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Democracy Now! 2023-05-24 Wednesday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

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4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for May 24, 2023; Jeffrey Sachs: Bipartisan Support of War, from Iraq to Ukraine, Is Helping Fuel U.S. Debt Crisis; Kissinger at 100: New War Crimes Revealed in Secret Cambodia Bombing That Set Stage for Forever Wars

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

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0:26.8

be matched dollar for dollar. Thank you so much.

0:44.9

From New York, this is Democracy Now. We believe there is a space and an

0:51.2

opportunity here to have a bipartisan, reasonable, reasonable budget agreement

0:56.0

that again, the House and the Senate can vote on and that we can get the

1:00.5

business of the American people done. Negotiations are continuing in

1:03.8

Washington over raising the debt ceiling in order to prevent the United States

1:07.6

from defaulting on its debt for the first time in history. We'll talk to

1:12.9

economist Jeffrey Sachs about America's wars and the US debt crisis. Then

1:18.1

blood on his hands. We look at a shocking new investigation by Nick

1:23.0

Terce of the interest. I spoke with more than 75 Cambodian witnesses and

1:28.6

survivors of US military attacks and they revealed that Henry Kissinger is

1:33.4

responsible for more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known. As

1:38.0

Henry Kissinger turns 100 years old Saturday, we'll also speak to Pulitzer

1:44.5

Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin, author of the book Kissinger's

1:48.8

Shadow, his latest article, headlined Henry Kissinger, a war criminal

1:53.6

still at large at 100. All that and more coming out.

2:03.1

Welcome to Democracy Now. Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy

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