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🗓️ 30 April 2025
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Headlines for April 30, 2025; “Trump Is Trying to Break Us”: Trump Threats to Annex Canada Help Liberal Party Win Critical Election; DOGE Is Going Global: Elon Musk Is Inspiring Right-Wing Efforts Abroad to Gut Government Programs; Viet Thanh Nguyen on 50 Years After Vietnam War, Trump’s “Ugly American” Politics, El Salvador & More; “To Save and to Destroy”: Viet Thanh Nguyen on New Book Exploring Otherness, Refugees, Gaza & More
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0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
0:18.5 | America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. |
0:26.3 | Never. |
0:28.0 | But these are not idle threats. |
0:32.4 | President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. |
0:38.2 | That will never, that will never, ever happen. |
0:42.1 | The Liberal Party in Canada had been massively trailing in the polls. |
0:47.0 | Then it pulled off a victory that seemed impossible just two months ago, |
0:51.3 | largely thanks to one man, President Donald Trump, who repeatedly threatened to make Canada the 51st state. |
0:58.8 | We'll go to New Finland to speak with the Canadian journalist Paris Marx. |
1:04.0 | Then today is the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. |
1:08.2 | We'll speak to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnamese American writer |
1:12.5 | Vietnam, Trump's first 100 days, and more. I see the Vietnam War as just being an episode |
1:20.7 | in a long history of American intervention overseas, Philippines, Korea, Japan, China, Cambodia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Iraq and Afghanistan, |
1:32.5 | and the rest of what's happening in the Middle East are really extensions of these policies. |
1:36.8 | All that and more coming up. |
1:44.1 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the war and peace report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
1:50.1 | Palestinian health officials say Israeli attacks have killed at least 39 people across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. |
1:56.7 | That includes three massive strikes on residential buildings in the new Sadat refugee camp that survivors describe as feeling like an earthquake. |
2:06.2 | Overnight Israel continued attacks on tents and other shelters for displaced Palestinian civilians and Khan Yunus and Al-Mawesi. |
2:14.5 | Survivors say bodies of their loved ones were left unrecognizable by the airstrikes |
2:19.6 | in an area Israel had designated as a so-called safe zone. |
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