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The Real News Podcast
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The Real News PodcastHow oil and the war in Ukraine are shaping negotiations over the Iran nuclear deal
As Russia’s assault on Ukraine grinds on and fears over the deployment of chemical or nuclear weapons grows, Iran nuclear talks are picking up speed down in…
The Real News PodcastA historic victory for Howard University’s non-tenure-track faculty
Hundreds of non-tenure-track lecturers and adjunct faculty at Howard University, one of the most storied higher education institutions in the US, have been…
The Real News PodcastCop arrested a man for not walking on a sidewalk, but he didn’t know anyone would see this video
When a Terre Haute, Indiana, man was arrested for not walking on a sidewalk on a street that doesn’t have one, the Police Accountability Report investigated…
The Real News PodcastA just transition away from the war economy and military-industrial complex is possible
Ever since World War II, the US economy has become increasingly reliant on the war industry to provide jobs. It was, in fact, World War II that converted our…
The Real News PodcastYouth activists and teachers show how to organize interracial, intergenerational coalitions
Retired teacher Al Levie helped organize his high-school students in Racine, Wisconsin, then the students worked together to build a powerful movement. We are…
The Real News PodcastFrom ‘Dead Man Walking’ to fighting to abolish the death penalty: Sister Helen Prejean’s journey
From her world-famous book "Dead Man Walking" to a life spent educating the public about the inhumanity of the death penalty, the work of activist nun Sister…
The Real News PodcastHoward University faculty win tentative agreement just hours before planned strike
Since full-time lecturers at Howard University originally voted to unionize, they have spent nearly four years bargaining with the university administration to…
The Real News Podcast‘Chronically understaffed,’ underpaid educators in Minneapolis strike against austerity
4,500 educators with the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers have been on strike since March 8, demanding smaller class sizes, better pay and benefits, more…
The Real News PodcastRise of the Right: The fear of white replacement
What the official narrative of US history should be, who gets to tell that history, and who the protagonists are have been recurring debates since the founding…
The Real News PodcastCops thought no one would see this brutal arrest, then a video surfaced exposing the truth
Another questionable arrest in a small town is raising more concerns about the state of policing in rural America. A man was repeatedly struck by police in…
The Real News PodcastWe must organize for peace like our lives depend on it (because they do)
The horrific war in Ukraine is now entering its third week after Russian troops launched a full-scale invasion on Feb. 24. As Ukrainians fight for their lives…
The Real News PodcastFrom pillar of progressivism to capital of conservatism, what the hell happened to Wisconsin?
How did Wisconsin, once a bellwether of the progressive and labor movements, become the state that voted for Scott Walker and Donald Trump? In this episode of…
The Real News Podcast20 years later, Guantánamo Bay is still a humanitarian horror
In January of this year, on the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the notorious military prison at Guantánamo Bay on the eastern tip of Cuba, the United…
The Real News PodcastMeet the progressive activists organizing Trump country
Pennsylvania Stands Up's Onah Ossai explains the process of deep canvassing, an organizing tool that breaks through bigotry and disinformation by having…
The Real News PodcastArt for the End Times: How Cold War-era Hollywood movies rotted our brains
As the horrific Russian invasion of Ukraine continues and anti-Russian sentiments are boiling over, Americans have found themselves hearkening back to the…
The Real News PodcastRise of the Right: Brownshirts and boardrooms
The far right is not a monolithic project; it is, rather, a movement of movements that have grown out of the failures of capitalism as a social order and that…
The Real News PodcastRise of the Right: The declining escalator
The election of Donald Trump and the insurrectionary violence at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 are a bad dream that many desperately want to forget. But the…
The Real News Podcast“‘What is Ukraine?’ is a question only Ukrainians can answer”
Russia’s war in Ukraine is part of a tectonic geopolitical realignment that the US in particular and the West in general are unable and unwilling to…
The Real News PodcastVideo caught a cop making an illegal arrest, but he was just getting started
Prosecutors caught a Baltimore cop making an illegal arrest on body cam, prompting a lengthy investigation. Their findings lead to a major indictment, so will…
The Real News PodcastScott Walker tried to destroy Wisconsin’s unions, but these organizers are still fighting
We're kicking off Season 5 of Working People with a multi-part series on teachers and public sector unions in the state of Wisconsin. As part of a special…
The Real News PodcastAbby Martin: How the media manufactures ‘bloodlust’ for war
From the moment Russian troops invaded Ukraine the entire corporate media apparatus in the US moved to 24-7 coverage, filling airwaves with talking heads…
The Real News Podcast‘Justice for Evan’: Supporters demand accountability from Kroger after 19-year employee allegedly bullied by management to suicide
(Content Warning: bullying, harassment, suicide.) In September 2021, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez spoke with the family of Evan Seyfried about a…
The Real News PodcastConservatives are changing their minds about the death penalty
Conservatives in America have long argued that the death penalty is a necessary fixture of our legal and carceral system, both as a “crime deterrent” and as a…
The Real News PodcastChris Hedges: War profiteers are fueling this crisis
“War destroys all systems that sustain and nurture life–familial, economic, cultural, political, environmental, and social,” Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist…
The Real News PodcastCops want to turn cop watching into organized crime, but can they get away with it?
Are Texas police laying the groundwork to thwart cop watchers by sending them to jail for simply using cellphone cameras to film them? This is the serious…
The Real News PodcastFrom the Euromaidan Revolution to Russian invasion: How Ukraine was ripped apart
From the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 to the Euromaidan Revolution in 2013-14, to the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022, Ukraine has been perpetually…
The Real News PodcastNYC unions rally against exploitation of immigrant demolition workers
With Laborers Local 79 leading the charge, union demolition workers, construction workers, carpenters, bricklayers, and more have rallied multiple times in the…
The Real News PodcastRussians against war in Ukraine need international help
Since Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine, thousands of people in Russia have risked their safety and freedom to engage in illegal public…
The Real News PodcastStop trying to revive local economies with prisons
Closing prisons and reducing the incarcerated population should be a good thing, but when local economies become dependent on the prison industry it creates…
The Real News PodcastBefore Benjamin Smith, activists in Portland warned us about the far right’s deadly violence
At a racial justice demonstration in Portland on Feb. 19, well-known and respected activist June Knightly was shot and killed by far-right vigilante Benjamin…
The Real News PodcastPolice abuse grows in small town USA—and we have evidence | Live Q&A
A series of explosive investigative reports has revealed a crisis of police abuse in rural America. This week, Police Accountability Report hosts Taya Graham…
The Real News Podcast‘The whole world order is being restructured right now’
The fact that so many across the world did not believe that Vladimir Putin would order Russian troops to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine is a testament…
The Real News PodcastJeremy Corbyn: 'The left needs to work on a much more global basis'
From endless wars, militarism, and surges in rightwing “populism” to ceaseless capitalist pillage, neoliberal austerity, and botched international responses to…
The Real News PodcastPodcasting can still be a revolutionary tool—it depends on how we use it
The number of podcasts has exploded in the past five years, and so much of the field is dominated by big names and platforms like Spotify and Liberty, but we…
The Real News PodcastYanis Varoufakis: We are living in a post-capitalist, techno-feudalist dystopia
From the push to turn more of the workforce into precarious “gig workers” to the ways profit-seeking digital platforms condition how we act and think while…
The Real News PodcastCanada’s 'Freedom Convoy' reveals the far right’s strategy—and the left’s vital task—today
For over a month, Canada has been rocked by a “Freedom Convoy” of demonstrators and vehicle blockades that ultimately converged on the capital city of Ottawa…
The Real News PodcastArt for the End Times: Save libraries, save the world
It’s been said many times, many ways before: If our public library system didn’t already exist, there’s no way we could create it in today’s society. But for…
The Real News PodcastCops wanted to keep this disturbing video a secret. Now they're going after the person who leaked it
Eric Lurry's death was a mystery to his family until a police whistleblower leaked damning evidence implicating the Joliet, Illinois, police department. Now…
The Real News PodcastHollywood studios are making billions off underpaid animators
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and live-action productions in the entertainment industry were put on pause, animated productions carried on, providing millions…
The Real News PodcastDonor-serving establishment politics got us into this mess—it won’t get us out
Matthew Hoh is a disabled Marine combat veteran, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and a member of the Eisenhower Media Initiative whom…
The Real News Podcast'It is torture': Women in Maryland’s prisons have nowhere to turn
Pre-release and minimum security facilities connect incarcerated individuals to essential resources for re-entering society and to opportunities for work…
The Real News PodcastThere’s still time for the US to avoid a catastrophic war with Russia in Ukraine
The White House claimed on Friday, Feb. 11 that attacks on Ukraine by Russian troops may be imminent, though Russian officials have denied these claims and…
The Real News PodcastCops in this town keep making ridiculous arrests. What are they trying to cover up?
When a small town police department came under fire for a series of questionable arrests, PAR dug deeper into the finances of Milton, West Virginia. What we…
The Real News PodcastAmy's Kitchen workers speak up about workplace injuries, mistreatment, and union busting
Few frozen food brands are as well known in the United States as Amy’s Kitchen, a privately owned, California-based company that makes organic, vegetarian…
The Real News PodcastArt for the End Times: Moral panic at the disco! Comic books in the end times
Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer prize-winning Maus was recently banned from a Tennessee county’s classrooms. The McMinn County School Board’s decision to remove…
The Real News PodcastRevolt against the carceral world
With 2.1 million incarcerated people, the United States has the largest prison population in the world. But America’s prison system is part of a larger social…
The Real News PodcastIn the US and beyond, Christian nationalism is on the rise
“Christian nationalism has influenced the course of American politics and policy since the founding of this country, while, in every era, moral movements have…
The Real News PodcastA cop charged a man with multiple crimes, but the video tells a different story
A small-town police department in Milton, West Virginia, is facing more scrutiny after another troubling video surfaced of a questionable arrest. The newly…
The Real News PodcastCourt blocks railroad workers from striking over draconian attendance policy
A crucial labor battle is currently unfolding between railroad workers and BNSF Railway, the largest freight railroad network in North America. Earlier in…
The Real News PodcastWe can’t abandon our children to a world without a future
“On December 31, 2020, Tommy Raskin, the only son of Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, tragically took his own life after a long struggle with depression…
The Real News PodcastAn Arkansas jail tested ivermectin ‘treatment’ on detainees without their consent
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a federal lawsuit against the Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas on behalf of inmates who say…
The Real News PodcastThe US and Russia may bluff their way into a war neither is prepared for
As tensions between Russia and Ukraine threaten to boil over into a proxy war between Russia and US-led NATO powers, the war drums are once again beating from…
The Real News PodcastCops broke into his home without showing a warrant, but what happened next is even worse
Coty Cecil was awaiting repairs on his RV in a West Virginia campground when Milton police started breaking into his home, refusing to show a warrant. Cecil…
The Real News PodcastThe frenetic politics of COVID-19 in Europe
From anti-lockdown protests and overburdened healthcare systems to mass labor actions and viral disinformation, from global vaccine apartheid to…
The Real News PodcastChris Hedges: Mass politics must be rooted in class struggle
From the social upheaval embodied in Donald Trump’s presidency and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice to rampant corporate plunder and increasingly…
The Real News PodcastArt for the End Times: Fiction in the time of climate chaos
The giant wave is coming, folks—but not on the big screen. In this all-climate art panel episode of Art for the End Times, Lyta sits down with journalists and…
The Real News PodcastA global wealth tax is the least we can do to curb runaway wealth concentration
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a select few has become a global problem that poses a threat to the basic functioning of our societies. According…
The Real News PodcastPolice say homicide detective Sean Suiter committed suicide, so why doesn't anyone believe them?
A recent HBO documentary entitled The Slow Hustle has brought renewed attention to the mysterious death of Baltimore homicide detective Sean Suiter in 2017…
The Real News PodcastCops arrested him for filming a traffic stop, then the case went to court...
The efforts of cop watchers and First Amendment auditors to record police continues to be a controversial subject. Some use aggressive tactics that critics say…
The Real News PodcastJust desserts: Striking bakery workers in CA demand respect
Since Nov. 3, workers represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union (BCTGM) Local 37 have been on strike…