War Intensifies as Russia-Ukraine Negotiations Open
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss the war in Ukraine, which continues to rage as the world is engulfed in a crisis that has the potential to reconfigure global politics in fundamental ways. What consequences has the war brought about so far? Which side is winning? How can peace truly be established? The panel discusses these questions as well the consequences of climate change, the far right and COVID, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The war in Ukraine continues to rage as the world is engulfed in a crisis that has the potential to reconfigure global politics in fundamental ways. |
| 0:10.0 | What consequences has the war brought about so far? |
| 0:13.0 | Which side is winning? How can peace truly be established? |
| 0:17.0 | We discuss these questions as well as the consequences of climate change, the far right and COVID, and more. |
| 0:23.5 | 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 today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist Program |
| 1:03.0 | with Brian Becker. It's March 1st, 2022. This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
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| 1:47.2 | As I noted in the introduction, we're going to start today's show with discussing the latest |
| 1:51.2 | in Ukraine. |
| 1:52.4 | We're pre-recording the show on Monday the 28th, around 1.30 p.m. |
| 1:57.0 | So, Brian, let's start by framing what's going on in Ukraine. |
| 2:01.2 | All right. |
| 2:01.7 | I'm going to toss it in a moment to Walter, who has an update. |
| 2:05.6 | Of course, as you said, we're recording on Monday afternoon, February 28th. |
| 2:11.7 | The General Assembly was brought into emergency session earlier on Monday after the Security Council resolution condemning |
| 2:21.1 | Russia did not pass. And of course, it did not pass because Russia vetoed it. Russia is one of the |
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