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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, April 23, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 23, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastFlamingos: Resisting in the driest desert on the planet | Ep 23 Stories of Resistance
The Atacama Desert is the driest place on the planet, and one of the most inhospitable. But salt lagoons dot the barren landscape, and flamingos are one of a…
The Real News PodcastA bitcoin mine in Texas is "killing us slowly," local residents say | Working People
“I would like to see Texas become the center of the universe for bitcoin and crypto,” US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in 2021. In 2024, Republican Governor…
The Real News PodcastInternational observers are defending Palestinians in the West Bank with their own bodies | The Marc Steiner Show
Even before the end of the ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli attacks on the West Bank were escalating in 2025. By Feb. 5, 70 Palestinians were reported killed this…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 22, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastReforesting the Andes: One tree at a time | Ep 23 Stories of Resistance
In recent years, local organizations, together with dozens of Indigenous communities, have planted more than 10 million trees up and down the Andes, with…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, April 21, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 21, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Writing as an act of resistance | Ep 22 Stories of Resistance
The most powerful acts of resistance are sometimes the simple choices we make each day. The words we write. The pictures we take. The people we support. And…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, April 18, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 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, April 17, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 17, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastColumbia University students describe dystopian reality on campus amid Trump attacks | Working People
One year ago, Columbia University became ground zero for the student-led Gaza solidarity encampment movement that spread to campuses across the country and…
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Poetry and resistance: Breaking through the digital cacophony | Ep 21 Stories of Resistance
Federico Avalos is an Argentine poet. But he does not write the words. He recites them. And poetry is both Federico’s job and his activism. A theatric…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 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, April 15, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 15, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Eduardo Galeano: Latin America’s poet-historian | Ep 20 Stories of Resistance
Titles do not do Eduardo Galeano justice. He was writer, reader, journalist, editor. But he was also historian. Catching stories in the air. Writing and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, April 14, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 14, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Venezuela, 2002: When the people overturned a coup | Ep 19 Stories of Resistance
On April 11, 2002, a massacre occurred on the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, as rebelling officers and members of the country’s Chamber of Commerce attempted a…
The Real News PodcastFunding cuts, ICE abductions, chaos, fear: Higher education in the new Trump era | Working People
International students are being abducted and disappeared by ICE in broad daylight. Life-saving research projects across the academy are being halted or thrown…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, April 11, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 11, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News Podcast“Kill the Cuts”: Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal | Working People
On Tuesday, April 8, unions, unionized federal workers, and their supporters around the country mobilized for a national “Kill the Cuts” day of action to…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, April 10, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 10, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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The Cochabamba Water War: Bolivia’s rebellion against neoliberalism | Stories of Resistance Ep 18
April 10 marks the 25th anniversary of the people’s victory in the Cochabamba Water War against the privatization of of their precious resource. Community…
The Real News PodcastWill the Philippines be a battleground for US-China war? | Solidarity Without Exception
Since 1565, the Philippines has been in the grip of one imperialist power after another. Even after independence, the archipelago remains a kind of functional…
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Cancelled by Israel: Canada human rights pro Birju Dattani speaks out | The Marc Steiner Show
Birju Dattani's tenure as Canada's chief human rights commissioner was short-lived. After holding the post for less than a year, Dattani was forced to resign…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 9, 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 8, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 8, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastFormer Black Panther Mansa Musa on how to fight Trump: 'Get organized!'
Mansa Musa, host of Rattling the Bars, spent 48 years in prison before his release in 2019. At the invitation of the UMD College Park Young Democratic…
The Real News PodcastChile’s Roma community: Maintaining an identity through resistance | Stories of Resistance Ep 17
April 8 is the International Day of the Roma, or Romani, people. It takes place each year to focus attention on the discrimination and marginalization of Roma…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, April 7, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 7, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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The vigil that freed a president | Stories of Resistance Ep 16
On April 7, 2018, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was jailed on charges of corruption. But his supporters said he was innocent — convicted on…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, April 4, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 4, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastTrump escalates the war on federal unions | Working People
Last week, President Trump escalated his administration's war on the federal workforce and workers’ rights when he signed an executive order to end collective…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, April 3, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 3, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Huwaida Arraf on Gaza and the rise of US fascism | The Marc Steiner Show
The ceasefire in Gaza has shattered, and Israel’s military has resumed the genocide. Simultaneously, organizations and activists in the US are sounding the…
The Real News PodcastStrike! How Brazil’s workers won democracy | Stories of Resistance Ep 15
In 1979 and 1980, Brazilian metal workers held huge strikes, demanding higher wages and better working conditions. They were unprecedented, and a sign of the…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday April 2, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 2, 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 1, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 1, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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The soundtrack to the resistance against the Brazilian dictatorship | Stories of Resistance Ep 14
On March 31, 1964, the Brazilian military carried out a US-backed coup against the democratically elected government, installing a dictatorship that would last…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, March 31, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 31, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Cesar Chavez and standing for those who pick our food | Stories of Resistance BONUS Ep
Subscribe to Stories of Resistance podcast here Today, March 31, is Cesar Chavez Day. The day, celebrating the birth and life of the great U.S. farmworker…
The Real News PodcastUnmasking PROMESA: The unelected board perpetuating colonialism in Puerto Rico | Solidarity Without Exception
Puerto Rico first became a US colony in 1898—and remains so well into the 21st century. Today, that colonial relationship is structured through PROMESA, an…
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Standing for Mahmoud Khalil | Stories of Resistance Ep 13
On March 8, 2025, ICE agents detained, without a warrant, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil at his home in New York City. Khalil is a U.S. resident, but…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, March 28, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 28, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, March 27, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, March 27, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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The Panama protests that defeated a Canadian copper mine | Stories of Resistance
In late 2023, Panamanians shut down their country for months to demand the closure of a Canadian copper mine. And they won. It was not just a protest against a…
The Real News PodcastThe Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Uprising of the 20,000 | Working People
As we’ve mentioned many times before on the show, movements today are a part of a legacy of extraordinary actions taken by ordinary people. Tapping into our…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 26, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Mahmoud Khalil's abduction and Trump's escalating war on the Palestine movement | The Marc Steiner Show
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist at Columbia University, is currently in ICE detention facing deportation proceedings—and the future of free…
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Still Marching: The Mothers of Argentina's Plaza de Mayo | Stories of Resistance Ep. 11
Today, March 24, is the anniversary of the 1976 coup that led to the brutal Argentine dictatorship. In Argentina, it’s known as the National Day for Memory and…
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Maryland's Second Look Act clears State House—is relief for longterm prisoners imminent?
Maryland's Second Look Act has passed the State House, and now awaits a vote in the Senate. The bill would allow prisoners to request judicial review of their…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, March 24, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 24, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Monsignor Óscar Romero, El Salvador’s Bishop of the Poor | Stories of Resistance Ep. 10
Monsignor Óscar Romero was the archbishop of San Salvador. They called him la voz de la sin voz, The voice of the voiceless. He spoke out against the…
The Real News PodcastPrivatize USPS? Mail carriers are fighting for a better idea | Working People
This week, we’re taking a more national focus, and checking in with the National Association of Letter Carriers, who have been embroiled in a years-long…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 19, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, March 18, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
The Real News PodcastThe internet that could have been was ruined by billionaires
The rise of the internet and personal computing once inspired utopian visions of how technology could improve society. These days, that kind optimism is sorely…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, March 17, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 17, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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The Saint Patrick’s Battalion | Stories of Resistance Ep. 9
In the 1840s, hundreds of Irish soldiers joined the Saint Patrick’s Battalion to help defend Mexico against the invading US army. They fought under Irish…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, March 14, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 14, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news…
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Can Syria's revolution bloom after Assad? | Solidarity Without Exception
Editor's note: This episode was recorded on March 4, 2025. In Syria, Assad is gone, but the country's challenges remain. Over a decade of civil war and foreign…