The Real News Podcast

Independent journalists say they are under threat in El Salvador. At least 15 journalists have fled the country in recent weeks. Roughly a dozen more are in hiding out of fear for their safety. “There's an atmosphere of fear, of anxiety. Of insecurity,” says Oscar Orellana, the head of the community media association ARPAS. But many continue to report. They continue to denounce the unjust detentio...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, June 11, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue pro...

Move over, Jon Stewart. The Real News is here… We’re happy to announce that this episode of The Marc Steiner Show has been nominated for a prestigious Signal Award.  Help us win by voting before October 9th  and show that our scrappy team of former prisoners, organizers, and low-wage workers can go toe-to-toe with the best and biggest media organizations out there. Doctors Sarah Lalonde, Rizwan Mi...

During its reign as the dominant global superpower, the US imposed its will and wreaked imperialist havoc around the world. But as the power of US empire declines and the global order is restructured, hypernationalism and violent competition between imperial and regional powers are surging around the world, like they did before the great world wars. Can an internationalist, working-class movement...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 10, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue produ...

Protesters have taken to the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco. They’re protesting the detention and arrest of thousands of immigrants by Donald Trump’s immigration officials.  Protests have carried on for days. They’ve shut down highways. They've shouted, “No.” Trump has responded, calling in the national guard, despite objections from local state officials. It’s the first time a president...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 9, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue produci...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, his spoke novels. He was Steinbeck, Tolstoy, and Tolkien, all in one. His images capture the spirit of the poor and working classes. And they grip the viewer. Refusing to let your eyes peal from the picture before you. Pictures in black and white. Pictures that seem to have been painted by brush strokes, but which are as real as the camera equipment he used....

Already burdened by years of funding cuts and understaffing, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration (VA) facilities across the country are facing a crisis as the impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce take effect. In this episode of  Working People , Maximillian Alvarez speaks with VA nurses and union representatives for National Nurses United abou...

There is a boat sailing to Gaza right now. It carries aid for the people of Palestine. And it is called the Freedom Flotilla. It is a sign of solidarity. A sign of international resistance against Israel's war on the people of Palestine. Against the death, and destruction, and pain. Against the genocide. The goal is to break Israel's siege of Gaza. And deliver much needed humanitarian aid. The Fre...

Caving to pressure from Zionist groups, Toronto's City Council just passed a controversial new bylaw that will severely limit Canadians’ right to peacefully protest. In this episode of  The Marc Steiner Show , Marc speaks with Toronto-based, award-winning journalist Samira Mohyeddin about the origins and effects of Toronto’s “bubble zone” bylaw and how it will provide a template for other jurisdic...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 3, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue produc...

The Chinchorro mummies are considered the oldest mummies in the world. Thousands of years older than the Egyptian mummies. And these were not pharaohs. They were everyday folks looking to hold on to what was most dear to them: The people they loved. An embrace from the past that would last for thousands upon thousands of years. That would last until today. And, hopefully, far into the future. This...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 2, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue produci...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 30, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue produci...

Chile’s Club Deportivo Palestino is a soccer team founded more than a century ago by Palestinian immigrants in Santiago, Chile. Chile is home to the largest Palestinian community outside of the Middle East: half a million people. The team wears the country’s colors: white, green and red. In the stands, fans wear them too, as well as keffiyehs, the black-and-white scarves that represent Palestinian...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 29, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue produ...

Parán is a small Indigenous community in the hills of Huaura, in central Peru. They are peach farmers. Their orchards line the mountainside. The same mountain where a new Canadian mine, known as Invicta, was beginning to operate. They feared for their future and that the mine would contaminate their precious springs, their only source of fresh water for their town and their peach trees. In 2018, t...

In the latest episode of Working People , we go back to the picket line to get a critical update on the longest ongoing strike in the United States. In October 2022, over 100 workers represented by five labor unions—including production, distribution, advertising, and accounts receivable staff—walked off the job on an unfair labor practice strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PPG). The strike be...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 28, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue prod...

For nearly 20 years, the women of Calama traveled into the desert each day to search for their loved ones — their husbands and partners who were ripped from them, detained, tortured, executed, and disappeared in the weeks following Chile’s US-backed 1973 coup d’état. Monday through Sunday, sun-up to sundown, they scoured the harsh desert earth with strainers and rakes, searching and hoping. And fi...

For the last two years, the civil war in Sudan, the largest contemporary war in Africa, has ripped the country apart. As Beverly Ochieng, Wedaeli Chibelushi, and Natasha Booty  report at the BBC , “The war, which continues to this day, has claimed more than 150,000 lives. And in what the United Nations has called the world's largest humanitarian crisis, about 12 million people have been forced to...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, May 27, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue produc...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, May 26, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue produci...

On May 22. 2006, teachers struck across the Mexican state of Oaxaca against dismal resources for schools, kids, and themselves. They were met with widespread repression. It would kick off months of protests that would unexpectedly turn Oaxaca into ground zero for one of the most radical movements Mexico has seen in the 21st century. They started holding people’s assemblies. They set up barricades...