Tag: democracy
Israeli Police Brutality Reaches New Extremes Against Israeli-Palestinian Protesters (Pt 2/2)
Jafar Farah, the head of the Mossawa Center for equal rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel, speaks to TRNN about how police shattered his knee…
Israel Legislates Apartheid into Law
TRNN’s Shir Hever explains that Israel’s new Law of the Nation-State makes it impossible to pretend that Israel is a democracy. Unequal rights are recognized…
As Europe Goes Right, Some Cities Take a Different Path
At the Fearless Cities Conference, Barcelona en Comú’s Gala Pin says cities are the future of democratic governance ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended…
US Policy Toward Global Internet Governance Is Misguided Says Richard Hill 1/2
The business models of NSA & companies like Google are about the same explains Richard Hill as part of a wide ranging discussion on global…
Push Public Ownership to Challenge Power of Billionaires – Q&A with Paul Jay (4/5)
Paul Jay joins host Ben Norton to discuss the viewer question “how to overthrow the corporate state” – From a live recording on October 29th,…
Class and Gender in Democratic Socialist Activism
Maria Svart, National Director of Democratic Socialists of America, talks about how she got involved with DSA and how feminism and democratic socialism intersect Visit…
Venezuela: US/Canadian Attempted Coup Not About Democracy – Paul Jay
Corporate media hides that the crisis in Venezuela is a class struggle, and whatever its faults, the Bolivarian revolution is a struggle for equality and…
Human Rights Watch Director Expelled from Israel
Omar Shakir, director of HRW was given two weeks to leave Israel. “This is really the first time a court has put its seal on…
There Are no Nation-States, Only Corporate Global Governors (Pt 1/2)
Watch full series https://therealnews.com/series/unpacking-corporate-capture-in-institutions-of-global-governance While in the past transnational corporations were powerful actors, at the international level there were at least nation-state based governors; not…
Three Ways To Discipline Corporate Global Governors (Pt 2/2)
Watch full series https://therealnews.com/series/unpacking-corporate-capture-in-institutions-of-global-governance No stakeholder-based global governance system comes close to matching the democratic legitimacy of a citizen-based and nation-state-based governance system, says Harris…
Bernie Sanders Vision Of Democratic Socialism Makes Both Sides Nervous
Is Bernie Sanders selling socialism? Or is he just making a clear case for a government that actually works for the people? A panel discussion…
Is US Democracy Dying a Slow and Barely Visible Death?
Ret. Col. Larry Wilkerson examines the dangers that Republican efforts to abridge voting rights and that Trump’s racist and violent exhortations represent to US democracy…
Istanbul Election Shakes President Erdogan’s Power
Baris Karaagac discusses Ekrem Imamoglu’s victory in Istanbul’s mayoral election. President Erdogan had forced new elections after his party lost in March and now the…
Russia’s President Putin Cracks Down, Despite Maintaining Broad Popular Support
Russia expert Tony Wood discusses the arrest and possible poisoning of Alexei Navalny, who was banned from running in local elections and protested that decision….
