Jess King for Congress with Sanders

Can a Progressive Democrat Win in Trump Country PA?

May 8, 2018

Field Report: Bernie Sanders joins Jess King, running on a progressive platform for the Congressional District 11-PA

Historian Ilan Pappe: ‘We Need Sustained International Pressure on Israel’

May 7, 2018

The Great Return protests in Gaza will culminate on Nakba, May 14th. This is also the day that Israel will celebrate the 70th anniversary of…

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Hezbollah Coalition Declares ‘Victory’ in Lebanon’s First Parliamentary Election in 9 Years

May 7, 2018

Lebanon held its first parliamentary election in nine years, and Hezbollah and its political allies won seats, while Saad Hariri’s Western-backed, Saudi-allied coalition was weakened.…

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‘Red Alert’ Campaign for Net Neutrality

May 8, 2018
'Red Alert' Campaign for Net Neutrality

Several dozen websites and organizations are launching a campaign in support of net neutrality ahead of an upcoming US Senate vote on whether to rescind…

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UK Local Elections: A Stalemate for Labour and Conservatives

May 7, 2018
UK Local Elections: A Stalemate for Labour and Conservatives

The Labour Party does very well in London, better than they have in 50 years, and yet no major gains against the Tories, we speak…

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The Baltimore Bureau Podcast Show: May 4, 2018

May 7, 2018

The Baltimore Bureau on May Day protests, fights for clean water and air, misogyny in Annapolis, the legacy of the Catonsville 9, and the people…

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200th Anniversary of the Birth of Marx and a Revolution in Understanding

May 5, 2018
200th Anniversary of the Birth of Marx and a Revolution in Understanding

Historian Gerald Horne and host Paul Jay discuss the ongoing relevance of Marx’s Materialist Conception of History; to understand and fight ideas that defend injustice…

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Netanyahu's Long History of Crying Wolf over Fake 'WMDs' in Iran and Iraq

Netanyahu’s Long History of Crying Wolf over Fake ‘WMDs’ in Iran and Iraq

May 7, 2018

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a long history of crying wolf over supposed nuclear weapons in Iran and Iraq – Ben Norton reports.

Laura Flanders Show: Taking Down the Confederacy - Symbol by Symbol

Laura Flanders Show: Taking Down the Confederacy – Symbol by Symbol

May 7, 2018

Mississippi is the last state banner to feature confederate iconography, and the movement to change it has become a klaxon for the greater movement to take down Confederate symbols in America. Laura speaks with actress and activist Aunjanue Ellis and to hip hop artist Genesis Be

US Interventions in Latin America Continue and Intensify

US Interventions in Latin America Continue and Intensify

May 6, 2018

Most US citizens don’t realize it, but the US government has continued and even intensified its regime change agenda in Latin America and successfully helped reverse the so-called “pink tide” of left-of-center governments over the past ten years, says CEPR’s Mark Weisbrot

Economic Update: The Contributions of Karl Marx (Pt 1/4)

Economic Update: The Contributions of Karl Marx

May 6, 2018

Professor Wolff takes a deeper look at the life and work of Karl Marx in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth

Hopkins Students Fight Against ‘School to War Pipeline’

May 6, 2018

At a gathering to honor Vietnam War protesters, students say their university is priming them to work for the country’s military industrial complex

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‘Red Alert’ Campaign for Net Neutrality

May 8, 2018

Can a Progressive Democrat Win in Trump Country PA?

May 8, 2018

Hezbollah Coalition Declares ‘Victory’ in Lebanon’s First Parliamentary Election in 9 Years

May 7, 2018

Historian Ilan Pappe: ‘We Need Sustained International Pressure on Israel’

May 7, 2018

The Baltimore Bureau Podcast Show: May 4, 2018

May 7, 2018

UK Local Elections: A Stalemate for Labour and Conservatives

May 7, 2018

Netanyahu’s Long History of Crying Wolf over Fake ‘WMDs’ in Iran and Iraq

May 7, 2018

Laura Flanders Show: Taking Down the Confederacy – Symbol by Symbol

May 7, 2018

US Interventions in Latin America Continue and Intensify

May 6, 2018

Economic Update: The Contributions of Karl Marx

May 6, 2018

Hopkins Students Fight Against ‘School to War Pipeline’

May 6, 2018

Activists Discuss How Public Officials Thwart Accountability for Sexual Harassment

May 6, 2018

200th Anniversary of the Birth of Marx and a Revolution in Understanding

May 5, 2018

Ohio Governor’s Race: Kucinich Attacks Cordray’s ‘Left’ Credentials

May 5, 2018

Representatives Fight Water Crises With New Legislation

May 4, 2018

Sixth Consecutive Week of Friday Gaza Protests Leaves Over 160 Wounded

May 4, 2018

French Unions & Students Mobilize Against Reforms: Another May ’68?

May 4, 2018

The Marc Steiner Show: The Catonsville 9

May 4, 2018

Activists Push Baltimore County To Stop Sending Its Trash to City Incinerator

May 3, 2018

‘Poison Papers’: US and Canadian Regulators Colluded with Manufacturers of Highly Toxic

May 3, 2018

First Time in Decades Brazil’s Unions and Left Unite, Demanding Lula’s Freedom

May 3, 2018

US Gov. and Media Whitewash ‘Reformer’ Saudi Prince MBS as He Beheads Dissidents

May 3, 2018

Natalie Portman’s Boycott of Netanyahu Prompts Attack by Billionaire-Backed Right-Wing Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

May 3, 2018

Whistleblower Cop Wants to Come Back; Beleaguered Baltimore Police Reject Him

May 3, 2018

Protesters Rail Against Police, Poverty in Baltimore May Day March

May 2, 2018

Climate and the Environment

'Poison Papers': US and Canadian Regulators Colluded with Manufacturers of Highly Toxic

‘Poison Papers’: US and Canadian Regulators Colluded with Manufacturers of Highly Toxic

May 3, 2018

Dr. Jonathan Latham explains how the EPA and Canada’s Health Protection Branch concealed fraudulent tests of dangerous pesticides

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's 'Days Are Numbered' for Ethics Violations

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s ‘Days Are Numbered’ for Ethics Violations

April 25, 2018

The ethics violations of Scott Pruitt keep mounting and now he has become too toxic for even the White House, says Todd Paglia, executive director of Stand Earth

Global Warming’s Impact on Ocean Currents to Amplify Sea Level Rise

April 19, 2018

A new study shows that the Atlantic’s currents have weakened due to global warming and are closer to catastrophic collapse than any time in the last 1,600 years, which could…

Major Banks Ramp Up Fossil Fuel Financing Despite Climate Crisis

April 10, 2018

A recent report, “Banking on Climate Change 2018,” finds major banks increased fossil fuel financing to $115 Billion in 2017–up 11% from the year before–even though it was the costliest…

Col. Larry Wilkerson: Pentagon Plans for Climate Change Despite White House

April 10, 2018

A recent report from the World Bank says that climate change could displace as many as 143 million people by 2050, generating geopolitical instability and posing new threats to national…

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The Baltimore Bureau Podcast Show: May 4, 2018

May 7, 2018

The Baltimore Bureau on May Day protests, fights for clean water and air, misogyny in Annapolis, the legacy of the Catonsville 9, and the people hurt by corrupt cops—and a…

Hopkins Students Fight Against ‘School to War Pipeline’

May 6, 2018

At a gathering to honor Vietnam War protesters, students say their university is priming them to work for the country’s military industrial complex

Activists Discuss How Public Officials Thwart Accountability for Sexual Harassment

May 6, 2018

In part three of our series of conversations about sexual misdeeds in Maryland’s state capital we discuss how the system that is supposed to help women and men who suffer…

The Marc Steiner Show: The Catonsville 9

May 4, 2018

Marc talks with three guests about the legacy of the nine Catholic activists who saved lives by burning hundreds of Vietnam War draft papers 50 years ago

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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Honduras: the Never-Ending Coup

A special report from the hemisphere’s most controversial Inauguration

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International News and Analysis

Hezbollah Coalition Declares ‘Victory’ in Lebanon’s First Parliamentary Election in 9 Years

May 7, 2018

Lebanon held its first parliamentary election in nine years, and Hezbollah and its political allies won seats, while Saad Hariri’s Western-backed, Saudi-allied coalition was weakened. Yet journalist Jamal Ghosn says…

Historian Ilan Pappe: ‘We Need Sustained International Pressure on Israel’

May 7, 2018

The Great Return protests in Gaza will culminate on Nakba, May 14th. This is also the day that Israel will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel. Historian…

UK Local Elections: A Stalemate for Labour and Conservatives

UK Local Elections: A Stalemate for Labour and Conservatives

May 7, 2018

The Labour Party does very well in London, better than they have in 50 years, and yet no major gains against the Tories, we speak to Jon Lansman of Momentum…

Netanyahu's Long History of Crying Wolf over Fake 'WMDs' in Iran and Iraq

Netanyahu’s Long History of Crying Wolf over Fake ‘WMDs’ in Iran and Iraq

May 7, 2018

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a long history of crying wolf over supposed nuclear weapons in Iran and Iraq – Ben Norton reports.

The Future Depends On Knowing

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Reality Asserts Itself

Reality Asserts Itself - Rana Foroohar

April 30, 2018
Reality Asserts Itself with Rana Foroohar

Reality Asserts Itself - Leo Panitch

March 15, 2018
On Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Leo Panitch says it’s a dilemma that the gradualism of European social-democracy and attempts at a more radical transformation have so far both failed; Panitch says a first step towards democratizing the economy is to make finance a public utility – with host Paul Jay

Reality Asserts Itself - Gerald Horne 2

February 25, 2018
Historian Gerald Horne and host Paul Jay agree – while strong gun control is necessary, it’s not enough to keep schools and communities safe; we must change the unequal and decaying society that produces so much psychosis

Undoing the New Deal

February 4, 2018
Historian Peter Kuznick says Eisenhower called for decreased militarization, then Dulles reversed the policy; the Soviets tried to end the cold war after the death of Stalin; crazy schemes involving nuclear weapons and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba put the world of the eve of destruction – with host Paul Jay

Reality Asserts Itself - Thomas Frank

January 2, 2018
On Reality Asserts Itself, Tom Frank says in the world of the wealthy, liberalism is something you do to offset your rapacious behavior in other spheres – with host Paul Jay

U.S. Politics

'Red Alert' Campaign for Net Neutrality

‘Red Alert’ Campaign for Net Neutrality

Several dozen websites and organizations are launching a campaign in support of net neutrality ahead of an upcoming US Senate vote on whether to rescind the FCC’s decision to get…

Jess King for Congress with Sanders

Can a Progressive Democrat Win in Trump Country PA?

Field Report: Bernie Sanders joins Jess King, running on a progressive platform for the Congressional District 11-PA

Historian Ilan Pappe: ‘We Need Sustained International Pressure on Israel’

The Great Return protests in Gaza will culminate on Nakba, May 14th. This is also the day that Israel will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel. Historian…

World Politics

Hezbollah Coalition Declares ‘Victory’ in Lebanon’s First Parliamentary Election in 9 Years

Lebanon held its first parliamentary election in nine years, and Hezbollah and its political allies won seats, while Saad Hariri’s Western-backed, Saudi-allied coalition was weakened. Yet journalist Jamal Ghosn says…

Historian Ilan Pappe: ‘We Need Sustained International Pressure on Israel’

The Great Return protests in Gaza will culminate on Nakba, May 14th. This is also the day that Israel will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel. Historian…

UK Local Elections: A Stalemate for Labour and Conservatives

UK Local Elections: A Stalemate for Labour and Conservatives

The Labour Party does very well in London, better than they have in 50 years, and yet no major gains against the Tories, we speak to Jon Lansman of Momentum…

European News and Analysis

UK Local Elections: A Stalemate for Labour and Conservatives

UK Local Elections: A Stalemate for Labour and Conservatives

May 7, 2018

The Labour Party does very well in London, better than they have in 50 years, and yet no major gains against the Tories, we speak to Jon Lansman of Momentum…

French Unions & Students Mobilize Against Reforms: Another May ’68?

May 4, 2018

50 years after France’s legendary May 1968, which almost toppled the government, unions and students are again mobilizing against the government. However, while the establishment celebrates May ’68, its criticizes…

French Politicians Shift Blame for Anti-Semitism onto Muslims

French Politicians Shift Blame for Anti-Semitism onto Muslims

May 1, 2018

French politicians and celebrities signed a manifesto blaming French Muslims for anti-semitism in France. Yasser Louati addresses the hypocrisy in France’s human-rights discourse

Universal Basic Income and Minimum Wages: Progressive or Regressive?

Universal Basic Income and Minimum Wages: Progressive or Regressive?

April 30, 2018

Finland recently decided to end its Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiment, but the debate about whether UBI is progressive or regressive rages on. We speak to Economist Katherine A. Moos…

UK's 'Windrush Scandal' Makes Countless Long-Time Immigrants Undocumented

UK’s ‘Windrush Scandal’ Makes Countless Long-Time Immigrants Undocumented

April 26, 2018

Tens to hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the Caribbean, living in the UK for decades, now face undocumented status because of a change in government policy. Dr. Clea Bourne…

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Asia News and Analysis

Col. Wilkerson on Korean Peace: ‘We’ve Been Here Before,’ But it Fell Apart

May 1, 2018

Over the past 20 years or so there have been several opportunities for peace between North and South Korea, but each time it fell apart because of stumbling blocks on…

Detained Refugees Protest for 100 Days at Indonesia’s Balikpapan Detention Center

April 30, 2018

After Ehsanullah Sahil fled Afghanistan to escape the Taliban, Indonesia incarcerated him for over three years with no end in sight

Tech Giants Fight to Dominate Data of Developing Countries

April 29, 2018

Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft are among high tech giants fighting to maintain an unregulated environment at the WTO that strengthens their monopolies and puts developing countries at an extreme…

China’s Embrace Of An Intellectual Property System Imposed On It By The United States

April 29, 2018

The two biggest scientific powers, the U.S. & China, need to rethink the world’s intellectual property-based innovation system to safeguard citizen interests or else this privatization of technology, an arms…

The Future Depends On Knowing

The Real News Network (TRNN) produces independent, verifiable, fact-based journalism that engages ordinary people in solving the critical problems of our time. As legendary journalist Ida B. Wells said, “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.” We are a nonprofit and do not accept…

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Canadian News and Analysis

Delinquent $13.8 Billion Pipeline Company Receives Minor Fine For Major Oil Spill

March 31, 2018

In the last 12 years, Marathon Petroleum Corporation, who manage one of the largest petroleum pipeline networks in the U.S., has had 61 incidents, 12 of which have been in…

Aggressive Police Tactics Escalate Against TransMountain Pipeline Protests in Canada

March 23, 2018

Indigenous environmental activist, Clayton Thomas-Muller of 350.org, says not only did arrests take place outside exclusion zone but police are escalating their aggression against non-violent land and water defenders with…

UN Rapporteur: US Sanctions Cause Death in Venezuela

March 14, 2018

Over 150 intellectuals and activists signed an open letter urging the US and Canada to stop their economic sanctions on Venezuela, which are making the country’s economic problems worse. Special…

Canadian Logger Intensifies Persecution of Greenpeace and Stand.Earth

March 2, 2018

“They have nothing to go on,” says Todd Paglia, executive director of Stand.Earth, one of the defendants in the case filed by Resolute Forest Products, who had previously filed a…

Confronting Trudeau on Climate Lies and Kinder Morgan Pipeline

February 13, 2018

TRNN speaks with Clayton Thomas-Muller, an indigenous and environmental activist who challenged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pro-pipeline rhetoric during the PM’s cross-country town hall tour