Democracy Now! 2026-01-07 Wednesday
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Headlines for January 07, 2026; “This Is Our Hemisphere”: Report from Colombia on Trump’s Escalating Threats to the Region; Trump’s Plan to Seize Greenland Would “Militarize the Arctic,” Trample Indigenous Rights; “Firestorm”: MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff on Anniversary of L.A. Fires & “America’s New Age of Disaster”
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.5 | People are saying it goes down with one of the most incredible, it was so complex, |
| 0:23.4 | 152 airplanes, many, many, talking about boots in the ground. We had a lot of boots on the ground. |
| 0:29.1 | But it was amazing. And think of it, nobody was killed, and on the other side, a lot of people |
| 0:33.4 | were killed. Unfortunately, I say that, soldiers. Cubans, mostly Cubans, but many, many killed. |
| 0:39.9 | Days after the U.S. attack on Venezuela and the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro, |
| 0:46.2 | President Trump's announced the interim leaders of Venezuela have agreed to turn over between |
| 0:51.7 | 30 and 50 million barrels of oil to the United States. We'll go to |
| 0:57.8 | Colombia as Trump threatens to target Colombia as well. Then to the Trump administration's |
| 1:04.7 | threats to seize Greenland from Denmark. The United States should have Greenland as part of the United States. |
| 1:13.6 | There's no need to even think or talk about this in the context that you're asking of a military operation. |
| 1:19.6 | Nobody's going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland. |
| 1:24.6 | Finally, Firestorm, the great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster. |
| 1:33.5 | The Firestorm is my personal accounting of covering the Great Los Angeles fires in 2025 in America's |
| 1:39.2 | New Age of Disaster. I might read like a sci-fi thriller, but it is a minute-by-minute accounting of what is a lived reality for so many people. |
| 1:47.4 | We'll speak to MS Now reporter Jacob Soberoff about his new book on last year's devastating L.A. Fires. |
| 1:55.4 | All that and more coming out. |
| 2:06.9 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:13.1 | Venezuela's military announced 24 security officers were killed in the U.S. military raid that led to the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday. U.S. officials assess |
| 2:18.6 | overall 80 people were killed in the attack. Meanwhile, Venezuelan officials are cracking |
| 2:25.1 | down on any expression of support for Maduro's abduction. Journalists have been detained, |
| 2:31.2 | armed paramilitary groups have been deployed to quell dissent. |
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