Joe Manchin's War Against Workers
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how after months of talking, begging and offering concessions the Biden administration’s dead-end strategy of appeasing right wing Democrat Joe Manchin has gone up in flames. Now Manchin wants to pulls the plug on the “build back better” social programs entirely, and only a people's movement can stop him. They also discuss the victory of Gabriel Boric over his fascist opponent in the Chilean presidential election, new revelations about the scale of civilian casualties from U.S. airstrikes, the spread of the omicron variant, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | After months of talking, begging, and offering concessions, the Biden administration's dead-end strategy of appeasing right-wing Democrat Joe Manchin has gone up in flames as Manchin pulls the plug on the build-back better social programs. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll also discuss the victory of Gabriel Boric over his fascist opponent in the Chilean presidential election, |
| 0:21.4 | new revelations about the scale of civilian casualties from U.S. airstrikes, |
| 0:25.6 | the spread of the Amicron variant, and more. |
| 0:28.9 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:32.9 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:37.2 | but is not only realizable, |
| 0:39.8 | but an imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:09.9 | It's December 21st, 2021. This is an in-depth |
| 1:13.8 | look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. We look beyond the |
| 1:18.7 | headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. Video episodes of The Real |
| 1:23.9 | Story are available on Breakthrough News, Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern at YouTube.com |
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| 1:34.1 | patreon.com slash the socialist program and subscribing. I'm Nicole Roussel, here with Esther Iveram, |
| 1:40.6 | Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker. Esther Ivaram is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at On the Ground |
| 1:47.7 | Show.org. Make sure to check out On the Ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:53.0 | A few programming notes during the holidays, we'll have all three of our shows this week, |
| 1:57.9 | including this show, of course, our Wednesday show with Professor Richard Wolfe |
| 2:01.5 | and The Real Story. |
| 2:02.8 | We're not going to hold a seminar this month due to the holidays |
| 2:05.5 | and we won't have programming next week |
| 2:07.3 | so we can take a little time off. |
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