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(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 24, 2017 Where's the 'Collusion'? (Interview)
Amid news the Mueller probe could extend through 2018, Guardian reporter Luke Harding and TRNN's Aaron Mate discuss Russiagate and Harding's new book "Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win"
SHARE Friday, March 30, 2018 Undoing the New Deal: African-Americans, Racism and the FDR/Johnson Reforms (Pt5)
We're continuing our series titled Undoing the New Deal. While most of the measures taken during the New Deal helped to mitigate the worst effects of the depression on workers and created a social safety net where there had been none before, not all Americans benefited equally. Most New Deal programs discriminated against African Americans.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 11, 2019 Justin Trudeau's Description of BDS: 'A Pack of Lies'
During a town hall meeting on Tuesday, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was given the opportunity to explain his position opposing the Boycott Sanctions and Divestment, or BDS, movement which aims to pressure Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories and end their discrimination against Palestinians more generally.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 7, 2019 Saudi King Calls on 'Despots' to Mecca for Emergency Meeting on Iran
Three summits were held in the city of Mecca, the holiest city of Islam. Now, Saudi Arabia hosted these conferences during the last days of Ramadan, inviting leaders of Muslim countries to attend. One meeting was an emergency meeting of the Gulf states, a second a meeting of Arab states, and a third of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Patriot Act Renewal Sneaks Through Congress With Dem Support
The stopgap funding bill, which postpones a government shutdown, also includes a barely noticed 3-month renewal of the Patriot Act's warrantless data collection.
SHARE Sunday, August 25, 2019 California Releases Misleading Greenhouse Emissions Report
In the Golden State, all is golden on the issue of climate change, or at least that's what we're being told. In essence, that was the conclusion of California Governor Gavin Newsom in reaction to the state's release of its annual greenhouse gas emissions data on August 12th.
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 17, 2018 Corbyn Calls for Evidence in Escalating Poison Row
For requesting evidence of Russian culpability in the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has been denounced by PM Theresa May and even members of his own party. We discuss the case with Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies at New York University and Princeton.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
A new book published in May has raised questions about the origins of Lyme disease, which affects 400,000 Americans each year. And this book has caught the attention of Congress, prompting some to ask the question, did the Pentagon weaponize ticks and unleash them on an unsuspecting public? Here to talk about this is Kris Newby, the author of Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, June 28, 2019 Kamala Harris' Record as Tough-On-Crime Prosecutor Far From Progressive
KAMALA HARRIS: A friend of mine actually called me and he said "Kamala, my wife got the letter. She freaked out. She brought all the kids into the living room, held up the letter. Said 'If you don't go to school, Kamala's going to put you and me in jail.'"
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Trump's Withdrawal From Syria: Betrayal of Kurds or End to Endless War?
There's no doubt that the U.S. and Turkey have been in negotiations for months now, if not for longer, to try to agree on what kind of policy they are going to pursue and a tolerance in Northern Syria towards the Syrian Democratic Forces, which are led by the PKK which are primarily Kurdish forces.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, July 27, 2020 Leaked FBI Documents Reveal Secret Program To Criminalize Social Media
Secret federal police detaining federal protesters in Portland. As this video posted by Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley on his Twitter account reveals, the agents have no external markings, no badge numbers, and according to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU, no legal basis for detaining US citizens.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 22, 2019 Trump Tweets About Disloyal Jews, Then Tweets He's "King of Israel"
In Israel, the discussion is intensifying about the banning of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from coming to Palestine and Israel, and the deeply negative response of Democratic Party leaders to that banning.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, February 5, 2018 Undoing the New Deal: The 1944 Coup Against VP Henry Wallace (pt1)
Historian Peter Kuznick and Paul Jay discuss the historical context of the fight between the Sanders' progressive wing against the oligarchy within the Democratic Party; the overthrow of Vice President Wallace by an alliance of party bosses and Southern racists was a turning point in the decades-long process to roll back the New Deal
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 25, 2019 More Die From Medical Insurance 'Aggressive Prior Authorization' Than Before ACA
In an earlier segment we talked about your road to Damascus, your coming to understand you just couldn't stomach the kind of stuff you had to do for the private insurance company you were working for. You talked about the death of a young woman. And we're going to play a little clip from that part of the interview.
SHARE Tuesday, October 22, 2019 Haiti: An Overlooked Crisis the World Should Not Ignore
Haiti faces fuel shortages, food shortages, and corruption. Political economist Keston Perry argues that neocolonialism, neoliberalism, and climate injustice are at the root of Haiti's instability.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 3, 2019 How Elites Crush Black Dissent
The systematic repression of black or African descended people is a common theme in many countries around the world, from the US, to the UK, to the Caribbean, to South America, and beyond.
SHARE Tuesday, October 8, 2019 How Neo-Liberals Profit off of Poverty
Why do we care if a rich CEO finds squeegee kids annoying? Why does it matter that the CEO can fire off one email and wipe teenagers, who want to work, off of every Baltimore street corner? For a very simple reason. The system that has created massive income inequality--
SHARE Thursday, September 5, 2019 UN Report on Yemen: US, UK Accomplices to Atrocities, While Inaction Continues
Bernie Sanders's comment is that we cannot lay this on the doorsteps of Trump alone. We know that this should also be blamed on the administration which inaugurated its intervention in Yemen on the side of these Gulf despots. That is the Obama administration, Samantha Power, and all these liberals who are now critical of the war in Yemen only after Obama left office.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, September 27, 2019 The Impeachment: Will This Be Trump's Unraveling?
In our continuing coverage of the potential impeachment of Donald Trump, we look at what transpired today in the House Intelligence Committee where the Director of National Intelligence,
SHARE Tuesday, November 19, 2019 How OAS Deception Helped the Coup in Bolivia
When the Organization of American States misled everyone into thinking that Bolivia's presidential elections were fraudulent, it made the coup against Evo Morales possible, says CEPR's Mark Weisbrot.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 12, 2020 The 'I Can't Breathe' Video Police Don't Want You To See
I never get tired of saying, the point of the show is to hold police accountable. To do so, we go beyond the headlines and explore in detail how the system works to bolster, and in some cases, abet ineffective law enforcement. On this show, we're going to examine two facets of this problem.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, August 16, 2019 Protests In Honduras Intensify as President Is Implicated in Drug Trafficking
The protests against Honduras's President, Juan Orlando Hernandez, which have been going on for several months now, are showing no signs of letting up. If anything, they have been intensifying ever since it became known last week that Hernandez was involved in a conspiracy to use drug trafficking money to support his 2013 presidential election campaign.
SHARE Saturday, July 13, 2019 Alberta Government Declares War On Environmentalists
In April of this year, Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party won a majority of seats in Alberta's provincial election. Alberta is the largest producer of crude oil in Canada, accounting for over 80% of the country's total oil production.
SHARE Tuesday, August 13, 2019 What Can We Learn From the History of Struggle Against White Supremacy?
The terrorist attack on a Walmart in El Paso has brought the rise and danger of white supremacist nationalism into full focus and is part of all of our conversations. The right-wing violence that has become an all too common occurrence in our nation are not mere aberrations. Sure, it's about Trump, 4chan, 8chan and the deeply racist nature of our society and world, but it just didn't pop out of thin air.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, July 1, 2019 U.S. Sanctions Block Medicine from Venezuela, Killing Thousands
They don't care. They think they are hurting president Maduro, and they're really hurting the people. If they really wanted something good for Venezuela, they would not be doing what they are doing right now.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 6, 2017 Preemptive Strike on North Korea: Is Trump Wagging the Dog?
Donald Trump is trying to do in a very strategic way, and that is scare the devil out of Kim Jong-un and his North Korean military so that they'll come to the negotiating table, abjectly surrender, in other words, or he's just as dumb, as strategically inept as I think the entire administration is...there are not a lot of people with a lot of smarts over there in the Congress.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 11, 2019 New Evidence Suggests 2018 Chemical Attack in Douma, Syria Was Staged
An analysis of a leaked document from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons finds that the chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria on April 7, 2018 was most likely staged.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 26, 2020 Police Are Arresting Protesters Over Facebook Posts-And It's Just The Beginning
As communities have taken to the streets to protest police brutality, structural racism, and have called for political leaders to defund policing, law enforcement has used the opportunity to show us just how easily it can track our activities and how they are willing to act upon it.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 25, 2019 Mueller's Seven-Hour Testimony Changed Nothing
So just what have we learned after more than seven hours of two congressional committees having hearings with the former Special Counsel, Robert Mueller?
SHARE Thursday, June 18, 2020 Despite Promises of Reform, Police are Still Killing
Despite promises of reform, police are still killing. PAR examines the case of Rayshard Brooks, shot in the back twice as he fled police, and speaks with James McLynas, who says his lack of law enforcement experience makes him the perfect candidate for sheriff.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 7, 2019 France: Massive Protests and Strikes
Prof. Jean Bricmont discusses the biggest strike since President Macron was elected in 2017.
SHARE Sunday, October 13, 2019 Economic Update: A Growing U.S. Left
Updates on California events (LA Times labor union, 80,000 Kaiser workers to strike, new state public banking law); gross inefficiency of private car industry; wide global use of wealth taxes vs "conservative" claims; anti-left politics in US labor history; Prof. Wolff interviews Michael Brooks, the host of "The Michael Brooks Show" about his podcast and the state of the state today.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 6, 2019 U.S. Prepares Sanctions to Block Food Program for Millions of Venezuelans
The United States is preparing sanctions against a major Venezuelan government subsidized food program that distributes important food staples to over half of Venezuelans each month. The impact would be devastating. Mike Fox reports from Venezuela
SHARE Sunday, September 1, 2019 Colombia's President "Wants War," FARC Dissidents Comply
It looks like the Colombian peace agreement, which was signed two and a half years ago between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, also known as the FARC, is on the verge of collapsing.
SHARE Sunday, December 15, 2019 The Brexit Election: British Activist Tariq Ali
British activist Tariq Ali argues that Labour's strategy was deeply flawed, but turmoil will follow Boris Johnson despite the large Conservative victory.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 30, 2017 As Russian Election Begins, Will Russiagate End?
Stephen F. Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, History and Politics at New York University and Princeton University. Professor Cohen, welcome. Let's start with Navalny. What is the significance of him being barred from running in the election? The way it's being talked about here is that Putin is trying to sideline his strongest challenger.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 3, 2019 Why Do Black People Always Have to Forgive?
As Botham Jean's brother makes headlines for "forgiving" Amber Guyger, Real News hosts Jacqueline Luqman and Lisa Snowden-McCray discuss what Christian forgiveness in the face of oppression means.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 17, 2019 Worker Co-Ops, Socialism's Future
In the first half of Economic Update this week, Professor Wolff discusses how and why socialism changed from what it meant in the 19th and 20th centuries. During the second half of this week's episode.....
SHARE Saturday, August 10, 2019 The Baltimore Trash Video Fox News Doesn't Want You To See
This is a video obtained by The Real News that Fox News and their contributors don't want you to see. According to the Baltimore Department of Housing and Community Development, it shows residents from the surrounding county, caught on camera illegally dumping a boat in the city. It's just one example of a much larger problem. People coming from outside jurisdictions to unload trash and waste in defiance of the law.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 7, 2020 The US Should Stop Lying About Its History
--- when people pull down Confederate flags and pull down Confederate statues, and statues of Christopher Columbus, it is truth-seekers and truth-tellers who are basically saying, "We're done with the lies."
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 2, 2020 Anti-Racism Protesters Face Ongoing Police Violence
Protests against racism and police brutality are being violently attacked across the country, even as they receive less media attention.
SHARE Monday, October 21, 2019 Massive Anti-Austerity Protests, Curfew, Repression in Chile
A wave of anti-austerity protests swept through Chile over the weekend, with right-wing President Piñera ordering troops into the streets and imposing a curfew. Shortly after this story was filed, Piñera announced a retraction of the subway fare increase, one of the main issues that brought people into the streets.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 9, 2019 D Day: Mythology of America as Liberator Feeds Trump's Militarism
So so the narrative we all mostly learn in schools is D-Day was this heroic battle fought by tens of thousands of Canadian, British, American soldiers, and I started with Canadian because that's where I was. But was it? No doubt it was a tremendous battle, and no doubt thousands of people died. But was it the battle that broke the back of Naziism?
SHARE Saturday, September 7, 2019 US-China Trade War Causes Damage, but is Exaggerated
China announced on Monday that it filed a case at the World Trade Organization, the WTO, against the United States for its implementation of an additional 15% tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports, which took effect on September 1.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, May 31, 2019 Netanyahu Government Falls - Will New Elections Change Anything?
War has erupted in the Israeli political world. This time it's not between the right and left, or between Israelis and Palestinians, but between right-wing seculars and right-wing religious fundamentalists.
SHARE Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Trudeau Government's Climate Emergency Declaration Is 'A Joke'
On June 17, Canada's Parliament adopted a motion declaring a climate emergency. The motion was brought by Catherine McKenna, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Here is some of what she had to say in Parliament in support of her motion.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, July 19, 2019 "Iran is Not the Aggressor; The US is"
Our guest has written that we are not necessarily bumbling into a war with Iran, but that Trump and his allies in the White House may be pushing for war with Iran. We have seen escalating tensions.
SHARE Thursday, May 21, 2020 'Students Have Fallen Off The Face Of The Planet'
With schools closed due to COVID-19, teaching that was once done in a classroom has been moved online. This transition poses special challenges in districts where public policy has created wealth and opportunity gaps across racial and class lines. Nationally, approximately 4 in 10 low income, African American and Latino households lack broadband access---
SHARE Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Facebook's Libra Currency Monetizes Identity and Threatens Privacy
When Facebook announced the launch of a new currency some call it a cryptocurrency, some say it's not, but it's called Libra the reaction was swift and negative from many quarters from left to right, libertarian to socialist, from progressive and conservative experts alike.
SHARE Monday, April 9, 2018 Undoing the New Deal: Clinton Rolled Back the Deal, Obama Blew an FDR Moment
Gerald is the John Jay and Rebecca Morris Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He's the author of the Counterrevolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the united states of america. Thanks for joining us again, Gerald.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Honduras Erupts on Eve of 10th Anniversary of Coup
Honduras is in turmoil. Protests have been taking place almost constantly for the past two months against government decrees to impose austerity and cutbacks in the education sector and in healthcare.
SHARE Sunday, August 4, 2019 Canadians have a Right to Know if their Wine Was Made on Stolen Land
Canadian law requires that wine products have accurate country of origin labels. Israel is not the country in which the wines were produced, so at a very basic level, this was simply about enforcing the black letter of Canadian law.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 6, 2020 Police Brutality Protesters Met With More Brutality: Is Martial Law Next?
Police across the US have met protesters with violence, tear gas, and rubber bullets. We speak with Otto the Watchdog, injured by police in Denver, and Tawanda Jones, who has led peaceful anti-brutality protests since her brother's death in custody.
SHARE Wednesday, July 1, 2020 International Pressure Kept Canada From Joining UN Security Council
Canada has just lost its bid for a seat on the UN Security Council. The Canada self-image is one of a liberal peace-loving democracy, but it didn't stop organizations from around the world to organize petition drives, demanding that UN member states not allow Canada to have a seat.
SHARE Thursday, March 1, 2018 Undoing the New Deal: Truman's Cold War Buries Wallace and the Left (Pt 2)
In '48, the Cold War had taken deep root. So, Truman meets with Molotov on April 23rd, and he reverses Roosevelt's policy completely. He accuses Molotov and the Russians of having broken all of their agreements at Yalta, especially around Poland but also around Germany and other agreements that they had made. He brags afterwards, he says, "I gave it to him one-two to the jaw."
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 17, 2019 German Parliament Criminalizes Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement
Here to discuss all of this with me today from Heidelberg, Germany is Shir Hever. Shir is a Real News correspondent. He's also the author of the book Privatization of Israeli Security, published by Pluto Press in 2017. Shir, good to have you here.
SHARE Saturday, December 9, 2017 Palestinians Resist Israel and its US Enabler
As the Israeli crackdown on protests in the Occupied Territories turns deadly, human rights attorney Noura Erakat says that Trump's decision on Jerusalem is only the latest US attack on Palestinian self-determination
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 27, 2019 US Sanctions Leave Millions of Venezuelans Without Water
"You can't blame the Maduro government, but as for the United States, this Donald Trump is mean. He's mean and he's blocked a lot of things. We have to support each other and this U.S. blockade has to end." -- Yolimar Contreras
SHARE Friday, December 4, 2020 Obama: All Hope and No Change
Sociologist Taure Brown and editor from Hood Communist, Onyesonwu Chatoyer join us to set the record straight on Obama.
SHARE Friday, September 18, 2020 Allegations at ICE Forced Sterilizations
Washington State Rep. Pramilya Jayapal, who helped intervene in Binam's case, said in a statement that the allegations represent "the most abhorrent of human rights violations," after speaking to three attorneys who represent at least 17 women who were subjected to forced sterilization or other medical procedures at the privately run Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia.