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Democracy Now! 2023-07-07 Friday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for July 07, 2023; Bill McKibben: Climate Crisis Needs Urgent Action as Earth Records Hottest Temps Ever; “Double Agents”: Lobbyists for Big Tech, Universities & Eco Groups Also Work For Fossil Fuel Industry; Guatemalan Elite Tries to Overturn Democracy, But Anti-Corruption Candidate to Stay in Runoff Election; “Directly Complicit”: Shadi Hamid on How Obama Greenlighted 2013 Egypt Coup, Killing the Arab Spring

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Demart for Sing-Now.

0:18.0

There's about 1500 lobbyists working for fossil fuel companies in the US that also

0:24.0

work for them. So on the most progressive institutions in America, top universities, city governments,

0:31.0

museums, art galleries, green groups, you name it, they're working for them, they have shared lobbyists.

0:41.0

The past three days have been the hottest on earth, some say in 100,000 years.

0:49.0

We'll speak with Guardian reporter Oliver Millman about double agents, fossil fuel lobbyists

0:56.0

work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis. And we'll talk to Bill McKibbin, who says the sun that's

1:03.0

cooking us could cool us too. Then to Guatemala, where election officials have rejected an attempt

1:11.0

by the ruling business and political elite to overturn results from the first round of a

1:17.0

presidential election, where the progressive anti-corruption candidate came in second and

1:23.0

will now be in the race, a runoff.

1:28.0

You will fight corruption because if we do not fight corruption, we will not achieve

1:34.0

development and fight poverty. We'll go to Guatemala City for the latest and we'll speak with

1:41.0

Third Shady Hamid about lessons for the next Arab Spring.

1:45.0

Are you in the peace that Obama administration gave what amounted to a green light?

1:51.0

Two general Abel Fata has CC to proceed with the military coup of July 3rd, 2013.

1:59.0

And we are marking this week the 10th anniversary of that coup, which in some ways marks the end of the Arab Spring as we know it.

2:09.0

All that and more coming up.

2:12.0

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

2:23.0

The world's average surface temperature has soared to its highest level ever recorded,

2:30.0

surpassing record levels of peak measure just a day earlier in the day before that.

2:35.0

This week's string of record shattering hottest days came as climate scientists

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