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US Military Budget Reveals an Offensive Posture, Russia and China on Defense – Wilkerson
The massive military expansion in the US and China could lead to absolute disaster – Larry Wilkerson joins Paul Jay Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content…
HR1: A Call for Campaign Finance Reform, Ethics, and Voting Rights
Rep. John Sarbanes of Maryland joins us to explore the legislation that he’s spearheading to end the involvement of dark money in politics, allow public campaign financing, and demand major ethics and voting rights reforms,…
Beto O’Rourke: Corporate or Progressive Democrat?
O’Rourke is a member of the New Democrat Coalition, a caucus with close connections to the finance, insurance and real estate industries; Beto’s supporters call him a progressive Democrat – with Jacqueline Luqman, Norman Solomon…
The Real News Doesn’t Side with Russian or American Oligarchs
In light of the Mueller report we replay this March 5, 2017 interview with TRNN Editor-in-Chief Paul Jay, where he discusses the underlying forces driving the Russia-Gate story, corporate media’s self interest, and the use…
Bernie and the Reparations Debate
Prof. Adolph Reed and Jacqueline Luqman discuss the ways in which the issue of reparations has become a 2020 campaign issue; should Bernie support reparations? Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate….
Will Corruption Scandal Sink Netanyahu Weeks Before Election?
The upcoming election in Israel is increasingly focused on the corrupt arms deals between Israel and Germany, from which Prime Minister Netanyahu personally profited millions of dollars. TRNN’s Shir hever discusses the implications Subscribe to…
Mexico Update: 100 Days In, Progressive President Riding High in Polls
Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador’s approval rating is through the roof—Laura Carlsen reports from Mexico City on what has been achieved and what has not Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
Ecuador’s Lenin: Talks Progressive, Acts Conservative
Local elections in Ecuador over the weekend show that President Lenin Moreno has condemned his own party to irrelevance, while former President Rafael Correa’s new party makes a strong showing Subscribe to our page and…
Homicide and Baltimore’s Black Butterfly – RAI with Eddie Conway (12/12)
Murders take place in Baltimore at a rate that compares with New York, thirteen times the size; Eddie Conway says deep poverty, unemployment, and brutal policing are contributing factors to the murder epidemic – on…
Democrats’ Russophobia Hid Trump’s Real Crimes
Gerald Horne and Jeff Cohen join host Paul Jay to unpack the Democrat and corporate media obsession with Russiagate, the foreign policy implications, and how it let Trump off the hook on major policy issues…
Democrats’ Russia Obsession Let Trump Abandon Nuclear Treaties—Wilkerson and Jay
While there’s ample evidence to indict Trump for obstruction and Democrats naively trusted Mueller, more crucial issue is the missed opportunity to negotiate stronger nuclear weapons treaties—Larry Wilkerson joins Paul Jay Subscribe to our page…
“We Are Swimming in an Ocean of Lies” on Venezuela
Former UN Special Rapporteur says Michelle Bachelet needs to change her team and visit Venezuela herself, or she is going to continue to get an “unprofessional, one-sided, politicized report” on the state of the country…
Green New Deal Voted Down by Senate, but Activists Aren’t Deterred
The Senate rejected the proposal in what Democrats called a “sham vote,” but 18-year-old Jeremy Ornstein of the Sunrise Movement says that won’t stop the movement for climate action Subscribe to our page and support…
A Worldwide Web of Digital Colonialism: The Internet into the Present (Pt 1/2)
Watch full series https://therealnews.com/series/digital-colonialism-humanitys-struggle-for-digital-freedom Big Tech is reinventing colonialism in the digital era says Michael Kwet in discussing centralized control of the Internet at the root of current problems like privacy and monopoly power and…
Billions From Deutsche Bank Despite Trump’s Bankruptcies, Defaults, and Financial Malfeasance
The latest developments about Trump’s relationship to Deutsche Bank could be the unraveling with Deutsche Bank and Trump facing a serious legal probe on bank fraud by the House Financial Services Committee chaired by Rep….
Global Merchants of Death: US Increases Arms Sales by 29%
The U.S. continues to dominate the worldwide arms market, selling far more than any other country in the world, to over 100 countries. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s arms imports have tripled, according to SIPRI’s latest report…
China the Target of Pentagon’s Massive Military Budget – Horne and Jay
Acting Secretary of Defense justifies the increase in military spending with three words: China, China, China – Historian Gerald Horne joins Paul Jay Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer:…
Dumping Wallace, Blocking Bernie: How the Democrats Broke With the Working Class – Kuznick RAI
A replay of a TRNN interview from June 2016 Peter Kuznick, co-author of The Untold History of the United States, spoke to Paul Jay about the significance of the vice presidency of Henry Wallace, who…
Foxconn – Who Pays the Price for a Bad Deal?
Foxconn promised to bring 13,000 factory jobs to Wisconsin in return for huge incentives. Wisconsin has made itself ready, bulldozing farmland. But now progress has stalled and the jobs are nowhere to be seen. So…
Trump’s Secrecy Insulates U.S. Public from CIA Drone War
Trump just revoked an Obama-era reporting requirement about civilian drone strike casualties. While it lacked full transparency, it was better than the renewed secrecy that will surround the CIA’s drone war program now Subscribe to…
Undoing the New Deal: Truman’s Cold War Buries Wallace and the Left
Replay of a TRNN interview from December 2016. Historian Peter Kuznick says Truman bought into the Republican’s post-WWII campaign against Russia and used the hysteria to purge the Democratic Party and defeat former VP Henry…