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Democracy Now! 2023-09-12 Tuesday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for September 12, 2023; The World Is Undergoing “Significant Realignments”: Economist Jayati Ghosh on G20, India, China & More; Is Modi Changing India’s Name to Bharat? Jayati Ghosh on What’s Behind the Move; 50 Years After Coup in Chile: Peter Kornbluh on How U.S. Continues to Hide Role of Nixon & Kissinger; “Capitalism Is an Insecurity Machine”: Astra Taylor on Student Debt & Our Radically Unequal World

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0:00.0

From New York, this is democracy now.

0:17.0

It was always a myth that you will have such forums for international economic cooperation,

0:25.0

running with the exclusion of large parts of the world.

0:30.0

Now we are moving towards a direction that includes those parts of the world that were excluded.

0:37.0

As the African Union joins the G20 as a permanent member,

0:40.0

we'll take a close look at the G20 summit, which just wrapped up in India,

0:45.0

including Chinese President Xi Jinping's absence,

0:48.0

have a summit fell short on addressing the climate emergency,

0:51.0

and while Russia is praising the G20's final statement on the war in Ukraine,

0:57.0

then to Santiago Chile to look at how Henry Kissinger and President Nixon supported

1:02.0

a coup in Chile 50 years ago this week,

1:05.0

when General Gusto Pinochet ousted the democratically elected President Salvador Yande.

1:10.0

The 50th anniversary of a coup in Chile is an extraordinarily important date,

1:16.0

not only for Chileans, but for the rest of the world that is struggling

1:20.0

with democracy versus the forces of authoritarianism.

1:24.0

And as interest begins accruing again on federal student loans,

1:28.0

we'll speak to Astartailer, author of the new book The Age of Insecurity,

1:32.0

coming together as things fall apart.

1:34.0

My new book The Age of Insecurity looks at the way our economy is structured

1:39.0

to make us all insecure by design, or what I call manufactured insecurity.

1:44.0

Capitalism thrives on bad feelings, on making us feel like we'll never have enough,

1:49.0

or be enough, or that the rug could be pulled out from under us at any moment.

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