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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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

Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links, transcripts and subscribe to our BTL Weekly Summary and/or podcasts. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET

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.