Democracy Now! 2025-01-06 Monday
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk’s Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics
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| 0:30.3 | Opposing the resolution 88 posts. |
| 0:35.9 | In favor of the resolution 420. |
| 0:36.5 | Yes! |
| 0:43.1 | The American Historical Association members, |
| 0:45.6 | the oldest U.S. Learned Association, |
| 0:49.4 | overwhelmingly approve a resolution to oppose scholasticide in Gaza. |
| 0:52.4 | We'll speak with the former AHA president, Barbara Weinstein, |
| 0:57.4 | and UC Santa Barbara historian Shireen Cycali, editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. |
| 1:05.2 | We won it in a landslide, and this moment makes me feel like despite the fact that every single day for the last |
| 1:13.0 | 15 months, I have watched the obliteration of my report. The future is still ours. Then the return |
| 1:21.2 | of Trump, too. The new one is, President Trump has seated the presidency to Elon must. |
| 1:30.9 | No, no, that's not happening. |
| 1:37.2 | But Elon's done an amazing job. |
| 1:40.1 | Isn't it nice to have smart people that we can rely on? |
| 1:43.5 | We'll speak with the Boston University historian Quinn Slobodian |
| 1:48.7 | about the influence of tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos on the incoming Trump administration. |
| 1:56.4 | And we'll speak about Slobodian's book, Crack Up Capitalism, Market Radicals, and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. |
| 2:06.0 | All that and more coming up. |
| 2:12.1 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. Israeli forces continue |
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