Democracy Now! 2024-02-27 Tuesday
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for February 27, 2024; Should U.S. Send More Weapons to Ukraine? A Debate on Funding & Ways to End Two-Year-Old War; Ralph Nader at 90 on the “Genocidal War” in Gaza & Why Congress Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction
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| 0:00.0 | This news is funded by viewers and listeners like you. |
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| 0:25.0 | We can end this war in our Ukrainian terms. |
| 0:28.0 | We can return our land and people from occupation. We can bring Russia to justice for |
| 0:35.6 | what it is done. But for this to happen, we must fight. May victory be the reward for all |
| 0:40.9 | those who fight for Ukraine. As the war in Ukraine in |
| 0:43.0 | in justice. |
| 0:44.0 | As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenski is urging |
| 0:47.6 | U.S. lawmakers to support a 60 billion dollar military aid package for Ukraine? The Senate's approved the money |
| 0:54.4 | but Speaker Mike Johnson's refused to schedule a vote in the House. We'll host a |
| 0:59.2 | debate on US funding for Ukraine. Then we'll be joined by the legendary consumer advocate and four-time presidential |
| 1:07.1 | candidate Ralph Nader. |
| 1:08.9 | He turns 90 years old today. |
| 1:11.0 | Well, the important thing in the U.S. here is to focus on Congress in the White House because |
| 1:17.8 | they are waste deep in this genocidal war in Gaza. The Congress is basically a rubber stamp and doesn't even |
| 1:28.7 | have public hearings as it shovels billions of dollars to Israel. |
| 1:33.6 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:37.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:49.6 | As the official Palestinian death toll, and Israel's war on Gaza nears 30,000. President Biden |
| 1:55.6 | said Monday he hopes a ceasefire can be achieved by next Monday. |
| 2:00.3 | Well I hope by the beginning of the weekend, I mean the end of the weekend. |
| 2:06.0 | At least my National Security Advisor tells me that we're close, we're close, and not done yet. |
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