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Trump’s Cuba Oil Blockade Triggers Dire Humanitarian Crisis Amid U.S. Invasion Threat

Interview with Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive, conducted by Scott Harris

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Hazardous Chemical Disasters Strike as Trump EPA Rolls Back Federal Safety Regulations

Interview with Martha Guzman Aceves, former Region 9 EPA administrator, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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World Press Freedom Index Tracks Decline of Free Press Globally and in U.S. Under Donald Trump

Interview with Ben Grazda, advocacy manager with Reporters Without Borders, conducted by Scott Harris

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – June 3, 2026

Compiled by Bob Nixon

  • Trump’s unofficial advisor, Mauricio Claver-Carone, reshaping Venezuelan government
  • Most polluting LNG project in the US: Louisiana LNG
  • Nebraska independent running for U.S. Senate championing working class-vs.-billionaires

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In 1971, Don McLean wrote an eight-and-a-half-minute elegy for the American soul. “American Pie” begins with a plane crash in an Iowa cornfield in 1959 that killed rock and rollers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper.

But the song was never really about the crash. It was about what happened after: the loss of innocence, the corruption of joy, the day a culture stops believing in its own music. McLean called it the day the music died.

Almost 55 years later, Donald Trump is living his own bye-bye Miss American Pie moment. And it’s unfolding, with exquisite irony, on the National Mall.