The Biden administration has turned its attention to a major infrastructure plan and is bracing for a long fight in Congress.

And on the international front, the Biden administration is scrambling to preserve the dominant position of the United States, while other nations move to assert their independence.

We need a new system. We need a new society. 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.

It's April 6th, 2021.

This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week.

We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media.

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We can do this with you, but not without you.

I'm Nicole Roussel here with Esther Evarim,

Walter Smilerick, and our host, Brian Becker.

John Prysner is the audio engineer of the show. Esther Evarim is also the host of

the radio show and podcast On the Ground at On the Ground Show.org. Make sure to check out On the Ground,

which comes out weekly on Fridays. So, Brian, what's on our show agenda this week? Well, again,

this show in the news, we talk about the big stories that Derek

Chauvin Trial, the U.S. Confrontation with China, Joe Biden's infrastructure program, and more.

Tomorrow, we're back with Richard Wolfe, economist, socialist scholar Richard Wolfe on our regular

Wednesday segment of the socialist program.

We're very glad to have Richard back. He had to miss one week. And on Thursday, we're going to

have a special guest doing a deep dive on the history of the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

Going back for the past 42 years when the U.S. CIA intervened in Afghanistan

to overthrow the socialist, progressive, secular government in Afghanistan at that time, we're going

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