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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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.

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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