'Best States to Work’ Report Highlights State Policies Helping & Hurting American Workers

Arab American Institute President James J. Zogby: Ongoing Gaza Catastrophe Rouses Michigan Primary Voters to Send Biden a Message 

Jewish Israeli anti-apartheid peace activist Ofer Neiman: The World and Americans Must Hold All Israeli Institutions Accountable for Occupation, Apartheid and Genocide 

Former Connecticut Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher: SCOTUS Review of Trump’s Total Immunity Claim Effectively Delays Jan. 6 Trial Until After Election

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• US eyes Asia natural gas market as Texas pipeline OK'd to connect Mexico LNG export terminals
• Progressive states proposing "Mansion taxes" to address homelessness, affordable housing
• Israel AIPAC lobby's strategy to defeat Democratic progressives

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"The Dissenter" Editor Kevin Gosztola: Julian Assange Fights Last Battle to Stop UK Extradition to US

For a Better Bayou founder James Hiatt: Worldwide Protests Demand Insurance Companies Stop Fueling the Climate Crisis

St. Joseph's University associated professor Theodore Hamm: New Information Emerges in the Assassination of Malcolm X Implicating the FBI

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Thousands march in protest against Mexican President Lopez Obrador
• Dwindling water source for High Plains towns in eight states
• Medical collection cases clog U.S. courtrooms

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Former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman: As Ukraine War Enters 3rd Year, It’s Time to Stop the Killing

Veterans for Peace National Director Mike Ferner and Eisenhower Media Network Associate Director Matthew Hoh: Veterans for Peace Demands Biden Stop Sending Weapons to Israel, Investigate Violation of US Law

Appalachian Voices Director of Govern Affairs and Strategy Chelsea Barnes: Coalition Proposes Federal Legislation to Clean-up Zombie Coal Mines’ Environmental Hazards

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Thousands of India's farmers march for crop subsidies
• EPA rule forces oil states to cut methane emissions
• Southern Hyundai workers joining UAW union drive

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Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Biden’s Ineffectual Response to Israel’s Ongoing Carnage in Gaza War

Unity Council for East Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment's Hilary Flint: One Year After East Palestine Toxic Train Derailment, Residents Still Seeking Help on Heath Impacts

Free Speech for People's Amira Mattar: SCOTUS Hearing on Colorado’s Removal of Trump from State Ballot Ignores Role as Insurrectionist

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Germany's far right AfD has secret plan to deport millions
• Wildfires sweep through Chile’s coastal hills
• Asbestos victims and families condemn Koch brothers

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Code Pink Women for Peace Co-Founder Medea Benjamin: Preventing a Wider Middle East War Linked to Ending Israel’s Brutal War in Gaza

Vessel Project founder and CEO Roishetta Ozane: Biden Pause on Approving LNG Export Terminals Won’t Solve Frontline Communities’ Health Hazards

San Diego City College professor Justin Akers Chacón: GOP and Far Right Forces Provoking National Emergency at Southern Border

Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary

• Former NSO Group CEO may be 'whitewashing' Pegasus with new Dream Security
• Mexico likely to set debate talking points in 2024 presidential election
• How Walmart's financial services became a fraud magnet

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Former UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk: Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Has Now Killed 25,000 Palestinians

Climate Defiance organizer Maxwell Downing: Direct Action Climate Group Targets Retiring Sen, Joe Manchin as “Climate Super Villain”

Stand Up America's Tishan Weerasooriya: Supreme Court Poised to Decimate Federal Regulations on Pollution, Climate, Public Health

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• 4 ways to ease Cuba's humanitarian crisis
• NYPD faces backlash as it plans to encrypt radio communications
• Labor law violations federal investigations fall to record low

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Yale professor and author of 'How Fascism Works' Jason Stanley: Trump's Fascist Threat to Democracy Downplayed by US Media

National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws' Political Director Morgan Fox: US Dept of Health and Human Services Recommends Marijuana be Classified as a Schedule III Drug

Smith College professor and MS magazine Contributing Editor Carrie Baker: U.S. Courts Uphold States’ Extremist Abortion Laws Endangering Lives

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Somalia attempts to nullify Ethiopia’s Red Sea port plan
• Most states don't warn about forever chemicals in fish
• LA landlords work hard to profiteer from rentals

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Human rights laywer Robert L. Herbst: South Africa Files International Court of Justice Case Accusing Israel of Genocide in Gaza

Nonviolence International Director Michael Beer: Protest at US Holocaust Museum Demands Response to Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington senior counsel Nikhel Sus: Two States Rule Insurrectionist Donald Trump Ineligible to Appear on 2024 Ballot

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Myanmar's internal conflict could be a challenge for China
• Homeless residents face uncertainty as encampment sweeps gain steam
• Some states pushing Fair Share millionaire tax to quell public transit quagmires

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Palestinian-American Dr. Dana Elborno: Physician Relates the Horror Palestinians Face in Gaza as Israel-Hamas War Continues into 2024

National Popular Vote's Christopher Pearson: Group Challenging America’s Undemocratic Electoral College System Gaining Support

Clean Slate's Rodney Moore, Phil Kent and Helen Caraballo: Connecticut’s Clean Slate Law Seals Criminal Records of People Convicted of Misdemeanors, Some Felonies

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• US conducts a high-profile prisoner swap with Venezuela
• Canadian court awards compensation to First Nations
• How carbon capture and storage could create NY fracking spree

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Salon senior politics writer Amanda Marcotte: If Re-elected, Trump Vows to Impose a Fascist Regime. But Are Americans Listening?

Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson: A Bipartisan ‘Fiscal Commission’ is GOP’s Latest Threat to Cut Social Security, Medicare Benefits

Yale University Local 33 grad student union member Sasha Tabachnikova: After 30 Years of Organizing, Yale Grad Student Union Local 33 Wins First Contract

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Brazil's president must work out who owns Amazon to save it
• U.S. Deep South epicenter of new AIDS crisis
• Corporate media's blind spot for right-wing political violence

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