Democracy Now! 2025-03-12 Wednesday
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🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for March 12, 2025; Trump’s Trade War: Why Lack of Universal Healthcare Makes U.S. Less Competitive; “Impeach Trump Again”: John Bonifaz on Fighting Trump’s Lawlessness, Corruption & Attacks on Judges; “Monumental Step”: Ex-Philippines Pres. Duterte Arrested, Sent to Hague for Crimes Against Humanity
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.3 | The plane is en route to the Hague in the Netherlands, allowing the former president to face |
| 0:25.4 | charges of crimes against humanity in relation to his bloody war on drugs. |
| 0:33.1 | Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been sent to the Hague after being arrested |
| 0:38.8 | in Manila under an ICC warrant for committing crimes against humanity and his deadly |
| 0:45.1 | war on drugs. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll speak to longtime Filipino human rights activists and scholar Walden Bello. |
| 0:52.8 | But first, we look at President Trump's growing trade war as he imposes a sweeping 25% |
| 1:00.1 | tariff on steel and aluminum imports. |
| 1:03.6 | Plus, Texas Democratic Congress member Al Green, who is censured for protesting President |
| 1:10.1 | Trump's congressional speech, has pledged to soon |
| 1:13.2 | introduce articles of impeachment against Trump. |
| 1:16.4 | Impeachment is a remedy for a runaway president who believes that there are no guardrails, |
| 1:22.7 | who believes that the Supreme Court has placed him above the law, and who is now very close to a point where he will not honor court orders. |
| 1:31.9 | We'll speak to attorney John Boniface of the impeach Trump Again campaign. |
| 1:38.3 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:50.5 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:02.6 | Ukraine has agreed to a Trump administration proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia as the United States resumes military assistance and intelligence sharing with Kyiv. |
| 2:09.1 | In exchange, Ukraine has agreed to sign a deal granting U.S. access to Ukraine's oil, |
| 2:12.6 | natural gas, and mineral resources as soon as possible. |
| 2:17.0 | President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video addressed to Ukrainians that he had accepted the deal following talks in Saudi Arabia. |
| 2:24.2 | During today's talks, the American side proposed taking a first step forward, establishing a full ceasefire for 30 days, not just stopping missiles, drones, and bombs, not just ensuring security in the |
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