• After Trump’s Election Victory, Progressive Activists Ponder What Went Wrong for Democrats
    Nov 6 2024

    The Nation magazine's National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols: After Trump’s Election Victory, Progressive Activists Ponder What Went Wrong for Democrats

    Yale philosophy professor and author of "Erasing History" Jason Stanley: Whether Trump Wins or Loses MAGA State Governments will Continue their Repression

    Free Press senior counsel Nora Benavidez: Disinformation Floods U.S. Election Campaign Fueling Anger and Distrust of Electoral Outcome

    Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
    • Women are dying because of restrictive abortion bans
    • Ginni Thomas fights efforts to reform the nation’s highest court
    • Avian flu may pose pandemic threat to humans


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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.

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    29 mins
  • Media’s Sanitizing of Trump’s Candidacy is Journalistic Malpractice
    Oct 30 2024

    The Nation's D.C. Bureau Chief Chris Lehmann: Media’s Sanitizing of Trump’s Candidacy is Journalistic Malpractice

    Rutgers University law professor and author David Noll: New Book, ‘Vigilante Nation,’ Describes MAGA’s State-Based Attack on Democracy

    National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: As Trump Demonizes and Scapegoats Immigrants, Democrats Adopt Some Trump Policies

    Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
    • Russia's war in Ukraine has upset balance of power in Turkic region
    • New voting laws could tip November election outcome
    • New York congressional races could tip House control


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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.

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    29 mins
  • Trump Doubles Down on Fascist Agenda as 2024 Campaign Nears End
    Oct 23 2024

    Yale University professor and author Jason Stanley: Trump Doubles Down on Fascist Agenda as 2024 Campaign Nears End

    Georgetown University Justice and Peace Studies lecturer Josh Ruebner: As Wider Middle East War Looms, Most Voters Support US Arms Cutoff to Israel

    Seed the Vote volunteer Dr. Kate Sugarman: Physician Canvassing for Harris in Philly Suburbs, While Opposing U.S. Gaza Policy

    Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary

    • UAE, Iran secretly fueling Sudan’s bloody civil war with arms
    • Harris campaign courts predatory lenders she claims to be tough on
    • Fate of DACA sits with right-wing Texas court


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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.

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  • Trump, GOP Preparing to Undermine Presidential Election Results if They Lose
    Oct 16 2024

    Rolling Stone contributor Justin Glawe: Trump, GOP Preparing to Undermine Presidential Election Results if They Lose

    New York Times best-selling author Andra Watkins: Under Trump, Project 2025 Would Sabotage Federal Storm Forecasting and Disaster Relief

    350.org U.S. Partnerships Coordinator Nico Udu-Gama: If Completed, the East African Oil Pipeline Will be a Destructive ‘Carbon Bomb’

    Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

    • Bolsonaro still shapes Brazil’s political right
    • After decades, still no clear path to U.S. citizenship for Haitian immigrants
    • San Francisco's mayoral election defined by housing crisis


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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.

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    29 mins
  • US Media Sanitizes US Role in Israel’s Savage War in Gaza and Lebanon
    Oct 9 2024

    RootsAction Co-Founder Norman Solomon: US Media Sanitizes US Role in Israel’s Savage War in Gaza and Lebanon

    Media critic Parker Molloy: Corporate Media is ‘Sanewashing’ Trump’s Obvious Cognitive Decline

    Climate activist Sydney Collins: As Hurricanes Ravage the Southeast U.S., Fossil Fuel’s Destructive Infrastructure Impacts Rural Communities

    Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

    • Sri Lanka elects leftist president to pressure IMF debt repayment reduction

    • National Labor Relations Board files complaint against Amazon

    • Presidential candidate Kamala Harris lacks policy details renter protections


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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.

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  • Israel’s Series of Assassinations, Lebanon Invasion Puts Middle East on Brink of Regional War
    Oct 2 2024

    Institute for Policy Studies' John Feffer: Israel’s Series of Assassinations, Lebanon Invasion Puts Middle East on Brink of Regional War

    Anti-Gaza war protester Gregory Daly: As Netanyahu Addresses UN General Assembly, Americans Protest Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

    Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Condemned for Advocating Reckless Action in Ukraine War

    Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

    • Growth-based climate framework is fundamentally broken
    • Populist Democratic campaigning emerges in deep red states
    • Somalia-Ethiopia tensions mount


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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.

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  • The US Stands with Israel as Middle East on the Brink of All-Out-War
    Sep 25 2024

    University of Wisconsin's Jennifer Loewenstein: Escalating Cross-Border Attacks Between Israel and Hezbollah Could Erupt into All-Out War

    The Nation magazine's Abortion Access Correspondent Amy Littlefield: Trump’s Abortion Ban is Now Literally Killing Women

    Third Act Virginia organizer Lisa Finn: Gulf Coast Residents, Climate Activists Oppose FERC Approval of New LNG Export Terminals

    Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Sept. 25 2024

    • New banking crisis between Libya's ruling heads
    • Telegram app's the new home for domestic terrorists
    • GOP wields powerful cash advantage in state legislative races


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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.

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  • Donald Trump’s Repeated Stochastic Terrorism Now Endangers Haitian Immigrants in Ohio
    Sep 18 2024

    Author and columnist Wajahat Ali: Donald Trump’s Repeated Stochastic Terrorism Now Endangers Haitian Immigrants in Ohio

    Stop the Money Pipeline Executive Director Alec Connon: 13-Week ‘Summer of Heat’ Climate Protest Building Movement to End Fossil Fuel Financing

    Singer/songwriter Billy Bragg Reflects on His 40 years of Political Activism and the Power of Music

    Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

    • EU’s top court rules Apple must pay back taxes
    • Project 2025 regulates the nation’s public lands
    • Environmental groups challenge new EPA rules


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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.

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