As talks for a peaceful resolution fail, a fierce battle is on to win over the US government.

Lanny Davis, former spokesperson for Hilary Clinton's 2008 Presidential Campaign, is now lobbying on behalf of...

Len Saputo: We need publicly funded health care, but we need more -- a system based on prevention.

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Pepe Escobar: Does anyone care about what happens to the Uighurs?

The early July riots in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province in China's Far West, opposing turcophone Uighurs and Han Chinese, have been spun...

West shutting UN out of global crisis response, as South governments question pillars of world economy

As the global economy continues it's decline, the consequences are growing for the world's poorest. Up until a recent...

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...