Being a Father Heightens My Sense of Urgency – Paul Jay
As part of a series, Paul Jay answers questions about the critical issues we take on at The Real News. In this segment, Paul gets personal about being a father.
Ivan Duque, who is the candidate of former president Alvaro Uribe, won a solid victory for Colombia’s presidency and will probably take Colombia back towards…
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formed a coalition with the fascist party MHP for the upcoming snap election. TRNN’s Ben Norton speaks with scholar Baris…
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Human Rights Activist Claude Leostic Accuses Emmanuel Macron’s Government of “Political Harassment”
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It is in the long term interest of Canada to unravel the intertwined economy between the two countries says Dimitri Lascaris
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Ehsanullah Sahil, a refugee from Afghanistan who is being held at the Balikpapan Detention Center in Indonesia report on the ongoing protests against miserable conditions…
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Israel Turns Gaza into ‘Arms Race’ Laboratory, While Palestinians Fly Kites (Pt 2/2)
Drawing Links Between US Militarism Abroad and Gun Violence at Home (Pt 1/2)
Boston teacher Nino Brown, of the ANSWER Coalition, speaks with TRNN’s Ben Norton about the links between US militarism, gun violence, and police brutality. He connects the epidemic of school shootings domestically to the endless wars internationally
Economic Update: Standing Up
This week: Updates on China’s growing life expectancy; Ireland’s vote on abortion; the reality of unemployment in the U.S.; why Amazon offers a “quitting” bonus; Johnson and Johnson putting profits before public health; die-ins at Publix succeed; Macron gets union backlash; Poor People’s Campaign exposes US poverty; Canada joins the race to the bottom; and…
Laura Flanders Show: A Public Bank for Public Good!
What would students in debt, worker coops, and entrepreneurs stand to gain from a public bank in the financial capital of the world? This week, putting communities over commodities w/ leading figures in the fight for a new economy for working people
Rattling the Bars: More Arrests And Jail Time
Executive Producer Eddie Conway uncovers why more arrests isn’t making communities safer.
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Climate and the Environment
Trudeau Imposes Retaliatory Trade Tariffs Against the U.S.
It is in the long term interest of Canada to unravel the intertwined economy between the two countries says Dimitri Lascaris
Pope Francis to Big Oil Executives: ‘There is no time to lose’
Dan DiLeo, Justice and Peace Studies Director at Creighton University, discusses the Vatican’s climate change conference
Livestock Industry Greatly Underestimates Carbon Emissions, Endangering Paris Climate Agreement
By greatly underestimating their greenhouse gas emissions, the livestock industry is placing the Paris Climate Agreement in jeopardy because we do not know just how big an impact this industry…
Real Media: Hot Off The Press, The Third Degree (Ep. 2)
In the second monthly report from DeSmog, researcher Chloe Farand runs through some of the stories being uncovered by the DeSmog team; from fracking in Scotland, to post-Brexit exports to…
Study: Humans 0.01% of World’s Biomass, Cause 83% of Extinctions
The world’s population of 7.6 billion humans represent only 0.01% of earth’s biomass, but contribute to 83% of extinctions and have caused domesticated mammals to represent the 60% of earth’s…
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The Baltimore Bureau Podcast Show
Dharna and Khalilah talk about the future of the Kirwan Commission, how the coming Maryland gubernatorial race will affect public education, the Poor People’s Campaign, and what happens when hospitals…
Maryland Gubernatorial Krish Vignarajah on Schools, Police, the Environment, and Being a Woman
With the primary just weeks away, Krish Vignarajah talks to Dharna Noor about how she would fund schools and implement criminal justice reform, and explains why Maryland needs women in…
Rev. Barber and Rev. Liz Theoharis Arrested in DC
In Baltimore, Fight for $15 is at the forefront of the 5th consecutive week of the Poor People’s Campaign that will culminate in Washington DC next Saturday, June 23
Alec Ross: Hogan Failing Maryland on Climate, Education, and Jobs
The Maryland Gubernatorial candidate says Hogan wants to carry out Betsy DeVos’s agenda on public schools, has failed to uplift areas like Baltimore, or create green jobs
TRNN Documentary: Trump, The Koch Brothers and Their War on Climate Science
Narrated by Danny Glover, A documentary special reveals how climate change science has been under systematic attack; the multi-million dollar campaign allowed a climate change…
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Is the Oil Industry Canada’s ‘Deep State’?
Justin Trudeau and Canada’s political elite are fighting for the Tar Sands and oil industry’s interests, even if it means that Canada misses its climate…
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International News and Analysis
After France Condemns Israel’s Killings in Gaza, French Police Obstruct Freedom Flotilla
Human Rights Activist Claude Leostic Accuses Emmanuel Macron’s Government of “Political Harassment”
Israel Turns Gaza into ‘Arms Race’ Laboratory
Far-Right Wins Presidency in Colombia: ‘A Frightening Result’
Ivan Duque, who is the candidate of former president Alvaro Uribe, won a solid victory for Colombia’s presidency and will probably take Colombia back towards civil war and internal repression,…
Turkey’s Erdogan Allies with Fascists for Election, Repressing Leftists and Kurds
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formed a coalition with the fascist party MHP for the upcoming snap election. TRNN’s Ben Norton speaks with scholar Baris Karaagac about Turkey’s economic ills,…
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Columns
Bitcoin Frauds Keep Growing
William K. Black, June 18, 2018 Kansas City, MO One of the prime myths that white-collar criminologists have to refute repeatedly is that blockchain makes fraud impossible. Blockchain, in some settings, is a costly means of making some frauds much more difficult. Blockchain is useless against the most important frauds. The primitive worship of blockchain…
North Korea Can Never Trust the U.S.A.
By David William Pear, June 18, 2018 The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (i.e. North Korea) cannot trust the United States of America. The US does not keep its promises, honor its treaties and obey international laws. This is not opinion; it is the history of the US, beginning with the many broken promises and…
Israel adopts abandoned Saudi sectarian logic
By James M. Dorsey Amid ever closer cooperation with Saudi Arabia, Israel’s military appears to be adopting the kind of sectarian anti-Shiite rhetoric that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is abandoning as part of a bid to develop a national rather than a religious ethos and promote his yet to be defined form of…
Midterms Coming: Antinomy Ahead
By Andrew Levine / Counterpunch. For centuries, philosophers and logicians have used the word “antinomy” to designate mutually inconsistent conclusions each of which are supported by sound arguments. Anglophone philosophers nowadays use the term mainly in connection with some deep and thorny issues arising in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Shorn of the technical…
Saudi Arabia drags geopolitical baggage on to the World Cup pitch
By James M. Dorsey / Mid-East Soccer. Saudi Arabia has much at stake when its national soccer team enters the pitch for the opening match of the 2018 World Cup in Moscow. With politics a permanent fixture, Saudi Arabia is playing in the World Cup finals for the first time in more than a decade…