Ukraine War & the New Era in Global Politics: Where Are We Headed?
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode Nicole Roussell interviews Brian Becker about the new phase of heightened conflict that world politics is entering. As the United States moves aggressively to maintain its position of the world's dominant power, the globe is becoming increasingly polarized between supporters of this world order and those who fall outside of it -- a process dramatically accelerated by the war in Ukraine. This is playing out economically, diplomatically, and militarily.
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| 0:00.0 | Have we entered a new era in global politics? |
| 0:05.3 | 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. Welcome to this week's episode of The Real Story, our Thursday show on the Socialist Program with Brian Becker. |
| 0:46.5 | I am Nicole Roussel, a producer on the Socialist Program, and I'm here with, you guessed it, Brian Becker himself. |
| 0:53.7 | As listeners and supporters of the show know, Brian is a decades-long organizer for socialism |
| 0:58.1 | and against war, racism, sexism, mass incarceration, and capitalist oppression of all stripes. |
| 1:05.5 | Brian, since you're on the road this week, we decided to do something a little different |
| 1:08.4 | for this week's episode of The Real Story and something that's more in line with our very exciting, more in-depth monthly seminar |
| 1:16.6 | for supporters and patrons of the show, which we have every month, but this month will have it |
| 1:21.6 | on Monday, April 25th, at 8 p.m. Eastern, which is 5 p.m. Pacific. |
| 1:26.6 | And this week's, or this month's seminar is entitled |
| 1:30.1 | the new era of global politics. And today's episode is going to be a little preview to that |
| 1:36.5 | discussion and the underlying conclusion. And on that note, we want to encourage anyone listening |
| 1:41.9 | if you or someone you know, you you know if you like or rely on |
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| 1:57.3 | monthly seminars where we talk about all kinds of topics and it also also gets you access to past seminars, mixed and mastered in podcast form. |
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| 2:25.6 | So today, Brian, I'm going to interview you and ask some questions about the current political |
| 2:29.8 | climate and the current political moment globally. So let's get started. |
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