War Profiteers Cash In
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
On today's In the News roundtable, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how Congress has allocated billions of dollars in military spending at breakneck speed to fuel the war in Ukraine, and is moving to permanently expand the U.S./NATO war machine -- but no such urgency can be found when it comes to the plight of the tens of millions of people going hungry, experiencing homelessness, or living in deep poverty in the richest country on earth. And all the while, capitalists grow even richer off these injustices.
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| 0:00.0 | Congress has allocated billions of dollars in military spending at breakneck speed to fuel the war in Ukraine and is moving to permanently expand the U.S. NATO war machine. |
| 0:11.0 | But no such urgency can be found when it comes to the plight of tens of millions of people going hungry, experiencing homelessness, or living in deep poverty in the richest country on earth. |
| 0:22.3 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:28.4 | 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 with Brian Becker. |
| 1:03.4 | It's March 15th, 2022. |
| 1:06.0 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:11.2 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
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| 1:31.7 | And register for our monthly seminar with Brian, which will be held next Tuesday, March 22nd, at 7 p.m. Eastern. |
| 1:39.4 | Patrons at any tier, which starts at just $5 a month, can submit questions for Brian to address on the |
| 1:44.5 | seminar and ask questions live during the discussion. I'm Nicole Roussel, here with Esther |
| 1:50.0 | Iveram, Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker. Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio |
| 1:55.3 | show and podcast On the Ground at on thegroundshow.org. Make sure to check out on the ground, |
| 2:00.4 | which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 2:03.2 | Brian, let's talk about Ukraine. Let's talk about the no-fly zone. Just a couple weeks ago, |
| 2:09.8 | most people in the United States, according to the polls, were against the United States playing |
| 2:15.0 | a major role in Ukraine. |
| 2:17.5 | And then within a few days, and after this barrage of constant propaganda in the U.S. |
| 2:23.5 | media about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, public opinion has shifted dramatically. |
| 2:29.8 | Instead of not wanting to be involved, the majority opinion, according to a recent CNN survey, |
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