Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast

Princeton University's visiting professor Fawzia Afzal-Khan: As Israel Escalates Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza, Trump Attempts to Crush Free Speech on Campus Yale University's Jason Stanley: Tyrants Use Racism and Patriarchy to Split Civil Society Apart and Dismantle Democracy Connector newsletter Editor Micah Sifry: Could Federal Workers Emerge as Leaders of a New Broad-Based Trump Opposition Movement? Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Trump team facing competing counter-terrorism strategies for Somalia • Medicaid cuts likely to hurt rural Trump country hardest • Tearing down small dams help restore Northeast rivers for migratory fish 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.

Institute for Policy Studies' Omar Ocampo: Trump’s Irrational International Tariffs Will Deepen U.S. Economic Inequality Labor historian and documentary filmmaker Fred Glass: The Trump Resistance Movement and Prospects for a Proposed General Strike New York State Jails Justice Network's Jerome R. Wright: Deal to End New York Wildcat Correction Officer Strike Suspends Solitary Confinement Reform Law Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Eritrea has imprisoned, tortured 14,000 journalists, ministers and opposition leaders • Supreme Court could be lowering bar for whites to prove reverse discrimination • Fracking has spiked volume of toxic solid waste and wastewater at Pennsylvania landfill 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.

Anti-racism educator and educator Tim Wise: Confronting the Reality of Trump’s Vile White Supremacist Agenda Georgetown University's Nader Hashemi: Trump Targets International Students for Deportation, 1st Step to Repress Free Speech for All IRIS Executive Director Maggie Mitchell Salem: Trump Attack on Immigrants and Aid Groups Felt at Local Agencies Across the US Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Student activists protest President Vucic's corruption in Serbia • Congo accuses Apple of ‘laundering’ minerals • Trump cuts federal wildfire crews 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.

American Constitution Society's Christopher Wright Durocher: Trump Defiance of Rule of Law Plunges U.S. into Deepening Constitutional Crisis The New Republic's Aaron Regunberg: As Voter Anger Rises Over Trump Attacks on Federal Government, Bernie Sanders & AOC Rally, Energize Democracy Defenders Pipeline Safety Trust's Bill Caram: Trump Fossil Fuel Deregulation and Staff Cuts Could Lead to Increase in Pipeline Accidents Between The Lines' Under-reported News Summary • U.S.-backed Kurdish army signs peace deal with Syria's interim government • Trump expels South Africa's ambassador to US over criticism • USDA cancels $1 billion in funds, hurting farmers and low-income school children 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.

American Doom independent journalist Justin Glawe: Trump-Musk Attack on Social Security Could Shatter Program Serving the Nation’s Most Vulnerable Public Citizen Co-Executive Director Lisa Gilbert: Public Citizen Pushing Back Against Trump Regime’s Onslaught of Lawlessness Left Voice Editor Sam Carliner: Trump Suppression of Free Speech an Unconstitutional Pretext to Deport Palestinian Student Activist Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Former Philippines President Duterte in Hague after ICC arrest • Executives at White House Crypto Summit gave $11M to Trump inaugural • New secretary of Veterans Affairs cancels 875 vital services contracts 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.

Yale professor and author Jason Stanley: Trump’s Methodical Assault on Democracy Closely Mirrors Authoritarian Regimes Through History Pastor Jamal-Harrison Bryant: Target's Elimination of Its DEI Policy Provokes 40-Day Nationwide Boycott Greenpeace USA Interim Executive Director Sushma Raman: In Effort to Suppress Climate Protests, Fossil Fuel Company Energy Transfer Sues Greenpeace USA Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary • Canada's newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney challenges Trump tariffs • Project 2025's architect dismissing Consumer Finance Protection Bureau cases • Peace deal could boost development in Senegal's Casamance region 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.

RootsAction.org Co-Founder Norman Solomon: Confronting the Democratic Party’s Weak Opposition to Trump Coup New Haven, CT Mayor Justin Elicker: Nearly 2 Dozen U.S. Cities Sue Trump Regime for Threat to Withhold Funding from Sanctuary Cities Committee to Protect Journalists Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen: Trump Launches Campaign of Threats and Intimidation to Suppress US Press Freedom 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.

Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson: Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump-GOP Plan to Slash $880 Billion from Medicaid Horizons Project Co-Lead Maria J. Stephan: Civil Resistance Strategies and Tactics to Effectively Resist the Trump-Musk Coup Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Director Michael Gerrard: As NYC’s Congestion Pricing Program Generates Funds for Mass Transit, Trump Wants it Shut Down Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary • New DNC chairman: Democrats are “true party of labor and working people" • U.S. firm accused of Guantanamo migrant rights abuses • Impeachment calls for Argentina president after cryptocurrency crashes 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.

Constitutional lawyer and Free Speech for People President John Bonifaz: Trump’s Illegal Demolition of Federal Government Provokes Constitutional Crisis, Calls for Impeachment Journalist and author Fred Pearce: After Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Civil Infrastructure, Palestinians Face a Water & Environmental Crisis Former CIA analyst and author Melvin Goodman: Trump’s Ukraine War Peace Overture to Russia Creates Rift with European Allies Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary 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.

Institute for Policy Studies Fellow Phyllis Bennis: Trump Doubles Down on His Criminal Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Palestinians from Gaza Salon Senior Politics Writer Amanda Marcotte: Elon Musk’s Racist Hacker Army Illegally Attempting to Eliminate Multiple Federal Agencies 50501 Organizer Praisely McNamara: Nationwide 50501 Anti-Trump Protests Mobilize to Protect Democracy from Authoritarian Power Grab Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary: 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.

Democracy in Color podcast host Steve Phillips: Back in the White House, Trump Launches Spiteful White Supremacist Policy Agenda Bethlehem University professor Mazin Qumsiyeh: After Gaza Ceasefire, Israel’s Military Launches New Deadly Offensive in Occupied West Bank Hunter College distinguished professor of public health Stephanie Woolhandler: RFK Jr. Poses Grave Danger to U.S. Public if Confirmed as HHS Secretary Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Rwanda-backed M-23 rebel army stokes carnage in Goma, Congo • Uyghurs held in Thailand go on hunger strike • LA housing activists see signs of illegal disaster profiteering 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.

American Friends Service Committee's Amy Gottlieb: As Mass Deportation Begins, Immigrant Rights Groups Organize Resistance University of California Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies' Lawrence Rosenthal: Trump’s Pardon of 1,500 Jan 6 insurrectionists: An Endorsement of Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism Public Citizen's Lisa Gilbert: Trump-Musk ‘Government Efficiency’ Advisory Group Sued for Lack of Transparency Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Elon Musk endorses German far right party • United Healthcare reports $35 billion in profits • Embattled NYC Mayor Eric Adams attends Trump inauguration 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.

People's March protesters: Washington, D.C. and National Protests Pledge Resistance to Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda Sunrise climate activist Alejandro Sobrera Barboza and U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez: Youth Climate Group Protests Nomination of Fracking CEO to be Trump’s Energy Secretary University of Wisconsin-Madison's Jennifer Loewenstein: The Israel-Hamas Gaza Ceasefire Takes Hold, But Fails to Address Future of Palestinians in Crisis Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • How will Trump support global security in China-Taiwan conflict? • World Bank changes course to now back mega dams • Trump cryptocurrency plans include cashing in on his family's bitcoin 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. 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.

War Child Alliance's Kieran King: Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Has Inflicted Severe Psychological Trauma on Children Public Citizen's Jonah Minkoff-Zern: Trump Pardon of J-6 Insurrectionists: A Disaster for Democracy, Rule of Law Third Act's Michael Richardson: Catastrophic Los Angeles Wildfires, the Climate Crisis and the Future of Public Policy Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary 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.

Journalist and author Sasha Abramsky: On Fourth Anniversary of Jan. 6th Insurrection, Democracy is on the Ropes Elbit Out of South Carolina Coalition organizer Chris Tittle: South Carolina Activists Protest Israeli Arms Maker Whose Weapons are Used in Gaza Genocide Center for American Progress' Senior Director Kate Kelly: Campaign Urges Biden to Publish Equal Rights Amendment Before Leaving Office Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary • Election protests disrupt Mozambique • Enbridge oil spill erodes confidence • More deaths revealed in US Indian boarding schools 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.

Present Age Newsletter Editor Parker Malloy: Trump-GOP Attack on Transgender Community Elicits Disturbingly Weak Democratic Party Response The Editorial Board Editor John Stoehr: Understanding America’s Broken Media Landscape Promoting Right-wing Disinformation and Influencing Election Outcomes National Association of Defense Lawyers President Chris Wellborn: Last Chance Campaign Asks Biden to Release Leonard Peltier Before Leaving Office Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Western oil money empowers Russian president and regional elites • Mortgage regulators ignore climate change risk • Trump administration will drive everyday Americans deeper in debt 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.

World Beyond War board president Kathy Kelly: UN Urged to Hold Israel Accountable for Monstrous Violations of International Law in Gaza Southern Poverty Law Center Interim Director Rachel Carroll Rivas: White Supremacist Hate Groups’ Growing Threat as Trump Takes Office Third Act Upstate New York activist Michael Richardson: Climate Activists Protest Demands NY Gov. Hochul Sign ‘Make Polluters Pay’ Bill Before Year Ends Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Trump 2.0 chaos likely to extend to U.S. strategic defense planning • Private equity stands to profit from Trump's mass deportation plan • Whole Foods workers file to form a union 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.

Salon.com Contributing Editor Heather Digby Parton: Trump’s Frighteningly Bizarre Cabinet Nominees May Get Free Ride From Spineless GOP Senators America's leading public interest lawyer & consumer advocate Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Assesses Election Outcome, Democrats’ Multiple Failures Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robin Maher: Human Rights, Religious Groups Urge Biden to Commute Federal Death Sentences Before Trump Takes Office Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary • Bhopal's disaster still lingers, 40 years later • Trump's plans "impoundment" to freeze appropriated funds • Judge's decision a major win for labor in Wisconsin 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.

Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Unanswered Questions Persist After the Sudden Overthrow of Syria’s al-Assad Regime Ploughshares Fund's Dr. John Carl Baker: Courageous South Koreans Rise Up to Block a Right-Wing Coup National Immigration Law Center's Kica Matos: National Immigrant Advocacy Groups Prepared to Resist Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Starvation threatens an estimated 500,000 in North Darfur • Municipal water systems need help to replace lead pipes • Trump 2.0 to weaken EPA environmental regulation and health laws 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.

Former chairman of Ohio's Democratic party and author David Pepper: Eight Ways to Respond to Trump Election Victory Over the Next 4 Years Author and Left Hook Substack columnist Wajahat Ali: Trump Voters Should Try to Understand Americans Who Oppose Their Convicted Felon President Third Act climate activist Sheldon Pollock: Activists Demand NY Gov. Hochul Sign Law to Make Fossil Fuel Polluters Pay for Climate Costs Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • Rohingya refugees recruited from Bangladesh to fight in Myanmar • Thousands march in New Zealand to protest bill's interpretation of founding treaty • Trump administration may privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 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.