Democracy Now! 2024-08-15 Thursday
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Headlines for August 15, 2024; “Incomprehensible”: U.S. Approves $20 Billion in New Arms for Israel as Gaza Death Toll Tops 40,000; Colombia Faces “One of the Largest Humanitarian Crises on Earth” as Armed Groups Grow Stronger; “End the Impunity”: Rohingya Muslims Under Attack by Both Burmese Army and Rebel Group
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:16.0 | I believe, uncontroversial fact that U.S. provided arms should not be used to massacre civilians, |
| 0:21.0 | should not be used to |
| 0:23.3 | massive civilian casualties and that is what we are seeing in Gaza. |
| 0:27.1 | As the official death toll in Gaza |
| 0:30.1 | tops 40,000, The Biden administration has approved $20 billion in additional |
| 0:36.6 | weapon sales to Israel, including 50 F-15 fighter jets. We'll speak to Josh Paul who resigned from the State Department |
| 0:47.1 | over President Biden's Gaza policy. Then to Colombia to look at how armed groups are increasing their control over rural areas. |
| 0:56.0 | Unfortunately, after a peace agreement and after an announcement by a progressive government to find total peace. |
| 1:05.9 | I can say now that rather than total peace, what is happening in Colombia is a state of |
| 1:12.0 | total war where criminal autonomous |
| 1:15.6 | territories are being established. This is sad news but it is what is |
| 1:21.7 | happening now. |
| 1:23.0 | In Burma, up to 200 Rohingya Muslims were recently killed in attacks as they attempted to flee Bangladesh. |
| 1:31.0 | We'll get the latest. |
| 1:33.3 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:36.5 | Welcome to Democracy Now. |
| 1:42.2 | Democracy Now. Democracy Now. |
| 1:42.8 | Or the War and Peace Report. |
| 1:44.6 | I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:46.0 | Israel's killed over 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7th, |
| 1:51.1 | according to Gaza's health ministry. |
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