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Democracy Now! 2023-05-01 Monday

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Democracy Now!

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4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for May 01, 2023; After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Daniel Ellsberg Reflects on Leaking Pentagon Papers & His Legacy; Daniel Ellsberg Warns Risk of Nuclear War Is Rising as Tension Mounts over Ukraine & Taiwan

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0:00.0

From New York, this is democracy now.

0:18.2

Very recently we've seen very many comments that the what the Pentagon paper showed was

0:25.3

that the war was not winnable. Actually that had to and that's why I gave the Pentagon

0:30.6

papers and that was the effect of them. Actually none of the people who went to prison to

0:36.0

protest the war did so because they thought the war was not winnable. They did it because

0:42.1

that's war they thought the war was wrong.

0:44.9

Today in hour with Pentagon papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg who was recently diagnosed

0:50.7

with inoperable pancreatic cancer. We'll talk about the Pentagon papers whistleblowing

0:56.2

protest the Vietnam War on this day, Mayday 1971 with known Chomsky and Howard Zin as well

1:04.4

as the growing threat of nuclear war today.

1:08.4

Conferences in Ukraine with a real possibility of a nuclear war coming out of this country.

1:16.2

In other words, most life on earth not all most life on earth being extinguished as a matter

1:22.7

of control of Crimea or the Donbass or Taiwan.

1:30.4

All that and more coming up.

1:38.4

Welcome to democracy now democracy now dot org the warrant peace report I'm Amy Goodman

1:44.0

in Sudan both sides of the warring military factions of accused the other of violating

1:48.5

an extended 72 hour ceasefire as fighting continues in cartoon and elsewhere on the

1:54.2

17th day of the conflict. The United Nations is warning Sudan is at a humanitarian breaking

2:00.0

point as it deploys its top humanitarian diplomat who called the scale and speed of the

2:05.8

crisis unprecedented. The UN also warned of an escalation of violence in Sudan's West

2:11.7

or four region. Meanwhile UN agencies say they've begun helping refugees arriving at

2:17.4

the Egyptian border while aid workers and chads say urgent assistance is needed for refugees

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