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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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Episodes
The Real News PodcastMolly Crabapple: Anti-Zionism has existed since the beginning of Zionism | The Marc Steiner Show
Not many people today know about the radical history of the Jewish Labor Bund, the Jewish socialist party founded within the Russian Empire in 1897—but they…
The Real News PodcastNora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, November 13, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, November 12, 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 11, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, November 11, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastRep. Raskin: Trump’s administration will ‘create a climate of fear and intimidation’ to govern. Don’t let them
Donald J. Trump is headed back to the White House for a second term, Republicans will control the Senate, and if they win a majority in the House of…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, November 8, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, November 8, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastWhat happened in the 2024 elections, and what happens now?
What happened in the 2024 elections, and what happens now? Donald J. Trump is headed back to the White House, Republicans will control the Senate, and it’s…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, November 7, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, November 7, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, November 6, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, November 5, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastYes, your vote matters. I’ve seen what it can do.
Voting day has arrived. As millions around the country head to the polls with a clear candidate in mind, millions of others are wondering if voting still means…
The Real News PodcastTrainwreck in ‘Trump Country’: Partisan politics hasn’t helped East Palestine, OH
From the moment a Norfolk Southern ‘bomb train’ derailed in East Palestine, OH, on February 3, 2023, traumatized and chemically exposed residents became…
The Real News PodcastWho are the real Trump supporters? The answers might surprise you
The outcome of tomorrow's election is anyone's guess. While the candidates are familiar, this election is very different from previous showdowns with Trump in…
The Real News PodcastDo prisoners really prefer Trump? w/Nicole Lewis | Rattling the Bars
Since the 1990s, 2 million people with felony convictions have regained the right to vote, thanks to crucial reforms abolishing felony disenfranchisement in 26…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, November 4, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, November 4, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastHow will railroad workers vote after Biden and Congress blocked their strike? | Working People
Two years ago, the US was on the cusp of seeing its first national rail strike in decades. Then, President Joe Biden, at the urging of the rail companies, and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, November 1, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, November 1, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Trump could win this election. Here's what MAGA has in store.
The MAGA movement didn't disappear after Trump's defeat in the 2020 election. If anything, Republicans and extremists outside the party have learned how to…
The Real News PodcastPrison abolitionists could score wins on election day, despite electoral ambivalence
Policing and prison abolition policy questions have been minimized in the lead-up to the 2024 November election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, despite…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, October 31, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 31, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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The failures of liberals and the Left have helped Trump's rise
We are now just days away from the 2024 presidential election, and the outcome remains uncertain. With the possibility of a new Trump administration around the…
The Real News PodcastKaiser workers’ strike enters second week in Southern California
On Monday, Oct. 21, 2,400 behavior health workers at Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California locations walked off the job in their ongoing struggle for a fair…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 30, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 29, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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'I'm not interested in changing hearts and minds': The work of an anti-Zionist rabbi
The movement in solidarity with Palestine has a sizable presence of progressive Jewish Americans. As an anti-Zionist rabbi, Brant Rosen has made it his life's…
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North Carolina failed to evacuate prisoners during Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, including its prisons. Yet rather than evacuate incarcerated people, the state left prisoners locked up in…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, October 28, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, October 28, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, October 25, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 25, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Under Prop 6, California voters could finally abolish forced prison labor
This November, California voters will have the chance to pass Proposition 6. This ballot referendum would nullify the state constitution's exception for…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 23, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Anti-Zionist Jews face persecution from Jewish institutions w/Shane Burley | The Marc Steiner Show
Young Jewish Americans are playing an outsized role in the movement for Palestine—but not without facing consequences. In a recent article for In These Times…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 22, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastTwo years into a strike, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers aren’t ready to give up
Two years ago, the workers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette walked off the job on strike. The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh has been in negotiations for a…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, October 21, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, October 21, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, October 18, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 18, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, October 17, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 17, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News Podcast'Towns are gone': In Helene-devastated Asheville, NC, volunteers battle misinformation and 'apocalyptic' wreckage
Over the past two weeks, people around the country have watched in horror as our neighbors and fellow workers have been battered by the successive disasters of…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 16, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastProtests haven't stopped Israel's genocide. How is the Palestine solidarity movement adjusting?
Over the past year, Israel’s US-backed genocidal assault on Gaza, which is on the verge of spiraling into a regional war, has reached unprecedented heights—so…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 15, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, October 11, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 11, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News Podcast'War Made Invisible': Gaza, the War on Terror, and America's crisis of democracy
War is a daily fixture of American life—the US military occupies at least 750 overseas bases, and it has executed military operations in nations around the…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, October 10, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 10, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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'It's terrifying': How Israelis justify genocide to themselves
Israel's genocide in Gaza has now surpassed a year, and is quickly spiraling into a regional war that now includes a ground front in Lebanon. As the world…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 9, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News Podcast'They cannot defeat us': Lebanon stands defiant against Israel's assault
Israel announced its decision to invade Lebanon on September 30—and so far, it does not seem to be going well. Israeli media has been largely silent on the…
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'Israel is in its last days': A survivor of Israeli torture speaks out
After a year of Israel's genocidal onslaught on Gaza, and after more than 75 years of Israeli occupation, Palestinians like Ashira Prem Rachana Darwish still…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 8, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, October 7, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, October 7, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, October 4, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 4, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastCornell is about to deport a student over Palestine activism
The student encampment movement last school year turned institutions of higher education into flashpoints of struggle over Israel’s ethnic cleansing of…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, October 3, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 3, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastThe Walz-Vance VP debate was a civil display of our appalling politics
Tuesday night's VP debate took place in the context of multiple overlapping crises: Iranian missiles raining down on Tel Aviv, intensifying the threat of a…
The Real News PodcastAI data centers are draining water from this drought-stricken Mexican town
As the climate crisis intensifies, billions of poor and working people around the world are suffering from lack of regular (or any) access to clean water, but…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 2, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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'A land that we own': Palestinian farmers resist Israeli expansion in the West Bank
For Palestinian farmers in the West Bank, land and livelihood are deeply intertwined concerns—and the only way to defend them is through organization. Faced…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 1, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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'I Am Maroon': The life of Black Panther Russell 'Maroon' Shoatz
For nearly half a century, Russell 'Maroon' Shoatz was a political prisoner of the United States. Prior to his incarceration, Shoatz fought against US…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, September 30, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, September 30, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, September 27, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, September 27, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…