The Real News Podcast

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us conti...

For decades, prisoners' rights advocates have called on the State of Maryland to address its flagrant discrimination against prisoners housed in the state's sole women's prison. As The Real News has previously reported, conditions in the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women are akin to "torture," and the lack of resources and services dedicated to incarcerated women amounts to state-sanctione...

"Vina Colley was Erin Brockovich before Erin Brockovich," Kevin Williams wrote in a 2020 Belt Magazine article titled, "The Poisonous Legacy of Portsmouth’s Gaseous Diffusion Plant." Williams continues, "Colley has become an unlikely citizen-scientist, spending a lifetime researching and documenting PORTS and its sins... Colley was hired as an electrician at the facility in 1980 and worked there f...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 24, 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us cont...

In 1912, the United States invaded Nicaragua and began what would become the longest US occupation in Latin American history. The occupation would birth both a dictatorship and one of Latin America’s most important revolutionary heroes: Augusto Sandino. Sandino would wage a six-year-long guerrilla insurgency to rid Nicaragua of the US Marines. And he would win. The United States finally pulled out...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us contin...

Gene Bruskin was born to a Jewish working-class family in South Philadelphia and has been a life-long social justice activist, union organizer, poet, and playwright. Since retiring from the labor movement, Gene wrote his first play in 2016, a musical comedy for and about work and workers called Pray For the Dead: A Musical Tale of Morgues, Moguls and Mutiny. In this mini-cast we talk to Bruskin ab...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continu...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 19, 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continu...

On March 23, 2024, a coalition of around 80 people convened at the East Palestine Country Club at the first gathering called by the newly formed Justice for East Palestine Residents & Workers Coalition. Those in attendance included: East Palestine residents; railroad workers; residents of other “sacrifice zones" in Ohio, Maryland, California, and West Virginia; concerned citizens living near o...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us conti...

Protests against shortages of food and fuel in Cuba's eastern provinces on March 18 brought the corporate media spotlight back to the island, which is currently experiencing a major economic crisis. True to form, much US reporting on the protests attempted to construct a familiar narrative of Cuba as a failed state on the brink of collapse, with no mention of the 62-year US blockade. This is parti...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us cont...

Ecuador has been thrust into the international spotlight following a flagrantly illegal raid on the Mexican embassy on April 5. President Daniel Noboa ordered the raid to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought asylum on the embassy grounds since Dec. 2023. Mexico has responded by severing diplomatic ties with Ecuador and filing a complaint with the ICJ, specifically requesting tha...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us contin...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continu...

William Walker was a journalist, lawyer and physician from Nashville, Tennessee, who in 1855 invaded Nicaragua with a few dozen troops and conquered the country. At the time, he was one of thousands of private U.S. citizens who had their sights set on taking over foreign nations, all in the name of Manifest Destiny. In this episode, host Michael Fox follows in the footsteps of William Walker as he...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 12, 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continu...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us conti...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us cont...

Six months into the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, there is little use denying that what is taking place before our eyes is an intended land grab. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have called for Gaza to be "resettled" and for the Palestinian population to be expelled. And in the US, the likes of Ben Gvir and Smotrich have their allies and acco...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continu...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 5, 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 around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue...

Editor's note: This podcast was recorded on March 19, 2024. Each day brings fresh horrors from the ground in Gaza as Israel's brutal genocide continues with the full backing of the US. Yet Israel is not operating with complete impunity. From the Houthis' humanitarian blockade of the Red Sea to Hezbollah's missile strikes against Israel itself, the unofficial alliance of states and armed organizati...