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UAW workers explain why they’re ready to strike
After the high-stakes contract fight between the Teamsters and UPS, the eyes of labor are now on the contract negotiations currently taking place between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automakers: Ford, General…
Stella Assange speaks out on Julian’s imprisonment w/Chris Hedges (Part 2)
Prison is always a political tool, and in the case of whistleblowers like Julian Assange, the use of incarceration to suppress, discourage, and silence dissent is self-evident. Since being imprisoned, Assange has married and even…
Julian Assange and the end of American Democracy w/Chris Hedges & Stella Assange (Part 1)
The US government has hounded Julian Assange since WikiLeaks first revealed the extent of US war crimes in 2010. In the process of persecuting Assange, the federal government has used every tool at its disposal…
Solidarity with Ukraine’s workers
What is the role labor unions should play in the Russia-Ukraine War? In a special conversation moderated by Bill Fletcher Jr., former president of the TransAfrica Forum, panelists make the case for why they believe…
Identity politics and cancel culture w/Norm Finkelstein | The Chris Hedges Report
The contemporary culture war over the role of racism, patriarchy, and other questions of oppression and identity in American society and history has given rise to a political outlook some critics describe as “woke culture”…
What if you do everything right in a traffic stop and it still goes wrong? #copwatchers
Hello my amazing PAR family! What do you do if you are a passenger during a traffic stop? What if that traffic stop becomes a fishing expedition and a false DUI? What is one of…
Who was George Jackson? America’s prophetic revolutionary | Rattling the Bars
At the age of 18, George Jackson was condemned to a prison sentence of one year to life for the alleged robbery of $70 from a Los Angeles gas station. Jackson spent the remainder of…
Inside the shadowy, lucrative business of ‘union avoidance consultants’
Most people often think of “union-busting” only in terms of overt and even illegal tactics like termination and intimidation, but most bosses first opt for subtler, more sophisticated activities to discourage worker organizing. Enter the…
Cops want to ban cop watching. Here’s how we fight back w/The Battousai & James Freeman | PAR
A recent article in The Washington Post highlighting the growth of cop watcher YouTube channels provided a rare mainstream spotlight on a movement that’s developed entirely outside of elite institutions. But for all The Washington…
Was Shakespeare a woman? | The Chris Hedges Report
The notion of a grand literary deception surrounding the works of William Shakespeare is probably one of the less offensive conspiracy theories in circulation. Within literary academia, however, it’s absolute heresy. Yet many writers and thinkers,…
The true story of the March on Washington w/Larry Gibson | The Marc Steiner Show
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom has been rightfully memorialized as an iconic moment in American history, particularly as the venue where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his immortal “I Have A Dream”…
Ed Poindexter—Black Panther imprisoned for 52 years | Rattling the Bars
After 52 years of incarceration, Edward Alan Poindexter is among the longest serving political prisoners in US and world history. Originally part of the “Omaha Two,” Poindexter and Mondo we Langa, both leaders of the…
Anchor Brewing shuts down! Workers want a co-op
After 127 years of operation, San Francisco’s beloved Anchor Brewing Company shut down operations earlier this year. Bought by Sapporo in 2017, Anchor Brewing’s revenues had been declining for years before the call was made…
Edge of Sports Season 2 premiere Wednesday 7pm ET
Edge of Sports is back! In this Season 2 premiere 8/30 at 7pm ET: Former St. John’s soccer assistant Jim Keady joins Dave Zirin to talk about why he left college coaching in protest of…
Alabama’s ‘astonishingly cruel,’ untested plan to kill Kenneth Smith | Rattling the Bars
While the death penalty has been abolished in 23 states and Washington, DC, other states are doubling down on the barbaric practice of capital punishment. Idaho wants to bring back firing squads, and now the…
The Jewish political tradition demands solidarity with Palestine
In a special crossover moment for The Real News, Dave Zirin of Edge of Sports joins The Marc Steiner Show for an installment of ‘Not In Our Name’—a series of conversations and reflections from the…
Juvenile sentencing in the US is barbaric, racist, and ineffective | Rattling the Bars
“The United States is the only country in the world that permits youth to be sentenced to life without parole,†the Juvenile Law Center notes. “Sentencing children to die in prison is condemned by international…
Nebraska teen imprisoned for abortion is just a taste of post-Roe America | Rattling the Bars
The shocking arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of Nebraska teen Celeste Burgess and her mother, Jessica Burgess, has now become one of the best-known cases of abortion criminalization in post-Roe America. But the Burgess case is…
EXCLUSIVE: Railroad union rep EXPOSES East Palestine truth
The Norfolk Southern train derailment and “controlled release” of toxic vinyl chloride in East Palestine, Ohio, was an avoidable catastrophe. Long before the train cars crashed on Feb. 3 and residents’ lives were turned completely…
They were released from Guantanamo. But the horrors didn’t end | Rattling the Bars
The revelations of widespread torture of detainees at the illegal US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, rattled the American conscience during the Bush Jr. administration. Two decades later, detainments at Guantanamo continue, but the public…
‘A new form of colonization’: Argentinian workers confront the IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have a long history of plunging Global South nations into unsustainable cycles of debt. For Argentina, this process has been ongoing for decades, and is now reaching…
Northwestern’s hazing scandal and sports culture w/Byron Hurt | Edge of Sports
Officially, hazing is illegal and unwelcome just about everywhere you turn—but it continues as an open secret in far too many fraternities, sports teams, and other institutions. The latest revelations from Northwestern University’s football team…
Cops tried to stop him from filming on a sidewalk, things turned bizarre when he cited the law
The cop watching movement has proliferated in the last decade as more and more video evidence of routine police abuse has surfaced online. Several states are making an attempt to fight back with new laws…
America’s secret wars w/Norman Solomon | The Marc Steiner Show
Since 9/11, US wars have become widespread, everyday affairs that most Americans know next to nothing about. The largest wars like Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya have a limited place in public consciousness, but the dozens…
Mining the Sacred: Indigenous nations fight lithium gold rush at Thacker Pass
In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate entities hellbent on mining the lithium beneath their land. Vancouver-based Lithium Americas is…
Chamique Holdsclaw on depression and fame | Edge of Sports
Chamique Holdsclaw’s legendary status was apparent from the moment she entered professional sports. After helping the US National Team win the Gold Medal in the 1998 Berlin Olympics, Holdsclaw was named Rookie of the Year…
STRIKE update: SAG-AFTRA & Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers hold the line
Bob Batz Jr., who has been on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since October 2022, and Bethany Anne Lind, a SAG-AFTRA actor who has been on strike since July 2023, speak with TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian…
