Behind Zelensky's Trip to Washington: The Ukraine War Is Financing US Capitalists
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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On today's episode Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's visit in Washington to procure more money for the war with Russia that keeps dragging on. While the lives of the American people are getting more expensive by the day, the political elite continue to prioritize weapons spending and war.
Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Ukrainian President Zelensky is in Washington, D.C., meeting with Congress and President |
| 0:06.8 | Biden, to secure tens of billions of dollars in additional funding to keep the war with Russia |
| 0:13.6 | grinding on. As life gets harder and harder for working people in the United States and as the |
| 0:20.5 | bodies keep piling up in Ukraine, |
| 0:24.0 | the politicians' top priority is more money for the war machine, but President Biden's plans have |
| 0:30.6 | run into trouble. |
| 0:32.6 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks segment, |
| 1:13.0 | where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy, the state of the working class, |
| 1:18.3 | and the crimes of big business. |
| 1:20.5 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:22.8 | The Socialist Program brings you content several days a week, |
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| 1:38.3 | Richard Wolf is the co-founder of the Organization Democracy at Work. |
| 1:42.3 | He's the author of many books. The latest being the |
| 1:45.2 | sickness is the system when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself. You can check out |
| 1:51.9 | all of his work at R.D.Wolf.com. That's R-D-W-O-L-F-F.com. Professor Wolf, welcome back. |
| 1:59.3 | Thank you, Brian. I'm glad to be here. Thank you. I mean, |
| 2:03.3 | we have a situation, Richard, where the United States is basically involved in a proxy war |
| 2:10.7 | on the side of Israel against the people of Gaza. That's been going on since October 7th. |
| 2:16.2 | The war in Ukraine has been going on since October 7th. The war in Ukraine has been going on officially |
| 2:20.1 | since the Russian invasion, which was February 24th, 2022. One might say that the U.S. has been |
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