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THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!
- Title
- THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 4 months 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
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- How Trump and Big Tech are Gutting Free Speech: AI, Censorship, and Media Mergers | Ep. 3
- Runtime
- 1:10:40
- Date posted
- 4 months 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...
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- ‘Beyond the Wire’: A Grassroots Perspective on Baltimore
- Runtime
- 26:14
- Date posted
- 4 months 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
- 5 months 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
- 5 months 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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- Title
- Chris Smalls Responds to His Critics
- Runtime
- 6:39
- Date posted
- 5 months 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
- 5 months 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.
The Battle for Free Speech is brought to you by The Real News Network. Find it where you get your podcasts.
Series page: https://therealnews.com/the-battle-for-free-speech
#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
- 5 months ago
- Description
- 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
- 5 months 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
- 5 months 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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- HondurasGate: Leaks Expose Right-Wing Plot to Dismantle Latin American Left | S2E11
- Runtime
- 57:51
- Date posted
- 5 months 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...
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- How US Policy Fueled Mexico’s Cartel Crisis | S2E10
- Runtime
- 49:13
- Date posted
- 5 months 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...
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- Raskin: ICE is Acting Like a Secret Paramilitary Police Force for President Trump
- Runtime
- 10:26
- Date posted
- 5 months 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
- 5 months 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
- 5 months 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
- 5 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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- Torture, Abuse, Sexual Violence: Israel’s Horrific Treatment of Gaza Flotilla Activists
- Runtime
- 40:09
- Date posted
- 5 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
- 5 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
- 5 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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- Title
- Abby Martin: Iraq, Iran, Venezuela—US Wars for Oil Won't Stop
- Runtime
- 7:47
- Date posted
- 5 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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- "The colonizer mind cannot beat a liberated one. They can kill and destroy, but they can’t win."
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Title
- Abby Martin: The Ruling-Class War on Our Minds
- Runtime
- 6:22
- Date posted
- 5 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.
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- 0:45
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- Title
- How the United States Stole Mexico | S2E9
- Runtime
- 36:56
- Date posted
- 5 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
- 5 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
- 5 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
- 5 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...
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- When The Bombs Fell on Caracas | S2E5
- Runtime
- 44:05
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- On January 3, 2026, the United States invaded Venezuela and kidnapped president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. It was the first US invasion of a Latin American country since the 1989 invasion of Panama.
The United States fired missiles and bombs that blew out windows and hit residential apartment blocks. Helicopters. Explosions. Firebombs. They cut electricity. They destroyed a medical supplies warehouse. Testimonies say helicopters fired on innocent people. They traumatized thousands, if not millions, of Venezuelans.
The aftermath for everyday Venezuelans has been completely ignored. The voices of those on the ground—the voices of the victims—have been largely silenced in the international press and then forgotten as the news cycle hurtles on and our attention shifts elsewhere—to Greenland, Minneapolis, Iran, Gaza, or whatever Trump happens to be blustering about on social media.
So today, we’re heading to Caracas to speak to...
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- Debunking The US Narrative on Venezuela | S2E4
- Runtime
- 48:20
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- In the hours after the Jan. 3 US invasion of Venezuela, social media was inundated with fake videos and images. Some showed Venezuelans holding huge rallies in favor of the US invasion. Others showed US troops landing or firing from helicopters. Others showed Maduro being kidnapped.
Not all were AI. Some were old, showing anti-government rallies from years past. Or from other places—other invasions or bombing raids, unrelated to the current US attack.
But these videos racked up tons of views, misleading millions of people about what was happening on the ground. Many of those people still don’t know the truth.
It was only the tip of the iceberg.
Today, host Michael Fox looks at the misconceptions, myths, and misinformation that has been spread about Venezuela in the wake of the US invasion and, together with political scientist Steve Ellner, dives headfirst into the biased reporting and slanted truths that have underpinned the main...
- Title
- Hands Off Latin America | S2E3
- Runtime
- 49:42
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Thousands have marched against Trump’s invasion of Venezuela. And leaders are leading the charge against US intervention in the region, in some unexpected places. But Trump is now also pointing elsewhere in the region. Cuba, Colombia and Mexico are in his sights.
Today, host Michael Fox looks at the response around the world to Trump’s invasion of Venezuela. He also takes a deep dive into Trump’s threats elsewhere across the region, and introduces you to some of the leaders and the people standing up to Trump both inside the United States and far beyond.
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 in Latin America.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.
This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and ...
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- Understanding The US Invasion of Venezuela | S2E2
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- 41:15
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- In the early hours of Saturday morning, January 3rd, Venezuelans were awoken by the sounds of bombs falling. US helicopters whirled overhead. Explosions struck across the capital Caracas and in surrounding states.
Hours of chaos, fear, and uncertainty.
President Donald Trump would post over social media that the US had “captured” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores amid a “large-scale” strike against the country.
This is the first US invasion of another country in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama, when the US kidnapped and detained Panamanian President Manuel Noriega under charges of drug trafficking. The Trump administration used the same excuse to detain Maduro, despite lack of evidence linking Maduro to drug trafficking.
With this strike, the United States has taken an unprecedented step: This is the first time the United States has used its own military to invade a South American c...
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- Trump's Piracy in The Caribbean | S2E1
- Runtime
- 44:01
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- On September 2, President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office that the US Navy had carried out an air strike on a boat in international waters. That boat strike rewrote US policy for Latin America overnight. Three months later, 26 boats have been hit, killing more than 90 people. The United States has codified its justification for the boat strikes as part of a new National Security Strategy, published in early December 2025. In the National Security Strategy, Trump announced a new Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which he hopes can propel the United States and the US military to preeminence in the hemisphere. Trump’s actions suggest he believes he has broad latitude to take whatever measures he deems necessary, regardless of international law, the sovereignty of other nations, or the impact on human life. This reenvisioning of US policy for Latin America has disastrous implications for the region. More missile strikes. Loss of innocent lives. And even wrapping the Uni...
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- Abby Martin: The US Military Machine Is Destroying Our Planet
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- 55:18
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- We sit down for an hour-long discussion with legendary independent journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin to discuss her new blockbuster documentary, “Earth’s Greatest Enemy,” and the existential threat that US empire in general—and the US military specifically—poses to humanity and to our planet.
Watch Earth’s Greatest Enemy on the @EmpireFiles YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc7bzUVtqX8
Editor's Note: This conversation was recorded on Jan. 29, 2026, before the beginning of the illegal US-Israeli War in Iran.
Studio Production / Post-Production: David Hebden
#war #usa #military #climatechange
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- White Reconstruction: The National Myth of Post-Civil Rights America
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Distinguished Professor of Black Study Dylan Rodríguez deconstructs the central premise of his book, White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Genocide. Rodríguez critiques the era of the late 2000s and 2010s—a period defined by the seductive myth that a "post-civil rights" moment had finally arrived. By examining "reforms" like DEI recruiting initiatives within the LAPD, he illustrates how the state transforms the targets of its violence into its active participants. Ultimately, Rodríguez argues that white supremacy is not merely a demographic category, but a political template that can be inhabited and executed by people of color.
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- Why Are There So Many Toxic Disasters in the US Right Now? w/ Maximillian Alvarez
- Runtime
- 7:18
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- A chemical crisis at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, CA, an oil spill in Los Angeles, a deadly catastrophe at the Nippon Dynawave paper mill in Longview, WA—why are there so many toxic disasters in the news right now?
As an award-winning journalist who covers toxic disasters like this all over the country, @therealnews Editor-in-Chief Maximillian explains why it feels like everything is falling apart at once, and why these latest disasters are just the tip of the iceberg after decades of corporations and the government turning the US into one giant, toxic "sacrifice zone."
#new #toxic #california #washington
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- Hunger strike at ICE facility sparks violent crackdown on protesters: Delaney Hall
- Runtime
- 2:49
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Detainees at Delaney Hall in Newark launched a hunger and labor strike over inhumane conditions inside the ICE facility. Outside, protesters say they were met with force as clashes with ICE agents escalated. Rep. LaMonica McIver says some detainees have already signed voluntary deportation papers, yet remain locked up for months while private prison contractors continue to profit from filled beds.
Is ICE trying to deport people quickly, or keep detention centers full--for maximum profit?
#DelaneyHall #ICE #HungerStrike #PrivatePrisons #LaMonicaMcIver #NewarkNJ #ImmigrationDetention #ICEProtest #InvestigativeJournalism #inequalitywatch #tayagraham #stephenjanis #prisonindustrialcomplex #forprofitprisons #policebrutality
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- “All these people online fighting over things that they didn't even achieve.” – William C. Anderson
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Author and Prism columnist William C. Anderson delivers an unflinching analysis of the state of the contemporary Left and of social media activism.
On Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa and Anderson discuss why choosing an ideology from Wikipedia doesn’t mean you inherit the victories of historical social movements—and why real revolution requires grounded community organizing.
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- Title
- The World Is in Crisis. William C. Anderson Sees A Way Out
- Runtime
- 38:36
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- In 2026, fascism in the US is rising while “the left” descends further into powerlessness, goofiness, and irrelevance—but, author William C. Anderson argues, it doesn’t have to be or stay that way. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Anderson returns to the show for an unflinching conversation with former political prisoner and host Mansa Musa about the state of the political left today and the lessons organizers and everyday people can learn from the Black Liberation Movement and figures like the late Russell Maroon Shoatz.
Editor's Note: This conversation was recorded on May 1, 2026.
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#politics #blackhistory #trump
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- California Chemical Crisis: "The Threat Has NOT Been Eliminated" w/ Maximillian Alvarez
- Runtime
- 5:25
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- An urgent message for Orange County, CA, residents from @therealnews Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez: The chemical crisis at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove is still very dangerous, and major safety risks remain.
The media is doing a bad job right now of communicating to people that, while the worst-case explosion scenario has been avoided, many other really-really-bad-case scenarios remain, including an explosion from a less pressurized tank or a chemical leak that could have disastrous consequences to anyone or any animal exposed to it.
#news #california #orangecounty #toxic #emergency
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- Title
- The recent wave of incarcerated people going on strike
- Runtime
- 2:55
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- From the Pelican Bay hunger strikes—where those held in solitary confinement defied the isolation of the SHU—to the massive labor strikes across Alabama and Georgia, constitute a new wave of resistance in the 21st century. Organized within the "pockets of freedom" inside prisons, jails, and detention centers, incarcerated people are defying the odds and refusing to accept inhumane treatment. Distinguished Professor of Black Study, Dylan Rodríguez, joins host of Rattling the Bars Mansa Musa to discuss the vital connection between state violence and political organizing under the most brutal conditions.
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- Bernie Sanders declares war on billionaire election donations- the Abolish Super PACs Act
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Elections Are Being Bought! Sen Sanders Unveils Anti–Super PAC Bill.
Bernie Sanders and Summer Lee have introduced the “Abolish Super PACs Act,” a new bill aimed at ending unlimited outside spending in federal elections. In fact, NYT just reported that 300 families were responsible for nearly 20% of all federal campaign donations.
The lawmakers argue billionaire donors and corporate money are tightening their grip on American democracy while ordinary voters are pushed aside.
Investigative reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis asked Sanders whether Democrats are truly ready to confront a campaign finance system both parties have benefited from. The lawmakers warn that if concentrated wealth continues dominating elections, democracy itself could be at risk.
#BernieSanders #SummerLee #SuperPACs #CitizensUnited #MoneyInPolitics #CampaignFinance #ElectionReform #Democracy #Politics #Billionaires #DarkMoney #CorporateMoney #Inequality #YouTubeShorts #Ta...
- Title
- Inside CoreCivic's Detention Camp for Children and Families in Dilley, TX
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Shannon Heffernan, staff writer for @TheMarshallProject, exposes the abusive conditions inside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, TX. Based on investigative reporting with Senior Data Researcher Anna Flagg, Heffernan details the systematic mistreatment of children held in ICE custody.
Read Heffernan and Flagg's full investigation here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/ice-kids-in-detention-numbers
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- ICE detainees signed deportation Papers. Why are they still held in detention?
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Congresswoman LaMonica McIver speaks out about conditions inside ICE detention facilities, alleging that detainees are being held for profit even after signing voluntary deportation agreements.
McIver also describes concerns about due process violations, lack of attorney access, broken communication systems, and the growing role of private prison profits in immigration detention.
The interview comes amid growing controversy surrounding Delaney Hall and congressional oversight of ICE detention centers.
#ICE #Immigration #LaMonicaMcIver #DelaneyHall #Politics #News #ICEdetention #Congress #CivilRights #InvestigativeJournalism #inequalityWatch #tayagraham #stephenjanis
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- "I look at the world, and I shout, 'I am human and I deserve to be a human.'"
- Runtime
- 2:53
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Basem Khandakji, award-winning Palestinian author and former political prisoner, and Mansa Musa, former Black Panther and political prisoner, engage in a profound dialogue about their shared experiences with carceral systems under colonial regimes in Israel and the United States. Basem delineates Israel’s apartheid and colonial systems, while Mansa discusses the "historical present" of Jim Crow in the U.S. South, as promulgated by white supremacy. Their shared history of combating these systems of oppression illuminates the deep, multilayered solidarity connecting Palestinian liberation and Black resistance across geographies.
#palestine #israelpalestineconflict #israel
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- Larriett Blasts ‘Pro-Trump’ Rival Amid Wave of Racist Redistricting
- Runtime
- 12:37
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Alabama US Senate candidate Dakarai Larriett joins Mansa Musa on Rattling the Bars to expose the rising tide of voter suppression and the battle for the Democratic ticket. Ahead of the May 19, 2026, primary, Larriett takes aim at opponent Kyle Sweetser—a former three-time Trump voter—calling his sudden party shift disingenuous while vowing to ‘fight like hell’ against racist redistricting in the South.
Editor’s Note: This interview was recorded on May 11, 2026. Following the recording, a US Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for Alabama to implement a new congressional map that effectively dismantles one of the state’s two majority-Black districts.
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- Title
- The Nakba and the Logic of Manifest Destiny
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Caribbean scholar Sylvia Wynter identifies a chilling paradox at the heart of the modern world: the inextricable link between civilizational violence and techno-industrial progress. In White Reconstruction, Dylan Rodríguez applies Wynter’s framework to the 1948 Nakba and the current assault on Gaza, framing these events not as historical accidents, but as the execution of a "Manifest Destiny" that has no end date. Rodríguez joins host of Rattling the Bars Mansa Musa to deconstruct how this logic of progress continues to demand the systematic erasure of Palestinian life.
#palestine #gaza #israel #israelpalestineconflict
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- ‘Genocide Didn't Start in Gaza in 2023’ w/ Basem Khandakji
- Runtime
- 35:18
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza is the culmination of a violent settler-colonial project that goes all the way back to the Nakba (“Catastrophe”) of 1948. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, former political prisoner and Black Panther Mansa Musa speaks with award-winning Palestinian author and former political prisoner Basem Khandakji about the decades-long destruction of Palestinian society and mass displacement of Palestinians from their homeland, as well as the perseverance of Palestinian prisoners under the totalitarian conditions of Israeli prisons.
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#palestine #israel #nakba #prison
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- From Israeli Prisons to Exile: The Palestinian Author Still Denied a Reunion With His Mother
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Released from Israeli prisons during the October 2025 exchange after 21 years of incarceration, Basem Khandakji now lives in exile in Cairo. While his novel, A Mask, the Color of the Sky—written and smuggled out of prison in secret—earns international acclaim, the Palestinian author remains separated from his family. His mother, who is battling breast cancer, was denied entry at the checkpoint bridge between Palestine and Jordan, preventing their long-awaited embrace. Today, Basem describes his life in exile as a metaphoric journey, meditating on the meaning of freedom while hoping to one day return to his home in Nablus.
#palestine #israel #israelpalestineconflict #mothersday
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- "Tucker Carlson is still at his core... an American Christian ethno-nationalist"
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Amid Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza, its illegal annexation of land in the Occupied West Bank, and belligerent warmaking in Iran and Lebanon, antisemitism around the globe is rising—but so is an international chorus of anti-Zionist Jews speaking out against Israel’s crimes. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with renowned author and commentator Peter Beinart about his new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, and about the “civil war” within the Jewish world over Israel.
#tuckercarlson #israel #palestine #israelpalestineconflict
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- 40 Baltimore Mothers Taken By ICE
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- We spoke with Anthony of the International League of Peoples' Struggle in the middle of the Baltimore May Day march downtown, which was part of a national day of protests against billionaires and authoritarianism on May 1. Anthony told @therealnews he was marching with others to free the 40 Central American Baltimore mothers who were detained by ICE last month.
More info from CBS News (4/10/26): "When 40 women came for a required check-in with ICE over a two-day period in March, they were detained in holding rooms, according to the People's Power Assembly (PPA). The group heard about it from other activists in Washington state. "They do regular visits with detainees in ICE facilities and that's how they heard about this story, they brought it to us," said PPA organizer Andrew Mayton... WJZ has reached out to ICE about the women's detainment, but there's been no response."
#news #politics #ice #trump #baltimore
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