Ukraine: The Danger of a Wider War
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how the Biden administration is preparing by far the biggest package of military aid yet for Ukraine. With hardly any debate, Congress is ready to approve sending $20 billion of weapons to Ukraine on top of $13 billion in additional financial support for the government – a point driven home by Nancy Pelosi’s surprise trip to Kiev. The panel also discusses the continuing rollback of pandemic relief programs, the fight to defend abortion rights, demands for student loan debt relief, and more.
The following articles are referenced in this episode:
The U.S. Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-us-show-it-can-win-a-nuclear-war-russia-putin-ukraine-nato-sarmat-missile-testing-warning-11651067733
The Means-Test Con
https://www.levernews.com/the-means-test-con/
[This episode was recorded Monday (May 2nd 2022) late afternoon prior to the news that the Supreme Court majority had voted to overturn Roe V. Wade and extinguish women’s fundamental right to control their own body. Starting last night and throughout today, and in the coming days, there will be mass protests in the streets throughout the United States.]
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| 0:00.0 | The Biden administration is preparing by far the biggest package of military aid yet for Ukraine. |
| 0:07.1 | With hardly any debate, Congress is ready to approve sending $20 billion of weapons to Ukraine |
| 0:12.8 | on top of $13 billion in additional financial support for the government, a point driven home |
| 0:18.1 | by Nancy Pelosi's surprise trip to Kiev. |
| 0:20.8 | We'll also discuss the continuing rollback of pandemic relief programs, the fight to a point driven home by Nancy Pelosi's surprise trip to Kiev. |
| 0:25.2 | We'll also discuss the continuing rollback of pandemic relief programs, the fight to defend abortion rights, demands for student loan debt relief, and more. |
| 0:29.6 | This episode was recorded Monday, May 2nd, 2022, late afternoon prior to the news that the Supreme Court majority had voted to overturn |
| 0:40.2 | Roe v. Wade and extinguish women's fundamental right to control their own body. Starting last night |
| 0:46.5 | and throughout today, and in the coming days, there will be mass protests in the streets |
| 0:51.2 | throughout the United States. We need a new system. |
| 0:56.0 | We need a new society. |
| 0:58.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 1:02.0 | 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. |
| 1:34.8 | It's May 3rd, 2022. This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:42.1 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the |
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| 2:01.8 | subscribing. I'm Nicole Roussel here with Walter Smalerick and our host, Brian Becker. Esther |
| 2:07.2 | Iberraam is out today. Brian, where do you want to start? Well, of course we have to talk about |
| 2:13.0 | Ukraine. There is a growing clamor that the U.S. has to get ready for nuclear war. |
| 2:19.9 | That's right, the Wall Street Journal. |
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