The Racist Offensive - Time to Fight Back!
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem and Nicole Roussell discuss how the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court has decided to help spread Covid, how Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are joining with the Supreme Court and the Republican Party to destroy voting rights, especially for Black Americans, how people nationwide remembered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the streets yesterday and how the U.S. war machine continues its escalation of threats against Russia at the Ukrainian-Russian border.
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| 0:00.0 | The right-wing U.S. Supreme Court decides to help spread COVID. |
| 0:05.9 | Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema join with the Supreme Court and the Republican Party to destroy |
| 0:10.2 | voting rights, especially for black Americans. |
| 0:13.4 | Yesterday, people around the country took to the streets to remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., |
| 0:18.1 | and to keep fighting for justice. |
| 0:20.4 | And the U.S. war machine continues |
| 0:22.3 | its escalation of threats against Russia at the Ukrainian-Russian border. |
| 0:27.2 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:33.4 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. The Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:08.0 | It's January 18th, 2022. |
| 1:10.7 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in |
| 1:13.3 | the news right now, today, and this week. We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions |
| 1:18.4 | in the corporate-owned media. Video episodes of The Real Story are available on Breakthrough News, |
| 1:24.3 | Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern, at YouTube.com slash breakthrough news. |
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| 1:33.6 | slash the socialist program and subscribing. |
| 1:37.0 | And register for our monthly seminar with Brian, which will be held on Monday, January 25th, |
| 1:41.7 | at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific. Patrons at any tier, which starts at just |
| 1:46.9 | $5 a month, can submit questions for Brian to address on the seminar and ask questions live during the |
| 1:52.7 | discussion. Join us. I'm Nicole Roussel here with Esther Iveram and our host Brian Becker. |
| 1:59.2 | Walter Smilerick is out today and next week. |
| 2:02.2 | Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at on thegroundshow.org. |
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