Why The U.S. Government Backs Israel War Crimes
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this patrons-only Q&A seminar, Brian discusses why Netanyahu has called for "a long war," what it would take for the US to cease its support of Israel's genocide, what we can be doing right now to support Palestine, how to discuss this within other campaigns, what motivates the CIA's anti-communist witchhunts, the housing bubble in China, Modi's government's crackdowns, and more.
Link to November 4th National March On Washington for Palestine referenced in this show: https://www.answercoalition.org/national_march_for_palestine_saturday_nov_4
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. This is the audio of our monthly seminar. Subscribe and support |
| 0:06.4 | this programming at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to join live once a month and ask |
| 0:12.3 | Brian Becker your questions and listen to them as soon as they come out. Thanks so much for your help |
| 0:17.5 | in keeping this independent show going. We can make this program with you but not without you. Thank you so much for your help in keeping this independent show going. We can make this program with you, |
| 0:21.1 | but not without you. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks for taking the time out of your |
| 0:27.3 | day. And thank you most of all for supporting the show, making this show possible. We always really, |
| 0:33.1 | really enjoy meeting up with everybody on these seminars, which are now often more than once a month. |
| 0:38.9 | But yeah, just really, really appreciate having such a supportive community. And we really |
| 0:42.3 | couldn't do this without you. So thank you all for being here. And I'm going to turn this over |
| 0:46.4 | to Brian to give a few short words before we turn to questions. Yeah, and we have a lot of questions, |
| 0:53.0 | Nicole, right? And far range in Palestine, |
| 0:56.5 | the current conflict, what's happening with U.S.-Israeli relations, questions about China, |
| 1:03.3 | questions about India. We're going to talk about a lot of things today. So thank you, |
| 1:08.4 | everybody, for submitting the questions. If you have additional questions |
| 1:12.3 | stimulated by this discussion today, put them in the chat. So I, like Nicole, want to thank |
| 1:19.5 | all of you for those people who might listen to the preview of this patron's only seminar. |
| 1:25.3 | We usually do a few minutes for people who aren't yet patrons, |
| 1:29.0 | hoping that they do their part. They listen to the show. They like the show. They may rely on the show, |
| 1:34.1 | but they're not yet patrons. We need them to become patrons. We can expand this show a great deal. |
| 1:40.6 | Pretty much the only thing holding us back at the moment is resources. |
| 1:44.8 | So to the extent that we can get additional resources, we can provide not only the content |
| 1:50.3 | that we do provide, but we can add to it. |
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