The Iran War has taken thousands of lives.

Vast sections of Asia are in deep economic crisis caused by energy shortages directly linked to the war.

But there are some people that are getting rich, really rich, and they are the same people who are already very rich.

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. I'm Leanne Simema Fulahan.

Here was Brian Becker, and this is In The News, a segment of the Socialist program,

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Brian, corporate profits are up 16% in the most recent quarter.

United Airlines profit is up 80%.

Halliburton is beating Wall Street's expectations.

And at the very same time, consumer sentiment in the United States has hit the lowest level ever recorded in 50 years of doing the survey. It looks like the ruling

class has never been doing better. Wealth is accumulating at one pole in society while misery

accumulates at the other pole. Yes, indeed. We are now in the ninth week of the U.S. Israeli

war on Iran. Even though there's a ceasefire, the U.S.

naval blockade of Iranian ports is in its third week. Iran insists that it will control

travel through the strait, and the Strait of Hormuz effectively remains closed.

Trump's Treasury Secretary said out loud last week that the next phase is going to be, in his words,

the financial equivalent of a bombing campaign.

Yesterday, we announced Operation Economic Fury, we for over a year we have had

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