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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 PodcastToronto caves to Zionist attacks on the right to protest | The Marc Steiner Show
Caving to pressure from Zionist groups, Toronto's City Council just passed a controversial new bylaw that will severely limit Canadians’ right to peacefully…
The Real News PodcastNora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 3, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastThe Chinchorro Mummies | Stories of Resistance
The Chinchorro mummies are considered the oldest mummies in the world. Thousands of years older than the Egyptian mummies. And these were not pharaohs. They…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, June 2, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 2, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, May 30, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 30, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Palestino: Chile’s soccer club standing in defense of Palestine | Stories of Resistance
Chile’s Club Deportivo Palestino is a soccer team founded more than a century ago by Palestinian immigrants in Santiago, Chile. Chile is home to the largest…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, May 29, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 29, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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How one Peruvian community fought a mine and won | Stories of Resistance
Parán is a small Indigenous community in the hills of Huaura, in central Peru. They are peach farmers. Their orchards line the mountainside. The same mountain…
The Real News PodcastAn update on the longest ongoing strike in the US | Working People
In the latest episode of Working People, we go back to the picket line to get a critical update on the longest ongoing strike in the United States. In October…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 28, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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The Women of Calama: Searching in the desert | Ep 38 Stories of Resistance
For nearly 20 years, the women of Calama traveled into the desert each day to search for their loved ones — their husbands and partners who were ripped from…
The Real News PodcastGenocide, imperialism, & resistance in Sudan’s civil war | Solidarity Without Exception
For the last two years, the civil war in Sudan, the largest contemporary war in Africa, has ripped the country apart. As Beverly Ochieng, Wedaeli Chibelushi…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, May 27, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, May 26, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, May 26, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Oaxaca, Mexico: Fighting for teachers | Ep 37 Stories of Resistance
On May 22. 2006, teachers struck across the Mexican state of Oaxaca against dismal resources for schools, kids, and themselves. They were met with widespread…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, May 23, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 23, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News Podcast“It is our moral imperative”: Oregon students hunger strike for Gaza | Working People
At this very moment, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who have managed to survive Israel’s scorched-earth siege and bombing are being deliberately starved to…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, May 22, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 22, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 21, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastAlice Rothchild on Zionism, genocide, and the generational divide in the Jewish world | The Marc Steiner Show
Alice Rothchild’s path to becoming an anti-Zionist Jew took many years, many hard conversations, and required a lot of critical self-reflection. But she is…
The Real News PodcastPepe Mujica: From political prisoner to Uruguayan president | Ep 36 Stories of Resistance
José “Pepe” Mujica was a former political prisoner who suffered more than a decade of prison and torture under Uruguay’s military dictatorship. He rose to…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, May 20, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastMalcolm X and the fight for liberation—by any means necessary
Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925, exactly 100 hundred years ago. He would grow to become one of the greatest Black leaders in US history. Revolutionary…
The Real News PodcastMalcolm Harris won’t give in to doomerism, and neither should you
The climate crisis is not just a climate crisis—it is a planetary crisis threatening the very continuation of life and civilization as we know it. If humanity…
The Real News PodcastInside the big business of prison farms and ‘agricarceral’ slave labor
Private companies and state governments have long exploited the 13th Amendment to create a profitable agribusiness system that runs on prison slave labor. “If…
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Augusto Sandino fought the US occupation of Nicaragua—and won | Ep 34 Stories of Resistance
Augusto Sandino. The man who would lead the six-year rebellion against the US occupation of Nicaragua. The man who would become a legend across the country and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, May 16, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 16, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastThis new model for worker organizing could supercharge today’s labor movement | Working People
“Labor’s decline over the past half century has devastated working-class communities, undermined democracy, and deepened the grip of big business over our work…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, May 15, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 15, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Liquor Store Resistance: 1973 Chile | Ep 33 Stories of Resistance
In times of repression and state violence, there is only one way to continue: Together. In 1973 Chile, people did what they could to survive and help others…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 14, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastWhat does it mean to be a Palestinian Jew today? | The Marc Steiner Show
At the 2025 National Membership Meeting of Jewish Voice for Peace in Baltimore, MD, thousands of anti-Zionist Jews gathered to reaffirm their opposition to…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, May 13, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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The Sanctuary Movement | Ep 32 Stories of Resistance
In the early 1980s, one church in Tucson, Arizona, began to open its arms to the waves of migrants and refugees who were fleeing US-backed wars in Central…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, May 12, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, May 12, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastThis lithium company is trying to sue Indigenous land defenders into silence
Vancouver-based Lithium Americas is developing a massive lithium mine in Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, but for nearly five years several local Indigenous…
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Conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism makes Jews less safe, not more | The Marc Steiner Show
Antisemitism is a real, violent, and pervasive scourge that spans the globe, but as anti-Zionist Jews like Molly Kraft argue, conflating opposition to Israel…
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A Mother’s Day for peace | Ep 31 Stories of Resistance
After the Civil War, three women in different times and places celebrated the idea of a Mother’s Day for peace. For unity and solidarity. But when Mother’s Day…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, May 8, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 8, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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El Salvador’s Revolutionary Poet, Roque Dalton | Ep 30 Stories of Resistance
Roque Dalton is considered one of El Salvador’s greatest writers of the 20th century. His poems are pure art, mixing politics with poetry, blending verse and…
The Real News PodcastTexas residents living next to bitcoin mine are getting sick and being ignored | Working People
While state officials and legislators have positioned Texas to be “the bitcoin mining capital of the world,” in small towns like Granbury, working-class…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 7, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Fired after Zionist uproar, artist Mr. Fish won’t stop drawing the truth | The Marc Steiner Show
World-renowned political cartoonist Dwayne Booth, more commonly known as Mr. Fish, has found himself in the crosshairs of the new McCarthyist assault on free…
The Real News PodcastCori Bush: ‘AIPAC didn’t make me, so AIPAC can’t break me’
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has openly vowed to pour $100 million into campaigns to defeat progressive representatives like Cori Bush…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, May 6, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Midwives Under Attack: Justice for Ric & Neusa Jones | Ep 29 Stories of Resistance
Ricardo and Neusa Jones are from the Southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. Birth is their calling. But not just any birth. Home birth. Natural birth…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, May 5, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, May 5, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest…
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Pete Seeger: Singing for change | Ep 28 Stories of Resistance
Folk musician. Banjo player. Singer of songs of unity. He sang songs of joy. He sang for the unions. He sang for the people. For the workers and the…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, May 2, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 2, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, May 1, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 1, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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May Day 1971: ‘If the government won’t stop the war, we’ll stop the government.’ | Ep 27 Stories of Resistance
It’s been called the most influential protest you’ve never heard about. In April and May 1971, week-long protests rippled across Washington, DC. Thousands in…
The Real News PodcastFBI agents raid homes of pro-Palestine students at University of Michigan | Working People
The Trump administration continues to escalate its authoritarian assault on higher education, free speech, and political dissent—and university administrators…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 30, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 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, April 28, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 28, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News Podcast‘Worse’ than McCarthyism: Trump’s war on higher education, free speech, and political dissent
A dystopian reality has gripped America’s colleges and universities: ICE agents are snatching and disappearing international students in broad daylight…
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Marching against El Salvador’s police state | Ep 26 Stories of Resistance
In El Salvador, thousands of innocent people have been locked up in Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs. They have been held without due process for years. But…
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Harry Belafonte—Using art for good | Ep 25 Stories of Resistance
Harry Belafonte. The King of Calypso. Incredible singer and actor. He performed in more than a dozen movies throughout his career. But above all else, he was…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, April 25, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 25, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, April 24, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 24, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…