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The Real News Podcast
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The Real News PodcastBrazil’s Battle Against Fake News & the US War to Undermine it
This is really a tale of two countries: The United States and Brazil. In both countries, far-right presidents come to power — Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro…
The Real News PodcastEstablishment Democrats PANIC as Socialists Keep Winning
Establishment Democrats have racked up disastrous electoral losses over the past decade—so why are they furious when their own party actually wins? Taya Graham…
The Real News PodcastTrain Crashes Destroyed Their Towns. Will Yours Be Next?
10 years before the catastrophic train derailment and chemical disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, one of the deadliest rail disasters in North American history…
The Real News PodcastRebels with a Cause: The Black Panther Party and Socialism in Practice
On this episode of Rattling the Bars, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966, host and former political…
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What Is Free Speech? America at 250
On the eve of the United States' 250th birthday, Michael Fox sits down with Mansa Musa — longtime activist, former Black Panther, host of TRNN’s Rattling the…
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Toxic Avengers: America’s Poisoned and Abandoned Communities Must Stand Together or Die
From the explosion of AI data centers to the increasing number of toxic spills, explosions, and industrial disasters happening across the country, corporations…
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What Would the Black Panthers Say About DSA Today?
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. On this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa…
The Real News PodcastThe US, Israel, and Latin America’s Far Right Are Plotting to Crush the Left
Leaked audio recordings between powerful right-wing figures in Latin America have revealed a massive and shocking conspiracy—involving the United States and…
The Real News Podcast‘You Can’t Serve People You Hate’: Rep. Summer Lee Breaks Down the War on the Poor
In this exclusive interview, recorded earlier this month at the Netroots conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rep. Summer Lee explains her concerns about…
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Rep. Justin Pearson: MAGA Eliminated My Congressional District. I'm Still Running.
After an April decision by the US Supreme Court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Tennessee became the first state to redraw its Congressional district maps…
The Real News PodcastUAW Becomes First Major Union to Divest from Israel
At the 39th Constitutional Convention of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in Detroit, Michigan, union delegates debated and affirmed the aggressive direction the…
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Attacks on Press Freedom: Lawsuits, Intimidation, and the War on Journalists | Ep. 4
Photojournalist Nick Stern still has nightmares from the night an officer fired a flashbang into his leg as he covered the LA immigration protests. He's one of…
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‘Beyond the Wire’: A Grassroots Perspective on Baltimore
Beyond the Wire, a new, thought-provoking documentary by filmmaker and researcher Dr. S. Rasheem, offers an indespensible representation of "The Greatest City…
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FBI Raids Homes of Michigan Students and Workers for Palestine Activism
On June 10, early in the morning, FBI agents raided the homes of individuals involved in Palestine solidarity activism at the University of Michigan. As Yarden…
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Steven Thrasher: Black Cops, Latino ICE agents, and the "Overseer Class"
We sit down with Dr. Steven Thrasher to talk about his new book, The Overseer Class; how our police state today evolved from yesterday’s slave plantations; and…
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Rep. Jamie Raskin: ICE is Acting Like a Secret Paramilitary Police Force for President Trump
TRNN reporter Stephen Janis speaks with US Rep. Jamie Raskin about the unprecedented power of ICE in light of the $70 billion in additional funding just…
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Working People LIVE SHOW w/ Kim Kelly, Alex Press, and Hamilton Nolan
The world as we know it is facing unprecedented crises today that are all converging at once, from “end-times fascism” and full-blown oligarchy to “artificial…
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How Trump and Big Tech Are Gutting Free Speech: AI, Censorship, and Media Mergers
On the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration—January 20, 2025—the heads of many of Silicon Valley’s most powerful tech firms sat in the rows just behind Trump. It…
The Real News PodcastAdam Johnson: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza
As a writer, podcaster, and columnist for TRNN, Adam Johnson has been one of the fiercest, sharpest, and most consistent critics of legacy and Western media’s…
The Real News PodcastA History of Free Speech from Abolitionists to Berkeley
Free speech in America was never given — it was fought for, bled for, and died for. In this episode, hosts Marc Steiner and Michael Fox dive into the history…
The Real News PodcastGaza Sumud Flotilla Passengers Describe Israel’s Torture, Abuse, & Sexual Violence
Israeli military forces captured the latest convoy of humanitarian aid ships sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSM) between late April and…
The Real News PodcastFrom Mussolini to Mass Incarceration: Why Gramsci Matters Today
Imprisoned by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in 1926, the prison writings of Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci remain essential 100 years later for…
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Who’s Afraid of Chris Smalls?
At a live event hosted at Red Emma’s Cooperative Bookstore and Coffeehouse in Baltimore, MD, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez got to sit down for a…
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The Election Interference Evidence No One Is Talking About
Are President Trump and MAGA Republicans publicly signaling that they plan to interfere in—and potentially rig—the 2026 midterm elections? If so, why is the…
The Real News PodcastFired & Jailed: Attacks on Free Speech Under Trump
Mahmoud Khalil was detained and arrested at his Manhattan apartment. The video is chilling. Plainclothes agents are there. They refuse to give their names…
The Real News PodcastAbby Martin: The US military machine is destroying our planet
We sit down for an hour-long discussion with legendary independent journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin to discuss her new blockbuster documentary, Earth’s…
The Real News PodcastHondurasGate: Leaks Reveal Right-Wing Plot to Dismantle Latin American Left
On the morning of April 30, the Spanish website Diario Red and the television channel Canal Red began to release a series of leaked audio recordings between…
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Baltimore Security Officers Fired and Removed from Schedules After Lawful Strike
Nearly a year after workers voted to authorize a strike, non-union city and commercially contracted security officers in Baltimore, MD, walked off the job on…
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William C. Anderson: "We Don’t Have a Functional Left" Today
In 2026, fascism in the US is rising while “the left” descends further into powerlessness, goofiness, and irrelevance—but, author William C. Anderson argues…
The Real News Podcast"You Can’t Say ‘Genocide’”: How US Media Sanitized Israel’s Destruction of Gaza
In her new book, The Complicit Lens, media scholar Robin Anderson reveals how legacy media in the US presented Israel’s genocidal violence in Gaza as defensive…
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Kim Kelly: Coal Miners are Dying, and Trump Betrayed Them
Since the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump and his acolytes, rightwing media, and coal industry barons and lobbyists have obsessively painted the…
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Ghada Karmi: How Gaza Shattered the Myth of Coexistence
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has shattered long-held hopes for Palestinian-Israeli coexistence and exposed the global systems sustaining the decades-long…
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Oren Ziv: Israel Is Erasing the West Bank’s Boundaries
While the world’s focus has shifted to the war in Iran, Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has continued, and Israeli settlers are rapidly and violently…
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Over 4,000 UAW Members on Strike at Harvard University
After 14 months of fruitless contract negotiations with the Harvard University administration, over 4,000 workers represented by the Harvard Graduate Students…
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Basem Khandakji: ‘Genocide Didn’t Start in Gaza in 2023’
Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza is the culmination of a violent settler-colonial project that goes all the way back to the Nakba (“Catastrophe”) of…
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Meet the New Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Bosses, Same as the Old Bosses
After members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh won their strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in late 2025, which had lasted for over 3 years, they were…
The Real News PodcastPeter Beinart: What Does It Mean to Be Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza?
Amid Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza, its illegal annexation of land in the Occupied West Bank, and belligerent warmaking in Iran and Lebanon…
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Political Prisoners and the Black Classic Press w/ Paul Coates
From the dawn of the digital age to the current era of “artificial intelligence,” the future of literacy, reading, and book publishing is facing an existential…
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Alec Baldwin Backs Union Drive at Starbucks
After decades of decline, the organized labor movement in the US has seen a resurgence in rank-and-file militancy over the last decade, with increased strike…
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May 1: A Nationwide ‘Economic Blackout’ Against Billionaires and Authoritarianism
Inspired by January’s mass strike against ICE terror in Minnesota, a vast coalition of labor unions, democratic organizations, and community groups are…
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Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Documenting Israel’s (Ongoing) War Crimes in Gaza and Lebanon
Award-winning journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous has reported from war zones and disaster areas across the world—from Egypt, Syria, and Libya, to Iraq, Algeria…
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America at 250: The Slave’s Perspective
2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War. While the national mythology behind the “America at 250” celebrations focuses on the…
The Real News PodcastFreed Palestinian Political Prisoner Mahmoud al-Arda Speaks
Former political prisoner Mahmoud al-Arda was first arrested by Israeli occupation forces in 1992 due to his involvement in the First Intifada and his…
The Real News PodcastJulian Hattem: "The era of climate migration is already here"
Just decades from now, millions of people all over the world will be forced to move because of climate change. In his new book, Shelter from the Storm: How…
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"The Rain Was Black": A Plant Explosion Set Off a Toxic Bomb in This Louisiana Town
On Aug. 22, 2025, the small-town lives of residents living near the Smitty’s Supply facility in Roseland, Louisiana, changed forever when an explosion occurred…
The Real News PodcastEveryone Knows Israel is Sabotaging the Iran Ceasefire—Even the Trump Administration
Hours after a temporary ceasefire deal between the US and Iran was announced last week, Israel unleashed a massive, deadly bombing campaign on Lebanon. In this…
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Being Palestinian in an Israeli Prison
While international attention has decreased in recent months, the horrors Israel continues to systematically unleash on Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied…
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Trump Is Turning Warehouses into ICE Detention Camps. Can Maryland Stop Him?
In the small town of Williamsport, MD, about an hour and a half from Baltimore, the Department of Homeland Security purchased a massive shipping warehouse for…
The Real News PodcastTrump Re-ups the Forever Drug War — How US Policy Fueled Mexico's Cartel Crisis
The U.S. has funneled billions into allies in the region under the guise of fighting the drug traffickers. It has ripped apart countries. And the violence has…
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Baltimore Security Guards Strike for Respect, Healthcare, and a Union
Nearly a year after workers voted to authorize a strike, non-union city and commercially contracted security officers in Baltimore, MD, will walk off the job…
The Real News PodcastJournalist In Iran Reports on Sides of War Corporate Media Won’t
From the Trump administration’s lies and flip-flops to social media feeds filled with AI slop and misinformation, it is infuriatingly difficult to get accurate…
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Black Anarchism In The US: A Rich, Radical Tradition
When state violence and systemic denial of full citizenship by the state makes true belonging impossible for Black people, Black anarchists have envisioned and…
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US Postal Workers Side with Communities over Collaboration with ICE
While facing decades-long political efforts to throttle and privatize the United States Postal Service (USPS), and while US Postmaster General David Steiner…
The Real News PodcastAbby Martin: The US Military Is “Earth's Greatest Enemy"
Earth’s Greatest Enemy, the new blockbuster documentary by independent journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin, is an expansive and terrifying investigation into…
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How the United States Stole Mexico
Increasingly, Trump has his sights set on Mexico—promising to send in US troops in the name of fighting cartels and advancing a so-called drug war policy. But…
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Immigrant Workers Launch Largest US Meatpacking Strike in 40 years
3,800 workers and Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 members at the massive JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, walked off the job on an…
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Norman Solomon: How Democrats Helped Clear Trump’s Path Back to Power
The Democratic Party has lost to Donald Trump and MAGA twice, and is continuing to lose working-class voters by clinging to corporate power, militarism, and a…
The Real News PodcastFifty Years After the Coup, Argentina Still Marches for Justice
This week, March 24th, is the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Argentine coup that sunk the country into a brutal U.S.-backed military dictatorship. The regime…
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Ari Berman: Start the Steal? Inside Trump's Effort to Rig the Midterm Elections
With the public outraged over the US-Israeli war with Iran, the Epstein Files coverup, and a cost-of-living crisis, even President Trump’s base of supporters…
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Fourth-generation fisherwoman goes on hunger strike against Dow Chemical
Diane Wilson is a fourth-generation fisherwoman and a lifelong resident of Seadrift, Texas. Wilson has become a global folk hero over the course of her epic…