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🗓️ 16 December 2025
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Headlines for December 16, 2025; “We’re Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence; Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age”; From “Alligator Alcatraz” to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.7 | We are renewing our call for the public's assistance in seeking any and all information |
| 0:23.6 | about the shooter. |
| 0:25.6 | No amount of information is too small or irrelevant. |
| 0:28.6 | The two students killed by a gunman Saturday at Brown University have been identified, |
| 0:35.6 | but the gunman hasn't. We'll speak to Zoe Weissman. This is |
| 0:41.2 | her second school shooting. She comes from Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and staff |
| 0:48.9 | were killed on Valentine's Day seven years ago. Then they're trying to get rich off it. U.S. contractors |
| 0:58.2 | viteri Bill Gaza with Alligator Alcatraz team in the lead. We'll speak with investigative |
| 1:05.6 | reporter Aram Rostin. A lot of American companies and Republican insiders are looking to see how they're going to profit |
| 1:15.6 | and share in the spoils of the reconstruction. |
| 1:19.6 | They think it's, the estimated reconstruction will be about $70 billion, according to the UN, |
| 1:25.6 | and that's a lot of money. |
| 1:27.5 | We'll also talk to Raston about the comparisons between U.S. attacks on boats in Venezuela |
| 1:36.9 | and threats to the mainland Venezuela and the invasion of Iraq more than two decades ago. |
| 1:44.4 | Finally, placeless homelessness in in the new gilded age. |
| 1:50.4 | Currently, we're living through the worst homelessness crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. |
| 1:56.0 | And unfortunately, given the Trump administration's dangerous proposals, the problem is only going to get worse in the coming years. |
| 2:02.4 | We'll speak with author Patrick Marquis. All that and more coming up. |
| 2:11.2 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace report by Mamie Goodman. |
| 2:17.1 | The Pentagon says it's blown up three more boats in the eastern Pacific killing eight people. |
| 2:23.6 | Black and white video posted to social media Monday by U.S. Southern Command shows three vessels |
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