This is War Against the Elderly and the Poor: What's Going on in Congress Fight

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

The Socialist Program

Politics, News

4.7 • 587 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss Indigenous People's Day and the true history of colonization and how healthcare industry capitalists are seeking to sabotage measures that would cut into their profits as they continue their war on the poor, the elderly and the sick. They also discuss how the far right has set its sights on education, pushing for bans on the teaching of the history of racism in America and on COVID safety precautions in its latest efforts to stir up baseless controversy, the death of war criminal General Ray Odierno, protests against the Line 3 pipeline, and new CIA efforts to target China.

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0:00.0	Health care industry capitalists are seeking to sabotage measures that would cut into their profits as they continue their war on the poor, the elderly, and the sick.
0:10.0	We'll also discuss the far-right, which has its site set on education, pushing for bans on the teaching of the history of racism and America, and on COVID safety precautions in its latest efforts to stir up baseless controversy.
0:23.1	We'll also talk about the death of war criminal general Ray O'Dierno, protests against the Line 3 pipeline,
0:29.9	a new CIA efforts to target China.
0:33.0	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,
0:41.3	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.
1:14.0	It's October 12th, 2021.
1:16.4	This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week.
1:21.4	We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media.
1:26.0	If you enjoy the show, please support this independent programming by going to
1:30.1	Patreon.com slash the socialist program and subscribing.
1:34.1	I'm Nicole Roussel here with Esther Evarim, Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker.
1:39.7	Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at on theground
1:44.1	show.
1:44.7	org. Make sure to check out on the ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays.
1:49.9	Brian, this week, there's a whole week of action of people versus fossil fuels, of lots of
1:55.5	organizing to stop the line three pipeline that's being threatened to being put in in the Midwest.
2:01.8	What's going on there?
2:07.9	Well, there are protests every day. And these protests are not only in Washington, D.C. They're going to continue all across the country. Of course, in Minnesota, in Wisconsin, in the other places where
2:14.3	line three is an immediate danger to the people where the danger of an oil spill
2:20.5	in the line three run by the Embridge Corporation from Canada. It will spill. It will definitely
2:27.0	spill. It's also, of course, going through the lands of indigenous people. Those lands are their
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