Just want to share a tid bit about Brian Becker. My first introduction to him was on Sputnik Radio's Loud and Clear podcast, where he co-hosted with John Kiraikou... The former CIA officer, who in 2007 seems to have just blurted out in an interview that the CIA was waterboarding people during the Bush administration... He left the CIA in 2004, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't because of the torture. Gina Haspel was directing the program at the time, and so she was implicated, she was later Appointed deputy director under Trump 1, and director under Biden. Kiraikou served 2 years in prison for that interview. The thing is, in the podcast he always portrayed himself a having been a whistle blower, and that he was trying to take down Haspel like he was some kind of hero. I'm not clear on the details of the case though.

At any rate, he gets this co-host gig with Brian Becker on a explicitly socialist podcast produced under the umbrella of "Russian State Media" Sputnik Radio. Brian Becker is an old head activist, I've heard him many times talk about protests he participated in back in the 80s or so.

Both of them offered pretty principled takes as far as I could tell at the time, but it's been years since they cancelled the show and parted ways.

But what the fuck is a founder of a revolutionary ML party doing, chumming it up with an "former" CIA officer? It's weird imo.