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Jimmy Kimmel is back, but Trump's war on free speech is just beginning
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32:43By pressuring broadcast giant ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show—a decision that ABC reversed this week—the Trump administration has taken its assault on the First Amendment to new heights over the past week. Kimmel’s show is back on the air for now, but the whole debacle has revealed just how vulnerable free speech in America is to poli…
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Jimmy Kimmel is back, but Trump's war on free speech is just beginning
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32:43By pressuring broadcast giant ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show—a decision that ABC reversed this week—the Trump administration has taken its assault on the First Amendment to new heights over the past week. Kimmel’s show is back on the air for now, but the whole debacle has revealed just how vulnerable free speech in America is to poli…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, September 25, 2025
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10:10Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, September 25, 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 …
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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7:24Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, September 24, 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…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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5:53Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, September 23, 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 T…
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CA to close infamous Norco prison—this abolitionist coalition wants to shut down more facilities
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25:32After years of pressure from community members and a coalition of over 80 organizations, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has announced plans to close the infamous California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, CA, by the fall of 2026. But organizers say this is just the beginning—they are fighting to close more prisons in Ca…
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EXCLUSIVE: Federal whistleblowers expose how Trump’s HUD is abandoning vulnerable Americans
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36:17Whistleblowers working in the federal government are going public to expose an emergency situation within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. According to their formal whistleblower complaint, under President Trump’s administration, “HUD leadership has already violated the law” and taken actions that “will result in legal violations, g…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, September 22, 2025
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5:33Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, September 22, 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 Ta…
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Paulo Freire and education for freedom | Stories of Resistance
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8:56Brazilian educator Paulo Freire inspired and he resisted. He was imprisoned and exiled during the Brazilian dictatorship and he carried his teachings around the world. He believed literacy and learning could be tools to empower. He helped people learn to read and write, but also understand their place of oppression and rise above it. He wrote, “Edu…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, September 19, 2025
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7:11Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, September 19, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Ta…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, September 18, 2025
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6:53Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, September 18, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora …
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Argentine students continue to march against the crimes and disappearances of the past
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6:56High school students are still marching in Argentina to remember the disappeared—kids like them who were kidnapped, detained, tortured and disappeared nearly a half century ago during the country’s military dictatorship. Kidnapped during an operation known as the Night of the Pencils—carried out on September 16, 1976. This is episode 66 of Stories …
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, September 17, 2025
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5:16Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, September 17, 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…
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Trump’s incarceration nation: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is just the beginning
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23:02The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has halted the imminent closure of the infamous "Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp in Florida; now, the future of the facility, and the people incarcerated within it, remains in limbo. “But no matter the future of Alligator Alcatraz, the Trump administration is turning it into a model for expanding detention capac…
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Sanitizing MLK’s legacy begins by forgetting his life outside the South
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38:46In our mythological retelling of the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. vanquished the racist apartheid system of Jim Crow in the American South. However, in her groundbreaking new book, historian Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for rac…
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Sanitizing MLK’s legacy begins by forgetting his life outside the South
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38:46In our mythological retelling of the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. vanquished the racist apartheid system of Jim Crow in the American South. However, in her groundbreaking new book, historian Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for rac…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, September 16, 2025
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5:31Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, September 16, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora T…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, September 15, 2025
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5:34Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, September 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 Ta…
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The US never stopped treating Mexico like an imperial colony
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50:17From military invasions, occupations, and annexations of Mexican territories in the 19th century to the post-NAFTA capture of Mexican industries, resources, and labor markets by American companies and investors, US-Mexico relations have always been defined by American imperial domination. “Mexico's economy has been economically dominated and incorp…
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‘THIS IS WAR’: Will Charlie Kirk's assassination unleash a wave of political retribution?
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38:49The assassination of Charlie Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump, conservative political activist, and founder of Turning Point USA, has sent shockwaves throughout the entire country. As of Thursday, Sept. 11, Kirk’s killer is still at large. Authorities still do not know who the shooter is and what their motivations were, but that hasn't …
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, September 12, 2025
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6:58Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, September 12, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Ta…
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The biggest labor story in the US right now is happening at Microsoft
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1:10:13Current and former tech workers with the No Azure for Apartheid coalition continue to disrupt business as usual at Microsoft’s global headquarters in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide, and in protest of Microsoft’s contracts with the Israeli military to provide tech that Israel uses to surveil, kill, and retroactively justify the killi…
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September 11: Remembering the Resistance to Pinochet’s Chile
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15:30On September 11, 1973, tanks rumbled over the streets of Santiago, Chile. Planes bombed La Moneda, the presidential palace, as US-backed General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected President Salvador Allende. It was a dark, dark moment in Chile’s history. Pinochet would unleash a bloody regime that would grip power until 1990. Dur…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, September 11, 2025
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5:38Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, September 11, 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 …
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Democracy is too important to be left to the Democrats
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1:21:56Not just in the United States, but around the world, authoritarianism is rising and people’s faith in the concept of “democracy” is collapsing. “In the absence of clarity from its defenders and amid the failures of our putatively democratic institutions,” Osita Nwanevu writes in his new book, The Right of the People, “democracy has become a speciou…
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‘We want DC to be free!’ Voices from the ‘We are all DC’ march
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30:38The “We are all DC” march on Saturday, Sept. 6, was one of the largest protests—if not the largest—to take place in the US capital since the beginning of the second Trump administration. Thousands of local residents, out-of-state supporters, union members, and others marched through the streets of Washington, DC, to demand an end to President Trump…
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Trump and Silicon Valley’s plan to rule the world with AI weapons
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53:34The unnerving alliance between Big Tech and the second Trump administration goes much deeper than many in the public realize. What factors are motivating President Trump and Silicon Valley’s monumental investments in “artificial intelligence” infrastructure and the expanded integration of “AI” into military and governmental operating systems? What …
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Trump and Silicon Valley’s plan to rule the world with AI weapons
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53:34The unnerving alliance between Big Tech and the second Trump administration goes much deeper than many in the public realize. What factors are motivating President Trump and Silicon Valley’s monumental investments in “artificial intelligence” infrastructure and the expanded integration of “AI” into military and governmental operating systems? What …
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, September 9, 2025
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6:19Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, September 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 Ta…
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Why US veterans are sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla
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15:32After multiple voyages by the Gaza Freedom Flotilla have been prevented from reaching Gaza’s shores by Israel’s military, a massive fleet of freedom flotillas are currently sailing towards Gaza to deliver life-saving humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the midst of genocide. The Global Sumud Flotilla “brings together a diverse coalition of internat…
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‘We are all DC’: Massive protests rock US capital in defiance of Trump
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5:30On Saturday, Sept. 6, thousands of local residents, out-of-state supporters, union members, and concerned citizens of all stripes marched through the nation’s capital to protest President Trump’s militarized federal occupation of Washington, DC. The “We are all DC” march was the largest protest to take place in the US capital since the beginning of…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, September 8, 2025
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5:44Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, September 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 Tal…
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Tupamaro Prison Break: Montevideo, 1971 | Stories of Resistance
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5:24It’s past midnight on September 6, 1971. Across the prison, dozens of men slip out of their beds. Bricks slide out from the walls of their cells. Bodies slip out silently. They move into a tunnel that has been chiseled and dug slowly and silently for eight months, and they creep one by one underneath the prison. It is the stuff of movies. Or of leg…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, September 5, 2025
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4:50Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, September 5, 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 Tal…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, September 4, 2025
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6:26Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, September 4, 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 T…
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DC residents rebel against Trump’s ‘gestapo takeover’ of US capital
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12:19Residents of Washington, DC, continue to take to the streets to protest President Trump’s federal takeover of the city and deployment of National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officers as a “solution” to a fabricated “crime wave.” “We demand ICE out of DC. We demand an end to this unnecessary law enforcement,” Nee Nee Taylor, co-founder …
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Inside the tech worker revolt for Palestine at Microsoft
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44:42Tech workers at the heart of Microsoft are waging one of the most significant and undercovered labor battles in the US right now. For the last two weeks, members of the No Azure for Apartheid coalition, including current and former tech workers at Microsoft and community allies, have been taking bold, continuing, and escalating actions to disrupt b…
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‘We want life': Palestinians in Gaza describe their daily struggle to survive
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32:16Right now, Israel's military is invading and obliterating what remains of Gaza City. After 700 days of genocidal bombing, shooting, forced starvation, and the systematic destruction of schools, hospitals, farms, refugee camps, roads, houses, and the entire infrastructure of civilian life, the Palestinians clinging to life in Gaza City are being ext…
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It’s not ‘complicated’: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine is fueled by ‘colonial racism’
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24:58“Colonial racism helps explain the Trump administration’s adulation of Israeli violence against Palestinians,” Professor Aviva Chomsky writes at The Nation. In fact, colonial racism is the common thread binding the violent, eliminationist politics of Donald Trump in the US and Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. In this installment of our ongoing series …
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It’s not ‘complicated’: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine is fueled by ‘colonial racism’
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24:58“Colonial racism helps explain the Trump administration’s adulation of Israeli violence against Palestinians,” Professor Aviva Chomsky writes at The Nation. In fact, colonial racism is the common thread binding the violent, eliminationist politics of Donald Trump in the US and Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. In this installment of our ongoing series …
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, September 2, 2025
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6:57Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, August 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 Tal…
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Kim Kelly: "Incarcerated workers are part of the labor movement"
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29:55“Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” award-winning journalist Kim Kelly says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts and the labor of people who are in prison.” Kelly recently joined Mansa Musa on an episode of Rattling the Bars exploring the history of …
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In August 1791, slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue revolted, rising up by the thousands. Within ten days they've taken over the whole northern province. By the following year, they controlled a third of the colony. It was the spark that would ignite the Haitian revolution — a 13-year-long endeavour. Independence would finally come on Jan…
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Unions face extinction under Trump. What the hell is labor doing to fight back?
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14:38On Aug. 1, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a court injunction halting President Trump’s executive order eliminating collective bargaining rights for federal unions. The decision has cleared the way for the Trump administration to execute its total assault on federal unions and workers’ rights. “Union contracts at the Department of Ve…
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Railroad workers explain why Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific mega-merger will be a 'disaster'
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1:20:23Railroad workers are sounding the alarm about the potentially catastrophic consequences of the proposed mega-merger of two of the nation’s Class 1 freight rail companies. “Union Pacific said it would buy smaller rival Norfolk Southern in an $85-billion deal to create the country’s first coast-to-coast freight rail operator,” Reuters reported in Jul…
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The Nakba never ended: A conversation with Haim Bresheeth
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52:44Professor Haim Bresheeth is the son of Holocaust survivors, raised in Palestine and Israel, and a founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine. He served in the Israeli army during the Six-Day War in 1967—an event that transformed his life forever. On Nov. 1, 2024, Bresheeth was arrested in London after giving a speech at a pro-Palestine rally outsi…
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The Nakba never ended: A conversation with Haim Bresheeth
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52:44Professor Haim Bresheeth is the son of Holocaust survivors, raised in Palestine and Israel, and a founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine. He served in the Israeli army during the Six-Day War in 1967—an event that transformed his life forever. On Nov. 1, 2024, Bresheeth was arrested in London after giving a speech at a pro-Palestine rally outsi…
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Palestine, genocide, and the imperialist lie of the 'rules-based international order'
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44:16Israel’s US-backed genocidal destruction of Gaza has exploded the fiction of the “rules-based” international order and exposed the violent, people-destroying, land-grabbing imperialism it was always based on. Over the last two years, the US and Israel have carried out a genocidal war in Gaza, officially killing over 60,000 people, bombing Gaza’s ci…
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El Salvador’s guerrilla Radio Venceremos | Stories of Resistance
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6:42The 1980s were a time of war El Salvador. The government openly attacked its citizens. Repression. Murder. Massacres. Radio Venceremos broadcasted twice a day. And it was a voice of truth. A voice of reason. A voice of resistance amid the violence and the government repression and the military bloodshed. They spoke truth to power. They offered hope…
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Trump’s takeover of Washington, DC: ‘Crazy as hell!’ and ‘Distraction from Epstein’
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45:58For the last week, countless videos have circulated online showing National Guard troops menacingly patrolling the streets of Washington, DC, and militarized police setting up traffic checkpoints, harassing residents in the streets, and violently clearing encampments of people experiencing homelessness. “The state of mind of DC citizens right now i…
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