In the News: 2020 - The System Was the Problem
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Covid-19 failures, 60 million lose their jobs, growing hunger in the richest country in the world, 40 million facing imminent evictions and rampant police violence against Black and Brown people -- 2020 revealed the crises and failures of US capitalism.
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| 0:00.0 | Major media outlets say that 2020 was a year like none other. |
| 0:05.0 | Today we'll talk about the major events and political, social, and economic developments in the past year |
| 0:11.0 | from an anti-capitalist, anti-war, and anti-racist perspective. |
| 0:16.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:20.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded 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. |
| 0:57.5 | It's December 29th, 2020. |
| 0:59.7 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:05.0 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm Nicole Roussel here with our host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:12.9 | Brian, let's go over 2020. |
| 1:14.9 | There were a number of big stories this year. |
| 1:17.4 | And frankly, our personal big story was that we started this show. |
| 1:21.5 | Yeah, it seems minor compared to everything else, |
| 1:24.1 | compared to COVID, the national uprising against racism, |
| 1:29.0 | the 2020 elections, and many, many other stories. But of course, we did another radio show podcast, loud and clear |
| 1:35.7 | every day for five years. We had more than 1,200 episodes, 6,000 interviews. We abruptly |
| 1:43.6 | ended that show or had that show ended August 31st, |
| 1:48.1 | and we started over again and have created an independently hosted podcast, The Socialist |
| 1:54.4 | Program, which we're discussing today and our listeners are listening to today. And Nicole, |
| 2:00.0 | we could not have done this. |
| 2:01.5 | This was a big task to go and become independent. |
| 2:04.6 | We could not have done it without the support of so many people. |
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