Cuba: How the CIA Manipulates Social Media and All Media
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how the people of Cuba demonstrated in support of their revolution and government over the weekend, new environmental disasters brought about by climate change, efforts to prohibit the teaching of the history of racism in America, a new global spying scandal involving an Israeli company, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | New environmental disasters are once again proving that the catastrophic consequences of climate change are already at hand. |
| 0:08.0 | Meanwhile, the people of Cuba demonstrate in support of their revolution and government, efforts to prohibit the teaching of history of racism in America continue, and a new global spying scandal emerges. |
| 0:20.0 | We need a new system. We need a new system. |
| 0:22.7 | We need a new society. |
| 0:24.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible |
| 0:27.4 | even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:28.8 | but is not only realizable, |
| 0:31.6 | but an imperative necessity. |
| 0:33.0 | Music Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:01.1 | It's July 20th, 2021. |
| 1:03.4 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:08.3 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
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| 1:24.5 | tomorrow, July 21st at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific. I'm Nicole Rousel here with |
| 1:30.8 | Esther Evarim, Weldris Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker. S3.Evarim is also the host of the radio |
| 1:36.5 | show and podcast on the ground at on the ground show.org. Make sure to check out on the ground, |
| 1:41.9 | which comes out weekly on Fridays. Brian, what do we have in |
| 1:46.0 | store for listeners this week? Well, there's so many important stories. Of course, we're going to |
| 1:51.0 | talk about Cuba. We're going to talk about the effort by U.S. imperialism and the other major |
| 1:56.5 | capitalist powers, the allies of the United States to overthrow the Cuban revolution, |
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