DropSite News' Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Israel’s Gaza Starvation Policy is Killing More Palestinians Every Day

Center for International Policy's Mel Goodman: Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ National Defense System is Unachievable and a Waste of Taxpayer Dollars

Act-LA's Scarlett de Leon: LA Activists Demand Public Transit System Do More to Protect City’s Immigrants From ICE

Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary
• U.S. Department of Justice demands voter registration lists from states
• Shortage of firefighters hampering the U.S. Forest Service
• Mexico City protests echo global backlash against gentrification

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Dr. Feroze Sidhwa and Dr. Ayaz Pathan: U.S. Doctors Describe the Slaughter and Starvation of Gaza Civilians They’ve Witnessed

Prison Policy Initiative's Wanda Bertram: New ‘Birth Behind Bars’ Report Finds Alarmingly High Rates of Injury and Death for Newborns

The Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton: Understanding Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Mayoral Primary Victory

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Supreme Court expands Trump's executive power with mass firings of federal employees
• New IRS system to share confidential immigrant tax data with ICE
• Thousands, but not all, Afghans who worked with British military secretly relocated to U.K.

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University of Pennsylvania media professor Victor Pickard: Corporate Media’s Surrender to Trump a Wake-up Call for Urgent Reforms Needed to Save Journalism, Democracy

The Nation magazine columnist Kali Holloway: Trump is Carrying Out an Explicitly White Supremacist Policy Agenda

Palestinian-American human rights attorney Jonathan Kuttab: Can Israelis and Palestinians Find a Way to Live Together?

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• USAIDS cuts In South Africa spiking HIV-pregnancies
• DHS and White House expanding Trump's influence in organized crime cases
• ICE ‘politically targeted’ farm worker activist Juarez Zeferino

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Harvard's Dr. Adam Gaffney and First Focus on Children's Bruce Lesley: Under Trump-GOP Budget, 17 Million Americans Lose Health Insurance; 51,000 Preventable Deaths Expected Annually

The Nation Magazine's Chris Lehmann: ICE Budget Spikes 365%: Evidence of Trump’s Move to Impose Repressive Police State

Defense Lawyer Xavier de Janon: First Stop Cop City Protester Trial in Georgia RICO Case Ends in Mistrial

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Trump eyes minerals in Democratic Republic of Congo-Rwanda peace deal
• Chicago’s progressives fight far right to fortify their wins from 2023 election
• Data center tax exemption programs endanger state budgets

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Alianza Americas' Dulce Guzmán: The Chaos and Dire Consequences of Supreme Court’s Ruling on Birthright Citizenship

Best-selling author Sarah Kendzior: As the Trump GOP ‘Mafia State’ Relentlessly Attacks the Foundations of Democracy, is There Reason for Hope?

Hurricane Helene survivor Padma Dyvine: North Carolina Neighbors Employed Mutual Aid in Ongoing Recovery from Hurricane Helene’s Destruction

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Far-right AfD party expanding its appeal in Germany’s west
• China’s Tibetan dam project poses big risks
• Democratic National Committee tensions simmer over future direction

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Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: In Echo of Iraq War, Trump Distorted Intelligence to Justify Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Sites

Vietnam veteran Mike Ferner: As Veterans and Allies’ 40-Day Fast for Gaza Nears End, Conditions for Palestinians Worsen

Roots Action's Norman Solomon: Democrats Must Adopt Progressive Economic Agenda to Defeat Trump-GOP Authoritarian Agenda

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Salvadoran ex-military officers convicted of 1982 killings of Dutch journalists
• VA secretary refused to take responsibility for drastic downsizing
• Kansas City, Missouri rent strikers win after 247 days

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University of Wisconsin's Jennifer Loewenstein: Israel-Iran Conflict Risks Regional War That Could Entangle the U.S.

Journalist and author Sasha Abramsky: Massive Nationwide ‘No Kings’ Protest the Largest Demonstration of Opposition Yet to Trump Fascism

Center for Biological Diversity's Randi Spivak: House Approves Trump-GOP Budget That Will Decimate National Parks, Sell Off Public Lands

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• China's Uyghurs forced to work in factories supplying global brands
• Trump plans deportation of European, Haiti citizens to Guantanamo
• Growing union militancy in support of federal workers

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Women's March's Tamika Middleton: June 14 Nationwide Anti-Authoritarian Protests Likely to be Largest Since Trump Returned to Office

Formerly of the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights' New York Office Craig Mokhiber: Israel’s Seizure of Gaza-Bound Humanitarian Aid Ship Violates International Law

Oil Change International's Collin Rees: Trump & GOP Slash Clean Energy Incentives that Reduced Pollution, Created Jobs, Lowered Electric Bills

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• UN aid convoy attacked in Sudan
• Record-breaking wildfires burning across Canada
• Trump officials may be profiting from insider information

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