Democracy Now! 2023-04-12 Wednesday
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🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for April 12, 2023; “Terrorism from the Sky”: Burmese Junta Bombs Civilians, Killing 100, Escalating Attack on Resistance; Filipino Activist Condemns U.S. Military Drills, Warns That War with China Would Devastate Philippines; Leaked Pentagon Docs Show U.S. & U.K. Special Forces Already in Ukraine as War Heads to Stalemate
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is democracy now. |
| 0:18.0 | The Mimamilitary Junter has been using airstrikes specifically targeting civilians, |
| 0:27.0 | clinics and monasteries, elementary schools, community gatherings, concerts, across various regions of Mimam. |
| 0:36.0 | Over 100 people, including 30 children, have been killed in Burma. |
| 0:42.0 | After the military hunt, a bomb civilians will look at the crisis there more than two years after the coup. |
| 0:49.0 | Then to the Philippines, where nearly 18,000 U.S., Filipino and Australian troops hold their largest military drills ever, |
| 0:57.0 | despite protests from China. |
| 0:59.0 | We'll speak to a leading Filipino activist. |
| 1:02.0 | Clearly, the more a gangster intended to project U.S. power in Asia, |
| 1:07.0 | it's not intended to defend the Philippines, it's not intended to help the Philippines modernize. |
| 1:12.0 | It's really intended to showcase U.S. power in its appropriation for war. |
| 1:17.0 | And as leaked Pentagon documents show U.S. and British Special Forces are operating inside Ukraine, |
| 1:24.0 | we'll continue our discussion with spy fell author James Banford, |
| 1:29.0 | who says the leaks challenge the corporate media's portrayal of the Ukraine war. |
| 1:35.0 | The documents give a far more realistic view, saying that basically it's going to come down to a stalemate. |
| 1:44.0 | There is no, not going to be any big winners necessarily. |
| 1:48.0 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:56.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. |
| 1:59.0 | Org the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:02.0 | Calls for stricter gun control laws rang out of Kentucky in Tennessee Tuesday |
| 2:08.0 | in the wake of two mass shootings in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 2:12.0 | Officials said the gunmen who killed five people at a bank Monday legally purchased the AR-15 style weapon of war |
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