The Chris Hedges Report: Splinterlands’ Climate Dystopia
In his dystopian novel Splinterlands, John Feffer looks ahead to life on planet earth in the year 2050. The signs of societal breakdown in the not-so-distant future, if we look,…
Chris Hedges on trauma & teaching writing in prison
Since 2013, Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of The Chris Hedges Report, has taught college courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history at East Jersey State Prison (aka…
The Chris Hedges Report: Eurydice Eve on America’s Sexual Crisis
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Starbucks escalates war on unions with store closures
The union wave is hitting coffee chains big and small, but the bosses aren’t going down without a fight. In June, after workers there voted overwhelmingly to unionize, Starbucks permanently…
Police crackdown on Istanbul Pride march
The conservative AKP government of Turkey has repeatedly banned all Pride marches since 2014. AKP politicians—including president Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan—and pro-government media continue to target and marginalize the LGBTQ community,…
A father tried to protect his daughter, then cops attacked him and his dog
The Loveland, Colorado, Police Department has made national headlines for brutality and overreach. But a new case involving the disturbing arrest of an entire family is raising more questions about…
The Chris Hedges Report: Hemingway’s Shadow
The writer Mark Kurlansky, by a series of coincidences, spent his life as a journalist and author in the shadow of Ernest Hemingway, starting with his presence in Idaho on…
NY prisons ban care packages containing food
The prison-industrial complex has many ways of turning the incarceration of human beings into a profitable business model. In New York state, new regulations targeting care packages for prisoners show…
They filmed police on their own property, cops used ruthless tactics to stop them
Texas teenager stands up for her right to record the police and her whole family pays the price! Please join journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis for this important episode…
The Algerian Revolution—60 years later
July 5, 2022, marks the 60th anniversary of Algeria securing its independence from France. Algeria’s revolutionary example inspired activists and freedom fighters around the world, including anti-colonial leaders throughout Africa…
How America’s broken electoral system made the Jan 6 insurrection possible
America’s electoral system is broken. From partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression to an Electoral College that sidelines the popular vote, it should surprise no one that a majority of Americans…
How Maryland is preventing prisoners from getting college degrees
UPDATE (7/1/2022): One day after this segment aired, prison authorities announced that they had “reconsidered†their earlier decision, clearing the way for Atiba to earn his degree. Education is one…
How Native organizers won voting access and reached record turnout in 2020
Read the transcript of this video: https://therealnews.com/how-native-organizers-won-voting-access-and-reached-record-turnout-in-2020 Native Americans overcame multiple challenges to turn out in record numbers during the 2020 elections, playing a crucial role in Joe Biden’s victory…
Keeping incarcerated mothers and their families together
As Wendy Sawyer and Wanda Bertram recently wrote for the Prison Policy Initiative, “Over half (58%) of all women in US prisons are mothers, as are 80% of women in…
The drug-resistant bacteria crisis no one’s talking about
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the world for the past two years, but there’s a potentially deadlier threat creeping across the globe right now that hardly anyone is talking about.…
A cop pulled them over for a minor infraction, then the encounter took a bizarre turn
The story of one Minnesota couple’s ongoing problems with police provides a pointed example of the systematic overpolicing of rural communities across the country. In this episode of the Police…
Georgia’s Latinx community seeks to ‘out-organize’ voter suppression
Georgians went to the polls in record numbers during the May 24 primary ahead of the crucial 2022 midterm elections, despite renewed GOP efforts to suppress the votes of the…
‘F*ck this indifferent, hypocritical, & violent world!’
“There are times when I want to scream out: “F*** this entire indifferent, hypocritical and violent world!’†So writes philosopher George Yancy in a recent piece for Truthout entitled “If…
The Chris Hedges Report: Disaster patriarchy and the global war on women
The leaked majority draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health—which suggests the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, returning the question of abortion to the states—is…
Prison food is much worse than you think
“Prison food in the United States is a public health and human rights crisis,†the Maryland Food & Prison Abolition Project states on their website. “By weaponizing the experience of…
Fired Amazon union organizer: “We’re not able to feed ourselvesâ€
Multiple pro-union Amazon workers have been fired recently in suspected acts of retaliation and union busting from the company. Albert Elliot, a former Amazon employee and organizer with the rank-and-file…
The Chris Hedges Report: Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton, speaks out
Julian Assange has spent over a decade fighting imprisonment, extradition, and CIA espionage. On Oct. 8, Chris Hedges and others will gather in Washington, DC, to demand Assange’s release at…
The Chris Hedges Report: The monstrous myth of Custer
There is a vast disparity between the mythic presentation of Custer and the reality of the so-called Indian wars. Nathaniel Philbrick, author of The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and…
Why we work so hard for working people
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Rattling the Bars: Unions must stand up for prisoners
Prisoners today are fighting the same labor conditions behind bars that birthed the union movement in the 19th Century. US labor journalist and Real News contributor Michael Sainato joins Rattling…
The Marc Steiner Show: Trump Republicans’ return to power in 2022, 2024 elections
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