In the News: 93,000 COVID Hospitalizations - The Failure of American Capitalism
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss the exploding Coronavirus crisis, the assassination of a top Iranian scientist, the upcoming legislative election in Venezuela, the latest on the formation of the Biden government, and more.
PLUS: Sabina Wildman, National Organizing Director of United Students Against Sweatshops, joins the show to talk about labor struggles on campus. You can check out their work at www.usas.org.
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| 0:00.0 | COVID cases in the United States reach an all-time high. Iran's top nuclear scientist is assassinated. |
| 0:07.0 | Venezuela prepares for an election, and millions of Americans remain unemployed and waiting in food lines. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 0:20.0 | It's December 1st, 2020. This is an in-depth |
| 0:23.2 | look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. We look beyond the |
| 0:28.2 | headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. I'm Nicole Roussel, and I'm here |
| 0:33.6 | with Walter Smalerick and our host, Brian Becker. We need a new system. |
| 0:39.0 | We need a new society. |
| 0:40.8 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:45.1 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 0:53.8 | Music Brian, where do you want to start? |
| 0:59.0 | 93,000 people. Brian, where do you want to start? |
| 1:12.9 | 93,000 people as of Sunday and on Sunday were hospitalized with COVID. |
| 1:21.3 | This is an all-time high so far. |
| 1:24.6 | That's in the United States. |
| 1:26.8 | You know, I was communicating Nicole and Walter with |
| 1:29.4 | people in Australia. They hadn't had a single case of COVID in, I don't know, 28 days. |
| 1:38.6 | Well, you know, Brian, it's actually not quite zero COVID cases, but the number of COVID cases in |
| 1:44.1 | Australia very, very, very low. I think |
| 1:46.5 | the point you're making still stands. For instance, on Sunday, right the same day that over 93,000 |
| 1:52.5 | people were hospitalized for COVID in the United States, the number of COVID cases recorded |
| 1:57.5 | in Australia was eight. Yeah. |
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