U.S. Capitalism Surrenders to COVID
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 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 the Biden administration is sending stronger and stronger signals that it is effectively surrendering to the COVID pandemic – urging the public to “learn to live with” the deadly disease that has killed well over 800,000 people in the United States alone. They also discuss high profile talks taking place between US and Russian officials, the sentencing of the killers of Ahmaud Arbery, and devastating residential fires that took place in New York City and Philadelphia; and speak with Toronto-based organizer Aminah Sheikh about recent successes in the labor movement.
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| 0:00.0 | The Biden administration is sending stronger and stronger signals that it is effectively surrendering to the COVID pandemic, |
| 0:08.0 | urging the public to, quote, learn to live with, unquote, the deadly disease that has killed well over 800,000 people in the United States alone. |
| 0:16.4 | Meanwhile, high-profile talks are taking place between U.S. and Russian officials. |
| 0:20.6 | The killers of Ahmad Arbery were sentenced, and devastating residential fires took place. Meanwhile, high-profile talks are taking place between U.S. and Russian officials, the killers |
| 0:21.0 | of Ahmad Arbery were sentenced, and devastating residential fires took place in New York City |
| 0:26.0 | and Philadelphia. |
| 0:28.4 | We need a new system. |
| 0:30.0 | We need a new society. |
| 0:31.9 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not |
| 0:37.1 | only realizable, but an imperative |
| 0:39.6 | necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:08.6 | It's January 11th, 2022. |
| 1:12.8 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. We look beyond the headlines |
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| 1:33.7 | slash the socialist program and subscribing. I'm Nicole Roussel, here with Esther Eberam, |
| 1:39.3 | Walter Smilerick, and our host, Brian Becker. Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at On The Ground Show. |
| 1:47.0 | org. |
| 1:48.0 | Make sure to check out On the Ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:52.0 | Brian, let's start with these huge COVID numbers. |
| 1:55.6 | Yeah, and let's put it into perspective. |
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