The Socialist Program

The Socialist Program

News and views about the world for those who want to change it.

  1. 24 jul

    Congress Just Subpoenaed BreakThrough News for Doing Journalism

    “It's kind of in the DNA of American bourgeois capitalist politics: demonize your enemy, call them a communist, and that's the end of the story. But there's another element, which is the Republican Party, the MAGA project, Project 2025 — the Trump White House is failing.” The House Ways and Means Committee has sent a subpoena to BreakThrough News, demanding internal communications, financial records and more. We are not charged with any crime, because our only “crime” has been to tell the truth – about the Palestine solidarity movement, about ICE’s terror in our streets, about Washington’s crimes around the world, from Cuba to the Congo. This is a flagrant abuse of power, and a direct attack on our work as journalists and on the First Amendment. The State Department’s dangerous “Cuba report” released Monday – blasting Havana as the global center of a sinister anti-American communist plot by Russia, China, Iran, North Korea– is just the latest step in the Trump administration’s McCarthyist revival. But attacks on the left didn’t start with Trump: Brian Becker, host of the Socialist Program, joins BT Live to discuss how this latest crackdown on free speech is rooted in US history: From the Palmer Raids to COINTELPRO, every time a mass movement for a more just world starts to gain real traction, the state reaches for the same playbook. DONATE / SIGN THE PETITION: https://breakthroughnews.org/bt-under-attack

    Congress Just Subpoenaed BreakThrough News for Doing Journalism
  2. 30 jun

    'Project Iceworm': The Secret Nuclear City Under the Ice [Socialist History: S1 Episode 4 PREVIEW]

    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. This is a preview of this episode. Join The Socialist Program community at www.patreon.com/thesocialistprogram to get access to this and the next episodes in this series, more exclusive content, and help keep this show on the air. 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)

    'Project Iceworm': The Secret Nuclear City Under the Ice [Socialist History: S1 Episode 4 PREVIEW]

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