U.S. Strangles Cuban Economy & Seeks Counter-Revolution
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 75 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 U.S. government and corporate media are hoping for regime change in Cuba, but the Cuban people and government are mobilizing to defend their revolution in spite of the severe hardships caused by the U.S. blockade. They also discuss the political crisis in Haiti and the danger of U.S. intervention, and more. This episode includes a special interview with Cathy Rojas, the socialist candidate for mayor of New York City.
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. government and corporate media are hoping for regime change in Cuba, but the Cuban |
| 0:05.8 | people and government are mobilizing to defend their revolution in spite of the severe |
| 0:10.4 | hardships caused by the U.S. blockade. We discuss this, the political crisis and danger of U.S. |
| 0:16.3 | intervention in Haiti and more, along with a special interview with Kathy Rojas, the socialist candidate for |
| 0:21.8 | mayor of New York City. |
| 0:24.0 | We need a new system. |
| 0:26.1 | We need a new society. |
| 0:28.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not |
| 0:33.3 | only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah. 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. |
| 1:11.1 | It's July 13, 2021. This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:15.4 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
| 1:20.8 | If you enjoy the show, please support this independent programming by going to patreon.com slash the socialist program and subscribing. |
| 1:23.5 | Once you subscribe, make sure to register for the next seminar with Brian, which is tomorrow, |
| 1:27.9 | Wednesday, July 14th, at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm Nicole Rousel here with Esther Iveram, Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:38.0 | Esther Averam is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at on thegroundshow.org. |
| 1:43.5 | Make sure to check out on the ground, |
| 1:44.9 | which comes out weekly on Fridays. Brian, there's huge news out of Cuba in the past few days. |
| 1:51.1 | Tell us what's going on. We have to think about Cuba in a particular context. Over the weekend, |
| 1:58.9 | people came into the streets in different Cuban cities because they |
| 2:04.6 | don't have enough food, they don't have enough medicine, they don't have enough electricity, |
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