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First, Human Rights Lawyer and former UN official Craig Mokhiber and Hind Rajab Foundation lawyer Jake Romm talk about how and why to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. Then Garrison Lovely, journalist and author of Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us — and How to Stop It exposes what's really happening with AI. For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow/posts/full-broadcast-170961643

Paid Partnership with Chapter • Call (252) 648-4970 or visit https://chapter.com/halper Chapter is the Medicare advisory company that makes comparing plans less overwhelming. Get free guidance based on your needs. Garrison Lovely is the author of Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us — and How to Stop It (Nation Books). Former Reporter in Residence at the Omidyar Network. In 2025, the Pulitzer Center named him an AI journalist worth following. Garrison's cover story in The Nation, "Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower," was the magazine's 4th most popular story in 2023. His Jacobin cover story, "Can Humanity Survive AI?," made rounds among staff members working for several U.S. senators and representatives. He studied Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, where he co-founded the Prison Reform and Education Project and volunteered as a teaching assistant in the Cornell Prison Education Program. 

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Katie talks to veteran journalist Bob Scheer and USC instructor and organizer Kate Levin about academic freedom and labor. Then Moe Tkacik breaks down the Ed Sheeran Macklemore saga and exposes who Robert Kraft REALLY is. For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow/posts/full-broadcast-170312351

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Moe Tkacik is the investigations editor of the American Prospect. Earlier in her career she worked for the Wall Street Journal, co-founded the feminist site Jezebel and waited on Steve Miller and Steve Mnuchin's wife at various fine dining establishments. She lives in DC with her husband and 2 sons. Robert Scheer is the publisher of Scheer Post (https://scheerpost.com/). Scheer has written eight books, including two this decade: "The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street while Mugging Main Street," and his newest book is "They Know Everything about You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy." He is a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. He has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and others. Between 1964 and 1969 he was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. 

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Belal Elsiesy of Palestinian Youth Movement talks to us about how and why United Airlines is secretly sending equipment and weapons to Israel on passenger flights, to be used by the IDF against Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. Then Kate Willett, a comedian and co-host of the Dystopia Now podcast, talks about what’s really happening in the AI world and what Big Tech CEOs are hiding. Finally, clinical psychologist Lara Sheehi talks about the PSYOPs which are still going on, psychic militancy, and her book "From Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures." For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow/posts/full-broadcast-169668167

Belal Elsiesy is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement and researcher for the People’s Embargo for Palestine campaign. Kate Willett (https://katewillett.com/) is the co-host of Dystopia Now podcast, where comedian Kate Willett and academic Emile Torres explore the philosophies and religions of Silicon Valley and tech billionaires shaping our country, our world, and our future. She is also the author of "Dirtbag Anthropology (https://www.audible.com/pd/Dirtbag-An.... Her 15 minute special premiered on Netflix’s “Comedy Lineup” in 2018 and her writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan and Elle. Lara Sheehi (pronounced Shee-high) is a President’s Fellow at UC Davis, a licensed clinical psychologist, and the host of the Psychic Militancy podcast. Lara’s work focuses on psychoanalysis, the psychic refusals central to liberation struggles and life-making in the Global South, the psychic dimensions of resistance and revolution, and critical Zionism studies. She is the author of From Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures and co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine. Lara is a member of the founding collective for the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (https://criticalzionismstudies.org/) and is on the advisory board for Forensic Architecture. 

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Katie talks to Jacobin journalist Branko Marcetic about a bombshell report on Israel’s own role in October 7th, and why Establishment  Democrats and the corporate media are whitewashing Iran war monger Mike Rogers, the Republicans running for senate against Abdul El Sayed; Aisha Farooqi, about her running for Congress in Michigan against Isreal Firster Jeremy Moss; and Al Jazeera’s Josh Rushing about his new documentary “Killing at Sea” on the Trump Admininstration’s murderous  Operation Southern Spear. For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow/posts/full-broadcast-169011149

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Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson joins us to discuss the war on Iran and whether Ukraine is winning its war against Russia, as former Vice President Mike Pence has recently argued. Author, activist, and Palestine-solidarity campaigner Tony Greenstein returns following his acquittal on a charge under Section 12(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000—alleging that he invited support for a proscribed organisation—over three X posts linking to a 2023 blog post. Finally, journalist and historian Vijay Prashad and Kouros Esmaeli unpack the recent Guardian open letter addressed to Iranian political prisoners, initially signed by figures including Rashid Khalidi, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Angela Davis, and the controversy surrounding its text and signatories. 

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Dr. Mohammad Marandi joins Katie from Tehran where he talks to us about the latest in the war on Iran. Then Palestinian Youth Movement's Taher Dahleh discusses the Anas Al-Sharif, Nathan Robinson and Alec Karakatsanis talk about Woke 1.0 and Franchesca Hong race, and Greg Stoker assesses the Iran War and reacts to the sailor jumping overboard on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. 

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Katie talks to Salvatore Mercogliano of What's Going On With Shipping about developments in the Strait of Hormuz & the future of the Persian Gulf. But first, Katie talks to Dr. Kavita Algu, a physician who resigned from Mount Sinai after being targeted for her Pro-Palestinian activism, & Dania Majid, president of the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association’s & lead author of their bombshell report, “Anti-Palestinian Racism: Naming, Framing, & Manifestations," about the institutional consequences Palestinians & their allies face for their identities & advocacy. Plus, a surprise appearance from fan favorite Samira Mohyeddin in the Patreon portion! For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow/posts/patreon-full-sal-166445945

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Salvatore Mercogliano is a professor of history & chair of the Dep't of History, Criminal Justice & Politics at Campbell University in North Carolina. He holds a BS in marine transportation from SUNY Maritime College, along with a merchant marine deck officer license where he worked both afloat & ashore. After leaving gov't service, he earned an MA in maritime history & nautical archaeology from East Carolina University & a PhD in military & naval history from University of Alabama. Author of the monograph Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift & Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War. In 2021, Prof. Mercogliano launched the YouTube channel What’s Going on With Shipping? (@wgowshipping⁩) following the Ever Given incident in the Suez Canal. Dr. Kavita Algu is a primary care physician, public advocate & scholar currently studying health policy, Indigenous health & human rights at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at University of Toronto. Born in apartheid South Africa, her early life deeply shaped her commitment to health equity and human rights—principles that have guided her decade-long medical career. Dr. Algu previously served for nearly ten years as a palliative care physician at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto. During her tenure, she championed anti-racism initiatives & co-led a successful effort to secure gov't funding for a dedicated Indigenous palliative care program. Dania Majid is the co-founder & president of the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association & is the lead author of ACLA’s 2022 report “Anti-Palestinian Racism: Naming, Framing & Manifestations.” She co-edited the book “When Genocide Wasn’t News: How Canadian media covered up the destruction of Gaza” published by The Breach. Dania is also the co-founder & artistic director of the Toronto Palestine Film Festival. She sits on the steering committee for the Hearing Palestine program at the University of Toronto & is co-founder & organizer of the Vote Palestine campaign. In addition to being a long-time advocate for the Palestinian & Arab community, Dania is also a housing rights lawyer with a legal aid clinic in Ontario & sits on the steering committee of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Chapter.

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Rep. Ro Khanna talks about his trip to the West Bank, this week's elections, Abdul El Sayed's victory and his controversial exchange with journalist Jeremy Scahill. Then human rights attorney Craig Mokhiber responds to Ro. And finally, Sam Husseini discusses interrupting Chuck Schumer and why he's running for Congress. For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow/posts/patreon-full-ro-165984961

Khanna proudly represents California's 17th Congressional District, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, and is serving his fifth term. He serves as vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, on the House Armed Services Committee as ranking member of the Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies and Information Systems (CITI), a member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, and on the Oversight and Accountability committee, where he previously chaired the Environmental Subcommittee. 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. In 2023, he resigned after publicly accusing the U.N. of failing to address what he calls a "text-book case of genocide" unfolding in Gaza. He is a member of the Gaza People's Tribunal. Sam Husseini is an independent journalist currently writing at husseini.substack.com. Husseini has also written for a variety of publications, including CounterPunch, The Nation, The Washington Post, USA Today and Salon. He has written extensively about Palestine and international law. Last year he repeatedly wrote about the possibility of a country invoking the Genocide Convention against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Husseini regularly attends State Department briefings, asking tough questions. Husseini is founder of VotePact.org, which encourages left-right cooperation to undermine the establishment duopoly. He is also a visual artist. 

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Rania Khalek and Medea Benjamin talk about the U.S. Government's attack on free speech, free press, Cuba and being targeted by Marco Rubio. Human Rights attorney Jake Romm discusses how the Hind Rajab Foundation is holding Israeli war criminals accountable. But first, anti-fascist comedian Ron Placone talks about Anti-Fascist Pasta Night! To see the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow/posts/patreon-full-ron-165388349

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UPDATE: because of travel issues, Ro had to postpone his appearance but will be joining the show August 6th at 6:30 pm EST.

Palestinian-American father Kamel Musallet talks about his son Sayfollah Musallet, who was was murdered by Israeli terrorist settlers and soldiers. Sana Saeed exposes the truth behind the recent NDAA and the merger of the U.S. and Israeli militaries.

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