Assault on the press and democracy in the Philippines
June 17, 2020
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Episode 177 · June 17, 2020
Assault on the press and democracy in the Philippines
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Assault on the press and democracy in the Philippines
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<p>An attack on press freedom in the Philippines and what it could mean for the future of their democracy. The two year anniversary of the US-North Korea Singapore summit. Right-wing zealots take over the Voice of America. Fighting between China and India and updates out of Russia. The US threatens to sanction the International Criminal Court (huh?), how right-wing news outlets are being used by foreign intelligence, and Bob Gates and John Bolton sell books. Then Ben talks to Rokhaya Diallo, a French journalist and activist, about the protests against systemic racism and police brutality in France and what's next for President Emmanuel Macron. </p><p> </p><p></p>
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