National Security Archive Cuba Documentation Project's Peter Kornbluh: Trump’s Cuba Oil Blockade Triggers Dire Humanitarian Crisis Amid U.S. Invasion Threat

Former EPA Administrator Martha Guzman Aceves: Recent Hazardous Chemical Disasters Come as Trump EPA Rolls Back Federal Safety Regulations

Reporters Without Borders' Ben Grazda: World Press Freedom Index Tracks Decline of Free Press Globally and in U.S. Under Donald Trump

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Unofficial Trump adviser Mauricio Claver-Carone reshaping Venezuelan government
• Most polluting LNG project in the U.S.: Louisiana LNG
• Nebraska independent running for U.S. Senate championing working class-vs.-billionaires

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