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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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.

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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ACLU Senior Policy Counsel Chad Marlow: Trump’s National Security Memo Labels His Enemies Terrorists, Orders Investigations

Center for Budget and Policy Priorities Executive Vice President for Policy and Program Development Peggy Bailey: Judge Forces Trump to use Contingency Funds to Restore SNAP Benefits to Nation’s Poor Families

Artist and activist Robert Shetterly: ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth’ Portraiture Project Aims to Inspire Courageous Citizenship

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Russia's war on Ukraine has ravaged the nation's forests
• Ethiopia opens new dam threatening Egypt's water security
• US-Mexico border wall imperils region's pollinators

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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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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.