Donald Trump invited the world's richest billionaire oligarchs to sit at the center of his inauguration for second term as US president. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg symbolically sat next to Trump's cabinet picks, along with the CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai. At least 13 billionaires will have important positions in the Trump administration. Ben Norton reports.
Democracy Now! Eleven peace activists and one journalist on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship, the "Madleen," were detained by Israeli soldiers as their ship carrying vital humanitarian aid for starving Palestinians approached Gaza. The ship was intercepted by Israeli forces in the middle of the night in international waters. Its supplies were seized and communications jammed. The unarmed activists will likely be transported to Israeli detention or "immediately deported," says Ann Wright, a U.S. military veteran who has participated in four Freedom Flotilla journeys and now serves on the steering committee of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. She calls on citizens of countries around the world to push for the activists' release and an end to Israel's war on Gaza.
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