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Skin Color and Gender Determine Privilege and Income, Regardless of Educational Level
A new PERI study finds that women of color benefit less from college education, while white men benefit the most. Since the 1970s, people of color’s social mobility has stagnated. Noé Wiener discusses the results…
Media’s Russia Obsession Obscures How Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Benefits Turkey Most
While corporate media portrayed Trump’s withdrawal of US troops from Syria as a Christmas gift to Russia’s Putin, veteran Middle East reporter Patrick Cockburn tells TRNN’s Ben Norton this is infantile and conspiratorial. NATO member…
UN Secretary General invokes rarely-used power to demand cease-fire in Gaza
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres distributed a letter to members of the organization’s security council calling for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, due to supposedly crumbling humanitarian resources.The secretary-general invoked a rarely used…
Obama Admits Bipartisan Capitalist ‘Washington Consensus’ Fueled Far-Right & Multiplied Inequality
Former US President Barack Obama admitted that the neoliberal capitalist policies he and his predecessors supported fostered the rise of the far-right and grossly exacerbated inequality. Ben Norton reports. Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and…
Russia sets presidential election date with Putin expected to secure another term
Russia’s 2024 presidential election will take place on March 17 with Vladimir Putin widely expected to run and win another term in office. Members of the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, voted unanimously on…
Captivating Encounter Between Pipeline Employees and Indigenous Land Defenders in Northern BC
After a Canadian court issued an injunction to force the Wet’suwet’en nation to allow pipeline workers to enter their territory, a neighbouring clan constructs a second checkpoint. This video shows the illuminating encounter that took…
German Amazon Workers Demand a Collective Contract
Every Christmas the German workers of Amazon attempt to strike and disrupt the company’s profits during the busiest time of the year. The management uses bonuses to tempt workers to break the strike. Visit https://therealnews.com…
Israeli war cabinet votes to increase fuel aid to Gaza as IDF backs Hamas into a corner
Israel’s war cabinet voted in favor of increasing the flow of fuel into Gaza late Wednesday as the Israel Defense Forces backed Hamas into a corner in the city of Khan Younis.Israel has heavily restricted…
Republicans to probe Biden admin’s settlement with eco groups trying to tear down key power source
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Gideon Levy has No Sympathy for Colonists as a Group
Gideon Levy: all colonists and all Israelis share responsibility for the occupation and apartheid system in Palestine. There is sympathy for individuals, but there is no symmetry: the power is on the Israeli side Visit…
GOP Rep Collins assembles Christmas display ‘poking fun’ at Biden
FIRST ON FOX: One first-term House Republican lawmaker is using a congressional holiday tradition to send a message to President Biden.Each December, the halls on the Longworth House Office Building’s second floor transform into a…
Hungarians Rise up Against Anti-Worker ‘Slave Law’ and Growing Authoritarianism
Protests have rocked Hungary after the passage of what labor activists call a “slave law,†which lets employers demand 400 hours of overtime and no pay for 3 years. Journalist Benjamin Novak says the opposition…
Vivek Ramaswamy controversial statements fourth debate
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramawamy made numerous controversial statements during the fourth GOP presidential debate, going as far as to call one of his fellow contenders a “fascist.”Ramaswamy took many shots at his competition on…
The man that “shoed” Bush (Pt. 3/4)
TRNN Replay: December 14, 2008, al-Zaidi shouted “This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog” and threw his shoes at then-U.S. president George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference. Visit https://therealnews.com…
Jim Banks unveils bill to protect adoption rights of parents who want to raise kids based on biological sex
FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is out with a new bill aimed at preventing child welfare agencies from denying prospective adopters who say they will raise kids in a manner consistent with the…
Schumer won’t say if he’ll take up House bill freezing Biden’s $6 billion to Iran
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., won’t say if he will take up a House of Representatives bill freezing the $6 billion released to Iran by the Biden administration.Schumer gave an impassioned speech on the…
The man that “shoed” Bush (Pt. 4/4)
TRNN Replay: December 14, 2008, al-Zaidi shouted “This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog” and threw his shoes at then-U.S. president George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference. Visit https://therealnews.com…
UN agency led by Cindy McCain under fire for anti-Israel bias amid staff revolt against her
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Don’t Forget George H. W. Bush’s War Crimes, from Iraq’s ‘Highway of Death’ to Panama
As US president, George H.W. Bush invaded Panama and waged the barbaric Gulf War, in which the American military devastated Iraqi civilian infrastructure and massacred thousands of fleeing soldiers. Ben Norton reports. Visit https://therealnews.com for…
Report sheds light on $700M unions pumped into politics to advance Democrat causes nationwide
The nation’s largest labor unions spent a staggering $708 million on politics to propel Democratic Party causes during the previous election cycle on activities that will likely continue throughout the 2024 elections.A new report from the Commonwealth…
Oliver Stone Remembers Anti-Imperialist Journalist William Blum, Chronicler of CIA Crimes
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone speaks with TRNN’s Ben Norton about the life and legacy of dissident journalist and historian William Blum, who documented US war crimes and CIA interventions across the planet Visit https://therealnews.com…
Here are the top 5 moments from the fiery Republican presidential debate in Alabama
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The fourth Republican presidential debate saw no shortage of fireworks, including plenty of name-calling and personal jabs between the participating candidates.Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron…
Is TRNN Soft on Russia?
In our first TRNN podcast, we discuss a viewer letter that says Paul Jay underestimates the danger of Putin – with Marc Steiner, Dharna Noor and Paul Jay Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help…
GOP lawmaker seeks to block DOJ efforts targeting Texas’ border buoy barrier
FIRST ON FOX: A Republican lawmaker is introducing legislation that would block the Department of Justice from using the Rivers and Harbors Act to sue states over border security measures after the DOJ used the…
Did Bush/Cheney Create a Culture of Not Wanting to Know? – Sen. Bob Graham on RAI pt4
On RAI with Paul Jay, Senator Bob Graham says there was a pervasive pattern in police and intelligence agencies: “You don’t have everybody moving in the same direction without there being a head coach somewhere…
Rep. Pressley introduces legislation to guarantee right to vote for people with felonies on record
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats have introduced legislation that would allow people convicted of a felony to vote in federal elections, a proposal that if enacted could restore the voting rights of millions of people…
Bernie Sanders Responds to Trump’s Oval Office Address
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) delivers a response to President Donald Trump’s address to the nation Tuesday night on the shutdown and the President’s demand for funding for a wall Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and…