by Maximillian Alvarez and Dimitri Lascaris | Mar 30, 2026 | Iran, Media Criticism, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, video, War
The US-Israeli war on Iran has now entered its second month. From the carnage on the ground to the chaos rippling throughout the global economy, the consequences of this disastrous, bloody, and unnecessary conflict—including many dead bodies—are piling up daily. “More than 2,000 people have been killed and thousands of civilian sites have been targeted in the US-Israeli attacks on Iran since February 28,” Al Jazeera reports. Many of the 13 US military bases near Iran have been reportedly rendered “all but uninhabitable” after Iran’s retaliatory strikes.
President Donald Trump and his administration have continued to obfuscate, flip flop, and bluster their way through the morass they’ve made, from claiming that “we’ve won this war,” to baselessly suggesting that a deal with Iran to end the war will come soon, to sending thousands more troops to the Middle East to prepare for what many fear will be a ground invasion.
For people in the Western Hemisphere in general, and for people in the US specifically, it is infuriatingly difficult to get accurate and honest information about what the hell is actually happening in this war. The Trump regime and its vast media network of corporate and “independent” propagandists have proven time and again that they will not tell the public the truth. The majority of oligarch-owned news media outlets and social media platforms have likewise shown a systematic propensity for filling our newsfeeds and brains with half-truths, AI slop, or empire-serving schlock masquerading as serious analysis, all while simultaneously suppressing or invisibilizing realities and perspectives they don’t want the public to see.
That is why it is so vital for us at TRNN
by Maximillian Alvarez | Mar 27, 2026 | Military, Military Industrial Complex, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, video
Earth’s Greatest Enemy, the new blockbuster documentary by independent journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin, is an expansive and terrifying investigation into the existential threat that US empire in general—and the US military specifically—poses to humanity and to our planet. In this panel discussion, recorded after a live screening of Earth’s Greatest Enemy on Jan. 29 at the TRNN studio in Baltimore, Maryland, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez and Dharna Noor, fossil fuels and climate reporter for The Guardian, speak with Abby Martin about how US militarism and imperialism are destroying the planet—and what can be done to stop them.
Guests:
Abby Martin is an independent journalist, filmmaker, and host of The Empire Files. She is the director of the 2019 documentary Gaza Fights for Freedom and the 2026 documentary Earth’s Greatest Enemy.
Dharna Noor is a fossil fuels and climate reporter at The Guardian.
Credits:
Studio Production: David Hebden, Cameron Granadino
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Maximillian Alvarez:
Welcome everyone to the Real News Network podcast. I’m Maximillian Alvarez. I’m the editor-in-chief here at The Real News, and it’s so great to have you all with us. Earth’s greatest enemy is the title of a new blockbuster documentary by legendary independent journalist and filmmaker, Abby Martin. It is an expansive, engrossing, and frankly, terrifying investigation into the existential threat that US Empire in general and the US military specifically poses to humanity and to our planet. Recently, right here in the real news studio in downtown Baltimore, we had the honor of hosting the Baltimore premiere of this vital documentary, and
by Mansa Musa | Mar 23, 2026 | history, labor, Politics and Movements: US, Rattling the Bars, video
Born into slavery and forged in the fire of the 19th-century labor movement, Lucy Parsons became one of the most dangerous women in America. In this Women’s History Month special, Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa and guest William C. Anderson honor Parsons, the “Goddess of Anarchy,” and trace her journey from former slave to militant activist on the front lines of the class war.
Guests:
William C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham, AL. His work has appeared in outlets ranging from The Guardian, MTV, Truthout, British Journal of Photography, to Pitchfork. He is the author of The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, and co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. He’s also the co-founder of Offshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast.
Credits:
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
William C. Anderson:
Yeah. Lucy Parsons is an extremely inspiring figure for me personally. She was a radical anarchist who made waves as a labor organizer and she was also an outspoken militant. She was very much ahead of her time for a person during the era in which she lived. And this is a formerly enslaved Black woman who was speaking with an unfettered, unrestrained radicalism. And she didn’t live with a lot of openness around her race and her personal history, but she had a very interesting life. She married one of the victims of the infamous haymarket affair where there were seven anarchists who were
by Maximillian Alvarez | Mar 23, 2026 | elections, midterms, Politics and Movements: US, Trump, video, Voting Rights
With the public outraged over the US-Israeli war with Iran, the Epstein Files coverup, and a cost-of-living crisis, even President Donald Trump’s base of supporters is fracturing, and Republicans are fixing to get slammed in the upcoming midterm elections. Perhaps that explains why Trump and MAGA Republicans are obsessively focused on attacking voting rights, taking federal control over the electoral system, and preemptively casting doubt on the midterm election results before the elections even happen. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones, about MAGA Republicans’ effort to rig the midterms—and what can be done to stop it.
Guest:
Ari Berman is Mother Jones‘ national voting rights correspondent. He’s the author of the new book Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It, as well as Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.
Additional links/info:
Ari Berman, Mother Jones, “The world is on fire. Gas prices are rising. Republicans are trying to make it harder to vote”
Ari Berman, Mother Jones, “The GOP’s “show us your papers” bill is the latest effort to help Trump take over elections”
Credits:
Studio Production / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Maximillian Alvarez:
Welcome everyone to the Real News Network Podcast. I’m Maximillian Alvarez. I’m the editor-in-chief here at The Real News, and it’s so great to have you all with us. Between the federal government’s coverup of the Epstein Files, President Trump’s catastrophic decision to plunge the US into a war with Iran, an
by Maximillian Alvarez | Mar 23, 2026 | ICE, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, video
Working together under the name Project Salt Box, a group of data analysts have been combing through bureaucratic records and contracts to expose the government’s terrifying plans for executing President Donald Trump’s mass detention and deportation campaign. At a live event at Red Emma’s Cooperative Bookstore and Cafe in Baltimore, Maryland, on Feb 28, the Project Salt Box team discussed how they uncovered plans to convert a massive warehouse in Western Maryland into an ICE detention center, and how Marylanders can resist the ICE surge that’s expected to come to the state.
Additional links/info:
Project Salt Box Substack, Bluesky page, TikTok, and Instagram
Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “The chilling truth behind ICE’s detention warehouses”
Credits:
Videography: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, Cameron Granadino
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Michael Wriston:
Our newsletter sort of got a lot of subscribers kind of unexpectedly because we were doing a very boring thing, which was going to the Maryland Land Records website, MD Land Rec, and going through the plat book page by page for about three hours until we landed on the deed for a warehouse in Williamsport, Maryland that ICE had bought for $102.4 million on January 16th. Boom. Yeah. That warehouse was built in 2021 for the purpose of holding freight. It used to be on a farm or it is sitting on what used to be a farm in a very lovely plat of Western Maryland. It is now an 823,000 square foot empty shell with minimal air conditioning, minimal insulation. It has four toilets, two water fountains, a shower, and one drain.
by Erica Woodland | Mar 16, 2026 | cuba, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, video
The US government is deliberately strangling the island nation of Cuba, and people are dying. At a recent event hosted in the TRNN studio in Baltimore, Maryland, legendary activist and publisher Paul Coates spoke about his recent humanitarian trip to Cuba, the suffering US sanctions are inflicting on the Cuban people, and the responsibility people of African descent have to stand in solidarity with Cuba.
This clip was recorded during a March 6, 2026, event titled “Paul Coates: Black Literary Production—From Propaganda to Publishing,” hosted by TRNN in Baltimore, Maryland, and organized by Tubman House and Eddie’s Front Porch.
Guests
W. Paul Coates is the founder of Black Classic Press and BCP Digital Printing. Black Classic Press, established in 1978, specializes in republishing obscure and significant works by and about people of African descent. A former member of the Black Panther Party, Coates led the effort to establish the Black Panther Archives at Howard University.
Additional links/info
Michael Fox, Under the Shadow, TRNN: “Trump’s war on Cuba: Crisis made in the USA | Under the Shadow S2E7”
Marc Steiner, The Marc Steiner Show, TRNN: “SOS: The US is manufacturing a humanitarian crisis in Cuba”
Credits
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. An updated version will be made available as soon as possible.
Erica Woodland: So I know that you recently just returned from a trip to Cuba and I wanted to actually open up some space to hear about some of your insights and how some of your experiences there really fold into this conversation around how we’re archiving and lifting up our people’s revolutionary traditions.
Paul Coates: So thank
