The United States and Israel went to war against Iran.

This was a violation of the UN charter, a violation of international law.

The Trump administration dropped multiple 31,000-pound bombs on Iran's civilian nuclear energy facilities.

Today, as we're recording with Professor Richard Wolfe, there is a ceasefire. Will it hold? We don't know. 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. Richard Wolfe joins us again for our regular weekly segment where we talk about the biggest

stories related to the economy,

the state of the working class, and the crimes of big business. I'm your host, Brian Becker.

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yet to become a patron today. Professor 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.Info, Professor Wolf, welcome back.

Thank you very much, Brian. Glad to be here. Well, Richard, I'm very happy to speak with you once

again, as we do every week. Here we are, June 24th. We're recording a little bit before noon.

A ceasefire was announced last night by Donald Trump

on truth social, on social media. After that, Israel dropped a large number of bombs on Tehran.

Tehran also struck back. At this moment, at the moment that we're recording, there is a ceasefire, brittle as it might be,

it seems to be holding. So we'll see in the next couple of days what actually happens.

But I want to talk about this latest war, the latest U.S. war in the Middle East.

I mean, there's been the first Gulf War in 1991. There was the U.S. invasion of

Afghanistan, October 2001, the U.S. invasion of Iraq starting March 19, 2003. There was, of course,

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