As the war against Iran rages, the U.S. economic crisis is worsening, and Donald Trump

requested $200 billion more on top of the already existing military budget, the bloated military

budget for increased spending.

Reuters reports that there are at least 3,200 Iranians who are dead.

More than a thousand of them are civilians.

More than 200 of them are children.

More are dead in Lebanon, perhaps over 1,000.

We don't know the number of U.S. casualties, but at least 14 U.S. soldiers have died.

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 not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. City. We are excited to have Professor Richard Wolf join us again for our regular weekly segment where we talk about

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Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work.

He's the author of many books, including Understanding Capitalism, which is available at Democracy at Work. He's the author of many books, including Understanding Capitalism,

which is available at Democracy at Work. Info. Professor Wolfe, welcome back.

Thank you very much, Brian. Glad to be here. Well, very happy to have you. Richard, in

addition to the information I reported in the introduction, the number of people have been killed,

the thousands who are dead, tens of thousands who have been made homeless, the extreme amount

of spending, you know, it's $30 billion, according to a website called Cost of War,

$30 billion so far, you know, more than a billion a day is being spent. In addition to

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