Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast: Recent Episodes
Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus and Bob Nixon
Between The Lines is a weekly syndicated half-hour radio newsmagazine featuring progressive perspectives on national and international political, economic and social issues. Since 1991, Between The Lines has provided in-depth, timely analysis on a wide range of political, economic and social issues including: the history and consequences of two U.S. wars with Iraq; increasing disparity in wealth in the U.S.; coverage of the global social justice movement and related protests challenging the free trade, corporate-driven policies of the World Trade Organization and World Bank/International Monetary Fund; post-9/11 erosion of civil liberties; constitutional protections and international law in the U.S.; the crisis in the U.S. health care system; international grassroots mobilization to confront global climate change; racism permeating the prison industrial complex; and efforts to repair flaws in the U.S. electoral system.Squeaky Wheel Productions is our 501(c)(3) nonprofit production company and distributor. This consumer podcast may occasionally contain a fundraising pitch. 233680
Bethlehem University professor Mazin Qumsiyeh: Israeli Settler & Military West Bank Violence Decried as Palestinian Ethnic Cleansing
Nation columnist and author Sasha Abramsky: Veteran Lawmakers Warn America Trump’s ‘Rolling Coup’ is Already Underway
Investigative journalist and author Greg Palast: U.S. Supreme Court Gives Trump an Interim Win in His Scheme to Restrict Mail-In Voting
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Taliban seeking regional and western nations' investment in Afghanistan
• Both Democrats and Republicans winning on data center opposition
• Manhattan Project may be source of high radiation in western New York
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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.
Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Michael Sozan: Is America Sleepwalking into Trump’s Next Coup?
Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times Foreign Correspondent Chris Hedges: Trump and Rubio Revive McCarthy Era ‘Red Scare,’ Targeting U.S. Progressive Activists as Terrorists
Guttmacher Institute Federal Policy Advisor Anna Bernstein: Trump Admin Ends $68M in Federal Grants for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Greenland forces U.S. oil company to delay drilling in the Arctic territory
• Deadly Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus could be mutating in the DRC
• Maine legislature bans state, local law enforcement cooperating with ICE
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Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.
University of Wisconsin-Madison's former Middle Eastern Studies Associate Director Jennifer Loewenstein: Trump Flounders as Iran Takes Initiative in His Reckless and Destabilizing War
Jacobin Staff Writer Branko Marcetic: Progressive Democrats’ Primary Election Wins Stoke Corporate Democrat Backlash
The Sentencing Project's Senior Research Analyst Josh Rovner: Opposition to U.S. Youth Life Without Parole Sentences Drives Campaign for Reform
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• After US attack on Iran, did China's halving its oil purchases prop up global markets?
• Climate change bringing water to drought-stricken Sahel area in Sahara Desert
• Democrat wins could break GOP veto-proof supermajorities in state legislatures
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American University's Dean emeritus William Leogrande: Cuba’s Economy Grinds to a Halt Amid Trump’s Economic Blockade, Triggering Humanitarian Crisis
Minnesota Reformer Editor-in-Chief J. Patrick Coolican: Local Nonviolent Organizing is Most Effective Defense Against Trump’s Midterm Election Subversion
University of Toronto Professor Jason Stanley: Yale University President Surrenders to Trump Regime’s Demands for Political and Ideological Alignment
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• In response to Trump's new tariffs, China expands export controls against U.S. and its allies
• Native American tribes, seven Western states at impasse on Colorado River water settlement
• Labor movement must organize Amazon to increase membership and improve workers' pay
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Eisenhower Media Network's Matthew Hoh: Without a Rational Strategy, Trump’s Iran War Continues with No End in Sight
Quincy Institute's Annelle Sheline: U.S. and Israel to Integrate Military Budgets to Shield Funding from Congressional Opposition
Institute for Policy Studies' Khury Petersen-Smith: New Progressive Blueprint: ‘Forging a Democracy that Works for All’
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Silicon Valley workers organizing against war production and war crimes
• 358 human rights defenders killed last year around the world
• Populist Clayton Tucker running for Texas agriculture commissioner
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LULAC's Juan Proaño: Two More ICE Shooting Deaths in Texas and Maine Trigger Condemnation and Angry Protests
Vermont Law and Graduate School's Delcianna Winders: Environmentalists Condemn Trump Regime’s New Rule to Decimate Endangered Species Act
Yale University's Daniel HoSang: Faculty, Students and Alumni Oppose Trump-Yale University Extortion Deal
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Middle East balance of power: Netanyahu decries U.S. F-35 fighter jet sale plans to Turkey
• Lula's pledge to reduce Brazilian workweek boosts re-election bid over Bolsonaro's son
• Trump-GOP SNAP cuts remove 770,000 children from food assistance benefits
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The Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health's Nathaniel Raymond: International Community Must do More to Stop Sudan’s Humanitarian Catastrophe
Democracy for the Arab World Now's Raed Jarrar: After Talks Break Down, U.S. Iran Ceasefire Collapses
Physicians for a National Health Program's Dr. Diljeet Singh: As U.S. Healthcare System Fails, Support for Medicare For All Grows
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• DACA Dreamers' work restrictions, delays under Trump jeopardize families, communities
• Super El Niño combined with climate change weather events may disrupt farming globally
• Ireland signs military cooperation pact with France for troop readiness, intelligence
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Roots Action's Norman Solomon: Corporate Democrats Lash Out Over Democratic Socialists Primary Wins
Defend Public Health's Melinda Rostal: Opponents Challenge Trump Regime’s Scheme to Politicize Federal Grants
Writer and activist Hannah Riley Fernandez: Nationwide Revolt Against Flock Camera Mass Surveillance Surges
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Human rights report: Mexican government involved in disappearances
• Closed Zambian zinc and lead mine's toxic pollution affecting area's children
• Billionaire ranches encompass millions of acres near Yellowstone national park
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Haitian Bridge Alliance's Guerline Josef: Supreme Court Ends TPS Protections for Haitians, Syrians, Opening Door to Mass Deportation
Texas Prairieland Detention Center protest case attorney Xavier de Janon: Extreme Sentences Handed Down in Prairieland Protest Case, a Blatantly Political Prosecution
The Indypendent's John Tarleton: Democratic Socialist Candidates Win Stunning Primary Victories in NYC and Nationwide
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• DRC Ebola cases spreading faster than last outbreak a decade ago
• Rental housing monopolies exempt from mandatory federal anti-trust review
• A dozen states proposing new taxes on wealthiest taxpayers
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Roosevelt University's David Faris: Donald Trump’s Humiliating Iran War Defeat the Most Significant Since Vietnam
Vote Common Good's Pastor Doug Pagitt: In Another Attack on Free Speech, Trump DOJ Indicts 15 Minneapolis Anti-ICE Activists
Prison Policy Initiative's Wanda Bertram: Studies Find Serious Health Impacts on Formerly Incarcerated Older Adults
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Syria trial seen as first step on long road for Assad's victims
• Solar generates more energy in U.S. than coal for first time
• Rural California voters defy DCCC and Israel lobby
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Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Middle Eastern Studies Associate Director Jennifer Loewenstein: U.S.-Iran Peace Deal Announced: Is it Real This Time?
Jewish Israeli anti-apartheid activist Ofer Neiman: Israeli Voters May Oust Netanyahu in October Election, but Brutal Repression of Palestinians Likely to Continue
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Senior Research Fellow William D. Hartung: The Pentagon’s Dangerous Rush to Adopt and Deploy AI into Military Missions
Between The Lines' Under-reported News Summary
• Syria needs large-scale reconstruction in recovery from 15-year brutal civil war
• Union Now creates fund to support workers who want to organize but can't due to finances
• Two progressive candidates running to oust NYC Comptroller Thomas DeNapoli
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Salon writer Sophia Tesfaye: MAGA Billionaire Ellison Family and Bari Weiss Murder ’60 Minutes’
Fredi Guevara and Liam Henrie: US Crew Members of Global Sumud Aid Flotilla to Gaza Describe Their Israeli Navy Detention
Stand Up America Executive Director Christina Harvey: ‘Kick Out Corruption Tour’ Links Trump Grift to Affordability Crisis
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
- Trump connection seals $1B Balkans pipeline deal to inexperienced contractor
- White House building ties to Rwanda-backed M23 militia occupying mineral-rich DRC
- Immigrants pulled out of naturalization ceremonies now file lawsuits
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National Security Archive Cuba Documentation Project's Peter Kornbluh: Trump’s Cuba Oil Blockade Triggers Dire Humanitarian Crisis Amid U.S. Invasion Threat
Former EPA Administrator Martha Guzman Aceves: Recent Hazardous Chemical Disasters Come as Trump EPA Rolls Back Federal Safety Regulations
Reporters Without Borders' Ben Grazda: World Press Freedom Index Tracks Decline of Free Press Globally and in U.S. Under Donald Trump
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Unofficial Trump adviser Mauricio Claver-Carone reshaping Venezuelan government
• Most polluting LNG project in the U.S.: Louisiana LNG
• Nebraska independent running for U.S. Senate championing working class-vs.-billionaires
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Roosevelt University professor David Faris: Trump Appears Unable to Escape His Own Iran War Quagmire
Center for International Policy senior fellow Mel Goodman: Trump-Xi Beijing Summit Reveals China’s Rise, America’s Decline
Oil & Water Don't Mix coordinator David Holtz: Environmental & Indigenous Groups Fight to Shut Down Line 5 Fossil Fuel Pipeline Before It Contaminates the Great Lakes
Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary
• Bombshell leak threatens Flávio Bolsonaro’s Brazil presidential election bid
• Potentially fatal summer months ahead for migrants in southwestern states
• Paltry snowpack amid drought, wildfire risk threatens western states
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Common Cause's Dan Vicuña: U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Ushers in New Era of Racial Political Apartheid
Hold the Line's Jon Copeland: Opponents Protest LNG Pipeline Plan to Power Massive AI Data Center in Southern New Mexico
Freedom from Religion Foundation's Annie Laurie Gaylor: Trump Regime Sponsors Taxpayer-Funded Rally Promoting White Christian Nationalism
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• China continuing a more clandestine, decentralized repression of Uyghurs
• Chainsaw-wielding Trump ally Argentinean President Javier Milei's economy and popularity also cratering
• Maine Democrats condemn National Democratic party's intervention in their primary
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Arab American Institute President James Zogby: Iran War Week 11—Media Ignores Israel’s Attacks on Lebanon, West Bank and Gaza
Social Security Administration former commissioner Martin O'Malley: Trump’s Social Security Administration Downsizing Demolishes Customer Service
Food and Water Watch's Thomas Meyer: Opposition to Resource Hungry Artificial Intelligence Data Centers Spreads Across the U.S. Like Wildfire
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• ICE has detained 11,000 parents of U.S. citizen children
• South American crime groups now prefer illegal gold mining over drug trafficking
• Portland's affordable housing strategy a model for other cities
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National Lawyers Guild former President Marjorie Cohn: Supreme Court Kills Voting Rights Act, Green-Lights Return of New ‘Jim Crow’ Era
Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Is the U.S.-Israel War on Iran About to Reignite?
Coal River Mountain Watch Executive Director Vernon Haltom: As Trump Pushes to Extract More Coal, Mountaintop Removal Mining Linked to Severe Health Impacts
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Arizona's SNAP participation rate craters—portends crisis for most vulnerable in America
• Islamist militants seize Mali's capital city after the defense minister is assassinated
• Papua New Guinea human rights activist wins 2026 Goldman Environmental prize
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National Priorities Project Program Director Lindsay Koshgarian: 'Tax Day 2026' Report: Average U.S. Taxpayer Paid More Than $4,000 for War Last Year
Latin American Perspectives Associate Managing Editor Steve Ellner: Trump’s Wars on Iran, Venezuela and Cuba: a ‘New Stage of US Imperialism’
Poor People's Campaign West Virginia Tri-Chair Pam Garrison: Low-Income Americans’ Gains of Recent Years Now Lost to Trump’s Corporate Allies
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Trump may send Afghans who aided US forces to Congo
• Fire service will close research stations that study wildfire risk
• Despite racial hostilities, Haitian immigrant communities are models of resiliency
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Peace Action President Kevin Martin: As Americans Increasingly Oppose Trump’s Iran War, Pressure Building on Congress to Invoke War Powers Act
About Face: Veterans Against the War Organizing Manager Rebecca Roberts: Amid Iran War, Many U.S. Service Members Seek Advice on Conscientious Objector Status
Women's Earth and Climate Action Network Executive Director Osprey Orielle Lake: Colombia and Netherlands Convene Historic 1st International Summit to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• China adds 50 coal plants despite a 2020 pledge to phase out coal
• GOP using little known law to target public lands for coal mining
• Small towns saying 'no' to untested PFAS water treatment plant
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Quincy Institute's Brandon Carr and UCLA associate professor Kevan Harris: Trump Blockades Strait of Hormuz After Iran War Talks Collapse
Yale University Divinity School's Center for Theology and Public Policy Director Bishop William Barber: U.S. Faith Community Condemns Trump’s Immoral Iran War and His ‘Blasphemous’ Social Media Post
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's Julie Hollar: U.S. Corporate Media Fails to Call Out GOP Voter Suppression Campaign
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Iran War causing soaring fertilizer prices and fears of global food shortages
• Organizers set their sights on state legislatures to tax the rich
• Sunrise movement's climate legislation advocacy requires defeating endless wars
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Brandeis University professor Naghmeh Sohrabi: U.S.-Israel War on Iran Shattering Ordinary Iranians’ Lives, Including Regime Opponents’
Back from the Brink activist Ann Froines: U.S. Campaign Launched to Lead the World Back from Brink of Nuclear War
Ms. magazine Editor Katherine Spillar: ‘Project 2026’: Trump Regime’s New Blueprint to Suppress Women’s Rights
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Taiwan's anti-democracy opposition leader to visit China before Trump
• Cambodian court upholds journalists' 14-year prison sentence for border photo
• Fourteen states now have paid family leave, with campaigns in six other states underway
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Former USMC Capt. Matthew Hoh: Iran Maintains Upper Hand over U.S. and Israel in Escalating and Costly War
People's Law Collective attorney Xavier de Janon: Trump DOJ Wins Terrorism Conviction of Accused Antifa Activists, Criminalizing Dissent
National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: Senate Confirms ‘Unqualified Hothead’ Markwayne Mullin as DHS Secretary
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Philippines president declares energy emergency
• Cuba's economy at Trump's mercy
• Western heatwave threatens summer water and fire crises
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Democracy for the Arab World Now Advocacy Director Raed Jarrar: An Erratic Trump Desperate To Exit Disastrous U.S.-Israeli War on Iran
Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab's Nathaniel Raymond: As the Sudanese Armed Forces Make Gains in Sudan’s Civil War, Civilians Bear Brunt of the Violence
Nuestra America Convoy to Cuba delegate Andy Shallal: Nuestra América Convoy Arrives in Cuba, in Defiance of Trump’s Oil Blockade
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Vietnam attempting to expand international relations beyond relying on China and the US
• Third World nations seek debt relief for environmental conservation
• Former Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development U.S. representative slacks off on ethic pledge
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Center for International Policy Senior Fellow Mel Goodman: Trump’s Lawless and Chaotic War with Iran Has No Clear Objectives
Jacobin Staff Writer Branko Marcetic: Trump Follows Israel Into Disastrous War on Iran, Netanyahu Calls the Shots
Connecticut Visibility Brigade Founder Katherine Hinds: Judge Dismisses Charges Against Connecticut Visibility Brigade Activist in Major Free Speech Victory
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• U.S. hasn't learned from lesson from regime-change war to destabilize oil-rich Libya
• Indian police raid environmental activists' home over anti-fossil fuels campaign
• Ethanol's carbon footprint doesn't merit corn production's land shift use
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International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber: International Law is the Number One Casualty of the US & Israel’s Illegal War on Iran
How Democracies Die author and Harvard professor Steven Levitsky: Trump’s Authoritarian Regime’s Next Target: The 2026 Midterm Election
Former EPA administrator Joe Goffman: Trump EPA Eliminates 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• The Democratic party needs to recognize its base is progressive, social democratic • Indonesia's nickel industry is boon to renewable energy market & China's rust belt workers • Rio Grande's sewage cleanup overshadowed by unfulfilled treaty, tariffs and border wall
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Federation of Atomic Scientists' Jon B. Wolfsthal: Coming Threat of Nuclear Weapons, AI and Climate Crisis Move Doomday Clock Closer to Midnight
University of Pennsylvania media policy professor Victor Pickard: Trump-Aligned Oligarchs' Media Mergers Transforming Outlets into MAGA Propaganda Platforms
Yale University School of Architecture's Adam Hopfer: Yale Architecture Students Design and Build Rent Free Homes
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• SCOTUS sets dangerous ICE racial profiling precedent—double jeopardy for blacks
• African leaders push for reparations for colonization crimes
• Russia and China forging an axis of Asia powered by natural gas
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ENCORE PRESENTATION:
Oxfam America CEO Abby Maxwell: Trump Closure of USAID Humanitarian Relief Programs Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
ACLU Senior Policy Counsel Chad Marlow: Trump’s National Security Memo Labels His Enemies Terrorists, Orders Investigations
Artist and activist Robert Shetterly: ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth’ Portraiture Project Aims to Inspire Courageous Citizenship
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Trump intensifies AI critical minerals scramble
• Canada signs energy pact with China
• Zero homeowners approved for FEMA buyout after Helene
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Amnesty International's Ben Linden: After Four Years of Ukraine War and Nearly 2 Million Casualties, Prospects for Peace are Uncertain
Journalist Andrea Pitzer: Trump Regime's Massive Buildout of Immigrant Concentration Camps Meets Local Resistance
Color of Change's Amanda Hollowell: In Second Term, Trump Acts to Eliminate America's Multiracial Democracy
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Last nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia has expired
- Deadly “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota’s Twin Cities is ending
- Some states' vaccination rates losing ground as vaccine exemptions take hold
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Georgetown University's Josh Ruebner: Gaza Humanitarian Disaster Continues as Ceasefire Plan’s Deeply Flawed Second Phase Begins
The Dissenter Newsletter publisher Kevin Gosztola: FBI Spies on, Then Raids Washington Post Reporter’s Home in Escalating Attack on Press Freedom
FairVote senior fellow David Daley: Trump Asks GOP Congress to ‘Nationalize’ the 2026 Midterm Election, Attempting to Rig the Outcome
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Will there be a permanent U.S. military presence in Latin America?
- Record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands
- Activists across the U.S. are organizing “No Sleep for ICE” action
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Vote Common Good CEO Pastor Doug Pagitt: Minnesota Shows the Country How to Effectively Resist ICE Violence
Fairfax County, Virginia attorney Steve Descano: National Coalition of Local Prosecutors Target Federal Lawbreakers to Enforce Accountability
Starbucks Workers United Union delegate Silvia Baldwin: Starbucks Workers Union Enters Third Month of Unfair Labor Practice Strike
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Syrian military overriding Kurds' hopes for autonomy
• ICE using states' Medicaid data to find immigrants
• Campaign season for Michigan Democratic party Senate seat primary heating up
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Minnesota Reformer reporter Madison McVan: ICE Agents’ Killing of 2nd Minneapolis Resident Provokes Nationwide Outrage and More Protests
Former CIA analyst Mel Goodman: The World Revolts Against Trump’s Irrational, Deadly Foreign and Domestic Policy
Gulf Coast fisherman Eddie Lejuine: Gulf Coast Residents Live in ‘Ground Zero’ of U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry’s Sacrifice Zone
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• Japan reopening massive Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant
• Department of Justice making unprecedented demand for state voter lists
• States, cities concerned over huge taxpayer subsidies for multi-bilionaires' stadiums
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Truah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights' CEO Rabbi Jill Jacobs: Religious Leaders Step Up to Resist ICE Violence
Program for Global Public Health and Common Good's Dr. Philip Landrigan: Study Finding Weedkiller Roundup Safe Retracted Amid Renewed Concern Over Cancer Link
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez: FCC Commissioner Decries Government Assault on Free Press
Bob Nixon's: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary
- Chevron uniquely positioned to profit from U.S. takeover of Venezuelan oil
- Federal tax prosecutions fell over 27 percent due to staffing cuts
- Outside investors buying up 2/3 of rebuilt Altadena, California
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Journalist Andreína Chávez and Latin American Perspective's Steve Ellner: Trump’s Lawless Venezuela Offensive Was Never About Drugs, But All About Oil
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft's Trita Parsi: After Venezuela Attack, Trump Threatens to Strike Iran Again
Third Act volunteer Lynn Stoddard: ‘Simplify Solar’ National Campaign Aims to Make Residential Rooftop Solar More Affordable
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Yemen's civil war enters dangerous new phase with Saudi attack on UAE military
• Thailand and Cambodia agree to short-term ceasefire in border conflict
• Private equity spending spree threatening New Mexico's clean renewable energy mecca
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Free Press & Free Press Action's Craig Aaron: CBS Political Censorship of ’60 Minutes’: Another Victim of Corporate Media Consolidation
Media critic Parker Molloy: Trump, RFK Jr. Impose Ban on Trans Youth Gender Affirming Care Nationwide
The Labor Force Coordinator Maeg Yosef: 'The Labor Force' Working to Strengthen America’s Rising Union Movement
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• SCOTUS Voting Rights Act ruling could eliminate dozens of Black & Latino congressional seats
• Libyan oil corruption is hurting international investors
• Trump claims to fight urban crime in National Guard deployment to cities
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Code Pink Women for Peace co-founder Medea Benjamin: Trump Marching to War with Venezuela Unless Congress Intervenes
Palestinian anti-apartheid activist Mazin Qumsiyeh: Israel Increases Repression and Attacks on the Local Economy in Occupied Palestinian West Bank
Free Speech for People co-founder and President John Bonifaz: Impeachment: The Antidote to Trump’s Authoritarian Presidency
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• One Afghan emigré's alleged crime causes crackdown on all Afghan immigration
• Globally, land mine casualties and injuries highest ever since 2020
• Family Dollar, Dollar General's shelf prices may not be the same at checkout
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Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson: Expiring ACA Subsidies Accelerate America’s Healthcare Disaster and 51,000 Preventable Deaths
Psychotherapist, author, and Duty to Warn founder John Gartner: Trump’s Cognitive Decline is More Obvious Every Day
Columbia University Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil: Mahmoud Khalil’s Lawsuits Seek Accountability for Trump Effort to Suppress Palestinian Activism in U.S.
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Growing Israeli occupation in south Syria violates 1974 UN resolution buffer zone
• Rare earth mining & deforestation in Amazon River Basin alarms environmentalists worldwide
• Trump regime giving even more tax breaks to wealthy corporations
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Eisenhower Media Network Associate Director Matthew Hoh: U.S. War Crime Attacks on ‘Drug Boats’: A Prelude to U.S. Attack on Venezuela
Yale Law School professor Bruce Ackerman: Supreme Court Hears Case that Could Further Increase Trump’s Unchecked Executive Power
Journalist and author Nell Bernstein: New Book In Our Future We Are Free Recounts 25-Year Campaign that Cut U.S. Youth Incarceration 75%
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Major cuts in AIDS treatment, prevention to spike HIV infections by 3.3 million
• South Asia, among most water-stressed regions globally, faces ‘water wars’
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange data center's 11-hour blackout exposes vulnerability
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Veterans for Peace board member Gerry Condon: Credible Accusations of Trump-Pentagon War Crimes Reported
Journalist and author Sasha Abramsky: Is the Trump-GOP Authoritarian Nightmare Unraveling?
Prison Policy Initiative communications strategist Wanda Bertram: 34 Urgent Criminal Justice Reform Bills State Legislatures Can Pass in 2026
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• World's second largest rainforest, the Congo Basin, is most overlooked in climate policy
• Establishment progressive state Sen. John Cavanaugh running in Nebraska primary
• Nuclear weapons plans reopen uranium mining, renewing Navajo communities' health risks
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Physicians for a National Health Program President Dr. Diljeet Singh: Deepening U.S. Healthcare Crisis Demands Radical Transformation, Not Band-Aids
National Alliance to End Homelessness CEO Ann Oliva: Under Trump’s New Homelessness Policy, Nearly 200,000 Will Lose Housing
Friends of the Earth U.S. Finance Policy Advocated Zimyl Adler: COP30 UN Climate Summit in Brazil, Another Disappointing Outcome
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Big Ag, fossil fuel industry lobbyists derail COP30 climate crisis mitigation
• SNAP's largest cuts in the program’s history are becoming apparent
• Chicago organizers demanding AT&T cut ties with DHS and ICE
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Yale School of Public Health's Nathaniel Raymond: Sudan’s Civil War Unleashed Worst Active Genocide and Famine in the World Today
University of Wisconsin's former Associate Director of Middle East Studies Jennifer Loewenstein: The Dire Situation for Palestinians Living in Post-Ceasefire Gaza
Salon.com columnist Heather Digby Parton: Trump Drowning in Epstein File Scandal
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:• Venezuelans deported by Trump to CECOT tortured
• U.S. sold sniper rifles to notorious Brazil police unit
• DOGE conspiracy theories hampered Social Security services
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RootsAction.org co-founder Norman Solomon: After Government Shutdown Surrender, It’s Clearer Than Ever Democrats Must Overhaul Their Strategy
The Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton: Mamdani’s Uncompromising Progressive NYC Mayoral Victory Inspires Hope for U.S. Politics
University of California Santa Barbara sociology professor William I. Robinson: Linking the Growing Global Economic Crisis to Rising Austerity and Repression
Between The Lines' Under-reported News Summary
• NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani's 'radical ideas' are 'normal' in Europe
• Union shareholders fighting data collection brokers behind ICE deportations
• South Africa's new green energy plan won't phase out coal
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ACLU Senior Policy Counsel Chad Marlow: Trump’s National Security Memo Labels His Enemies Terrorists, Orders Investigations
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities Executive Vice President for Policy and Program Development Peggy Bailey: Judge Forces Trump to use Contingency Funds to Restore SNAP Benefits to Nation’s Poor Families
Artist and activist Robert Shetterly: ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth’ Portraiture Project Aims to Inspire Courageous Citizenship
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Russia's war on Ukraine has ravaged the nation's forests
• Ethiopia opens new dam threatening Egypt's water security
• US-Mexico border wall imperils region's pollinators
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Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Deliberate Omissions in Gaza Ceasefire Agreement Endanger Future of 2.3 Million Palestinians
Democracy in Color podcast host Steve Phillips: Supreme Court Poised to Overturn Voting Rights Act, Imperiling U.S. Multi-Racial Democracy
Louisiana commercial fisherman Eddie Lejuine: LNG Terminals Decimate Louisiana’s Once Thriving Commercial Fishing Industry
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary• Afghanistan and Pakistan engage in deadly border battles
• Trump attacks cashless bail policies
• Wisconsin court rejects Big Ag’s attempt to weaken water regulations
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CODEPINK World Court Campaign Coordinator Robert Jereski: After Gaza Hostage/Prisoner Exchange, Ceasefire Lacks Enforcement Mechanisms
U.S. Marine veteran Bryce Lockwood: Recounting Israel’s 1967 Attack on U.S. Research Ship during Six-Day War and Its Lasting Impact
Former health insurance executive turned whistleblower Wendell Potter: Federal Government Shutdown Exposes Crisis in Long Failing U.S. Healthcare System
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary•Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, convicted of coup plot, running out of options
• Russia, Vietnam can avoid U.S. sanctions with backdoor energy enterprise
• Puerto Ricans' mutual aid food system could be a model post-natural disasters
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Center for International Policy Senior Fellow Mel Goodman: Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act as He Expands Military Occupation of U.S. Cities
Furloughed HHS federal worker Danny Tsoi: Federal Workers, Jobs on the Line, Support Shutdown to Save Endangered Healthcare Programs
7 Directions of Service Co-Founder Crystal Cavalier-Keck: UN Climate Week Events Feature Presentations on the ‘Rights of Nature’
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• India detains popular Ladakh, Himalayas region leader
• California teachers and unions fight Trump campus witch hunt
• 2020 election denier appointed to help DHS oversee U.S. elections
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The Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead: Rapidly Moving the U.S. Toward a Police State, Trump Labels Critics ‘Domestic Terrorists’
Oxfam CEO Abby Maxman: Trump Closure of USAID Humanitarian Relief Programs Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
Documentary filmmaker Rick Goldsmith: Documentary ‘Stripped for Parts’ Examines Vulture Capital’s Role in Demolishing Local Newspapers
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Trump cronies still fixated on annexing Greenland, where socialism works
• Trump administration planning to reopen notorious prisons for ICE
• Colchester, Vermont mobile home park experimenting with cooperative housing
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Free Press General Counsel Matt Wood: Trump’s FCC Takes Action to Suppress Free Speech
University of Arizona professor emerita epidemiologist Elizabeth Jacobs: RFK Jr.’s War Against Vaccinations and Science Reaches New Dangerous Phase
Gulf of Mexico Youth Climate Summit Co-Founder Armon Alex: Petrostate Tour of U.S. Capitol Shines Light on Fossil Fuel Industry’s Attack on Environment/Climate
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Refugees from Western Sahara fuel humanitarian crisis in Algeria
• Tuberculosis is spreading in ICE detention centers
• Anti-opioid drug less available in black and latino communities
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Independent journalist Justin Glawe: Trump Exploits Charlie Kirk's Murder, Vowing to Investigate and Dismantle Progressive Left Groups
Connecticut Visibility Brigade founder Katherine Hinds and defense attorney Margaret Donovan: Protest Leader Arrested for Exercising Free Speech Rights
Youth climate activist and Fridays for Future Cape Cod lead organizer Madison Sheppard: ‘Make Billionaires Pay’ International Mobilization for Climate Justice Sept. 19-21
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Growing U.S. military partnership with the Philippines, threatening China
• Trump has fast-tracked deep-sea mining, despite global opposition
• Utah unions fight ban on collective bargaining with historic referendum
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Stand Up America's Brett Edkins: New Guardrails Must Be Enacted to Defend Democracy Against a Future Trump-like Dictatorship
National Immigration Law Center attorney Hilda Bonilla: Trump’s Cruel & Traumatizing Attempt to Deport Guatemalan Children Temporarily Blocked by Federal Judge
Center for International Policy and former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman: Trump’s Erratic and Destructive Foreign Policy Alienates Adversaries and Allies Alike
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Global plastic pollution talks collapse
• Russian-backed Wagner Group floundering in Africa
• Trump administration escalating attack on anti-ICE activists
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International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber: Will the U.N. Support a Plan That Could End Israel’s Gaza Genocide?
Environmental Protection Network Executive Director Michelle Roos: Former EPA Staff Defend Federal Environmental Regulations Being Weakened or Eliminated by Donald Trump
American Doom newsletter Editor Justin Glawe: A Desperate Trump Could Order the National Guard to Intervene in the 2026 Election
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Mineral-rich Congo's peace negotiations collapse
• Staffers warn Trump's FEMA cuts portend another Katrina-like catastrophe
• Democrats lacking working class support by ignoring progressive priorities
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Salon.com columnist Heather Digby Parton: Floundering Democrats Urged to Embrace FDR New Deal-Style Popular Economic Policies
CT Students for a Dream Executive Director Tabitha Sookdeo: Effort Underway to Build Bridges Between Diverse Immigrant Communities Facing Trump Mass Deportation
University of Washington's Dr. Ferric C. Fang: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Cuts Federal mRNA Vaccine Research Funding, Endangering Public Health
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred in Sudan
• Republicans are laser-focused on purging noncitizens from voter rolls
• Zohran Mamdani must confront the NYPD in reform effort
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Partnership for Civil Justice Fund's Mara Verheyden-Hilliard: Trump’s Militarized Occupation of Washington, D.C. a Rehearsal for Takeover of Other U.S. Cities
Professor Jason Stanley: Authority on Totalitarianism Leaves U.S. for Canada to Fight International Fascism
Stop Cop City defense attorney Xavier de Janon: Domestic Terrorism Charges Dismissed in One ‘Stop Cop City’ Defendant’s Trial
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Respiratory disease is running rampant through "Alligator Alcatraz"
• Health experts predict mental health crisis for low-income Americans
• North Korean laborers have been sent to Russia
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Author David Daley: Trump and GOP’s Unprecedented Gerrymandering Scheme Aim to Rig 2026 Election
350.org US Campaign Manager Candice Fortin: Trump EPA to Eliminate Virtually All Climate Regulations and Research
U.S. Gulf South climate activists Manny Robinson and Roishetta Ozane: Gulf South Activists in NYC Protest Banks’ and Insurance Companies’ Role in Exacerbating Climate Crisis
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University of Wisconsin-Madison former associate director of Middle Eastern studies Jennifer Lowenstein: Netanyahu Moves to Militarily Re-Occupy Gaza as European Nations Plan to Recognize Palestinian State
University of San Francisco's professor of philosophy Rebecca Gordon: Trump Authorizes a New More Dangerous Surveillance State
Americans for Financial Reform's Kimberly Fountain: Trump Judge Eliminates Biden-Era Rule Removing Medical Debt from Consumer Credit Reports
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Damascus appeals to Trump but not to his allies in Israel
• Utah senator says selling public lands will solve housing crisis
• Will the ‘Black vote’ turn out for Zohran Mamdani?
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DropSite News' Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Israel’s Gaza Starvation Policy is Killing More Palestinians Every Day
Center for International Policy's Mel Goodman: Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ National Defense System is Unachievable and a Waste of Taxpayer Dollars
Act-LA's Scarlett de Leon: LA Activists Demand Public Transit System Do More to Protect City’s Immigrants From ICE
Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary
• U.S. Department of Justice demands voter registration lists from states
• Shortage of firefighters hampering the U.S. Forest Service
• Mexico City protests echo global backlash against gentrification
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Dr. Feroze Sidhwa and Dr. Ayaz Pathan: U.S. Doctors Describe the Slaughter and Starvation of Gaza Civilians They’ve Witnessed
Prison Policy Initiative's Wanda Bertram: New ‘Birth Behind Bars’ Report Finds Alarmingly High Rates of Injury and Death for Newborns
The Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton: Understanding Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Mayoral Primary Victory
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Supreme Court expands Trump's executive power with mass firings of federal employees
• New IRS system to share confidential immigrant tax data with ICE
• Thousands, but not all, Afghans who worked with British military secretly relocated to U.K.
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University of Pennsylvania media professor Victor Pickard: Corporate Media’s Surrender to Trump a Wake-up Call for Urgent Reforms Needed to Save Journalism, Democracy
The Nation magazine columnist Kali Holloway: Trump is Carrying Out an Explicitly White Supremacist Policy Agenda
Palestinian-American human rights attorney Jonathan Kuttab: Can Israelis and Palestinians Find a Way to Live Together?
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary•USAIDS cuts In South Africa spiking HIV-pregnancies
• DHS and White House expanding Trump's influence in organized crime cases
• ICE ‘politically targeted’ farm worker activist Juarez Zeferino
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Harvard's Dr. Adam Gaffney and First Focus on Children's Bruce Lesley: Under Trump-GOP Budget, 17 Million Americans Lose Health Insurance; 51,000 Preventable Deaths Expected Annually
The Nation Magazine's Chris Lehmann: ICE Budget Spikes 365%: Evidence of Trump’s Move to Impose Repressive Police State
Defense Lawyer Xavier de Janon: First Stop Cop City Protester Trial in Georgia RICO Case Ends in Mistrial
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Trump eyes minerals in Democratic Republic of Congo-Rwanda peace deal
• Chicago’s progressives fight far right to fortify their wins from 2023 election
• Data center tax exemption programs endanger state budgets
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Alianza Americas' Dulce Guzmán: The Chaos and Dire Consequences of Supreme Court’s Ruling on Birthright Citizenship
Best-selling author Sarah Kendzior: As the Trump GOP ‘Mafia State’ Relentlessly Attacks the Foundations of Democracy, is There Reason for Hope?
Hurricane Helene survivor Padma Dyvine: North Carolina Neighbors Employed Mutual Aid in Ongoing Recovery from Hurricane Helene’s Destruction
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Far-right AfD party expanding its appeal in Germany’s west
• China’s Tibetan dam project poses big risks
• Democratic National Committee tensions simmer over future direction
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Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: In Echo of Iraq War, Trump Distorted Intelligence to Justify Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Sites
Vietnam veteran Mike Ferner: As Veterans and Allies’ 40-Day Fast for Gaza Nears End, Conditions for Palestinians Worsen
Roots Action's Norman Solomon: Democrats Must Adopt Progressive Economic Agenda to Defeat Trump-GOP Authoritarian Agenda
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Salvadoran ex-military officers convicted of 1982 killings of Dutch journalists
• VA secretary refused to take responsibility for drastic downsizing
• Kansas City, Missouri rent strikers win after 247 days
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University of Wisconsin's Jennifer Loewenstein: Israel-Iran Conflict Risks Regional War That Could Entangle the U.S.
Journalist and author Sasha Abramsky: Massive Nationwide ‘No Kings’ Protest the Largest Demonstration of Opposition Yet to Trump Fascism
Center for Biological Diversity's Randi Spivak: House Approves Trump-GOP Budget That Will Decimate National Parks, Sell Off Public Lands
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• China's Uyghurs forced to work in factories supplying global brands
• Trump plans deportation of European, Haiti citizens to Guantanamo
• Growing union militancy in support of federal workers
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Women's March's Tamika Middleton: June 14 Nationwide Anti-Authoritarian Protests Likely to be Largest Since Trump Returned to Office
Formerly of the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights' New York Office Craig Mokhiber: Israel’s Seizure of Gaza-Bound Humanitarian Aid Ship Violates International Law
Oil Change International's Collin Rees: Trump & GOP Slash Clean Energy Incentives that Reduced Pollution, Created Jobs, Lowered Electric Bills
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• UN aid convoy attacked in Sudan
• Record-breaking wildfires burning across Canada
• Trump officials may be profiting from insider information
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New York Times best-selling author Andra Watkins: ‘Project Esther’ Advocates Suppression of Pro-Palestinian Protest, Equating All Dissent with Terrorism
Progressive Democrats of America Executive Director Alan Minsky: Passive Democrats Fail to Convene Emergency Meeting to Confront Trump’s Assault on Democracy
Defend and Recruit organizer Umme Hoque: Growing National Boycott Campaign Targets Avelo Airlines for its ICE Deportation Flights Contract
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Seventy-five of the poorest nations owe large debts to China
• Tax breaks flipped GOP representatives on Medicaid cuts
• Pro bono architectural aid rebuilding Los Angeles after wildfires
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Social Security Works' Alex Lawson: Trump-GOP House Budget Bill will Literally Kill Americans Who Lose Access to Healthcare
Vietnam veteran Russell Brown: Veterans and Allies’ 40-Day Fast Demands Israel Restore Full Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
Connecticut Action Group's Helen Humphries: Campaign Targets Insurance Companies to End Their Underwriting and Investments in Fossil Fuels
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Salvadoran dictator arrests human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez
• Peru courts grant "personhood" status to Marañon River in Amazon basin
• Trump emergency logging directive supercharges wildfire risk
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Popular Democracy in Action's Analilia Mejia: Overwhelming Opposition to Trump-GOP’s Extreme Medicaid, SNAP Budget Cuts
Democracy for the Arab World's Raed Jarrar: Trump Visit to Oil-Rich Gulf Monarchies Produces Mixed Outcome
Democratic Constitution Blog's Luke Pickrell: Repairing the Constitution’s Democracy Deficit Key to Challenging Trump Authoritarian Power Grab
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- South Sudan conflict escalates
- New policies criminalize homelessness
- Unique labor organization organizes ex-convicts
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Lawyers for Civil Rights Senior Attorney Jacob Love: Challenging Trump’s Unconstitutional Effort to Eliminate Birthright Citizenship
Economic Policy Institute Senior Policy Analyst Margaret Poydock: New Report Finds 100 Ways Trump Has Hurt US Workers
International Association of Machinists Union member Phil Clarkin: Machinist Strike Against Pratt and Whitney Over Job Security Enters 2nd Week
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Russian drone strike's multi-million-dollar damage at Ukraine's nuclear plant
• Dairy farmers fear loss of workers from ICE raids
• Several pardoned Jan. 6 insurrectionists arrested again
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' former NYC Office Director Craig Mokhiber: Israel’s Gaza Food Blockade Triggers Famine, Hospitalizes Thousands of Children for Acute Malnutrition
The nation's leading public interest lawyer Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Labels Trump’s 100-Day Attack on Democracy a ‘Fascist Dictatorship’
Memphis Community Against Pollution Executive Director KeShaun Pearson: Memphis Resident Fighting to Shut Down Elon Musk’s Polluting Super-Computer Data Center
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Halted Agent Orange cleanup outs thousands at risk
- Trump border nominee accused of ‘cover-up’
- FEMA eliminates popular disaster adaptation program
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Alianza Americas Executive Director Dulce Guzmán: Trump Deports U.S. Citizen Children, Arrests Wisconsin Judge
Child Labor Coalition Director of Child Labor Advocacy Reid Maki: As Trump Weakens Worker Protections, Assault on State Child Labor Laws Escalates
Investigative journalist Gareth Gore: Opus Dei, Pope Francis, the Catholic Church and Trump’s MAGA Movement
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- How vulnerable is the US dollar?
- EPA plans to eliminate data collection for polluters
- Sri Lanka pledges to build a “sustainable” world
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Climate Disobedience Center organizer Nastasia Lawton-Sticklor: Campaign Prepares to Challenge Trump’s Future Invocation of the Insurrection Act
National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: Protests Target Avelo Airlines for Its Trump Contract to Fly ICE Deportation Flights
Roots Action Political Director Sam Rosenthal: Groups Demand Democrats Convene Emergency Meeting to Counter Trump’s Authoritarian Coup
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Landmines in Syria killing hundreds
- American detained by the Taliban is freed
- Justice Department scales back crypto cases
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Princeton University's visiting professor Fawzia Afzal-Khan: As Israel Escalates Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza, Trump Attempts to Crush Free Speech on Campus
Yale University's Jason Stanley: Tyrants Use Racism and Patriarchy to Split Civil Society Apart and Dismantle Democracy
Connector newsletter Editor Micah Sifry: Could Federal Workers Emerge as Leaders of a New Broad-Based Trump Opposition Movement?
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Trump team facing competing counter-terrorism strategies for Somalia
• Medicaid cuts likely to hurt rural Trump country hardest
• Tearing down small dams help restore Northeast rivers for migratory fish
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Institute for Policy Studies' Omar Ocampo: Trump’s Irrational International Tariffs Will Deepen U.S. Economic Inequality
Labor historian and documentary filmmaker Fred Glass: The Trump Resistance Movement and Prospects for a Proposed General Strike
New York State Jails Justice Network's Jerome R. Wright: Deal to End New York Wildcat Correction Officer Strike Suspends Solitary Confinement Reform Law
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Eritrea has imprisoned, tortured 14,000 journalists, ministers and opposition leaders • Supreme Court could be lowering bar for whites to prove reverse discrimination • Fracking has spiked volume of toxic solid waste and wastewater at Pennsylvania landfill
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Anti-racism educator and educator Tim Wise: Confronting the Reality of Trump’s Vile White Supremacist Agenda
Georgetown University's Nader Hashemi: Trump Targets International Students for Deportation, 1st Step to Repress Free Speech for All
IRIS Executive Director Maggie Mitchell Salem: Trump Attack on Immigrants and Aid Groups Felt at Local Agencies Across the US
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Student activists protest President Vucic's corruption in Serbia
• Congo accuses Apple of ‘laundering’ minerals
• Trump cuts federal wildfire crews
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American Constitution Society's Christopher Wright Durocher: Trump Defiance of Rule of Law Plunges U.S. into Deepening Constitutional Crisis
The New Republic's Aaron Regunberg: As Voter Anger Rises Over Trump Attacks on Federal Government, Bernie Sanders & AOC Rally, Energize Democracy Defenders
Pipeline Safety Trust's Bill Caram: Trump Fossil Fuel Deregulation and Staff Cuts Could Lead to Increase in Pipeline Accidents
Between The Lines' Under-reported News Summary
• U.S.-backed Kurdish army signs peace deal with Syria's interim government
• Trump expels South Africa's ambassador to US over criticism
• USDA cancels $1 billion in funds, hurting farmers and low-income school children
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American Doom independent journalist Justin Glawe: Trump-Musk Attack on Social Security Could Shatter Program Serving the Nation’s Most Vulnerable
Public Citizen Co-Executive Director Lisa Gilbert: Public Citizen Pushing Back Against Trump Regime’s Onslaught of Lawlessness
Left Voice Editor Sam Carliner: Trump Suppression of Free Speech an Unconstitutional Pretext to Deport Palestinian Student Activist
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Former Philippines President Duterte in Hague after ICC arrest
• Executives at White House Crypto Summit gave $11M to Trump inaugural
• New secretary of Veterans Affairs cancels 875 vital services contracts
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Yale professor and author Jason Stanley: Trump’s Methodical Assault on Democracy Closely Mirrors Authoritarian Regimes Through History
Pastor Jamal-Harrison Bryant: Target's Elimination of Its DEI Policy Provokes 40-Day Nationwide Boycott
Greenpeace USA Interim Executive Director Sushma Raman: In Effort to Suppress Climate Protests, Fossil Fuel Company Energy Transfer Sues Greenpeace USA
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• Canada's newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney challenges Trump tariffs
• Project 2025's architect dismissing Consumer Finance Protection Bureau cases
• Peace deal could boost development in Senegal's Casamance region
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RootsAction.org Co-Founder Norman Solomon: Confronting the Democratic Party’s Weak Opposition to Trump Coup
New Haven, CT Mayor Justin Elicker: Nearly 2 Dozen U.S. Cities Sue Trump Regime for Threat to Withhold Funding from Sanctuary Cities
Committee to Protect Journalists Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen: Trump Launches Campaign of Threats and Intimidation to Suppress US Press Freedom
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Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson: Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump-GOP Plan to Slash $880 Billion from Medicaid
Horizons Project Co-Lead Maria J. Stephan: Civil Resistance Strategies and Tactics to Effectively Resist the Trump-Musk Coup
Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Director Michael Gerrard: As NYC’s Congestion Pricing Program Generates Funds for Mass Transit, Trump Wants it Shut Down
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• New DNC chairman: Democrats are “true party of labor and working people"
• U.S. firm accused of Guantanamo migrant rights abuses
• Impeachment calls for Argentina president after cryptocurrency crashes
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Constitutional lawyer and Free Speech for People President John Bonifaz: Trump’s Illegal Demolition of Federal Government Provokes Constitutional Crisis, Calls for Impeachment
Journalist and author Fred Pearce: After Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Civil Infrastructure, Palestinians Face a Water & Environmental Crisis
Former CIA analyst and author Melvin Goodman: Trump’s Ukraine War Peace Overture to Russia Creates Rift with European Allies
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
- Trump executive order awards refugee status to South African Afrikaners
- New U.S. protectionism leaves power vacuum for China to fill
- Red states create their own DOGE task forces
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Institute for Policy Studies Fellow Phyllis Bennis: Trump Doubles Down on His Criminal Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Palestinians from Gaza
Salon Senior Politics Writer Amanda Marcotte: Elon Musk’s Racist Hacker Army Illegally Attempting to Eliminate Multiple Federal Agencies
50501 Organizer Praisely McNamara: Nationwide 50501 Anti-Trump Protests Mobilize to Protect Democracy from Authoritarian Power Grab
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Germany’s AfD migration bill fails
- Māori protesters turn their backs on right-wing ministers
- New Orleans nurses call strike coinciding with Super Bowl
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Democracy in Color podcast host Steve Phillips: Back in the White House, Trump Launches Spiteful White Supremacist Policy Agenda
Bethlehem University professor Mazin Qumsiyeh: After Gaza Ceasefire, Israel’s Military Launches New Deadly Offensive in Occupied West Bank
Hunter College distinguished professor of public health Stephanie Woolhandler: RFK Jr. Poses Grave Danger to U.S. Public if Confirmed as HHS Secretary
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Rwanda-backed M-23 rebel army stokes carnage in Goma, Congo
• Uyghurs held in Thailand go on hunger strike
• LA housing activists see signs of illegal disaster profiteering
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American Friends Service Committee's Amy Gottlieb: As Mass Deportation Begins, Immigrant Rights Groups Organize Resistance
University of California Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies' Lawrence Rosenthal: Trump’s Pardon of 1,500 Jan 6 insurrectionists: An Endorsement of Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
Public Citizen's Lisa Gilbert: Trump-Musk ‘Government Efficiency’ Advisory Group Sued for Lack of Transparency
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Elon Musk endorses German far right party
• United Healthcare reports $35 billion in profits
• Embattled NYC Mayor Eric Adams attends Trump inauguration
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People's March protesters: Washington, D.C. and National Protests Pledge Resistance to Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda
Sunrise climate activist Alejandro Sobrera Barboza and U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez: Youth Climate Group Protests Nomination of Fracking CEO to be Trump’s Energy Secretary
University of Wisconsin-Madison's Jennifer Loewenstein: The Israel-Hamas Gaza Ceasefire Takes Hold, But Fails to Address Future of Palestinians in Crisis
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• How will Trump support global security in China-Taiwan conflict?
• World Bank changes course to now back mega dams
• Trump cryptocurrency plans include cashing in on his family's bitcoin
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War Child Alliance's Kieran King: Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Has Inflicted Severe Psychological Trauma on Children
Public Citizen's Jonah Minkoff-Zern: Trump Pardon of J-6 Insurrectionists: A Disaster for Democracy, Rule of Law
Third Act's Michael Richardson: Catastrophic Los Angeles Wildfires, the Climate Crisis and the Future of Public Policy
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Fall of Syria's Bashar al-Assad may weaken Russia in Africa
- Migrant deportations could threaten US agricultural economies
- Oath Keepers leader revealed as former police detective
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Journalist and author Sasha Abramsky: On Fourth Anniversary of Jan. 6th Insurrection, Democracy is on the Ropes
Elbit Out of South Carolina Coalition organizer Chris Tittle: South Carolina Activists Protest Israeli Arms Maker Whose Weapons are Used in Gaza Genocide
Center for American Progress' Senior Director Kate Kelly: Campaign Urges Biden to Publish Equal Rights Amendment Before Leaving Office
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• Election protests disrupt Mozambique
• Enbridge oil spill erodes confidence
• More deaths revealed in US Indian boarding schools
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Present Age Newsletter Editor Parker Malloy: Trump-GOP Attack on Transgender Community Elicits Disturbingly Weak Democratic Party Response
The Editorial Board Editor John Stoehr: Understanding America’s Broken Media Landscape Promoting Right-wing Disinformation and Influencing Election Outcomes
National Association of Defense Lawyers President Chris Wellborn: Last Chance Campaign Asks Biden to Release Leonard Peltier Before Leaving Office
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Western oil money empowers Russian president and regional elites
• Mortgage regulators ignore climate change risk
• Trump administration will drive everyday Americans deeper in debt
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World Beyond War board president Kathy Kelly: UN Urged to Hold Israel Accountable for Monstrous Violations of International Law in Gaza
Southern Poverty Law Center Interim Director Rachel Carroll Rivas: White Supremacist Hate Groups’ Growing Threat as Trump Takes Office
Third Act Upstate New York activist Michael Richardson: Climate Activists Protest Demands NY Gov. Hochul Sign ‘Make Polluters Pay’ Bill Before Year Ends
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Trump 2.0 chaos likely to extend to U.S. strategic defense planning
• Private equity stands to profit from Trump's mass deportation plan
• Whole Foods workers file to form a union
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Salon.com Contributing Editor Heather Digby Parton: Trump’s Frighteningly Bizarre Cabinet Nominees May Get Free Ride From Spineless GOP Senators
America's leading public interest lawyer & consumer advocate Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Assesses Election Outcome, Democrats’ Multiple Failures
Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robin Maher: Human Rights, Religious Groups Urge Biden to Commute Federal Death Sentences Before Trump Takes Office
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary•Bhopal's disaster still lingers, 40 years later
• Trump's plans "impoundment" to freeze appropriated funds
• Judge's decision a major win for labor in Wisconsin
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Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Unanswered Questions Persist After the Sudden Overthrow of Syria’s al-Assad Regime
Ploughshares Fund's Dr. John Carl Baker: Courageous South Koreans Rise Up to Block a Right-Wing Coup
National Immigration Law Center's Kica Matos: National Immigrant Advocacy Groups Prepared to Resist Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Starvation threatens an estimated 500,000 in North Darfur
• Municipal water systems need help to replace lead pipes
• Trump 2.0 to weaken EPA environmental regulation and health laws
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Former chairman of Ohio's Democratic party and author David Pepper: Eight Ways to Respond to Trump Election Victory Over the Next 4 Years
Author and Left Hook Substack columnist Wajahat Ali: Trump Voters Should Try to Understand Americans Who Oppose Their Convicted Felon President
Third Act climate activist Sheldon Pollock: Activists Demand NY Gov. Hochul Sign Law to Make Fossil Fuel Polluters Pay for Climate Costs
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Rohingya refugees recruited from Bangladesh to fight in Myanmar
• Thousands march in New Zealand to protest bill's interpretation of founding treaty
• Trump administration may privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
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The Nation's abortion access correspondent Amy Littlefield: How To Explain Voters’ Contradictory Support for Abortion and Trump?
Women March Managing Director Tamika Middleton: Women’s March Organizing 1st Major Protest Jan. 18 to Challenge Trump Regime 2.0
Climate activists Teagan Blackburn and Teya Blackburn-Baker: Protesters Disrupt FERC Hearing Highlighting the Climate Crisis Before Trump Dismantles Climate Regulations
Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary
• COP29 climate talks in trouble
• Corporate landlords enable a mold epidemic
• Trump and Congressional GOP begin talks on Medicaid cuts
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Political strategist and author Rachel Bitecofer: How Democrats’ Failures Helped Traitor Trump Win Four More Years
Author and commentator Sarah Kendzior: Merrick Garland’s Delay in Prosecuting Trump Paved the Way to Establish His Mafia Regime
Co-chair New York Labor fo Palestine and Amazon Union Recording Secretary Sultana Hossain: As Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Continues, US Labor Movement Stands in Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Insurance companies dropping Medicare Advantage plans due to unprofitability
• TD Bank to pay $3 billion in money laundering settlement
• Global warming opening up Antarctica oil, minerals access & international conflict
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Jacobin staff writer Branko Marcetic: Kamala Harris’ Defeat Linked to Neglecting Working Class Economic Discontent
University of Pennsylvania professor Victor Pickard: Assessing Corporate Media’s Failures Covering 2024 Election Campaign
Palestine Institute for Biodiversity & Sustainability Director Mazin Qumsiyeh: As Israel’s War Kills 43,000 in Gaza, Jewish Settlers Carry Out Ethnic Cleansing in West Bank
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Democrat party lost swing states and rural America again
• New generation in Africa campaigning to expel old-guard governments
• "Ghost" U.S. mental health networks amount to fraud
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The Nation magazine's National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols: After Trump’s Election Victory, Progressive Activists Ponder What Went Wrong for Democrats
Yale philosophy professor and author of "Erasing History" Jason Stanley: Whether Trump Wins or Loses MAGA State Governments will Continue their Repression
Free Press senior counsel Nora Benavidez: Disinformation Floods U.S. Election Campaign Fueling Anger and Distrust of Electoral Outcome
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Women are dying because of restrictive abortion bans
• Ginni Thomas fights efforts to reform the nation’s highest court
• Avian flu may pose pandemic threat to humans
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The Nation's D.C. Bureau Chief Chris Lehmann: Media’s Sanitizing of Trump’s Candidacy is Journalistic Malpractice
Rutgers University law professor and author David Noll: New Book, ‘Vigilante Nation,’ Describes MAGA’s State-Based Attack on Democracy
National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: As Trump Demonizes and Scapegoats Immigrants, Democrats Adopt Some Trump Policies
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Russia's war in Ukraine has upset balance of power in Turkic region
• New voting laws could tip November election outcome
• New York congressional races could tip House control
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Yale University professor and author Jason Stanley: Trump Doubles Down on Fascist Agenda as 2024 Campaign Nears End
Georgetown University Justice and Peace Studies lecturer Josh Ruebner: As Wider Middle East War Looms, Most Voters Support US Arms Cutoff to Israel
Seed the Vote volunteer Dr. Kate Sugarman: Physician Canvassing for Harris in Philly Suburbs, While Opposing U.S. Gaza Policy
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
- UAE, Iran secretly fueling Sudan’s bloody civil war with arms
- Harris campaign courts predatory lenders she claims to be tough on
- Fate of DACA sits with right-wing Texas court
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Rolling Stone contributor Justin Glawe: Trump, GOP Preparing to Undermine Presidential Election Results if They Lose
New York Times best-selling author Andra Watkins: Under Trump, Project 2025 Would Sabotage Federal Storm Forecasting and Disaster Relief
350.org U.S. Partnerships Coordinator Nico Udu-Gama: If Completed, the East African Oil Pipeline Will be a Destructive ‘Carbon Bomb’
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Bolsonaro still shapes Brazil’s political right
- After decades, still no clear path to U.S. citizenship for Haitian immigrants
- San Francisco's mayoral election defined by housing crisis
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RootsAction Co-Founder Norman Solomon: US Media Sanitizes US Role in Israel’s Savage War in Gaza and Lebanon
Media critic Parker Molloy: Corporate Media is ‘Sanewashing’ Trump’s Obvious Cognitive Decline
Climate activist Sydney Collins: As Hurricanes Ravage the Southeast U.S., Fossil Fuel’s Destructive Infrastructure Impacts Rural Communities
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Sri Lanka elects leftist president to pressure IMF debt repayment reduction
• National Labor Relations Board files complaint against Amazon
• Presidential candidate Kamala Harris lacks policy details renter protections
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Institute for Policy Studies' John Feffer: Israel’s Series of Assassinations, Lebanon Invasion Puts Middle East on Brink of Regional War
Anti-Gaza war protester Gregory Daly: As Netanyahu Addresses UN General Assembly, Americans Protest Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Condemned for Advocating Reckless Action in Ukraine War
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Growth-based climate framework is fundamentally broken
- Populist Democratic campaigning emerges in deep red states
- Somalia-Ethiopia tensions mount
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University of Wisconsin's Jennifer Loewenstein: Escalating Cross-Border Attacks Between Israel and Hezbollah Could Erupt into All-Out War
The Nation magazine's Abortion Access Correspondent Amy Littlefield: Trump’s Abortion Ban is Now Literally Killing Women
Third Act Virginia organizer Lisa Finn: Gulf Coast Residents, Climate Activists Oppose FERC Approval of New LNG Export Terminals
Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Sept. 25 2024
- New banking crisis between Libya's ruling heads
- Telegram app's the new home for domestic terrorists
- GOP wields powerful cash advantage in state legislative races
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Author and columnist Wajahat Ali: Donald Trump’s Repeated Stochastic Terrorism Now Endangers Haitian Immigrants in Ohio
Stop the Money Pipeline Executive Director Alec Connon: 13-Week ‘Summer of Heat’ Climate Protest Building Movement to End Fossil Fuel Financing
Singer/songwriter Billy Bragg Reflects on His 40 years of Political Activism and the Power of Music
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• EU’s top court rules Apple must pay back taxes
• Project 2025 regulates the nation’s public lands
• Environmental groups challenge new EPA rules
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Former NYC Public Advocate Mark Green: New Book Warns Voters of Fascist Threat Posed by Trump in 2024 Election
Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights Co-chair Abigail Fuller: Portland, Maine City Council Votes for Israel Divestment Resolution Over Gaza War
Gaza Peace Activist Bob Sanders: Retired Journalist Bikes to Washington, D.C., Building Opposition to Israel’s Gaza War
Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary
• Mexico's lower house passes controversial judicial reform
• German far-right AfD party celebrates historic election victory
• New green energy laws face backlash in rural Michigan
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Arab American Institute President James Zogby: Gaza War Slaughter Continues as Massive Israeli Protests Blame Netanyahu for Latest Hostage Deaths
Climate Defiance activist Ethan Wright: Activists Protest Federal Reserve Climate Policy, Block Road to Wyoming Annual Symposium
Free Press senior counsel Nora Benavidez: Coalition Demands U.S. News Media Aggressively Cover Election Campaign Threats to Democracy
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- U.S. sanctions former Haitian president
- Right-wing cracks down on the unhoused
- Weaponized Trump IRS could wreck progressive infrastructure
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Pediatrician Dr. Ahmad Javed Yousaf: U.S. Doctor Shares His Eyewitness Account of Gaza War Horrors
New York Times Pulitzer prize-winning journalist James Risen: Trump’s Racism is the Primary Driver of His Voter Support
The Sentencing Project's Joshua Rovner: Youth Incarceration in the U.S. Declines, but Racial Disparities Persist
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Obscure strategy wreaked short-lived havoc on global markets
- US neo-Nazi terror group aims to revive activities
- Arizona schools don’t want to be polling locations
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University of Wisconsin former Assistant Director of Middle Eastern Studies Jennifer Lowenstein: As Slaughter of Palestinians Continues, Gaza Ceasefire Talks Could be at Critical Juncture
People's Policy Project President Matt Bruenig: Assessing Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris’ Economic Policy Proposals
WE ACT for Environmental Justice's Micaela Martinez: Toxic Hair Products Marketed to Women of Color Cause Cancer and other Health Dangers
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Global warming changing Vietnam's Mekong Delta rice production
• US farm income plunging for prairie states
• 'Clean energy' industrial-scale wood-pellet industry ravaging forests
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Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig: Kamala Harris Can Politically Neutralize Dangerous SCOTUS Presidential Immunity Ruling
Jacobin staff writer Branko Marcetic: Can Gov. Tim Walz’s Minnesota Progressive Legislative Victories be Replicated Nationally?
Extinction Rebellion NYC activist John Mark Rozendaal: In NYC, Climate Protest Citibank Orders Arrest of Activist Classical Cellist Performing Bach
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Around the world, death squads attack environmental activists
- New talking points for Democrats: climate crisis and homeowners insurance
- 13 GOP governors opt out of summer food program for kids
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Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft's Trita Parsi: Israel’s High Level Assassinations Provoke Retaliation and Risks a Wider Middle East War
Renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader: Democratic Party Isolation from Working Families Examined in Ralph Nader’s New Book
Amnesty International USA's Justin Mazzola: Biden Pressured to Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency, Likely His Last Chance to Gain Freedom
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Revamping peace process in war-torn Sudan
• Voter ID laws can block legitimate voters—those without driver's licenses
• Scientist found 3M forever chemicals in human blood nearly 25 years ago
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SUNY history professor emeritus Lawrence S. Wittner: Trump’s Depraved Embrace of Nuclear Weapons Would Endanger the World
New York Times best-selling author Andra Watkins: ‘Project 2025’ Envisions an American Authoritarian Christian Nationalist Theocracy
Rally organizer Alex Chatfield: Coalition Campaigns to Stop Private Jet Expansion, a Luxury Our Climate Can’t Afford
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Bangladeshi students riot over job quotas for war veterans
• Sea levels rising alarmingly along southern US coastline
• States rethinking data centers as electricity hogs
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Former UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk: World Court Rules Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Land Violates International Law
Pass the Torch steering committee member Aaron Regunberg: After Biden Pressured to End Campaign, Vice President Harris is De Facto Democratic Party Nominee
Amistad Catholic Worker House Shelter occupant Joel Nieves: New Haven City Government Moves to Shutdown Catholic Worker Shelter for Unhoused
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• UK frees minor offenders to resolve prison overcrowding
• Kenya's youth protests upend tax hikes spurred by IMF austerity measures
• Will Arizona be MAGA's last stand?
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AFL-CIO Former political director Michael Podhorzer: GOP Uses Assassination Attempt to Shut Down Condemnation of Trump's Authoritarian Agenda
Hub Project Senior Director of Polling and Analytics Bryan Bennett: Poll Finds Americans Reject and Fear Trump's Right-wing Extremist Project 2025 Agenda
Attorney Michael Gerrard: Activists Working to Reverse NY Gov. Hochul's 'Pause' on NYC Congestion Pricing Plan
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Many women and girls leaving Afghanistan to seek education in Iran
- New Mexico loophole may allow record methane releases
- NYC police commissioner using retention to prevent discipline for misconduct
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People for the American Way Executive Vice President Marge Baker: Shocking Supreme Court Ruling Granting Presidential Immunity Enables Future Autocrats
Natural Resources Defense Council senior attorney and strategist David Doniger: Supreme Court Chevron Doctrine Ruling Jeopardizes Countless Federal Regulations
Washington, D.C.-based policy consultant Stewart Lawrence: Democrats Balk at Going Public with Rising Concern Joe Biden Unable to Defeat Donald Trump
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Philippines reckons With Duterte’s brutal drug war
• Is Boeing plea agreement a 'sweetheart deal'?
• Oklahoma tribes fight for food sovereignty
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RootsAction co-founder Jeff Cohen: After Disastrous Debate, Urgent Calls for Joe Biden to Step Aside for a New Candidate
The Dissenter Editor Kevin Gosztola: Julian Assange is Free, But His Prosecution Threatens Press Freedom
Summer of Heat rally speakers Alec Connon, Juan Mancias, and Dr. Sandra Steingraber: Civil Disobedience Protest at Citibank’s NYC Headquarters Demands End to Fossil Fuel Financing
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• UK Labour is hoping to retake working class towns
• Women’s voices absent on Haiti’s Transitional Council
• Far-right US groups working to ban ranked choice voting
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Retired US Army Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson: US Provocatively Permits Ukraine to Use American Weapons to Attack Targets Inside Russia
U.S. Air Force Airman Juan Bettancourt: Active Duty U.S. Soldiers ‘Appeal for Redress’ to Voice Opposition to America’s Role in Israel’s War in Gaza
Playwrights Martha Boesing and Victoria Rue: ‘Voices from the Silenced’ Play Tells Stories of Women Who Had Abortions Before Roe v Wade
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• U.S.-Mexico water war looming
• Tennessee governor sabotages police reforms
• Former DCCC officials work against The Squad
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Journalist Catherine Cartier: Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank Killing Rising Number of Palestinian Children
ExxonKnews reporter Emily Sanders: Fossil Fuel Industry Working to Further Criminalize Climate Protests Against Oil and Gas Projects
Free Speech for People Co-founder and President John Bonifaz: SCOTUS Scandals and Blatant Corruption Demand Urgent Reform
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Myanmar's military regime losing control along border
• World's top banks greenwashing role in Amazon destruction
• Catholic bishops apologize for church role in Indian schools, but sidestep on abuse
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National Lawyers Guild former President Marjorie Cohn: International Criminal Court Targets Both Israeli & Hamas Leaders for War Crimes
People's Tribunal conveners Crystal Cavalier-Keck and Jason Crazy Bear Keck: People’s Tribunal Convened to Expose Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Violation of the Rights of Nature
Just Associates' Global Solidarity & Learning Coordinator Laura Carlsen: Claudia Sheinbaum Wins Historic Election as Mexico’s First Female President
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Who will form South Africa’s next government?
- Is bird flu destined to be next pandemic?
- Proud Boys re-emerge to rally around Trump
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Yale professor and "How Fascism Works" author Jason Stanley: If Re-Elected, Trump Vows Fascist Regime from Day One
Concerned Health Professionals of New York co-founder Dr. Sandra Steingraber: New Edition of ‘Compendium on Fracking’ Finds Health Hazards Linked to Home Use of Natural Gas
National Popular Vote board secretary Christopher Pearson: Group Challenging America’s Undemocratic Electoral College System Gaining Support
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Namibia seeks reparations from Germany, return of ancestral lands
- EPA seeks to allow 10 times more acephate on food than current limits
- Trump leads in counties with declining populations, business losses
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University of Massachusetts professor emeritus of political science Maurice T. Cunningham: Right-Wing Extremist Network Financed Moms For Liberty
Green Workers Alliance Executive Director Matthew Mayers: Green Workers Alliance Fights for Livable Wage, Safe Working Conditions in Renewable Energy
Food and Water Watch Public Water for All Campaign Director Mary Grant: EPA Issues New Standards for PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Mining in Madagascar is contaminating region's water
• AI has the potential to widen the racial wealth gap
• As fentanyl overdoses soar, Los Angeles city crews discard Narcan
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Roots Action co-founder Norman Solomon: U.S. Students Protesting Israel’s Gaza War Emerge as Nation’s Moral Conscience
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Project Manager Eric Fine: Creating Online Tools to Better Understand American Public Opinion on the Climate Crisis
Independent journalist Steven Monacelli: Texas Governor Pardons Racist Murderer Who Killed Black Lives Matter Activist
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- US and Mexican elections risk bilateral relations
- Push for nuclear power is fueling demand for uranium
- I.R.S. audit uncovers dubious Trump accounting maneuver
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Former UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Michael Link: Israel Expects International Criminal Court Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Other Officials
DAWN Advocacy Director Raed Jarrar: State Department Report Presents Contradictory Findings on Israel’s Illegal Use of US Weapons in Gaza
Salon Politics writer Amanda Marcotte: Trump's Contempt for Women Seen in Hush Money Trial, Linked to his Misogynist Policies
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Assassination plots reveal India's transnational repression of its citizens
- Jared Kushner building new "Riviera" in Albanian environmentally sensitive area
- Gun safety reformers seeking to prevent gun violence at polling centers
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Columbia University journalism professor Helen Benedict: The Criminalization of Pro-Palestinian, Anti-War Student Protesters
The Intercept D.C. Bureau Chief Ryan Grim: Biased Cable News Gaza War Coverage Skews American Public Opinion
National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: Biden Expands ACA Health Insurance Program to DACA Recipients
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Arun Kundnani: Weaponizing Antisemitism Fuels Dishonest Repression of Students Protesting Israel’s Vicious Gaza War
Alice Hu: Protest at Citibank Headquarters Kicks of ‘Summer of Heat’ Actions Targeting Wall Street Fossil Fuel Financiers
Kim Ives: Haiti Crisis Draws International Intervention for Third Time in 30 Years
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Zuma's comeback in South African elections
- Republicans are cutting climate funding that mostly benefits red state farmers
- Native Americans receive longer prison sentences than non-Natives
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Tikun Olam publisher Richard Silverstein: In a First, Biden Administration Poised to Sanction Israeli Military Unit for Human Rights Abuses
Yale hunger strikers: Student Hunger Strikers Call for Yale Divestment from Companies Providing Weapons to Israel
Inside Climate News reporter Kiley Price: Victory in European Climate Crisis Lawsuit Could Influence Parallel Efforts Worldwide
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Mexico has cracked down on migrants traveling to the U.S.
• Chevron profited from illegal surface spills
• Whistleblowers call out management culture at Boeing
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Boston University professor Assaf Kfoury: After Iran Retaliation Against Israel’s Bombing of Embassy in Syria, Netanyahu Threatens Counterattack
Independent journalist Julie Dermansky: Media Coverage Lapse of 2023 Marathon Petroleum Refinery Fire Leaves Residents Vulnerable
Mother Jones fellow Katie Herchenroeder: Arizona Supreme Court Revives ‘Zombie’ 1864 Abortion Ban
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Tension between China and the Philippines heating up
• Why did the US Navy kill Arizona’s housing bill?
• Florida slates referendum on constitutional amendment on abortion
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Former CIA analyst and author Melvin Goodman: Israel’s Attack on Iran’s Syrian Embassy Could Trigger a Perilous Regional War
The Lever investigative reporter Katya Schwenk: The Supreme Court May be Poised to Weaken Federal Anti-Corruption Laws, Legalize Bribery
FAIR intern Phillip HoSang: Trump, GOP, Right-wing Media Weaponize Disinformation on Immigration
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Russia’s Black Sea naval base ambitions in Abkhazia, Georgia
- Rural America’s ‘hidden’ homeless
- Trump Media saved by Russian-American under criminal investigation
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Physicians for Reproductive Health former board chairwoman Dr. Kristyn Brandi: Abortion and Reproductive Rights are on the 2024 Election Ballot
Hartford Catholic Worker co-founder Jackie Allen Doucot: Activists at Groton Submarine Base Protest the Ongoing Threat of Nuclear War
Independent journalist Arvind Dilawar: Israeli Propagandists Target US Journalists, Skewing Coverage of Gaza War
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Niger coup regime closes US counter-terrorism military base, troops
• Novo Nordisk insulin manufacturer cuts prices, then discontinues it
• ProPublica reports railroad safety data omits deaths, severed limbs
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Georgetown University Justice and Peace Program Adjunct Lecturer Josh Ruebner: After 5 Months of Palestinian Carnage, US Finally Allows Passage of UN Gaza Ceasefire Resolution
Faith Coalition to Stop Cop City member Rev. Keyanna Jones: ‘Stop Cop City’ Opponents Fight for Atlanta Voters to Decide Fate of Militarized Police Training Facility
Institute for Policy Studies Fellow Karen Dolan: Assessing Biden’s Domestic Policy Agenda as 2024 Election Campaign Heats Up
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• China's Article 23 National Security Law tightens grip on Hong Kong dissent
• Electric vehicles raise prospect of UAW, environmental activism alliance
• Trump plans to make massive tax cuts for rich, corporations permanent
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The Nation Senior Editor Jack Mirkinson: Biden’s Contradictory, Deadly Gaza Policies Prioritize Rhetoric Over Action
Center for Economic and Policy Research Senior Research Associate Jake Johnston: US and Other Nations Intervene Once Again in Haiti to Address a Crisis They Helped Create
Elder Climate Activist Karen 'River' Bixler Risks Freedom and Health in Mountain Valley Pipeline Protest
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- India enacts law seen as ‘discriminatory’ to Muslims
- Four US banks have dropped the Equator Principles
- UnitedHealth exploits an ‘emergency’ it created
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Oxfam America President Abby Maxman and Harvard Medical School assistant professor and Doctors Against Genocide member Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle: Humanitarian Crisis and Starvation Used as a Weapon of War in Gaza Demands Immediate Ceasefire
Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability founder Mazin Qumsiyeh: Beyond the Devastation in Gaza, Repression & Violence Impact Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank
Journalist, historian and author Rick Perlstein: Corporate Media Coverage of Election 2024 is Riven by Journalistic Malpractice
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• Fighting flares in the eastern Congo
• How Bogotá became an environmental hawk
• Nevada Supreme Court issues major water ruling
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Arab American Institute President James J. Zogby: Ongoing Gaza Catastrophe Rouses Michigan Primary Voters to Send Biden a Message
Jewish Israeli anti-apartheid peace activist Ofer Neiman: The World and Americans Must Hold All Israeli Institutions Accountable for Occupation, Apartheid and Genocide
Former Connecticut Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher: SCOTUS Review of Trump’s Total Immunity Claim Effectively Delays Jan. 6 Trial Until After Election
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- US eyes Asia natural gas market as Texas pipeline OK'd to connect Mexico LNG export terminals
- Progressive states proposing "Mansion taxes" to address homelessness, affordable housing
- Israel AIPAC lobby's strategy to defeat Democratic progressives
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"The Dissenter" Editor Kevin Gosztola: Julian Assange Fights Last Battle to Stop UK Extradition to US
For a Better Bayou founder James Hiatt: Worldwide Protests Demand Insurance Companies Stop Fueling the Climate Crisis
St. Joseph's University associated professor Theodore Hamm: New Information Emerges in the Assassination of Malcolm X Implicating the FBI
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• Thousands march in protest against Mexican President Lopez Obrador
• Dwindling water source for High Plains towns in eight states
• Medical collection cases clog U.S. courtrooms
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Former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman: As Ukraine War Enters 3rd Year, It’s Time to Stop the Killing
Veterans for Peace National Director Mike Ferner and Eisenhower Media Network Associate Director Matthew Hoh: Veterans for Peace Demands Biden Stop Sending Weapons to Israel, Investigate Violation of US Law
Appalachian Voices Director of Govern Affairs and Strategy Chelsea Barnes: Coalition Proposes Federal Legislation to Clean-up Zombie Coal Mines’ Environmental Hazards
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• Thousands of India's farmers march for crop subsidies
• EPA rule forces oil states to cut methane emissions
• Southern Hyundai workers joining UAW union drive
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Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Biden’s Ineffectual Response to Israel’s Ongoing Carnage in Gaza War
Unity Council for East Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment's Hilary Flint: One Year After East Palestine Toxic Train Derailment, Residents Still Seeking Help on Heath Impacts
Free Speech for People's Amira Mattar: SCOTUS Hearing on Colorado’s Removal of Trump from State Ballot Ignores Role as Insurrectionist
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• Germany's far right AfD has secret plan to deport millions
• Wildfires sweep through Chile’s coastal hills
• Asbestos victims and families condemn Koch brothers
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Code Pink Women for Peace Co-Founder Medea Benjamin: Preventing a Wider Middle East War Linked to Ending Israel’s Brutal War in Gaza
Vessel Project founder and CEO Roishetta Ozane: Biden Pause on Approving LNG Export Terminals Won’t Solve Frontline Communities’ Health Hazards
San Diego City College professor Justin Akers Chacón: GOP and Far Right Forces Provoking National Emergency at Southern Border
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- Former NSO Group CEO may be 'whitewashing' Pegasus with new Dream Security
- Mexico likely to set debate talking points in 2024 presidential election
- How Walmart's financial services became a fraud magnet
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Former UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk: Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Has Now Killed 25,000 Palestinians
Climate Defiance organizer Maxwell Downing: Direct Action Climate Group Targets Retiring Sen, Joe Manchin as “Climate Super Villain”
Stand Up America's Tishan Weerasooriya: Supreme Court Poised to Decimate Federal Regulations on Pollution, Climate, Public Health
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• 4 ways to ease Cuba's humanitarian crisis
• NYPD faces backlash as it plans to encrypt radio communications
• Labor law violations federal investigations fall to record low
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Yale professor and author of 'How Fascism Works' Jason Stanley: Trump's Fascist Threat to Democracy Downplayed by US Media
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws' Political Director Morgan Fox: US Dept of Health and Human Services Recommends Marijuana be Classified as a Schedule III Drug
Smith College professor and MS magazine Contributing Editor Carrie Baker: U.S. Courts Uphold States’ Extremist Abortion Laws Endangering Lives
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- Somalia attempts to nullify Ethiopia’s Red Sea port plan
- Most states don't warn about forever chemicals in fish
- LA landlords work hard to profiteer from rentals
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Human rights laywer Robert L. Herbst: South Africa Files International Court of Justice Case Accusing Israel of Genocide in Gaza
Nonviolence International Director Michael Beer: Protest at US Holocaust Museum Demands Response to Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington senior counsel Nikhel Sus: Two States Rule Insurrectionist Donald Trump Ineligible to Appear on 2024 Ballot
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• Myanmar's internal conflict could be a challenge for China
• Homeless residents face uncertainty as encampment sweeps gain steam
• Some states pushing Fair Share millionaire tax to quell public transit quagmires
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Palestinian-American Dr. Dana Elborno: Physician Relates the Horror Palestinians Face in Gaza as Israel-Hamas War Continues into 2024
National Popular Vote's Christopher Pearson: Group Challenging America’s Undemocratic Electoral College System Gaining Support
Clean Slate's Rodney Moore, Phil Kent and Helen Caraballo: Connecticut’s Clean Slate Law Seals Criminal Records of People Convicted of Misdemeanors, Some Felonies
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• US conducts a high-profile prisoner swap with Venezuela
• Canadian court awards compensation to First Nations
• How carbon capture and storage could create NY fracking spree
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Salon senior politics writer Amanda Marcotte: If Re-elected, Trump Vows to Impose a Fascist Regime. But Are Americans Listening?
Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson: A Bipartisan ‘Fiscal Commission’ is GOP’s Latest Threat to Cut Social Security, Medicare Benefits
Yale University Local 33 grad student union member Sasha Tabachnikova: After 30 Years of Organizing, Yale Grad Student Union Local 33 Wins First Contract
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• Brazil's president must work out who owns Amazon to save it • U.S. Deep South epicenter of new AIDS crisis • Corporate media's blind spot for right-wing political violence
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Palestinian-American writer Samer Badawi: Biden Has The Power to Stop Israel’s Carnage in Gaza
Greenfaith Executive Director Fletcher Harper: COP28 Showcase for False Solutions Fails to Make Urgently Needed Progress Addressing Climate Crisis
SUNY economics professor emeritus Michael Zweig: New Book Examines the Issues of Class, Race, Gender and the Injuries of Capitalism
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• French President Emmanuel Macron's immigration bill fails
• U.S. labor law is the barrier to UAW expansion
• Pro-Israel lobby backing primary challenges to The Squad
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Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's Will Creeley: Protecting Free Speech on Campus as Israel-Hamas War Stokes Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia
National Immigration Law Center's Kica Matos: Republicans Tie Support for Israel, Ukraine Aid to Imposing New Draconian Immigration Laws
Climate activist and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Peter Kalmus: Too Little, Too Late at the UN COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai
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• Italy ends participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative
• Medicare Advantage enrollees in 46 states unable to switch back to Medicare without financial risk
• EPA wants unprecedented total removal of lead pipes
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Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Executive Vice President Trita Parsi: Biden Pays High Price for Embrace of Israel’s Deadly Gaza Attack
Palestinian engineer and social justice activist Salma Abu Ayyash: Indigenous Activists Embrace Palestinian Struggle for Human Rights & Self-Determination
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Yale history professor Greg Grandin and National Security Archive's Peter Kornbluh: The Dark, Violent Legacy of Henry Kissinger
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Saudi Arabia is working to drive up oil demand in Africa
• In Michigan's Macomb County, uncertainty over ‘Bidenomics’
• How the AR-15 became America’s best selling rifle
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The Friends Committee on National Legislation Legislative Director Hassan El-Tayyab: After Gaza Humanitarian Pause, Hostage/Prisoner Release, Activists Push for Permanent Ceasefire
Harvard University Kirkland & Ellis professor of law Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Federal Appeals Court Ruling Further Erodes 1965 Voting Rights Act and US Democracy
Canadian Indian residential school system survivor Harriet Prince: Canadian Indian School Survivor Shares Her Story at Annual ‘National Day of Mourning’ Rally
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- U.S. is expanding its military presence in Greenland
- Millions of Americans are losing their Medicaid coverage
- Wisconsin justices poised to eliminate gerrymandered districts
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America's leading public interest lawyer Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader on Israel’s War in Gaza and the Shocking Loss of Over 13,000 Palestinian Lives
Documentary producer, author and journalist James Bamford: Israel’s US Spy Network Aims to ‘Smash’ Student Activists who Support Palestinian Rights
Belkis Teran: Mother of ‘Stop Cop City’ Activist Slain by Atlanta Police Brings her Healing Message to Mid-November Protest
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Mass killings as Sudanese paramilitaries seize western Darfur
• Britain is reversing climate-friendly policies
• Chicago to vote on public funding to address housing crisis
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Democracy for the Arab World Now Executive Director Sarah Leah Whitson: Israel’s Mass Killing of Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, War Crimes and U.S. Complicity
Jewish Voice for Peace Media Coordinator Liv Kunins-Berkowitz: Jewish Voice for Peace Protests Demand Biden, Congress Pressure Israel to Accept Gaza Ceasefire
Ohio Democratic Party former chairman David Pepper: Ohio Voters Overcome GOP Obstacles to Approve Abortion Access Constitutional Amendment
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Pakistan carries out a mass expulsion of Afghans
- China has become the world’s biggest debt collector
- IRS says Microsoft owes $28.9 billion in back taxes
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Arab American Institute co-founder and President James J. Zogby: As Israeli Bombs Kill 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza, Worldwide Protests Demand Humanitarian Ceasefire
Empire State College Assistant Professor of labor studies Jeff Schuhrke: UAW Strike Ends Winning Historic Agreements with Big 3 Automakers
Concerned Health Professionals of New York co-founder Dr. Sandra Steingraber: New Edition of ‘Compendium on Fracking’ Finds Health Hazards Linked to Home Use of Natural Gas
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• Argentine Economy Minister Sérgio Massa heads to runoff election against libertarian Javier Milei
• Billion of dollars to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells a drop in the bucket
• Voters in 10 states trying to protect abortion rights as GOP sets up roadblocks
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New York University professor Zachary Lockman: As Netanyahu Rejects Ceasefire, Israel Escalates Gaza Assault, Worsening Humanitarian Catastrophe
Huffington Post senior politics reporter Jennifer Bendery: GOP's New Speaker of the House is a Christian Right Extremist
Amistad Catholic Worker activist Mark Colville: New Haven Activists Address Housing Crisis, Building Tiny Houses in Their Backyard
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• U.S. eases Venezuelan oil sanctions after Maduro agrees to elections • Anti-Dobbs election strategy heads South • Dallas climate activists win major investment in green transit
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Middle East Children's Alliance Executive Director Zeiad Shamrouch: 5,000 Gaza Civilians Killed in Humanitarian Disaster as Water, Food, Fuel & Medical Supplies Blocked
Center for International Policy Senior Fellow Mel Goodman: Israel’s Planned Gaza Ground Offensive Could Trigger Wider Middle East War
Environmental Working Group advocate Susan Little: California Food Safety Act Banning Use of Four Chemical Food Additives Likely to Impact the Nation
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Historic drought lowers Amazon River levels, endangering indigenous peoples • States, major cities urge expedited work authorization permits for growing number of asylum seekers • Toxic waste cleanup worker safeguards lagging in $150 billion disaster restorationindustry
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Institute for Policy Studies and author Phyllis Bennis: Only a Ceasefire and De-Escalation Can Stop the Rising Civilian Death Toll in Gaza and Israel
Jewish-Israeli anti-apartheid peace activist Ofer Neiman: Israelis United in Response to Hamas Attack, But Many Blame Netanyahu for his Failure to Protect the Nation
University of California research professor Nelson Lichtenstein: The UAW Strike: What’s at Stake for the U.S. Labor Movement
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The Nation Magazine's National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols: Hamas’ Brutal Attack on Israel Provokes New Cycle of Bloodshed and Vengeance
Yale-New Haven Hospital's Dr. Sharon Chekijian: Azerbaijani Military Operation Succeeds in Ethnic Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh
Stop Cop City organizer Jamie Peck: Major ‘Stop Cop City’ Protest Action Planned for Nov. 10-13
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• South China Sea's other crisis: irreparable environmental damage & deep sea mining
• GOP now refusing to fund AIDS relief to programs that partner with abortion clinics
• Wildfire smoke eroding decades of air quality improvement
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Democracy for the Arab World Now's Advocacy Director Raed Jarrar: Biden Effort to Normalize Israel–Saudi Relations Provides Support to Repressive Governments
Environment California's Director Laura Deehan: California Leads Nation with Climate Legislation and Launches Lawsuit Targeting Big Oil
Just Associate's Global Solidarity & Learning Coordinator Laura Carlsen: Mexico Poised to Make History by Electing First Woman President in June 2024 Election
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• Families of 43 missing Mexican students march to demand answers
• Pentagon misled Congress about U.S. bases in Africa
• Maine tries to take back its utilities
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"Cult of Trump" author Steven Hassan: Cult Expert Concerned a Trump 2024 Defeat will Again Incite Supporters to Violence
Climate Defiance activist Betty Moose: 'Climate Defiance' Targets Government Officials Who Aren’t Using Their Power to Address (the) Climate Crisis
Economics professor emeritus Richard D. Wolff: BRICS Nations' Rise: Shaping a New Global Economy the US and its Allies No Longer Dominate
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• Southeast Asian nations flooded with West's plastic junk waste
• Dollar General moves into the health market
• Super-rich oil heirs back organizing against fossil fuels
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The Lever Editor Lucy Dean Stockton: UAW Strike Demands Fairness for Workers, as US Automakers Spend Billions on Stock Buybacks
Wisconsin Examiner Editor-in-Chief Ruth Conniff: GOP Attacks Wisconsin’s Democratic Institutions to Maintain Grip on Minority Rule
Leonard Peltier supporters Holly Cook Macarro and Fawn Sharp: Supporters of America’s Longest Serving Political Prisoner Urge Biden His Release
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Kenya launches inquiry into British soldiers' abuse of its citizens
- Tennessee county using opioid settlement funds to collect highway litter
- Progressive Caucus pushing End Child Poverty Act
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"War Made Invisible" author Norman Solomon: 22 Years After 9/11, It’s time to Reassess the U.S. War on Terror
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory climate scientist Peter Kalmus: Climate Activists are Doing the Most Important Work on Planet Earth Right Now
Vote to Stop Cop City spokesperson Paul Glaze: RICO Indictment of 61 ‘Stop Cop City’ Activists Criminalizes Dissent, Sets Dangerous Precedent
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Mexico’s Supreme Court eliminates all federal criminal penalties for abortion
• North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia making it harder for ex-felons to vote
• Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's private equity backer linked to Jeffrey Epstein
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Oxfam America Seniors Research Adviser Dr. Kaitlyn Henderson: Oxfam’s ‘Best States to Work’ Report Highlights State Policies Helping and Hurting American Workers
Prison Policy Institute Communications Strategist Wanda Bertram: New Report Finds Climate Change-Driven Higher Temperatures in Prisons Leads to Increased Deaths
Beyond Nuclear Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist Cindy Folkers: Japan’s Dumping Fukushima’s Radioactive Water in Pacific Linked to Long Term Health Hazards
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- The Inuit plan to reclaim their sea
- Fired Veritas founder under investigation in New York
- Farmworkers wearing protective clothing suffering heat-related illnesses
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Right-wing Watch Managing Director Peter Montgomery: Confronting Link Between GOP’s Racist Rhetoric and Rising Terrorist Hate Crimes
Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania board president Dr. Ned Ketyer: New Pennsylvania Study Links Fracking Extraction Operations to Childhood Cancer & Asthma
Award-winning investigative journalist Allan Nairn: Guatemalans Elect New President who Pledges to Restore Democracy
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Ecuador voters reject Amazon drilling
• Biden cracks down on Cytrox and Intellexa spyware
• The push for zero-emission trains and good union jobs
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Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics Vice President & Chief Counsel Donald Sherman: Campaign to Disqualify Trump from 2024 Election Ballot Gains Traction
Public Citizen's Democracy Campaign Co-Director Jonah Minkoff-Zern: Georgia’s RICO Indictment Seeks to Tell Full Story of Trump-GOP Election Subversion
Palestine Institute for Biodiversity & Sustainability founder Mazin Qumsiyeh: Israeli Occupation and Colonization’s Impact on Palestinian West Bank’s Biodiverse Ecosystem
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Climate crisis hitting minority communities harder
• Some cities pushing to overcome rent control obstacles
• Brazil’s former president accused of trying to sell official gifts
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The Nation DC Bureau Chief Chris Lehmann: US Media Repeating Same Mistakes Covering Trump ’24 Presidential Campaign
Hartford, CT Catholic Worker community member Jackie Allen Doucot: Civil Disobedience Actions at European Air Base Links Threat of Nuclear Weapons with Climate Crisis
City College of San Francisco emeritus professor Abdul Jabbar: Report Charges US Pressured Pakistan to Oust the Nation’s Prime Minister Imran Khan
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Is Cameroon the next Sudan?
• Big Dairy is milking California dry
• Payday lenders engage in reverse redlining
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Journalist and author Sasha Abramsky: US Democracy Hangs in Balance as Trump Faces 2020 Election Subversion Indictment
Pen America Managing Director Nadine Farid Johnson: Pen America & Penguin-Random House Sue a Florida County School District Over Book Bans
Freelance reporter Tim Rowland: Affordable Housing Crisis in the Adirondacks, Echo of a Pervasive Trend Across the U.S.
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
• Russia's Wagner Group disappeared and executed civilians in Mali
• China is far ahead of the U.S. in rare earth mining
• One year after union victory, Amazon still refuses to recognize union
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RootsAction co-founder Jeff Cohen: ‘Step Aside Joe’ Campaign Underscores Risks for Democracy as Joe Biden Runs for Re-election
Fossil Free Media Director Jamie Henn: Fossil Fuel Industry Must Pay for the Climate Crisis They’ve Profited From
University of Southampton (UK) professor of oceanography and climate Robert Marsh: Predictions of a Future Collapse of a Vital Atlantic Ocean Current Linked to the Climate Crisis
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Putin to miss BRICS summit to evade International Criminal Court warrant
• EPA closes civil rights investigation into Cancer Alley
• Right-wing activists challenge 100,000 Georgia voter registrations
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Institute for Policy Studies' New Internationalism Project Director Phyllis Bennis: Israeli Pro-Democracy Activists Detached from Palestinian Struggle for Basic Human Rights
Thacker Pass activist and attorney Will Falk: Indigenous Tribes and Conservationists Oppose Nevada Lithium Mine on Sacred Site
Get Free Executive Director Nicole Carty: Youth Activists Protest Regressive SCOTUS Rulings and Larger Attack on US Multi-Racial Democracy
Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary
- Fukushima wastewater plan puts Tokyo in hot water
- California lawmakers struggle to drop fossil fuels from state pensions
- Mondaire Jones is back when Democrats need him most
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Former Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper: Ohio GOP’s August 8th ‘Issue 1’ Referendum Would Impose Minority Rule
Jacobin Staff Writer Alex N. Press: Teamsters Union Prepares for Historic Strike Against UPS
New York psychiatrist Dr. Yochai Re’em: Long COVID Patients Band Together to Share Data on Effective Treatment
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Brazil's electoral judges ban Bolsonaro from running for office until 2030
- Biden pledge to build new chip plant with union labor less than ideal
- Why Sioux tribes won't accept $100 million from government for land
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Arms Control Association Executive Director Daryl Kimball: House Progressives Propose Measure to Block Biden’s Transfer of Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
Rutgers University adjunct professor of philosophy Ben Burgis: Biden Believes Right-Wing Extremist Supreme Court ‘Not Normal,’ But Resists Calls for Reform
Public Services Loan Forgiveness support website founder Christina Ceballos: After Supreme Court Rejects Biden Student Debt Relief Plan, Public Service Workers Have Another Option
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Burkina Faso gold mines may have been Wagner Group's next project
- Guatemalan voters leaning to left presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo
- 600,000 North Carolinans now eligible for Medicaid coverage
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American Association of University Professors General Counsel Risa Lieberwitz: Extremist Supreme Court Majority Ignores Decades of Precedent and Systemic U.S. Racism to Overturn Affirmative Action
Young Invincibles' Executive Director Kristin McGuire: After Supreme Court Blocks Biden Student Debt Relief Plan, Advocates Continue to Push for Debt Cancellation
Independent filmmaker Josh Fox: New Documentary Film ‘The Welcome Table’ Brings Attention to the Global Climate Migration Crisis
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Rice feeds 3 billion people—but also fuels climate change
- Corn, soy, wheat may not be harvested due to Midwest drought
- Will other racial, ethnic groups support California Black reparations?
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Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson: Opponents Gear Up to Fight GOP’s Latest Plan to Cut Social Security & Medicare
Environmental and climate justice leader Elizabeth Yeampierre: As Climate Crisis Worsens, Environmental Regulations Sacrificed to Reach Debt Ceiling Deal
Clafkin University Assistant Professor Robert Greene II: Ensuring Juneteenth Federal Holiday Remains Radical and Relevant to Today’s Civil Rights Struggle
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Global demand for coal hit a new high in 2022 • Colombian indigenous protest Irish packaging giant
• Bipartisan Farm Bill efforts to protect family farms could be upended
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Salon.com senior politics writer Amanda Marcotte: GOP Threat of Violence After Trump’s Federal Indictment Spreads Across the Nation
Rep. Rashida Tlaib: Protesting Deal to Build Mountain Valley Pipeline, Rep. Tlaib Says Corporate Greed is Killing Us
Portland State University professor emeritus of political science Mel Gurtov: The Urgent Need to Reduce Rising US-China Tensions and Avert Future Conflict
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Germany's far right polling at record high
- Brazil police charge alleged mastermind behind Amazon murders
- Drag performers resist anti-trans legislation
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Americans for Tax Fairness policy consultant Will Rice: Nation’s Poor, Students & Climate Lose in Deal to End GOP Federal Debt Ceiling Extortion
Food & Water Watch Legal Director Tarah Heinzen: Supreme Court Weakens EPA Enforcement of Clean Water Act Endangering Wetlands
Atomic veteran Hank Bolden, Golden Rule Captain Kiko Johnston-Kitazawa and crew member Bill Good: Historic Cold War-Era Peace Boat Sails Again to Demand Nuclear Abolition
**Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
•** United Nations: Rohingya refugees in ‘state of desperation’
• Remarkable successes for Minnesota progressives
• Demands for shakeup at United Food and Commercial Workers Union
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New York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Candidate Ron DeSantis Poses Unique Threat to Democracy
National Priorities Project Program Director Lindsay Koshgarian: Massive Pentagon Budget Increased Under Proposed Debt Ceiling Deal
Haven's Harvest Executive Director Lori Martin: Food Rescue Group Feeds The Hungry, Protects the Environment
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- South Africa’s non-alignment is challenged
- Western states agree to breakthrough water deal
- New generation of coal miners dying from Black Lung disease
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Cornell University law professor Robert C. Hockett: Biden’s Invocation of 14th Amendment Would Neutralize GOP Debt Ceiling Threat
National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: After Title 42 Biden’s New Immigration Policies Make it More Difficult for People Seeking Asylum in the US
"How Fascism Works" author and Yale professor Jason Stanley: Fascist Republican Party Declares War on U.S. Democracy, While Imposing Minority Rule
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Tens of thousands evacuated due to dozens of wildfires in Alberta, Canada
- Students imperiled as stopped freight trains block crossings
- Teamsters begin major Amazon fight over delivery truck drivers
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MoveOn.org Executive Director Rahna Epting: MoveOn Targets Fox News’ Corporate Advertisers for Funding Dangerous Lies and Disinformation
Prison Policy Initiative Communications Director Mike Wessler: Census Bureau Prison Gerrymandering Policy Skews Electoral Representation
The Lever Senior Editor Andrew Perez: Right-wing Billionaire-Funded ‘No Labels’ Group Financing 2024 Third Party Spoiler Presidential Bid
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Climate change drives East Africa drought, famine risk
- Justice Thomas' patron Crow purchased citizenship in St. Kitts, Nevis
- Immigrants working to unionize meatpacking workers
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Common Cause Director of Constitutional Convention & Protect Dissent Program Viki Harrison: Right-Wing Push for Article V Constitutional Convention Threatens Basic Liberties
Christians for the Mountains Co-Founder Allen Johnson: Despite Drop in Coal Production, Destructive Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Continues
In These Times Magazine Executive Director Alex Han: New In These Times Magazine Director Ponders the Future of Progressive Media
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Somalia on the brink of famine
- 4-day work week could be closer than realized
- Fear renewed after informant infiltrated Black Lives
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The Intercept Senior Editor Peter Maass: Dominion Lawsuit Wasn’t Launched to Protect Democracy from Fox News Propaganda
Trustees for Alaska Senior Attorney Bridget Psarianos: Willow Project ‘Climate Bomb’ is Gateway to More Oil, Gas Development in Fragile Arctic
Stand Up America Managing Director of Policy & Political Affairs Brett Edkins: Supreme Court Justice Thomas’ Ethics Violations Demand Congressional Action
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Two generals at the heart of Sudan's civil strife
- Wall Street bonuses down but still dwarf worker pay increases
- Climate activists find Biden's fossil fuel stance not strong enough on clean energy
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Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy: Texas Judge’s Ruling Banning Widely Used Abortion Drug Based on Ideology, Not Science
Rainforest Action Network Research Manager April Merleaux: Amid the Deepening Climate Crisis, Banks Invested Staggering $673 Billion in Fossil Fuel Projects in 2022
Climate Defiance action organizer Rylee Haught: Climate Defiance Activists Plan Blockade of White House Correspondents Dinner April 29th
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- U.S., EU condemn Myanmar military airstrikes on Sagaing province
- Right-wing legal activist accused of laundering $73 million via nonprofits
- IRS overhaul aims for 10-fold increase on audits for wealthy
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Manuel “Manny” Oliver: Father of Parkland School Shooting Victim Calls for National Education Strike to Demand Action on Gun Violence
Labor and racial justice activist Bill Fletcher Jr.: New Tactics are Required to Resist and Defeat GOP Authoritarianism
Socialist Action staff writer Jeffrey Mackler: Massive Protests in France Continue to Oppose Increase in Pension Retirement Age
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• 8 U.S. has troublesome ally, the Marcos-led Philippines, against China
• Cigna saved millions of dollars by rejecting claims in automated system
• Former teacher, union organizer, county officials wins Chicago mayoral race
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Gaslit Nation co-host Sarah Kendzior: As Trump is Indicted, Threats of Political Violence From His Supporters Surge
Georgetown University adjunct lecturer Josh Ruebner: Israelis Protest Netanyahu’s Threat to Democracy, but Ignore Rising Violence Targeting Palestinians
Hip Hop Caucus President & CEO Rev. Lennox Yearwood: From Slavery to Fossil Fuels, Banks Have Been an ‘Industry of Injustice’
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Germany's hardline conservative party prevails in Berlin election
- United Auto Workers union elects reform president
- NYC council pushes for changes to NYPD handling of protests
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Political strategist and author Rachel Bitecofer: Trump & GOP Embrace of Political Violence Threatens to Extinguish Democracy
Greenpeace USA Co-Executive Director Ebony Martin: Senior Climate Activists Protest ‘Dirty Banks’ Financing of Fossil Fuel Projects
ERA Coalition's Bettina Hager: After 51 Years, Campaign Continues to Ratify Equal Rights Amendment
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Macron survives narrow no-confidence vote after raising pension age
• New era of COVID now in hands of private health marketplace
• Financial industry eyeing emergence of clean energy-as-a-service
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Economist James S. Henry: Recent Bank Failures Demand Tougher Federal Regulation
Code Pink Co-Director Medea Benjamin and author Nicolas Davies: 20 Years Later, Echoes of US Iraq Invasion Seen in Russia’s Ukraine War
Rocking Chair Rebellion member Kendall Hale: Elder Activists Join ‘Stop Cop City’ Protests as Valued Climate Movement Allies
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Mexico to investigate alleged human rights abuses by military
• Railroad companies shared sensitive data before merger
• Democratic party of Nevada riven by division
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Human Rights Campaign's Tori Cooper and Lindsey Clark: GOP Pushes Repressive Laws Targeting LGBTQ Community, Trans Youth & Drag Shows
Feminist, abortion activist and writer Steph Black: Republicans Strive to Outlaw Medication Abortion in All 50 States
Activist Fiona Mac and independent journalists Kat Morris: Stop Cop City Protests Today’s Frontline on Issues of Police Violence and Environmental Justice
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- European rush for clean power
- Historic deal to protect international waters
- Court case threatens tribal sovereignty
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University of Pennsylvania media policy professor Victor Pickard: Fox News’ Republican Propaganda Machine Tests the Limits of Free Speech Delaware Riverkeeper Network Deputy Director Tracy Carluccio: After Ohio Train Derailment Biden, Congress Must Implement New Safety Standards, Worker Protections
Center for Economic and Policy Research Program Associated Sarah Rawlins: ‘Scrap the Cap:’ How to Save Social Security Without Cutting Benefits
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Tunisian dictator incites violence against migrants
- War and subsidies turbocharge green transition
- Railworkers told to stop tagging railcars for broken bearings
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Peace Action Executive Director Jon Rainwater: Putin’s Suspension of New START Treaty Endangers Last Remaining U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Pact
The Real News Network Associate Editor Mel Buer: Toxic Ohio Train Derailment Underscores Urgent Need for Tough Government Regulation
350.org co-founder Bill McKibben: Third Act, Organizing People Over 60 to Defend Democracy and Address the Climate Crisis
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Colombia's President Gustavo Petro election presents social justice opportunity
- Sen. Kyrsten Sinema tied to exploitive Payday lending industry
- $80 billion for IRS is a once-in-a-century chance to collect dues from wealthy
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Florida International University professor emeritus Marvin Dunn: Resisting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Censorship of Black History
Media Matters for America's Vice President of Research and Policy Sergio Muñoz: Fox News Exposed for Consciously Spewing Toxic Propaganda to Their Audience
Lakota Law Project organizer Madonna Thunder Hawk: Reflecting on Progress Made Since the American Indian Movement’s Occupation of Wounded Knee
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Humanitarian crisis in the Amazon
• FTX bankruptcy reveals influence peddling
• Is it time to nationalize the railroads?
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Author and American University professor of political anthropology David Vine: Chinese ‘Spy Balloon,’ New U.S. Philippines Military Bases Inflame U.S.-China Tensions
River Valley Organizing Director Amanda Kiger: Ohio ‘Bomb Train’ Derailment Releases Dangerous Toxic Chemicals
Journalist Bryce Greene: U.S. Corporate Media Ignores Report Concluding U.S. Sabotaged Russia’s Nord Stream Pipeline
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
- India's new bridge to Kashmir dividing the region
- Maternity care deserts in North Carolina rising
- New Hampshire primary no longer first in nation
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People for the American Way's President Svante Myrick: Bigotry and Hate Drives GOP Ouster of Rep. Ilhan Omar from House Foreign Affairs Committee
Stop Cop City activist Shaheen Rana: Police Killing of Forest Protector Activist Won’t Deter Atlanta’s ‘Stop Cop City’ Campaign
Pan-African theorist and author Max Rameau: National Debate on Policies to Address Police Violence Must Include Local Community Control
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Ten years after a coup, a crisis of confidence in Egypt
- Philippine police purge likely uneffective against corruption
- Rep. George Santos' connections to Russian-sanctioned oligarch
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- Physicist and Princeton University professor emeritus Robert Socolow: Nuclear War Threat and Climate Crisis Move ‘Doomsday Clock’ 90 Seconds to ‘Midnight’
- Friends of Hebron Executive Director Issa Amro: Rising Israeli-Palestinian Violence Amid the Oppressive Daily Reality of an Occupied People
- Peruvian sociologist Francesca Emanuele: Long-Running Race and Class Divide in Peru Provokes Protest and Escalating Violence
- Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- South Korea could “acquire its own nukes” - Canada settles residential school lawsuit for $2.8 Billion
- Extreme inequality and gentrification arising in Montana
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- Oxfam America Director of Economic Justice Nabil Ahmed: New Oxfam Report on Rising Global Inequality Calls for 5% Tax on Super-Rich
- Beyond Extreme Energy activist Andy Hinz: U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Approves Projects that Generate Equivalent of 76 Coal Plants
- Aliana Americas Associate Director Nancy Treviño: Crisis on Southern Border Underscores Urgent Need for Reform of U.S. Immigration & Asylum System
- Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Western companies providing weapons, technology to Myanmar junta
-Will the Supreme Court revoke the right to strike?
-Cities rethink fare-free transit as federal Covid subsidies run out
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Author and Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali: GOP Extremists are Burning Down the House
Americans for Tax Fairness policy consultant Will Rice: House Republican Majority Votes to Repeal IRS Funding to Protect Rich Donors, Tax Cheats
Yale grad student union organizers Paul Seltzer and Arita Acharya: After 30 Years of Organizing, Local 33 Wins Yale Grad Student Union
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Ghana has struck a preliminary IMF deal
- EPA seeks tighter limits on soot
- Unions fighting to ensure solar workers are skilled tradesmen
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Stand Up America's Policy and Political Affairs Managing Director Brett Edkins: Two Years After Jan. 6 Insurrection, GOP Continues to Pose Threat to Democracy
PEN America's Freed Expression and Education Director Jonathan Friedman: Groups Organize to Fight Repressive Culture War Book Banning Across America
Stop Cop City organizer Kei: Opponents of Atlanta’s ‘Stop Cop City’ Training Center Accused of Domestic Terrorism
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Chinese army patrol clash with Indian troops near Tibet
- An “electoral reform” in Mexico may make elections less safe
- Companies pioneering clean extraction of lithium under Salton Sea
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Boycott From Within member Ofer Neiman: International BDS Movement Challenges Israel’s New Ultranationalist, Far Right Government
Institute for Policy Studies' Foreign Policy in Focus Director John Feffer: What Motivates Far Right Voters and How to Win Them Back
Defending Rights and Dissent Policy Director Chip Gibbons: As U.S. Pursues Julian Assange Extradition, Press Freedom Groups Demand Charges be Dropped
Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Jan. 4, 2023
- Taiwan responds to Chinese military threat
- Omnibus legislation expands tax benefits for the richest Americans
- Less cops, more student conflict mediation with "restorative practices"
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People for the American Way's incoming President Svante Myrick: Will Jan. 6 House Committee Criminal Referrals Result in Trump Accountability?
United American Indians of New England Co-Leader Mahtowin Munro: United American Indians of New England Leader Reflects on Current State of Indigenous Americas
National Coalition for the Homeless Executive Director Donald Whitehead: New Biden Administration Policy Aims to Reduce Homeless Population 25% in Next Three Years
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Is a third intifada is on the cards?
- Major commitment at COP15 biodiversity summit
- Activist Staughton Lynd dies
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Social Security Works' Executive Director Alex Lawson: GOP Threatens to Hold Federal Debt Limit Hostage to Force Social Security, Medicare Cuts
ACLU of Connecticut Legal Director Dan Barrett: Federal Court Dismisses Challenge to Connecticut’s Trans-Inclusive Student Athletics Policy
March for Our Lives Director of Policy Zeenat Yahya: 10 Years After Sandy Hook School Massacre, Campaign to End Gun Violence Continues
Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary
• Russian Wagner mercenaries in Ukraine
• Uranium pollution lurking in U.S. waters
• Chico subdivision planned on site of 2018 Camp Fire
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Investigative journalist and best-selling author Greg Palast: Georgia GOP Voter Suppression the Media Missed, Likely to Spread Across the U.S.
Starbucks Union organizer Aleah Bacetti: Starbucks Continues Anti-Union Tactics to Slow Unionization Drives
Brown University's School of Public Health's Pandemic Center Director Jennifer Nuzzo: Nursing Homes Unprepared for Ongoing Deadly COVID Pandemic
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Ethiopian guards massacred scores of Tigrayan prisoners
- Mexico’s president wants to develop the poorer south
- Tribes fighting for Colorado river water rights
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Former CIA analyst and Center for International Policy Senior Fellow Mel Goodman: Israel’s Dangerous New Ultranationalist Government Likely to Trigger Crisis
Women's Earth and Climate Action Network Executive Director Osprey Orielle Lake: Climate Activists Mobilize Support for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
FreePress.net Senior Counsel Nora Benavidez: The Wider Impact of Elon Musk’s Devolution of Twitter
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
• Independent journalists flee Russia to regroup, report on Ukraine war
• Amazon collected over $5 billion in economic development subsidies
• Title lenders thrive in states which allow loans with predatory interest rates
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The Nation's national affairs correspondent John Nichols: The Republican Party’s Devolution into a Violent, White Supremacist Threat to Democracy
Salon.com senior political writer Amanda Marcotte: Republicans Blame Single Women for Their Midterm Election Losses
Leonard Peltier's grandson Herbie Waters: Letter from US Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Read at ‘Thanksgiving,’ Day of Mourning Event
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- New leftist Colombia president takes new approach to cocaine
- Biden's green industrial policies not making green jobs good union jobs
- Toxic metal pollution 10x worse in racially segregated communities
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New York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat: GOP’s Embrace of Violence Endangers U.S. Democracy
Climate activists and Fossil Free Media Director Jamie Henn: Assessing the Good, Bad and Ugly at the UN’s COP-27 Climate Summit
Plant the Land Team Co-Director Laura Schleifer: Project Brings Vegan Food to Palestinians in Gaza Suffering Under Israeli Blockade
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• U.S. intelligence report says UAE meddled in American politics
• Canadian indigenous communities set aside vast areas for protection
•New Jersey Casino Reinvestment agency makes housing options worse
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Labor and racial justice activist Bill Fletcher Jr.: Midterm Election a Major Battle in America’s Political Cold War
Voters of Tomorrow Deputy Communications Director Marianna Pecora: Gen Z Vote was Critical in Blocking GOP’s Predicted ‘Red Wave’
Lead attorney Chase Iron Eyes: Supreme Court Challenge to Indian Child Welfare Act Threatens Native American Culture and Survival
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- China fishing industry in standoff with U.S.
- Africa will remain poor unless access to electricity is broadened
- Renters are the most vulnerable to climate change
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Former Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper: State Legislatures are Ground Zero for GOP Assault on Democracy
Mother Jones' Washington Bureau Chief David Corn: New Book Recounts Origins of GOP Extremism and White Supremacy
Climate activist and Yale Divinity School student Tyler Mark Nelson: Faith Groups Taking Action on the Climate Crisis
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Sudan faces 'generational catastrophe' as millions of children miss school
- Guatemalan investigative journalist Jose Ruben Zamora arrested, detained
- Governmental regulations authority under new generation of reformers
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Roots Action co-founder Norman Solomon: In Midterm Election, Progressives Can Play a Pivotal Role to Defeat Fascist Republicans
Prison Policy Initiative Communications Strategist Wanda Bertram: Polling Stations in Jails Provide Opportunity for Eligible Pre-Trial Detainees to Vote
Media Matters Senior Researcher Andrew Lawrence: Corporate Media’s Horse-Race Election Coverage Ignores Critical Issues Important to Voters
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- North Korea-Japan missile tensions
- Who will be Minneapolis's new prosecutor?
- Amy’s Kitchen freezes union drive
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Roots Action co-founder Norman Solomon: In Midterm Election, Progressives Can Play a Pivotal Role to Defeat Fascist Republicans
Prison Policy Initiative Communications Strategist Wanda Bertram: Polling Stations in Jails Provide Opportunity for Eligible Pre-Trial Detainees to Vote
Media Matters Senior Researcher Andrew Lawrence: Corporate Media’s Horse-Race Election Coverage Ignores Critical Issues Important to Voters
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- North Korea-Japan missile tensions
- Who will be Minneapolis's new prosecutor?
- Amy’s Kitchen freezes union drive
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Black Alliance for Peace team on Haiti's Jemima Pierre: Amid Haiti Crisis, Civil Society Groups Oppose Foreign Military Intervention
University of Massachusetts professor emeritus of economics William Lazonick: Big Oil Stock Buybacks Must be Stopped
Indiana University School of Public Health professor emeritus Michael Hendryx: Biden Urged to Restart Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Health Study Halted by Trump
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Gaslit Nation podcast cohost Sarah Kendzior: After Last Jan. 6 House Committee Hearing, Trump Continues to Escape Accountability
Social Security Works Communications Director Linda Benesch: Republicans Propose Policies That Would Weaken or End Social Security and Medicare
Doctors for Camp Closures volunteer Dr. Kate Sugarman: Volunteers Provide Assistance to Asylum Seekers Used as Political Props by GOP Governors
Bob Nixon's Under-reported Weekly Summary
- U.S. says no to emergency liquidity for emerging markets
- Prison labor reform movement hopes to close ‘slavery loophole’
- Amazon suspends workers who refused to work after a fire
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• Yale professor Jason Stanley: Meet Italy’s neo-Fascist Prime Minister-Elect Giorgia Meloni
• National Lawyers Guild past president Marjorie Cohn: Supreme Court Poised to Legalize Election Theft, Further Erode Democracy
• Familias Unidas por la Justicia Political Director Edgar Franks: Amid Rising Temperatures Caused by Climate Change, Farmworkers Union Fights for Safety Regulations
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Flooded West Africa awaits $100 billion annually in climate aid pledged in 2009
- Kushner Company agrees to $3.25 million settlement for shoddy apartments
- Democrats hoping abortion issue and technology aid midterm victories
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Quincy Institute's Director of Grand Strategy George Beebe: As Ukraine War Intensifies, New Poll Finds Americans Want U.S. to Pursue Talks to End the Conflict
Network for Social Justice and Human Rights Director Maria Luisa Mendonça: Polls Get it Wrong in Brazil’s First Round Presidential Election
Grassroots climate groups consultant Drew Hudson: Climate Groups Defeat Joe Manchin’s Fossil Fuel Friendly ‘Dirty Deal’ Legislation
Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary
• Thousands of workers plan to strike this fall
• Over 1,700 environmental activists murdered in the past decade
• Climate change linked to declining wind speeds
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National Iranian American Council's Policy Director Ryan Costello: After the Arrest and Death of Mahsa Amini, Iran Explodes in Protest
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights staff attorney Jake Love: Lawsuit Filed Against Florida Gov. DeSantis for Using Asylum Seekers as Political Props
New Haven Climate Movement activist Patricia Joseph: Young Activists Take Action Demanding City Government Implement Proactive Climate Policies
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• Massive wave of violence and protest spreads across Haiti
• China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan sign a railway feasibility study
• Battle over Minneapolis policing still rages
Common Cause Redistricting Manager Dan Vicuña: Threat to Democracy Looms as Supreme Court Set to Hear Moore v. Harper Case
National Campaign for Transit Justice's leader Libero Della Piana: Massive Investment in Public Transit Needed to Achieve Racial Equity and Climate Justice
Climate Cabinet Deputy Director Emma Fisher: 17 States Criminalize Protests Targeting Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Projects
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Famine engulfs Somalia in the Horn of Africa
- Creative ways Chinese activists attempt to pressure the state
- Water activism bubbles up in suburban Towamencin, Pennsylvania
Portland State University's political science professor emeritus Mel Gurtov: Brazil’s October Election Could Make or Break the Amazon Rainforest
Mountain Valley Pipeline activists Mary Crow and Naadiya Hutchinson: Opponents Rally to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline and ‘Manchin’s Dirty Deal’
University of California's Institute for Health Policy Studies professor Dr. James G. Kahn: Reduced U.S. Life Expectancy Tied with For-Profit Health Insurance System Failure
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Chile's president make major changes to senior team after constitutional failure
- Uranium mill's toxic waste left a New Mexico ghost town
- U.S. senator calls for independent probe into journalist's killing in Israel
Jacobin magazine staff writer Branko Marcetic: Six Months After Russia's Ukraine Invasion, There's Signs a Negotiated End to the War is Possible
University of Connecticut Director of American Studies Christopher Vials: After 18 Months, Biden Finally Responds to Trump and GOP Threat to Democracy
Fair Vote CEO Rob Ritchie: Alaska’s First-Time Use of Ranked Choice Voting Demonstrates a Sound Option for Electoral Reform
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary: • Longtime Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in ill health
• Puerto Rico's Big Pharma tax breaks are larger than government's operating budget
• Wal-Mart and Tyson Foods have turned northwest Arkansas into modern day company towns
Student Debt Crisis Center Executive Director Cody Hounanian: Biden Student Debt Forgiveness Plan a Good Start, But More Must be Done
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics Press Secretary Jenna Grande: Big Oil Donates Over $2 Million to GOP Seditionists
Whiteface Mountain Atmospheric Sciences Research Center Operations Manager Paul Casson: Adirondack Mountain Research Center Tracks Industrial Pollution and Climate Change
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- 1 million Rohingya experience horrific living conditions in world's largest refugee camp
- League of Women Voters takes more activist stance, drawing GOP criticism
- Interns working to make New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward climate resilient
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Investigative reporter and author Greg Palast: New Georgia GOP Voter Suppression Scheme
Assistant professor of labor studies at Empire State College in New York City: Starbucks Engages in Lawless National Anti-Union Campaign
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont: Healthcare Program and Climate Policies
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Chinese military ship Docks in Sri Lanka over India, US objections
- DRC Journalist remains behind bars after release of US reporter
- The engineering degree to defense industry pipeline
Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security President Joseph Gerson: Rising Tensions Between U.S. & China Over Taiwan Risk Miscalculation or Accident
Author and World Mental Health Coalition President Dr. Bandy Lee: Donald Trump and Republican Party’s Dangerous Embrace of Political Violence
Adirondack Voters for Changemember Phyllis Sinclair: Activist Group Launches Campaign to Educate Voters on NY Rep. Stefanik’s Extremist Voting Record
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Pro-democracy activists in Brazil fear possible Bolsonaro coup
- Conservation of UNESCO sites has forced evictions of Indigenous peoples
- Secretive GOP attempt to convert minorities into Republicans
Salon.com's Senior Politics Writer Amanda Marcotte: Speculation Surrounds FBI Raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Residence
Ohio Democratic Party former Chairman David Pepper: State Legislatures are Ground Zero for GOP Assault on Democracy
Protect Our Water, Heritage and Rights Co-Chairman Russell Chisholm: Inflation Reduction Act Passes Senate Trades Climate Provisions for Completion of Gas Pipeline
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Brazil’s weak response to murders threatens indigenous people
- Gig workers bear the brunt of the global economic crisis
- Wisconsin GOP threaten to make elections meaningless
Public Citizen's Access Medicines Program Advocate Steve Knievel: Proposed Senate Bill Requires Medicare to Negotiate a Short list of Drug Prices
American for Tax Fairness' Wealth Tax Campaign Director Maura Quint: Senate Bill Proposes New 15% Corporate Minimum Tax, Closes Carried Interest Tax Loophole
Roanoke, Virginia tour guide Jordan Bell: Roanoke’s Once Vibrant African-American Community Remembered
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- World condemns Myanmar junta for 'cruel' execution of activists
- Pegasus Spyware maker NSO lobbying to get off U.S. blacklist
- Buffalo, N.Y. community activists fight to prevent gerrymandering
Free Speech for People's Legal Director Ron Fein: DOJ Lags on Investigating Trump and GOP Coup Attempt
Food and Water Watch's Policy Director Jim Walsh: With Senate Stalled, Pressure Growing on Biden to Take Immediate Action on Climate Crisis
Citizens for Arsenal Accountability's Co-Chair Alyssa Carpenter: Virginia Group Demands Pentagon End Open Pit Burning of Toxic Military Munitions
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Banks in China's Henan province freezing millions of dollars in depositor accounts
• Hedge fund billionaire spends $54 million fighting tax increase for wealthy
• Texas voter registration hampered by paper supply chain delays
California State University history professor David Yaghoubian: Biden’s Recent Middle East Trip: Long on Controversy, Short on Accomplishments
Political Research Associates Senior Analyst Frederick Clarkson: Christian Extremists’ Embrace of Political Violence Threatens Democracy
National Day Laborer Organizing Network Co-Executive Director Nadia Marin-Molina: Labor Department Issues New Protections for Exploited, Threatened Immigrant Workers
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Pentagon waging secretive proxy wars in the Middle East and Asia
- Uber hired a Russian oligarch-linked lobbyist to start up operations in Moscow
- Food workers union bashes pension fund's private equity conflict of interest
Author and NYC's 1st Public Advocate Mark Green: In Midterm Election, Democrats Must Warn Voters of Dangerous Republican Extremists
Center for International Policy & former CIA Analyst Mel Goodman: As the War in Ukraine Escalates, a Diplomatic Path to Ending the Conflict is Nowhere in Sight
New Haven, CT civil rights attorney Ben Crump: Family of New Haven Man Paralyzed in Police Custody Demands Civil Rights Charges Against Officers
Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary
• 100,000 Mexicans are missing in Mexico's war on drug cartels
• Bitcoin’s intensive energy demands sparking a crypto backlash
• Billionaire GOP mega donor Jeff Yass gaming tax system
Center for Biological Diversity senior attorney Jason Rylander: Supreme Court Extremist Majority Rolls Back EPA Authority to Regulate Pollution, Carbon Emissions
RiseUp4AbortionRights organizer Emma Kaplan: Street Protest and Voting Both Essential to Win Back Reproductive Rights
Los Angeles attorney Bill Blum: U.S. Supreme Court on Track to Impose Minority Rule, Whatever the Cost
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Ecuador reaches economic deal with indigenous protesters
- Buttigieg isn't using his power to go after airline price gouging
- Warming takes toll on Rio Grande River, with aridification
National Lawyers Guild Past President Marjorie Cohn: Overturning Roe v. Wade: American Women Now Second Class Citizens
University of Illinois professor emeritus Francis Boyle: Supreme Court’s ‘Originalists' on Path to Overturn FDR New Deal, Warren Court Precedents
University of California professor Dr. James G. Kahn: Universal Healthcare Could Have Prevented More Than 300,000 U.S. COVID Deaths
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Muslim protests erupt in cities across India
- Billionaire Peter Thiel aspires to be architect of American right
- Tenants fight private equity predators
National Lawyers Guild Past President Marjorie Cohn: Overturning Roe v. Wade: American Women Now Second Class Citizens
University of Illinois professor emeritus Francis Boyle: Supreme Court’s ‘Originalists' on Path to Overturn FDR New Deal, Warren Court Precedents
University of California professor Dr. James G. Kahn: Universal Healthcare Could Have Prevented More Than 300,000 U.S. COVID Deaths
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Muslim protests erupt in cities across India
- Billionaire Peter Thiel aspires to be architect of American right
- Tenants fight private equity predators
Daily Beast columnist and author Wajahat Ali: Republicans and Christian Nationalists Support Jan. 6 Insurrection, Condone Political Violence
Center for Economic and Policy Research program director Alexander Main: Colombians Elect Gustavo Petro, Nation’s First Leftist President
Illinois congressional candidate Eric Sorensen: Meteorologist Turned Congressional Candidate Addresses Climate Change
Gaslit Nation podcast co-host Sarah Kendzior: Will Jan. 6 House Investigation Lead to Accountability for Trump and Coup Co-Conspirators?
Scientist Rebellion ecologist Malik Morrison: Environmental Scientist Joins Campaign to Stop Mountain Valley Fracked Gas Pipeline
Poor People's Campaign Co-Chair Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis: June 18th March on Washington Demands Action on Rising U.S. Poverty
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Nonviolent independent Kashmir activist sentenced to life in prison
- Does inflation or abortion matter more in swing states
- Trailer park residents take on venture capitalists
Common Cause Program Director Yosef Getachew: Groups Work to Stop Disinformation to Protect 2022 Mid-term Elections
Anti-Pipeline Activist Becky Crabtree: West Virginia Novelist Fights Mountain Valley Pipeline
Media for Matters senior researcher Andrew Lawrence: UnFoxMyCableBox Campaign Targets Fox News’ Toxic Rhetoric That Provokes Violence
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Hunger spreads in Afghanistan due to U.S.-led freeze on government assets
- Environmentalists urge reform to 150-year-old mining law
- Fair lending advocates urge overhaul of 1977 Community Reinvestment Act
Former Defense for International Security Affairs Assistant Secretary of Defense Chas Freeman: Biden Upends ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ on Taiwan Over US Response to a Future Chinese Attack
Newtown Action Alliance Chairwoman Po Murray: Texas School Massacre Provokes Renewed Demand for Widely Supported Gun Regulation
West Virginia Rivers Coalition Program Director Autumn Crowe: Walk for Appalachia’s Future Highlights Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Threat to Endangered Species
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Australia's climate election ousts conservatives
- America’s hunger for beef fuels Amazon rainforest destruction
- Oakland closes students' digital divide
New York University Italy History professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat: GOP’s Embrace of Violence Endangers U.S. Democracy
Prison Policy Communications Strategist Wanda Bertram: Northeastern Governors Did Little to Grant Clemency to Prisoners Endangered by Coronavirus Pandemic
Groundwork Collaborative Director of Policy and Research Mike Mitchell: Corporate Price Gouging Exploits Inflation
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
• Gold mining boom ravages Myanmar
• South African energy workers struggle for clean public power
• Fight erupts in Iowa over carbon capture pipelines
Institute for Policy Studies fellow Phyllis Bennis: Palestinian-American Journalist's Murder Provokes Demands for Independent Investigation & Accountability
Free Jessica Reznicek support team member Charlotte Grubb: State Imposes Terrorism Charges Against Anti-Pipeline Activist
The Lever Senior Editor Andrew Perez: GOP Targets Pro-Choice Activists for Peaceful Protests at Homes of Supreme Court Justices
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Turkey is makes diplomatic and corporate push into Africa
- French left coalition to challenge Macron's neoliberal policies
- Texas, a dangerous place to be a Latino worker
Quincy Institute's Grand Strategy Director George Beebe: U.S. Goal to Degrade Russia’s Military Risks Dangerous Escalation Between Two Nuclear Powers
Connecticut State Rep. Matt Blumenthal: Connecticut Passes 1st in Nation Comprehensive Bill Making State an Abortion Safe Haven
The Nation national affairs correspondent John Nichols: Demanding Accountability for America’s Coronavirus Criminals and Profiteers
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Europe slaps new regulations on Big Tech
• Pennsylvania GOP primary draws backing from billionaires
• 30 years after the riots, how far has LA come?
People for the American Way senior fellow Peter Montgomery: Democracy Itself at Stake in Defeating the Republican Culture War
Extinction Rebellion co-founder Christina See: Extinction Rebellion Uses Nonviolent Resistance to Demand Urgent Action on the Climate Crisis
FreePress.net senior counsel Nora Benavidez: Billionaire Elon Musk's Takeover of Twitter Another Symptom of Social Media's Failure
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Dozens of Russian organizations hacked
- Can Venezuela help the West drop Russian oil?
- No-knock raids sometimes fatal with little accountability
Yemeni Alliance Committee chairwoman Jehan Hakim: 70 Groups Call for End to US Complicity in Saudi-led Yemen War that’s Killed Nearly 400,000
Code Pink Women for Peace co-founder Medea Benjamin: Groups Working to Unfreeze Billions of Afghan Assets in US to Fund Humanitarian Aid
Salon.com contributing writer Heather Digby Parton: GOP Openly Conspires to Steal the Next Election
Bob Nixon's Under-reported Weekly Summary:
• Britain seeks to send refugees arriving via English Channel to Rwanda
• Labor shortage stifles new US oil drilling in North Dakota
• Rep. Connor Lamb, D-Pennsylvania, shifts view on campaign finance
University of San Francisco's Stephen Zunes: Russia’s War in Ukraine Exposes Double Standards in International Law and Human Rights
Gamers for Peace's Chris Velazquez: Gamers For Peace Reaches Out to Young People Offering Alternatives to Military Service
National Coalition Against Censorship's Chris Finan: Combating GOP Moral Panic and Classroom Censorship
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Russian bankers have long hidden assets offshore
• Marcos' son may become next Philippines president
• Water is sacred on the Navajo Nation, and scarce
Public Citizen's Alan Zibel: Big Oil Profiteering Amid Catastrophic War in Ukraine
Climate Activist Donna Shaunesey: Climate Activists Blockade Coal-waste Plant Enriching Sen. Manchin Family
University of Georgia Assistant Professor Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo: COVID Racial Disparities Made Many White U.S. Residents Less Supportive of Public Health Measures
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Sri Lanka protesters defy president's cabinet shuffle
- Anti-corruption judge flees Guatemala
- Justin Bibb’s election signals a new era in Cleveland
Peace Action's Jon Rainwater: Diplomacy is Only Path to Decrease Danger of Ukraine War Escalation & Nuclear Catastrophe
National Priorities Project's Lindsay Koshgarian: Biden’s New Pentagon Budget Prioritizes War and Militarization Over Human Need
Free Speech for People's John Bonifaz: DOJ Inaction on Trump Coup Attempt Condemned
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Russian Invasion shadows French election
- Can Ethiopia’s ‘truce’ end its devastating civil war?
- In Appalachia, mine cleanup system has collapsed
Center for International Policy's Mel Goodman: Preconditions Necessary to End Russia’s War in Ukraine
Nonviolence activist Kathy Kelly: U.S. Weapons Feed Yemen War and Humanitarian Crisis
Beyond Extreme Energy's Ted Glick: Campaign Pushes Back Against Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Rubber Stamp of Fossil Fuel Projects
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Colombia presidential, legislative elections lean left
• As the US focuses on Ukraine, Yemen starves
• Due to redlining, 45 million Americans breathing dirtier air today
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft's Marcus Stanley: To End the War US, Must Support Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks
Oxfam America's Robbie Silverman: New International Agreement on the Global Distribution of COVID Vaccines Criticized as Inadequate
Coalition on Human Needs's Deborah Weinstein: Activists Are Working to Fix the Broken U.S. Child Care System
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- UAE chooses oil producers' solidarity over military allies
- Africa's climate funding shortfall
- Parole reform squabble leaves hundreds in New York jails
Institute for Responsible Statecraft's William Hartung: Dangers of Enforcing Ukraine 'No Fly Zone' and Urgent Need for Viable War Exit Strategy
Stand.earth's Nathan Taft: Amid Ukraine War, Climate Groups Call on Biden to Invoke Defense Production Act for Renewables
Climate Psychiatry Alliance's Lise Van Susteren: Climate Anxiety: Addressing the Psychological Effects of Global Warming
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • U.S. thaws on Venezuelan oil sanctions while banning Russian oil
• Clean energy demands could set off environmentally damaging mining booms
• Turbo Tax maker Intuit facing mass consumer arbitration cases
Roots Action's Norman Solomon: Ukraine War Underscores Urgent Need for Nuclear De-escalation
Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution's Michael Hansen: Climate Activists Confront Formidable Influence Wielded by the Alabama Power Company
Jacobin Magazine's Alex N. Press: Starbucks Union Drive Catches Fire Across the US
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
-Stunning fall for ex-Honduran president wanted in US
-Investors bought record number of homes in minority neighborhoods in 2021
-Progressives gain a foothold in Texas
- Center for International Policy's Mel Goodman: After Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine, Can a Wider More Dangerous War with Russia be Averted?
- Author and nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman: In War With Russia, Ukraine’s 15 Nuclear Reactors Vulnerable to Attack & Catastrophic health impacts
- Connecticut state Sen. Marilyn Moore: Combating the Systemic Devaluation and Disregard for the Lives of Women of Color
- Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary-France and allies begin withdrawal from Mali
- Welfare is no substitute for a child tax credit
- High schoolers organized massive walkout for Amir Locke
Retired Army Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson: How War Can be Averted in Ukraine
Newtown Action Alliance's Po Murray: Families of Sandy Hook School Massacre Victims Win Historic Suit Against Remington Arms Company
University of New Brunswick's David Hoffman: The Danger of Extremists Inside Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Top court frees Honduras environmental activists
• Why Texas' power grid still hasn't been fixed
• One in five would-be “Patriot Front” white supremacists tied to U.S. military
Canadian petrochemical economist John Foster: Nord Stream 2 Pipeline & Europe’s Need for Russian Gas, Key Elements in the Ukraine Crisis
Quinnipiac University visiting professor Judge Angela C. Robinson: Critical Race Theory is Target #1 in GOP Culture War
Former inmate Ramon Garcia: Connecticut Activists Continue Campaign to End or Restrict the Use of Solitary Confinement
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
• Thousands protest in Argentina against debt deal
• Biden begins crackdown on power plant pollution
• Right-wing lobby driving laws protecting fossil fuel industry against boycotts
The Nation magazine's Katrina vanden Heuvel: There is a Way Out of the Ukraine Crisis
Yale University's Jason Stanley: Republican Party Officially Endorses Political Violence as a Means to Gain Power
Leonard Peltier's Attorney Kevin Sharp: America’s Longest-Serving Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Has COVID, Supporters Demand His Release
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Once Europe's liberal Hope, Macron now prey to France's toxic populism
- North Korea tests largest missile since 2017
- Gun violence rising as GOP-run states resist tracking illegal gun trafficking
For more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts, visit our website at BTLonline.org, website updated after Wednesdays, 4 p.m. ET
University of Rhode Island's Nicolai Petro: Escalation of Rhetoric in Ukraine Crisis Risks Conflict
People for the American Way's Marge Baker: Biden’s Historic Pledge to Nominate a Black Woman to Supreme Court
Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights Coalition's Russell Chisholm: Mountain Valley Pipeline Opponents Encouraged as Federal Court Vacates Critical Permits
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• US halts Afghanistan humanitarian aid amid famine and sanctions
• Coal and cryptocurrency win over wind power in North Dakota
• Billionaires' Row homeless shelter opens after 4-year court fight
Free Speech for People's Ben Horton: Effort Underway to Challenge Rep. Madison Cawthorn's Right to Run for Public Office
Institute for Policy Studies's Chuck Collins: Taxing Extreme Global Wealth Could Lift 2.3 Billion People Out of Poverty
Center for Media and Democracy's Alex Kotch: Koch Network Funds War on COVID Public Health Measures
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Can Arab Gulf states coax Iran into new nuclear deal?
• After Sudan's October coup, Biden support for democracy questioned
• Farmworkers organizing to close wage gap
Cascade Institute's Thomas Homer-Dixon: Canadian Scholar Warns America is Moving Toward Democracy Collapse & Right-wing Dictatorship
Witness Against Torture's Maha Hilal: After 20 Years, Human Rights Groups Continue to Demand Closure of U.S. Guantanamo Prison
United Mine Workers of America's Phil Smith: Mine Workers Union Split with Manchin on His Opposition to Biden’s Build Back Better Bill
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Protesters call for action to prevent Bosnia sliding into war
• On Mexico's southern border, the latest migration surge is Haitian
• Chase resumes suing indebted customers
Investigative Reporter Greg Palast: Trump & GOP Are Planning to Use the Constitution's 12th Amendment to Steal the Next Election
University of Connecticut Assistant professor Amanda J. Crawford: Dissecting the GOP's 'Big Lie' and Other Toxic Conspiracy Theories
CDC Epidemiologist Ellen Yard: Is There a Link Between the Pandemic and a Dramatic Rise in Suicide Attempts by Adolescent Girls?
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Germany calls nuclear power ‘dangerous’, rejects EU plan
- Amazon is building warehouses in Trump-sponsored opportunity zones
- Trump acolytes vie for key election oversight posts in US midterms
Mel Goodman: Halting NATO’s Eastward Expansion Would Help Resolve U.S.-Russia Ukraine Crisis
René Rojas: Major Challenges Ahead for Chile’s New Progressive President
Karen Igou and Coby Owens: Occupy Biden Protest Encampment Calls on President to ‘Declare a Climate Emergency’
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Kim Jong Un prioritizes nuclear program as vital to his regime
• In Mexico, fertilizer used by farmers is fueling climate change
• Liberal groups now spend more "dark money" from undisclosed donors than GOP
Poor People's Campaign's Scott Desnoyers: Joe Manchin Derails Biden’s Build Back Better Human Infrastructure Bill
Sierra Club's Adele Shraiman: New Report Finds U.S. Financial Sector the 5th Biggest Emitter of CO2 in the World
The Daily Poster's Andrew Perez: How Dark Money Bought a Supreme Court Seat
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
• Midsized autocracies are projecting more hard power
• Maine’s new “right to food” could sprout legal challenges
• Detroit removing problem highways to reconnect black neighborhoods
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Center for Economic and Policy Research's Dean Baker: Corporate Media’s Dishonest Coverage of Inflation Blames Biden
National Iranian American Council's Jamal Abdi: Talks to Restore Iran Nuclear Deal Face Numerous Obstacles
Environment and Human Health's Nancy Alderman: Growth of Recreational Wood Burning Poses Risk to Human Health
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Bolivia's vast lithium deposits for electric vehicles could help fight climate change• Global vaccine production fails as Pfizer & Moderna won't cooperate
• NYC taxi drivers win some debt relief from city
University of Arizona's David Gibbs: NATO Expansion Key to Understanding Rising Russia-Ukraine Tensions
ShadowProof.com's Kevin Gosztola: Jeopardizing Press Freedom, UK Court OKs WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Extradition to US
Health in Harmony's Kinari Webb: Connecting Human Health & Environmental Health to Protect Indonesia’s Rainforest
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150 billion
• How Lahore became the world’s most polluted place
• The Arctic could get more rain and less snow sooner
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Center for Reproductive Rights' Jenny Ma: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade, Women’s Right to Abortion
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care's Kay Tillow: Trump-Era Program Continuing Under Biden Threatens to Privatize Medicare
Pitzer College's Suyapa Portillo Villeda: After Years of Corruption and Violence, Progressive, Female Candidate Wins Honduras Presidential Election
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Sudan security forces fire tear gas at march against military rule
- Secretive prisons that keep migrants out of Europe
- Starbucks launches aggressive anti-union effort in upstate NY
People for the American Way's Ben Jealous: December Deadline Looms for Senate Democrats to Pass Critical Voting Rights Legislation
BlackRock's Morris Pearl: U.S. Tax Code Must be Rewritten to Compel America’s Wealthiest Pay Their Fair Share
Presente.org's Matt Nelson: California Proposes New Rule Banning New Oil Wells Within 3,200 Feet of Homes and Schools
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• FBI investigating Erik Prince's role in failed arms sale in Libya
• South Africa is one of the world's most unequal countries
• Can the U.S. still build & think big for future generations?
New York University's Ruth Ben-Ghiat: GOP’s Embrace of Violence Endangers U.S. Democracy
Peace activist Kathy Kelly: With Freeze of Assets, Millions of Afghan Civilians Face Famine
PayDay Report's Mike Elk: The Sacrifice of Essential Workers During Pandemic Led to Mass Resignations and Labor Strikes
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
• U.S. journalist Danny Fenster freed from Myanmar prison
• Uzbek president scores second term in landslide victory
• The corporate state of Delaware
Inside Climate News' Delger Erdenesanaa: Youth Climate Activists in Glasgow Demand More
True North Research's Lisa Graves: Let Joe Biden Know Trump’s Postmaster General DeJoy Has Got to Go
Libraries Without Borders' Aaron Greenberg: Libraries Without Borders Provides Internet Access to Underserved Communities Worldwide Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Many nations underreport their global emissions
• UN Security Council extends peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara
• Thousands of black farmers forced off their land since the 1980s
Independent Media Institute's Reynard Loki: Climate Activists Decry Lack of Progress at Glasgow’s UN Climate Summit
RISE's Sharon Lavigne: Residents Rise Up to Oppose Construction of a Plastics Plant in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
Our Revolution's Joseph Geevarghese: Progressives Reject Blame for Democrats’ Election Losses
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• South Africa’s ANC support slides further in worst election result
• Banks lobby against Biden raise IRS budget for 'ultrawealthy' tax cheats
• The South is ripe for union organizing
Free Speech for People's Ron Fein: Troubling Signs of Inaction from the Jan. 6 Insurrection Investigation
Code Pink Women for Peace's Jodie Evans: The Role of the Military in the Global Climate Crisis Goes Largely Unaddressed
Justice is Global's Ben Levenson: Activists: ‘Biden Must Take Action to Vaccinate the Global South. No One is Safe Until We Are All Safe.’
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
- Biden’s $500 million Saudi deal contradicts policy on 'offensive' weapons
- Why insurance companies aren’t aggressively fighting climate change
- Gates Foundation avoids a reckoning on race and power
Americans for Tax Fairness' Frank Clemente: Billionaires Tax May Win Support in Congressional Negotiations on Biden’s Build Back Better Plan
Greenpeace USA's John Noël: Joe Manchin Succeeds in Killing Key Climate Provision in Democrats’ Reconciliation Bill
Jewish Voice for Peace's Shelly Altman: Israel Designates Palestinian Human Rights Groups as Terrorists
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Europe's Social Democratic parties in decline, losing popularity
• U.S. legal marijuana is pouring into Mexico
• Wisconsin governor takes aim at GOP gerrymandering
End Citizens United's Tiffany Muller: Unlimited, Unaccountable Corporate Campaign Cash Killing Biden’s Human Infrastructure Bill
Greenpeace European Unit's Silvia Pastorelli: Investigation Exposes Systematic Deceptive Marketing by Six Major European Fossil Fuel Companies
Media Alliance's Tracy Rosenberg: Facebook Users Union’s #FireZuck Campaign
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
• Justice slips away for Salvadoran massacre survivors under amnesty law
• Pandora Papers reveal South Dakota's role in $367 billion tax haven
• Hoffa's house divided in 2021 Teamsters election
- Truthout.org's William Rivers Pitt: Progressives Win Round One in Human Infrastructure Showdown
- Cornell University's Tony Ingraffea: Banks’ Immoral Investment in Fracking Leading to Climate Catastrophe
- ShadowProof.com's Kevin Gosztola: Investigation Exposes CIA Plot to Kidnap or Kill WikiLeaks’ Founder Julian Assange
- Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Biden's nuclear submarine deal with Australia rattles France, China
- Rural Colombian farmers reviving coca trade despite peace deal
- Nuts edging out people in California water wars
Peter Maybarduk: It’s Past Time to Address the Global COVID Vaccination Shortfall Crisis
Sikowis Nobis: Indian Schools Tool of Genocide Committed Against Indigenous Peoples of North America
Jemima Pierre: U.S. Border Patrol’s Brutalization of Haitian Refugees Part of Long History of Racist Immigration Policy
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• China pledges to stop financing overseas coal-fired power plants, but not their own
• Biden sets sights on meat processing industry while lobbying soars
• Buffalo’s developer class backs last ditch attempt against Socialist India Walton
Ploughshares Fund's Tom Collina: Unhinged Trump Drove Top U.S. General to Take Steps to Prevent Nuclear War
Cleveland Clinic's Heather McKee Hurwitz: Occupy Wall Street 10 Years Later: Lessons Learned on Inclusion and Intersectionality
Community First Coalition's Dave Cruz-Bustamante: School Resource Officers Aren’t the Answer to School Safety
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Somalia political rift intensifies over missing spy
- Google illegally underpaid thousands of its workers
- EPA to protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay, blocking major gold mine
New York University's Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Pro-Insurrectionists and GOP Allies Pose Clear, Present Danger to Democracy
Everytown for Gun Safety's Justin Wagner: Right-Wing Protests with Firearms
9/11 Widow and September 11 Advocates' Kristen Breitweiser: After 20 Years of Pressure, Biden Declassifies 9/11 FBI Report Re: Saudi Connections
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Brazil President Bolsonaro’s popularity is sinking
• New peace talks between Venezuela's president and opposition
• Harvard University announces divestments in fossil fuels
National Women’s Liberation's Jenny Brown: In Texas Abortion Law Ruling Supreme Court Moves Closer to Overturning Roe v. Wade
National Priorities Project's Lindsay Koshgarian: New Report Reveals the High Cost of U.S. Militarism Since 9-11
Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network's Osprey Orielle Lake: virtual Global Assembly for Climate Justice to Address the Climate Crisis Through a Feminist Lens
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- What's next for Germany after Angela Merkel?
- Court case could end the mining industry’s dominance of the west
- Contract miners are dying to make a living
Afghans for a Better Tomorrow's Arash Azizzada: Afghan-American Community & Allies Demand Biden Ensure Safety of Afghanistan's Most Vulnerable
Hamline University's David Schultz: Holding Politicians Criminally Accountable for Deadly COVID Policies
Prison Policy Initiative's Leah Wang: Urgent Need to Improve Basic Standards for Imprisoned Pregnant Women and Their Infants
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Modi engineering electoral Hindu majority in Muslim Kashmir region
• Rio de Janeiro asks why its cops kill so many black people
• U.S. declares first water shortage of Colorado River
Center for International Policy's Mel Goodman: What the Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan Means for Afghans and the US
Daily Poster's Walker Bragman: Democrats Missed Deadline Allows GOP to Gerrymander Their Way to Another Decade of Minority Rule
Children's Defense Fund's Zach Tilly: Programs That Cut U.S. Child Poverty in Half Can be Made Permanent By Congress
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- U.S. envoy heads to Ethiopia to urge end in fighting
- U.S. life expectancy plummets amid pandemic
- Cigna call center workers challenge working conditions
Yale University's Jason Stanley: Investigating Trump’s Attempted Coup, Protecting Democracy
Jubilee USA Network's Eric LeCompte: World Must Unite to Address Global COVID Vaccine Access Gap
Climate activist Andy Hinz: As Scientists Predict Devastating Climate Change Impacts, Activists Block Construction of Mountain Valley Pipeline
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Palestinians facing evictions from East Jerusalem reject deal
- Mexico sues gun companies in US, accusing them of fueling violence
- Larry Summers holds positions with numerous financial bottom feeders
The National Low Income Housing Coalition's Sarah Saadian: CDC Issues Federal Eviction Moratorium Extension, But Millions of Renters Still at Risk
National Nurses United's Zenei Cortez: National Nurses Union Welcomes CDC Reversal on COVID Mask Guidance
Energy Justice Network's Mike Ewell: Minimizing Trash Disposal Environmental Harms, Moving Toward Zero Waste
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Central Asia braces for full impact of U.S. pullout from Afghanistan
- Captagon drug trafficking has turned Syria into a narco-state
- Eyeing federal infrastructure windfall, private equity courts public utilities
Independent Media Institute's Steven Rosenfeld: Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Deals Death Blow to 1965 Voting Rights ActBanKillerDrones.org's Nick Mattern: U.S. Drone Program Whistleblower Daniel Hale Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Prison
Salon's Amanda Marcotte: Are GOP Politicians and Right-Wing Media Spreading COVID Disinformation to Sabotage U.S. Economy?
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:- Pegasus Project: spyware leak suggests lawyers, activists threatened
- Celebrating secession and succession in South Sudan
- American farm workers at risk in record-breaking heat
Social Security Works' Alex Lawson: Senate Nearing Critical Stage of Negotiating Medicare Expansion Legislation
Smithsonian Institution's James Early: Cuba’s Economic Crisis Provokes Protests and U.S. Threats
FairVote's Rob Ritchie: Ranked Choice Voting Tested in New York City Primary
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- East Germany a bastion of far-right, anti-immigrant politics
- Joe Biden launches an anti-trust revolution
- Amazon centillionaire Jeff Bezos' ex-wife a big buzz in philanthropy
Haiti Liberte's Kim Ives: Who Assassinated Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse?
ShadowProof.com's Kevin Gosztola: U.S. Appeals U.K. Ruling Against Julian Assange Extradition
Prison Policy Initiative's Wanda Bertram: Alarming Rise in Prison Deaths Exposes System Failure
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
• Mexico receives 40,000 applications for political asylum
• 1,000 unmarked graves of indigenous children discovered in Canada
• Venice Beach "cleanup" includes housing pledge for homeless
Past National Lawyers Guild President Marjorie Cohn: Supreme Court Once Again Erodes Voting Rights Act, Affirming GOP Voter Suppression Laws
Center for International Policy's Matthew Hoh: After Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal, US War Will Continue Through Drone Airstrikes
350.org's Natalie Mebane: Exxon Lobbyist Unwittingly Reveals Company Strategy to Block Climate Legislation
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Far Right stumbles in France primary
- Uber-rich investors use Roth IRAs to amass vast untaxed fortunes
- Minneapolis fights to reform police department
Investigative reporter and author Greg Palast: Georgia GOP Continues Campaign to Purge Minority Voters from Voting Rolls
Poor People's Campaign's Pam Garrison and Jean Evansmore: Poor People's Campaign Protests McConnell and Manchin's Role in Derailing Voting Rights Legislation
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living's Zulene Mayfield: Pennsylvania Town Battles to Shut Down Toxic Waste to Energy Plant
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Shia armed militias intimidating Iraq voters
- Covid land rush is hurting new farmers
- Socialist defeats Buffalo mayor in primary
• Common Cause's Karen Hobert Flynn: Sen. Joe Manchin Signals Openness to Negotiating ForThe People Act and Filibuster Reform
• Peruvian sociologist Francesca Emanuele: Teacher, Campesino, Union Leader Pedro Castillo Elected President of Peru
• Stop Solitary Connecticut's Joe Gaylin: Historic Connecticut Bill Limiting Use of Solitary Confinement Awaits Governor's Signature
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Trial begins for ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi
- Mayor Bill De Blasio's City Hall put kibosh on Civilian Complaint Review Board
- Indigenous organizers defend the Menominee River
Free Speech For People's John Bonifaz: Secret seizure of journalists and lawmakers phone records indicates broad investigation of Trump lawbreaking needed
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy's Matthew Gardner: Recent investigation reveals tax system rigged for rich.
Bold Nebraska's Art Tanderup: Working with solidarity activists helped defeat of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Mexico’s populist Morena party loses ability to amend constitution
- 30 years have passed since Israeli assassin shattered Oslo Accords
- Police violence against Latinos overlooked
Mondoweiss’s Philip Weiss: Israel’s New Governing Coalition Poised To Oust Benjamin Netanyahu
Center for Reproductive Rights’ Hillary Schneller: Case Now Before Supreme Court Could End Reproductive Rights Established in Roe V. Wade
Social Security Works' Alex Lawson: Progressive Coalition Pushing Biden, Congress to Protect, Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: warnings of genocide and famine
- IRS runs out the clock, saving 14 large corporations
- The dream of a unionized New Orleans is coming true
Gaslit Nation's Sarah Kendzior: Trump-GOP Insurrection Never Ended
Northern Arapaho Tribe's Big Wind: Indigenous Communities Lead the Fight to Stop the Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline in Minnesota
Inside Climate News' Nicholas Kusnetz: ExxonMobil on Losing End of Stockholder Rebellion
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Poland becomes first NATO country to buy Turkish drones
- Facebook loophole lets world’s leaders surveil citizens
- Biden stimulus plan reverses austerity-style welfare reform
American Friends Service Committee's Jehad Abusalim: Accountability for Israel Essential to Attain Lasting Peace
Oil Change International World’s David Turnbull: Top Energy Agency Calls for an End to New Fossil Fuel Development Worldwide
National Nurses United's Rocelyn de Leon-Minch: Nation's Largest Nurses Union Opposes CDC's Relaxation of COVID Mask/Distancing Guidelines
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Myanmar’s Army used telecom sector to spy on citizens
- Trump officials used secret terrorism unit to question lawyers at the border
- Tahanie Aboushi running to transform the nation’s most powerful DA office
For more information, related links, transcripts and in-depth interviews, visit our website BTLonline.org after 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday May 26, 2021
Georgetown University's Josh Ruebner: U.S. 'Blank Check' Aid Feeds Israel's Impunity and Gaza Horror
Tree of Life Educational Fund's John Fussell: Worldwide Protests Decry Israel’s Airstrikes Killing Hundreds of Civilians
Hofstra University's Mario Murillo: Massive Colombian Protest Movement Met with Deadly Police Violence
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Could Ukraine’s nuclear industry face another Chernobyl?
• South Africa’s African National Congress party infighting boils over
• Trump-spawned megadonors hold sway over GOP future
Institute for Policy Studies's Chuck Collins: How We Can Stop Massive Tax Avoidance by America's Wealthiest
Giniw Collective's Tara Houska: National Day of Awareness Focuses Attention on Epidemic of Violence Targeting Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit People
National Security Archive's Peter Kornbluh: The 1960 CIA Plot to Assassinate Raul Castro Revealed
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
• In race over arms superiority, Russia challenges U.S. hegemony
• Senate passes $35 billion for clean drinking water
• Immigrant advocates, construction labor unions find new alliances
For more information, transcripts, related links and in-depth interviews, visit our website at https://BTLonline.org after 4 p.m. ET Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Truthout.org's William Rivers Pitt: Why Biden May Finally Be Ending Reagan’s ‘Rancid Legacy’ The Revolving Door Project's Max Moran: At 100 Days Biden Receives ‘Corporate Capture Report Card’
ACLU of Connecticut's Claudine Fox and Connecticut state Sen. Mae Flexer: Campaign to End Prison Gerrymandering in Connecticut Gains Momentum
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Human Rights Watch report accuses Israel of apartheid
- 'Pro-business moderate' Andrew Yang leading NYC mayoral primary
- Biden American Rescue plan aiding black farmers in reparations movement
For more information, transcripts, in-depth interviews and related links, visit our website BTLonline.org after 4 p.m. Wednesday May 5, 2012
Lawyers Matter Task Force's Aaron Carter Bates: Lawsuit Challenges Florida's 'Anti-Riot' Law Criminalizing Protest
United Mine Workers of America's Cecil Roberts: Mine Workers Union States Position on Transitioning from Coal to Clean Energy Jobs
DC Vote's Bo Shuff: Decades-Long Campaign to Make Washington, D.C. 51st State Gains Momentum
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- German Green Party is center stage in Germany’s election
- Kurdish autonomy remains dim across Middle East
- Predatory nursing home financiers thriving in pandemic
For more information, related links, transcripts and in-depth interviews, visit BTLonline.org after 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas's Yohuru Williams: Derek Chauvin Trial Guilty Verdict Doesn’t Fix Crisis in U.S. Policing
Public Citizens Global Access to Medicines Program's Peter Maybarduk: Biden Urged to Implement Global COVID Vaccine Manufacturing Program
Oil Change International's Collin Rees: Biden Moves to Honor Campaign Pledge to End Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
• Woman’s death by police in Mexico fuels outrage
• Infrastructure plan includes raise in corporate global minimum tax
• Right-wing extremist attacks greatly outnumber those from far left
For more information, related links, in-depth interviews and interview transcripts, visit Between The Lines at BTLonline.org after Wednesday April 21, at 4 p.m. ET
Independent journalist and author Nicolas J. S. Davies: UN Now Engaged in Negotiations in Afghanistan to End America's Longest War
People For the American Way's Marge Baker: Voter Suppression Opponents Enlist Support from Major U.S. Corporations
Kings Bay Plowshares anti-nuclear activist Mark Colville: Last of Kings Bay Plowshares Anti-Nuclear Weapons Protesters Receives 21-Month Prison Sentence
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary-Israel's 1st trial of a prime minister begins
- Number of billionaires grew 30 percent during pandemic
- Dangers of factionalism among Democratic Socialists of America For more information, related links, interview transcripts and in-depth interviews, visit BTLonline.org after 4 p.m. ET Wednesday, April 14, 2021
350.org's Natalie Mebane: Biden’s Infrastructure Plan a Good Start, but Lacks Capacity to Address the Global Climate Crisis
Institute for New Economic Thinking's Lynn Parramore: Hedge Funds Disrupt Corporate Research & Development Needed to Combat Climate Change
Georgia activist Cheryle Renee Moses: Campaign Launched to Recall Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Mexico revises Covid death toll up 60 percent
- Myanmar’s rising body count
- Right to Work cleaves the Granite State
For related links, transcripts, and in-depth interviews, visit BTLonline.org after our 4 p.m. Wednesday update.
Center For International Policy's Mel Goodman: Biden's Hardline Policy Toward Russia, China Sacrifices Common Interests
Journalist and author Todd Miller: 'Border Industrial Complex' Persecutes Immigrants While Enriching Corporations
Tree-sitter Crystal Mello: Police Arrest Mountain Valley Pipeline Tree-Sitters, Ending 932-Day Direct Action Protest
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- US, EU, Canada sanction China over treatment of Uighurs
- Oregon’s logging industry fighting to keep tax breaks
- Oregon's affordable housing model makes sense for West
Newtown Action Alliance and Newtown Action Alliance Foundation's Po Murray: Atlanta & Boulder Mass Shootings Underscore Urgent Need to Pass Gun Violence Prevention Legislation
Former Supermax prison inmate Sean Sellars and former Department of Correction nurse Kebra Smith: Campaign to End Solitary Confinement in Connecticut Prisons Moves Forward
Center for Economic and Policy Research's Alexander Main: With Charges Dropped, Popular Former President Lula da Silva May Run Against Bolsonaro in 2022
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Ten years of war have broken Syria into pieces
• The crisis in state governments isn’t the budget
• Over 700 complaints of police abuse filed after protests
Children's Defense Fund's Ben Anderson: Critical Battle Ahead to Make New Poverty-Fighting Child Tax Credit Permanent
Our Children’s Trust's Philip Gregory: Youth-Led Lawsuit Seeks to Hold Lawmakers Accountable for Harm Caused by Climate Change to Future Generations
Nuclear Information and Resource Service's Tim Judson: Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Continues 10 Years Later
Bob Nixon's Under-reported Summary
- Billions in taxpayer dollars wasted in Afghan development
- China’s domestic security agencies undergo massive purge
- Entire Nevada Democratic party staff quits after Democratic Socialist slate wins
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Public Citizen's Lisa Gilbert: Passage of HR1 'For The People Act' Urgently Needed to Repair America’s Broken Democracy
Author and organizer Jonathan Rosenblum: Amazon Union Organizing Drive in Alabama: A Turning Point for American Workers?
Mountain View Correctional Facility's Mark McBrine: Innovative Program Enhances Prison Food Nutrition, Trains Inmates
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Hong Kong protest supports 47 pro-democracy arrestees
- Biden seeks aid on border with Mexican leader
- Rockwool activists face off against West Virginia’s GOP governor
For more information, transcripts, related links and in-depth interviews, visit our website at BTLonline.org. Updates on Wednesday after 4 p.m.
RootsAction's David Swanson: Biden's Syria Airstrike Jeopardizes US Rejoining International Iran Nuclear Agreement
Associate professor Loretta Ross: Republicans Cannot be a Legitimate Party Without Casting Out White Supremacists and Fascists
New Haven Climate Movement Youth Action Team's Adrian Huq: Militarism’s Direct Impact on the Climate Crisis
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Amid coup, Myanmar envoy meets Thai, Indonesia officials
- Texas repeatedly failed to protect its power grid against extreme weather
- "Chuy" Garcia working with growing progressive Squad Congress
For more information, related links, transcripts and in-depth interviews, visit BTLonline.org after 4 pm ET Wednesday, March 3, 2021
• Common Cause's Sylvia Albert: Based on Trump Election 'Big Lie,' GOP Proposes 165 Voter Suppression Bills in 33 States
• National Black Environmental Justice Network's Tina Johnson: Dialogue on Carbon Pricing, Environmental Justice and Equity
• Debt Collective's Tom Gokey: Cancelling Student Debt Will Boost the Larger U.S. Economy
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary -Hardened by war, Libya put hopes in new leaders
- China to build world's biggest dam on sacred Tibetan River
- Oregon first state to decriminalize possession of hard drugs
For more information, forthcoming related links, in-depth interviews and transcripts, visit BTLonline.org after 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021
Investigative journalist Greg Palast: There's a 'Smoking Gun' Connecting Trump to Capitol Insurrection
Center for Constitutional Rights’ Aliya Hussein: Close Guantanamo U.S. Military Prison and End Indefinite Military Detention
Earthjustice’s Jan Hasselman: It’s Time to Shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- In term limit dispute, Haiti's leader clings to power
- Indigenous Americans dying of Covid-19 at faster rate
- Wind power boom sets off Ecuadorian balsa wood scramble
Peace Action's Kevin Martin: Biden Pledges to End U.S. Support for Saudi/UAE-led War on Yemen
No Dem Left Behind's Madalin Sammons: Grassroots Group No Dems Left Behind Targets Rural, Conservative Districts
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream's Jerry Greenfield: Social Justice Activists Ben and Jerry Launch Campaign to End Qualified Police Immunity
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Burma coup poses early test for Biden foreign policy
- The world is facing an upsurge of nuclear proliferation
- Former Facebook lawyer to head Justice Department anti-trust division?
Free Speech for People's John Bonifaz: Republicans Who Refuse to Hold Trump Accountable for Insurrection Must Answer to History
Yale University School of Public Health's Dr. Robert Hecht: COVID Vaccination Equity in US and World, Critical to Controlling the Pandemic
Earthjustice's Moneen Nasmith: Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline Project Target of Renewed International Opposition
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Hundreds in Haiti protest to demand Moise's resignation
- After two months of war, Ethiopia's Tigray people starving
- Hunts Point food workers' strike is just the beginning
• Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund's Thomas Saenz: Joe Biden's Immigration Reform Proposals Will Test Prospects for Bipartisanship
• Journalist and author Mike Giglio: After the Deadly Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection, Pro-Trump Militias Ponder Their Future
• DCVote's Bo Shuff: Statehood Campaign Demands Political Representation for 700,000 Washington, D. C. Residents
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary-Uganda’s Museveni clings to power—but troubles lie ahead
- Wall Street eyes billions in Colorado River
- Superfund toxic cleanup needed for public housing
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund's Mara Verheyden-Hilliard: Urgent Need to Aggressively Investigate Capitol Insurrection Security Failure
Journalist and author Sasha Abramsky: Trump's GOP Enablers Must be Held Accountable for the Four Year Assault on Democracy
Faithful America's Rev. Nathan Empsall: Countering ‘Toxic Christianity’s’ Role in the Trump-Incited Capitol Attack
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary-India’s highest court suspends implementation of new farm laws
- South Africa braces for possible 25% cut in government jobs
- Immigrants lacked soap as COVID spread in ICE detention centers
Yale professor and author of "How Fascism Works" Jason Stanley: Trump, GOP Extremism Constitutes a Direct and Continuing Threat to Democracy
Racial Justice activist and author Bill Fletcher Jr: White Supremacy Central to Pro-Trump Assault on U.S. Capitol
Vera Institute of Justice's Kica Matos: Immigration Reform Agenda Under Biden Will Face Major Challenges
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
• Afghan civil society under attack
• Trump auctions drilling rights to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Hundreds of Google employees form union
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Harvard Law School's Jeannie Suk Gersen: Trump Coup Attempt Crosses Another Line in Georgia Phone Call
Fordham Law School's James Goodale: Press Freedom Jeopardized as US Attempts to Extradite Julian Assange from UK to Face Espionage Charges
Duke University's Kenneth Surin: EU-UK 11th Hour Brexit Deal is No Victory
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• 2020 was year of Canada's indigenous activism
• Climate crisis benefitting Russia, Scandinavia
• Labor activists celebrate New Mexico breakthrough
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Center for Popular Democracy's Julio Lopez: Inadequate COVID Relief Bill Pressures Biden to Target Aid to Most Vulnerable
Center for Economic and Policy Research's Mark Moran: Buttigieg’s Appointment as Transportation Secretary Betrays Biden’s Pledge to Name Competent, Experienced Officials
Post Cards to Voters's Tony the Democrat: A Progressive Electoral Success Story
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Women in Mexico reckon with high cost of migration
- Africa's Kariba Dam faces disastrous hydroelectric power collapse
- Big Tech's gig economy foreshadows Uber-like trouble
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Truthout's William Rivers Pitt: Trump's Deadly 'Herd Immunity' Policies Sought to Infect Millions of Americans
Death Penalty Information Center's Ngozi Ndulue: In a Cruel Last Act, Trump Orders Record Breaking Wave of Federal Executions
RootsAction's Jeff Cohen: "No Honeymoon For Biden" Campaign Demands New Administration Adopt Progressive Policy Solutions
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
• Trump’s parting gift to Morocco
• Biden's agriculture secretary is what's wrong with Democratic Party
• JPMorgan Chase wrongfully charges 170,000 customers overdraft fees
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National Lawyers Guild's Marjorie Cohn: Republican Party has Morphed into a Threat to Democracy
National Nurses' Union: Major Challenges Ahead for the Equitable Distribution of Coronavirus Vaccine
Episcopal Priest: Rev. Nathan Empsall: Faithful America Confronts Religious Bigotry and Christian Teachings That Serve a Hateful Political Agenda
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Halt relocation of Rohingya refugees to remote island
- Making coal history
- NYPD cops cash in sex trade arrests with little evidence
• New York University's Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump-GOP Authoritarianism: An Ongoing Threat to U.S. Democracy
• Our Revolution's Joseph Geevarghese: Our Revolution's Endorsed Progressive Candidates Win Big
• Prison Policy Initiative's Wanda Bertram: Pandemic Closes Courts, Strands Hundreds of Thousands in Dangerous Jails Awaiting Trials
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Trump’s sanctions in the Middle East have had little effect
- Ghana climate activist's Goldman environmental prize
- Healthcare workers organizing like their lives depend on it
• University of San Francisco's Stephen Zunes: Assassination of Top Iranian Scientist Strengthens Tehran's Hardliners
• Organic Consumers Association's Ronnie Cummins: Post-Election Call to Action on Healthy Food, Sustainable Farming, Climate and Racial Justice
• United American Indians of New England's Matowin Munro: Thanksgiving 'Day of Mourning' Event Commemorates Ongoing Struggle of Indigenous People in North America
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary–Mexico may become 3rd nation to legalize cannabis
– Biden must end Yemen war he helped start
– Banning drilling on public lands won’t be easy for Biden
• American Constitution Society's Caroline Fredrickson: After Trump, Reforms Must be Undertaken to Protect Democracy from Future Autocratic Presidents
• University of Connecticut's Christopher Vials: Resisting Trump-GOP Authoritarianism Requires a Big Tent Coalition
• Honor the Earth's Winona LaDuke: Opponents Organize to Resist Minnesota Approval of Line 3 Pipeline Project
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
– Russia plans to build its first naval base — in Sudan
– Will Biden-Harris confront India's Modi on human rights?
– Tyson managers bet money on how many workers would get COVID
• Democracy for America's Charles Chamberlain: Democrats Debate Blame for Election House Losses
• Center for International Policy's Mel Goodman: Trump Mass Firings at Pentagon: Retribution for 'Disloyalty' or Preparations for A Coup?
• Media Matters for America's Matt Gertz: Trump Views Fox News as his Propaganda Channel, When it Veers Off-Script He Retaliates
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News:
-15 Hong Kong lawmakers resign over ouster of pro-democracy colleagues
- Masked up, ready to battle mosquitos & viruses
- Biden’s first appointees are a mixed bag
"Pentagon Papers" whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: Why Accountability for Trump is Critical
Investigative reporter Greg Palast: Exposing GOP Voter Purge in Georgia Key to Biden Victory There, Two Runoff Elections Next Big Test
Investigative reporter Gareth Porter: Trump DOJ Seizure of 27 Allegedly Iranian Government Website Domains a Threat to Free Speech
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:-Ethiopian prime minister brings his country closer to civil war
- Myanmar Elections Commission lacks transparency
- California sets more progressive path on criminal justice reform
• Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org: Activists Mobilize to Demand the Incoming Biden Administration Adopt a Progressive Policy Agenda
• Author and mental health professional, Steven Hassan: Trump's Cult Followers May Respond with Violence to Election Loss
• Erin Boggs, of Open Communities Alliance in Connecticut: Lawsuit Challenges New Trump HUD Rule Which Guts Fair Housing Discrimination Protections
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Mali, France differ on holding talks with armed groups
- Sentenced as children, still behind bars
- Why Facebook can’t fix itself
• Free Speech For People's Ben Clements: Urgent Lawsuit Launched to Stop Trump Regime Voter Intimidation
• University of Minnesota's Christopher Uggen: New Study Finds Despite Reforms Millions with Felony Convictions Still Can’t Vote
• National Lawyers Guild's former Los Angeles chapter executive director Jim Lafferty: Preparations for Mass Mobilization the Most Effective Tactic to Protect the Election
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Rising tensions over access to water in the Rio Grande Valley
- Progressive "Squad" getting House reinforcements
- Pennsylvania's little-tested mail ballot system could help Trump wreak havoc
• Yale University Medical School's Dr. Bandy X. Lee: Dangerous Days Ahead as President's Mental Health Deterioration Coincides with Likely Election Loss
• Census Counts' Beth Lynk: Trump Succeeds at Ending Census Early, Ensuring Undercounts Across the U.S.
• True North Research's Lisa Graves: Dark Money Funds Campaign Pushing Supreme Court to the Right
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- SARS ban: Nigeria abolishes loathed federal special police unit
- Sackler family’s plan to keep its Oxycontin billions
- Texas Republicans paved the way for their own demise
Political Research Associates' Steve Gardiner: Arrests Expose Militia Plot to Kidnap Michigan Governor & Wider Threat of Violence During the Election
Ploughshares Fund's Tom Collina: Trump Provides Cautionary Tale Why Presidents Shouldn't Have Unilateral Power to Launch Nuclear War
Indigenous Activist Norman Clement: As Indigenous Peoples' Day Takes Hold, Columbus Day Fades
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Kyrgyzstan unrest: ex-president rearrested as power struggle deepens
- Kushner’s Freddie Mac loans wasn’t just massive
- Federal judge issues scathing decision to allow more ballot drop boxes in Ohio
• People for the American Way's Right-Wing Watch project's Adele Stan: White Supremacist Trump Allies Threaten Intimidation and Violence at Election Polls
• Thomas Jefferson School of Law's Marjorie Cohn: Civil, Reproductive, Labor Rights & Healthcare All at Stake in Supreme Court Senate Confirmation Battle
• Women's March's Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs: Nationwide Oct. 17 Protests to Call for the Election Defeat of Donald Trump
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary: - For 12 Hong Kong protesters caught at sea, trial in China is likely
- Trump 2016 campaign targeted black Americans to deter them from voting
- Labor unions have much to lose regardless of Nov. 3 election
• Common Cause's Karen Hobert Flynn: Leak of Trump's Taxes Reveal He’s Paid No Income Tax in 10 of Last 15 Years
• Color Of Change's Arisha Hatch: Kentucky Prosecutor Failed to Deliver Justice for Breonna Taylor and her Family
• Data Haven's Mark Abraham: Community Survey Finds Racial Disparities on Coronavirus Impact and Response
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary -U.S. & fossil fuel allies losing to China/world renewable energy market
- Global banks defying U.S. crackdowns on corruption
- Milwaukee could determine November election
People for the American Way's Ben Jealous: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy Demands a Fight to Prevent Senate from Confirming New Justice Before Election
Consumer Watchdog's Liz Turner: As Climate-Driven Wildfires Ravage California, Gov. Newsom Pressured to Ban Fossil Fuel Fracking
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft's Trita Parsi: Trump Regime Signals it May Try to Provoke Pre-Election Conflict with Iran
• Stand Up America's Sean Eldridge: Coalition Organizes to Protect Election Results As Trump Says He Won't Accept Defeat
• Amnesty International USA's Daniel Balson: Trump Hypocrisy on Full Display as U.S. Imposes Sanctions on International Criminal Court
• American University's David Vine: Post 9/11 U.S. Wars Have Created at Least 37 Million Refugees
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary -Russia ready to help ease Turkey-Greece tensions
- Stopping the coronavirus test mess
- Climate legacy of racist housing policies
• National Nurses United Union's President's Jean Ross: Nurses Union Warns Public About Hazards of a Trump Rush to Distribute Vaccine Before Election
• Code Pink Women For Peace's Medea Benjamin: 100 Groups Call on the Next Administration to Adopt a 'Good Neighbor' Policy Toward Latin America
• University of Connecticut's Christopher Vials:
Cheering on Armed Militia Groups, Trump Dangerously Turns to Dictators' Playbook
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Explosive allegations of Mexican corruption
- Fossil fuel companies push dumping plastic in Africa
- Labor must organize in stronger than ever tech companies
• Historian and author Mark Bray: Trump Encourages Armed Militia Groups, Leading to Deadly Street Violence in Kenosha & Portland
• GreenPeace USA's Ryan Schleeting: Campaign Opposes Trump Sale of Arctic Wildlife Refuge Oil and Gas Drilling Leases
• Salon's Amanda Marcotte: Trump and GOP Embrace Bizarre and Dangerous QAnon World View
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary- Turkish-Greece tensions escalate over drilling plans
- The GOP’s new China scare
- Environmental hazards in minority neighborhoods
• Economic Update's Richard D. Wolff: COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Multiple U.S. Economic System Failures
• 350 Action's Jenny Marienau Zimmer: Biden & Harris' Climate Policy Positions Represent Progress, But Activists Must Maintain Pressure
• Movement for a People's Party's Nick Brana: Sanders' Supporters Take Steps to Build a New Progressive People's Party
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Saudi strongman ‘encouraged’ Russia intervention in Syria - How the 'Blue Wall' fights police reform - Louisiana wetlands rebuilding v. commercial fisheries, oysterbeds
Gaslit Nation's Sarah Kendzior: Democrats Must Go Beyond Letters of Complaint to Overcome Trump's Sabotage of Post Office and Election
Author & activist: Kevin Alexander Gray: A Grand Coalition Must Come Together to Defeat Trump, and Push for Progressive Change
Energy & environmental security strategist Joel Gordes: With Increasingly Destructive Storms Government & Utilities Must Make Electric Grid More Resilient
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Belarus' Lukashenko, last dictator of Europe?
- Colombia’s ex-president Uribe under house arrest
- Sierra Club's white elitist history
• Author and activist Hadas Thier: Congress Fights Over Pandemic Rescue Package, Federal Reserve Spends Trillions No Questions Asked
• Peace Action's Kevin Martin: Congress Fails to Pass Amendment Cutting Pentagon Budget to Meet Human Need
• Grand Canyon Trust's Roger Clark: Navajo Nation & Environmental Groups Oppose Dam Project In Little Colorado River Gorge
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Dictator who brutalized Darfur is in jail, but the killing goes on
- China wields its security law to crush Hong Kong dissent
- Unemployment aid expires, urban activists mobilize for renters
This week's Between The Lines:
• American Postal Workers Union's Mark Dimondstein: Amid Pandemic Fears During Election & Increased Mail-in Ballot Use, Trump Now Targets U.S. Postal Service
• Common Cause's Sylvia Albert: Trump Attempts to Eliminate Undocumented Immigrants in Census Data Used in Apportionment of Congressional Seats
• Oglala Sioux Tribe's Chase Iron Eyes: Sioux Nation’s Movement for Return of Sacred Lands Reflects Their Prophecy for Global Healing
• Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Brazil halts police raids in favelas
- Mexico's emigrants are aging
- In California, childcare providers vote to unionize
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund's Mara Verheyden-Hilliard: Federal Forces Deployed to Portland Provoke Violence & Rebellion Against Illegitimate Authority
Quinnipiac University's Amber Kelly and retired social worker Barbara Fair: Re-imagining Policing, Public Safety and the Role of Social Workers
Princeton University Eviction Lab's Peter Hepburn: Only Federal Intervention Can Prevent the Looming Eviction Crisis
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:
- Record low crude oil prices could linger for years
- Under pandemic restrictions, India curtails justice for its critics
- Trump bank regulator shelves discrimination probes