The Twenty Year Rampage of Endless War: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 2001
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem and Nicole Roussell discuss the political period twenty years ago when George W Bush laid out “the axis of evil” – Iraq, Iran, and North Korea – and escalated the “war on terror,” which was really just a campaign of imperialist war and intervention.
They also analyze the escalating war against Russia, the Washington Post’s Sunday lead editorial with an alarming message, the newest thing named after Jeff Bezos (it’s a library!), dark money in elections, the plea deals for the murderers of Ahmaud Arbery, the new angle that the U.S. press is taking against China’s incredible record against Covid, and the campaign to transfer political prisoner Leonard Peltier to a hospital to treat his Covid infection.
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| 0:00.0 | 20 years ago, George W. Bush spoke before both houses of Congress announcing that the U.S. |
| 0:06.8 | was escalating the so-called war on terror. He identified Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as an |
| 0:13.0 | axis of evil. What ensued was a global campaign of imperialist war and intervention. |
| 0:19.5 | We need a new system. We need a new system. |
| 0:21.6 | We need a new society. |
| 0:23.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible |
| 0:26.4 | even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:27.8 | but is not only realizable, |
| 0:30.6 | but an imperative necessity. |
| 0:37.4 | We need to... Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on The Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:00.5 | It's February 1st, 2022. |
| 1:03.0 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:08.1 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned |
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| 1:28.3 | I'm Nicole Roussel here with Esther Iveram and our host Brian Becker. |
| 1:32.6 | Walter Smalerick is out today and we'll be back next week. |
| 1:35.9 | Esther Iveram is also the host of the radio show and podcast on the ground at on the ground |
| 1:40.1 | show.org. |
| 1:41.3 | Make sure to check out on the ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:45.6 | Let's start with 20 years ago. |
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