Germany’s Political Polarization And What It Means For World Politics
Recent 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 time the right-wing poli...
23 Sep 34min
What AI CEOs Are Really Thinking
The 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 rapidly developing no...
16 Sep 32min
Panama Canal Delays And Fees Soar From US-Iran War
A 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 Iranian positions in the S...
2 Sep 23min
Why The New US ‘Total Economic War’ On Iran Will Fail
Speaking 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 gave the operation a n...
26 Aug 23min
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‘Operation Paperclip’: How Nazis Built the US War Machine [Socialist History: S1 Episode 5 Preview]
You 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 was part of Operation Pa...
17 Aug 12min
The Iran War Is Choking Japan’s Economy
Treasury 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 and geopolitical calcula...
12 Aug 33min
Congress Just Subpoenaed BreakThrough News for Doing Journalism
“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, which is the Republican Pa...
24 Jul 30min
Trump Admin Won’t Prosecute Corporate Drug Traffickers
The 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. Professor Richard Wolf...
22 Jul 31min
