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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…

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,…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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) **

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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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…

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…

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…

A corruption scandal in Haiti has ignited a massive protest and thrown the Haitian government into crisis. At issue is the misuse of nearly $2 billion from PetroCaribe, a Venezuela-sponsored program that was supposed to…

Paul Jay says the Saudi dictatorship only exists to enable US domination of the Middle East, and has been committing war crimes for decades with American approval – From a live recording on October 16th,…

Students and professors rallied across Brazil, following police raids at more than two dozen public universities, attempting to stop “partisan” activity on campus. Mike Fox reports Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our…

The murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul gave Turkey’s president Erdogan a unique opportunity to present himself as a truth-seeker and to manipulate information about the case in his favor and against Saudi…

North and South Korea have made important new steps in their ongoing peace process. But U.S. “discontent” over military de-escalation, along with Trump’s planned withdrawal from the INF treaty, show that Washington neocons are still…