Democracy Now! 2026-01-22 Thursday
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Headlines for January 22, 2026; “An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order; “Catch of the Day”: Latest ICE Operation in Maine Targets Somali Community; Born in Evin Prison, Iranian Author on Protests Against “Authoritarian, Theocratic Regime”
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.5 | Once this board is completely formed, we can do pretty much whatever we want to do. |
| 0:22.6 | The world is a region. |
| 0:23.6 | We're going to have peace in the world. |
| 0:25.6 | And boy, would that be a great legacy for all of us. |
| 0:28.6 | Everybody in this room is a star. |
| 0:31.6 | President Trump establishes the so-called Board of Peace with a charter signing ceremony at the World Economic Forum |
| 0:40.6 | in Davos, Switzerland. Trump will serve as chair indefinitely. Each permanent seat has a |
| 0:47.4 | price tag of a billion dollars which Trump will control. Meanwhile, the heads of all 27 European Union countries are meeting separately |
| 0:57.2 | in Brussels today to talk about growing tensions with the United States. We'll speak to Janis |
| 1:04.3 | Varifakis, former finance minister of Greece. |
| 1:08.0 | The border of peace is such an abomination. |
| 1:11.6 | It keeps me up at night. |
| 1:12.6 | It's the end of the United Nations, the end of the idea of a potentially democratic |
| 1:18.6 | world order. |
| 1:20.6 | Then Operation Catch of the Day, ICE and other federal agents have launched a crackdown in Maine targeting the Somali |
| 1:31.6 | American community. |
| 1:33.2 | Our communities feel anxious and fearful. They see this action as unpredictable and a threat |
| 1:41.8 | to their families. |
| 1:50.8 | Collectively and individually, we've done everything we can to assure them and that we believe in their right to be safe and we've tried to direct resources their way. |
| 1:56.4 | We'll speak with Safia Khaled, a former Lewiston-Main city council member, and will be joined |
| 2:02.8 | in studio by the internationally acclaimed Iranian author Sahar Deghani about the unprecedented |
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