National Lawyers Guild former President Marjorie Cohn: Supreme Court Kills Voting Rights Act, Green-Lights Return of New ‘Jim Crow’ Era

Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Is the U.S.-Israel War on Iran About to Reignite?

Coal River Mountain Watch Executive Director Vernon Haltom: As Trump Pushes to Extract More Coal, Mountaintop Removal Mining Linked to Severe Health Impacts

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Arizona's SNAP participation rate craters—portends crisis for most vulnerable in America
• Islamist militants seize Mali's capital city after the defense minister is assassinated
• Papua New Guinea human rights activist wins 2026 Goldman Environmental prize

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National Priorities Project Program Director Lindsay Koshgarian: 'Tax Day 2026' Report: Average U.S. Taxpayer Paid More Than $4,000 for War Last Year

Latin American Perspectives Associate Managing Editor Steve Ellner: Trump’s Wars on Iran, Venezuela and Cuba: a ‘New Stage of US Imperialism’

Poor People's Campaign West Virginia Tri-Chair Pam Garrison: Low-Income Americans’ Gains of Recent Years Now Lost to Trump’s Corporate Allies

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Trump may send Afghans who aided US forces to Congo
• Fire service will close research stations that study wildfire risk
• Despite racial hostilities, Haitian immigrant communities are models of resiliency

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Peace Action President Kevin Martin: As Americans Increasingly Oppose Trump’s Iran War, Pressure Building on Congress to Invoke War Powers Act

About Face: Veterans Against the War Organizing Manager Rebecca Roberts: Amid Iran War, Many U.S. Service Members Seek Advice on Conscientious Objector Status

Women's Earth and Climate Action Network Executive Director Osprey Orielle Lake: Colombia and Netherlands Convene Historic 1st International Summit to Phase Out Fossil Fuels

Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• China adds 50 coal plants despite a 2020 pledge to phase out coal
• GOP using little known law to target public lands for coal mining
• Small towns saying 'no' to untested PFAS water treatment plant

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Quincy Institute's Brandon Carr and UCLA associate professor Kevan Harris: Trump Blockades Strait of Hormuz After Iran War Talks Collapse

Yale University Divinity School's Center for Theology and Public Policy Director Bishop William Barber: U.S. Faith Community Condemns Trump’s Immoral Iran War and His ‘Blasphemous’ Social Media Post

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's Julie Hollar: U.S. Corporate Media Fails to Call Out GOP Voter Suppression Campaign

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Iran War causing soaring fertilizer prices and fears of global food shortages
• Organizers set their sights on state legislatures to tax the rich
• Sunrise movement's climate legislation advocacy requires defeating endless wars

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Brandeis University professor Naghmeh Sohrabi: U.S.-Israel War on Iran Shattering Ordinary Iranians’ Lives, Including Regime Opponents’

Back from the Brink activist Ann Froines: U.S. Campaign Launched to Lead the World Back from Brink of Nuclear War

Ms. magazine Editor Katherine Spillar: ‘Project 2026’: Trump Regime’s New Blueprint to Suppress Women’s Rights

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Taiwan's anti-democracy opposition leader to visit China before Trump
• Cambodian court upholds journalists' 14-year prison sentence for border photo
• Fourteen states now have paid family leave, with campaigns in six other states underway

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Former USMC Capt. Matthew Hoh: Iran Maintains Upper Hand over U.S. and Israel in Escalating and Costly War

People's Law Collective attorney Xavier de Janon: Trump DOJ Wins Terrorism Conviction of Accused Antifa Activists, Criminalizing Dissent

National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: Senate Confirms ‘Unqualified Hothead’ Markwayne Mullin as DHS Secretary

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Philippines president declares energy emergency
• Cuba's economy at Trump's mercy
• Western heatwave threatens summer water and fire crises

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Democracy for the Arab World Now Advocacy Director Raed Jarrar: An Erratic Trump Desperate To Exit Disastrous U.S.-Israeli War on Iran

Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab's Nathaniel Raymond: As the Sudanese Armed Forces Make Gains in Sudan’s Civil War, Civilians Bear Brunt of the Violence

Nuestra America Convoy to Cuba delegate Andy Shallal: Nuestra América Convoy Arrives in Cuba, in Defiance of Trump’s Oil Blockade

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Vietnam attempting to expand international relations beyond relying on China and the US
• Third World nations seek debt relief for environmental conservation
• Former Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development U.S. representative slacks off on ethic pledge

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Center for International Policy Senior Fellow Mel Goodman: Trump’s Lawless and Chaotic War with Iran Has No Clear Objectives

Jacobin Staff Writer Branko Marcetic: Trump Follows Israel Into Disastrous War on Iran, Netanyahu Calls the Shots

Connecticut Visibility Brigade Founder Katherine Hinds: Judge Dismisses Charges Against Connecticut Visibility Brigade Activist in Major Free Speech Victory

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• U.S. hasn't learned from lesson from regime-change war to destabilize oil-rich Libya
• Indian police raid environmental activists' home over anti-fossil fuels campaign
• Ethanol's carbon footprint doesn't merit corn production's land shift use

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International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber: International Law is the Number One Casualty of the US & Israel’s Illegal War on Iran

How Democracies Die author and Harvard professor Steven Levitsky: Trump’s Authoritarian Regime’s Next Target: The 2026 Midterm Election

Former EPA administrator Joe Goffman: Trump EPA Eliminates 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• The Democratic party needs to recognize its base is progressive, social democratic
• Indonesia's nickel industry is boon to renewable energy market & China's rust belt workers
• Rio Grande's sewage cleanup overshadowed by unfulfilled treaty, tariffs and border wall

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Federation of Atomic Scientists' Jon B. Wolfsthal: Coming Threat of Nuclear Weapons, AI and Climate Crisis Move Doomday Clock Closer to Midnight

University of Pennsylvania media policy professor Victor Pickard: Trump-Aligned Oligarchs' Media Mergers Transforming Outlets into MAGA Propaganda Platforms

Yale University School of Architecture's Adam Hopfer: Yale Architecture Students Design and Build Rent Free Homes

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• SCOTUS sets dangerous ICE racial profiling precedent—double jeopardy for blacks
• African leaders push for reparations for colonization crimes
• Russia and China forging an axis of Asia powered by natural gas

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