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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) Lets Americans Drown and Burn Unless Ukraine Gets More Money, Plus: Leading Establishment Critic Jeffrey Sachs on Ukraine, Taiwan, BRICS, and more | SYSTEM UPDATE #141

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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Politics, News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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0:00.0

And the Good evening. It's Friday, September 1st. Welcome to a new episode of

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System Update. Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM Eastern, exclusively

0:24.6

here on Rumbull, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

0:27.7

Tonight, when Donald Trump ran for a president in 2016, one of his signature foreign policy arguments was one that

0:35.3

polling data has long shown American support namely that it is both immoral

0:39.8

and a violation of the core duty of the American government

0:43.2

to continue to pour billions into wars,

0:46.7

regime change operations, and other obscenely costly imperial projects

0:51.6

to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries

0:54.0

all while Americans in the United States continue to suffer at home from a

0:59.5

de-industrialized heartland, stagnant wages, the inability for millions of American families to raise

1:05.8

their children without having both parents work outside the home, a lack of reasonable

1:10.0

health care, the inability to pay for college, and on and on and as you know

1:14.8

that turned out to be a winning message. As Trump broke that attack on

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longstanding bipartisan neo-conservative Orthodoxy all the way to the Republican nomination and ultimately

1:24.5

to the Oval Office.

1:26.4

It is difficult to think of a more vivid example of the war priorities in Washington than what

1:31.5

is happening right now inside the US Senate.

1:35.0

FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is the federal entity responsible for administering

1:40.0

and overseeing disaster relief to American citizens when major

1:44.0

destruction ruins or ends their lives such as the wildfires in Maui in Hawaii

1:50.2

or Hurricane Idalia in Florida.

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