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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.

Israel Lobby Pressures Spotify To Remove Pro-Palestinian Rapper Lowkey

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Pulitzer Prize–winning Journalist Chris Hedges talks about the war in Ukraine, endless war, America's gun fetish, abortion, the fascists in our midst, and the Democrats, who enable them.

Chris Hedges (https://chrishedges.substack.com/) 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 was the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact and now has a show at The Real News. 
Find all of his work at https://chrishedges.substack.com/

Relevant articles:

Fascists In Our Midst (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/fascists-in-our-midst)

Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of American Fascism (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/jesus-endless-war-and-the-rise-of)

America's Gun Fetish (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-gun-fetish)

The Triumph Of Death (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-triumph-of-death)

No Way Out But War (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/no-way-out-but-war)

Chris Hedges On Christian Fascism And Democrats' Hypocrisy

Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa reports back from her recent trip to Gaza where she observed the fallout of Israel's genocidal war first hand. After that, journalist Prem Thakker talks about the attacks on Al Shifa and his interactions with the State Department's spokesperson Matthew Miller. Then active duty Senior Airman Larry Hebert and Anne Wright join to talk about Larry's hunger strike for Gaza which was inspired by Aaron Bushnell. 

Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of Mornings in Jenin, which was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies, The Blue Between Sky And Water and Against the Loveless World. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine and the executive director of Palestine Writes (https://palestinewrites.org/).

Prem Thakker is a politics reporter at The Intercept, and is a former reporter at The New Republic. His work has also appeared in The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, CNN podcasts, and his newsletter Better World. You can find him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/prem_thakker), Instagram, and TikTok.

Active Duty Air Force Active Duty Air Force
Larry Hebert 
Stationed at Naval Station Rota, Spain

Larry Hebert is a 26-year-old active duty senior airman in the United States airforce stationed at Naval Station Rota, Spain. He is on hunger strike calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. His actions were inspired by Aaron Bushnell. 

Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired as a Colonel and a former US diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She served in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia and Mongolia. In December 2001 she was on the small team that reopened the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is the co-author of the book "Dissent: Voices of Conscience."

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Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa, Journalist Prem Thakker + Larry Hebert & Ann Wright

On this episode we talk to Johann Hari about his book Chasing the Scream and why everything we thought we know about drugs, addiction and the war on drugs is wrong.  Plus, what's Billie Holiday gotta do with it? Find out on this episode!  It's really not hyperbole to say that this book will change the way you think about drugs, addiction and the war on drugs. Get the book that  Naomi Klein calls, “Superb journalism and thrilling story-telling," Noam Chomsky calls, “Wonderful… I couldn’t put it down,”  and Amy Goodman calls “An astounding book."  if you donate $125 you get a copy of "Chasing the Scream." http://www.give2wbai.org/product_p/nb0093.htm. An even better deal is paying $25 more and getting "Chasing the Scream" AND "Between The World and Me." http://www.give2wbai.org/product_p/pb0672.htm

Johann Hari: everything we thought we know about addiction & Drug War is Wrong/ Billie Holiday

We talk to The Huffington Post media editor Gabriel Arana about his experience undergoing ex-gay conversion therapy and the GOP debates. As a special bonus to this week The Katie Halper Show podcast, we get Scott Lemieux's take on which of the proposals from this week's GOP debate were actually war crimes. This was inspired by LOLGOP's tweet saying "Someone should count up how many war crimes Republicans proposed last night." 

Gabe Arana, Scott Lemieux on ex-gay conversion therapy &  GOP debate war crimes

INTERVIEW WITH BROADDRICK https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/juanita-broaddrick-on-being-raped-by-bill-clinton-thrown-under-the-bus On this episode of The Katie Halper Show, Katie Halper and Gabe Pacheco talk to Katie Baker, who wrote the Buzzfeed profile on Juanita Broaddrick. In 1999, Broaddrick accused Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978 in her hotel room in Little Rock Arkansas. Not surprisingly, the mainstream-liberal feminist media responded with a deafening silence, which was shattered by Wonkette's Rebecca Schoenkopf. Schoenkopf, who is a Hillary Clinton supporter, was the only one not on the right wing to respond to the story and wound up issuing a bit of a rape apology. The same week that the Buzzfeed story came out, feminists were tweeting "believe women." But it wasn't in reference to Broaddrick. It was in reference to the women who had accused a New York comedian of raping them. Gabe talks about the rape controversy rocking the NYC comedy scene, Kurt Metzger and Amy Schumer.

Katie Baker, Juanita Broaddrick & "Believe Women [unless it's politically inconvenient]"

"Trump was an excellent candidate for hate. Bernie was a good candidate for love. Hillary was...neither. So, love didn't even get into the finals."  - JUDAH FRIEDLANDER (more quotes below)

For this week's episode, we talk to comedians Arish Singh and Judah Friedlander about the causes and outcome of the 2016 Presidential election! We also speak to former Sanders campaign organizers Zack Exley & Becky Bond about their brand new book, Rules for Revolutionaries, what the Clinton campaign got wrong, and what we can get right.

"How can you blame people for not participating when politicians are promising more of the same system and call you naive if you want something more? I think the Democrats treated the base like they were takers. And that’s Paul Ryan’s line. It shouldn’t be the democrats." - BECKY BOND

"With Dems like these, who needs Paul Ryan?" - KATIE HALPER

MORE QUOTES HERE! https://www.patreon.com/posts/7271387

Judah Friedlander, Arish Singh,  Zack Exley, Becky Bond & Rules for Revolutionaries

show notes & extended interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/17180025
Journalist Max Blumenthal talks to us about the #Russiagate hysteria and why he's more hopeless than he's ever been about the world. We talk about hot dog vending and how on earth people are managing to "f*** up the resistance to Trump"?

Max Blumenthal on #Russiagate & "How do you f*** up the resistance to Trump?"

Bonus chat with Julia on her political evolution https://www.patreon.com/posts/21319406
I talk to Julia Salazar, a DSA candidate running against Martin Dilan, the state senator in New York's 18th District. Salazar has been compared to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortéz for being a young, Latina, DSA member and first time candidate taking on the Democratic Machine. Julia talks to me about the difference between her and Dilan and addresses his bad record on housing and tenants rights, which the media almost entirely ignored until a Gothamist piece published this week which exposed that Dilan takes more money from the real estate industry than all but one Democratic state senator. And I talk to Ted Hamm about Letitia James, who is running for Attorney General of NY against friend-of-the-show and anti corruption crusader Zephyr Teachout. Hamm talks about  James' troubling support of former Brooklyn DA Charles J. Hynes

Julia Salazar on State Senate run, Ted Hamm on Tish James support of racist former Brooklyn DA

Bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/law-prof-ian-on-21703637 We talk to #KTHSLC (Katie Halper Show Legal Correspondent) Ian Samuel about Brett Kavanaugh, his virgin/ catholic/ calendar excuse, packing the courts from the Left, Clarence Thomas and "no chalance." Ian talks about the similarities and differences between Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.

Law Professor Ian Samuel:  Pack the Courts, Abolish ICE, Delay Kavanaugh

Bonus: Liza reads for piece & talks Bernie & more! https://www.patreon.com/posts/22644724 
Liza Featherstone talks to me and Gabe about focus groups and how they're ruining politics. We discuss her latest book "Divining Desire: the Culture of Consultation," her latest piece in The Baffler "Sorry to Bother You," and the midterms. Plus I report back from Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's victory party. Stand by for our bonus in which we talk about Bernie Sanders' controversial comments, communist vaginas, and that time Gabe was in a focus group. Also, Liza reads part of her piece!

Liza Featherstone on how focus groups are ruining politics

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