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Trump’s Criminal Justice Reform Act Is a Meaningless Smoke Screen (Pt 3/3)
Congress’s Criminal Justice Reform Act boosts privatization, fails to dismantle mass incarceration, nor does it implement sentencing reform. We speak to Eddie Conway and Natasha Pratt Harris about the proposed reform Visit https://therealnews.com for more…
West Bank Uprising: Israel’s Divide and Conquer Strategy Falls Apart
Shir Hever explains that the Israeli government’s deal with the Hamas party undermined the incentive for Palestinian security coordination, as the Israeli military is dragged in to implement colonial policing. As a result, Hamas has…
Project Censored: All the News the Establishment Media Saw Fit not to Print (Pt 1/2)
Since 1976 Project Censored has been bringing us all the news the corporate media don’t want us to hear Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer:…
Project Censored: All the News the Establishment Media Saw Fit not to Print (Pt 2/2)
Since 1976 Project Censored has been bringing us all the news the corporate media don’t want us to hear Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer:…
After COP24, Trudeau Government Promises More Goodies For Big Oil
Tina Oh of the Canadian Youth Delegation says COP24 failed to respect the rights of her own and subsequent generations Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
Senators Sneak Amendment to Make Israel Boycott Illegal
While Senators Cardin and Portman are trying to sneak a last-minute amendment into the budget bill to make BDS illegal – violating free speech – 26 states are also moving to make boycotts of Israel…
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The IMF is at it Again in Argentina’s Economic Crisis
Now that Argentina received the International Monetary Fund’s largest loan ever, of $56 billion, it is recommending more austerity, which, as the data so far shows, will only prolong the country’s economic crisis, says CEPR’s…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Roots of Venezuela’s Economic Crisis
As US sanctions against Venezuela take an ever-greater toll on the country and its people, it is important to understand how the sanctions work and the extent of the damage they have caused, say Steve…
What Donald Trump, Chuck Schumer, and Tony Soprano Have in Common – Comment on Trumps Speech
Gerald Horne and Paul Jay discuss Donald Trump’s address to the nation on the wall and border security Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This…