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Climate Crisis is Even More Dire Than the New IPCC Report Says
The IPCC’s new report is groundbreaking, but it misses crucial points on climate tipping points and feedbacks that could make the crisis even more urgent, says Durwood Zaelke of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable…
Israeli Authorities Step Up anti-BDS Policies: Political Test to Enter Israel
Israel border authorities have detained US-Palestinian student for her alleged Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activism, denying her entry into Israel, despite having a visa. Tallie Ben-Daniel of Jewish voice for Peace discusses the case…
Kentucky Shooting of Two Blacks: ‘No Surprise,’ Given the Rise of Ultra-Right
Lost in the news of hate crimes over the past week was a random shooting of two Blacks in Kentucky by a white man. President Trump’s fanning of racial resentment is leading to an atmosphere…
Pittsburgh Jewish Justice Activist Reflects On Synagogue Murders
Eva Resnick Day grew up near the Synagogue & reflects on the deaths, anti-Semitism, racism and white nationalist assaults Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer:…
Catastrophic Death Toll in US-Saudi War on Yemen Has Been Grossly Downplayed
The UN and corporate media have for years claimed only 10,000 Yemenis were killed in the US/UK-backed Saudi/UAE war. But Yemen’s actual death toll is 70,000 to 80,000. Patrick Cockburn speaks with Ben Norton on…
The Pittsburgh Massacre and the Systemic Roots of the Rot
In a discussion about the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and the growth of fascism in the United States, Paul Jay says the degeneration of American political and economic institutions is being ignored by corporate media that…
Student Debt Dogs Millennials for a Lifetime and Drags Down the Economy
The student debt problem is exploding, growing three times as fast as any other kind of debt, yet the Trump administration is making it more difficult for students to seek debt relief. Ellen Brown of…
New Poll Shows Progressives Can Attract Trump Voters
In Pennsylvania’s conservative 11th District, progressive candidate Jess King is running neck-and-neck with conservative incumbent Lloyd Smucker, according to a just-released poll Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating at…
The Maryland Color of Wealth Forum
TRNN was a media partner to the Job Opportunities Task Force and Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition’s forum reviewing data from a critical report from the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. Participants were invited to…
Israeli ‘Thought Police’ Lose Effort to Ban Student Over BDS
Lara Al-Qassem, an American student of Palestinian origin, has defeated an Israeli effort to ban and deport her over her prior support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, BDS. We speak to her attorney,…
Bill McKibben Campaigns for Maryland Democratic Candidate Ben Jealous
Trailing in the polls by double digits days before the election, Maryland’s Democratic candidate for governor Ben Jealous hit the campaign trail with leading environmentalist Bill McKibben Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support…
Hitler Wouldn’t Risk Doomsday, But The United States Did  – Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (2/13)
Hitler ended the German nuclear weapons program in 1942 when told it could end life on Earth—the Americans were willing to take the risk; since the end of WWII the Cold War was to a…
Evidence Mounts Raising the Minimum Wage Does Not Cost Jobs
The increase in service industry jobs since Seattle enacted a $15 minimum wage is another nail in the coffin of the big business argument that raising it reduces employment. Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and…
Supporters of Brazil’s Neofascist President Celebrate, Workers Party in Shock
With the election of neofascist Jair Bolsonaro as president of Latin America’s largest country, the people of Brazil could hardly be more polarized. An election night field report from Mike Fox Visit https://therealnews.com for more…
After White Supremacist Terror, Trump Doubles Down from Birthright to the Border
In the aftermath of a spate of white supremacist violence from Florida to Kentucky to Pittsburgh, President Trump is ramping up nativism and xenophobia. The U.S. is deploying up to 14,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico…
Why Did Turkey Go Public With Murder Accusation Against Saudis Royals?
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Paul Jay analyze why Saudi Arabia is getting away doing as it pleases and how this relates to Turkey’s role in the region Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support…
The Reckoning of Turkish-Saudi Rivalry
Historian Vijay Prashad takes apart the Khashoggi murder and relates it to the deep-rooted ideological and historical conflict between Turkey and Saudi Arabia Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating…
Bolsonaro Represents the Starkest Expression of Hatred in Brazil
Prof. Alfredo Saad-Filho says the disappointment with the presidency of Bolsonaro will be inevitable Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended…
Brazil’s Election ‘No Surprise’ – Are the Left’s Fears of Bolsonaro Justified?
While it was no surprise that right-wing extremist Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election with 55% of the vote, it was with a smaller margin than originally projected. Now comes the great danger for the…
Ntozake Shange, American Playwright and Freedom Fighter, Dies at 70
We revisit Khalilah Harris’ summer 2018 interview with renowned playwright Ntozake Shange in what may have been her final media engagement before her passing Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by…
How Local Taxes Fuel America’s Income Inequality Machine
A new report shows that the poorest Americans pay a much larger proportion of their income in state and local taxes than the the wealthy Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work…
The Pittsburgh Massacre and Growing Fascism
TRNN’s Paul Jay joins Ben Norton for a Q&A on the Pittsburgh Massacre ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) **
The Doomsday Machine: The Big Lie of the Cold War – Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (1/13)
On Reality Asserts Itself, Daniel Ellsberg tells host Paul Jay that US intelligence agencies knew that Stalin was not planning to invade Western Europe or seek world domination, but based on the myth, the world…
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The Baltimore Bureau Podcast Show: Weeks of October 15 & October 22, 2018
Khalilah M. Harris and Dharna Noor are joined by Real News Marketing Manager Tracey Beale to talk about the issues driving people to vote in the midterm elections, ongoing police corruption, and arts in Baltimore’s…
Germany’s Angela Merkel Is Bracing for Another Election Disaster
Angela Merkel’s conservatives are expecting huge losses in Sunday’s Hesse state election. After 20 years in power, the conservatives anticipate huge losses as Hesse’s four million voters head to the polls. Visit https://therealnews.com for more…
Palestinian Authority and Hamas Regularly Torture and Arrest Political Dissenters
Omar Shakir discusses the Human Rights Watch report on how the two Palestinian governments continue the practices of the Israeli occupation to which they are opposed. Even Facebook posts can get activists arrested and tortured…