The Real News Podcast

People continue to take to the streets all across Iran, even as state forces massacre protestors and the US ramps up sanctions and threatens military intervention. While a total internet blackout remains in effect in the country, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with award-winning Iranian-Canadian journalist Samira Mohyeddin of On the Line Media about what we do and don’t know about...

Marc Steiner speaks with Geo Maher, abolitionist scholar and author of  We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution , about the untenable goals behind President Trump’s invasion of Venezuela, and what the US bid to reassert imperial dominance in the Western hemisphere reveals about its declining place on the global stage. Additional links/info: Geo Maher  Facebook  page and ...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, January 12, 2026. 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 . Become a supporter o...

Prisons have frequently been presented as a “solution” to the economic woes and employment needs of rural communities around the US—but that doesn’t mean residents of these communities want them there. In Franklin County, Arkansas, for instance, residents are banding together in opposition to the state’s plans to build a mega-prison in their area. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa M...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, January 9, 2026. 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 . Become a supporter of...

They called Ali Primera “The People’s Singer.” The Venezuelan ambassador of the Nueva Cancion, protest song, movement, which spilled across Latin America in the 1960s and ’70s, and included others like Mercedes Sosa and Victor Jara. Ali Primera sang in solidarity. He sang for rights and for justice. He sang in defense of the people, the humble and the working class. He sang in solidarity with El S...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, January 8, 2026. 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 . Become a supporter...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, January 7, 2026. 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 . Become a supporter...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, January 6, 2026. 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 . Become a supporter o...

In the early, pre-dawn hours of Saturday, Jan. 3, the US invaded and bombed the sovereign country of Venezuela, and kidnapped Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro and the First Lady of Venezuela, Cilia Flores. This is the first time the United States has used its own military to invade a South American country, and President Trump made the purpose of the invasion very clear: oil. What will happen...

In the early hours of Saturday morning, January 3rd, Venezuelans were awoken by the sounds of bombs falling. US helicopters whirled overhead. Explosions struck across the capital Caracas and in surrounding states. Hours of chaos, fear, and uncertainty. President Donald Trump would post over social media that the US had “captured” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores amid a...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, January 6, 2026. 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 . Become a supporter of...

On January 1, 1994, Indigenous peoples from Chiapas, Mexico, rose up. They took control of city halls in towns across the state. They took the state capital San Cristobal de las Casas. And they held them for days, despite a violent response from Mexico’s military. This was not just any movement confined to the mountainous jungles of Mexico. It was an Indigenous uprising against injustice. An upris...

On September 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office that the U.S. Navy had carried out an air strike on a boat in international waters. That boat strike rewrote U.S. policy for Latin America overnight. Three months later, 26 boats have been hit, killing more than 90 people. The United States has codified its justification for the boat strikes as part of a new National Secur...

It's late 1914. December cold in the trenches of the Western Front of World War I. Rations are in short supply. Men shiver… dreaming of home. Wishing they were far away. For months, here in the trenches, the sounds of the machine gun fire have peppered every waking moment. The whining of the bullets. The hissing and the cracking. But this morning — Christmas morning — the guns stop. It’s not plann...

On Dec. 20, each year, people march in Panama City. They march to remember the fallen. They march to continue to demand justice for the violence, the destruction, and for those who were killed in the last US invasion in Latin America—the 1989 invasion of Panama.  BIG NEWS! This podcast has won Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast! It’s a huge honor. Thank you so much to every...

For incarcerated people and their families, the holidays are the most painful time of year. In this episode of  Rattling the Bars , host Mansa Musa and TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speak frankly about what it’s like to be locked up during the holidays, why inmate suicides, violence, and depression spike this time of year, and about the life-saving and society-improving steps we can tak...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 19, 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 . Become a supporter...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, December 18, 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 . Become a supporte...

On Monday, Nov. 24, after more than 1,100 days on strike, Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members were cheered on by supporters at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh before returning to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Even though strikers have returned to work, however, many issues at the center of the strike are still in legal limbo—and their fight for a fair contract is not over. In this episode...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, December 18, 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 . Become a support...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, December 16, 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 . Become a supporter...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, December 15, 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 . Become a supporter...

From direct attacks on the press from a fascistic federal government to the explosion of AI and the closure and consolidation of news outlets around the country, truth itself is under direct, relentless assault, as are the journalists who have committed their lives to reporting the truth about what’s happening in and to our world. And the intended result of these attacks is to create a more atomiz...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 12, 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 . Become a supporter...