Trump and Putin Discuss Ukraine Peace Deal [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Brian is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan -- a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books -- in a discussion of what Russia seeks in a peace deal to end the Ukraine war. They also discuss Trump's false usage of the Enemy Aliens Act against Venezuelans and the Maduro government, the growing free speech fight over the illegal arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, and the wave of repression against Palestine solidarity activists on college campuses.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:04.0 | This is John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
| 0:10.0 | Subscribe at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to hear the full episode, |
| 0:16.0 | get access to all our patrons-only content, including live Q&A seminars with Brian Becker, and help |
| 0:22.5 | keep this show on the air. |
| 0:27.3 | Is the Ukraine war coming to an end? Trump and Putin are set to meet later today, but a ceasefire |
| 0:33.7 | agreement is uncertain. In the meantime, the Trump administration is insisting that |
| 0:38.4 | protesting for Palestine is in and of itself a cause for deportation. And in the defiance of a federal |
| 0:44.7 | court order, the Trump administration sent another plane of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm Leanne Seema Fullahan here with Brian Becker, and this is in the news, a segment of the |
| 0:56.6 | Socialist program, a patrons-only show. |
| 0:59.8 | Leanne, we have, as always, a lot to cover. |
| 1:02.9 | We're going to do more of an in-depth discussion about Ukraine, the prospects of that war |
| 1:07.9 | ending or perhaps not ending. |
| 1:10.3 | The movement in defense of students on college campuses, |
| 1:14.1 | and in particular of Mahmoud Khalil, we want to talk about that. There's going to be a very |
| 1:18.8 | important mass event in New York City on Saturday night. We want people to come to that. |
| 1:25.6 | But I want to start with Venezuela, in defiance of a court order, meaning the federal government |
| 1:30.5 | is clearly showing that they're the new boss, the Constitution be damned. |
| 1:35.8 | The so-called checks and balances in the U.S. government are thrown out the window. |
| 1:40.0 | The Trump administration just basically said FU to a federal court that ordered that this deportation |
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