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'Let the Pitch Forks do their Job'

Posted December 15, 2009 | 12:27 PM (EST)


Andrew Cockburn, producer of American Casino Pt2: From Greenspan's "faulty ideology" to today's Fed.

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Israel's 'Settlement Freeze'

5 Comments | Posted December 10, 2009 | 05:10 PM (EST)


Haddad: Negotiations because of Israel's partial settlement "freeze" would be political suicide for PA.

Toufic Haddad, co-author of Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror, and Palestine correspondent for The Faster Times speaks in Jerusalem to Lia Tarachansky of The Real News about Israel's "settlement freeze." He says...

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TRNN Exclusive: Honduran Elections Exposed

4 Comments | Posted December 9, 2009 | 12:23 PM (EST)


Honduran coup regime's claims of more than 60% participation in free and fair election revealed as fraud.

"There is wide agreement that last week's presidential election in Honduras..." begins an editorial in Saturday's New York Times, "...was clean and fair." The editorial gives no hint as to whom all these...

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The Honduran Battle for Washington

Posted July 21, 2009 | 02:58 PM (EST)


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...

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Health Care or Disease Care? Part 1

Posted July 20, 2009 | 02:13 PM (EST)


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


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We're All Uighurs Now. Or Are We?

Posted July 15, 2009 | 11:37 AM (EST)


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...

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G-20 or G-192: Fear of the South

Posted July 13, 2009 | 11:47 AM (EST)


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...

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Honduran Coup Resistance Growing

2 Comments | Posted July 8, 2009 | 12:11 PM (EST)


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...

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Honduras Under Siege

1 Comments | Posted July 7, 2009 | 01:24 PM (EST)


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...

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Requiem for a Revolution

1 Comments | Posted July 6, 2009 | 12:00 PM (EST)


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...

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Federal Reserve: Same Old Sheriff on Wall St.

5 Comments | Posted July 1, 2009 | 06:30 PM (EST)


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...

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Struggle in Iran's Streets Beyond Elections

Posted June 25, 2009 | 10:28 AM (EST)


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...

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"Natural Growth" of Israeli Settlements

3 Comments | Posted June 24, 2009 | 11:42 AM (EST)


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...

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Health Care A Human Right?

Posted June 22, 2009 | 12:04 PM (EST)


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...

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Retired Auto Workers Have Their Say (Video)

Posted June 22, 2009 | 10:13 AM (EST)


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...

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Does U.S. Poll Rule Out Fraud in Iran?

10 Comments | Posted June 18, 2009 | 03:47 PM (EST)


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...

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Canadian Health Care: Fact vs. Fiction

3 Comments | Posted June 17, 2009 | 03:23 PM (EST)


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...

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Revolutionary Guard in Charge

3 Comments | Posted June 16, 2009 | 05:03 PM (EST)


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...

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Pepe Escobar: Ahmadi Big Bang

Posted June 16, 2009 | 12:29 PM (EST)


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...

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Struggle Within Iranian Elite

Posted June 16, 2009 | 12:02 PM (EST)


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...

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