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The Real News Podcast
Daily Reports, specials, and podcasts by The Real News Network (TRNN). TRNN makes media connecting you to the movements, people, and perspectives that are advancing the cause of a more just, equal, and livable planet. TRNN is a nonprofit media organization. We do not accept advertising revenue or corporate sponsorship.
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The Real News PodcastNora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, January 15, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Michigan’s Muslims take matters into their own hands
In These Times magazine, The Forge News, Convergence Magazine, and The Real News Network have joined forces to produce “Left Out: The Missing Election…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, January 14, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastSara Nelsons explains how unions can fight Trump
Donald Trump will once again be inaugurated as president in just a week's time, and the lessons of workers' victories from his past administration provides an…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, January 13, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, January 13, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastIs the US to blame for Europe's sickness? w/Peter Mertens
Editor's note: This conversation was recorded on Dec 5, 2024. In just two weeks, the governments of Germany's Olaf Scholz and France's Michel Jean Barnier have…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, January 10, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, January 10, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, January 9, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, January 9, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastDemocracy dies, first, in the workplace: A conversation with Hamilton Nolan and Sara Nelson | Working People
“I did not start out as a writer interested in organized labor,” Hamilton Nolan writes in The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, January 8, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastTenured Jewish professor FIRED for pro-Palestine speech w/Maura Finkelstein | The Marc Steiner Show
While teaching at Muhlenberg College, Maura Finkelstein made no secret of her support for Palestinian liberation. Even before receiving tenure, Finkelstein…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, January 7, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, January 6, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, January 6, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastThe medical industry and mass incarceration w/Erica Woodland | Rattling the Bars
Popular representations of the Black Panthers often focus on their armed self-defense activities, but medical services and health justice were a tremendous…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, December 20, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 20, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, December 19, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, December 19, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, December 18, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, December 17, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, December 16, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, December 16, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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'Incredibly hypocritical': Hunter Biden's pardon and President Biden's legacy | Rattling the Bars
President Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum. Among these critics are opponents of the…
The Real News PodcastGeorgia residents ABANDONED after toxic BioLab fire | Working People
“In late September,” Timothy Pratt writes in Capital & Main, “a massive billow of smoke from a chemical fire spread over metro Atlanta, lingering for weeks and…
The Real News PodcastThe UnitedHealthcare CEO assassination and America’s class divide
The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has gripped the nation and revived a passionate debate on the dismal state of healthcare in the US…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, December 13, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 13, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, December 12, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, December 12, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, December 11, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastHow Big Tech made Trump 2.0 w/Cory Doctorow
There are a lot of similarities between the 2016 and 2024 elections, but the media ecosystem we have today is fundamentally different from the ecosystem we had…
The Real News Podcast'We are such a small group': The Israelis who defend Palestinians | The Marc Steiner Show
It's no secret that Israel has sought to fully annex the West Bank for decades—and now, many believe the time may be near. For Rabbi Arik Ascherman, the…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, December 10, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastRobert Reich predicted the death of the US middle class 30 years ago. We asked him how to save it.
30 years ago, in 1994, then-US Labor Secretary Robert Reich issued a prescient warning to all Americans: “We are on the way to becoming a two-tiered society.”…
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Alabama prisoners sued to stop forced labor—a court dismissed their case
Five incarcerated people in Alabama are fighting to push forward a lawsuit, Stanley v. Ivey, challenging the state's power to punish prisoners who resist…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, December 9, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, December 9, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, December 6, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 6, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, December 5, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, December 5, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastIs the Great Depression a glimpse of our future? w/Dana Frank | Working People
“During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the US economy almost completely collapsed,” historian Dana Frank writes in her new book, What Can We Learn from the…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, December 4, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, December 3, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News Podcast'Everything is destroyed': Surviving 423 days of genocide in Gaza | The Marc Steiner Show
Hunger. Cold. Thirst. Disease. These are the daily realities of life in Gaza, where for the past 423 days Israel has unleashed a genocide that will come to…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, December 2, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, December 2, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, November 29, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, November 29, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, November 28, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, November 28, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastWhat a can of tuna can teach us about international workers’ solidarity | Working People
Longtime Working People listeners will be familiar with Max and Mel’s extended work discussing the supply chain, the workers who keep that system running day…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, November 27, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News Podcast'Nonprofit killer' bill: Congress' plan to KILL Palestine activism w/Chip Gibbons & Noah Hurowitz
The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, has passed a vote in the House. If approved by the Senate, this bill would…
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The bad, the worse, and the ugly: Trump's incoming cabinet | The Marc Steiner Show
Not even a month has passed since the presidential election, and the incoming slate of Trump cabinet nominees is already beset with controversy and scandal…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, November 26, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, November 25, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, November 25, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastUnion president explains existential threat Trump poses to organized labor—and how we fight back
For all his promises to deliver for US workers, Trump's political agenda poses an existential threat to organized labor. Project 2025's planned assault on the…
The Real News PodcastEverything you've heard about this election is wrong. Dr. Richard Wolff explains why.
Taya Graham and Stephen Janis examine the recent election through the lens of wealth inequality and how it affects our democracy in ways both extreme and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, November 22, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, November 22, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, November 21, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, November 21, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastBaltimore St. Agnes nurses picket bishops conference to denounce Ascension | Working People
On November 12, unionized nurses at Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore held a rally in front of the Marriott Hotel downtown, where the US Conference of…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, November 20, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Solidarity or Jewish supremacy? Judaism at a crossroads w/Rabbi Cat Zavis | The Marc Steiner Show
The future of Jewish identity is at a crossroads thanks to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. The question facing millions of people is whether to take the path…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, November 19, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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The truth about solitary confinement
"Who would want to lock somebody in a room the size of your bathroom and leave them in there for three years...and expect them to come out in the same…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, November 18, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, November 18, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News Podcast“Let’s unite!”: Poisoned residents of America’s sacrifice zones are banding together | Working People
Sacrifice zones are areas where people have been left to live in conditions that threaten life itself, from toxic industrial pollution to the deadly…
The Real News PodcastAbby Martin, Francesca Fiorentini, and Kat Abughazaleh respond to Trump’s win
While Democrats are looking for scapegoats to blame for their losses on election day, Donald Trump is busy making cabinet and administration appointments. When…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, November 15, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, November 15, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, November 14, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, November 14, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…