Congress Decides that Pentagon Spending is #1 Priority -- Above All Else!
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how Biden is giving away more and more in backroom negotiations with right wing Democrats in Congress like Joe Manchin, imperiling the most important measures in the social program budget. They also discuss resistance to the coup in Sudan, the latest on right wing attacks on education, new revelations about human rights abuses against migrants in the custody of the U.S. government, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | As Biden gives away more and more in backroom negotiations with right-wing Democrats in Congress, |
| 0:07.0 | like Joe Manchin, will the social program budget be stripped of its most important measures? |
| 0:12.2 | We'll also discuss resistance to the coup in Sudan, the latest on right-wing attacks on education, |
| 0:18.2 | new revelations about human rights abuses among migrants in the custody of |
| 0:21.7 | the U.S. government, and more. |
| 0:24.2 | We need a new system. |
| 0:26.3 | We need a new society. |
| 0:28.2 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not |
| 0:33.5 | only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:04.7 | Music 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. |
| 1:12.6 | It's October 26, 2021. This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
| 1:18.4 | Starting in November, video episodes of our Thursday show, The Real Story, will be available |
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| 1:46.0 | will be held tonight, now at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific. We'll take questions for Brian |
| 1:52.4 | beforehand and live as we go as well. I'm Nicole Roussel here with Esther Eversal, |
| 1:58.4 | Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker. |
| 2:07.1 | Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at on thegroundshow.org. |
| 2:11.0 | Make sure to check out On the Ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 2:17.4 | Brian, the news couldn't be clearer. The dichotomy could not be any greater. The very moment, Congress is giving |
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