Trump’s Plan for NATO
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
On this patrons-only episode, Brian & Layan discuss Trump‘s plans for NATO, Trump‘s threat to reconquer Panama, U.S. economic warfare against China, the U.S. bombing of Syria and Yemen—which continues—and who’s who in the Trump billionaire cabinet.
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 |
| 0:22.3 | keep this show on the air. |
| 0:26.9 | Mara Lago already looks like the Winter White House, says Trump, Musk, and other billionaires have |
| 0:32.2 | already shifted the center of ruling power from Washington to Florida. |
| 0:36.4 | Today, we look at Trump's upcoming priorities and |
| 0:39.4 | policies. Welcome to In the News, a segment of the Socialist program. This is a patrons-only episode. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm Leanne Seema Fullahan here with Brian Becker. Hi, Brian. It's great to be back with you. |
| 0:52.0 | Hey, Leanne. We have a lot to talk about today. In addition to the |
| 0:56.2 | priorities and policies of the incoming Trump administration, and of course, some of it is still |
| 1:01.9 | speculative, but it is coming into focus, and we want to go over that. It is a billionaire's agenda. |
| 1:08.3 | It's designed to plunder, pillage, and loot the national treasury to redistribute |
| 1:13.7 | wealth from the bottom to the top. In other words, trickle up economics whereby ruling class |
| 1:20.1 | figures like Elon Musk and the other billionaires who completely dominate the Trump |
| 1:24.5 | administration want to undo all of the social and economic |
| 1:30.0 | reforms from the 1930s during the labor upsurge, largely led by the left. |
| 1:35.5 | That includes Social Security, and then later Medicare and Medicaid, unemployment insurance, |
| 1:41.3 | the right to form unions, and then all of the economic and social reforms |
| 1:45.9 | won during the 1950s and 60s. First, the civil rights revolution that detonated a women's movement, |
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