The coronavirus pandemic is raging as intensely as ever in many parts of the globe, but the U.S.

government is hoarding vaccine doses and prolonging the suffering in defense of Big Pharma's

profits.

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 27, 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.

If you enjoy the show, please support this independent programming by going to patreon.com

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subscribing. I'm Nicole Roussel here with Walter Smalerick and our host Brian Becker.

Brian, let's talk a little bit about what's coming up this week.

This week we have in addition to today's show and our segment tomorrow with Professor

Richard Wolfe.

On Thursday in The Real Story, we're going to be starting a series on China's foreign policy.

We're going to be marching through the decades with Professor Ken Hammond, who's a China expert.

We're going to look at China's foreign policy as it evolved during the 1950s, shortly

after the Chinese Revolution during the period when China in the Soviet Union constituted

the central anchor of a world socialist bloc. Then we're going to talk about the 1960s, where

China and the Soviet Union that alliance frays, and finally in the

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