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Democracy Now! 2023-03-21 Tuesday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

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4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for March 21, 2023; “Stop Dirty Banks”: Bill McKibben & Ben Jealous on Ending Big Bank Funding for Fossil Fuel Expansion; U.N. Warns “Climate Time Bomb Is Ticking” as Cyclone Freddy Death Toll Tops 560 in Malawi & Mozambique; Remembering Mozambican Rapper Azagaia: Police Crack Down on Protests After Death of Cultural Icon; War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for U.S. Invasion of Iraq

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0:00.0

From New York, this is democracy now.

0:17.0

The rate of temperature rise in the last half century is the highest in 2000 years.

0:22.6

Constantations of Caron dioxide are at their highest in at least 2 million years.

0:28.9

The climate's time bomb is ticking.

0:33.0

The United Nations issues a final warning that the world is facing its last chance to

0:38.1

prevent catastrophic global warming.

0:40.1

We'll speak to leading climate activists in the United States and Mozambique about the

0:45.0

IPCC report, the role of banks fueling the climate emergency and cyclone Freddie that's

0:51.0

killed over 500 people in Malawi and Mozambique.

0:56.3

We are one of the countries without historical responsibility but yet struggling with the

1:00.9

impacts of the climate crisis and so many other multiple interrelated crises.

1:06.8

Then as we continue to mark the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, we look at how

1:11.5

the US mainstream media helped amplify the Bush administration's lies while silencing

1:17.7

voices of dissent.

1:19.7

Pay now heed to the peace next in the left wing rock stars.

1:23.5

They've had their 15 minutes of fame.

1:26.1

These people are essentially useless.

1:28.2

They are reflexively opposed to war.

1:29.7

It's a principal position but it's the wrong position and you can't take them seriously

1:32.9

as a strategic voice.

1:33.9

We expect every American to support our military and if they can't do that to shut up.

1:39.3

We'll speak to Norman Solomon, author of War Made Easy, how presidents and pundits keep

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