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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 PodcastThe US never stopped treating Mexico like an imperial colony
From military invasions, occupations, and annexations of Mexican territories in the 19th century to the post-NAFTA capture of Mexican industries, resources…
The Real News Podcast‘THIS IS WAR’: Will Charlie Kirk's assassination unleash a wave of political retribution?
The assassination of Charlie Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump, conservative political activist, and founder of Turning Point USA, has sent…
The Real News PodcastNora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, September 12, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, September 12, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastThe biggest labor story in the US right now is happening at Microsoft
Current and former tech workers with the No Azure for Apartheid coalition continue to disrupt business as usual at Microsoft’s global headquarters in…
The Real News PodcastSeptember 11: Remembering the Resistance to Pinochet’s Chile
On September 11, 1973, tanks rumbled over the streets of Santiago, Chile. Planes bombed La Moneda, the presidential palace, as US-backed General Augusto…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, September 11, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, September 11, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastDemocracy is too important to be left to the Democrats
Not just in the United States, but around the world, authoritarianism is rising and people’s faith in the concept of “democracy” is collapsing. “In the absence…
The Real News Podcast‘We want DC to be free!’ Voices from the ‘We are all DC’ march
The “We are all DC” march on Saturday, Sept. 6, was one of the largest protests—if not the largest—to take place in the US capital since the beginning of the…
The Real News PodcastTrump and Silicon Valley’s plan to rule the world with AI weapons
The unnerving alliance between Big Tech and the second Trump administration goes much deeper than many in the public realize. What factors are motivating…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, September 9, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastWhy US veterans are sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla
After multiple voyages by the Gaza Freedom Flotilla have been prevented from reaching Gaza’s shores by Israel’s military, a massive fleet of freedom flotillas…
The Real News Podcast‘We are all DC’: Massive protests rock US capital in defiance of Trump
On Saturday, Sept. 6, thousands of local residents, out-of-state supporters, union members, and concerned citizens of all stripes marched through the nation’s…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, September 8, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, September 8, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastTupamaro Prison Break: Montevideo, 1971 | Stories of Resistance
It’s past midnight on September 6, 1971. Across the prison, dozens of men slip out of their beds. Bricks slide out from the walls of their cells. Bodies slip…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, September 5, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, September 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, September 4, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, September 4, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily…
The Real News PodcastDC residents rebel against Trump’s ‘gestapo takeover’ of US capital
Residents of Washington, DC, continue to take to the streets to protest President Trump’s federal takeover of the city and deployment of National Guard troops…
The Real News PodcastInside the tech worker revolt for Palestine at Microsoft
Tech workers at the heart of Microsoft are waging one of the most significant and undercovered labor battles in the US right now. For the last two weeks…
The Real News Podcast‘We want life': Palestinians in Gaza describe their daily struggle to survive
Right now, Israel's military is invading and obliterating what remains of Gaza City. After 700 days of genocidal bombing, shooting, forced starvation, and the…
The Real News PodcastIt’s not ‘complicated’: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine is fueled by ‘colonial racism’
“Colonial racism helps explain the Trump administration’s adulation of Israeli violence against Palestinians,” Professor Aviva Chomsky writes at The Nation. In…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, August 14, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastKim Kelly: "Incarcerated workers are part of the labor movement"
“Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” award-winning journalist Kim Kelly says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this…
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The slave revolt that founded a new nation
In August 1791, slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue revolted, rising up by the thousands. Within ten days they've taken over the whole northern…
The Real News PodcastUnions face extinction under Trump. What the hell is labor doing to fight back?
On Aug. 1, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a court injunction halting President Trump’s executive order eliminating collective bargaining rights…
The Real News PodcastRailroad workers explain why Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific mega-merger will be a 'disaster'
Railroad workers are sounding the alarm about the potentially catastrophic consequences of the proposed mega-merger of two of the nation’s Class 1 freight rail…
The Real News PodcastThe Nakba never ended: A conversation with Haim Bresheeth
Professor Haim Bresheeth is the son of Holocaust survivors, raised in Palestine and Israel, and a founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine. He served in the…
The Real News PodcastPalestine, genocide, and the imperialist lie of the 'rules-based international order'
Israel’s US-backed genocidal destruction of Gaza has exploded the fiction of the “rules-based” international order and exposed the violent, people-destroying…
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El Salvador’s guerrilla Radio Venceremos | Stories of Resistance
The 1980s were a time of war El Salvador. The government openly attacked its citizens. Repression. Murder. Massacres. Radio Venceremos broadcasted twice a day…
The Real News PodcastTrump’s takeover of Washington, DC: ‘Crazy as hell!’ and ‘Distraction from Epstein’
For the last week, countless videos have circulated online showing National Guard troops menacingly patrolling the streets of Washington, DC, and militarized…
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‘Rebellion is the strategy’: Jim Hightower breaks down the Texas gerrymandering battle
“Texas Democrats who left the state to stymie Republicans over redistricting have returned to Austin,” Politico reports, “ending a two-week standoff over…
The Real News PodcastDavid Huerta, union leader beaten and arrested at ICE raid, speaks out
President Trump’s all-out assault on immigrant communities and the rule of law escalated to new heights when federal agents beat and arrested David Huerta, a…
The Real News PodcastChile's Bulnes Bridge: Remembering the past, honoring the victims
It is not a pretty bridge. Four lanes of busy traffic rush across Puente Bulnes during most hours. To the North, it buttresses against two overpasses that lead…
The Real News PodcastThese “neighbors from the hood” saw ICE terrorizing their community—and banded together to fight back
After seeing friends and neighbors in their community of Pasadena, CA, being terrorized, assaulted, and abducted by masked federal agents, Daniela Navin and…
The Real News PodcastNora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, August 14, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, August 14, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastBeto O’Rourke Interview: Will Dems actually fight MAGA, or sell working people out?
Dozens of Democratic lawmakers have strategically left Texas to thwart Republicans’ latest effort to further gerrymander the Congressional map ahead of next…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, August 13, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Holocaust survivor Gabor Maté: Gaza genocide “the worst thing I've seen in my whole life.”
“I was in Auschwitz 6-7 weeks ago,” world-renowned author and physician Dr. Gabor Maté says, “at the very spot where my grandparents landed, before they were…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, August 12, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, August 11, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, August 11, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastCorporations and the government are turning the USA into one giant “sacrifice zone”
The Real News Network is honored to be one of the 2025 recipients of the prestigious Izzy Award for our on-the-ground documentary report, “Trainwreck in ‘Trump…
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Mexican salt farmers are holding on to an ancient tradition | Stories of Resistance
There is a place, tucked into the mountains and hills near the border between the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Puebla, where local campesinos continue to…
The Real News PodcastAn American surgeon’s dire warning from Gaza: ‘We’re leveling a whole society’
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is an American trauma surgeon who has served in multiple volunteer medical delegations to war zones around the world, including delegations…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, August 5, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, August 4, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, August 4, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, August 1, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, August 1, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, July 31, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, July 31, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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In the land of the condor | Stories of Resistance
In the land of the Condor, near the base of the tallest mountain in the Western hemisphere, an Incan community lived. The people hunted, along the sheer…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, July 30, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Latinos in Baltimore are living in fear: ‘I can be stopped just because of my accent’
As the Trump administration ramps up its violent immigration raids around the country, increasingly targeting immigrants with no criminal record, and racially…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, July 29, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, July 28, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, July 28, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Defending Their Land: Black communities resist Brazilian space center
On the Northeastern Brazilian coast, in the region of Alcântara, Maranhão, there are dozens of traditional villages of Black communities. Their families have…
The Real News PodcastGaza Freedom Flotilla faces sabotage attempts, death threats, but presses on w/ Chris Smalls
More than a hundred aid organizations warned Wednesday that “mass starvation” is spreading in Gaza, as Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians…
The Real News PodcastWhat good is a union in Hell?
On Sunday, July 20, 2025, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez delivered the keynote speech at the national convention of the National Organization of…
The Real News PodcastYes, goddamnit, it’s genocide!: A conversation with Norman Solomon
“With only rare exceptions,” Norman Solomon writes, “US news media and members of Congress continue to dodge the reality of genocide against Palestinians in…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, July 23, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, July 22, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, July 21, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, July 21, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, July 18, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, July 18, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, July 17, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, July 17, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…