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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