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

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• 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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