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- 7644 - Episode 10, Part 2 | Nicaragua, 1980s. Contra War
In the early 1980s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan launched a covert war to destroy the fledgling Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. It was brutal: Paramilitary war, CIA attacks, economic blockade, and more.
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It would wreak havoc on the country, killing tens of thousands and ravaging the economy. But an international solidarity movement stood up in response. And the Reagan government's hubris, and drive to fuel its war on Nicaragua, would break U.S. laws and lead to a shocking scandal in Washington: Iran Contra.
In this episode, host Michael Fox walks back into the 1980s, to the U.S. response to revolution in Nicaragua and to the international solidarity that pushed back.This is Part 2 of Episode 10.
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.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.
Guests:
Alex Aviña
William Robinson
Alex Cox
Marvin Ortega Rodriguez
Eline Van Ommen
Peter Kornbluh
Coleen Littlejohn
Grahame Russell
Jose Francisco Artola
Edited by Heather Gies.
Sound design by Gustavo Türck.
Theme music by Monte Perdidoand Michael Fox.
Permanent links
Monte Perdido's new album Ofrenda is now out. You can listen to the full album on SpotifyOther music from Blue Dot Sessions.For declassified documents on the U.S. Contra war on Nicaragua and the Iran Contra affair, you can visit Peter Kornbluh's National Security Archives here and here.Brian...Fri, 31 May 2024 - 7643 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, May 31, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 31, 2024.
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Story 1 - UWO prez pens long letter explaining all the ways that the university refuses to meet student demands who are demanding action related to Gaza.
Story 2 - Police who murdered an Indigenous man decry the prohibition of cops sharing notes before they are investigated on the grounds of mental health.
Story 3 - One of Canada's richest men, Robert G. Miller, has been arrested for sexual assault of 8 girls and 2 women. His assistant and other associates were charged too.
Story 4 - The EU is imposing high tariffs on Russian and Belarussian agriculture products to stop their flow into the European market. Europe is buying +3x as much ag from Russia since their invasion.
Story 5 - The US and Argentina are doing war games, showing off the cozy relationship betwen the two countries, despite the leadership of a fascist.Fri, 31 May 2024 - 7642 - Globalize the student intifada: organizers speak
The spread of the “Student Intifada” around the globe has transformed universities into sites of anti-Zionist struggle, triggering brutal repression from school administrations, police, and vigilantes. In this special livestream event, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez and Marc Steiner sit down with student organizers from the University of Michigan, Purdue, and Oxford to discuss the state of the international student movement in solidarity with Palestine.
Studio Production: David Hebden, Cameron Granadino & Kayla Rivara
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Donate to support this podcastThu, 30 May 2024 - 7641 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, May 30, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 30, 2024.
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Referenced articles:
Story 1 - 5% of RMC students say they've been sexually attacked in the last year, 9% sexually assaulted.
Story 2 - A random group thinks that it's unfair that the Minister of Health can now pull products off the shelf that are being used dangerously off-lable.
Story 3 - BMO missed it's earnings target by only making $2.03B in the first quarter; Canadian profit up by 23%.
Story 4 - Sierre Leone struggles with Kush-driven epidemic.
Story 5 - Lula recals Brazil's ambassador from Israel.Thu, 30 May 2024 - 7640 - Episode 10, Part 1 | Nicaragua, 1980s. Revolution
The 1979 Nicaraguan revolution that overthrew a brutal U.S.-backed dictator ushered in a wave of hope in the Central American country. The new Sandinista government launched literacy and healthcare campaigns, carried out land reform and promised to improving the lives of all.
But the United States, under president Ronald Reagan, feared the dominos would fall across Central America, and they unleashed assault on the country: paramilitary war, CIA attacks, economic blockade, and much more.
In this episode, host Michael Fox, walks by into the 1980s, to the overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza and the beginning of both the Sandinista government and the U.S. response.This is Part 1, of episode 10.
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.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.
This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.
Guests:
Alex Aviña
William Robinson
Marvin Ortega Rodriguez
Eline Van Ommen
Peter Kornbluh
Edited by Heather Gies.
Sound design by Gustavo Türck.
Theme music by Monte Perdidoand Michael Fox
Other music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Follow and support journalist Michael Fox or Under the Shadow at https://www.patreon.com/mfox
You can also see pictures and listen to full clips of Michael Fox’s music for this episode.
For Declassified documents on the U.S. contra war on Nicaragua, and Iran Contra, you can visit Peter Kornbluh's National Security Archives here and here.
Eline van Ommen’s book, Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War (University of California Press, 2023), is available here.
For the 2007 documentary American Sandinista, you can visit the website of director Jason Blalock. https://jasonblalock.com/
Here are links to the 1980 documentaries...Wed, 29 May 2024 - 7639 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 29, 2024.
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Referenced articles:
Story 1 - Class action has been greenlighted against Bombardier.
Story 2 - Dozens of people have been smuggled from Canada into the United States via freight train.
Story 3 - At least 126 youth have died from toxic drugs since 2019.
Story 4 - Almost 100 million chickens have been slaughtered to try and stop bird flu.
Story 5 - Georgian law makers pass law that will require media, NGOs and other organizations who are more than 20% foreign funded to register with government as operating for a foreign agency.
Story 6 - Dick Schoof, a guy with no government or parliamentary experience, is being named Prime Minister by the right-wing cabinet of Holland.Wed, 29 May 2024 - 7638 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, May 28, 2024.
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Story 1 - Migrants in PEI are on day 4 of hunger strike over proposed changes to immigration in that province.
Story 2 - Glad Day Bookstore in Toronto, the world's oldest 2SLGTBQ bookstore, faces closure.
Story 3 - The world reacts to Israel's massacre of people living in tents in Rafah.
Story 4 - Possible 2000 people dead after landslide in Papua New Guinea
Story 5 - The military government of Burkina Faso has declared it will stay in power for another 5 years, foregoing July's election (and planned return to democracy)
Tue, 28 May 2024 - 7637 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, May 27, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, May 27, 2024.
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Story 1 - Deadline was 8 AM for Palestinian solidarity activists to clear out of their encampment. Rally is on now ...
Story 2 - Canada set to deport the truck driver who caused the Humboldt Broncos bus accident -- after he's served his 8-year prison sentence.
Story 3 - The US has quietly funded two mining projects in Canada in the hopes of securing access to critical minerals as China's grip tightens around the industry.
Story 4 - Massacre in Rafah has killed many, the world watches in horror.
Story 5 - More than 100 killed in el-Fasher in Sudan as fighting intensifies between the RSF and the Sudanese military.Mon, 27 May 2024 - 7636 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, May 24, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 24, 2024.
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Story 1 - SK teachers to vote on tentative deal.
Story 2 - Methylmercury, more toxic than mercury is now a growing compound in the English-Wabigoon river.
Story 3 - The Canadian Medical Association calls for Canada to defund its revenues so that its members can make more money on capital gains.
Story 4 - Cacao producers in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana are organizing to get higher tariffs on the fruit so that they can exit poverty. Global chocolate giants make more than $100 billion in profits.
Story 5 - The UK heads to the polls for the first time in 4.5 years.Fri, 24 May 2024 - 7635 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, May 23, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 23, 2024.
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Story 1 - Robert Pickton in a medically-induced coma after being beaten nearly to death in Port-Cartier.
Story 2 - Wealthy donor to the University of Manitoba is trying to get valedictorian of the graduating medical class in trouble for mentioning Gaza in his speech.
Story 3 - Loblaws is planning to ditch Freedom Mobile in favour of a company co-owned by Rogers and Bell. Singh and Quebecor are calling for an investigation by the competition bureau.
Story 4 - Indigenous people in New Caledonia are rioting over proposed changes to voting; France has sent police and military to put down protests. At least 6 have been killed. Plane spotters say that French planes are refueling at YVR.
Story 5 - Lam To is Vietnam's new president, a position that is largely symbolic.
Story 6 - Democracy activist Netiporn "Bung" Sanesangkhom dies in custody after more than 110 days of a hunder strike for democratic reform in Thailand.Thu, 23 May 2024 - 7634 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 22, 2024.
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Story 1 - Cops crack heads at encampment at UQAM but activists at Ontario Tech U win huge advances from their admin.
Story 2 - Government committee identifies 35 threats to the security of Canadiands. Billionaires are number 5 though impact pretty much the entire list.
Story 3 - Countries around the world react to the ICC case against Israeli and Hamas leaders. In Canada, it took more than 31 hours for Trudeau to say anything and media to report on anything.
Story 4 - Israel attacks one of two hospitals left in northern Gaza.
Story 5 - Three Americans charged in failed and bizarre coup attenmpt in Congo.
Story 6 - William Ruto is in the US to discuss forming Kenyan-led military initiative in Haiti.Wed, 22 May 2024 - 7633 - Baltimore's billion-dollar disaster through the eyes of a longshoreman | Working People
Nearly two months have passed since the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and the city is still reeling from the disaster. The bridge collapse immediately rendered the Port of Baltimore inoperable, threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs, and billions in wages, business revenue, and state taxes. While channels into the port have begun to open back up slowly, workers on the waterfront have been deeply affected, and the road to recovery will be long. As questions linger about the root causes of the Key Bridge collapse and what sort of future Baltimore can salvage for itself, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez and Marc Steiner, host of The Marc Steiner Show, team up to speak with John Blom, a veteran longshoreman who worked in the Port of Baltimore for over 30 years, to get a workers' history of the port and its meaning to the city it nurtured. Additional links/info below…
Kari Lydersen, In These Times, "Making waves: Baltimore longshoremen fight for democracy within union"Dominick Phillippe-August, WMAR, “Nearly 140,000 jobs could be impacted by Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse”Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, “Largest channel so far opens for 24/7 vessel traffic into Port of Baltimore after Key Bridge collapse”Michael Sainato, The Guardian, “Maryland lawmakers draft emergency bill to help Baltimore port workers”Permanent links below...
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Jules Taylor, "Working People" Theme Song
Studio Production: David Hebden
Post-Production: Jules TaylorWed, 22 May 2024 - 7632 - Could climate change kill sports? w/Madeleine Orr | Edge of Sports
It’s been six years since the IPCC released its 2018 report warning that mean global temperatures would rise past 1.5 Celsius unless drastic action was taken by 2030. While climate change is already impacting all aspects of our lives, there is one area where relatively rapid and meaningful steps could be taken, but have yet to materialize: sports. Rising temperatures, seas, and emissions all call into question the sustainability of current sports practices. Can athletes continue to compete outdoors under current game conditions in scorching climates? What happens to athletes from island nations threatened by rising sea levels? How can mega-events like the Olympics and the carbon footprints left behind by associated construction and tourism continue to be justified? Professor Madeleine Orr joins Edge of Sports to discuss these questions and other topics addressed in her book, Warming Up: How Climate Change is Changing Sports.
Studio Production: David Hebden
Post-Production: Taylor Hebden
Audio Post-Production: David Hebden
Opening Sequence: Cameron Granadino
Music by: Eze Jackson & Carlos Guillen
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Donate to support this podcastTue, 21 May 2024 - 7631 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, May 21, 2024.
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Referenced articles:
Story 1 - SIRT investigating after " officer-involved shooting: in Regina.
Story 2 - Unexploded incendiary devices found at site of future EV battery site.
Story 3 - Omar Khadr denied an appeal with the US Supreme Court.
Story 4 - Top Iranian officials die in helicopter crash in region blanketed in thick fog.
Story 5 - The ICC issues arrest warrant for leadership of both Hamas and Israel, will allow events of Oct. 7 and the genocide of Gaza to be examined in court.
Story 6 - Julian Assange wins the right to appeal his extradition to the US.Tue, 21 May 2024 - 7630 - 'Help us to get better': Maryland is failing women released from prison
Critics of the prison industrial complex have long noted the system's failure to properly rehabilitate those who are locked away in its bowels. Christina Merryman and Ameena Deramous return to Rattling the Bars for the second part of a two-part interview on the reality facing prisoners in Maryland's only women's correctional facility.
Studio Production: David Hebden
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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Donate to support this podcastFri, 17 May 2024 - 7629 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, May 17, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 17, 2024.
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Story 1 - Edmonton police say that have evidence that a serial killer operated in the 1970s. He's dead.
Story 2- Speaker of Sk's Legislative Assembly tears up membership card and makes serious allegations of harassment against the incoming speaker.
Story 3 - Loblaw agrees to voluntarily sign the Grocery Code of Conduct. Walmart is still holding out.
Story 4 - Half of telcos in Canada are not compliant in alllowing people to make complaints on their websites.
Story 5 - Phoenix rose from the ashes only to be finally killed.
Story 6 - Mahamet Deby has been elected president in Chad though election watchers are concerned about how free and fair the process was.
Story 7 - 700,000 Palestinians flee Northern Gaza as Israel lays seige again to the region and also prepares for ground invasion in the south.Fri, 17 May 2024 - 7628 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, May 16, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 16, 2024.
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Story 1 - Double-digit profit percentage increases for two REITs making money off Halifax renters.
Story 2 - McGill loses second injunction. Students have a right to stay in their encampment.
Story 3 - CN will sell the Pont de Québec will be sold to the federal government for a symbolic $1 ending a very long political saga.
Story 4 - A barge hits a bridge in Galveston, Texas causing an oil spill.
Story 5 - 8 Mexican farm workers killed in bus crash north of Orlando.
Story 6 - Drone attacks in Amhara region of Ethiopia kills some number of civilians.
Story 7 - Assassintation attempt targets Robert Fico, PM of Slovakia.Thu, 16 May 2024 - 7627 - South Baltimore residents on the toxic reality of living in a 'sacrifice zone'
“South Baltimore is a sacrifice zone,” Michael Middleton and Dr. Sacoby Wilson wrote in a guest commentary published in Maryland Matters this February. “The six communities that make up South Baltimore—Cherry Hill, Westport, Mt. Winans, Lakeland, Brooklyn, and Curtis Bay—rank in the top 3% of the state for environmental burden using a Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) screening tool. Curtis Bay, the highest in the state, is Maryland’s poster child for environmental injustice. Industrial areas near Curtis Bay house oil tanks, a wastewater treatment plant, chemical plants, landfills, the country’s largest medical waste incinerator, and more. Heavy diesel trucks frequent residential streets. The Wagner’s Point and Fairfield communities that were once Curtis Bay’s neighbors to the east are gone. Those residents accepted buyouts to leave between the 1980s and 2011 after a series of chemical spills and accidents.” In this episode, we continue our “Sacrificed” series by focusing on communities in South Baltimore and a story that quite literally hits close to home, less than half an hour from where Max lives. We speak with a panel of residents of South Baltimore about how they have seen their communities change over the years, what it feels like to be “sacrificed” by industry and their government, how they and their neighbors are fighting for change, fighting for justice, and what others in Baltimore and beyond can do to help. Panelists include: David Jones, who has lived in Curtis Bay for over 35 years; Angela Smothers, a lifelong resident of Mt. Winans; Carlos Sanchez, a youth leader born and raised in Lakeland; and Tiffany Thompson, who was born and raised in Cherry Hill and has lived in Curtis Bay for the past three years.
Coal-Free Curtis Bay Facebook pageNicole Fabricant, University of California Press, Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in BaltimoreNicole Fabricant, The Real News Network, “Opinion | CSX explosion in Curtis Bay should alarm Baltimore City and accelerate real change”Michael Middleton & Dr. Sacoby Wilson, Maryland Matters, “Commentary: Maryland deserves a better environmental justice bill”Chloe Ahmann, Baltimore Sun, “Curtis Bay residents deserve a coal-free future”Christine Condon & Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, “Curtis Bay residents ask state to shut down South Baltimore CSX facility after study documents toll of coal dust”Aman Azhar, InsideClimate News, “On a ‘Toxic Tour’ of Curtis Bay in South Baltimore, Visiting Academics and Activists See a Hidden Part of the City”Christian Olaniran, Adam Thompson, Caroline Foreback, CBS News, “Residents meet after air quality study reveals presence of coal dust in Curtis...
Additional links/info below…Wed, 15 May 2024 - 7626 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 15, 2024.
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Donate to support this podcastWed, 15 May 2024 - 7625 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, May 14, 2024.
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Donate to support this podcastTue, 14 May 2024 - 7624 - Sports gambling's takeover of the pro sports world is just beginning | Edge of Sports
Sports gambling's rapid takeover of the professional sports industry is arguably the most important development of our time in the world of athletics. The introduction of legal betting has created a powerful new source of temptation with corrosive effects on fans, players, owners, and ultimately the games themselves. Sports journalist Danny Funt joins Edge of Sports to discuss the phenomenon and his upcoming book on the subject.
Studio Production: David Hebden
Post-Production: Taylor Hebden
Audio Post-Production: David Hebden
Opening Sequence: Cameron Granadino
Music by: Eze Jackson & Carlos Guillen
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Donate to support this podcastMon, 13 May 2024 - 7623 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, May 13, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, May 13, 2024.
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Story 1 - Wildfire season has started and evacuation orders are already in place.
Story 2 - Pro-Palestinian encampments have been violently dismantled in Alberta.
Story 3 - Few details released after 37 year old is murdered by Sault Ste. Marie police.
Story 4 - Man behind the viral black/blue dress is convicted of violence towards his wife.
Story 5 - Egypt is joining South Africa's case at the ICJ, signalling a change in that country's relationship with Israel.
Story 6 - 27 people have been killed as the RSF tries to move into El Fashir in North Darfur.Mon, 13 May 2024 - 7622 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, May 10, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 10, 2024.
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Story 1 - Family refuses to pay fine levied on them for refusing to allow their mother to a horrifying long-term care facility.
Story 2 - Teachers in Saskatchewn overwhelmingly tell the government to take it's latest offer to hell.
Story 3 - National Post columnist mad that the Conservative nomination races are not transparent and probably fair.
Story 4 - Quebec's National Assembly plans to sue Quebecor for not having paid their rent since August.
Story 5 - Four emergency incidents involving Boeing planes this past week (though Global News missed the one that happened in Canada).Fri, 10 May 2024 - 7621 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, May 9, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 9, 2024.
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Referenced stories:
Story 1 - Ghislain Picard reminds François Legault that Indigenous people are not an afterthought in Quebec history.
Story 2 - CIJA broke lobbying rules in January but faced no sactions as a result.
Story 3 - Ontario woman loses citizenship because her mother was incorrectly told he was a citizen when she was born, 32 years ago.
Story 4 - Cholera emerges in regions in Kenya hit hardest by floods.
Story 5 - Ukraine passes bill to allow current prisoners to serve in their army, something that Russia allowed at the start of their invasion.Thu, 09 May 2024 - 7620 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
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Donate to support this podcastWed, 08 May 2024 - 7619 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, May 7, 2024.
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Story 1 - Convicted cop rapist Carl Snelgrove isn't working with the RNC any longer but the force refuses to say whether he quit or was fired.
Story 2 - Doug Ford say that he's tired of encampments for Gaza and they need to leave
Story 3 - Canada to expand power of CSIS to stop what they call foreign interference in elections.
Story 4 - Cease fire deal brokered by Qatar and Egypt accepted by Hamas, seemingly rejected by Israel.
Story 5 - At least 75 dead as climate change supersized El Nino causes devastating flooding in Brazil.Tue, 07 May 2024 - 7618 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, May 6, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, May 6, 2024.
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Story 1 - Westjet to lock out its mechanics because they don't want them to strike for higher wages.
Story 2 - Canada Post announces $748 million loss, just in time for bargaining with its workers.
Story 3 - India says that Canada's investigation of Sikh activist's arrest is a "political compulsion"
Story 4 - The sinking ship that is the British Conservative party.
Story 5 - Israel bans Al Jazeera from broadcasting from Israel and the West Bank.
Story 6 - At least 12 people have been killed after bomb blast near a market in DRC set by M23.Mon, 06 May 2024 - 7617 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, May 3, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, May 3, 2024.
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Story 1 - Three men, two of whom are related, have fathered 600 kids in Quebec, from ages 15 to infant in "artisenal sperm" operation.
Story 2 - $2.4 billion carbon capture and storage project has been cancelled by Capital Power Inc. for being too expensive.
Story 3 - Loblaw leaders ask Canadians to not steal from them as they count their profits after having stolen from Canadians.
Story 4 - A second whistleblower at Boing has died.
Story 5 - Russians have landed at an airbase in Niger where US troops are stationed.
Fri, 03 May 2024 - 7616 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, May 2, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, May 2, 2024.
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Story 1 - McGill's attempt to clear out pro-Palestine encampment is blocked by judge for being too broad
Story 2 - Landfull search in Saskatoon begins to find remains of woman missing since 2020.
Story 3 - ER at Williams Lake hospital closed over night this week due to a lack of nursing staff.
Story 4 - The Treasury Board has announced that civil servants will be expected to be in the office three days per week as of the fall. PSAC and PIPSC both vow to fight the plan.
Story 5 - The Scottish National Party wins confidence vote after Greens pull support for Humza Yousaf as leader, triggering his resignation.Thu, 02 May 2024 - 7615 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, May 1, 2024.
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Donate to support this podcastWed, 01 May 2024 - 7614 - 'The university fears us because of how little we fear them': Michigan Gaza encampment organizers demand university divest from Israel
At this very moment, a student-led grassroots movement is spreading throughout the country, with over 100 encampments going up at different college and university campuses around the country and around the world in protest of Israel’s US-funded genocidal war on Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. In what is being called the “student intifada,” students, faculty, grad students, and other campus community members are exercising civil disobedience, occupying space on campuses, defying brutal repression from administrators and police, combatting skewed and wildly lopsided narratives in corporate media, and pressuring their universities to “disclose and divest” their investments in companies and financial institutions connected to Israel.
In this urgent podcast, we take you to the frontlines of struggle and speak directly with student and grad student organizers of the Gaza encampment at the University of Michigan’s flagship campus in Ann Arbor. As the Michigan Daily, the student newspaper, reports, “The encampment was organized by the TAHRIR Coalition, a student-led coalition of more than 80 organizations including the U-M chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace and Students Allied for Freedom and Equality. The encampment follows six months of student protests for the University’s divestment, which began with a sit-in at the President’s house in October. Since then, students have continuously organized protests across campus demanding the University divest from Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.” TRNN’s Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez (who is an alumnus of the University of Michigan), speaks with Salma Hamamy, an undergraduate at UM and president of Students Allied For Freedom and Equality (SAFE), and Ember McCoy, a graduate student worker and department organizer in the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO).
Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast--2952221/support.Tue, 30 Apr 2024 - 7613 - How surgeons remotely assisted their colleagues in Gaza
Seven months of brutal Israeli genocide in Gaza have obliterated the local healthcare system, as the IDF has repeatedly targeted and destroyed hospitals and clinics in its military operations. When healthcare infrastructure was still standing, Gaza's healthcare workers faced the challenge of treating grave injuries requiring specialist care. To get around this issue, surgeons around the world have remotely coached their colleagues in Gaza, using messaging services like Whatsapp to lend their expertise in the treatment of particularly severe injuries. Surgeons Osaid Alser and Simon Fitzgerald join The Marc Steiner Show to discuss their experience offering this remote support to their colleagues at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis—where shortly after this recording, mass graves containing hundreds of bodies of Palestinians executed by the IDF were found.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 30, 2024.
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Story 1 - Gate Gourmet workers' strike is over.
Story 2 - A judge rejects the call for a publication ban by Peel Police to hide the identity of cops who were present when a cop shot and killed Ejaz Choudry.
Story 3 - TTC workers vote for a strike, the first time since the Liberals made it illegal for TTC workers to go on strike (that law was found to be unconstitutional).
Story 4 - Israeli media reports that the ICC is considering charging top officials for genocide.
Story 5 - At least 120 people dead after dam bursts in Kenya.
Story 6 - the UN warns that another genocide may be brewing in the Darfur, calls on groups to stop arming the RSF and the Sudanese army.Tue, 30 Apr 2024 - 7611 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, April 29, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 29, 2024.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/child-pornography-rcmp-1.7186324
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/divest-now-students-launch-encampment-at-mcgill-university-1.6864657
https://www.voanews.com/a/ships-with-gaza-aid-from-turkey-denied-right-to-sail-/7587677.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/24/massive-protests-in-argentina-fight-against-university-spending-cutsMon, 29 Apr 2024 - 7610 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, April 26, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 26, 2024.
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Story 1 - Supervisor criminally charged, owner pleads guilty in death of young worker.
Story 2 - Carbon monoxide poisoning sends 7 to hospital in Calgary. Workers were using a pressure washer inside of a parkade.
Story 3 - Benzene rates are sky-high at Aamjiwnaang First Natåion due to a petrochemical plant's shutdown. The community has declared a state of emergency,
Story 4 - Transitional council to take over now that Ariel Henry has residency as PM of Haiti.
Story 5- More than 220 people massacred in a single day by the military in Burkina Faso.Fri, 26 Apr 2024 - 7609 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, April 25, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 25, 2024.
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Story 1 - Woman has to clean her dead husband's body because of staffing shortage in Montreal hospital.
Story 2 - Former VP with SNC-Lavalin (now AtkinsRéalis) sentenced to prison for corruption.
Story 3 - Every SQ shooting range is closed in Quebec due to cops being poisoned by toxic gas that accumulates in the spaces.
Story 4 - Wildfire season off to brutal start in Alberta; officials declare sweeping open fire ban due to tinderbox conditions.
Story 5 - US quietly supplies long-range missiles to Ukraine, they've been used twice.Thu, 25 Apr 2024 - 7608 - The 'Women's Cut'—Maryland's only women's prison
For decades, prisoners' rights advocates have called on the State of Maryland to address its flagrant discrimination against prisoners housed in the state's sole women's prison. As The Real News has previously reported, conditions in the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women are akin to "torture," and the lack of resources and services dedicated to incarcerated women amounts to state-sanctioned, gender-based discrimination. Christina Merryman and Ameena Deramous, both former inmates in the MCIW—or the "Women's Cut"—join Rattling the Bars, explaining the conditions faced by incarcerated women in Maryland, and what advocates inside and outside the prison walls are doing to fight for justice, in the first half of this two-part panel.
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Donate to support this podcastWed, 24 Apr 2024 - 7607 - Before East Palestine, there was Portsmouth
"Vina Colley was Erin Brockovich before Erin Brockovich," Kevin Williams wrote in a 2020 Belt Magazine article titled, "The Poisonous Legacy of Portsmouth’s Gaseous Diffusion Plant." Williams continues, "Colley has become an unlikely citizen-scientist, spending a lifetime researching and documenting PORTS and its sins... Colley was hired as an electrician at the facility in 1980 and worked there for three years. 'I was exposed to everything. We were cleaning off radioactive equipment that we did not know was radioactive. They never told us,' Colley told me. Then, she said, her hair started falling out, she developed rashes, and 'I got really sick and went to the hospital, not knowing that it was my job causing me all these problems. I had big tumors.' In the four decades since, she’s faced a range of health problems, including chronic bronchitis, tumors, and pulmonary edema." In this episode, we sit down with Colley herself to talk about growing up in Ohio during America's Cold War atomic age, her experience working as an electrician at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, and her decades-long fight to hold the plant and the government accountable for what they've done to her, her coworkers, and her community, and to get them the compensation they deserve.
Vina's Facebook pageDOL Energy Advisory Board Information: Comments for the Record, "My name is Vina Colley and I am a sick worker from the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion plant in Piketon, Ohio..."Kevin Williams, Belt Magazine, "The Poisonous Legacy of Portsmouth’s Gaseous Diffusion Plant"Erin Gottsacker, The Ohio Newsroom, "Piketon stopped enriching uranium twenty years ago. Now the nuclear industry is coming back"Scioto Valley Guardian, "Residents in Pike County closer to justice and compensation for radioactive contaminants"Sen. Sherrod Brown, Press Release: "Brown secures commitment to work to add Pike, Scioto county residents to radiation exposure compensation program"Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "East Palestine residents demand fully-funded healthcare"Permanent links below...
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 24, 2024.
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Story 1 - Family of Wet'suwet'en man who was murdered by RCMP vows to keep fighting for justice after BC's prosecution service drops charges against the cops.
Story 2 - Date has been set for policing in Surrey to be transfered from the RCMP to the Surrey Police.
Story 3 - BC Ombudsman slams the province for having done nothing to stop putting youth into solitary confinement despite damning report 2 years ago.
Story 4 - More than 30 people missing or dead after boat capsizes off the coast of Djibouti.
Story 5 - 5 people die trying to cross the English channel just after the UK passes law to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.Wed, 24 Apr 2024 - 7605 - Episode 9 | Nicaragua. Sandino
In 1912, the United States invaded Nicaragua and began what would become the longest US occupation in Latin American history. The occupation would birth both a dictatorship and one of Latin America’s most important revolutionary heroes: Augusto Sandino.
Sandino would wage a six-year-long guerrilla insurgency to rid Nicaragua of the US Marines. And he would win. The United States finally pulled out in 1933, the year before Sandino was assassinated by the forces of the man who would take power and rule for decades.
In this episode, host Michael Fox takes us on the trail of Augusto Sandino. We visit his hometown and then speak with University of Pittsburgh historian Michel Gobat about Sandino’s life, the US occupation, and how it set the scene for everything that would come decades later, including the 1979 Sandinista Revolution.
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.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.
This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.Guests:
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Edited by Heather Gies.
Sound design by Gustavo Türck.
Theme music by Monte Perdidoand Michael Fox
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For background, see Michel Gobat’s book Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule (2005, Duke University Press)
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 23, 2024.
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Story 1 - The CSN files to represent workers at Amazon in Laval.
Story 2 - Young worker poisoned on the job from carbon monoxide, but his employer, Co-op, isn't even being sanctioned.
Story 3 - First Nations patients are more like to leave the ER without being seen and the reason? Racism.
Story 4 - No evidence at all that UNRWA staff had any link to terrorism.
Story 5 - Ecuadorians agree to stricter security measures in referendum vote.Tue, 23 Apr 2024 - 7603 - Give the people musicals: Gene Bruskin, the people's artist
Gene Bruskin was born to a Jewish working-class family in South Philadelphia and has been a life-long social justice activist, union organizer, poet, and playwright. Since retiring from the labor movement, Gene wrote his first play in 2016, a musical comedy for and about work and workers called Pray For the Dead: A Musical Tale of Morgues, Moguls and Mutiny. In this mini-cast we talk to Bruskin about his life in the the labor movement, the role of art and imagination in revolutionary politics, and about Bruskin's new musical, The Return of John Brown, which is premiering this month in Baltimore, Washington, DC, and the John Brown Raid Headquarters in Maryland. "In a staged reading of this new musical, John Brown, who in 1859 became the first person in the nation executed for treason, climbs out of his grave where he was hanged, into the present, only to be rearrested and threatened with another hanging."
The Return of John Brown(musical,) websiteCosmopod, "Gene Bruskin: A Life in the Labor Movement"Christina L. Perez, Labor Notes, "Labor Musical Brings Morgue Workers' Struggle to Life"Permanent links below...
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 22, 2024.
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Story 1 - Quebec 13 y/o is banned from social media over harassment and child pornography accusations.
Story 2 - 36 year old man dies at Regina Correctional Centre with no information about cause of death or what happened.
Story 3 - International student will not be deported over his climate justice activism but his future in Canada is still uncertain.
Story 4 - Canadian aid organization's water truck is bombed in targeted Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
Story 5 - Solidarity actions at Columbia university and other universities are met with intense opposition from administrators and police.
Story 6 - Mass grave discovered at the al-Shifa hospital complex.Mon, 22 Apr 2024 - 7601 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, April 19, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 19, 2024.
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Donate to support this podcastFri, 19 Apr 2024 - 7600 - East Palestine residents demand fully-funded healthcare | Working People
On March 23, 2024, a coalition of around 80 people convened at the East Palestine Country Club at the first gathering called by the newly formed Justice for East Palestine Residents & Workers Coalition. Those in attendance included: East Palestine residents; railroad workers; residents of other “sacrifice zones" in Ohio, Maryland, California, and West Virginia; concerned citizens living near other rail lines; labor activists and labor union representatives; representatives of environmental justice organizations; (striking) journalists; socialists, Trump voters, non-voters, etc.; and more. As journalist Steve Mellon reported, "The newly formed coalition, dubbed Justice for East Palestine Residents & Workers, determined they will travel to Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8 to further their demand that the federal government step in and make sure those affected by the derailment are provided with fully funded health care. They plan to involve union members, including those who represent workers at railroad companies, as well as environmentalists and members of other communities damaged by chemical contamination. The coalition also determined to schedule a second conference in Iowa — the cause has been embraced by union organizers there; several traveled by bus to East Palestine to attend Saturday’s event — and to seek a meeting with the president of the AFL-CIO. Organizers want the federation of unions representing more than 12 million workers to support the coalition’s demand.”
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In this extended episode, you will hear a compilation of speakers from the March 23 conference in East Palestine. Speakers include: Lauri Harmon, East Palestine resident; Chris Albright, East Palestine resident; Jami Rae Wallace, East Palestine resident, president of East Palestine Unity Council; Christina Siceloff, East Palestine resident; Rob Two-Hawks, East Palestine resident; Daren Gamble, East Palestine resident; John Palmer, longtime organizer and officer with the Teamsters, but not speaking on behalf of the Teamsters; Andrew Sandberg, International Association of Machinists (IAM); George Waksmunski, United Electrical Workers (UE); Chris Silvera, Teamsters Local 808 Executive Secretary; Steve Mellon, journalist for the Pittsburgh Union Progress, on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for 18 months; Vina Colley, Portsmouth-Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety & Security; Steve Zeltzer, WorkWeek; David Pfister, Food & Water Watch; Nicole Fabricant, activist, academic, and author of Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore; Hilary Flint, Clean Air Action; Penny Logsdon, Lee County, Iowa, Labor Chapter; Jeff Kurtz, Lee County, Iowa, Labor Chapter; Carrie Duncan, Lee County, Iowa, Labor Chapter; Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network; Mike Stout, Musician.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 18, 2024.
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Story 1 - 14 out of 15 drug poisoning deaths in Windsor-Essex were related to fentenyl.
Story 2 - The Ontario Legislature's speaker MPP Ted Arnott bans Keffiyehs as being political symbols.
Story 3 - Crisis in Alberta's NICUs spurns doctors to call for action; minister floats idea of airlifting infants in critical care to other provinces.
Story 4 - Private citizen to be questioned over ArriveCan app by the House of Commons for the first time in 100 years after Kristian Firth was found in contempt.
Story 5 - Pakistan blocked out social media just before and just after the elections, in a move meant to harm Imran Khan's chances.
Story 6 - 1 in 5 Palestinians living in the occupied territories have been arrested, a rate that is doubled when only men are concerned. Yesterday marked Palestinian Prisoners' Day.Thu, 18 Apr 2024 - 7598 - Cuba's protests and the long crisis of US intervention
Protests against shortages of food and fuel in Cuba's eastern provinces on March 18 brought the corporate media spotlight back to the island, which is currently experiencing a major economic crisis. True to form, much US reporting on the protests attempted to construct a familiar narrative of Cuba as a failed state on the brink of collapse, with no mention of the 62-year US blockade. This is particularly striking given how Cuba's current crisis is a direct outcome of the intensification of the blockade under Trump—which President Biden has upheld throughout his term despite promises to relieve the strangulation of Cuba.
So what's really going on in Cuba today? How severe is the crisis, and where did it come from? What sort of future do the Cuban people envision for themselves, and what role does the US have to play in it? To address these questions and more, The Real News speaks with Manolo de los Santos of The People's Forum, and Liz Oliva Fernandez of Belly of the Beast.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
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Story 1 - Sexual assault charges laid against three teenagers in a case of apparent high school hockey team hazing incident in Manitoba.
Story 2 - Gate Gourmet workers at Toronto's Pearson Airport have walked off the job.
Story 3 - FOI docs reveal that the UCP had been talking with coal industry execs for months before they announced their intentions to allow open pit mining in the Rockies.
Story 4 - The 2024 Federal Budget: Asset dumping, but call it a housing strategy.
Story 5 - UN Special Envoy to Libya resigns over lack of good faith among Libya's fueding leaders.Wed, 17 Apr 2024 - 7596 - Noboa vs. AMLO: The embassy raid and Ecuador's deeper crisis w/Guillaume Long
Ecuador has been thrust into the international spotlight following a flagrantly illegal raid on the Mexican embassy on April 5. President Daniel Noboa ordered the raid to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought asylum on the embassy grounds since Dec. 2023. Mexico has responded by severing diplomatic ties with Ecuador and filing a complaint with the ICJ, specifically requesting that the court expel Ecuador from the UN until an apology is given. Governments across the Americas and the world have joined the chorus of denunciations, noting the violation of diplomatic immunity as a severe breach of international law.
Ecuador once stood out in the region for its relatively low crime rate and steadily improving social progress, yet its fortunes have radically reversed in the past decade. The fall of the left-wing Correistas unleashed a tide of neoliberalism and narco-trafficking in the country, sending poverty and crime soaring. Noboa, who is the son of Ecuador's wealthiest man, came to power on promises to address the security crisis—but so far, has only managed to haul the country into a three-month long state of emergency. To understand recent events and place them in the proper context of Ecuador's contemporary politics, The Real News speaks with Guillaume Long, Ecuador's former Foreign Minister.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
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Story 1 - Unifor files with the BC labour board to represent Amazon workers in Delta and New Westminster.
Story 2 - Resignations en masse at the RM Armstrong in Manitoba puts governance of the municipality into question.
Story 3 - More than 1/4 young people are dying from Opioids with Alberta the location with the highest rates of death by far.
Story 4 - Azerbaijan asks the ICJ to through out ethnic cleansing charges brought by Armenia over conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Story 5 - Georgia proposed law to designate NGOs and media orgs that receive more than 20% of their funding from foreign sources as foreign actors is met with protests, especially from pro-EU partisans.Tue, 16 Apr 2024 - 7594 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, April 15, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 15, 2024.
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Story 1 - Third arrest made related to the Thunder Bay police force and this time, it's the former chief.
Story 2 - Nurses union in Quebec rejects latest government deal.
Story 3 - Ontario has spent more than $134M over 10 years on cops who were paid to stay home while being investigatd for misconduct. One third of the allegations related to sexual violence.
Story 4 - Today is the one year anniverary of the war in Sudan and Canada is offering $132M to provide aid and help people flee to neighbouring countries.
Story 5 - After a weekend where Iran attacked Israel, Israel seemingly still managed to kill more people in Gaza and the West Bank than Iran did in their retaliatory airstrikes.
Story 6 - Cyprus is suspending asylum claims after rush of claimants from Syria.
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 - 7593 - The Gringo who tried to rule Central America
William Walker was a journalist, lawyer and physician from Nashville, Tennessee, who in 1855 invaded Nicaragua with a few dozen troops and conquered the country.
At the time, he was one of thousands of private U.S. citizens who had their sights set on taking over foreign nations, all in the name of Manifest Destiny.
In this episode, host Michael Fox follows in the footsteps of William Walker as he recounts one of the most twisted stories of U.S. imperialism in Central America — a story that still has lasting repercussions for Latin America, the United States and across the world.
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.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 12, 2024.
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Story 1 - Montreal's STM is increasing security patrols to deal with impact of the affordability and drug crises.
Story 2 - Family of man who died in a Fredericton ER calls for change so that it doesn't happen to anyone else.
Story 3 - A Canadian woman will be evacuated from Gaza.
Story 4 - New affordability measures for housing introduced will do absolutely nothing to boost affodability (but they will plunge you deeper in debt!)
Story 5 - Political parties and civil society groups decry the military leadership's decree to ban political activity in Mali.Fri, 12 Apr 2024 - 7591 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, April 11, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 11, 2024.
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Story 1 - Edmonton Police stop man at 2:15 am over bylaw infraction and then chase him into the North Saskatchewan River.
Story 2 - Former lawyer for the Thunder Bay Police is facing criminal charges; the second person charged in criminal probe of that force.
Story 3 - Canadian company sold paternity tests even though they knew that the tests were faulty, causing tremendous trauma to individuals around the world.
Story 4 - Massive flooding in Russia and Kazakhstan has forced the evacuation of 200,000 people.
Story 5 - Lufthansa (the only operator that connects Tehran to the West) has suspended flights to Tehran over fears of military action after Israel bombs Iranian embassy in Syria.
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 - 7590 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 10, 2024.
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Story 1 - Oral surgeon who directed a cop in extracting four teeth from a sedated inmate receives absolute discharge.
Story 2 - Syncrude fined $390,000 for worker's death. The money will go to three group to develop an ... app ... about excavation safety, even though the trouble was a lack of analysisn of the ground where the worker was working from an engineer.
Story 3 - The AFN says that there is a $350 billion gap between infrastructure within Indigenous communities compared to non-Indigenous communities. When you add in Inuit communities, the number rises to $425 billion.
Story 4 - Very little information about Canada's Syrian embassy, which was damaged when Israel struck Iran's embassy which is right beside.
Story 5 - UNRWA says that Israel is lying about how much aid is reaching Gaza via truck.
Story 6 - At least three dead in hydroelectric plant explosion in Italy.Wed, 10 Apr 2024 - 7589 - Illegal real estate sales of Palestinian land are happening around the US
Six months into the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, there is little use denying that what is taking place before our eyes is an intended land grab. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have called for Gaza to be "resettled" and for the Palestinian population to be expelled. And in the US, the likes of Ben Gvir and Smotrich have their allies and accomplices who hope to profit from the theft of Palestinian land. Across the US, real estate events advertising the sale of land parcels in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem have begun to appear. Activist, journalist, and filmmaker Eleanor Goldfield joins The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the recent protests against one such real estate event in Baltimore.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 9, 2024.
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Story 1 - Cop has assault charges discharged. Just 7 years ago, he also had been charged with manslaughter, charges that were also dropped.
Story 2 - Humboldt Broncos truck driver fighting his deportation.
Story 3 - SFU hired private security firm to spy on striking workers.
Story 4 - Canada promising a ridiculous amount of money to go to war machines in its pre-budget tour.
Story 5 - At least 94 dead in Mozambique after boat capsizes. Most on board were fleeing due to misinformation related to cholera.
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 - 7587 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, April 8, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 8, 2024.
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Story 1 - NFLD Justice Minister John Hogan apologized for not know how cross-examination works when the person on the stand is a survivor of sexual assault.
Story 2 - Airbus workers in Quebec reject the company's latest offer.
Story 3 - Trudeau to dump $2.4B into a black hole and say that it will help foster AI in Canada.
Story 4 - Israel's war on Gaza passes the six month mark.
Story 5 - Ecuador stormed Mexico's embassy, Mexico pulls its diplomatic staff.Mon, 08 Apr 2024 - 7586 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, April 5, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 5, 2024.
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Story 1 - Hospital in Halifax had not heat or water after the second water main break in 24h.
Story 2 - Widow of migrant worker injured on the job in Ontario wants to see working conditions improved.
Story 3 - CMHC says hold on to your butts: housing prices will surpass the 2022 peak by 2026.
Story 4 - Myanmar's junta capital was hit by a drone attack by opposition forces.
Story 5 - Peru's president Boluarte avoids being impeached over wealth probe.Fri, 05 Apr 2024 - 7585 - In the Middle East, America's chickens are coming home to roostEditor's note: This podcast was recorded on March 19, 2024.
Each day brings fresh horrors from the ground in Gaza as Israel's brutal genocide continues with the full backing of the US. Yet Israel is not operating with complete impunity.
From the Houthis' humanitarian blockade of the Red Sea to Hezbollah's missile strikes against Israel itself, the unofficial alliance of states and armed organizations known as the Resistance Axis is imposing consequences on Israel and the US. The result is a low-grade regional war, that for months has featured Israel and the US conducting increasingly brazen air strikes from Yemen to Lebanon and Syria.
Most recently, Israel bombed the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 1, killing seven military advisors, including Brigadier Generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi, and his deputy Mohamad Hadi Haji Rahimi. Iran has vowed to retaliate. As the spiral of escalation and deterrence continues, the question arises of just how much longer the two sides can trade blows until a full-blown regional war erupts.
Veteran war journalist Elijah Magnier and Middle East Critique Editor Matteo Capasso join The Real News for a timely discussion on the historical roots of the Resistance Axis, and how the confrontation taking place could reshape regional and global politics. Corporate media has flooded the US public with a one-dimensional narrative of the Resistance Axis, leaving out a crucial detail—how decades of US and Israeli intervention and destruction birthed the Resistance Axis. Drawing on their deep expertise, Magnier and Capasso reframe the current confrontation in light of the region's history, and its future.
This interview is the second part of a two-part series on the Resistance Axis. Click here to read or listen to the first part of the conversation with Rania Khalek and Nima Shirazi about the media narratives about the Resistance Axis used to justify US intervention in the region.
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Read Elijah Magnier's blog.Find out how to register for Middle East Critique's Ramadan course on Palestine and Imperialism.Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez
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One week has gone by since a massive container ship struck a critical support column of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, sending the structure and a group of construction workers who were fixing potholes on the bridge into the water of the Patapsco River. Of the 8 men who were working on the bridge that night, six have been pronounced dead since last Tuesday. As more details have emerged about the accident, and the city and port authority's plans for clean-up and reconstruction, The Real News convened a panel of journalists working all sides of this story to get a sense of what we know, what key questions still need to be answered, and what happens next.
Joining this timely discussion are Marc Steiner, host of the Marc Steiner Show on The Real News Network; Real News Network Editor-in-Chief Max Alvarez; Dharna Noor, who leads "Big Oil Uncovered," a Guardian series focused on the fossil fuel industry's attempts to thwart climate science, discourse, and policy; and Clara Longo de Freitas, a neighborhood reporter covering East Baltimore communities for the Baltimore Banner.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 4, 2024.
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Story 1 - A Longueuil cop sexually assaulted someone whose sexual assault case he was working on.
Story 2 - Two Indigenous fishermen taken on a Starlight Tour in Nova Scotia by DFO officers.
Story 3 - Trans-mountain pipeline set to open in time for International Workers Day. Only cost us $34B.
Story 4 - Pro-Kurdish mayoral candidate in Van is reinstated after being DQed. He won with 55% of the vote.
Story 5 - Thailand's Move Forward Party might be dissolved and its leaders banned from politics after it tried to amend the royal defamation law.Thu, 04 Apr 2024 - 7582 - Baltimore’s Latino/Latine community rallies to support those affected by Key Bridge disaster
When the iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed around 1:30am on Tuesday, March 26, eight men who were working on the bridge at the time were plunged into the cold waters of the Patapsco River. Two of those men were recovered alive, six were not. As TRNN previously reported, all existing evidence points to the fact that these workers—who were working for a non-union contractor, Brawner Builders, filling potholes on the bridge—did not receive any warning from emergency dispatch that the shipping vessel Dali was about to plow into the bridge.
As Baltimore reels from the shock of the bridge collapse, as investigations begin into the root causes of the accident, and as we begin to take stock of the seismic economic and potential environmental impacts that this catastrophic accident will have, the families of the six workers who died are mourning an incalculable loss. As Clara Longo de Frietas writes at The Baltimore Banner, “All of the men confirmed or presumed to be dead had emigrated from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador or Mexico. They were Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35; Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26; Miguel Luna, 49; Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, 38; Jose Mynor Lopez, 35; and one as-yet-unnamed man… All of them came to Baltimore for a better life.”
Amidst this tragedy, volunteers, community organizers, immigrant and Latino/Latine justice organizations, businesses, and more have responded with tireless efforts to support the families of the deceased workers, and to provide support for Baltimore’s Latino/Latine and immigrant communities in general. In this special bilingual podcast, recorded in Spanish and English at El Taquito Mexicano restaurant in Fells Point, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of community and immigrant justice organizers and members of Baltimore’s Latino/Latine community to discuss those efforts, what we know about the men who were working on that bridge, and what this tragedy tells us about the plight of immigrant workers in Baltimore and around the US. Panelists include: Ricardo Ortiz, vice president of the Centro de Apoyo Para la Superación del Inmigrante (CAPSI); Susana Barrios, vice president of the Latino Racial Justice Circle; Carlos Crespo, who volunteers at CAPSI; Lucia Islas, president of Comité Latino de Baltimore; Norma Martinez, a high-school student in Baltimore, born in Honduras (and Max’s foster daughter); Claudia, co-owner of El Taquito Mexicano; Victor, co-owner of El Taquito Mexicano.Wed, 03 Apr 2024 - 7581 - The Key Bridge disaster was caused by the oppression of workers | Working People
24 hours after Max returned to Baltimore from East Palestine, Ohio, the shipping vessel Dali slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, collapsing it into the Patapsco River. The catastrophic collision and collapse of the bridge claimed the lives of six immigrant, non-union construction workers who were working the night shift at the time, filling potholes on the bridge. In this interview on The Valley Labor Report, Alabama's only weekly union talk show, hosts Jacob Morrison and Adam Keller speak with Max about The Real News Network's coverage of the bridge collapse, the connections between Baltimore and East Palestine, and about the conspiracists and "anti-woke" grifters who are trying to capitalize on this tragedy for their own gain.Additional links/info below…
Baltimore Immigrant Community Fund Key Bridge Emergency ResponseThe Valley Labor Report YouTube channel, Facebook page, Twitter/X page, and PatreonThe Valley Labor Report, "The Toll of Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse in Baltimore on Working People - TVLR 3/30/24"Democracy Now!, "Baltimore Key Bridge Collapses, Killing Six Immigrant Workers Who Had No Access to Emergency Warnings"America's Workforce Radio, "Union Solidarity Is the Key to Getting East Palestine Residents Help"Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "Missing, Presumed Dead Workers from Key Bridge Weren’t Informed of Mayday Call"Maximillian Alvarez, The Nation, "Echoes of East Palestine in the Key Bridge Collapse"Breaking Points, "Construction Workers ABANDONED in Baltimore Bridge Collapse"Permanent links below...
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 3, 2024.
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Story 1 - City of Kingston to enforce park camping ban pushing marginalized Kingstonins out with nowhere else to go.
Story 2 - Emails reveal the extent to which cuts by the Yukon Hospital Corporation would delay care and burn nurses out.
Story 3 - Ghost ship the likely culprit behind the Red Sea Internet cable cuts.
Story 4 - Israel has killed more than 200 aid workers since Oct. 7, including 7 in a targeted strike yesterday.
Story 5 - Opposition leader in India jailed just weeks ahead of the election.
Story 6 - 9 dead, up to 1000 wounded after massive earthquake hits Taiwan.Wed, 03 Apr 2024 - 7579 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 2, 2024.
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Story 1 - Carbon tax protests greet the new tax, Premier of NL is Furey...ous.
Story 2 - Dan Philip, longtime civil rights activist and former president of the Black Coalition of Quebec, dies at 87.
Story 3 - Statscan data shows that armoured vehicles and other weapons have been exported to Israel since Oct. 7, contradicting the official government line.
Story 4 - Israel passes a law to outlaw Al Jazeera.
Story 5 - Unthinkable carnage remains at al-Shifa hospital after Israeli troop withdrawal.
Story 6 - UN warns that the DRC is reaching a humanitarian breaking point due to fighting in the Eastern part of the country.Tue, 02 Apr 2024 - 7578 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, March 29, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 29, 2024.
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Story 1 - Two volunteer firefighters in a small town in Quebec died trying to rescue people in a flood due to a lack of training and poor equipment, finds the the CNESST.
Story 2 - Nursing unions call for an end to the use of agency nurses in Ontario facilities.
Story 3 - Trudeau continues his pre-budget tour and promises $1B for childcare centres in loans to expand. No explanation for why loans and not grants. ($60M will be grants)
Story 4 - Some 1500 people have been killed in Haiti due to increasing violence.
Story 5 - Jacob Zuma cannot run in South Africa's May election, rules the election commission. His party plans to appeal.
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 - 7577 - Property developers are exacerbating the housing crisis
Years of meticulous investigation by The Real News reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis have shown how the city of Baltimore siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds to corporate developers over a period of decades. With their findings now available in a full documentary, Taya and Stephen's investigative reporting has also spawned calls for an investigation from the State of Maryland, something which major unions in the state have also backed. Building on her previous coverage of the housing crisis engulfing the country, TRNN reporter Mel Buer speaks with Taya and Stephen on the relevance of their findings to understanding the role of property developers and municipal corruption in exacerbating the housing crisis.
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The drumbeat of intervention is rolling once again for Haiti. Since last year, plans have been laid for a US-sponsored intervention in Haiti nominally led by Kenya, ostensibly in the name of fighting "gang violence" in the Caribbean nation. While corporate media has breathlessly pushed the narrative of a lawless Haiti overrun by criminal organizations, such framing deliberately excludes the role of the US and its allies in the so-called Core Group in destabilizing Haiti over the past 20 years in particular—not to mention the past two centuries since Haiti's independence. Quebec-based activist Jafrik Ayiti joins The Real News to help set the record straight on Haiti's history, and how the social disorder splattered across the front pages of Western media outlets has been manufactured by the very governments now calling for intervention.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, March 28, 2024.
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Story 1 - Office building that was home to Nunatsiaq News has burned to the ground.
Story 2 - Hamilton School Board trustee faces sanctions if she does not delete a tweet where she says she is being investigated for ... other tweets.
Story 3 - The Liberals unveil new protections to help renters like a common lease agreement, a tiny amount of money for legal aid programs across Canada and ... uhh ... for your rent to count towards your credit score.
Story 4 - 116 forest fires are raging across Mexico, 400 already have burned this year and four people have died.
Story 5 - 2 dead and 106 hospitalized in Japan after eating supplements that contain red rice yeast.Thu, 28 Mar 2024 - 7574 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 27, 2024.
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Story 1 - Family of four found dead in home in Neudorf SK, very few details released.
Story 2 - Scotlyn Sweetpac Growers is fined $125,000 over the COVID-19 death of Jose Lopez Chaparro, though the judge could have given a fine of up to $1.5M.
Story 3 - Father loses bid to have his daughter's MAID request refused.
Story 4 - Canada's responsible business practices ombudsman lays its first charge, against a Canadian company that hadn't had control over the mine with alleged forced labour in seven years.
Story 5 - Updates related to the Key Bridge collapse.
Story 6 - Julian Assange gets temporary reprieve from deportation.Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 7573 - Under the Shadow, Update 3 | Honduras. Narcodictator. Convicted.
A New York court has found former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández guilty of drug trafficking and weapons possession. It’s a huge verdict that will likely see the former president imprisoned for life.
In the last episode of Under The Shadow, host Michael Fox looked deeply at Hernández’s time as president from 2014 to 2022, which many came to call a narco-dictatorship. He won office in a fraudulent election, consolidated unprecedented power, pushed a neoliberal sell-off, and carried out widespread human rights abuses.
In this Update 3, Fox looks at the New York trial that convicted him. What went down, what it meant, and what it means going forward for Honduras. And most important, what was missing — namely the role of the United States and Canada in propping up the Hernández regime.
For this update, we speak with Karen Spring, the co-coordinator of the Honduras Solidarity Network and host of the Honduras Now podcast. She was in the New York courtroom throughout Hernandez’s trial.
Under the Shadow is an investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, to tell the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
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Story 1 - Three cops charged with the murder of a baby have their charges dropped because there was no way to prove they weren't shooting in self defence.
Story 2 - 1600 teaching assistants at McGill go out on strike. They join the more than 3500 academic workers currently on strike at York.
Story 3 - Workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario? Also on strike.
Story 4 - The UN Security Council passes a motion in favour of a cease-fire. The US finally doesn't veto it.
Story 5 - Instagram "updates" everyone's settings and removes political content from everyone's feed. You have to go and turn it back on if you want to see it.Tue, 26 Mar 2024 - 7571 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, March 25, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 25, 2024.
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Story 1 - McGill students reach three-week mark in their hunger strike against the university's investment in military firms that have sold weapons to Israel.
Story 2 - More than 100 spots open in Ontario for family doctor residency spots remain unfilled, highlighting one aspect of the crisis in family medicine.
Story 3 - Millions more promised to the RCMP in Saskatchewan beyond what was in last week's budget to help them recruit.
Story 4 - 137 dead in theatre attack in Russia; ISIS-K claims responsibility.
Story 5 - Election day finally came to Sénégal and Bassirou Diomayé Fayé is in the lead.
Story 6 - Former chief of police, former congressman and former auditor general have been charged in the 2018 assassination of socialist Marielle Franco.Mon, 25 Mar 2024 - 7570 - Survivors of sexual assault in juvenile detention are speaking out
The prevalence of sexual violence in the US prison system is so widespread and accepted that it's often made the butt of jokes in popular culture. Yet the reality is that countless survivors of the prison system carry the scars and traumas of sexual abuse—and for many, the perpetrators of these crimes were the very prison staff charged with their protection. Juvenile victims of the prison system are no exception. In Maryland, several adult survivors of sexual abuse as juveniles in state custody have filed a class action lawsuit demanding justice. Lawyer and former DC Council Member LaRuby May joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the class action suit, and the systematic nature of sexual violence in prisons as a form of racial oppression.
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Donate to support this podcastMon, 25 Mar 2024 - 7569 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, March 22, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 22, 2024.
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Story 1 - Alarming spike in death among Edmonton's homeless population. 72 people have died in just 78 days.
Story 2 - Canada to peg temporary resident visas to 5% of the population, effectively dropping the number of temporary residents by 1.5%. Migrant rights groups call for better treatment rather than messing with caps.
Story 3 - Quebec's economy and energy minister says that Montreal "no longer works" and it's because there are too many cars on the road.
Story 4 - Talks continue to secure a cease fire though Israel refuses to agree to permanently stop their war.
Story 5 - Bombing outside of a bank in Kandahar City kills at least 3.Fri, 22 Mar 2024 - 7568 - After Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation, a Pentagon witch hunt looms
US Airman Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation in protest of the US support for Israel's genocide in Gaza has raised questions from some about the politics of soldiers in the US military. Bushnell's self-avowed anarchist views have become an object of particular scrutiny, raising the possibility of Pentagon surveillance and investigations into left-leaning troops. Ken Klippenstein joins The Real News to discuss the political storm brewing in the wake of Bushnell's act of protest and the ramifications it could have on soldiers and civilians alike.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, March 21, 2024.
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Story 1 - Protesters block access to Confederation Building postponing the provinces budget to today.
Story 2 - Former NHLer Chris Simon had CTE, his family says.
Story 3 - Supreme Court to hear case today that will determine how much warrantless access police can have to your cell phone.
Story 4 - Humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan is catastrophic, says UN.
Story 5 - Another 87 people have been kidnapped in Nigeria. Nearly 5000 people have been abducted this past year alone.Thu, 21 Mar 2024 - 7566 - A new coalition demands healthcare and justice for East Palestine | Working PeopleThis Saturday, March 23, unionists and labor leaders, environmental justice groups, community organizers, community members from other “sacrifice zones,” and supporters from around the country are coming to East Palestine to join residents as part of the newly formed Justice for East Palestine Residents and Workers coalition. The coalition has come together in recent months and mobilized around the core objective of pressuring President Biden to invoke the Stafford Act and issue a major disaster declaration for East Palestine. If Biden does this, organizers say, it will immediately unlock a whole suite of federal resources that residents desperately need and have been demanding for a year, and it will also immediately guarantee every resident emergency healthcare. For residents like Chris Albright—a former pipeline worker and LIUNA member who has been disabled by the toxic fallout from the derailment, is now experiencing severe heart failure, can’t work, and has subsequently lost his health benefits—this is a matter of life and death, and we are racing against the clock.
This episode is a compilation of voices from across the growing Justice for East Palestine Residents and Workers coalition. Speeches in the first half are from a panel cohosted by Steve Zeltzer and Penny Logsdon and recorded by the Labor Video Project on Feb. 3, 2024, the one-year anniversary of the derailment; speeches in the second half are from another panel cohosted by Steve Zeltzer and Penny Logsdon and recorded by the Labor Video Project on March 9, 2024. Speakers include: Steve Zeltzer (Labortech); Penny Logsdon (Lee County Labor Chapter); Chris Albright (East Palestine resident, LIUNA member); Jami Wallace (East Palestine Unity Council); Steve Mellon (Pittsburgh Union Progress); Jeff Kurtz (Lee County Labor Chapter); Maximillian Alvarez (The Real News Network); Mike Stout (protest musician); Charlie Wishman (Iowa AFL-CIO); John Palmer (Teamsters, San Antonio); Bob Anspach (BLET-IBT 391); Vina Colley (Portsmouth Pikeston Residents for Environmental Justice).
From the Justice for East Palestine Residents and Workers organizing committee: "We will be hosting a National Conference for the people of East Palestine along with supporters in Ohio and throughout the country to build this campaign for healthcare on Saturday, March 23, 2024, where we will bring community members, labor, environmentalist and allies together in our urgent campaign. This Conference will be held from 12-5pm ET at the East Palestine Country Club. To contact the Justice for East Palestine Residents and Workers organizing committee, reach out to Steve Zeltzer: labormedia[at]gmail[dot]com or Penny Logsdon: onecent7921[at]gmail[dot]com. In solidarity."
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Help us continue producing...Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 7565 - The racist history of the Kansas City 'Chiefs'
The history of white supremacy in US sports culture is as old as the games, and the nation, themselves. Recent years have seen a push to change the names of the most egregious offenders, most notably the former name of the Washington Commanders. Yet some teams' problematic names and histories have comparatively flown under the radar. Such is the case with the Kansas City football team. Radio Host Rhonda Levaldo, a co-founder of the organization Not In Our Honor, joins Edge of Sports for a frank discussion on the racist history of the Kansas City football team, and why its name should be changed.
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Donate to support this podcastWed, 20 Mar 2024 - 7564 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 20, 2024.
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Story 1 - Ottawa police violently arrest man who they "mistook" for someone else. Both are Black .
Story 2 - Hoopla over the Hoopla as parents target the teacher's union over provincial basketball tourney cancellation. Meanwhile, Cockrill says that binding arbitration is like bargaining with a gun to his head -- which is absolutely is not.
Story 3 - Marc Miller will allow more Gazans to come to Canada except Canada never cleared the program with Israel or Egypt and people are not able to leave Gaza unless they pay.
Story 4 - Lawsuit brought to an Amserdam judge against Vale over Mariana dam collapse that triggered massive and deadly landslide in Brazil.
Story 5 - Javier Milei's plan to ignore congress is not accepted by the senate. Mass protests continue to challenge the fascist leader.Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 7563 - The long roots of Pakistan's political crisis
Since 2022, the politics of Pakistan have been rocked by a struggle for power centered around former prime minister Imran Khan. Khan, who was ousted from office by a parliamentary no-confidence motion in April 2022, has alleged that his removal from office was orchestrated at the behest of the US government. This January, Khan was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking government documents as part of his effort to prove US involvement in his ouster. Khan's saga has ignited mass protests across Pakistan over the past two years. Despite being imprisoned during national elections this February, Khan's political party, PTI, won more parliamentary seats than any other political party. Journalist and policy analyst Raza Rumi joins The Marc Steiner Show for an in-depth look at Pakistan's political crisis in the context of its long and turbulent struggle for democracy.
Raza Ahmad Rumi is a Pakistani writer and a public policy specialist. He is the director of the Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College, and founder of the digital media platform NayaDaur Media in collaboration with Pakistani diaspora in the United States.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
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Story 1 - Cabin Radio getting another chance at winning radio license from the CRTC.
Story 2 - Airbus workers in Quebec, members of IAMAW, a heading towards a strike.
Story 3 - Parliament passes NDP motion to call for a Palestinian State, with the point about Palestinian State removed.
Story 4 - WHO plan for future pandemics is in jeopardy.
Story 5 - No evidence that the so-called Havanna Syndrome caused physical harms.Tue, 19 Mar 2024 - 7561 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, March 18, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 18, 2024.
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Story 1 - High school equivalency program is cancelled in Ontario by the private company that ran it and there is no plan to replace it.
Story 2 - Migrant Spring protests call for justice for migrant workers.
Story 3 - EU and Egypt work to form controversial migrant deal to stop people from coming from Europe.
Story 4 - Niger's military leadership is kicking out the United States military.
Story 5 - DR Congo lifts the moratorium on the death penalty.Mon, 18 Mar 2024 - 7560 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, March 15, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 15, 2024.
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Donate to support this podcastFri, 15 Mar 2024 - 7559 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, March 14, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, March 14, 2024.
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Story 1 - Edmonton city workers are set to go on strike today.
Story 2 - Members of committee for police reform in Nova Scotia have been named, 3 of 16 who are police officers.
Story 3 - Loblaws has installed receipt scanners in 4 stores as a pilot to see how customers react to needing to scan their receipts to leave the store.
Story 4 - Two Auditor General employees fired after it was found out they were also working as government consultants.
Story 5 - The UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is now going to come with a £3000 payout.Thu, 14 Mar 2024 - 7558 - ‘I fight so that my son is remembered’: Brett Cross on life in Uvalde before and after the shooting | Working People
Brett Cross is a small-town kid who grew up in Western Texas, among the oil fields, near Odessa. He worked in the oil fields, worked his way up to doing pipeline work, eventually moving to green energy work. He even became a foreman, working hard to provide for his family. And Brett was at work when he got the call from his wife Nikki that changed their lives forever. It was May 24, 2022, Nikki was at their sons’ school, Robb Elementary, in Uvalde, Texas. “This is not a fucking joke,” she said, “there’s a shooter at the boys’ school.” We talk to Brett about his life before, about living in a small town, working and making your own fun, we talk about some of the family memories he cherishes most. We remember Brett and Nikki’s son Uziyah “Uzi” Garcia, we talk about the day Uzi was taken from them, along with 18 of his classmates and two of his teachers, and we talk about the unimaginable fight for justice and real change that Brett and Nikki have been fighting ever since.
Brett’s Twitter/X pageSneha Dey, Erin Douglas, Andrew Zhang, Brooke Park, & Jessica Priest, The Texas Tribune / ProPublica, “21 Lives Lost: Uvalde Victims Were a Cross-Section of a Small, Mostly Latino Town in South Texas“Edgar Sandoval, The New York Times, “A Year After the Uvalde Massacre: Did Anything Change?“Gus Bova, Texas Observer, “The Uvalde Parents Won’t Back Down“Elissa Jorgensen, American Statesman, “‘There Are no Good Days’: Uziyah’s Family Won’t Stop Fighting Until Gun Laws Change“Danielle Campoamor, Today, “A Father’s Fury: Uvalde Dad Brett Cross Is Mad as Hell and Wants You to Know It“Kayla Padilla, Texas Public Radio, “Arrested Uvalde Father Says Police More Upset With Him Using Expletive Than Children Dying“Yvette Benavides, David Martin Davies, & Julián Aguilar, Texas Public Radio, “‘We Did It!’ — Uvalde’s Entire School Police Department Suspended Following Activism from Families“Lomi Kriel, Alejandro Serrano, & Lexi Churchill, The Texas Tribune / ProPublica, “‘Cascading Failures’: Justice Department Blasts Law Enforcement’s Botched Response to Uvalde School Shooting“John Woodrow Cox, Steven Rich, Linda Chong, Lucas Trevor, John Muyskens, & Monica Ulmanu, The Washington Post, “More Than 360,000...
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CW: This episode discusses school shootings and the murdering of children. Additional links/info below…Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 7557 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 13, 2024.
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Story 1 - Inside recording from the real estate event in Montreal selling land in the West Bank.
Story 2 - 10 Pakistani flight attendants who work for PIA have gone missing in the past few months in Toronto after their flights landed.
Story 3 - The monument to the 14th Division of the SS in Oakville isn't down forever, it's just in the monument shop for ... repairs.
Story 4 - Haitians in Canada call for Haitians to be involved in stabilization plans for that country.
Story 5 - Canada opposes new Produced in USA labels on meat, poultry and eggs and argues that Canadian products should be exempt, and also declared Produced in USA.
Story 6 - With just weeks to go before possible re-election, Modi says he will implement 2019 law that many called anti-Muslim because it excludes Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 7556 - Honduras, 2009. Legacy of a Coup | Under the Shadow, Ep. 7, Pt. 2
In June 2009, Honduras faced a devastating coup that shattered the country’s fragile democracy and sunk the country into violence, repression, and a decade-long narco-dictatorship.
But the people fought back.
In this continuation of Episode 7, host Michael Fox looks at the fallout of the 2009 coup in Honduras, walking from 2009 into the present. He takes us to Tegucigalpa to dive into the fraudulent U.S.-backed elections that ushered in a narco-dictatorship, and also the resistance movement that, after years of struggle, ultimately did what it set out to do: remove the dictatorship and return democracy to Honduras.
This is Part 2 of a two-part episode looking at the 2009 coup in Honduras and the aftermath.
Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.
This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.
Guests:
Bertha Oliva, COFADEH
Grahame Russell, Rights Action
Adrienne Pine
Felix Molina
Jesse Freeston
Karen Spring
Alex Main, CEPR
Edited by Heather Gies.
Sound design by Gustavo Türck.
Voice Actors: Andalusia K. Soloff
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Click here, to watch Jesse Freeston’s documentary, ResistenciaResistance, about the campesino struggle in the Aguan Valley.
Karen Spring is has been covering the New York trial of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernáandez. Visit Honduras Now for updates, or follow @springkj and @HondurasNow on Twitter.
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From Assata Shakur to Leonard Peltier, social movements have lifted up political prisoners as revolutionary examples and fought protracted, often decades-long campaigns to secure their release. Now, a new collection from AK Press, Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners, gathers the experience and wisdom of some 30 political prisoners in one place for the first time. Eric King and Josh Davidson, the editors of the project, join Rattling the Bars to discuss their new book and the urgency of the fight to free political prisoners.
Josh Davidson is an abolitionist who is involved in numerous projects, including the Certain Days Collective, which publishes the annual Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar, and the Children’s Art Project with political prisoner Oso Blanco. Josh also works in communications with the Zinn Education Project.
Eric King is a father, poet, author, and activist. He is a political prisoner serving a 10-year federal sentence for an act of protest over the police murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. He is scheduled to be released in 2024. He has been held in solitary confinement for years on end and has been assaulted by both guards and white supremacists. King has published three zines: Battle Tested, Antifa in Prison, and Pacing in My Cell.
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Donate to support this podcastTue, 12 Mar 2024 - 7554 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, March 12, 2024.
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Story 1 - Big investigation into fire safety lapses in properties owned by Paul Dediala, after one of his properties burns, killing two occupants.
Story 2 - Naheed Nenshi throws hat into the race to become leader of the Alberta NDP.
Story 3 - Saltwire is on the ropes as it files for creditor protection. But COO promises that this will make the company stronger and more dynamic!
Story 4 - Boeing whistleblower found dead in hotel garage during week where he was testifying against Boeing for safety lapses.
Story 5 - Pope calls for peace negotiations to bring an end to Russia's aggression, NATO says sure, they will negotiate peace through cheering on more war.Tue, 12 Mar 2024 - 7553 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, March 11, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 11, 2024.
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Story 1 - Chief of the Nishawbe Aski Police Service has been suspended but there are few details.
Story 2 - Canada restores UNRWA funding, just in time for Ramadan.
Story 3 - The Sudanese military calls for RSF to leave civilian site as a Ramadan truce seems unlikely.
Story 4 - The right wins big in Portugal with exit polls showing that the centre-right party has won the most support while the far-right party has tripled its support over 2022.
Story 5 - 9 dead and 78 hospitalized after a rare form of food poisioning is caught from turtle meat in Zanzibar.Mon, 11 Mar 2024 - 7552 - Demystifying Iran and the Resistance Axis w/Rania Khalek and Nima Shirazi
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has unleashed a low-grade regional war that is gradually escalating towards what could become an all-out conflict. The central players in this simmering showdown are the members of the informal Resistance Axis, which include Hezbollah in Lebanon, a number of armed Palestinian groups including Hamas, the Syrian and Iranian governments, the Houthis or Ansarallah in Yemen, and Iraq’s armed Popular Mobilization Forces. Numerous strikes against Israeli and US military and commercial targets across the region have already been carried out by these groups since last October, from US military bases in Iraq to Israel-linked commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
Patreon page for Breakthrough NewsListen to the Citations Needed podcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson“Between the Hammer and the Anvil”: The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé,The InterceptHamas, Hezbollah and Houthis: Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance,’ Explained | WSJ
As the possibility of a regional conflagration looms, corporate media outlets are turning their attention to the Resistance Axis—and often regurgitating stale, Orientalist narratives that have been deployed for decades to justify US and Israeli aggression in the region. Central to this media narrative is the presentation of Iran as a kind of puppet master overseeing and coordinating the activities of the Resistance Axis. What this narrative fails to take into account is that it is not Iran that has the Resistance Axis, but decades of US and Israeli aggression. Journalists Rania Khalek and Nima Shirazi join The Real News for a conversation on the media narratives spun around the Resistance Axis and Iran, and how decades of such portrayals have primed the US public to support forever wars in West Asia.
Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News where she hosts the show Dispatches. Her work has also appeared at The Intercept, Truthout, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Al Jazeera, The Nation, Salon, AlterNet, Vice, and more.
Nima Shirazi is the cohost of Citations Needed, a podcast on the media, power, and politics.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 8, 2024.
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Donate to support this podcastFri, 08 Mar 2024 - 7550 - Companies steal from freelancers—but new laws could improve things
For millions of freelance workers in the gig economy, delayed and even stolen wages are a routine hardship that leave many scrambling to make ends meet. More than half of all freelance workers have experienced wage theft at least once in their careers, and the majority find little protection or means of recompense from the government. That's where new "Freelance Isn't Free" laws come in to protect freelance workers from nonpayment. First passed in New York City in 2017, Freelance Isn’t Free legislation has helped freelancers recoup hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid invoices over the last 7 years. Now, backed by organizers at the National Writers’ Union and the Freelance Solidarity Project, local and state governments are looking to enact their own Freelance Isn’t Free laws. The Real News speaks with Eric Thurm of the National Writers Union and the Freelance Solidarity Project, along with Keisha "TK" Dutes of the Association of Independents in Radio.
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast--2952221/support.Thu, 07 Mar 2024 - 7549 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, March 7, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, March 7, 2024.
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Donate to support this podcastThu, 07 Mar 2024 - 7548 - Why do railroad workers keep dying on the job? | Working People
“Last Wednesday, a fellow rail worker was gravely injured on the job and lost his life,” a Feb. 6 email from Railroad Workers United reads. “Our brother Chris Wilson, who worked for Norfolk Southern, was critically injured in its Decatur rail yard Wednesday and died Thursday at Huntsville Hospital.” Another email from Feb. 9 reads, “On January 15th, a fellow rail worker was killed on the job in Ohio.” Then, on Feb. 17, another email: “On February 13th, a fellow rail worker was killed on the job in North Carolina. Brother Randall M. Howell, 41, of Allied Federation Lodge 563, died following a road crossing incident in Roanoke Rapids, N.C.” Why are railroad workers all over the country dying on the job? And what can be done to stop these needless deaths? We talk with four railroad workers and members of Railroad Workers United (RWU). Panelists include; Nick Wurst, a freight conductor in Massachusetts, legislative rep for his union local, and currently serving on the RWU international steering committee; Matt Weaver, a member of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division-International Brotherhood of Teamsters (BMWED-IBT) for nearly 30 years, legislative director for his union in Ohio, and a founding member of RWU; Mark Burrows, a retired locomotive engineer with 37 years in the industry, and the editor of “The Highball,” RWU’s quarterly newsletter: and Ross Grooters, RWU co-chair, member of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, also serving on the BLET-IBT Iowa state legislative board, with over 20 years in the industry.Additional links/info below…
Railroad Workers United website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageRoss’s Twitter pageMaximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “They Were Just Another East Palestine Family—Until Norfolk Southern Set Off a Bomb in Their Lives“Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “East Palestine Residents Still Need Help—the Labor Movement Should Be an Ally“Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “He Tried to Raise the Alarm about Railroad Safety. Then He Got Fired“Mike L, The Real News Network, “A Carman’s Perspective on the East Palestine Derailment and the Railroad Industry as a Whole“Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “US Freight Workers Say It’s Time to Nationalize the Railroads“Maximillian Alvarez, Breaking Points, “Rail Worker EXPOSES Ohio Disaster COVERUP“Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, ““This Was Preventable”: Railroad Workers Explain How...Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 7547 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 6, 2024.
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Story 1 - Massive investigation by Global News shows Residential school-like conditions that Indigenous youth are subjected to in private, for-profit youth homes.
Story 2 - Mohawks of Kahawake have spent $100,000 trying to clean up a diesel spill coming from Châteauguay.
Story 3 - Five dead after plane crashes in Nashville, all on board were Canadian.
Story 4 - CBC's Catharine Cullen reports that the government will reverse its decision on UNRWA because it's seen an interim UN report, makes no mention of the social pressure to do this ... and the press conference was just cancelled.
Story 5 - Underwater cables in the Red Sea have been severed, impacting 26% of all east-west communications. No word yet on whether it was sabotage or an accident.
Story 6 - Yahya Dillo, the head of the Parti Socialiste sans frontières in Chad was killed as Chadian forces stormed their headquarters.Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 7546 - Michigan's warning to Democrats: Biden's continued support of genocide in Gaza could cost him the election
With each day that passes without a ceasefire in Gaza or a cessation of US aid to Israel, dissent within the Democratic party grows. In Michigan, more than 13% of Democrats voted uncommitted in the recent primary as a protest vote against Biden's stance on Gaza—and this is just the beginning. Calls have been put forward to organize other uncommitted votes in primaries around the country. While these protest votes are unlikely to dislodge Biden from securing the nomination, it's the underlying discontent with the Biden administration, shared by millions of Americans, that poses the real threat to his reelection. John Nichols of The Nation joins The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the infighting within the Democratic Party and the prospects of Biden's reelection this year.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, March 5, 2024.
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