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Signup to Generate a PitchRecent episodes include "What Israel’s Election Deadlock Means for Palestine, and Trump’s Iran Buildup [Preview]" (30 October 2026, 11 minutes), "Big Tech Mass Layoffs: Is The AI Bubble Bursting?" (28 October 2026, 26 minutes), and "France: From Protest to Rebellion" (21 October 2026, 25 minutes).
The Socialist Program publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 707 episodes.
Booking probability for The Socialist Program is 39%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Socialist Program requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Socialist Program's contact route on record: verified email.
The Socialist Program is a news podcast with 707 episodes published.
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Following 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 deployment to the Middle East in preparation...
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Mass 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, roughly a quarter of staff, to cut costs...
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Protests 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 protests and student strikes are continuing...
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The 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 Saudi Arabia, a key US ally. Brian Becker and...
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Hundreds 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 Donald Trump. Brian Becker and Prof...
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Are 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 corporations – are the billionaires and...
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People 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 Trump, saying the relationship between...
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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 political party AfD is...
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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 not only threaten...
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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 Strait of Hormuz...
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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 name: ‘Operation...
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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 Paperclip, and the...
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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 calculations of the Trump...
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“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 Party, the MAGA...
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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 Wolff and producer...
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July 14 is Bastille Day, when the French stormed an armory and took up arms against the monarchy and opened the gates to a prison during the French Revolution. Guards opened fire and many died—but by August 4th...
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New 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, including more than $1 billion from his...
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The 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 Reserve. Professor Richard Wolff and producer...
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Most 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 militarized economy, a nuclear buildup without...
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In 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 the Cuban Revolution ninety miles from...
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Vice President of Client Relations, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Chair of Brookfield Asset Management and Head of Transition Investing, Bank of England / Canada (unclear from context)
Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
professor of English Literature and Orientalism, Tehran, Iran University
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