Today we discuss the military industrial complex in the wake of the nuclear submarine deal

between the United States and Australia that has caused a diplomatic crisis with France.

A new alliance between the U.S., Australia and the U.K., has trashed a submarine deal France

had with Australia worth tens of billions of dollars

awarding the sale instead to the United States. How does the war economy help keep U.S.

capitalism afloat? We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible

even a few weeks ago, but is noting inequality, there's no

denying it. Capitalism is in crisis and capitalism is the crisis. We're happy to have Professor

Richard Wolfe join us again for our regular weekly segment where we talk about the biggest

stories related to the economy, the state of

the working class, and the crimes of big business. I'm your host, Brian Becker. The Socialist

Program brings you content three days a week thanks to the support of our patrons at patreon.com

forward slash the socialist program. We appreciate all of your support and encourage you to become a

patron today if you enjoy listening to this show. Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization

Democracy at Work. He's the author of many books. The latest being the sickness is the system

when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself.

Be sure to check out his work at rd wolf.com and that's r d wOLF.com.

Professor Wolfe, welcome back.

Thank you, Brian. Glad to be here.

Thank you so much for joining.

I mean, we're looking at the headlines in the general interest

newspapers, even the Wall Street Journal, which is, of course, not only a general interest

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