Across the United States. We will speak to members of the Standing Rock sioux and Navajo Nation and go to north dakota, which has the highest covid19 death rate of any state or country in the world. Then democracy now cohost Juan Gonzalez looks at how the Corporate Media missed the real story about latinx voter turnout in the 2020 election. Juan the main story is that in an election which saw historic tnout, people of color, and especially latinos, had an unprecedented increase in voting. And they, not white voters, represented the bulk of that increase. Amy plus, we will speak to antiracist activist bree newsome bass and princeton professor eddie glaude about the election of joe biden and Kamala Harris. We have to get about the work of responding to the problems we face as a nation at scale and not returning back to some sense of normalcy, which in some ways laid the foundation for the disaster that was and is trumpism. Amy a that d more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democrac
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Going on in the world today on this program and i want to talk about sanctions mania because this is all too familiar marcus it is a political weapon that is the kin to war it is. It is an assault on the spot where you know these countries are and as i said in my introduction here you know its never explained why it is in the National Interest why civilian populations in these designated countries are punished repeatedly and to know that that doesnt have any pull the real political outcome except for on the ground misery oh hemmer well with the well once cassavetes its and indeed distracted by what is no 19 the American Government has continued its aggression on the International Stage and continued discretion on the basis on who we have seen in recent days is a washington impose near. Sanctions on a cuba venezuela and iran hands i believe peter that we really need to see these new sanctions true. Russia. How are all of the International Say yes on the one hand and the americans do wan
Middle of a pandemic students in india no choice but to take College Entrance exams despite safety concerns. Welcome to news asia its good to have you with us protests have erupted in northern china over a new education policy that replaces mongolian as a medium of instruction with mandarin the you know mongolia also enormous region borders mongolia and russia ethnic mongolians comprise about 17 percent of its 25000000. 00 residents on monday before the start of the new Academic Year the local government announced schools would have to use new textbooks in mandarin the changes extend to 3 subjects literature politics and morality and history that will gradually be taught in mandan instead of mongolian the changes are typical in schools where mongolian is the principal language of instruction parents and students say this puts the future of the mongolian language at risk and is an attempt by beijing to promote the majority hun culture or the ethnic mongolian one. A rare scene in a mongo
Far enough to address the racism problem within Law Enforcement bond after weeks of escalating tensions north Korea Targets a Liaison Office which was built to foster better ties with the south and the premier League Piracy the World Trade Organization says saudi arabia broke International Law by stealing and transmitting live export for us. Theres been an increase in the dest toll from fighting on the border between india and china the indian army now says at least 20 of its soldiers were killed by chinese troops the armys clash of the spirit of galle one valley territory in the himalayas Indias Foreign Ministry described the fighting as a violent faceoff and was the result of an attempt by beijing to unilaterally change the status quo there the Nuclear Armed neighbors have been locked in a standoff on the border for several weeks while the border dispute between india and china goes back decades but the tension has increased recently the area known as the x. I. I. Chain like the uk a