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1 week ago | 
usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate |Katie Halper
After years of fighting against progressives like Bernie Sanders for messages like Medicare For All and taxing billionaires, corporate Democrats are suddenly rewriting history as Bernie’s “Fight the Oligarchy” tour grows viral nationwide. That’s right: Joe Scarborough and James Carville always wanted to fight the billionaire class. It was only their words and actions that thought otherwise.
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2 weeks ago | 
transcend.org | Aaron Mate
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service 21 Apr 2025 – After weeks of fruitless talks, the Trump administration is increasingly suggesting that it will abandon its efforts to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine war. “It’s not our war,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday.
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2 weeks ago | 
usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate |Katie Halper
With only a colorful graphic as evidence, Dana Bash and Jonathan Greenblatt announced on CNN that antisemitic incidents have increased by ten times since 2015. This, they admit with gleeful importance, is the stat they will use to justify the silencing of Palestinian voices in America.
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3 weeks ago | 
usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate
“Should there have been a more definitive break with the [Biden] administration on Gaza specifically?” asks MSNBC’s Chris Hayes to former VP candidate Tim Walz.
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1 month ago | 
usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate |Katie Halper
In what looked like the beginning of a new recession last week, the markets plummeted in response to Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs across the globe. Even Trump’s richest friends, who have been proven in the past to control Trump’s policy (see his first-term tax cut), couldn’t change Trump’s mind. But then the market kept tanking, and tanking, and tanking, all while billionaires like Musk and Bill Ackman and Mark Cuban bad-mouthed Trump on Twitter.
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1 month ago | 
lacasademitia.es | Aaron Mate
Durante una reciente visita a Washington –la de más alto nivel de un funcionario ruso desde la invasión de Ucrania en febrero de 2022– el enviado del Kremlin, Kirill Dmitriev, elogió los esfuerzos de Donald Trump por poner fin a la guerra en Ucrania. “La administración del presidente Trump ha hecho enormes avances” hacia la paz, dijo Dmitriev, y además, ha “impedido que se produzca la Tercera Guerra Mundial”.
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1 month ago | 
usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate
The UN has reported that 15 medics and rescue workers from the Red Crescent were murdered “one by one” by the IDF and buried in a shallow grave. State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked if this complies with international law. “Well,” she answered, “I can tell you that for too long, Hamas has abused civilian infrastructure, cynically using it to shield themselves.
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1 month ago | 
usefulidiotspodcast.com | Aaron Mate
In a major scandal for the Trump administration, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz mistakenly added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, to a Signal group chat with JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and more top officials. In the chat, they were openly discussing US plans to bomb Yemen. Goldberg watched as they privately laid out their plans to bomb a civilian apartment building. Then he watched on the news that the bombs dropped. And published screenshots of the group chat.
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1 month ago | 
nuclear-news.net | Aaron Mate |Christina MacPherson
Aaron Mate on how NATO provoked Russia in Ukraine and undermined peace By Aaron Maté / The Grayzone March 23, 2025, https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/23/aaron-mate-on-how-nato-provoked-russia-in-ukraine-and-undermined-peace/ The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté argues that the US and NATO provoked Russia in Ukraine by expanding NATO, dismantling arms control, installing military assets threatening Russia, meddling in Ukraine and blocking multiple opportunities for...
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1 month ago | 
popularresistance.org | Aaron Mate
7 days ago Beginning with the so-called Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006, which required the postal service to hold billions of dollars in reserve to fund retirement benefits for workers who have not yet been born, and then the sell-off of post offices, cuts to the workforce and price hikes, the ground for privatization of the US Postal Service, as was done in Canada and the United Kingdom, has been laid.
