The Biggest Stories in 2022 - Where Things are Headed!
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Brian conducts an end of the year review of the biggest stories including the U.S. proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, the growing confrontation with China and North Korea and the intensifying assault against democratic rights inside the United States. He also talks about the development of a new antiwar movement inside the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | 2020 is coming to an end. |
| 0:04.0 | We're going to talk today briefly about some of the big stories we've covered in the past year, |
| 0:09.0 | and we're going to look ahead to 2023. |
| 0:12.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:16.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:21.6 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. In the past year, this show has tried to examine in detail some of the |
| 0:57.4 | biggest stories of the year, both in global politics and on the domestic front. Of course, as |
| 1:04.6 | our listeners know, we have spent a great deal of time examining the crisis in Ukraine, the crisis before the Russian invasion of |
| 1:14.3 | Ukraine, that was on February 24, 2022, but the crisis had unfolded for months in advance. |
| 1:22.0 | We have been taking a look at this in great detail. |
| 1:25.8 | And of course, we are supporting the anti-war movement that opposes the NATO |
| 1:30.9 | war drive, examines and exposes the fact that the U.S. is, in fact, the one carrying out a war with |
| 1:37.7 | Russia. It's a proxy war. Ukrainians and Russians are dying, but the U.S. military and the U.S. |
| 1:43.5 | government are the force behind the war. |
| 1:46.4 | They could end the war, but they have chosen, in fact, to escalate the war. |
| 1:51.0 | And this war continues to grow with increasing dangers, not only for the people in Ukraine and |
| 1:57.5 | the people in Russia, the people in Europe, but globally. It's had a profound impact on |
| 2:02.7 | inflation, on food prices and energy prices in Europe, and in the global south. We've also |
| 2:11.0 | talked about the growing hyper-aggressive policy of the United States towards China. We examined |
| 2:17.2 | Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan, the growing |
| 2:21.0 | effort by the U.S. to, quote, decouple or remove China from parts of the global economy. |
| 2:28.6 | We've examined U.S. Iran relations. We've taken a long look at the impact of the U.S. blockade on the people of Cuba |
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