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The Real News Podcast
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The Real News PodcastMedea Benjamin: ‘It’s a very dire situation in Cuba right now’
With Cuba’s electric grid collapsing this week, the inhumane results of the Trump administration’s oil blockade continue to pile up and strangle Cuba and its…
The Real News PodcastShield of the Americas: Trump's Donroe Coalition
At least 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are on board with Trump’s new military alliance. They are calling it the America’s Counter Cartel…
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Kansas is not safe for trans people
As their public approval sinks lower and lower, the MAGA right is leaning harder and harder into policies of abject cruelty directed at vulnerable populations…
The Real News Podcast'ICE got me': The urgent fight to free Ludovic Mbock
38-year-old regional video gaming champion Ludovic Mbock, who came to the US legally from Cameroon, was snatched by ICE while applying for his yearly work…
The Real News PodcastNumber of Children in ICE Detention Skyrockets Under Trump
A new report from The Marshall Project reveals that the daily number of kids in ICE detention has increased sixfold under the second Trump administration. In…
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Afghanistan War Vet Blasts Trump’s “Pathetic and Horrific” War with Iran
President Trump’s catastrophic decision to plunge the US into a war with Iran is following a depressingly familiar playbook to those who lived through—and…
The Real News Podcast‘Mass Incarceration’ Is a Liberal Myth. The Truth Is Far Worse.
The term “mass incarceration” is inaccurate and misleading, Distinguished Professor and author Dylan Rodríguez says: “The masses are not being policed…
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Trump’s War on Cuba: Crisis Made in the USA
Cuba is facing the greatest existential threat it has seen in decades. Trash is filling streets, because garbage trucks can’t make the rounds. Rolling…
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Abby Martin: Western Media's Complicity in US-Israeli War on Iran
The US-Israeli war with Iran is spiraling into a regional catastrophe, and the number of dead is rising quickly. While President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime…
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Sean O’Brien sold workers and unions out to Trump—these Teamsters are running to oust him.
As general president of the union, Sean O’Brien has operated with a “Teamsters vs. Everybody” mentality, especially when it comes to dealing with President…
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Manifest Destiny Never Ended: The Domestic War for White Supremacy
From the very beginning, the United States of America has been at war—not just abroad, but domestically. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa…
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Stolen Wealth: How Black Depositors Funded the Nation’s Capital
How did the promise of Black wealth become a tool for white elites? In this Black History Month special of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with UVA…
The Real News PodcastThe US and Israel are pushing Iran—and the Middle East—to the brink
Urged on by Israel and neocon war hawks, President Trump has brought the US to the verge of a war with Iran, amassing more American military forces in the…
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Tech workers protest Microsoft’s ties to ICE terror and Israel's war crimes
In just six months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) more than tripled the amount of data stored on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform,The Guardian…
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Jeremy Scahill: Prospects for avoiding US-Iran war ‘remain fragile’
With President Trump marshaling the largest buildup of US military forces in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the threat of an imminent…
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Columbia University Is Doing Trump’s Anti-Constitutional Dirty Work
Bending to economic coercion and political pressure from the Trump administration, once-venerable institutions like Columbia University have compliantly become…
The Real News PodcastDr. Wolff explains the secret ingredient to economic fascism
In this episode of Inequality Watch, investigative journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis are joined by renowned economist Dr. Richard Wolff to break down…
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Texas’ one-of-a-kind concentration camp for children & families
Hundreds of children are currently incarcerated at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, TX, and the stories leaking out to the public about the…
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Homeland Empire: ICE & Border Patrol Killings in Minneapolis to US Strikes in Venezuela
Since the beginning of 2026, US forces have killed people in Caracas, Venezuela, on boat strikes in the Pacific, and in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is a new…
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They won their strike fair and square. Now their rich bosses are closing up shop.
On Nov. 24, 2025, in a major and hardwon victory, Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members finally returned to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after more than…
The Real News PodcastSOS: The US is manufacturing a humanitarian crisis in Cuba
The Trump administration is deliberately plunging Cuba into a national and humanitarian crisis, and the US-imposed blockade of oil imports is wreaking havoc on…
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NO DEAL: Nurses at NY-Presbyterian overwhelmingly vote to stay on strike
The longest-running nurses strike in New York City history has come to an end—for some. Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, however, overwhelmingly voted…
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Massive strike at Kaiser Permanente enters third week
An estimated 31,000 health care workers in California and Hawaii walked off the job on Jan. 26 in their ongoing battle with healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente…
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America's toxic future looks like East Palestine, OH, today
Feb. 3, 2026 marked the three-year anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical disaster in East Palestine, OH—one of the worst industrial…
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How the Destruction of Gaza's Medical System Became a Weapon of War
Hospitals in Gaza have been destroyed, medical supplies blocked, and doctors killed or detained—leaving children amputated without anesthesia, patients dying…
The Real News PodcastUnder Putin’s Thumb: War, Repression, and Resistance
Over the last two decades, Vladimir Putin has transformed his government in Russia from a managed democracy into an authoritarian regime. Many now view it as…
The Real News PodcastPoisoned, exploited, abandoned: East Palestine, OH, three years later
It’s been three years since a Norfolk Southern “bomb train” carrying toxic chemicals derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio, on the night of Feb…
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Angola Prisoners Head to Trial Over Slave Labor Class Action Lawsuit
Judge Brian Jackson of the U.S. District Court has certified a class action lawsuit against Angola Prison on behalf of men forced to perform punitive farm…
The Real News PodcastWhen the Bombs Fell on Caracas
On January 3, 2026, the United States invaded Venezuela and kidnapped president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. It was the first U.S. invasion of a…
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“A hero”: Nurses, federal workers honor Alex Pretti
Hundreds of union nurses, federal workers, and local residents gathered outside the Veterans Affairs central office building in Washington, DC, on Jan. 28, to…
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Louisiana still imprisons people convicted by 'Jim Crow juries'
Non-unanimous jury verdicts were a Jim Crow–era policy designed to silence Black jurors and secure convictions even when the state failed to prove its case. In…
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Largest nurses union calls to abolish ICE after Alex Pretti killing
On Friday, Jan. 23, around 50,000 people in Minneapolis, MN, engaged in a historic mass strike and day of protest to demand an end to ICE terror and President…
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Trump’s government hasn’t won its case against Mahmoud Khalil—yet
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration a victory this month in its ongoing attempt to deport Syrian-born Palestinian activist…
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Debunking Venezuela
In the hours after the Jan. 3 US invasion of Venezuela, social media was inundated with fake videos and images. Some showed Venezuelans holding huge rallies in…
The Real News PodcastTrump’s ICE invasion of MN 'is not about immigration enforcement. It's a campaign of terror'
The Trump administration’s federal invasion and occupation of the state of Minnesota continues to sow chaos in the Twin Cities, but grassroots resistance to…
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Florida’s temp industry extends incarceration into the workplace
Returning citizens are being funneled into exploitative temp jobs that pay poverty wages, deny them basic labor protections, and deepen the state’s control…
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Amid federal invasion, Minnesota calls for mass strike on Jan. 23
The state of Minnesota is under siege by our own federal government, and residents—immigrant and US-born alike—are living in fear. With the deployment of over…
The Real News PodcastFree America Walkout marks a year of resisting Trump
Today, people are protesting across the United States. They’re rallying. They’re walking off their jobs to mark the one-year anniversary of the inauguration of…
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“We are still living in a selective ceasefire”: Gaza, 2026
The Trump administration has said that the “second phase” of the ceasefire in Gaza is now in effect, but the fire has yet to cease. “What's happening now is…
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Hands Off Latin America
Thousands have marched against Trump’s invasion of Venezuela. And leaders are leading the charge against U.S. intervention in the region, in some unexpected…
The Real News Podcast'Blood everywhere': Iran's protests continue as violence rises
People continue to take to the streets all across Iran, even as state forces massacre protestors and the US ramps up sanctions and threatens military…
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Venezuela: A show of US force, a testament of US decline
Marc Steiner speaks with Geo Maher, abolitionist scholar and author of We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, about the untenable…
The Real News PodcastNora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, January, 12 2026
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, January 12, 2026. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Rural America wants to break its economic addiction to prisons | Rattling the Bars
Prisons have frequently been presented as a “solution” to the economic woes and employment needs of rural communities around the US—but that doesn’t mean…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, January, 9 2026
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, January 9, 2026. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News Podcast‘Yankee Go Home’: How Venezuela’s greatest protest singer denounced US intervention
They called Ali Primera “The People’s Singer.” The Venezuelan ambassador of the Nueva Cancion, protest song, movement, which spilled across Latin America in…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, January, 8 2026
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, January 8, 2026. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, January, 7 2026
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, January 7, 2026. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, January, 6 2026
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, January 6, 2026. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastTrump & the US oil-igarchy want to 'run Venezuela.’ How is Latin America responding?
In the early, pre-dawn hours of Saturday, Jan. 3, the US invaded and bombed the sovereign country of Venezuela, and kidnapped Venezuela’s president Nicolas…
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Understanding the US Invasion of Venezuela
In the early hours of Saturday morning, January 3rd, Venezuelans were awoken by the sounds of bombs falling. US helicopters whirled overhead. Explosions struck…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, January, 5 2026
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, January 6, 2026. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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The 1994 Zapatista Uprising: Resisting NAFTA and Corporate Capitalism
On January 1, 1994, Indigenous peoples from Chiapas, Mexico, rose up. They took control of city halls in towns across the state. They took the state capital…
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Trump’s piracy in the Caribbean
On September 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office that the U.S. Navy had carried out an air strike on a boat in international waters…
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The 1914 Christmas Truce: Resisting on the Front Lines of WWI
It's late 1914. December cold in the trenches of the Western Front of World War I. Rations are in short supply. Men shiver… dreaming of home. Wishing they were…
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Holding the US accountable for the 1989 invasion of Panama
On Dec. 20, each year, people march in Panama City. They march to remember the fallen. They march to continue to demand justice for the violence, the…
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Prison during the holidays isn’t what you think
For incarcerated people and their families, the holidays are the most painful time of year. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa and TRNN…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, December 19, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 19, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, December 18, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, December 18, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastThe longest-running strike in the US is over—and the workers won
On Monday, Nov. 24, after more than 1,100 days on strike, Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members were cheered on by supporters at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh…