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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
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, February 27, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastPrisoners, unions sue Alabama, alleging 'modern-day slavery'
A group of current and former prisoners have sued the state of Alabama with the support of two unions who have signed on as co-plaintiffs, the Union of…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, February 26, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, February 26, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, February 23, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, February 23, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastCombatting the housing crisis with the Crown Heights Tenants Union
Some 34% of available housing stock in the US is rented by tenants, who number over 114 million people. Among tenants, more than 40% pay over 35% of their…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, February 22, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, February 22, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastBaltimore's co-ops show the power of a 'solidarity economy'
Baltimore has become what many consider to be ground zero in the emerging “solidarity economy” and the formation of worker-owned, cooperatively run businesses…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, February 21, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastGov. Abbott's border stunts have a real human cost
Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, has spearheaded a manufactured political crisis over the state of the US-Mexico border for years. Not content to…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, February 20, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
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Why coming home from prison is so difficult for so many
The US has one of the highest prisoner recidivism rates in the world: over 70% of incarcerated people who are released from prison in the US will be rearrested…
The Real News PodcastThe Ultimate Frisbee players of Palestine
Most ultimate frisbee players don’t have to consider how an Israeli checkpoint might disrupt their plans for a game—but this is the reality of life in…
The Real News Podcast'Downward spiral': When money goes to cops, not schools | Rattling the Bars
The crisis of mass incarceration is about more than the conduct of police officers—it's a question of public expenditures, and how pouring taxpayer money into…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, February 16, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, February 16, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News Podcast'The Hands That Crafted the Bomb': Memoir of an anti-fascist
As a community college professor, Josh Fernandez started an anti-fascist club to organize alongside his students. The school administration responded by…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, February 15, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, February 15, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, February 14, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastU.S.S. Honduras | Under the Shadow, Ep. 6
In the 1980s, Honduras was ground zero for US operations in Central America—it was the primary point from which the US would wage its proxy wars and launch its…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, February 13, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastWhy Yemen stands with Palestine
For months, analysts have warned of the possibility of Israel's genocide in Gaza sparking a regional war. In Yemen, that war is already here. Beginning on Jan…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, February 12, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, February 12, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastPro-Israel Patriots owner Robert Kraft spends $7M to use Super Bowl as political soapbox
Super Bowl LVII in 2023 was the most-watched US telecast in history, and with well over 100 million people expected to tune in on Feb. 11, Super Bowl Sunday…
The Real News PodcastGaza Ceasefire: Former pro athlete explains solidarity with Palestine
The sports world has largely been silent in the face of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Yet former NBA player Tariq Abdul-Wahad is standing up and speaking out in…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, February 9, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, February 9, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastThe Battle of Cripple Creek: How armed miners won better pay and hours
On Feb. 7, 1894, the Western Federation of Miners declared a strike in the boomtown of Cripple Creek, CO, in protest of increased working hours. For the next…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, February 8, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, February 8, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastHomegrown Sandwich shop workers hit 100 days on strike | Working People
Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches, a Seattle-based chain, was founded with the mission of creating a more sustainable food system; however, as one former…
The Real News PodcastEl Salvador. Bukele, Presidente. | Under the Shadow, Update 2
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has been reelected. While the official results aren’t yet in, with 70% of the ballots counted, Bukele has received an…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, February 7, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastHow Israel's supporters use Islamophobia to silence critics | The Marc Steiner Show
By now, the false equivalency between anti-Zionism and antisemitism—which Israel’s supporters use to give rhetorical cover for Zionism—is a well-worn topic on…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, February 6, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastNew book collects 178 years of Black history | Rattling the Bars
Black people have produced their own historical accounts as long as Black people have been in America. From oral tradition to the first publications of Phyllis…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, February 5, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, February 5, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastHere’s everything about the 2024 elections you’ve been avoiding
The 2024 elections have begun, and all signs point to a rehash of 2020's Biden vs. Trump race. Biden is now at the nadir of his approval ratings in office…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, February 1, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, February 1, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastEast Palestine—1 Year After the Derailment | Working People
On Feb. 3, 2023, a Norfolk-Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, forever changing the lives of the town's nearly 5,000 residents. One year later…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, January 31, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastThe return of Guatemala's left | Under the Shadow, Update 1
Guatemala's new president Bernardo Arévalo was inaugurated on January 14. But it did not come off without a hitch. Outgoing opposition lawmakers did their best…
The Real News PodcastAmerica's political crisis and 'The Infernal Triangle' w/Rick Perlstein | The Marc Steiner Show
The political crisis that has gripped the US over the past decade is the outgrowth of this country's peculiar political history. Just as hard right turn of the…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, January 30, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastWisconsin's prison lockdowns: No visitors, few showers, and no end in sight | Rattling the Bars
Last June, the state of Wisconsin placed two correctional institutions in Green Bay and Waupun on lockdown due to concerns about overcrowding and the quality…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, January 29, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, January 29, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, January 26, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, January 26, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastPalestine and the crisis of free speech on college campuses
Colleges and universities have long acted as incubators for social movements, and the movement in solidarity with Palestine is no exception. While repression…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, January 25, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, January 25, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, January 24, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastSoledad Prison librarian speaks out for dehumanized inmates w/Fred Winn | Rattling the Bars
The nightmarish reality of the prison industrial complex depends on a vast array of stereotypes and tropes about incarcerated people that have proliferated…
The Real News PodcastEl Salvador. Rebel Radio. | Under the Shadow, Ep 5
Today, we look at Radio Venceremos — a grassroots guerrilla radio that broadcast throughout El Salvador’s Civil War, denounced violent state repression, and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, January 23, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, January 22, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, January 22, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News Podcast'A permanent ceasefire means a free Palestine!' Voices from the March on Washington for Gaza
After three months of carnage, the US continues to support Israel’s genocide in Gaza. While the bombs rain down, tens of thousands are killed, more are…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, January 19, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, January 19, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastThe UAW won big in 2023—and they’re not done yet
The historic UAW strike of 2023 against the Big Three put a new face on one of the largest and oldest unions in the US. The UAW not only managed to face down…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, January 18, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, January 18, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastHow mainstream news is doing Israel's dirty work of sanitizing slaughter
Israel's genocide in Gaza has undoubtedly become the most broadcasted atrocity in history. With massacre after massacre streamed daily to audiences in the…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, January 17, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastEl Salvador. The Innocent Victims. | Under the Shadow, Ep 4
1980s El Salvador was ground zero for the US intervention in Central America. The United States would funnel over $6 billion US dollars to El Salvador in…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, January 16, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastSolitary confinement is torture w/Herbert Robinson | Rattling the Bars
Regarded by many as a form of torture, abolishing solitary confinement has become a goal for many activists for prison reform and abolition. In Washington, DC…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, January 15, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, January 15, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…