Fascism and the Bankruptcy of Ruling Class Liberalism
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss Donald Trump's plan to speak at a nationally televised press conference on the anniversary of the January 6 assault on Congress, Israel's massive bombing of a Syrian port city, the havoc caused by the Omicron variant, how the United States is moving aggressively toward war with Russia over Ukraine, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump prepares to speak at a nationally televised press conference on the anniversary of the January 6th assault on Congress. |
| 0:09.3 | Israel carries out a massive bombing of a Syrian port city. |
| 0:12.8 | The next wave of COVID sweeps the United States and the world, and the United States and its domestic war lobby move aggressively toward war with Russia over Ukraine. |
| 0:23.7 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:29.8 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:03.8 | Music realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:11.1 | It's January 4th, 2022. This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today and this week. |
| 1:15.6 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
| 1:23.9 | Video episodes of The Real Story are available on Breakthrough News, Wednesday at 7 p.m. Eastern at YouTube.com slash breakthrough news. |
| 1:27.9 | If you enjoy our show, please support this independent programming by going to patreon.com slash the socialist program and subscribing. I'm Nicole Roussel here with Esther Everem, |
| 1:34.2 | Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker. Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show and |
| 1:39.2 | podcast on the ground at on the ground show.org. Make sure to check out on the ground, which comes out weekly |
| 1:45.2 | on Fridays. Brian, where do you want to start? Well, we have many, many topics, but first of all, |
| 1:52.7 | a big shout out to the three of you and to our audience, a new year 2022. We're looking forward |
| 2:00.7 | to being able to bring a full range of programming. |
| 2:05.1 | We hope to and continue to expand our programming, and we can do that with the support |
| 2:09.8 | of people who support this show, people who go to patreon.com forward slash the socialist program and subscribe. That's how we can keep doing the show. |
| 2:21.2 | We have a big week in front of us. As many people know, people who regularly listen to the show |
| 2:27.6 | know that on the Thursday segment, which comes out now Wednesday nights and breakthrough news, |
| 2:33.9 | we have been doing a |
| 2:35.4 | multi-part series on the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and lessons for socialists. |
| 2:41.5 | We've done three shows so far, but we're going to take a short break from that multi-part series |
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