In the News: Capitalist America's Shocking Poverty - A Tale of Two Countries
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On today's “In the News” roundtable, Brian Becker, Nicole Roussell and Esther Iverem discuss the roots of exploding poverty from Alabama to the Bronx, Biden's pick for Secretary of Defense, the hidden U.S. war in Somalia, new government failures on the Covid-19 front, a remembrance of murdered Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, and more.
PLUS: Leonardo Flores joins the show to talk about the far-reaching significance of the results of Venezuela's parliamentary elections on December 6 and what to expect from the incoming Biden Administration regarding U.S.-Venezuela relations.
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| 0:00.0 | COVID cases and deaths are off the charts. |
| 0:04.1 | Shocking levels of poverty grip huge parts of the United States and that poverty is growing. |
| 0:09.5 | The people of Venezuela go to the polls in a historic election. |
| 0:13.3 | We remember the life and legacy of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton and more. |
| 0:19.7 | Welcome to today's episode of In the News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist Program with |
| 0:24.1 | Brian Becker. |
| 0:25.1 | Today is December 8th, 2020. |
| 0:27.8 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today and this |
| 0:31.5 | week. |
| 0:32.4 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm Nicole Roussel. |
| 0:38.7 | Regular contributor, Walter Smilerick, is out today. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm here with Esther Iverim and our host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:45.4 | We need a new system. |
| 0:47.5 | We need a new society. |
| 0:49.3 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:53.6 | but is not only |
| 0:55.0 | realizable but an imperative necessity. Esther, I'm so glad you could join us. |
| 1:22.8 | Esther Iveram is a veteran journalist, a producer and host of the on the ground voices of resistance |
| 1:31.0 | from the nation's capital radio program, which you can hear every week on Pacifica Radio. Esther, |
| 1:38.1 | welcome. Oh, thank you. I'm so glad to join you and Nicole. And I've admired your show. And I'm sure that I speak for many of your listeners to say that I am just so happy to hear you doing the show. |
| 1:53.1 | Esther, we're so glad you could join us. Nicole and Esther, we have a great show today, really packed filled with news and analysis. |
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