The Real News Podcast

Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, including its prisons. Yet rather than evacuate incarcerated people, the state left prisoners locked up in their cells without running water or light to survive the storm on their own. Schuyler Mitchell , who recently covered this story for  The Intercept , speaks to Rattling the Bars about this manmade disaster and its consequences. Studio / Pos...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, October 28, 2024. 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...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 25, 2024. 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...

This November, California voters will have the chance to pass Proposition 6. This ballot referendum would nullify the state constitution's exception for involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime, and institute additional protections for incarcerated people. Jeronimo Aguilar of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children , and John Cannon of All of Us or None join  Rattling the Bars for a brea...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 23, 2024. 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...

Young Jewish Americans are playing an outsized role in the movement for Palestine—but not without facing consequences. In a recent article for  In These Times ,  Shane Burley  investigates the ways anti-Zionist Jews are facing persecution from community institutions they once called home. Burley joins The Marc Steiner Show for a discussion on the growing divide over Zionism in Jewish communities,...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 22, 2024. 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 pr...

Two years ago, the workers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette walked off the job on strike. The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh has been in negotiations for a contract with Post Gazette management for SEVEN years—since 2017—and have battled bad faith bargaining, illegal and unilaterally imposed changes to working conditions, and loss of vacation time and insurance benefits. In October 2022, newsroom wor...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, October 21, 2024. 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...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 18, 2024. 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...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 17, 2024. 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 p...

Over the past two weeks, people around the country have watched in horror as our neighbors and fellow workers have been battered by the successive disasters of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. “After making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on Sept. 26 and tearing through the Gulf Coast of Florida,” Adeel Hassan and Isabelle Taft write in The New York Times, “Helene plowed north through Geo...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 16, 2024. 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...

Over the past year, Israel’s US-backed genocidal assault on Gaza, which is on the verge of spiraling into a regional war, has reached unprecedented heights—so has the international movement fighting to stop it. Organizers and people of conscience have mobilized the largest Palestine solidarity marches in US history, major labor unions have called for an immediate ceasefire and an end to military a...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 15, 2024. 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 pr...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 11, 2024. 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...

War is a daily fixture of American life—the US military occupies at least 750 overseas bases, and it has executed military operations in nations around the globe over the past 20 years. But most Americans have remained unaware of this, thanks to a coordinated effort by politicians, corporate media, and the military-industrial complex to make the realities of American militarism invisible to the pu...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 10, 2024. 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 p...

Israel's genocide in Gaza has now surpassed a year, and is quickly spiraling into a regional war that now includes a ground front in Lebanon. As the world reels from the horrors witnessed in the past year alone, how are members of Israeli society justifying those horrors to themselves? In part two of this two-part episode commemorating the solemn anniversary of Oct. 7, Canada-based Israeli filmmak...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 9, 2024. 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 p...

Israel announced its decision to invade Lebanon on September 30—and so far, it does not seem to be going well. Israeli media has been largely silent on the state of ground operations, but Hezbollah has claimed a number of significant victories that suggest Israel has been unable to find its footing. Despite the assassination of General Secretary Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah and the Lebanese...

After a year of Israel's genocidal onslaught on Gaza, and after more than 75 years of Israeli occupation, Palestinians like Ashira Prem Rachana Darwish still believe in the hope of a free Palestine. In its murderous rush to flatten Gaza and embroil the Middle East in a large-scale war, "Zionism is breathing its last breath," Darwish says. In Part 1 of this two-part episode of The Marc Steiner Show...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 8, 2024. 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...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, October 7, 2024. 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...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 4, 2024. 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...