“My kids have been sick for three and a half months,” Kayla Miller, who participated in TRNN’s solidarity livestream, says.
Posted inClimate Crisis
Adam McKay: It’s not too late to demand a sane government response to climate change
The world will soon cross 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming beyond preindustrial levels, meaning serious destabilization of the earth’s ecosystem. But we can still mitigate climate change’s worst effects with drastic government action.
Posted inBaltimore
These workers are making Baltimore a union town again
From museums to grocery stores, a union push is making itself felt in Baltimore. Worker-organizers from a range of industries gather at The Real News studios for a special panel.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Turkey’s marginalized ‘deeply afraid’ as Erdoğan wins presidential runoff
“Erdoğan’s victory will consolidate one-man rule and pave the way for horrible practices, bringing completely dark days for all parts of society,” warned one Kurdish opposition leader.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
America is in the middle of a ‘slow civil war,’ but only one side is acting like it
“‘Do you think there’ll be a civil war?’” Jeff Sharlet asked “true believers” of the far right in his new book, The Undertow. “They all said ‘Yes.’ Most thought it was coming, soon, and some said it was already here.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Giorgia Meloni government is a regime of private corporations that is normalizing fascism
Maurizio Coppola from Potere al Popolo (Power to the People) talks about his party’s campaign for a 10 Euro minimum wage, the Giorgia Meloni government’s attack on workers, and the attempt to normalize authoritarianism and fascism.
Posted inRattling the Bars
Cash bail is an abomination of justice. We should get rid of it.
The blunt fact about the cash bail system in the US is that it creates a two-tier system of “justice” in which the presumption of innocence is denied to people who have not been convicted of anything but the “crime” of being poor.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Volcanic eruptions in Mexico and the dangers of fetishizing natural disasters in the Global South
When Mexico was hit by tragic earthquakes in 2017, the media showed sensationalist footage of buildings collapsing over and over, then the cameras left. Sadly, the same thing seems to be happening with coverage of the Popocatépetl volcano eruptions.
Posted inThe Chris Hedges Report
Bidding farewell to the American century
It’s becoming clearer by the day that America is an empire in terminal decline, yet the myths of American exceptionalism persist.
Posted inPolice Accountability Report
A false arrest upended one West Virginia man’s life. Years later, he is trying to heal.
After Caleb Dial was falsely arrested in 2021, a Ring doorbell camera ultimately exonerated him. Now, after settling a lawsuit with the city police department, he is just trying to heal.