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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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The Real News PodcastNora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, December 18, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, December 16, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, December 15, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, December 15, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastThe state of the free press in the US is… not good
From direct attacks on the press from a fascistic federal government to the explosion of AI and the closure and consolidation of news outlets around the…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, December 12, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 12, 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 11, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, December 11, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastVenezuela and the challenge of international solidarity
Throughout 2025, the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has faced growing and violent pressure from the United States, with President Trump’s…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, December 10, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastStanding Together: Inside Israel’s Jewish-Arab movement for equality and peace
Out of the rubble of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a grassroots movement of Jewish and Palestinian citizens inside Israel has emerged to forcefully reject a…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, December 9, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastNicole Porter: The US is ‘by far the world’s number one jailer’
Fifty years into the era of mass incarceration, states like Arkansas, Montana, California, and Colorado are pushing to build new prisons and expand immigrant…
The Real News PodcastThousands march across US against Trump’s drive for war in Venezuela
On Dec. 6, people across the United States marched. They protested. They carried banners: No war on Venezuela. No blood for oil. US hands off Venezuela. They…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, December 8, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, December 8, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastRemembering the resistance to US intervention in Latin America
In the 1980s, the United States wreaked havoc in Central America. Backing authoritarian dictatorships. Fueling massacres and violence. Funding, training, and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, December 5, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 5, 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 4, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, December 4, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, December 3, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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How to stand up to ICE: Lessons from Chicago and Charlotte
ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agencies have turned immigrant neighborhoods in Chicago, IL, and Charlotte, NC, into open-air hunting grounds, snatching…
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How Baltimore is enabling ICE’s lawlessness
ICE raids and the expanded use of expedited removal are tearing apart immigrant families and neighborhoods in Baltimore. In this episode of Rattling the Bars…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, December 1, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, December 1, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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How prisons and temp agencies exploit the most vulnerable workers
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Miami-based organizer Katherine Passley about how prison labor, temp agencies, and the 13th…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, November 27, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, November 27, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastThanks to Epstein, America’s elite are losing control of the narrative
Investigative reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis go to Capitol Hill to speak with Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, who co-sponsored the…
The Real News PodcastThanksgiving on Alcatraz: Remembering the 1969 Native American Occupation
On Thanksgiving morning before dawn, the ferries run every 15 minutes, taking people to a sunrise gathering. An Indigenous People’s Alcatraz Thanksgiving…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, November 26, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastPeople are dying inside Wisconsin's '18th-century' prisons
Wisconsin’s much-touted prison overhaul plan promises to close crumbling facilities like Green Bay Correctional Institution, but people locked up inside these…
The Real News PodcastThe Israeli and Palestinian combatants building a shared movement for peace
Having witnessed relentless horrors over two years of genocidal war in Gaza, former Israeli and Palestinian combatants are coming together in nonviolent…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, November 25, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, November 24, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, November 24, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastWill we ever see the FULL Epstein Files?
President Trump signed a bill on Wednesday directing the Justice department to release more files from the investigations into the infamous sex offender, sex…
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Zumbi dos Palmares: Brazil's hero of Black resistance
Nov. 20 is Black Consciousness Day in Brazil. A day celebrating the struggle of Black organizations, people, and movements in Brazil. Celebrating the ongoing…
The Real News PodcastWhat does it mean to be a union member in these times?
Making ends meet in today’s economy is difficult enough, but with so many societal crises affecting working people’s lives on and off the shop floor—from mass…
The Real News PodcastAt COP30, humanity must choose: Fossil fuel industry profits or a livable planet?
The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP30, began on Nov. 10 in Belém, Brazil, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. This…
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'The Alabama Department of Corrections is a drug cartel'
The Alabama prison system functions like a modern-day plantation: overcrowded, understaffed prisons like Bullock Correctional Facility run on forced labor…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, November 17, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, November 17, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastStarbucks workers strike nationwide
Over 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers in over 40 cities across the US walked off the job on an indefinite Unfair Labor Practice strike on Thursday, Nov. 13…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, November 14, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, November 14, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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How farmers fought the banks and won: Penny auctions in the Great Depression
It was the Great Depression. Early 1930s. United States. More than a thousand mortgages a day were being foreclosed on. Hundreds of thousands of families were…
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‘This is the hill to die on for universities’: Free speech can survive Trump, but not without a fight
Historian David Hollinger connects the history of the 1964 free speech movement in Berkeley, California, to the protest movements and repressive crackdowns on…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, November 13, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, November 13, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News Podcast'We're done': Starbucks workers prepare for indefinite national strike
Four years after the first Starbucks store in the US unionized in 2021, workers across the country are still facing rampant union busting and still fighting…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, November 12, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, November 11, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Inside the modern-day plantation: How theater confronts incarceration
Rattling the Bars's Mansa Musa explores how a one-woman play, The Peculiar Patriot, reveals the human cost of mass incarceration and the enduring ties between…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, November 7, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, November 7, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastWe’ve reached the ‘show me your papers’ stage of American authoritarianism
Just 11 months into his second term, President Trump has harnessed the brutal power of the federal government to go to war with American cities, communities…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, November 6, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, November 6, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastCampus life is unrecognizable in the Trump era: ‘There’s so many cops everywhere’
Life on college campuses has changed dramatically in the last 10 months. While institutions of higher education continue to reel from the Trump…
The Real News PodcastWhy more mega-prisons won’t fix Alabama’s crisis
From chronic overcrowding and inmate deaths to systematic abuse and lawbreaking by corrections officers, prison conditions in the state of Alabama have reached…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, November 5, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
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Tupac Amaru II’s Indigenous uprising against colonial Spain | Stories of Resistance
In the late 1700s, Indigenous peoples in the Spanish colonies of the Andes were forced to work for the Spanish. They tilled the land, worked in the textile…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, November 4, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastNYC Voters want real change. They hope the next mayor can deliver it.
Taya Graham and Stephen Janis speak with voters in Harlem just 24 hours before the NYC mayoral election about what issues are important to them, what they…
The Real News PodcastNYC taxi drivers remember: Mamdani didn’t forget them
In 2021, when New York City taxi drivers were dying by suicide and others were going on hunger strike, begging City Hall for relief from the debt trap that had…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, November 3, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, November 3, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Zohran Mamdani: Building working-class power in NYC
Just a year ago almost no one had ever heard of him. Just a name in a crowd. A fairly obscure member of the New York State Assembly. Just one in a packed pool…
The Real News PodcastLife after genocide: A Gazan’s message to the world about the ceasefire
In September, before the current ceasefire deal was announced, we spoke with two Palestinians in Gaza—Mohamed Abu Tawila (a former English teacher) and his…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, October 31, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 31, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, October 30, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 30, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastWorkers replaced by AI have a dire warning for the world
In this special crossover edition of Working People and The Marc Steiner Show, hosts Maximillian Alvarez and Marc Steiner examine how the “artificial…