How The Coronavirus Pandemic Can Lead To Deglobalization
The rapid, extensive spread of COVID-19 is partly a crisis of globalization. The pandemic gives us an opportunity to rethink our global economic system in favor of ‘deglobalization.’
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Vehicle pollution in the US is down and deregulatory gifts to Big Oil are up. Grassroots groups wanted a Green Stimulus that addresses both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, but Congress and Trump didn’t deliver.
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A UN brief warns about economic collapse, expecting a 40% decrease in GDP and trillions of dollars lost to the private sector in an area…
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Spain faced the second worst infection rate in Europe, and took control of the country’s private health care companies to improve its response. What does…
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Some of the most devastating outbreaks of the modern era can be traced to rapacious development and habitat destruction that brings wild creatures into our…
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Journalist Kim Kelly has been in contact with a prisoner inside Rikers Island. She talks with TRNN’s Eddie Conway about why immediate further action is…
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Many billionaire sports moguls, NCAA officials, and Olympic leaders seem to care more about profit than the well-being of athletes or fans.
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Stir Crazy!
Stuck in the house? Social distancing at work? Need a break from the kids? Join Real News’ Kim Brown, Charles Lenchner, Tunde Ogunfolaju, and Lisa Snowden-McCray as we discuss some of the news stories that have us terrified today.
Despite Crisis, Auditors Continue To Confront Aggressive Policing
PAR guest James Freeman discusses the aftermath of a police chase that nearly killed two bystanders: a mother and her three-year-old child.
Opposition To Kagame Proves Deadly For Rwandans
Those who challenge Kagame’s administration and question his past face brutal repression, and worse. Claude Gatebuke highlights the latest case of murdered Rwandan singer Kizito Mihigo.
Will The Baltimore Orioles Step Up To The Plate For Their Concession Workers?
700 people who serve beer, hot dogs, and more at baseball games in Baltimore don’t yet know if they will be compensated for games canceled because of COVID-19.
Nationalization Roundtable
With the advent of COVID-19 and an unprecedented economic shock, measures that were a month ago far outside the mainstream policy debate have moved to center stage. One of the most startling—at least to those unfamiliar with the history of US federal policy responses to previous crises—is nationalization. For instance, New York State governor Andrew…
Climate Crisis: COVID-19 Brings Big Oil Deregulation, Low Auto Emissions, No Green Stimulus
March 30, 2020
Everything I Learned About Being a Good Neighbor During a Crisis I Learned from My Neighbor When I Was in Crisis
March 18, 2020
Climate Crisis: Uber Emissions, Super Polluters, Bipartisan Energy Bill Gets Industry Nod
March 6, 2020
Surviving the Onslaught of Fracking in Argentina
February 26, 2020
EU Gives 32 Gas Permits as Study Says Methane Undercounted by 40%
February 26, 2020
ExxonMobil Got Congress to Trade Arms for Offshore Gas
February 6, 2020
Did a Maryland Sheriff Deliberately Hit a Motorcyclist?
January 22, 2020
Trump’s Impeachment Trial Begins Next Week
January 17, 2020
Democratic Debate: Will Progressives Highlight the Cost of War?
January 13, 2020
Trump Announces Additional ‘Punishing’ Sanctions on Iran
January 8, 2020
If UAW Members Ratify the Contract, What Does GM Get?
October 23, 2019
Africa’s Free Trade Area Misses Nigeria
July 8, 2019
Overall and Core CPI Up 0.1 Percent in May; Overall Index Up 1.8 Percent Over Last Year
June 12, 2019
Driving Financialization
June 11, 2019
Loyal to their Class, Unhinged from Democracy
June 6, 2019
Oppose Doug Ford’s Ontario Schools Budget
May 29, 2019
The (Small-d) Democrat’s Dilemma
May 24, 2019
Springtime for Biden and Democrats
May 17, 2019
The US Labor Market Is Deteriorating for Black Men
May 16, 2019
Privatization Solution Worse than Problem
May 14, 2019
Climate Emergency Manifesto
May 14, 2019
Why Ecuador?
May 9, 2019
An Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion
May 6, 2019
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TRNN Documentary: Trump, The Koch Brothers and Their War on Climate Science
We replay this TRNN documentary on the Koch Brothers and their war on climate science, on the occasion of David Koch’s death on August 23rd, 2019. Narrated by Danny Glover, this documentary special reveals how climate change science has been under systematic attack.
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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 targets. We speak to Kevin Taft, ex-Liberal Party politician and author of ‘Oil’s Deep State.’
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