Sandra Cuffe: Military resorts to killing, numbers in streets double -- even opponents of Zelaya join in.

An interview with Sandra Cuffe, independent journalist reporting from the streets of Tegucigalpa, Honduras on the day the...

Bertha Oliva: Coup leaders reviving despotism of the 80s in bid to crush participatory democracy

The military coup government of Roberto Micheletti is coming under increasing economic pressure to concede power, whether from holds on...

Pepe Escobar: Understanding the mullahs, the Guards and the street

What has just happened in Iran? Was it a revolution, or something entirely different? Whatever the West may make of it, Pepe Escobar argues the...

Pollin: Obama plan to 'empower' the Fed won't reign in casino capitalism; finance must be democratized

Last week, Barack Obama announced that his new plan for Wall Street regulation would be hinged upon an enhanced...

Mehdi Kouhestaninejad: Iranian unions on the streets with youth, in protest against the current regime.

TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay talks to Mehdi Kouhestaninejad about the role of Iranian unions in the protests...

Israeli settlement construction, including "natural growth," an obstacle to a two-state solution.

After U.S. President Obama's Cairo address to the Muslim World, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to the possibility of establishing a Palestinian...

A single payer rep finally testifies to Congress; insurance industry steps up attack on any public plan

As the "official" debate shifts away from single payer type plans, an increasing amount of people across...

First in a series of discussions with a group of retired autoworkers in Detroit.

TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay talks to retired autoworkers from Detroit about the effects of the automobile crisis on...

Authors of heavily-quoted poll changed their conclusion to support validity of Ahmadinejad landslide.

Western media, along with thousands of Iranians protesting around the world, have formed a rough consensus over the six days since Iran's...

As the debate over health care reform heats up in the United States, a sub-debate of increasing significance is that of the Canadian system. Natalie Mehra, a critic of the current health care system...

Massive protests as Revolutionary Guard consolidates power, likely to expand economic control.

Paul Jay speaks to Babak Yektafar, Editor-in-Chief of washingtonprisom.org about the protests in reaction to the Iranian election results. Yektafar speaks of the...

Pepe Escobar: Fishy vote count + Guile + Tactics: Why Ahmadinejad won

Iran has been hit by a political "earthquake": against worldwide expectations, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won a landslide victory and a second term...

Pepe Escobar: Two camps locked in fierce struggle, as Revolutionary Guard stages an election "coup."

"What happened in Iran was basically a military coup," Pepe Escobar tells TRNN Senior Analyst, Paul Jay, about the Iranian...

People from Toronto respond to a US advertising campaign about the Canadian health-care system:

While the debate over changes to the US health-care system continues, lobby groups are investing advertising dollars to get their point...

Chair of Finance Committee takes single-payer plan off the table and calls for "more police":

Paul Jay, Senior Editor for The Real News Network, reports that on May 5, 2009 the US Senate Finance...

The Real News Network's Paul Jay spoke with Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to get his thoughts on the Obama-Geithner plans for bank reform.

"They're simply recycling pretty much the Bush-Paulson measures, changing them a little, but essentially the same idea. Keep...

Tom Ferguson: Stimulus package is dangerously small; plan for toxic assets shovels money to bankers.
Thomas Ferguson is a political scientist and author who studies and writes on politics and economics, often within an historical perspective. He is a Political Science professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He...

The American Way of War is Eugene Jarecki's latest book. Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker whose previous film Why We Fight won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The Trials of Henry Kissinger, won the 2002 Amnesty International Award. In addition to his...

Journalist leads former guerrilla army to left's first presidential victory in country's history. The Real News is there to record the victory.

Just over 17 years since the 1992 Peace Accords brought an end...

In the latest interview with The Real News Network, Phyllis Bennis states that the debt owed to the Iraqi people can only be paid after ending occupation.

The Real News Senior Editor,...