Ret. U.S. Army Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Poses a Clear and Present Danger

Latin American Perspectives' Steve Ellner: Brazen Neocolonial Piracy: U.S.-Venezuela 100-Year Oil Deal

Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus: After Wave of Violent ICE Raids and Terror, Danbury CT Residents Protest and Resist

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• U.S. Congress has responsibility to reverse Puerto Rico's water crisis
• California weighs wealth tax as billionaires control one-third of America's wealth
• Vietnam has world's highest trade surplus with the U.S.

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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.

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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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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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.