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  • Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Documenting Israel’s (Ongoing) War Crimes in Gaza and Lebanon

    Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Documenting Israel’s (Ongoing) War Crimes in Gaza and Lebanon
    2026/04/28
    Award-winning journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous has reported from war zones and disaster areas across the world—from Egypt, Syria, and Libya, to Iraq, Algeria, Haiti, and the United States—but nothing compares to what he’s seen in Gaza. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Abdel Kouddous about the impossible task of documenting the full scale of devastation Israel has wrought on Gaza and, increasingly, on Lebanon.

    Guests:
    • Sharif Abdel Kouddous is a journalist and editor for DropSite News based in New York and Cairo. He has reported from across the Arab world, including Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Bahrain, and Algeria as well from across the United States and internationally. He received a George Polk Award for his investigation into the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, an Emmy award for his coverage of the Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban, and an Izzy Award for his coverage of the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

    Additional links/info:
    • Sharif Abdel Kouddous, DropSite author page
    • Kavitha Chekuru & Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Fault Lines, “The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza”

    Credits:
    • Producer: Rosette Sewali
    • Studio Production: Cameron Granadino
    • Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank


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    24 分
  • America at 250: The Slave’s Perspective

    America at 250: The Slave’s Perspective
    2026/04/27
    2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War. While the national mythology behind the “America at 250” celebrations focuses on the 18th-century battle between Patriot and Loyalist elites, what does the story of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States look like through the eyes of enslaved people? In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Professor Justene Hill Edwards, author of Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina.

    Guests:
    • Justene Hill Edwards is an associate professor of History in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Her research explores the intersection of African American history, the history of slavery, and the history of American capitalism. She is the author of Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina and Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank.

    Credits:
    • Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino


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    32 分
  • Freed Palestinian Political Prisoner Mahmoud al-Arda Speaks

    Freed Palestinian Political Prisoner Mahmoud al-Arda Speaks
    2026/04/23
    Former political prisoner Mahmoud al-Arda was first arrested by Israeli occupation forces in 1992 due to his involvement in the First Intifada and his membership in Islamic Jihad. Since then, for the past three decades, al-Arda has been incarcerated in different Israeli prisons, and he made international headlines in 2021 after leading a daring, successful, but short-lived escape from the maximum-security Gilboa Prison. In this blockbuster episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa—a former Black Panther and political prisoner in the US—speaks with al-Arda after he and 2,000 other Palestinian prisoners were finally released from incarceration in Israel in 2025.

    Additional Links/Info
    • B’Tselem, Statistics on Palestinians in Israeli Custody
    • B’Tselem, “Welcome to Hell”: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (Report)
    • Mansa Musa, TRNN, “Inside Israel’s Prison Regime”
    • Ruwaida Amer, Electronic Intifada, “Freedom is the eternal dream”
    • Aseel Mousa, Middle East Eye, “Jailbreak, freedom, exile: Life of Mahmoud al-Arda, architect of daring Israeli prison escape”


    Credits
    • Videography: Ruwaida Amer, Cameron Granadino
    • Producer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
    • Voiceover: Danny Bou-Maroun


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    18 分
  • Julian Hattem: ‘The era of climate migration is already here’

    Julian Hattem: ‘The era of climate migration is already here’
    2026/04/22
    Just decades from now, millions of people all over the world will be forced to move because of climate change. In his new book, Shelter from the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration, acclaimed journalist and migration researcher Julian Hattem reports from the front lines of the environmental apocalypse, taking readers on a journey from the South Pacific to the Indian subcontinent, to the Mediterranean. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Hattem about his new book and about the massive human displacement that is already being caused by climate change today.

    This podcast was recorded on April 4, 2026, at “End Papers: A mini-book fest on capitalism and the climate crisis,” hosted by Red Emma’s Cooperative Bookstore and Coffeehouse in Baltimore, Maryland.

    Guests
    • Julian Hattem is the editor of Migration Information Source, the online magazine of the Migration Policy Institute, and founder and host of the podcast Changing Climate, Changing Migration. He has been on staff with the Associated Press and The Hill, and written for outlets including the Washington Post, The Guardian, NPR, and The Atlantic. The author of Shelter from the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration (The New Press), he lives in Washington, DC.
    Credits
    • Audio Post-Production: Alina Nehlich


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    36 分
  • ‘The Rain Was Black’: A Plant Explosion Set Off a Toxic Bomb in This Louisiana Town

    ‘The Rain Was Black’: A Plant Explosion Set Off a Toxic Bomb in This Louisiana Town
    2026/04/15
    On Aug. 22, 2025, the small-town lives of residents living near the Smitty’s Supply facility in Roseland, Louisiana, changed forever when an explosion occurred at the automotive lubricant plant. The explosion and ensuing fire, which burned for days, triggered evacuations across the area, blanketing homes and businesses with smoke, soot, and oily residue, while spilling petroleum products from the plant into area waterways, including several adjacent ponds and the Tangipahoa River. While the Environmental Protection Agency claims that the area is safe, according to the agency’s own chemical monitoring, residents say they’ve been left behind and kept in the dark as they develop negative health symptoms and their homes remain covered in toxic substances. In this episode, we speak with Arlene Bankston, a farmer and resident of Roseland, and Allie Ponvelle, who lives one town over in Amite, about the slow-moving nightmare they’ve been living in ever since the massive explosion and chemical fire at Smitty’s Supply.Additional links/info: Alene Bankston’s Facebook pageAllie Ponvelle’s Facebook pagePetition to Close Roseland Montessori School Due to Toxic ContaminationChemically Impacted Communities Coalition (CICC) websiteWesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator, “Smitty’s Supply neighbors still wary of fire fallout despite assurances from Landry, EPA”Whitney Miller, WWL Louisiana, “What was in the air and water after the Smitty’s Supply fire? Testing under new scrutiny””Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “America’s toxic future looks like East Palestine, Ohio, today”Featured Music: Jules Taylor, Working People Theme SongCredits: Audio Post-Production: Jules TaylorBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast--2952221/support.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Follow us on:Bluesky: @therealnews.comFacebook: The Real News NetworkTwitter: @TheRealNewsYouTube: @therealnewsInstagram: @therealnewsnetworkBecome a member and join the Supporters Club for The Real News Podcast today!
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    52 分
  • Everyone Knows Israel is Sabotaging the Iran Ceasefire—Even the Trump Administration

    Everyone Knows Israel is Sabotaging the Iran Ceasefire—Even the Trump Administration
    2026/04/14
    Hours after a temporary ceasefire deal between the US and Iran was announced last week, Israel unleashed a massive, deadly bombing campaign on Lebanon. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with award-winning Iranian-Canadian journalist Samira Mohyeddin about the reality that Israel is a rogue state intent on pursuing more war, not diplomacy or peace, and that the US-Israeli war on Iran was never about nuclear threats but about weakening Iran’s economic and regional power—at devastating costs to civilians.

    Guests:
    • Samira Mohyeddin is an award winning producer and broadcaster based in Toronto. For nearly a decade, she was a producer and host at Canada’s National Broadcaster, CBC Radio. Mohyeddin is the founder of On The Line Mediaand she was the 2024 - 2025 journalism fellow at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto

    Additional links/info:
    • Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss / TRNN, “As U.S. and Iran agree to a temporary ceasefire, Israel launches ‘massacre’ in Lebanon, threatening entire deal”
    • Jake Johnson, Common Dreams / TRNN, “Iran’s top diplomat says Trump team sabotaged talks with deal ‘inches away’”

    Credits:
    • Producer: Rosette Sewali
    • Studio Production: Cameron Granadino
    • Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank


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    21 分
  • Being Palestinian in an Israeli Prison

    Being Palestinian in an Israeli Prison
    2026/04/13
    While international attention has decreased in recent months, the horrors Israel continues to systematically unleash on Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank have not. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa—a former Black Panther and political prisoner—speaks with renowned scholar-activist Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi about Israel’s apartheid system of incarceration and the urgent fight to free Palestinian political prisoners detained by Israel.

    Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino


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    28 分
  • Trump Is Turning Warehouses into ICE Detention Camps. Can Maryland Stop Him?

    Trump Is Turning Warehouses into ICE Detention Camps. Can Maryland Stop Him?
    2026/04/10
    In the small town of Williamsport, MD, about an hour and a half from Baltimore, the Department of Homeland Security purchased a massive shipping warehouse for $102 million with plans to turn it into an ICE detention center. But local efforts to expose, delay, and shut down the Trump administration’s heinous plans for this makeshift concentration camp are growing. A broad coalition of local officials, faith leaders, and civil rights organizations have filed an amicus curiae brief in the State of Maryland v. Noem lawsuit, urging the US District Court for the District of Maryland to halt DHS’s rushed plan to convert the massive Williamsport warehouse into a large-scale immigration detention center. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Sonia Kumar, a senior staff attorney at ACLU of Maryland, who is part of the team of legal representatives who filed the brief.Additional links/info: ACLU of Maryland website, Facebook page, X page, and InstagramACLU of Maryland, “Community leaders, elected officials, and civil rights organizations challenge DHS’s secret, rushed plan to convert Hagerstown warehouse into mass immigration detention center”Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “‘A black site concentration camp’: Residents fight ICE detention warehouse in rural Maryland”Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “The chilling truth behind ICE’s detention warehouses”Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “Meet the data analysts exposing ICE’s plansCredits:Studio Production / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast--2952221/support.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Follow us on:Bluesky: @therealnews.comFacebook: The Real News NetworkTwitter: @TheRealNewsYouTube: @therealnewsInstagram: @therealnewsnetworkBecome a member and join the Supporters Club for The Real News Podcast today!
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    31 分