• 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


    Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. 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.

    Show more Show less
    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


    Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. 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.

    Show more Show less
    29 mins
  • 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


    Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. 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.

    Show more Show less
    29 mins
  • 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


    Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. 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.

    Show more Show less
    29 mins
  • 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


    Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. 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.

    Show more Show less
    29 mins
  • 'The Inflection Election' Warns Voters of Fascist Threat Posed by Trump in 2024
    Sep 11 2024

    Former NYC Public Advocate Mark Green: New Book Warns Voters of Fascist Threat Posed by Trump in 2024 Election

    Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights Co-chair Abigail Fuller: Portland, Maine City Council Votes for Israel Divestment Resolution Over Gaza War

    Gaza Peace Activist Bob Sanders: Retired Journalist Bikes to Washington, D.C., Building Opposition to Israel’s Gaza War

    Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary
    • Mexico's lower house passes controversial judicial reform
    • German far-right AfD party celebrates historic election victory
    • New green energy laws face backlash in rural Michigan


    Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. 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.

    Show more Show less
    29 mins
  • Gaza War Slaughter Continues as Massive Israeli Protests Blame Netanyahu for Latest Hostage Deaths
    Sep 4 2024

    Arab American Institute President James Zogby: Gaza War Slaughter Continues as Massive Israeli Protests Blame Netanyahu for Latest Hostage Deaths

    Climate Defiance activist Ethan Wright: Activists Protest Federal Reserve Climate Policy, Block Road to Wyoming Annual Symposium

    Free Press senior counsel Nora Benavidez: Coalition Demands U.S. News Media Aggressively Cover Election Campaign Threats to Democracy

    Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

    • U.S. sanctions former Haitian president
    • Right-wing cracks down on the unhoused
    • Weaponized Trump IRS could wreck progressive infrastructure


    Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. 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.

    Show more Show less
    29 mins
  • U.S. Doctor Shares His Eyewitness Account of Gaza War Horrors
    Aug 28 2024

    Pediatrician Dr. Ahmad Javed Yousaf: U.S. Doctor Shares His Eyewitness Account of Gaza War Horrors

    New York Times Pulitzer prize-winning journalist James Risen: Trump’s Racism is the Primary Driver of His Voter Support

    The Sentencing Project's Joshua Rovner: Youth Incarceration in the U.S. Declines, but Racial Disparities Persist

    Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

    • Obscure strategy wreaked short-lived havoc on global markets
    • US neo-Nazi terror group aims to revive activities
    • Arizona schools don’t want to be polling locations


    Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. 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.

    Show more Show less
    29 mins