Why U.S. Capitalism is a Form of Organized Crime
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss the criminal lengths that capitalists in the United States will go to make a profit, from scamming working class borrowers to extorting tax payers for subsidies and so much more. We’ll also discuss the death of Colin Powell and his legacy, right wing Democrats aiming to block passage of the social spending budget, and recent instances of racist police abuse as the trial of the killers of Ahmaud Arbery opens.
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| 0:00.0 | From scamming working class borrowers to extorting taxpayers for subsidies and so much more, |
| 0:07.0 | we discuss the criminal links that capitalists in the United States will go to to make a profit. |
| 0:12.7 | We'll also discuss the death of Colin Powell and his legacy, |
| 0:16.1 | right-wing Democrats aiming to block passage of the social spending budget, |
| 0:19.5 | and recent instances of racist police abuse |
| 0:22.3 | as the trial of the killers of Ahmed Arbery opens. |
| 0:26.3 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:32.4 | 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. |
| 1:07.2 | It's October 19th, 2021. |
| 1:10.0 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. |
| 1:15.2 | We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. |
| 1:20.3 | If you enjoy the show, please support this independent programming by going to patreon.com |
| 1:24.9 | slash the socialist program and subscribing. |
| 1:29.2 | And sign up for our October patrons-only seminar with Brian, which will be held next Tuesday, October 26th at 7 p.m. Eastern, |
| 1:35.7 | 4 p.m. Pacific Time. We'll take questions for him beforehand and live as we go. I'm Nicole |
| 1:42.2 | Roussel here with Esther Eberram, Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:47.1 | Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at On the Ground Show.org. |
| 1:53.0 | Make sure to check out On the Ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:57.5 | Brian, we've got a number of topics today, but I know we want to start with really big news |
| 2:02.4 | just from yesterday. Colin Powell died from COVID-19. Indeed. He was suffering from a kind of blood |
| 2:10.1 | cancer that made his immune system vulnerable. So although he had been vaccinated for COVID-19, |
| 2:16.7 | he succumbed to COVID-19. |
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