The Real Story: Why Not Have Peace with North Korea?

The Real Story: Why Not Have Peace with North Korea?

The Korean War began 70 years ago and has still not ended even though North and South Korea want it to end. The key obstacle is not in Pyongyang or Seoul but in Washington DC. Brian takes an in-depth look at US-Korean relations as the Biden Administration prepares to take the helm. Hyun Lee and Gregory Elich are the featured expert guests in this fascinating analysis.

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How a COVID Conspiracy Theory Fuels U.S. War Drive Against China

How a COVID Conspiracy Theory Fuels U.S. War Drive Against China

Over the past month, the U.S. media and the Biden administration have sought to give credence to the conspiracy theory first advanced by Trump that the COVID-19 virus emerged from the Wuhan Institute ...

24 Jun 202155min

Stock Markets: Making the Rich Richer for 400 Years

Stock Markets: Making the Rich Richer for 400 Years

Today we continue a series of discussions about the basics of Marxism — a method for understanding and changing the world used by many of the great revolutionaries of modern history. We discuss the Ma...

23 Jun 202132min

Billionaire Capitalism Makes a Killing During COVID-19

Billionaire Capitalism Makes a Killing During COVID-19

On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss growing inequality, the Juneteenth holiday, the New York City mayoral race, Joe Manchin's ...

22 Jun 202151min

The Pentagon Papers 50 Years Later: America's Most Famous Whistleblower Still Fighting Militarism

The Pentagon Papers 50 Years Later: America's Most Famous Whistleblower Still Fighting Militarism

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the publication by The New York Times of excerpts of the Pentagon Papers — 7,000 pages of top-secret documents. These documents proved that the government of th...

17 Jun 202140min

The State as a Tool of Class Oppression

The State as a Tool of Class Oppression

Brian and Prof. Wolff continue a series of discussions about the basics of Marxism — a method for understanding and changing the world used by many of the great revolutionaries of modern history. T...

16 Jun 202132min

Biden Appeals for Imperialist United Front at G7

Biden Appeals for Imperialist United Front at G7

On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss the G7 summit and its leaders' hypocritical rhetoric about human rights and democracy, the...

15 Jun 202156min

Brian Becker Seminar #5: Palestine, China, Nuclear winter, and more (Preview)

Brian Becker Seminar #5: Palestine, China, Nuclear winter, and more (Preview)

In this May 2021 patrons-only seminar, Brian and the crew discuss the new era in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine and what it means for the region, U.S. imperialist plots to dismember Chin...

12 Jun 202110min

China's Foreign Policy Part 3, 1965-1975: When Enemies Become "Friends"

China's Foreign Policy Part 3, 1965-1975: When Enemies Become "Friends"

Today's episode is the third in a multi-part series that takes an in-depth look at the history of China's foreign policy. We discuss how Chinese foreign policy shifted after the Cultural Revolution. ...

10 Jun 202151min

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