Capitalism Fiddles While the Planet Burns
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss the Glasgow climate summit and Biden's capitulation to the right wing on his social program budget. The Glasgow summit is underway, and yet again the U.S. government has failed to meet the challenge -- coming up with only the woefully inadequate measures contained in Biden’s social spending “framework” agreement.
The following articles are referenced in this episode:
The Laughing Stock of the World: Why the world pities us and fears us
https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/the-laughing-stock-of-the-world
Warnings of violence before Jan. 6 precipitated the Capitol riot
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/warnings-jan-6-insurrection/
The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-ticket-quotas-money-funding.html
Why Many Police Traffic Stops Turn Deadly
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-traffic-stops-killings.html
Before the Final Frame: When Police Missteps Create Danger
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/30/video/police-traffic-stops-danger-video.html
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| 0:00.0 | The Glasgow Climate Summit is underway, and yet again, the United States government has failed to meet the challenge, coming up with only the woefully inadequate measures contained in Biden's social spending framework agreement. |
| 0:15.4 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible |
| 0:22.3 | even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on The Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 0:56.2 | It's November 2nd, 2021. |
| 0:58.6 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:03.8 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
| 1:09.2 | Starting this week, video episodes of our Thursday show, The Real Story, |
| 1:13.2 | will be available with our new partner, Breakthrough News, |
| 1:16.0 | on YouTube.com slash breakthrough news, Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern. |
| 1:21.6 | We're excited that this Breakthrough News partnership will expand the reach of the show. |
| 1:26.1 | If you enjoy our show, please support this |
| 1:28.4 | independent programming by going to patreon.com slash the socialist program and subscribing. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm Nicole Roussel here with Esther Eberram, Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:40.1 | Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at on theground. |
| 1:46.1 | Make sure to check out On the Ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:50.2 | Brian, where do you want to start today? |
| 1:52.4 | Well, first of all, I want to let our audience know that we were so excited to be back in a studio altogether. |
| 1:59.5 | We've been working remotely during COVID, but we've |
| 2:03.0 | created a new studio in Washington, D.C. We were able to record today's show last night. It was |
| 2:10.0 | about 100 minutes, more than an hour and a half of programming. And then we had a catastrophic |
| 2:16.6 | technical problem such that our sound engineer, |
| 2:20.5 | John Prisner, who worked tirelessly to try to fix it, still could not. So we're re-recording our |
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