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- Police try to suffocate man with pepper spray #policeaccountabilityreport
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- 2 months ago
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- Often in cases of police accountability, the victim is highlighted if they have a particularly flawless past and respect for the constitutional rights of that victim seems to dwindle if the person is known to have a criminal record. In a surprising turn of events, Baltimore's City States Attorney Ivan Bates announced indictments against five police officers for offenses including assault, reckless endangerment, excessive force, theft, traffic violations, and misconduct in office. The indictments follow thorough investigations, with all officers charged with misdemeanors and summoned to court in March.
In the first case, three officers, Cpl. Zachary James Small and Officers Jacob Roos and Justin Graham-Moore from the Baltimore County Police Department were indicted. Cpl. Small faces charges of assault, reckless endangerment, excessive force, and misconduct for an incident involving a suspect escaping custody. Although the escaped suspect was in handcuffs and leg cuffs in the back ...
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- America is bringing back barbaric executions
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- 2 months ago
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- Lawmakers around the US are trying to take this country back in time when it comes to capital punishment.
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- 'Second look' legislation can free longtime prisoners | Rattling the Bars
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- 2 months ago
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- The system of mass incarceration in the US offers few second chances to prisoners, and Maryland is no exception. As The Real News has previously reported, the state's parole system puts incarcerated people at the mercy of an inefficient, capricious process that is unlikely to deliver a speedy release for many. Now, a new bill in the Maryland legislature could create new pathways to freedom for prisoners who've served 20 years or more behind bars. Alonzo Turner Bey and Desmond Haneef Perry of the MD Second Look Coalition join Rattling the Bars to discuss the Second Look Act (SB123).
Studio / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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Website: mdsecondlook.com
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- Vince McMahon history of misogyny examined | Edge of Sports
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- 2 months ago
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- Janel Grant, a former WWE employee, has come forward with allegations of rape and sex trafficking against Vince McMahon, a co-founder of WWE and close friend of Donald Trump. McMahon has since resigned from his position as TKO Chairperson. The allegations have rocked the world of professional wrestling, but a look at McMahon's long career indicates these latest revelations fit a pattern of openly misogynistic conduct stretching back decades. Abraham Josephine Riesman, author of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, joins Edge of Sports for a discussion on the allegations against McMahon and its implications for the sport.
Studio Production: Cameron Granadino
Post-Production: Taylor Hebden
Audio Post-Production: David Hebden
Opening Sequence: Cameron Granadino
Music by: Eze Jackson & Carlos Guillen
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- How private equity conquered America | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 2 months ago
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- Private equity firms are buying up the US economy and stripping it for parts. From healthcare to education, utilities, and more, massive firms like Blackstone and the Carlyle Group have acquired vast holdings across critical industries essential to the health and well-being of everyday people. Instead of seeking to make these ventures more profitable, private equity firms are more likely to orchestrate to bleed their assets for short-term gains—even if those assets are univerisites, hospitals, or nursing homes. Gretchen Morgenson, author of These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America, returns to The Chris Hedges Report to discuss how private equity came to hold America hostage. This is the second part of an earlier interview, you can watch the first part here: https://therealnews.com/the-collapse-of-us-media-is-accelerating-our-political-crisis
Studio Production: Cameron Granadino, Adam Coley
Post-Production: Adam Coley
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- Nex Benedict and America's war on trans children
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- 2 months ago
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- Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old nonbinary teen from Oklahoma, is the latest victim of America's war on trans youth. On Feb. 7, school bullies beat Nex and another trans friend in the bathroom of Owasso High School. Rather than calling an ambulance or the police, school administrators sent Nex home with a two-week suspension for getting into a fight. The next day, Nex collapsed and died from an injury to their head. In this edition of "Choice Words", Dave Zirin takes aim at those who contributed to the trans panic surrounding public schools and youth sports leading up to Nex's death, including Oklahoma public schools superintendent Ryan Walters, and Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok.
Studio Production: David Hebden
Post-Production: Taylor Hebden
Audio Post-Production: David Hebden
Opening Sequence: Cameron Granadino
Music by: Eze Jackson & Carlos Guillen
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- Officer dies after illegal arrest, his victim was charged with murder
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- 2 months ago
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- Sergeant Michael Kunovich self-initiated a call for a suspicious hispanic male. The young man was 18 yro Virgilio Aguilar Méndez a Guatemalan farm worker in St. Augustine, FL. Méndez is an indigenous Guatemalan who speaks a language called Mam and speaks some Spanish and no English. Kunovich called for backup but not a translator as he asked Mendez where he was going, and what he was doing. Méndez attempted to answer his questions and despite his obvious confusion, Kunovich chose to aggressively search Méndez, take him to the ground using force including a choke hold, and tasered him roughly 6 times in 2 minutes. In the full body camera video, Méndez can be heard screaming in pain saying over and over again that he's sorry. A few minutes after Méndez was placed in the back of the patrol car Sergeant Kunovich collapsed and was taken to a hospital where he later died. Although this was ruled death by natural causes by the state medical examiners the St. John’s County Sheriff’s ...
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- Max Alvarez welcomes you to The Real News family
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- 2 months ago
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- Historic student protests for Palestine at UC Davis and Stanford
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- 2 months ago
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- Colleges and universities across the US have turned into battlegrounds for the Palestinian solidarity movement, as students mobilize against their schools' financial entanglements with the Israeli occupation. At UC Davis and Stanford, student-led struggles have made historic achievements. UC Davis activists recently passed a bill in student government to boycott and divest from all “corporations complicit in human rights violations against Palestinians." At Stanford, students protesting their university's complicity in the genocide in Gaza just ended the longest sit-in in the school's history, camping out for over 120 days. The Real News speaks with student organizers on their recent achievements on their respective campuses, and how to keep the student movement in solidarity with Palestine going.
Panelists include: Batool, a Palestinian fourth-year political science student at UC Davis and vice president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), UC Davis chapter; Mal...
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- Irish athlete activist on organizing a sports boycott of Israel
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- 2 months ago
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- Rebecca O'Keeffe helped spark an international firestorm within the world of sports when she called on the Irish women’s basketball team to boycott its Feb. 8 match against Israel. While O'Keeffe's calls for a boycott ultimately went unheeded, her actions have provoked serious debate within Ireland and internationally on the responsibility of athletes to stand up against genocide. O'Keeffe joins Edge of Sports host Dave Zirin for an exclusive interview on why she took a stand, how the sports world responded, and why she refuses to back down.
Studio Production: David Hebden
Post-Production: Taylor Hebden
Audio Post-Production: David Hebden
Opening Sequence: Cameron Granadino
Music by: Eze Jackson & Carlos Guillen
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- 'Shut it down!': John Hopkins grad workers prepared to strike one year after union election victory
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- 2 months ago
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- One year ago, graduate student-workers at Johns Hopkins University overwhelmingly voted to unionize under the banner of Teachers and Researchers United (TRU-UE), which is affiliated with United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers. While workers had much to celebrate with their historic union election victory, bargaining a first contract with the university administration has been another story. On February 20, fed up with what workers say have been disrespectful and insufficient offers from the university administration, TRU-UE members held practice pickets on campus to show the administration what's in store if more progress is not made at the bargaining table soon. In this on-the-ground episode, we take you straight to the picket line to hear from worker-organizers about what they're fighting for and what they're asking supporters to do to help.
Speakers include: Janvi Madhani, TRU Bargaining Committee member pursuing a PhD in Physics and Astronomy; Lyla Atta, TRU org...
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- ER doctor describes what he's seen in Gaza | The Marc Steiner Show
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- 2 months ago
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- The death toll in Gaza is now inching closer and closer to 30,000, with no end in sight to Israel's bombing or US political, military, and financial support for the genocide unfolding. Amid the carnage and horror of the past 144 days, Gaza's medical workers have worked around the clock under unimaginable conditions to save as many lives as possible. Israel has answered their bravery with brute savagery, laying waste to every single one of Gaza's hospitals, routinely targeting emergency medical vehicles, and killing at least 627 healthcare workers. Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian American ER physician, speaks with The Real News on what he witnessed at Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis during his recent medical mission to the Gaza Strip.
Studio / Post-Production: David Hebden
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- Honduras, 2009. La Resistencia | Under the Shadow, Ep. 7, Pt. 1
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- 2 months ago
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- In June 2009, Honduras faced a devastating coup that shattered the country’s fragile democracy and sunk the country into violence, repression, and a decade-long narco-dictatorship.
But the people fought back.
In this episode, host Michael Fox dives into the tremendous resistance to the 2009 coup. He also looks at the government of Manuel Zelaya, the Latin America Pink Tide movement of the 2000s and the push back from Honduran elites and the United States.
This is Part 1 of a two-part episode looking at the 2009 coup in Honduras and the aftermath.
Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a mo...
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- Prisoners sue Alabama state government for 'modern-day slavery' | Rattling the Bars
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- 2 months ago
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- A group of current and former prisoners have sued the state of Alabama with the support of two unions who have signed on as co-plaintiffs, the Union of Southern Service Workers, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The lawsuit claims that Alabama's system of prison labor amounts to a "modern-day form of slavery" that generates massive profits for private businesses and revenues for the state by forcing incarcerated people to work for little or no pay. Jacob Morrison and Adam Keller join Rattling the Bars to discuss the lawsuit and the importance of the fight for prisoners' rights to the overall labor movement.
Jacob Morrison is a member of the American Federation of Government Employees, and the president of the North Alabama Labor Council. Adam Keller is a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees Local 900. Together, they host The Valley Labor Report, Alabama’s only union radio talk show.
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- Rabbi speaks on why he contests Zionism | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 2 months ago
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- Liberal Zionism, the notion that Israel's existence can be compatible with liberal values, has run its course. As Israel's genocide in Gaza continues despite the outcry of the world and the International Court of Justice, it is clear that any hopes of earlier generations to build a humanistic society in Israel have failed.
Israel has long legitimized itself by purporting to be necessary for the protection of Jewish people from antisemitism. But Judaism and Jewish identity are far older than Zionism, and far more diverse than Zionism's narrow claims to monopolize the meaning of faith and ancestry. Rabbi Shaul Magid joins The Chris Hedges Report for a discussion on how religious fanaticism has come to dominate Israeli politics, and how a Jewish identity that rejects Zionism can be constructed from the rich and profound history of the Jewish faith and people.
Studio Production: Cameron Granadino
Post-Production: Adam Coley
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- Julian Assange's persecution will have tremendous consequences. #chrishedges
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- 2 months ago
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- Julian Assange’s fight for freedom has reached a crucial turning point as the London High Court reviews his request to appeal extradition to the US, where Assange faces numerous charges under the Espionage Act.
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- Fighting the housing crisis with tenant power
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- 2 months ago
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- Some 34% of available housing stock in the US is rented by tenants, who number over 114 million people. Among tenants, more than 40% pay over 35% of their monthly income towards rent alone. As wages stagnate and rents rise, the fight against landlords, evictions, and developers becomes more urgent to the class struggle day by day. The Real News speaks with Esteban Girón from the Crown Heights Tenants Union on the housing crisis roiling America and how tenants can fight back.
Studio / Post-Production: David Hebden
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- What is it like to work at a worker-owned co-op?
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- 2 months ago
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- Baltimore has become what many consider to be ground zero in the emerging “solidarity economy” and the formation of worker-owned, cooperatively run businesses. There’s something important going on here, and there’s a lot that we can all learn from our fellow workers who are in the cooperative space—people who are living, breathing proof that there’s another way to run a business, that there's another way to run our economy, and that there are other ways we can treat work and workers. At a recent event hosted by the Baltimore Museum of Industry titled "Work Matters: Building a Worker-Owned Co-op," Max moderated a panel including workers and representatives from Common Ground Bakery Café, Taharka Bros Ice Cream, A Few Cool Hardware Stores, and the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy (BRED). He talked to them about how they came to work at these different co-ops, how their businesses transitioned to more cooperative models, and they dig into the nitty gritty of what w...
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- Stella Assange: "The world is watching" Assange extradition hearing
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- 2 months ago
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- Stella Assange speaks outside the courthouse following the extradition hearing of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (London, February 21, 2024).
"The world is watching. Everything turns on the outcome of this case. Whether states can criminalize journalism and put journalists in prison like they've been doing in the UK with an Australian citizen; a publisher who's won many, many awards for his journalism and they've stuck him in the deepest, darkest hole of the UK prison system. And the US threatens to put him in the deepest, darkest hole of the US prison system for 175 years. Shame.
Julian's imprisonment is a result of people with too much power, who lost the plot, who got power thirsty and are guilty. They know they're guilty, and they want to continue to live their lives without any consequences for the crimes they've committed. This case is about whether state crimes can continue unpunished, unscrutinized. Julian's freedom is the only antidote.
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- Julian Assange vs the empire. #chrishedges
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- 2 months ago
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- Julian Assange has done more to expose the inner workings of power, especially of empire than any other journalist. He exposed the lies, the fraud, the war crimes, the corruption of the imperial state, and empires never forgive those who wound them.
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- Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting and the racist history of gun violence
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- 2 months ago
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- The Kansas City Chiefs' victory parade last week turned from a scene of celebration to horror after a mass shooting killed one person and injured 22 others, including 11 children. While Democrats have rightfully taken aim at Missouri's loose gun laws, there's more to America's gun violence epidemic than laws alone. From westward expansion to the US-Israeli bombardment of Gaza today, American gun culture is a product of settler colonialism and genocide. Edge of Sports host Dave Zirin explains in this edition of 'Choice Words'.
Studio Production: Cameron Granadino
Post-Production: Taylor Hebden
Audio Post-Production: David Hebden
Opening Sequence: Cameron Granadino
Music by: Eze Jackson & Carlos Guillen
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- Assange's final appeal: On the ground in London from extradition hearing
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- 2 months ago
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- After a years-long battle, Julian Assange's legal team returned to London's High Court on Tuesday, Feb. 20, to request permission to appeal the founder of WikiLeaks' extradition order to the US, where he faces 18 charges under the Espionage Act despite not being a US citizen. Assange has faced extensive persecution by the US government and its allies for WikiLeaks' role in exposing the extent of US war crimes and espionage around the world. The Real News Network reports from London, UK.
Produced by Ross Domoney and Nadia Peridot
Videography and editing by Ross Domoney
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- Gov. Abbott's border stunts have a real human cost | The Marc Steiner Show
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- 2 months ago
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- Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, has spearheaded a manufactured political crisis over the state of the US-Mexico border for years. Not content to send hundreds of non-consenting migrants to Democrat-run cities by the busload, Abbott's latest stunts have now brought him into confrontation with the federal government over the border. Jim Hightower and David Griscom return to The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the impact of Abbott's standoff on border communities and migrants.
Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the book, "Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow". He publishes the monthly "Hightower Lowdown." David Griscom is a writer and Texan based in Austin and the cohost of the podcast Left Reckoning.
Studio / Post-Production: David Hebden
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- Why coming home from prison is so difficult for so many | Rattling the Bars
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- 2 months ago
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- The US has one of the highest prisoner recidivism rates in the world: over 70% of incarcerated people who are released from prison in the US will be rearrested within five years of their release date. That is not an accident. Our system of mass incarceration sets people up to fail as they leave the prison system and try to reintegrate into society. That is why organizations like Hope for Prisoners in Nevada are working to provide returning citizens with the resources and support they need to rebuild their lives and maintain their freedom. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with Jon Ponder, founder and CEO of Hope for Prisoners, about why returning from prison is so difficult for so many, and what it takes to “empower the formerly incarcerated and their families to create a successful future.”
Hope for Prisoners website: https://hopeforprisoners.org/
Studio / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- Memoir of an anti-fascist w/Josh Fernandez
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- 2 months ago
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- As a community college professor, Josh Fernandez started an anti-fascist club to organize alongside his students. The school administration responded by investigating him for “soliciting students for potentially dangerous activities.” Fernandez’s autobiography, The Hands That Crafted the Bomb, follows him through a year spent defending his job and reflecting on his political development from an angry young man in Davis, California, to a seasoned anti-fascist and writing professor. Fernandez speaks with The Real News about his life and recent book.
Post-Production: David Hebden
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- Ultimate Frisbee in Palestine | Edge of Sports
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- 2 months ago
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- Most ultimate frisbee players don’t have to consider how an Israeli checkpoint might disrupt their plans for a game—but this is the reality of life in Palestine. The story of the small but vibrant subculture of Palestinian ultimate frisbee enthusiasts offers a glimpse into life under Israeli occupation that is too often unseen by the outside world. Edge of Sports host Dave Zirin speaks with Daniel Bannoura, founder of Ultimate Palestine.
Studio Production: Cameron Granadino
Post-Production: Taylor Hebden
Audio Post-Production: David Hebden
Opening Sequence: Cameron Granadino
Music by: Eze Jackson & Carlos Guillen
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- Journalism is dying—will democracy go with it? | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 2 months ago
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- Yet another wave of media layoffs is putting hundreds of journalists out of work across some of the largest major news outlets in the US, including CNN, the LA Times, Vox, Business Insider, CNBC, Garnett, and others. In an already-grim media landscape that's been decimated by decades of tanking revenues, this latest round of cuts raises serious questions about how the loss of so much journalism will impact our society. Newspapers closed at a rate of 2.5 per week in 2023, up from 2 per week in 2022. 3,000 of the US's 9,000 newspapers have permanently closed, and since 2005, two thirds of all journalists have lost their jobs. Pulitzer-winning reporter Gretchen Morgenson joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the crisis in media.
Gretchen Morgenson is the senior financial reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit, and author of 'These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America'
Studio Production: Adam Coley, Cameron Granadino
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- U.S.S. Honduras | Under the Shadow, Ep. 6
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- 2 months ago
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- In the 1980s, Honduras was ground zero for US operations in Central America—it was the primary point from which the US would wage its proxy wars and launch its interventionist operations across the region in the name of “fighting communism.” The 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala, which we explored in Episode 2 of Under the Shadow, was staged from Honduras. It was the main base of operations where US forces trained, funded, and backed Contras in their war against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. And today, Honduras is home to the Soto Cano Air Base, previously known as Palmerola, the largest US military base in Central America. One of the largest in Latin America.
Within Honduran society itself, that meant squashing any revolutionary activity that could destabilize this key US ally and its strategic importance for US imperial operations. The impact on the country was tremendous: massacres, disappearances, many at the hands of an elite US-trained death squad known as Batt...
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- Cops cuffed him for failing to signal but video exposed the real motive
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- 2 months ago
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- Like hundreds of thousands of other Texas motorists, Thomas Reader found himself in an unending debt spiral as a result of the state's Drivers Responsibility Act. Due to the program's surcharges and late fees, Reader owed $13,000 to the state—an amount he simply couldn't pay until he was finally granted a form of amnesty. The occupational license, which was a direct result of this program, limited his ability to drive, and as a DoorDasher his increased time on the road only meant increased exposure to police looking to write tickets to secure revenue. When Reader, out of frustration, "flipped the bird" at a Texas Sheriff patrol car, officers conveniently claimed to have witnessed a traffic violation, pulling Reader over and arresting him. Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of the Police Accountability Report examine the footage in the case and its wider implications on the corrosive power of revenue-motivated policing, which is increasingly a factor in the behavior of law enforcement nati...
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- Video Reveals Deputy Mistakes Acorn for Gun Fire, Unloads Magazine at Handcuffed Man
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- 2 months ago
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- Roughly a dozen bullets were fired at a handcuffed, unarmed suspect who miraculously survived. In November 2023 Okaloosa Sheriff's Deputy Jesse Hernandez reported to a scene where a woman alleged her boyfriend refused to return her car and was sending threatening messages. Deputy Hernandez patted the 22yro down, cuffed him, and put him in the back of his patrol car without any physical resistance. As Hernandez returned to the vehicle to perform a more thorough search of the suspect he heard what he believed to be suppressed gunfire coming from inside of the car however an Internal Affairs investigation revealed an acorn was seen dropping on camera and the sound matched perfectly to when the deputy asserted he heard gun fire. Hernandez yelled he had been shot leading to his fellow officer Sgt. Roberts to join him at shooting the patrol car. Deputy Hernandez has been permitted to resign without any criminal charges filed. Sergeant Roberts has been exonerated of wrongdoing and continues w...
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- Why Yemen stands with Palestine
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- 2 months ago
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- For months, analysts have warned of the possibility of Israel’s genocide in Gaza sparking a regional war. In Yemen, that war is already here. Beginning on Jan. 12, the US and UK have conducted a series of air strikes in Yemen in retaliation for its efforts to block Israeli shipping in the Red Sea’s Bab al-Mandab Strait. Just days later, the Biden administration declared Ansarallah, better known in the West as the Houthis, a terrorist organization.
The Pentagon has attempted to frame its latest war on Yemen as an act of self-defense to protect freedom of trade and navigation from “terrorism”. Yet Ansarallah has definite political motivations for its actions—stopping Israel’s genocide by applying pressure to end the siege of Gaza. As Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree made clear in a statement, “ships bound for the Zionist entity will not pass through if food and medicine do not enter the Gaza Strip.”
Thus far, there a...
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- Colombian farmers take back land stolen from them by Big Oil
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- 2 months ago
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- The story of multinational corporations taking land and resources from working people can be found all over the world. In Colombia, farming families have joined forces to reclaim their stolen land and defend it from local security forces acting on behalf of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation. The Real News reports from Arauquita, Colombia, on the frontlines of a land defenders' campaign that stretches back decades.
Watch Part 1 of this story here: https://youtu.be/ClsuK96icpE
Read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/colombian-farmers-take-back-land-stolen-from-them-by-big-oil
Produced, Filmed, & Edited by Rodrigo Vazquez-Salessi.
This story, with the support of the Bertha Foundation, is part of The Real News Network’s 'Workers of the World' series, telling the stories of workers around the globe building collective power and redefining the future of work on their own terms: https://therealnews.com/workers-of-the-world
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- Grad students fight for collective bargaining in public Maryland universities
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- 2 months ago
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- Maryland public university graduate students and faculty are demanding collective bargaining rights from the state government for the 20,000 public academic workers currently denied the right to join a union. Maryland currently has a Democratic majority in its legislature as well as a Democratic governor. Jaisal Noor reports from Annapolis.
Videography / Post-Production: Jaisal Noor
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- Does Nayib Bukele's reelection violate El Salvador's constitution?
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- 2 months ago
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- Incumbent President Nayib Bukele has declared victory in El Salvador's recent election, claiming over 80 percent of the vote in a record-breaking outcome. Over 76,000 Salvadorans have been detained without trial under Bukele since a state of exception was first declared in March 2022. While a majority of Salvadorans approve of Bukele, critics have long decried his government's authoritarianism, and are now raising questions about the legitimacy of his recent reelection. The Real News reports from El Salvador.
Videography / Post-Production: Michael Fox
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- 'Downward spiral': When money goes to cops, not schools | Rattling the Bars
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- 2 months ago
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- The crisis of mass incarceration is about more than the conduct of police officers—it's a question of public expenditures, and how pouring taxpayer money into incarceration at the expense of other, more humanizing ventures takes a toll on society at large. As public schools and public health programs across the nation grapple with a host of preventable problems arising from underinvestment, state and local governments across the nation spend over $200 billion each year on prisons, jails, and police. Now, a new report from the Justice Policy Institute, "The Right Investment 2.0", takes a detailed look at the "downward spiral" low-income, predominately Black and Brown communities across Maryland are forced into by this imbalance in public expenditures. T. Shekhinah Braveheart and Ryan King of the Justice Policy Institute join Rattling the Bars for a discussion on the report's findings in Baltimore, and how an alternative model of community investment could combat poverty and crime with...
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- How online gambling became the economic blood of the sports world | Edge of Sports
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- 2 months ago
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- In a startling 44% increase from the previous year, an estimated $23 billion will be spent on sports betting on Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Just a generation ago, gambling was regarded as an intolerable pollutant on the integrity of sports that could never be permitted in professional leagues. Now, the legal sports betting industry has become the lifeblood of the sports world and a huge moneymaker. But with so many major figures in the sports world now openly, and probably also covertly, invested in sports betting — how long can this go on until the integrity of professional sports is compromised? Dave Zirin takes aim at the zombie gambling industry cannibalizing fans and the game itself in this edition of “Choice Words.”
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- 12 Cops swarm unarmed man picking trash then arrest him on bogus charge #policeaccountabilityreport
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- 2 months ago
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- This unarmed man is arrested by 12 Baltimore police officers while picking up trash without any evidence of wrongdoing, showing how taxpayer dollars are wasted in a city suffering a wave of car thefts and homicides. Just one example of the many incidents of police misconduct initiated by Baltimore police Sgt. Ethan Newberg. The initiating officer who tackle the man, Sgt. Newberg has been charged and convicted of 32 counts of misconduct in office however those charges came from the review of just 9 body worn camera videos. These 9 videos were collected in just 6 months. Only 6 months of video were able to provide 9 different incidents where Sgt Newberg was caught on camera violating the constitutional rights of citizens.
As I watched these videos I was forced to ask myself, how many more incidents, how many more civil rights violations occurred during the other 23 years he was on the force. And even more disturbing, how many complaints of police misconduct were filed by residents...
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- The Battle of Cripple Creek: How armed miners won better pay and hours
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- 2 months ago
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- On Feb. 7, 1894, the Western Federation of Miners declared a strike in the boomtown of Cripple Creek, Colorado, in protest of increased working hours. For the next five months, thousands of miners upheld the strike while fending off violent attacks from mercenaries hired by their bosses. The resulting victory became the first in a long chain of contentious and often violent labor struggles known as the Colorado Labor Wars. Independent historian Kyle Steven Kern joins The Real News for an overview of the Battle of Cripple Creek and its significance to US labor history.
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- Israel destroyed my university. Where is the outrage? | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 2 months ago
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- On Jan. 17, the Israeli military detonated 315 mines to destroy Gaza's last standing university, al-Israa University, located south of Gaza City. For 70 days prior, the Israelis occupied the university as a military base, posting snipers in its buildings and using it as a detention and interrogation center. According to university authorities, prior to the detonation Israeli soldiers looted the university museum, which contained 3,000 artifacts dating back as far as the Roman era. With al-Israa University's destruction, Israel has now destroyed or damaged all of Gaza's 12 universities, and also targeted 280 government schools and 65 UN schools, many of which were sheltering civilians when they were attacked. Al-Israa University Vice President Dr. Ahmed Alhussaina joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss Israel's war on Gaza's educational and cultural institutions.
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- El Salvador. Bukele, Presidente | Under the Shadow, Update 2
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- 2 months ago
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- El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has been reelected. While the official results aren’t yet in, with 70% of the ballots counted, Bukele has received an astounding 83% of the votes. He declared victory on Sunday night over X (formerly Twitter).
Under the Shadow host Michael Fox was on the ground for the election. He takes us there, and sits down for an in-depth conversation with Dartmouth assistant professor of Latin American Studies Jorge Cuellar.
They look at the vote. Concerns for the country’s democracy. Bukele’s reelection, his image, plans, and what it all means going forward.
Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, to tell the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened—a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like...
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- Homegrown Sandwich shop workers hit 100 days on strike | Working People
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- 2 months ago
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- Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches, a Seattle-based chain, was founded with the mission of creating a more sustainable food system; however, as one former employee tells TRNN, Homegrown’s business model is “not actually sustainable for their workers.” Workers at Homegrown voted overwhelmingly to unionize with UNITE HERE LOCAL 8 in late 2022, and they have been fighting for a first contract ever since. In fact, workers from two Homegrown stores have been on strike since late last fall in protest of the unfair termination of union leader Sydney Lankford, who was fired after speaking up at a union delegation. As of this week, workers at the Redmond Homegrown location have been on strike for over 100 days. We talk with Sydney Lankford and Perry, two members of the Homegrown workers union who are currently on strike.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The heat pay contract provision referenced in this conversation would guarantee time-and-a-half pay for workers if and when the in-store tempe...
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- Pro-Israel Patriots owner Robert Kraft spends $7M to use Super Bowl as political soapbox
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- 2 months ago
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- Super Bowl LVII in 2023 was the most-watched US telecast in history, and with well over 100 million people expected to tune in on Feb. 11, Super Bowl Sunday will provide one of the biggest platforms on Earth for pro-Israel groups to attempt to justify Israel's ongoing genocidal war on Gaza. The Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism, which is owned by Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the NFL's New England Patriots, has purchased a $7 million TV ad spot on Super Bowl Sunday to "Stop Jewish Hate." Kraft’s ties to Israel run deep, from hefty donations to AIPAC to a long history of business deals in the country. Edge of Sports host Dave Zirin takes aim at the influence of Zionism in professional sports in this special edition of “Choice Words.”
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- Former NBA player says athletes have a responsibility to speak out in solidarity with Palestinians.
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- 2 months ago
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- The sports world has largely been silent in the face of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Yet former NBA player Tariq Abdul-Wahad is standing up and speaking out in support of a ceasefire and the rights of Palestinian people.
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- How Israel's supporters use Islamophobia to silence critics | The Marc Steiner Show
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- 2 months ago
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- By now, the false equivalency between anti-Zionism and antisemitism—which Israel’s supporters use to give rhetorical cover for Zionism—is a well-worn topic on the left. What’s less discussed is the role of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in Zionists’ attempts to smear their critics, particularly Arab and Muslim ones, as antisemitic. A new report from Rutger University Law School’s Center for Security, Race, and Rights (CSRR) maps the use of Islamophobic tropes in the discourse on Israel-Palestine, noting that the racist association between terrorism and Arab and Muslim identity is intentionally invoked by Israel’s apologists. Michael Plitnick and Sahar Aziz join the Marc Steiner Show to discuss the new report and its contents.
Mitchell Plitnick is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy, and Sahar Aziz is distinguished professor at Rutgers Law School and the founding director of CSRR. Both authors have appeared on Al-Jazeera.
Link to the rep...
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- New book collects 178 years of Black history | Rattling the Bars
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- 2 months ago
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- Black people have produced their own historical accounts as long as Black people have been in America. From oral tradition to the first publications of Phyllis Wheatley, to the many Black publishing houses and newspapers that blossomed after emancipation, Black people have always been the foremost chroniclers and documenters of their own stories. Now, a new collection compiles some 400 historical documents across 178 years in an unprecedented single volume. Maloyd Ben Wilson Jr., founder of the Black Chronicle, and Carla Wilson join Rattling the Bars to discuss the new book.
Click here for a free copy of the Black Chronicle when you donate to TRNN (see details): https://support.therealnews.com/page/FUNPQVQLWMV?amount=100
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- FedEx Driver Arrested--for talking to a fellow driver receiving a ticket.
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- 2 months ago
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- Sergeant Ethan Newberg made himself well known in Baltimore neighborhoods for his unconstitutional policing. For the first time the public can review the body worn camera footage that caused Sgt. Newberg to be charged with 32 counts of misconduct in office. We have two full reports on Sgt Newberg pinned in the comments below containing 3 separate incidents caught on video. We are continuing this series exposing the videos withheld from the public that reveal hard truths about how difficult it is to hold police accountable even when you have video evidence and eyewitness reports. And as you watch these reports you will see an... unusual use of police resources in a city under consent decree. We will also update you with a link to our next episode of The Police Accountability Report in the comments section. The next premiere will be Thursday Feb 15th with live chat- hope to see you there! -taya
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- Gaza Ceasefire: Former pro athlete explains solidarity with Palestine
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- The sports world has largely been silent in the face of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Yet former NBA player Tariq Abdul-Wahad is standing up and speaking out in support of a ceasefire and the rights of Palestinian people. Tariq Abdul-Wahad joins Dave Zirin to discuss his support for Palestine and the responsibilities of his fellow athletes in this moment.
Read the show transcript here: https://therealnews.com/former-pro-athlete-explains-his-support-for-ceasefire-in-gaza
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- East Palestine resident: 'I get violently ill if I'm in town'
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- 3 months ago
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- Feb. 3, marks the one-year anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment that changed life forever for the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, and the surrounding area. The derailment of 38 rail cars and the subsequent “controlled release” and burnoff of toxic vinyl chloride was one of the most catastrophic industrial accidents in our country’s history
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- Colonial law and the erasure of Palestine w/Noura Erakat | The Chris Hedges Report
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- In Palestine, the law has been used as a tool of oppression to legitimize and advance the dispossession of the Palestinian people for more than a century. From the theft of Palestinian land by legal mechanisms to the non-recognition of Palestinians as a people with the inalienable right of self-determination, the law is yet another weapon wielded against the Palestinian people by Israel and its patrons. Activist, attorney, and Rutgers University professor Noura Erakat joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the use of lawfare against Palestine and her new book, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.
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- Here’s everything about the 2024 elections you’ve been avoiding
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- 3 months ago
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- The 2024 elections have begun, and all signs point to a rehash of 2020's Biden vs. Trump race. Biden is now at the nadir of his approval ratings in office, thanks to his administration's obstinate support for Israel's genocide in Gaza. Within the GOP, Trump's nomination is a fait accompli despite the former president's ongoing legal battles. There are few silver linings in this scenario for the left, but sticking our heads in the sand isn't an option, either. Mel Buer hosts a panel on the critical updates from the election year thus far with Lisa Snowden, award winning reporter and editor-in-chief of the Baltimore Beat; Maximillian Alvarez, editor-in-chief of The Real News; Marc Steiner, host of The Marc Steiner Show at The Real News; and Stephen Janis, investigative reporter and co-host and creator of the Police Accountability Report at The Real News.
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