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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