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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, January 15, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sus...

Jan 15, 20258 min

Michigan’s Muslims take matters into their own hands

In These Times magazine, The Forge News , Convergence Magazine , and The Real News Network have joined forces to produce “ Left Out: The Missing Election Narratives .” This package, which is available online and in magazine form in the the latest printed edition of In These Times, brings together essays, reporting and conversations by and with organizers, writers and cultural workers across the country. What you are about to hear is an audiobook version of one of the featured articles in this co...

Jan 14, 202515 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, January 14, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly susta...

Jan 14, 20258 min

Sara Nelsons explains how unions can fight Trump

Donald Trump will once again be inaugurated as president in just a week's time, and the lessons of workers' victories from his past administration provides an important roadmap to the fight ahead. In 2019, flight attendants organized to end a government shutdown that threw airports around the country into chaos. Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, joins The Real News for a look back at the 2019 shutdown fight and how unions can give workers ...

Jan 13, 202541 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, January 13, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, January 13, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustai...

Jan 13, 20257 min

Is the US to blame for Europe's sickness? w/Peter Mertens

Editor's note: This conversation was recorded on Dec 5, 2024. In just two weeks, the governments of Germany's Olaf Scholz and France's Michel Jean Barnier have fallen. These are just the latest signs of a political crisis in Europe that has escalated drastically since the start of the Ukraine War, which has brought inflation, deindustrialization, and instability throughout the continent. Peter Mertens , General Secretary of the Belgian Workers' Party (PTB-PVDA) and a member of his country's parl...

Jan 10, 202547 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, January 10, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, January 10, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustai...

Jan 10, 20259 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, January 9, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, January 9, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly susta...

Jan 09, 20258 min

Democracy dies, first, in the workplace: A conversation with Hamilton Nolan and Sara Nelson | Working People

“I did not start out as a writer interested in organized labor,” Hamilton Nolan writes in The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor; “I started out as a writer interested in why America was so fucked up. Why did we have such gargantuan levels of inequality? Why were thousands of homeless people living in the streets of cities where billionaires frolicked in penthouses? Why was it that certain classes of people worked hard their entire lives and stayed poor, just as th...

Jan 08, 20251 hr 18 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, January 8, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sust...

Jan 08, 202510 min

Tenured Jewish professor FIRED for pro-Palestine speech w/Maura Finkelstein | The Marc Steiner Show

While teaching at Muhlenberg College, Maura Finkelstein made no secret of her support for Palestinian liberation. Even before receiving tenure, Finkelstein taught courses on Palestine and made her views publicly known. Then, in May of 2024, she was unceremoniously fired for sharing pro-Palestine content on her personal social media account. Finkelstein joins The Marc Steiner Show to discuss her journey as an anti-Zionist Jewish American, and why she's willing to stand by her principles despite t...

Jan 07, 202525 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, January 7, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustai...

Jan 07, 20257 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, January 6, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, January 6, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustain...

Jan 06, 20258 min

The medical industry and mass incarceration w/Erica Woodland | Rattling the Bars

Popular representations of the Black Panthers often focus on their armed self-defense activities, but medical services and health justice were a tremendous part of the party's work. This legacy continues today as Black activists work to transform the medical industrial complex and its relationship to the prison system. Erica Woodland (he/him), co-author of Healing Justice Lineages , joins Rattling the Bars to discuss this history, his current activism, and the role of The Real News's own beloved...

Dec 23, 202428 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, December 20, 2024

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 20, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly susta...

Dec 20, 202412 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, December 19, 2024

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, December 19, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sus...

Dec 19, 20247 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, December 18, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly su...

Dec 18, 202410 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, December 17, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sust...

Dec 17, 20249 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, December 16, 2024

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, December 16, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly susta...

Dec 16, 20246 min

'Incredibly hypocritical': Hunter Biden's pardon and President Biden's legacy | Rattling the Bars

President Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum. Among these critics are opponents of the War on Drugs and mass incarceration, which President Biden played a personal role in architecting throughout his political career. Jason Ortiz, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Last Prisoner Project , joins Rattling the Bars to discuss Hunter Biden’s pardon and what it means for Biden’s legacy. Studio / Post-Production: Cameron Grana...

Dec 16, 202425 min

Georgia residents ABANDONED after toxic BioLab fire | Working People

“In late September,” Timothy Pratt writes in Capital & Main, “a massive billow of smoke from a chemical fire spread over metro Atlanta, lingering for weeks and prompting national news coverage. The smoke has cleared, but the anger has not dissipated in Conyers, the city of 20,000 where the fire occurred, and in surrounding areas... Smoke from the blaze left some residents with breathing difficulties, headaches, dizziness and skin rashes in the days that followed, along with a deepening worry...

Dec 13, 20241 hr 17 min

The UnitedHealthcare CEO assassination and America’s class divide

The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has gripped the nation and revived a passionate debate on the dismal state of healthcare in the US. With suspect Luigi Mangione now in custody, the police manhunt is over—but the real political fallout may have only just begun. In this special edition of Inequality Watch, Taya Graham and Stephen Janis react to the media’s response to the killing, and also speak with Kat Abughazaleh of Mother Jones , Prem Thakker of Zeteo , and activist Jef...

Dec 13, 20241 hr 38 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, December 13, 2024

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 13, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly susta...

Dec 13, 20248 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, December 12, 2024

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, December 12, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sus...

Dec 12, 20247 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, December 11, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly su...

Dec 11, 202410 min

How Big Tech made Trump 2.0 w/Cory Doctorow

There are a lot of similarities between the 2016 and 2024 elections, but the media ecosystem we have today is fundamentally different from the ecosystem we had in 2015-2016, during the first stage of Donald Trump’s political rise and the MAGA-morphosis of the Republican party. The Twitter and Facebook of that time are long gone, as are many of the methods of digital resistance that people employed on those platforms during the first Trump administration. The power and visibility dynamics on mult...

Dec 10, 202445 min

'We are such a small group': The Israelis who defend Palestinians | The Marc Steiner Show

It's no secret that Israel has sought to fully annex the West Bank for decades—and now, many believe the time may be near. For Rabbi Arik Ascherman , the struggle to defend Palestinians in the West Bank from settler attacks has become his life's work. But it's a task that is only becoming more difficult with time, as the extreme dehumanization of Palestinians becomes all-the-more normalized by the genocide in Gaza. Ascherman returns to The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the brutal violence unfoldi...

Dec 10, 202431 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, December 10, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sust...

Dec 10, 202410 min

Robert Reich predicted the death of the US middle class 30 years ago. We asked him how to save it.

30 years ago, in 1994, then-US Labor Secretary Robert Reich issued a prescient warning to all Americans: “We are on the way to becoming a two-tiered society.” Reich also predicted that, as wealth inequality continued to explode in the US, working people would be consumed by righteous populist rage that could be easily manipulated; the rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement decades later proved Reich to be devastatingly right. In this special livestreamed edition of Inequality Watch, Taya Gra...

Dec 09, 202457 min

Alabama prisoners sued to stop forced labor—a court dismissed their case

Five incarcerated people in Alabama are fighting to push forward a lawsuit, Stanley v. Ivey, challenging the state's power to punish prisoners who resist forced labor. Despite a state constitutional provision abolishing slavery that was passed in 2022 by referendum, Montgomery County Circuit Court dismissed the plaintiffs' lawsuit, arguing Governor Kay Ivey and Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm were protected by state sovereign immunity. Emily Early, Associate Director of ...

Dec 09, 202426 min
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