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Paul Jay, Senior Editor, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington. In September 2011, at a time when the sovereign debt raiders, as some …

Watching some of the news coming from Capitol Hill this week, two old music videos started buzzing around in our heads. One was the classic “I'm Just a Bill,” …

A little over a year ago, while researching the Confederacy's economy, I stumbled across this unnerving graph charting the value of America's “stock of slaves” in the last decades …

After David Brooks last year, now it’s James Stewart who has fallen for Paul Ryan’s rugged good looks. He attempts to defend Ryan’s tax proposals against charges that they favor the rich: "To …

Set a lighter to an icy block of methane hydrate, a naturally frozen combo of methane gas and water, and flames spew forth at random. However unlikely this fluke …

(Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping - The Truth May Hurt. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Vancouver/Winnipeg, 2012.) This short book, or elongated essay, concerns the political attributes of one of Canada's more …

“The lack of historical consensus regarding John Brown,” asserted longtime labor, racial justice, and international activist Bill Fletcher, “speaks to the ideological confusions we continue to face.” Fletcher — …

(Photo: Victor1558) Have you heard about the earthquake that has shaken Wall Street to its very core? Well, brace yourself, for this really is a shocker: bonus payments are …

Occupy Wall Street, October 2, 2011. (Photo: Melissa Gira Grant) “Post-World War II, the military hasn't been defending America, but working for the power elite to expand empire,” Will …

Nine years after Baghdad erupted in “shock and awe,” we're once again hearing in America the drumbeat for war in the Middle East. Now, the bull's-eye is on Iran. …