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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 PodcastFighting fascists in Spain: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade | Stories of Resistance
On July 17, 1936, the Nazi-backed Spanish General Federico Franco led an armed rebellion against the Spanish government. It began a bloody civil war that would…
The Real News PodcastNora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, July 16, 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 15, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, July 15, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastAmerica, ‘nation of immigrants,’ turns on immigrants: A conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
For generations, the Statue of Liberty has stood as a beacon representing the promise of America as a land of freedom and opportunity for immigrants from all…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, July 14, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, July 14, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastBrazil: Thousands protest Trump's tariffs and interference in Brazilian courts
Thousands on the streets of Brazil, Sao Paulo’s Paulista Avenue packed, angry and protesting US President Donald Trump and his imposition of 50% tariffs on…
The Real News PodcastHow the ‘war on drugs’ set the stage for Trump’s authoritarianism today
“What Kilmar Abrego Garcia's family is going through is just unimaginable,” says Baltimore-based journalist Baynard Woods, “but it is also what we've all…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, July 11, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, July 11, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastHow union organizing can change your life and the world w/Jaz Brisack | Working People
After getting a job as a barista at the Elmwood Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, Jaz Brisack became a founding member of Starbucks Workers United and helped…
The Real News PodcastCaught between the US and China, Taiwan’s future is uncertain | Solidarity Without Exception
Today, Taiwan is caught in the crosshairs of two imperial rivals: the US and China. This is nothing new for the island nation, which has been a battleground…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, July 9, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Karipuna Resistance: Defending the Amazon | Stories of Resistance
There are less than a hundred members of the Karipuna tribe. They live on their land in the Brazilian state of Rondonia. Their territory is demarcated, which…
The Real News PodcastThese vets swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies—including Donald Trump
On June 13, military veterans and their families and supporters protested in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, demanding that taxpayer dollars…
The Real News PodcastEXCLUSIVE: Lawyer for Mahmoud Khalil reveals how he won his freedom
After being abducted from his New York apartment building by plainclothes agents and locked away in an ICE jail in Louisiana for over 100 days, Mahmoud Khalil…
The Real News PodcastCorporate media is trying to take down Mamdani. This is why they’re failing | Inequality Watch
The pushback against progressive New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been fierce. That pushback has largely been coming from the mainstream…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, July 8, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastJuly 4 and the long tradition of US protest | Stories of Resistance
Over the last two and a half centuries people in the US have used July 4 to make their stand against injustice, inequality, and oppression, and demand their…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, July 3, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, July 3, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, July 2, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastThe history of the 1970 Kent State massacre you haven’t heard | The Marc Steiner Show
t’s been 55 years since the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State University who were protesting the US war in Vietnam. Four students were…
The Real News PodcastProtesters put their bodies on the line to stop Trump’s ‘Big Disastrous Betrayal Bill’ | Working People
Dozens of peaceful protesters, including disabled people in wheelchairs, were arrested last Wednesday in Washington, DC, while protesting President Trump’s…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, July 1, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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How Indigenous field hockey is reviving Mapuche culture | Stories of Resistance
Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche people have played their own version of field hockey for countless generations. Roughly 2 million Mapuche Indigenous people live…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, June 30, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 30, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Stonewall: The uprising that sparked the LGBTQ movement | Stories of Resistance
Stonewall. They say it was the spark that set the fire ablaze. The start of the modern LGBTQ movement. Protests and riots that lasted for days in defense of…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, June 27, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, June 27, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, June 26, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, June 26, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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The voice of the resistance against the 2009 Honduran coup | Stories of Resistance
On June 28, 2009, Honduras exploded and the people took to the streets after the president was overthrown in a coup. One radio show followed them, reported…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, June 25, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastThere’s resistance happening all around us, we’re just not seeing it | The Marc Steiner Show
The world-destabilizing horrors we see on the news today (and the many forms of resistance we don’t see) can easily make us feel overwhelmed and hopeless about…
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Resurrection City 1968: Demanding an end to poverty | Stories of Resistance
The year is 1968. Summertime. Washington, DC. And covering the National Mall are endless rows of shacks built by hundreds of poor families from across the…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 24, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastWhat’s really happening in Los Angeles vs. what you’re hearing online | Working People
In Los Angeles, CA, armed, masked agents of the state are snatching and disappearing immigrants off the street, peaceful protestors and journalists are being…
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Inti Raymi returns as an act of resistance | Stories of Resistance
For hundreds of years, the Spanish banned the Incan Festival of the Sun—the Andean New Year. But since the middle of the 20th century, Inti Raymi has been…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, June 23, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 23, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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As Israel starves Gaza, Jewish activists starve themselves to force leaders to take action
On June 16, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace in Chicago—Ash Bohrer, Becca Lubow, Avey Rips, Seph Mozes, Audrey Gladson, and Benjamin Teller—began an…
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How one South American country has held on to its Indigenous language | Stories of Resistance
If you walk down the street in Paraguay, you will hear people speaking Spanish, the official language of most of the countries of Latin America. But…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, June 20, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, June 20, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Protecting Q’eswachaka, the last Incan rope bridge | Stories of Resistance
Q’eswachaka is the last Incan rope bridge. It’s located down in a valley in the Andes mountains of Peru. And in early June, the residents of four Quechua…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, June 18, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastWhy Abby Stein—a transgender rabbi raised ultra-orthodox—stands up for Palestine | The Marc Steiner Show
Raised in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, Rabbi Abby Stein has had a long, painful, beautiful journey to coming out as a transgender…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 17, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Bruce Springsteen: Resisting Trump, standing for America | Stories of Resistance
Bruce Springsteen has never shied away from expressing his political views. And he’s not gonna back down now. “In my home, the America I love. The America I’ve…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, June 16, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 16, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara: A symbol of revolution | Stories of Resistance
You might think that Ernesto “Che” Guevara's resistance came with the Cuban revolution. When he sailed on the yacht known as the Granma, picked up arms, fought…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, June 13, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, June 13, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastCan a ‘liberal Joe Rogan’ save the Democrats? Dems bet $20 million he can! | Inequality Watch
Investigative journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down the insider knowledge surrounding Joe Biden’s decline—and how the Democratic Party’s culture…
The Real News PodcastTrans inmates face rape & death with Trump’s Executive Order | Rattling the Bars
President Trump’s Executive Order calling for incarcerated transgender women to be housed in men’s prisons and halting gender-affirming medical care for…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, June 12, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, June 12, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastTrump plans giant military parade while veterans suffer | Working People
On June 6, thousands of veterans, union members, VA hospital nurses, elected officials, and more gathered on the National Mall in Washington D.C. at the “Unite…
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Independent journalists resist threats in El Salvador | Stories of Resistance
Independent journalists say they are under threat in El Salvador. At least 15 journalists have fled the country in recent weeks. Roughly a dozen more are in…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, June 11, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Doctors returning from Gaza beg humanity to stop the carnage | The Marc Steiner Show
Move over, Jon Stewart. The Real News is here… We’re happy to announce that this episode of The Marc Steiner Show has been nominated for a prestigious Signal…
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US empire is dying, and it’s more dangerous than ever | Solidarity Without Exception
During its reign as the dominant global superpower, the US imposed its will and wreaked imperialist havoc around the world. But as the power of US empire…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 10, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Los Angeles Resistance: Standing Against ICE | Stories of Resistance
Protesters have taken to the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco. They’re protesting the detention and arrest of thousands of immigrants by Donald Trump’s…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, June 9, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 9, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Sebastião Salgado: Capturing Humanity in Pictures | Stories of Resistence
If a picture is worth a thousand words, his spoke novels. He was Steinbeck, Tolstoy, and Tolkien, all in one. His images capture the spirit of the poor and…
The Real News PodcastTrump cuts leave VA hospital nurses and veteran patients in a crisis | Working People
Already burdened by years of funding cuts and understaffing, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration (VA) facilities across the country…
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The Freedom Flotilla: Sailing to Break Israel's Siege of Gaza | Stories of Resistance
There is a boat sailing to Gaza right now. It carries aid for the people of Palestine. And it is called the Freedom Flotilla. It is a sign of solidarity. A…