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A billion-dollar company poisoned my home and destroyed my town
“I thought, ‘I’m in a small town, nothing’s going to bother me’… But the night that I was sitting on my couch, that’s when my normal, small-town life changed in an instant.”
One year after Assad’s regime fell, Yarmouk residents rebuild their lives
“When so many people are gathered here together 14 years after everything we went through, it’s like a revenge. Returning here is a revenge against our departure.”
CNN partners with Kalshi, a gambling app that lets you wager on starvation in Gaza
The network will integrate betting odds for life-and-death issues into its coverage. What could possibly go wrong?
At COP30, humanity must choose: Fossil fuel industry profits or a livable planet?
“The presence of lobbyists and other representatives from the fossil fuel industry… is a huge problem, obviously, for the COP process,” Dharna Noor says. “The idea that these companies that have their profit wrapped up in the continued sale and use of fossil fuels is outright contrary to the very goals of the Paris Agreement, including the less radical ones.”
How farmers fought the banks and won: Penny auctions in the Great Depression
When the banks put farmers’ homes and land up for auction, their neighbors would arrive already committed to keep the price low. They would bid next to nothing, then give it all back. This is episode 76 of Stories of Resistance.
We’ve reached the ‘show me your papers’ stage of American authoritarianism
“It’s just really, really bleak, and I don’t think people outside of Chicago understand the scope of it,” CODEPINK co-director Danaka Katovich says. “What I saw is Border Patrol agents barreling out of their vans, rolling up on two men who were working… and asking for their papers.”
A ‘Hate America’ rally?
Our full on-the-ground coverage of the Oct. 18 “No Kings” protests in Washington, DC, and Baltimore County.
ICED out of America
For over four months, journalists have been bearing witness to America’s cruel and unusual treatment of immigrants and Trump’s militarized war against them. There seems to be no end in sight.
‘A soul-sucking, desolate hell’: How I survived America’s most secretive supermax prison
“You are not provided any joy, any stimulation—you got to find that yourself… I didn’t understand what weeks and months of silence can do to someone’s psyche. That can tear people apart if you’re not conscious of what’s happening to you.”
EXCLUSIVE: Federal whistleblowers expose how Trump’s HUD is abandoning vulnerable Americans
“The frank fact of the matter is that, right now, discrimination is not being prosecuted. Fair housing laws are not being enforced… And so, we felt that we had no choice but to go public.”
Life and death in Tulkarem refugee camp
In April 2024, TRNN was granted access to the Tulkarem refugee camp and spoke to residents about life and death in what was once one of the most densely populated camps in the West Bank—before Israel forcibly depopulated and destroyed the camp this year.
‘Microsoft is an active partner in the genocide!’: Inside the tech worker revolt for Palestine
“I, like many others, thought that working for Microsoft was the opportunity of a lifetime. I worked three years on Azure, not knowing that my labor was actively being used to facilitate the murder of my people.”
It’s not ‘complicated’: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine is fueled by ‘colonial racism’
Donald Trump’s plan for the US and Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan for Israel are both shaped by racist, colonialist worldviews that grant full rights and personhood to some while justifying the repression and extermination of others.
Clergy bear witness to ‘horrific’ ICE abductions at immigration courts
“It’s just unimaginable to see it and witness it, to see an elderly couple being split apart… to see a child ripped out of their mother’s arms. It’s something that you think would never happen here in the United States, and it’s happening right now behind the doors of that nondescript building.”
Holocaust survivor Gabor Maté: Gaza genocide ‘the worst thing I’ve seen in my whole life.’
“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”
An American surgeon’s dire warning from Gaza: ‘We’re leveling a whole society’
“More children under the age of two have been killed in Gaza since October 7 [2023] than every Israeli who has ever died from military or terrorist violence… in Israel’s entire existence.”
How Israel became the symbol of Brazil’s Evangelical and far-right movements
Despite the far right’s embrace of Israel and the United States, the majority of Brazilians are standing against Israel’s attack on Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
US empire is dying, and it’s more dangerous than ever
As America’s status as the dominant global superpower declines, hypernationalism and violent competition between imperial and regional powers are surging around the world—but so are working-class struggles for peace, prosperity, and self-determination.
‘It’s political persecution’: How the US is helping Ecuador’s right-wing government persecute political opponents
Since winning reelection in April, Trump-supporting Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has wasted no time in targeting his political opponents. In this exclusive interview, we speak with one of those targeted opponents.
Audit finds dozens of police custody deaths in Maryland should have been ruled homicides
The tenure of Maryland’s former Chief Medical Examiner Dr. David Fowler has been under review since his controversial testimony in the case of police officer Derek Chauvin who was convicted of murdering George Floyd.
‘Sadly, there are martyrs among our colleagues’: Israel continues targeting and killing journalists in Lebanon
In this documentary report from Lebanon, TRNN speaks with journalists who continue to report on Israel’s war crimes even after they have been targeted and injured and their colleagues have been killed.
‘What does it mean to be a Palestinian Jew’ today?
“I was born into the Zionist colony in Palestine, and an identity was imposed on me at birth, called Israeli identity. And this identity was fabricated… 14 years before I was born.”
A Hopkins professor says America’s descent into authoritarianism may have started with policing in blue cities. If that’s true, we’re in big trouble.
As the Trump administration continues to press the boundaries of the Constitution, Johns Hopkins Professor Lester Spence says we need to understand one yet-to-be-examined source of the push towards authoritarianism: urban policing.
Conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism makes Jews less safe, not more
“To fight antisemitism, we need to accurately identify it,” says Molly Kraft, a founding member of the Jews Say No to Genocide Coalition in Canada. “Too often, we’re failing.”
‘Like being tortured’: Texas residents living next to bitcoin mine are getting sick and being ignored
Republican Governor Greg Abbott said Texas “wears the crown as the bitcoin mining capital of the world.” But in small towns like Granbury, working-class residents living next to giant data centers are the ones paying the price for Texas’s crypto boom.
Fired after Zionist uproar, artist Mr. Fish won’t stop drawing the truth
After becoming a target of Zionist and pro-Israel critics for his political cartoons, Dwayne Booth (“Mr. Fish”) was fired from the University of Pennsylvania in March. Marc Steiner speaks with Booth about his firing and how to combat the current repressive crackdown on art and dissent.
A bitcoin mine in Texas is ‘killing us slowly,’ local residents say
After a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation came to Granbury, TX, residents started suffering from hypertension, heart palpitations, tinnitus, migraines, and more—and they say their concerns are going ignored by the company and government officials. It’s “environmental euthanasia,” one resident tells TRNN.
Prison slavery makes millions for states like Maryland. What will it take to achieve change?
From license plates to furniture and clothing, states use forced prison labor to make a range of products that government institutions are then required to purchase by law.
‘The sea is forbidden’: Gaza’s fishermen remain steadfast against Israeli attacks
In spite of the threat of death, Gaza’s fishermen persevere to earn a living from the sea, and cling to their heritage and identity.
Stories of Resistance: Victor Jara’s Last Words
In the wake of Chile’s 1973 coup, Chilean folk musician Victor Jara was detained with thousands of others. But amid the suffering and chaos, Victor Jara found a paper and pencil.
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