How the Ultra-Right Intends to Take & Consolidate Political Power
The assault on our democratic rights within the United States is growing. The right wing of the U.S. ruling class, using the Supreme Court and other undemocratic institutions, has begun eviscerating h...
20 Sep 202255min
Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky on Afghanistan War & the Fragility of US Empire
The U.S. government has destroyed cities, countries, and towns around the world, through bombs and air raids, military ground invasions, naval attacks, economic sanctions and strangulation, coups, and...
15 Sep 202248min
Queens, Kings and Capitalism
On today's episode Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how the corporate-owned media has been consumed with wall-to-wall coverage of the death of the Queen, fawning over the British mon...
14 Sep 202227min
The Deepening Assault on Core Democratic Rights in the USA
The United States is in the midst of a political upheaval right now, after the 2020 uprising, the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, and the Dobbs decision that overturned one of the Supreme Court's bi...
13 Sep 202244min
Global Confrontation: The US, Russia, China, and a New Era
The United States and South Korea put on the biggest military war games in four years, while Russia and China also ran military drills. Will the world become multipolar and is that enough to fully c...
8 Sep 202257min
Sanctions Backfire: Europe Plunged into Energy Crisis
On today's episode Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how Europe has plunged into an even deeper energy crisis as Russia cuts off imports through the Nord Stream pipeline in response t...
7 Sep 202232min
Brian Becker Seminar #17: Gorbachev's Legacy, Afghanistan, Climate Catastrophe, Education, & More [Preview]
In this August 2022 patrons-only seminar, Brian discusses the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union before its dissolution, who is being lionized by the capitalist media ...
1 Sep 202211min
Infiltration, Violence, Deportation: How the State Weakened and Split Socialism in the US
In this special crossover episode, Rania Khalek of Dispatches sits down with Brian to talk about the impact of severe repression on the socialist, communist and Black Liberation movement in the Unit...
25 Aug 20221h 32min
