Huge Israeli Strikes in Lebanon, Harris & Trump's Shared Militarism, & Ending the Genocide [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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In this patrons-only Q&A seminar, Brian & Nicole discuss the massive weekend Israeli air strikes in Lebanon and the threat of a larger war, the Democrats' and Republicans' shared goal for militarism and war, Russia's position in global politics, U.S. ruling class analysis of multipolarity, Navajo protests for sovereignty and against dangerous plutonium on their lands, the political dynamics in the modern labor movement, and more.
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| 0:21.2 | but not without you. All right, let's get started, Brian. First of all, I just want to say thank you |
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| 0:54.0 | Brian, today we're going to talk about |
| 0:55.3 | the massive airstrikes that Israel carried out last night in Lebanon. Hasbalah also fired what they |
| 1:01.3 | say are 320 rockets toward Israel. The U.S. government has warned American citizens in Lebanon to |
| 1:07.6 | carry out contingency planning, meaning, you know, essentially be prepared to |
| 1:11.1 | leave. So we're going to talk about the possibility of an expanding regional war in the Middle East, |
| 1:16.0 | and we have many very significant questions from our patrons in this regular patrons-only |
| 1:20.7 | question-answer seminar. So with that, Brian, I will turn it over to you to get started. |
| 1:25.9 | Yes, Nicole, the news of the last 24 hours is very |
| 1:30.4 | dramatic. Israel says it carried out preemptive attacks against Lebanon. Hundreds of Israeli fighter jets |
| 1:38.6 | were used to bomb southern Lebanon very intensely. Hezbollah, the resistance forces in Lebanon, said that they had |
| 1:46.7 | fired more than 320 rockets at Israel. Said Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hasbullah, had a speech on |
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