North Korea-Russia-China Alliance: Is US Aggression in Asia Backfiring?

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Kim Jong-un, leader of North Korea, will be traveling to Russia later this month to meet with President Vladimir Putin as the countries seek to further develop their relations in response to the new US-Japan-South Korea trilateral alliance. Brian Becker, host of The Socialist Program, explains how the Ukraine war is strengthening the DPRK-Russia-China alliance.

Over the last few years, the New York Times reliably runs daily headlines stoking anti-China hysteria, including most recently, “China to Its People: Spies Are Everywhere, Help Us Catch Them” and “How Xi Returned China to One-Man Rule.” Amanda Yee, an Editor of LiberationNews.org and host of the podcast Radio Free Amanda, joins the show to discuss the NYT’s history of promoting McCarthyism both past and present.

Former senator Xóchitl Gálvez of the National Action Party (PAN), was selected as the presidential candidate for Mexico's right-wing opposition alliance in the June 2024 elections, running against the ruling MORENA party candidate. Alina Duarte, an independent journalist and senior research fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, offers insights on Gálvez and Mexico's presidential race.

Drugmakers are up in arms over a new program letting Medicare negotiate lower prices for a handful of medicines. Andrew Perez, a Senior Editor and Reporter at The Lever, discusses his new article, Big Pharma’s American Con, in which he reveals that the drugs up for negotiation are being sold for significantly less in other countries, leaving Americans to pay up to 1,000% more for the same drug.

Carl Redwood, a community organizer and longtime socialist discusses why he is running for Allegheny County Council in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Redwood, is one of Pittsburgh's most experienced and best-known local activists and is running against the controversial incumbent DeWitt Walton.

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