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New financial disclosure documents reveal the extent of Trump’s profiteering through the office of the presidency. Trump made over $2 billion his first year back in office, including more than $1 billion from his promotion of a Trump cryptocurrency alone. Professor Richard Wolff and producer Nicole Roussell discuss.
Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.
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The Supreme Court just gave Trump the ability to dismiss the heads of supposedly independent agencies — overruling 91 years of precedent — with the exception of the Federal Reserve. Professor Richard Wolff and producer Nicole Roussell discuss the meaning of this ruling, as well as the birthright citizenship and campaign finance SCOTUS decisions this week.

Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.

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Socialist History is an in-depth, immersive podcast that uncovers the real story of US imperialism through a socialist lens, told from the perspective of the people who fought back. 

Hosted by Layan Sima Fuleihan and Brian Becker, each episode reopens a hidden chapter of US imperialism and shows how it still shapes the world today. 

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Episode 1: 'Operation Ajax' in Iran: The CIA's Original Sin

Episode 2: 'Operation Mongoose': Washington's Secret War on Cuba

Episode 3: 'NSC-68': The Blueprint for Permanent War

Episode 4: 'Project Iceworm': The Secret Nuclear City Under the Ice

Series link: https://open.spotify.com/show/033dcMLvgGT1GKmSY8BtQP?si=4a3ad0bebd01411a

In 1959 the US Army began building a base beneath the Greenland ice sheet, presented to the press, to Congress, and to the Danish government as a scientific research station. This was a cover story. The real plan, code-named Project Iceworm, was to bury a network of tunnels housing up to 600 nuclear missiles under the ice, invisible to Soviet satellites, on land taken from Indigenous people who were never consulted, in a country that had declared itself nuclear-free.
In this episode we take a deep dive into the breathtaking scale of the classified plan, why the moving ice ultimately defeated it, the radioactive waste left behind, the straight line to Trump's push to take Greenland today, and more.
This is part of the first season of Socialist History, our new series on The Socialist Program. In each episode we unpack a different CIA or Pentagon operation, each of which was given its own code-name as Project Iceworm was.
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Archival notes (included in this preview only):
0:01 - Documentary on Camp Century, narrator voiceover (1964)
1:31, 1:49 - Documentary on Camp Century, narrator voiceover (1961)
3:54 - President Donald Trump speaking at press conference (2025)
4:21 - Documentary on Camp Century, narrator voiceover (1961)
5:17 - Newsreel on the United States Strategic Air Command (SAC), narrator voiceover (1965)

Most empires never write their plans down, but the American empire did. In 1950 a top-secret government document called NSC-68 laid out the blueprint for permanent war: a militarized economy, a nuclear buildup without limit, and a posture of global confrontation that would outlast the men who wrote it. It is the founding doctrine beneath every operation in this series.
In this episode we take a deep dive into how NSC-68 was written and by whom, and its role in shaping the trillion-dollar war economy still running today.
This is part of the first season of Socialist History, our new series on The Socialist Program. In each episode we unpack a different CIA or Pentagon operation or document that shaped US imperialism.
Join The Socialist Program community at www.patreon.com/thesocialistprogram to get access to the next episodes in this series, more exclusive content, and help keep this show on the air.
Archival notes:
0:10 - Alex Jones, host of Infowars (2017)
0:16 - Pres. Donald Trump speaking at a rally (2018)
2:13 - Pres. Harry S. Truman speaking at his inauguration. Includes newsreel narrator voiceover (1949)
3:40 - Interview with Paul H. Nitze, former US government official and author of NSC-68 (1996)
6:03 - US Army documentary on the end of World War II, narrator voiceover (1945)
6:44 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur speaking at the signing of Japan’s surrender in World War II. Includes newsreel narrator voiceover (1945)
8:04 - Newsreel on soldiers returning home at the end of World War II, including narrator voiceover and source audio (1945)
10:24 - Pres. Franklin Roosevelt addresses Congress on World War II (1943)
11:06 - Newsreel on Soviet heroism in World War II, narrator voiceover (1942)
11:25 - Newsreel on the formation of the United Nations, narrator voiceover (1945)
11:49 - Newsreel on the formation of the International Monetary Fund, narrator voiceover (1944)
12:29 - Newsreel on the bombing of Dresden in World War II, narrator voiceover (1945)
14:39 - Newsreel on US industrial transition to wartime, narrator voiceover (1943)
15:30 - Pres. Harry S. Truman radio address (1945)
16:35 - Documentary on economic transition after World War II, narrator voiceover (1945)
17:10 - Cold War propaganda cartoon (1949)
18:30 - Newsreel on the formation of NATO, narrator voiceover (1949)
19:34 - Source audio of first Soviet nuclear weapon test (1949)
19:46 - Newsreel on first Soviet nuclear weapons test, includes narrator voiceover and source audio of reporters questioning Soviet Foreign Minister Vyshinsky (1949)
20:33 - Documentary on Chinese Civil War, narrator voiceover (1950s)
22:25 - Interview with Paul H. Nitze, former US government official and author of NSC-68 (1996)
25:25 - Interview with US Ambassador George F. Kennan (1993)
29:21 - Interview with Paul H. Nitze, former US government official and author of NSC-68 (1996)
31:50 - Newsreel on development of the hydrogen bomb, narrator voiceover (1950)
35:11 - Newsreel on outbreak of the Korean War, narrator voiceover (1950)
36:46 - Interview with Dean Rusk, Asst. Sec. of State during the 1950 division of Korea (1988)
37:38 - Interview with Donald MacDonald, official in the US military occupation government in South Korea (1988)
38:09 - Interview with Gregory Henderson, US Vice Consul in Korea 1948-1950, on the South Korean police (1988)
39:07 - Interview with Ko Wan-soon, survivor of the Jeju Massacre (2022)
41:37 - Newsreel on Gen. Douglas MacArthur meeting John Foster Dulles, narrator voiceover (1950)
42:39 - Interview with Paul H. Nitze, former US government official and author of NSC-68 (1996)
44:46 - Pres. Harry S. Truman speech, after outbreak of Korean War (1950)
46:01, 46:50 - Interview with Yan Von Sik, soldier in the Korean People’s Army (DPRK [North Korea]), on his experience in the Korean War (1998)
48:15 - Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower on Korean War armistice. Includes newsreel narrator voiceover (1953)
1:02:55 - Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address (1961)