Real News Reports

The mainstream media seem to have mistakenly concluded that the completion of Keystone XL is inevitable because both the Trump administration and the Trudeau government are enthusiastic [...]

Turkey is currently embroiled in a major economic crisis. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asserts that that crisis has resulted from an “economic war” being waged on Turkey by [...]

Last week, after being kidnapped by Israel’s navy in international waters and spending six days in an Israeli prison, Canadian human rights defender John Turnbull was released from [...]

For The Real News, I speak to Greek filmmaker and journalist Aris Chatzistefanou about austerity’s role in the devastation caused by wildfires near Athens last month. According to Aris, the [...]

Several days ago, indigenous activist Larry Commodore, who is from British Columbia, returned to Canada after being deported from Israel. Larry was a participant in the Freedom Flotilla, whose [...]

For the Real News, I spoke this week to renowned climate scientist Michael Mann about the extraordinary heat and heat-related fatalities we have seen this summer in Greece, Quebec, California, [...]

Yesterday, after Israeli forces hijacked Al Awda in international waters and assaulted some of its peaceful activists, I spoke by satellite phone to Canadian human rights activist John Turnbull, [...]

In Palermo, Sicily, during a break from intensive, non-violence training, I spoke to Freedom Flotilla crew member Mikkel Grüner, a Socialist member of the City Council of Bergen, Norway. Bergen [...]

In the port of Palermo, Sicily, I had the opportunity to speak with two Palestinian passengers of the Freedom Flotilla. Awni Farhat and Youssef Sammour are third-generation Palestinian refugees. [...]

For The Real News, I spoke last week to the Mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, from the Freedom Flotilla about the European Union’s abject failure to hold Israel accountable for its human [...]