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Democracy Now! 2025-08-07 Thursday

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Democracy Now!

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for August 07, 2025; “War in Perpetuity”: M. Gessen Warns Putin Won’t Make Peace with Ukraine Because It Risks His Own Survival; From India to Brazil, Trump Intensifies Trade War Against BRICS Nations as New Tariffs Take Effect; “Tightening the Chokehold”: Amjad Iraqi on Israel’s Plans to “Empty Out” Gaza and Annex West Bank; The Global Plastic Threat: Research Finds Plastics Can Lead to Disease, Disability & Premature Death

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:19.9

And when they fired, there was shrapnel over us.

0:23.0

And we are running on the street, all of us.

0:25.3

As you could see, women, children, men, and elderly, everyone as you can see us.

0:29.7

Left on the streets without shelter.

0:31.8

Nothing.

0:32.3

We have nothing left.

0:33.5

Israel may soon expand its assault on Gaza to a full military takeover of the territory.

0:39.5

UNICEF says at least one Palestinian child an hour is dying in Gaza.

0:45.5

We'll speak to Amjad Iraqi, senior Israel Palestine analyst at the International Crisis Group.

0:51.5

His new piece, walking corpses. Then White House officials confirm

0:57.4

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet within days to discuss the war in Ukraine

1:03.6

in the first U.S. Russia summit in more than four years.

1:07.9

It appears that Russia is now more inclined to consider a ceasefire.

1:13.1

The pressure on them is working, but the main thing is to make sure they don't deceive

1:16.5

anyone in the details, either us nor the United States.

1:20.7

It is unclear whether there will be a follow-up three-way summit with Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

1:29.3

We'll speak with Russian American journalist M. Gessen, opinion columnist for the New York Times.

1:35.3

And the U.S. raises tariffs to the highest level since the Great Depression, including

1:41.3

up to 50 percent tariffs on India unless it stops buying Russian oil.

1:47.0

We'll go to New Delhi.

1:49.0

And finally, negotiations are underway in Geneva on a legally binding global plastics

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