War Criminal George W. Bush Confronted
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker and Esther Iverem discuss how George W. Bush was directly confronted at a Los Angeles speaking event by anti-war organizers including an Iraq war veteran who said that Bush was personally responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. They also discuss how there are 126,000 fewer childcare workers today than at the start of the pandemic, and the end of the Nabisco workers strike with the approval of a new union contract.
Brian and Esther are joined by Mike Prysner and Marissa Sanchez, ANSWER Coalition organizers who protested George W. Bush in Los Angeles. Mike Prysner is an Iraq war veteran.
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| 0:00.0 | George W. Bush was directly confronted at a Los Angeles speaking engagement by an Iraq war veteran |
| 0:07.6 | who said that he was personally responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. |
| 0:14.4 | Haitian migrants who were forced to flee Haiti in the aftermath of the huge 2010 earthquake are being brutalized and |
| 0:23.8 | deported by the United States during the era of Joe Biden. And activists will stage nationwide |
| 0:30.8 | protests this weekend against the looming wave of evictions. We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have |
| 0:42.1 | sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In the News. |
| 1:15.5 | This is our Tuesday show on the Socialist program. |
| 1:18.3 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:20.2 | It's September 21st, 2021. |
| 1:23.6 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:29.0 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
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| 1:53.4 | Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific Time. |
| 1:58.8 | I will be speaking about the U.S. war in Afghanistan, looking back at the last 20 years, |
| 2:03.5 | and the complexities of building an anti-war and socialist movement inside the United States. We'll take questions beforehand and live as we go. |
| 2:10.4 | I'm here with Esther Averum. Walter Smilerick and Nicole Roussel are out today. |
| 2:15.6 | Esther Averum is also the host of the radio show and podcast |
| 2:19.0 | On the Ground at On the Ground Show.org. Make sure to check out on the ground, which comes out |
| 2:25.4 | weeklies on Friday. Esther, we're back, but without Walter and Nicole, so we'll have to |
| 2:31.2 | sort of hold the fort while they're gone. Well, we'll be fine, Brian. |
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