warriors Have Second Thoughts about WWIII

3 weeks ago | usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate |Katie Halper

In March 2023, Ret. Gen. Keith Kellogg told Congress that it's the "acme of professionalism" to use Ukraine to fight Russia because that "takes a strategic adversary off the table" without "using any US troops."He’s now Trump’s special envoy to Russia and Ukraine. And he’s changing his tune:“Risk levels are going way up,” he said this week after Ukraine carried out drone strikes on four Russian airfields.
CNN Claims ‘Free Palestine’ Protests CAUSED Israeli Embassy Staffers Shooting

4 weeks ago | usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate |Katie Halper

“What I saw in his eyes,” claimed Jonathan Epstein, a witness of the aftermath of the shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington last week, “I saw the same thing in his eyes that I saw in the eyes of all the [student] protesters at Columbia. Nothing different between him and them.”The CNN anchor interviewing him apparently felt no need to push back on these outrageous claims.
Norman Finkelstein Reacts To Israeli Embassy Staffers Shooting | Useful Idiots

1 month ago | scheerpost.com | Katie Halper |Aaron Mate

By Katie Halper and Aaron Maté / Useful Idiots Editor’s Note:At a moment when the once vaunted model of responsible journalism is overwhelmingly the play thing of self-serving billionaires and their corporate scribes, alternatives of integrity are desperately needed, and ScheerPost is one of them. Please support our independent journalism by contributing to our online donation platform, Network for Good, or send a check to our new PO Box.
Trump Finally Calls Out Genocide… in South Africa

1 month ago | usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate |Katie Halper

After a year and a half of “genocidal intent” being shown clearly by Israeli politicians saying things like “every baby in Gaza is an enemy,” “we are cutting off the water supply to Gaza,” and killing babies is a “pastime,” as well as constant footage of Israeli attacks against civilians in schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings, it was finally time for Trump to stand up this week and say clearly: This is a genocide. The only problem is: he said it about White people in South Africa.
Meet Trump's Awkward New Crush

1 month ago | usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate |Katie Halper

You may know him as the founder of Syria’s branch of al-Qaeda, the organization responsible for 9/11. Or you may know him as a man labeled by the US as a terrorist who was arrested in Iraq for attacking US soldiers. But to Donald Trump, he’s a “young, attractive guy” with a “strong past.” And Trump thinks he has a shot with him…We’re talking about Syrian President al-Sharaa, formerly known as Mohammed al-Jolani.