U.S. Imperialism: Addicted to War & Militarism
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem and Nicole Roussell discuss the U.S. evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Kiev while stating that war with Russia may be soon, the win for Julian Assange giving him his right to appeal to the U.K. Supreme Court to stop his extradition to the United States, the Senate's maneuvers against protecting voting rights, and the newly exposed U.S. war crimes against the people in Syria.
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. government evacuates the U.S. embassy in Kiev and proclaims that war may be soon with Russia. |
| 0:08.2 | Julian Assange wins his right to appeal to the British High Court in an effort to stop the extradition ruling. |
| 0:13.8 | The Senate says no to the protection of voting rights. |
| 0:17.2 | And the U.S. war crimes against the people in Syria are exposed. |
| 0:21.9 | 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, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah. imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on The Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:05.1 | It's January 25, 2022. |
| 1:10.1 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:11.4 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. Video episodes of The Real |
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| 1:30.8 | We had a great seminar with Brian just last night, and you can get access to that audio |
| 1:36.4 | recording if you subscribe at patreon.com. |
| 1:40.1 | I'm Nicole Roussel here with Esther Iverim and our host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:44.7 | Walter Smilerick is out today and we'll be back next week. |
| 1:48.2 | Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at on theground |
| 1:52.4 | at On the Ground Show.org. Make sure to check out On the Ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:58.1 | Brian, the U.S. says it can't protect employees in the U.S. embassy in Kiev, which really indicates that a military conflict might be imminent. What do you think? |
| 2:08.9 | Well, yeah, they announced that they can't protect them, and that's why embassy personnel and their families are evacuated or being evacuated even as we talk. Again, the implication is that |
| 2:20.9 | war is close at hand. War may be imminent. We've been covering this story, the story of the growing |
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