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Epstein survivor blasts Trump nominee for ignoring survivors
- Title
- Epstein survivor blasts Trump nominee for ignoring survivors
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 4 hours ago
- Description
- Dance teacher, mother and survivor of dead child sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse Dani Bensky spoke in front of the House Oversight Committee in protest against President Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Todd Blanche. She detailed Blanche’s reckless, potentially even malicious treatment of survivors in his release of the Epstein files without proper redactions, and said he has refused to meet with any of them. Overall, she painted a bleak picture of what to expect when it comes to accountability for Epstein’s co-conspirators under Blanche’s potential leadership
#JeffreyEpstein #epsteinfiles #standwithsurvivors #iwasfifteen #trump #congress #jeffreyepstein #ghislainemaxwell #humantrafficking
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- Ro Khanna reveals new names From Epstein Files: But who is still being protected?
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
- Description
- Rep. Ro Khanna says he and Rep. Thomas Massie went to the Department of Justice to review the so-called unredacted Epstein files and found that roughly 70 to 80% of the files were still redacted.
Khanna says they also found six wealthy and powerful men whose names had been hidden for no apparent reason until he and Massie raised the issue. (Their names are revealed in this video!)
But the larger question is not just about redactions. It is about whether America has two systems of justice: one for ordinary people, and another for the rich, powerful, and politically connected.
Survivors have waited long enough. Justice cannot mean one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.
#EpsteinFiles #RoKhanna #ThomasMassie #EpsteinSurvivors #accountability #Congress #DOJInvestigation #JusticeForVictims #twotiersofjustice #inequalitywatch #LesWexner #StandWithSurvivors #HumanTraffickers
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- Title
- The Real News (TRNN)
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
- Description
- The outcome of Michigan’s Senate race will have major implications for the balance of power in Washington, DC, and for the future of the Democratic Party itself. With primaries taking place on August 4, all eyes are on the battle between progressive candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and establishment candidate Haley Stephens to see who will represent Democrats in the general election.
TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with El-Sayed to talk about his campaign, the civil war within the Democratic party, and about fighting corporate oligarchy and MAGA fascism at the same time.
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- Is a New Democratic Party Possible? w/ Abdul El-Sayed
- Runtime
- 14:32
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
- Description
- The outcome of Michigan’s Senate race will have major implications for the balance of power in Washington, DC, and for the future of the Democratic Party itself. With primaries taking place on August 4, all eyes are on the battle between progressive candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and establishment candidate Haley Stephens to see who will represent Democrats in the general election. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with El-Sayed to talk about his campaign, the civil war within the Democratic party, and about fighting corporate oligarchy and MAGA fascism at the same time.
Videography: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, David Hebden
#michigan #democrats #election
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- Want Less Prison Violence? Make Prison Phone Calls Free
- Runtime
- 23:50
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- A groundbreaking new report reveals a direct link between prison phone call rates and prison safety: higher rates fuel more violence within prisons; lower rates and free phone calls dramatically reduce it. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with Peter Mayer, Director of Research & Data Innovation for Worth Rises.
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#politics #prison #communication
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- 'All Arabs Are Threatened': Israel’s Expansion Won’t Stop in Lebanon
- Runtime
- 7:48
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
- Israel’s recent attacks on Lebanon and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank are part of a long history of military aggression and occupation. But the Zionist project of creating a “Greater Israel” in the region has reached new heights, with senior government officials openly advocating territorial expansion into sovereign nations like Lebanon.
In the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Palestinian refugee camps of Shatila and Bourj al-Barajneh have been a home to generations of Palestinians displaced during the 1948 Nakba. Residents of these camps have endured decades of violence, while holding onto the dream of one day returning to their stolen homeland.
TRNN was granted exclusive access to the Shatila and Bourj al-Barajneh refugee camps. In this on-the-ground report, we take you inside the camps in the midst of the latest conflict, and we speak to residents about their lives, resistance, and dreams of returning home.
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- Long Island Audit confronted a powerful police union. They made him pay for it.
- Runtime
- 36:50
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- SeanPaul Reyes (@LongIslandAudit) went to the headquarters of the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association to ask a simple question: how is the county spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on police salaries, overtime, pensions, and misconduct settlements? Instead of an answer, he got handcuffed — while backing away from the building and repeatedly saying “I’m leaving.”
On this episode of the Police Accountability Report, Taya Graham breaks down the arrest video with Sean Paul Reyes himself, and reporter Stephen Janis lays out exactly what Suffolk County taxpayers are funding.
We also look at how the New York Post covered the story, and why “asking questions about tax dollars” turned into a retaliatory arrest, a pinched nerve, a towed truck, and a criminal trespass charge that may not even hold up under New York law.
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- Israel is Killing Gaza's Most Famous Doctor
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- Time is running out to save the life of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was abducted by Israel’s military and has been held for over 18 months in Israeli detention without charge. Dr. Abu Safiya’s lawyers report that he has suffered extreme torture and medical neglect and that his life is in mortal danger, but Israel has repeatedly ignored international calls to free him. We speak with Dr. Nidal Jboor and Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle, cofounders of Doctors Against Genocide.
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- Israel Is Killing Gaza’s Most Famous Doctor
- Runtime
- 16:16
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- Time is running out to save the life of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was abducted by Israel’s military and has been held for over 18 months in Israeli detention without charge. Dr. Abu Safiya’s lawyers report that he has suffered extreme torture and medical neglect and that his life is in mortal danger, but Israel has repeatedly ignored international calls to free him. We speak with Dr. Nidal Jboor and Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle, cofounders of Doctors Against Genocide.
Studio Production: David Hebden
#israel #doctor #gaza
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- Epstein survivors say Groff's story doesn’t add up: 'she's lying'
- Runtime
- 2:49
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- Multiple Epstein survivors told CNN that Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime assistant, Lesley Groff, lied to Congress about key details including whether she met girls and young women, knew their ages, handled travel information, or paid them.
Groff has not been charged with a crime and denies knowing about Epstein’s abuse-- despite being his assistant for over 18 years. The House Oversight Committee told CNN it is reviewing her transcript against available evidence.
But survivors are asking the question that should haunt Congress:
How many people get to say “I don’t remember” before accountability disappears?
#Epstein #EpsteinSurvivors #Accountability #Congress #LesleyGroff #Survivors #Justice #HumanTrafficking #Oversight #InequalityWatch #standwithsurvivors #tayagraham
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- Long Island Audit asked about police money. Then he was arrested.
- Runtime
- 2:03
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- Long Island Audit, also known as Sean Paul Reyes, went to the headquarters of the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association to ask a simple accountability question: how is Suffolk County spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on police salaries, overtime, pensions, and misconduct settlements?
Instead of answers, he was handcuffed while backing away and repeatedly saying, “I’m leaving.”
In our full episode of the Police Accountability Report, premiering Thursday 9pmEST, Taya Graham breaks down the arrest video with Sean himself, and Stephen Janis follows the money behind Suffolk County police spending, including salaries, overtime, pensions, settlements, and the political power of police unions!
Please join us for the live chat conversation and the full episode Thursday night July 16 at 9 PM EST with live chat!!! And as always, please be safe out there!
#LongIslandAudit #SeanPaulReyes #PoliceAccountability #PoliceUnion #SuffolkCounty #F...
- Title
- ICE: From "War on Terror" to War at Home w/ Harsha Walia
- Runtime
- 30:21
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
- Description
- While calls to "abolish ICE" have exploded during the second Trump presidency, critics have been calling out the threats the agency poses to immigrants, US citizens, and democracy itself since it was created just over 20 years ago. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia about the origins of ICE and what it will take to abolish it and the new American police state.
#politics #ice #immigration #usa
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
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- Brazil’s Battle Against Fake News & the US War to Undermine it | Ep. 6
- Runtime
- 1:18:31
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
- Description
- This is really a tale of two countries: The United States and Brazil. In both countries, far-right presidents come to power — Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro. In both those countries, the presidents spent several years unraveling democratic institutions and public policy. Both presidents then ran for reelection. Both presidents lied about their country's voting systems in order to undermine the elections and whip up their base.
Both those president lost their reelections — Trump in 2020. Bolsonaro in 2022. They both claimed fraud and tried to carry out a coup to stay in power.
But that is where these two paths diverged. In the United States, president Donald Trump continued to peddle his lies about the elections. He created his own social media platform and he used it to push his agenda. He was reelected in 2024 and returned to power. In Brazil, however, the country’s Supreme Electoral Court blocked former president Jair Bolsonaro from running f...
- Title
- Establishment Democrats PANIC as Socialists Keep Winning
- Runtime
- 30:51
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- Establishment Democrats have racked up disastrous electoral losses over the past decade—so why are they furious when their own party actually wins? Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down the meltdown of Democratic "centrist" operatives and pundits after recent socialist victories in New York and Colorado, from James Carville calling for a party "schism" to Rep. Josh Gottheimer's panicking about the future of the party on CNN. Plus: we revisit our interviews with actual Mamdani voters — the people the mainstream media refuses to talk to.
Production / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino, Stephen Janis
#election #politics #media
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- Title
- Were the Black Panthers Socialists?
- Runtime
- 23:20
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- On this episode of Rattling the Bars, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966, host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with Dr. Joy James and Dr. K. Kim Holder about the history of the Panthers and their unique approach to, and practice of, communal socialism.
This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Watch Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/IWwcga8W3ps
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#politics #blackpanther #blackhistory #socialism
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- What Is Free Speech? America at 250 | Ep. 5
- Runtime
- 1:09:43
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- On the eve of the United States' 250th birthday, Michael Fox sits down with Mansa Musa — longtime activist, former Black Panther, host of TRNN’s Rattling the Bars, and a man who spent nearly 49 years in prison — to ask a deceptively simple question: what does free speech actually mean?
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to Quito, Ecuador, to Frederick Douglass's 1852 address "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July," this episode unravels the gap between the promise of the First Amendment and the reality of who gets to speak in America — and who pays a price for it.
"There's a kind of narcotic effect of those words — free speech," says legal scholar Mary Anne Franks (Fearless Speech). "It's because we think we know it so well that we don't know anything about it."
Historian Fara Dabhoiwala traces how the US broke from the rest of the world's balanced approach to free expression during the Cold War, and a forgotten 1986 Ursula K. Le G...
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- Attacks on Press Freedom: Lawsuits, Intimidation, and the War on Journalists | Ep. 4
- Runtime
- 1:12:21
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- Photojournalist Nick Stern still has nightmares from the night an officer fired a flashbang into his leg as he covered the LA immigration protests. He's one of dozens of journalists assaulted, arrested, or deported in Trump's second term — a year that pushed the US to 64th on the World Press Freedom Index, its lowest ranking ever.
In this episode of The Battle for Free Speech, Michael Fox is joined by Real News investigative journalist and Capitol Hill correspondent Taya Graham to map the assault on the American press: the rubber bullets and broken bones, the billion-dollar lawsuits, the FBI raids on reporters' homes, the jailing of journalists like Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, and the deportation of immigrant reporters Mario Guevara and Estephanie Rodriguez. Featuring voices from the Committee to Protect Journalists and the National Press Photographers Association, they trace how violence, intimidation, media consolidation, and the gutting of access all serve a single go...
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- Meet America’s Real-Life ‘Toxic Avengers’
- Runtime
- 1:02:18
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- From the explosion of AI data centers to the increasing number of toxic spills, explosions, and industrial disasters happening across the country, corporations and the government are turning the USA into one giant “sacrifice zone.”
Things are going to get worse before they get any better, and nothing is going to change unless residents of different sacrifice zones and poisoned communities, workers and unions on the frontlines of the industries poisoning us, environmental justice groups, community and faith organizations, scientists, journalists, and all others who have a stake in this fight start coming together, working together, and fighting back together. In this special panel discussion, recorded at the 2026 Railroad Workers United convention in Chicago, Illinois, we speak with a panel of guests who are part of a new coalition that is doing just that.
Panelists include:
- Jeff Kurtz, a retired locomotive engineer, union officer, and Railroad Work...
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- What would the Black Panthers say about DSA?
- Runtime
- 22:38
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. On this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Dr. Joy James and Dr. K. Kim Holder about the legacy of the Panthers today, and about the important differences and intersections between democratic socialism and the Black Panther model of communalism.
This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Subscribe to @therealnews and stay tuned for Part 2 next week…
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#blackpanther #california #dsa #socialism
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- MAGA Eliminated His Congressional District. He’s Still Running. w/ Rep. Justin Pearson
- Runtime
- 5:26
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- After an April decision by the US Supreme Court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Tennessee became the first state to redraw its Congressional district maps, resulting in the 9th District—a solidly Democratic seat representing the only majority-Black district in the state—being erased. We speak with Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson, who has been running to represent Tennessee’s 9th District in the US House of Representatives, about why he is still running despite Republicans’ attempts to rig the electoral process, and what is at stake for Tennessee and the country this midterm election season.
Videography: Stephen Janis, Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: David Hebden
#election #politics #tennessee #supremecourt
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- The Black and Brown Enforcers of White Supremacy w/ Steven Thrasher
- Runtime
- 6:32
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- Why are there so many Black cops and Latino ICE agents? Dr. Steven Thrasher, author of the new book The Overseer Class, breaks down how the American capitalism forces and encourages Black and Brown people to be the enforcers of white supremacy.
Watch our full interview with Dr. Thrasher here: https://youtu.be/AYnVXyG9I-A
#politics #history #police #ice #race
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- From Zionist Crackdowns to Trump, Academic Freedom Is Dead in the US w/ Dr. Steven Thrasher
- Runtime
- 9:51
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
- Description
- Dr. Steven Thrasher explains how he has been effectively blacklisted from academia after defending his students at Northwestern University during the Palestine encampment movement in 2024.
Watch our full interview with Dr. Thrasher here: https://youtu.be/AYnVXyG9I-A
#politics #university #students #freespeech
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- Trump blocks bipartisan housing bill-here's why...
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Republicans say they want to address affordability, but a bipartisan housing bill that passed the Senate is now on hold after President Trump said he won't sign it unless Congress passes the Save America Act.
The legislation included provisions aimed at increasing affordable housing construction, reforming zoning, and limiting Wall Street purchases of housing stock.
What happens next could affect renters, first-time homebuyers, and anyone struggling with housing costs.
Reporting from Capitol Hill by Taya Graham & Stephen Janis
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- Title
- THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Rep. Ayanna Pressley says New York’s progressive victories are a message Democrats shouldn’t ignore. Say the word "genocide" or lose the race...
Pressley says these victories aren’t an outlier; they’re THE sign that voters want candidates willing to challenge the status quo. And Mayor Zohran Mamdani's endorsement is the sign that voters were looking for...
#Gaza #AIPAC
#AyannaPressley
#NoAIPAC
#ProgressivePoliticsJoin
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- Title
- How Trump and Big Tech are Gutting Free Speech: AI, Censorship, and Media Mergers | Ep. 3
- Runtime
- 1:10:40
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- On the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration—January 20, 2025—the heads of many of Silicon Valley’s most powerful tech firms sat in the rows just behind Trump. It was a sign of Trump’s deep ties to the industry and to these powerful individuals who are transforming how we communicate, and not for the better.
In this episode, Michael Fox visits Silicon Valley to try to understand the stranglehold that tech has over our media and our airwaves. Hosts Michael Fox and Marc Steiner dig into the ways media consolidation, social media, and AI are strangling our free speech, even as they claim to be liberating it—and us—with incredible insight from professors Todd Wolfson, Mary Anne Franks, Fara Dabhoiwala, Ramesh Srinivasan, and Jeff Cohen, the founder of the organization Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, FAIR.
The Battle for Free Speech is a production of The Real News Network.
Hosted by Michael Fox and Marc Steiner. Theme music by Micha...
- Title
- ‘Beyond the Wire’: A Grassroots Perspective on Baltimore
- Runtime
- 26:14
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- A new, thought-provoking documentary hits theaters this summer. Beyond the Wire, by filmmaker and researcher Dr. S. Rasheem, offers a powerful counternarrative to the popular crime series The Wire. In this exclusive, one-on-one interview between Dr. Rasheem and Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa, they explore how her background in community organizing compelled her to tell a different story of Baltimore—one focused on the boots-on-the-ground activism that defies the narrative of a hopeless, crime-ridden city in need of over-policing. Premiering this June, Beyond the Wire is already being hailed by critics and organizers alike as an indispensable representation of "The Greatest City in America."
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- Black Cops, Latino ICE agents, and the Overseer Class w/ Steven Thrasher
- Runtime
- 1:06:05
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- We sit down with Dr. Steven Thrasher to talk about his new book, The Overseer Class; how our police state today evolved from yesterday’s slave plantations; and why Dr. Thrasher has been blacklisted from academia after defending his students at Northwestern University during the Palestine encampment movement in 2024.
Studio Production / Post-Production: David Hebden
#politics #israel #palestine #students #freespeech
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- Title
- Chris Smalls: "Jeff Bezos Is a Bad Man"
- Runtime
- 12:16
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Chris Smalls, co-founder and former president of the Amazon Labor Union, speaks with @therealnews Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez about Smalls’ incredible journey from warehouse worker and labor organizer to becoming an internationally recognized public figure and a human rights activist who has sailed with humanitarian flotilla missions to Gaza and Cuba.
Watch our full interview with Smalls here: https://youtu.be/kXnf59c_tPw
#amazon #union #gaza #cuba #billionaires
Hosted by: Maximillian Alvarez
Studio Production / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- Chris Smalls Responds to His Critics
- Runtime
- 6:39
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- From Jeff Bezos and Amazon to ICE and the Israeli military, from legacy media outlets to left-wing magazines like Jacobin, Chris Smalls remains a beloved, hated, polarizing, and inspiring figure. We sit down with Smalls, co-founder and former president of the Amazon Labor Union, to talk about why.
Watch our full interview with Smalls here: https://youtu.be/kXnf59c_tPw
#amazon #union #palestine #cuba #billionaires
Hosted by: Maximillian Alvarez
Studio Production / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- Title
- The Battle for Free Speech (TRAILER)
- Runtime
- 3:21
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- This year, the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary. But there’s a problem. Our most basic freedom — the freedom of speech — is under attack. In this immersive series, hosts Marc Steiner and Michael Fox take you on a journey to look at the threats to free speech, from Trump to Silicon Valley. They look at the history of the fight for free speech and the battle being waged over it today, within the United States and abroad.
Marc Steiner is the host of the Marc Steiner Show and a longtime community organizer and activist. Michael Fox is the host of the podcasts Under the Shadow and Stories of Resistance.
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#politics #news #freespeech #usa #history #america250 #semiquincentennial
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- Title
- Late Fascism & Gramsci: 'Gaining Consent by Promising Force'
- Runtime
- 22:50
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- In Part 2 of a conversation between Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa (former political prisoner and Black Panther) and Alberto Toscano (professor of critical theory and author of Late Fascism), the two discuss how consent and coercion operate within US civil society and abroad. They specifically unpack how Donald Trump's domestic and foreign platforms animate white nationalism—relying on the explicit promise of state violence against targeted populations.
Imprisoned by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in 1926, the prison writings of Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci remain essential 100 years later for understanding how fascism, policing, and incarceration function to suppress political dissent and preserve unequal systems of power.
Watch Part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo9MCJ6KW1w
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#fascism #trump #news #politics #history #italy #usa
Joi...
- Title
- You Can't Serve People You Hate — Rep. Summer Lee Breaks Down the 'War on the Poor'
- Runtime
- 21:36
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Rep. Summer Lee argues in this interview with TRNN that the best path to good policies like Medicare for All is to take billionaires' money out of politics and to fight for electoral reforms, and explains her concerns about the Trump administration's push to interfere in the upcoming 2026 midterms.
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- Title
- Bernie Sanders Says Gaza Is Genocide—Protesters Say That’s Not Enough
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Bernie Sanders was interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters during an appearance at the National Press Club. Protesters demanded stronger action against U.S. support for Israel, while Sanders later reiterated that he believes what is happening in Gaza is a genocide and pledged to oppose new U.S.-Israeli weapons funding. But is that enough?
Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down the confrontation, Sanders’ record on Gaza, and open to you the larger debate over what meaningful opposition to the war should look like.
#BernieSanders #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #NationalPressClub #Ceasefire #Politics #ProgressivePolitics #TayaGraham #StephenJanis #InequalityWatch
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- Title
- HondurasGate: Leaks Expose Right-Wing Plot to Dismantle Latin American Left | S2E11
- Runtime
- 57:51
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- On the morning of April 30, the Spanish website Diario Red and the television channel Canal Red began to release a series of leaked audio recordings between powerful right-wing figures in the Americas. They called it HondurasGate.
By May 6, the outlets had released a total of 37 WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram messages. What they reveal is a shocking network pushing to undermine leftist leaders in the region. It’s one of the biggest political scandals in the Americas in years, and it implicates the Trump administration, Israel, Argentina’s libertarian president, and a load of right-wing Honduran officials in underhanded activities to take down political opponents, with thousands of dollars funneled into a right-wing propaganda outlet allegedly located in the United States.
The messages have been independently verified twice, confirming that they are not AI-generated. And you have likely heard little, if anything, about them.
Today, host Michael...
- Title
- How US Policy Fueled Mexico’s Cartel Crisis | S2E10
- Runtime
- 49:13
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- The US has funneled billions into its allies in Latin America under the guise of fighting the drug traffickers. It has ripped apart countries. And the violence has only gotten worse. Decades of fighting, with little to show for it except human rights abuses, displacement, and tens of thousands of dead and disappeared.
In the last episode, host Michael Fox took you to Mexico City to walk through Mexico’s Museum of Interventions to witness firsthand the long history of foreign and, in particular, US intervention in the country.
Today, he brings listeners up to the present, diving head-first into the US-backed drug war in Mexico, which has overtaken the country in recent decades and fueled an epidemic of violence that has disappeared more than 100,000 people over the last 20 years. We’ll look at Trump’s threats and the repercussions they are having in the country, and we’ll also hear the voices of Mexicans who are standing up.
This is Episod...
- Title
- Raskin: ICE is Acting Like a Secret Paramilitary Police Force for President Trump
- Runtime
- 10:26
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Rep. Jamie Raskin expresses growing concerns about the power of ICE in light of the $70 billion in additional funding just approved by Congress, his opposition to the proposed weaponization fund, and why the Epstein scandal needs further scrutiny.
Editor's note: This interview was recorded at the 2026 Netroots Nation conference on June 6.
#epsteinfiles #ice #trump #news #politics
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- Title
- A History of Free Speech from Abolitionists to Berkeley | Ep. 2
- Runtime
- 1:12:07
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Free speech in America was never given—it was fought for, bled for, and died for. In this episode, hosts Marc Steiner and Michael Fox dive into the history of the movements that built and defended the right to speak out: the abolitionists who continued to speak—even as mobs attacked the building where they gathered—Ida B. Wells, who exposed the truth about lynching in Jim Crow Memphis, and the students at UC Berkeley who launched the Free Speech Movement of 1964.
Michael takes us to Sproul Plaza, ground zero of the Berkeley free speech movement, and Marc shares his own story of carrying that fight from the civil rights movement to campuses on the East Coast. Together they trace a brutal pattern that runs from Elijah Lovejoy—the abolitionist editor murdered by a mob in 1837—to the burning of Pennsylvania Hall, to today’s crackdowns on student protest and the firing of professors for their political views.
Featuring law professor Mary Anne Franks, au...
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- Fired & Jailed: Attacks on Free Speech Under Trump | Ep. 1
- Runtime
- 1:08:47
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Mahmoud Khalil was detained and arrested at his Manhattan apartment. The video is chilling. Plainclothes agents are there. They refuse to give their names. He’s handcuffed and shoved into the back of a car. His wife — eight months pregnant — watches and tries to understand what’s happening.
This is not a scene from some dark chapter of a distant past filled with black-and-white photos of bygone dictatorships. This happened here, in the United States of America, in 2025.
In this podcast series, in the lead-up to the country’s 250th anniversary, journalists Michael Fox and Marc Steiner look at the battle for our free speech rights today, and attacks on people speaking out in the United States.
Hosted by Michael Fox and Marc Steiner. Theme music by Michael Fox, Jordan Klein, and Daniel Nuñez. Other music from Blue Dot Sessions and Epidemic Sound. Production and sound design by Michael Fox and Stephen Frank. Editorial support by Kayla Rivar...
- Title
- Who’s Afraid of Chris Smalls?
- Runtime
- 45:09
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- We sit down with Chris Smalls, co-founder and former president of the Amazon Labor Union, to discuss Smalls’ new book, “When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class,” the incredible story of the formation of the Amazon Labor Union and the unionization of the first Amazon warehouse in the US, and Smalls’ journey from warehouse worker and labor organizer to internationally recognized public figure and human rights activist who has sailed with humanitarian flotilla missions to Gaza and Cuba.
Hosted by: Maximillian Alvarez
Studio Production / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#amazon #union #gaza #billionaire #cuba
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- Title
- Torture, Abuse, Sexual Violence: Israel’s Horrific Treatment of Gaza Flotilla Activists
- Runtime
- 40:09
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Israeli military forces captured the latest convoy of humanitarian aid ships sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSM) between late April and mid-May. Activists who were imprisoned by Israel for days and eventually deported have reported harrowing treatment by their captors, including targeted torture, abuse, broken bones, unauthorized injections of undisclosed substances, and sexual violence by Israeli soldiers. We speak with a panel of freed GSM participants—Thiago Ávila, Catríona Graham, and Ariadne Telles—about what they saw and endured, and about the successes, defeats, and future of the movement to break Israel’s siege on Gaza.
Hosted by: Maximillian Alvarez
Production / Videographer: Cameron Granadino
Post-Production: David Hebden
#gaza #israel #politics #palestine #sumudflotilla
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- Title
- From Mussolini to Mass Incarceration: Why Gramsci Matters Today
- Runtime
- 33:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Imprisoned by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in 1926, the prison writings of Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci remain essential 100 years later for understanding how fascism, policing, and incarceration function to suppress political dissent and preserve unequal systems of power. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, former Black Panther and political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with renowned scholar Alberto Toscano about the importance and terrifying relevance of Gramsci today.
Watch Part 2 here: https://youtu.be/Mv8v_lURGjo
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#history #fascism #italy #trump #usa
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- Title
- The Election Interference Evidence No One Is Talking About
- Runtime
- 20:52
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Are President Trump and MAGA Republicans publicly signaling that they plan to interfere in—and potentially rig—the 2026 midterm elections? If so, why is the media not taking the threat seriously? In this episode of Inequality Watch, TRNN's Capitol Hill correspondents Taya Graham and Stephen Janis investigate the connections between wealth inequality, political power, ICE funding, the influence of Super PACs on elections, and growing concerns about democratic accountability in Trump’s America.
Pre-Production: Taya Graham, Stephen Janis
Studio Production / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino, Stephen Janis
#usa #trump #election #money #politics
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- Abby Martin: Iraq, Iran, Venezuela—US Wars for Oil Won't Stop
- Runtime
- 7:47
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- From the Wars in Iraq and Iran to the invasion of Venezuela, the US military empire has abandoned any pretense of "spreading democracy" and is wreaking violent havoc on the world in search of more resources and in service of fossil fuel corporations. But, as independent journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin of @EmpireFiles explains, this is what the United States and its military presence around the world has always been about.
Watch our full interview with Abby Martin here: https://youtu.be/yPEg2Qq-J4k
#usa #military #iran #venezuela #climatechange
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- Title
- "The colonizer mind cannot beat a liberated one. They can kill and destroy, but they can’t win."
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Title
- Abby Martin: The Ruling-Class War on Our Minds
- Runtime
- 6:22
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Independent journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin of @EmpireFiles breaks down the ruling-class "war on our minds" that aims to confuse, overwhelm, and immobilize people into passive submission—and how to fight back and reclaim reality when we're surrounded by lies, misinformation, and AI slop.
Watch our full interview with Abby Martin here: https://youtu.be/yPEg2Qq-J4k
#media #politics #reality #trump
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- Title
- 70% land takeover of Gaza. What comes next for Israel? Ghada Karmi's 45-second answer.
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Title
- How the United States Stole Mexico | S2E9
- Runtime
- 36:56
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Increasingly, Trump has his sights set on Mexico—promising to send in US troops in the name of fighting cartels and advancing a so-called drug war policy. But Trump’s actions hearken back to an era of US empire much, much older.
See, Mexico has withstood a long history of foreign intervention by the Spanish, French, and multiple times by the United States.
In 1848, Mexico lost more than half its territory to the United States. The US states of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and more used to be part of Mexico.
Today, host Michael Fox visits Mexico’s National Museum of Interventions in Mexico City, and we look back at the devastating history of foreign intervention in Mexico amid Trump’s threats against Mexico and elsewhere in the region today.
This is Episode 9 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.
Under the Shadow is an investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of...
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- Shield of the Americas: Trump's Donroe Coalition | S2E8
- Runtime
- 1:06:21
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- At least 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are on board with Trump’s new military alliance. They are calling it the America’s Counter Cartel Coalition. Latin America’s top right-wing leaders are involved, including El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele and Argentina’s Javier Milei. They met in Florida for the event, on March 7.
The United States has promised to use lethal force to destroy cartels and narco-traffickers in those nations. Kristi Noem, the former head of Homeland Security, is the new special envoy for the coalition.
This is a new phase of Trump’s plan for Latin America. Trump’s Donroe Doctrine—Monroe 2.0. The first was the offensive against his enemies in the region. Now Trump is shoring up his allies, and building a coalition where the US military can continue to take action, now in collaboration with countries allied with Trump. We’ve already begun to see this unfold in Ecuador.
This is Episode 8 of Under the S...
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- Trump’s War on Cuba: Crisis Made in The USA | S2E7
- Runtime
- 1:02:26
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Cuba is facing the greatest existential threat it has seen in decades. Trash is filling streets, because garbage trucks can’t make the rounds. Rolling blackouts, rising food prices and cuts to transportation, university classes, and hospitals amid a gas shortage, the likes of which the country hasn’t seen in years.
US President Donald Trump, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and other officials have made it clear that they aren’t interested in anything less than regime change. And they’re going after that goal full throttle. The United States is now imposing an oil blockade on the island nation that is pushing it to the brink – and hitting its most vulnerable residents the hardest.
In this episode, we look at Cuba, the history of the more than 65-year-old US embargo on Cuba and Trump’s actions.
Under the Shadow is an investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous pla...
- Title
- Homeland Empire: Venezuela to Minneapolis | S2E6
- Runtime
- 48:30
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Just since the beginning of 2026, US forces have killed people in Caracas, Venezuela, on boat strikes in the Pacific, and in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This is a new era, where US law enforcement kill people in plain sight and then blame it on the victims, accusing them of being agitators or terrorists — domestic or foreign — whether they are in fishing boats in the Caribbean and Pacific or protesting on the streets of Minneapolis.
Today’s episode turns the lens back on the United States. Because the shadow of the United States itself is hanging dangerously over US cities and communities like never before.
This is episode 6 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.
Under the Shadow is an investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present. Season 2 responds in real time to the Trump administration’s onslaught on Latin America.
Hosted by Latin...
