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Chelsea Manning Back in Prison After Refusing to Testify
Freed eight days ago, Manning was subpoenaed before a new grand jury investigating Assange. Despite grave danger to her health, she refused to testify, saying she would rather die in prison than change her principles…
Trump Admin Breaks and Enters Venezuela’s Embassy, Arrests Activists
After more than a month of living in the Venezuelan embassy, DC police and secret service broke open the doors to arrest for activists who had been staying in the embassy to protect it against…
How Bridging the Racial Wealth Divide Will Help All Americans
The racial wealth gap has grown in the last three decades—Dedrick Muhammad puts solutions on the table that help all Americans Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video…
What Would US Socialism Look Like? with Bhaskar Sunkara (2/2)
Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of Jacobin and author of The Socialist Manifesto, explains what socialism could actually look like in the United States Watch full series https://therealnews.com/series/why-socialism Subscribe to our page and support our work at…
Health Insurance Abuses Continue in Spite of ACA – RAI with Wendell Potter (5/7)
We revisit Wendell Potter’s whistleblowing testimony that exposed how the insurance industry is more interested in pleasing Wall Street than in people’s care, and asked him if these abuses continued after the passing of the…
Apartment Tenants in Baltimore Link Up to Fix Deteriorating Living Conditions
Activists from the Bolton House Tenant Coalition urge Baltimore mayor Jack Young and city councilman Eric Costello to alleviate the deteriorating conditions at the Bolton House apartment complex Subscribe to our page and support our…
Brazilian Students Stage New Mass Protests Against Bolsonaro’s Education Reform
As President Jair Bolsonaro’s approval ratings plummet, students make a massive show of force, opposing his plans to drastically cut education budgets. Mike Fox reports from Brazil Subscribe to our page and support our work…
Texas Pipeline Bill Criminalizes Water Protectors
Since the 2016 protests at Standing Rock, ND, the fossil fuel industry has been pressuring state legislatures to pass laws criminalizing protests against pipeline construction. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate….
Last Slave Ship Found on Alabama Coast Validates Descendants’ Stories
The slave trade was abolished in 1808, but this ship, the Clotilda, sailed in 1860 and was sunk by its owner once he won his bet and sold his human cargo. Historian Sylviane Diouf discusses…
Rising Seas Could Generate 187 Million Climate Refugees by 2100
Dr. Roger Cooke explains that, according to a new study, sea levels could rise by over 2 meters by the end of the century Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
Netanyahu Government Falls – Will New Elections Change Anything?
Lia Tarachansky unpacks the power struggle between former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and his former ally Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and the split between right-wing secularists and ultra-Orthodox Jews Subscribe to our page and support…
A Dead Republican Strategist’s Work Could Destroy Voting Rights in America
A Common Cause court case opposing Republican gerrymandering in North Carolina revealed that Trump officials lied about the 2020 census citizenship question in order to maintain “White” and “Republican Power” Subscribe to our page and…
Facial Recognition Technology Ban for Police Is Important, but Not Enough
San Francisco, the ‘Silicon Valley’ city where facial recognition technology has been developed, is one of the first cities to recognize the risk to city residents of false recognition and over-reliance on technology Subscribe to…
Opposition Demand for Maduro’s Resignation a Non-Starter, Says Norwegian Source
An unnamed Norwegian source with inside knowledge of the talks between the Venezuelan opposition and government in Oslo said the opposition “needs to be more realistic.” We discuss the talks with Norwegian Venezuela specialist Eirik…
Col. Larry Wilkerson on Mueller and Courage to Impeach Trump
Chuck Schumer to Nancy Pelosi, democrats are cowardly, incompetent and without courage to begin impeachment proceedings says Col. Larry Wilkerson Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content…
Mueller’s Statement: Why is it Unconstitutional to Indict a Sitting President?
Mueller says a legal analysis of a DOJ Policy prevented him from charging the president. Professor Doug Colbert says one objective for Mueller was to put some distance between himself and Attorney General Barr’s representation…
Marijuana Activist Faces 10 Years in Prison for Using Facebook Live
A 20-year-old student activist was charged with felony wiretapping for using Facebook Live while in the office of Rep. Andy Harris, known for pushing back against the legalization of marijuana in DC Subscribe to our…
The New Authoritarians
David Renton discusses his new book The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right. Although the new wave of right-wing politicians is not fascist, it is dangerous and must be studied closely in order for the…
Tyrone West Would Have Been 50
The sister of Tyrone West, Tawanda Jones, has been protesting for 303 weeks since 2013 to get justice for her brother who was killed by University and city police in Baltimore Subscribe to our page…
Sen. Graham’s Call for Military Intervention in Venezuela: A Scare Tactic?
Sen. Lindsey Graham issued one of the most explicit threats of military intervention against Venezuela yet. But does he mean it and does he truly believe Venezuela is a threat to the United States or…
Six Children Have Died While in ICE Custody – Why?
Undocumented immigrants seeking asylum are being separated from their children and detained in prison camps as more restrictive racist policies are being imposed by Trump. We discuss the policy with ACLU attorney Astrid Dominguez Subscribe…
Theresa May’s Resignation Could Mean a Hard Brexit
The chaos in Britain’s politics has only intensified in the wake of Theresa May’s resignation and the tremendous losses that Conservatives suffered in the European Parliament election. Prof. Leo Panitch analyzes the result Subscribe to…
US Has No Moral Authority to Deem Muslim Brotherhood ‘Terrorist’
As’ad Abukhalil shares his perspective on the Trump administration’s stated intent to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, pointing out that the U.S. has killed countless civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq in recent years…
Waiting for Guaido (Pt 2/7)
Why did Edgardo Lander and the Citizens Platform for the Defense of the Constitution meet with Juan Guaidó? The potential for violence, military intervention, and even civil war, made it important to find ways to…
