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Unseen and Unheard: Many Iranians Oppose U.S.-Israeli War While Resisting Government Repression

Interview with Naghmeh Sohrabi, Charles (Corky) Goodman professor of Middle East History, Brandeis University, conducted by Scott Harris

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U.S. Campaign Launched to Lead the World Back from Brink of Nuclear War

Interview with Ann Froines, an activist with the group Back from The Brink, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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‘Project 2026’: Trump Regime’s New Blueprint to Suppress Women’s Rights

Interview with Katherine Spillar, executive editor of Ms. magazine, conducted by Scott Harris

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – April 8, 2026

Compiled by Bob Nixon

  • Taiwan opposition leader to visit China, ahead of Trump summit
  • Repressive laws target reporting on Thai-Cambodia conflict
  • State and local laws now extend paid leave to millions

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Iran Maintains Upper Hand over U.S. and Israel in Escalating and Costly War

As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran entered a fifth week, President Trump warned again that he would soon order U.S. forces to obliterate Iran’s...
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Criminalizing Dissent: Trump DOJ Wins Terrorism Conviction of Antifa Activists

On the 4th of July, last year, supporters of people held in the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, held a noise and fireworks...
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Senate Confirms ‘Unqualified Hothead’ Markwayne Mullin as DHS Secretary

After more than a year of serving as the nation’s Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem was fired by President Trump on March 5, following mounting...

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – April 1, 2026

Weeks after the U.S. military kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, economic pressure on the communist government in Havana Cuba has escalated. Soon after Donald...

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Women’s History Month Special: Kathy Black, Life-long Union Activist, Talks About the On-going Struggle

The Monthly Labor Report welcomes Kathy Black, who served as the president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) for more than two decades, as well as an organizer with U.S. Labor Against the War. Kathy speaks about the history of women in struggle, the battles won and lost and the ongoing fight for economic and social justice.

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Economist Michael Zweig and Richard Hill discuss recent developments on the labor front and delves into the history of the struggles of working people for union representation and economic justice.

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Women’s History Month Special: Kathy Black, Life-long Union Activist, Talks About the On-going Struggle

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Stephen Zunes, a foreign policy scholar and professor in Middle Eastern studies at the University of San Francisco, analyzes and contextualizes the Jan. 3...

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Israel under genocidal war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and the U.S. under the cognitively impaired megalomaniac Donald Trump are gangster states intent on destroying what's left of international law, and moving our world toward a state of endless war. Israeli and American citizens must rise up to do everything in their power to legally remove these monsters from power, or risk losing our lives, our nations and our planet!
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Project 2026’: Trump Regime’s New Blueprint to Suppress Women’s Rights: Interview with Katherine Spillar, executive editor of @msmagazine.com, conducted by Scott Harris. Listen Here: https://btlonline.org/project-2026-trump-regimes-new-blueprint-to-suppress-womens-rights-2/
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Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything

The AI lab's Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations. They'll use the new Claude Mythos Preview model to test advancing AI cybersecurity capabilities.

https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-mythos-preview-project-glasswing/. #goodluckwiththat