Trump’s Deal With Yemen, New Iran Talks, China Tariffs, and more [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
U.S. officials announced that they will begin distributing aid in Gaza, with or without a ceasefire. Donald Trump declared an end to US strikes on Yemen, and plans to hold new talks with Iran. What are the implications for the people in Gaza and the entire region?
Brian Becker 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.
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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 |
| 0:22.4 | keep this show on the air. |
| 0:26.9 | The United States announced that they will begin distributing aid in Gaza with or without a ceasefire. |
| 0:33.9 | Donald Trump declared an end to U.S. strikes on Yemen, taking Israel by surprise. |
| 0:39.3 | Is the Trump administration moving away from the U.S. relationship with Israel, or is it just the relationship with Netanyahu? |
| 0:47.3 | And what does this mean for the people of Gaza? |
| 0:50.3 | I'm Leanne Sima Fulahan here with Brian Becker, and this is in the news, a segment of the Socialist Program, a patron's only show. |
| 1:00.1 | Brian, Trump clearly seems to want to be dealing with Iran. |
| 1:04.1 | He's preparing to go to Saudi Arabia, and in the process, he's been distancing himself from Netanyahu. |
| 1:10.5 | There's reports that he may even be cutting off direct communication with Netanyahu. |
| 1:16.2 | We had an announcement this morning. |
| 1:18.1 | We're recording on Friday, May 9, and announcement early this morning that the U.S. is going to take over aid distribution in Gaza. |
| 1:26.6 | Brian, we're going to talk more in depth about all |
| 1:29.2 | of this in the second half of today's program. We're going to get into Trump's moves towards |
| 1:33.7 | Iran, his relationship with Netanyahu, and most importantly, what the implications are for the |
| 1:39.7 | people of Gaza who are still facing conditions of genocide. But first, Brian, we're going to listen to a clip. |
| 1:46.2 | I think it'd be great to start with this. This is a clip of Trump announcing to press that he has |
| 1:53.4 | reached a ceasefire agreement with Yemen. |
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