How the U.S. Government Manipulates the Public to Build Support for Larger War in Ukraine
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem and Walter Smolarek discuss how NATO countries search for ways to deepen the conflict in Ukraine with arms shipments and sanctions, while promoting selective outrage at the violence of war. The panel also discusses the victory of workers in Staten Island who formed the first Amazon union in the United States, Martin Luther King’s legacy 54 years after his assassination, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The war in Ukraine continues as Russia conducts a major reorientation of its military objectives, |
| 0:08.0 | and NATO countries search for more ways to deepen the conflict with arm shipments, sanctions, |
| 0:13.7 | and more. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll also discuss the victory of workers in Staten Island, who formed the first Amazon Union in the United States, |
| 0:21.7 | Morton Luther King's legacy 54 years after his assassination, and more. |
| 0:27.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:33.2 | impossible 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. |
| 1:08.3 | It's April 5, 2022. |
| 1:10.4 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest |
| 1:12.6 | stories in the news right now, today, and this week. We look beyond the headlines and expose |
| 1:18.1 | the distortions in the corporate known media. Video episodes of The Real Story are available |
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| 1:37.0 | and subscribing. I'm Walter Smalerick, here with Esther Averam and our host, Brian Becker. Nicole |
| 1:42.6 | Roussel is out sick today. Esther Averum is the host, Brian Becker. Nicole Rucel is out sick today. |
| 1:49.8 | Esther Averum is the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground. You can check that out at On the Ground Show.org. Make sure to check out the show, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:56.3 | So, Brian, let's start where we have been for many weeks now with the war in Ukraine, the latest developments with this unfolding global crisis. |
| 2:06.4 | Yes, indeed. I mean, the war, of course, by itself would be a big enough topic to stay focused on it. |
| 2:13.4 | But we also know, we know, and we've discussed here week after week, that the Russian invasion |
| 2:20.6 | of Ukraine is not only a major event, of course, for those two countries, but it will and |
| 2:27.8 | has already begun to reshape world politics. It's one of those sudden, sharp developments in global politics that will come to |
| 2:37.1 | define the end of one era and the opening of a new era. And of course, we don't know, we have no |
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