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- ‘The System Has To Be Challenged’ After The Midterms w/ Prof. Wolff · 29 minThe midterm elections are over and the results are in. They show a complete rejection of Trump's billionaire agenda and the MAGA agenda, but what comes next? Brian Becker and…
- What’s Next For The Socialist Movement After The Resounding Defeat Of Trump, Maga, ICE, And The Iran War? [Preview] · 16 minNovember 3rd was an electoral bloodbath for the Republican party and the MAGA movement. Brian Becker and Layan Fuleihan discuss. Listen to the preview on any podcast platform…
- What Israel’s Election Deadlock Means for Palestine, and Trump’s Iran Buildup [Preview] · 11 minFollowing the recent Israeli election, Benjamin Netanyahu may be about to lose power. But will it matter for the Palestinian people? Meanwhile, Trump has ordered a massive…
- Big Tech Mass Layoffs: Is The AI Bubble Bursting? · 26 minMass layoffs are coming to big tech. High-paying jobs are on the chopping block…and we’re just getting started. Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees…
- France: From Protest to Rebellion · 25 minProtests throughout France against the government’s austerity program have brought more than a half million people into the streets. Thousands have been arrested. But these…
- US-Saudi War On Yemen Was Decades In The Making · 44 minThe war in the Middle East is widening and people around the world are feeling the impact. Resistance forces in Yemen have delivered crippling blows to key infrastructure in…
- Musk Spends $300 Million On Midterms: How Plutocrats Rule America · 23 minHundreds of millions from Elon Musk, bankers, corporate entities, and others are flooding the 2026 political races to keep Republicans in power—despite mass opposition against…
- Is The Next Big Economic Crash Imminent? · 31 minAre we headed toward a massive economic contraction? A recession? depression? 18 years after the 2008 meltdown on Wall Street and the bankruptcy of many of the biggest banks and…
- Canadian PM May Have Stood Up To Trump, But He's Still An Imperialist Banker · 23 minPeople who are sick and tired of Donald Trump’s bullying of other countries, including Canada, took a liking to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney when he stood up and rebuked…
- Germany’s Political Polarization And What It Means For World Politics · 34 minRecent elections in Germany show that the mainstream capitalist political party is in crisis. Left-wing pro-working class forces have made huge gains in Berlin and at the same…
- What AI CEOs Are Really Thinking · 32 minThe biggest capitalist CEOs of AI companies have been forced in the last week to address the question raised by their own profit-driven efforts: will the AI technologies they are…
- Panama Canal Delays And Fees Soar From US-Iran War · 24 minA gas company just paid a record-breaking $5.3 million for its tanker ship to skip the Panama Canal’s long line, a line induced by the US-Iran war. Meanwhile the US fired on…
- Why The New US ‘Total Economic War’ On Iran Will Fail · 24 minSpeaking on behalf of Donald Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the United States would embark on a new campaign to destroy Iran’s economy with sanctions. He…
- ‘Operation Paperclip’: How Nazis Built the US War Machine [Socialist History: S1 Episode 5 Preview] · 12 minYou may have heard that the US government recruited Nazi scientists to work for NASA, but did you know they also recruited them to experiment on US soldiers? Their recruitment…
- The Iran War Is Choking Japan’s Economy · 34 minTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent spent billions of U.S. dollars to buy and prop up the Japanese currency, the yen. Professor Richard Wolff and Brian Becker unpack the economic…
- Congress Just Subpoenaed BreakThrough News for Doing Journalism · 31 min“It's kind of in the DNA of American bourgeois capitalist politics: demonize your enemy, call them a communist, and that's the end of the story. But there's another element…
- Trump Admin Won’t Prosecute Corporate Drug Traffickers · 32 minThe Trump administration is catalyzing a longtime trend in the US where corporate criminals get a fine or nothing, while almost two million working class people sit behind bars…
- Trump’s Brazen Corruption and Profiteering Reveal Reality of ‘U.S. Democracy' · 30 minNew financial disclosure documents reveal the extent of Trump’s profiteering through the office of the presidency. Trump made over $2 billion his first year back in office…
- Supreme Court Hands Trump Sweeping Authority Over Federal Agencies · 28 minThe Supreme Court just gave Trump the ability to dismiss the heads of supposedly independent agencies — overruling 91 years of precedent — with the exception of the Federal…
- 'Project Iceworm': The Secret Nuclear City Under the Ice [Socialist History: S1 Episode 4 Preview] · 42 minIn 1959 the US Army began building a base beneath the Greenland ice sheet, presented to the press, to Congress, and to the Danish government as a scientific research station…
- 'NSC-68': The Blueprint for Permanent War [Socialist History: S1 Episode 3] · 1 h 6 minMost empires never write their plans down, but the American empire did. In 1950 a top-secret government document called NSC-68 laid out the blueprint for permanent war: a…
- 'Operation Mongoose': Washington's Secret War on Cuba [Socialist History: S1 Episode 2] · 51 minIn 1961 the United States launched the largest covert operation of the Cold War against a single country, a campaign of sabotage, terror, and assassination aimed at destroying…
- Here Comes the Next Capitalist Economic Meltdown · 21 minBig Tech stocks lost hundreds of billions in just two days. Prof. Richard Wolff and Brian Becker examine the multiple, cascading crises that are destabilizing the capital system…
- Socialism Is Making A Comeback In The Heart Of Global Capitalism · 20 minAccording to a recent national survey, 62 percent of Americans aged 18–29 say they hold a “favorable view” of socialism, and 34 percent say the same of communism. Why is this…
- Trump Is Stuck In A Foreign Policy Dead End · 27 minIran is outmaneuvering the United States and Trump is furious. Professor Richard Wolff and Brian Becker discuss the current war in Iran and the future of the globe – as Russia…
- Biggest Home Insurance Companies Denied Nearly Half of Last Year’s Claims · 26 minA new Wall Street Journal study finds that the five biggest home insurers, Allstate, State Farm, Liberty Mutual, United Services Automobile Association, and Farmers Insurance…
- Iran War Causing ‘Fundamental Shift’ In How Resources Are Distributed w/ Prof. Richard Wolff · 33 minAccording to the International Energy Agency, around 25% of the world's seaborne oil trade is transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, and the options to bypass it are limited…
- U.S. Inequality Can’t Be Propped Up By Force Alone w/ Prof. Richard Wolff · 33 minAmericans are increasingly struggling to make ends meet, while the rich get even richer. Professor Richard Wolff and producer Nicole Roussell debunk corporate media…
- US Claims Cuba Planning Drone Attack, While Actually Planning To Attack Cuba [Preview] · 7 minTrump is planning the next war. The target is Cuba. Trump and his agents in the Pentagon and CIA are claiming that Cuba is threatening military action against the United States…
- Iran: A Bigger Defeat Than Vietnam? [Preview] · 6 minRobert Kagan, a leading architect of the 2003 Iraq invasion and the wider 'neocon' tendency in Washington, published an article this week titled 'Checkmate in Iran.' On today's…
- Spirit Is Gone, But We Could Build A People’s Airline In The United States · 26 minLow-cost Spirit Airlines has gone bankrupt and closed, and the idea of nationalizing the airline has become hugely popular. Professor Richard Wolff and producer Nicole Roussell…
- US Debt Surpasses GDP Due to War Spending: How Will Working People Be Affected? w/ Richard Wolff · 35 minThe ratio of U.S. government debt to GDP (gross domestic product) is now over 100% – meaning the U.S. government is in more debt than the size of the entire U.S. economy…
- Iran Now Striking Gulf States as US Plans Ground Invasion w/ Prof. Mohammad Marandi · 47 minAs the US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz continues, and a US ground invasion of Iran seems imminent, Iran has now responded by striking US-allied countries in the region…
- Big Tech’s War Against Tech Workers · 26 minTech companies are laying off tens of thousands of workers — all while investing tens of billions of dollars into AI tech. Professor Richard Wolff and Brian Becker discuss the…
- US Corporations Are Getting Even Richer From The Iran War [Preview] · 6 minThe Military-Industrial-Tech Complex is using the Iran war to consolidate its power over US society and reap huge profits, even though the war is a strategic failure for the US…
- Iran War Sparks Global Energy Shock · 28 minThe Iran war has closed the Strait of Hormuz almost completely. The head of the International Energy Agency said that the war is causing the biggest energy crisis in history…
- How Iran Really Views Trump's Erratic Statements and Threats [Preview] · 5 minMore war or a peace deal? The two week ceasefire between the United States and Iran runs out Tuesday April 21, and Donald Trump is threatening to destroy every power plant and…
- Is It Trump Or Is It The System? w/ Prof. Wolff · 26 minAs highlighted by a New York Times report this week, the debate about Trump’s mental health has been revived. Trump posting memes of himself and Jesus and starting a regional war…
- Iran Will Not Surrender to Trump’s Gangster-Style Threats [Preview] · 5 minThe Islamabad talks collapsed. Twenty-one hours of negotiations in Pakistan, the first face-to-face between the US and Iran since 1979, and it ended with nothing. Oil futures…
- Trump’s Failed Fantasy In Iran [Preview] · 6 minOn Wednesday night, President Trump addressed the nation and issued what can only be described as a genocidal threat against Iran, saying: “We’re going to bring them back to the…
- Trump's Fake War Briefings and the $1.5 Billion 'Bet' [Preview] · 5 minBrian Becker and Layan Fuleihan discuss what's happening behind the scenes in Trump's war room. This includes the Trump administration's possible collusion with a massive insider…
- Trump: Losing in Iran, Losing on Tariffs, Losing Public Opinion · 26 minThe U.S. economic crisis is worsening as Trump requests $200 billion more dollars to fund his war against the Iranian people, which has already killed at least 3,230 people in…
- The Human and Economic Toll of the War Is Mounting [Preview] · 4 minMore than fourteen hundred people have been killed in Iran, including over two hundred children. The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. Countries across Asia are rationing…
- Trump's Iran War Has No Plan, No Exit, and No Victory in Sight · 30 minTwo weeks ago, the United States and Israel launched a massive bombing campaign against Iran, killing the Supreme Leader and many other political and military senior officials on…
- Trump’s War Is a Disaster for the Economy and Humanity, w/ Prof. Wolff · 38 minHuge oil prices are hitting U.S. residents as Trump and Netanyahu’s war on Iran rages. This is the second time in recent history that Iran has been attacked while in negotiations…
- 'Operation Ajax' in Iran: The CIA's Original Sin [Socialist History S1 Episode 1] · 53 minIn 1953 the CIA secretly organized a coup to overthrow the democratically elected leader of Iran. This was the CIA's first regime change operation — code-named 'Operation Ajax' —…
- ‘I Can Destroy The Country’ Trump Lashes Out After Tariffs Rebuked · 28 minOn Friday the right-wing Supreme Court delivered a stinging blow to Trump, ruling that his unilateral tariffs were unconstitutional. Trump claims he’s going ahead with more…
- Trump Guts EPA: ‘Make America More Polluted Again’? · 21 minThe Trump administration has revoked the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases, a major cause of climate change and millions of premature deaths…
- How Capitalist Media Hides U.S. Imperialism in Plain Sight [Preview] · 18 minBrian and Layan take a deep dive into how the capitalist-owned mainstream media conceals the truth about what motivates U.S. war-makers – and what they are hiding – by debunking…
- Despite Trump’s Total Fuel Blockade, Cuba Won’t Surrender · 33 minCuba is running out of fuel to power hospitals, schools, harvest crops, and transport basic goods — because Donald Trump has implemented a total fuel blockade against the island…
