Q&A: The Reality of AI, Trump’s Middle East Trip & Socialist Organizing Tactics
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Brian Becker and Layan Fuleihan field questions from listeners on the AI hype, Trump charting a new U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, a socialist view of organizing tactics, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump just left Saudi Arabia and is visiting Qatar and will be going to other Gulf |
| 0:07.3 | monarchies afterwards. |
| 0:09.2 | The Israeli death machine has been killing large numbers of Palestinian civilians in Gaza at the |
| 0:14.3 | same time that Trump is visiting the region. |
| 0:17.1 | And today, we are taking questions from our listeners. |
| 0:20.5 | We need a new system. We need a new system. |
| 0:22.6 | We need a new society. |
| 0:24.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:28.8 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 0:37.0 | Music I'm Leanne Zima Fulahan, here with Brian Becker. |
| 1:00.0 | And we have many questions. |
| 1:02.0 | Some came in on voicemail, some came in written form. |
| 1:05.0 | We won't be able to answer all of them today, but we will keep taking them and we will get to them in future shows. And we want to thank all of our patrons for keeping the show on the air. |
| 1:14.5 | We really couldn't do it without your support. |
| 1:17.0 | If you're not a patron, I encourage you to become one today at patreon.com forward slash the socialist program. |
| 1:25.6 | So, Brian, we have quite a few interesting questions to tackle today, a lot of different |
| 1:30.4 | diverse topics. |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah, I just want to mention the format issue, Leanne. |
| 1:35.0 | The Socialist Program started in November 2020. |
| 1:38.9 | So this coming November will be our fifth anniversary. |
| 1:41.9 | We'll be starting our sixth year. |
| 1:43.4 | And we've done our best to try to |
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