Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, July 23, 2025.

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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, July 22, 2025.

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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, July 21, 2025.

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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, July 18, 2025.

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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, July 17, 2025.

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On July 17, 1936, the Nazi-backed Spanish General Federico Franco led an armed rebellion against the Spanish government. It began a bloody civil war that would last for years. 

Thousands of people left their homes and traveled to Spain to stand up and defend its democratically elected government against Franco and fascism. Roughly 35,000 people from more than 50 countries would join the Spanish International Brigade. Of those internacionalistas, roughly 3,000 men and women came from the United States and volunteered to fight. They founded the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. 

This is episode 58 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

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Resources
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
Fighting Fascism: The Americans–Women and Men–Who Fought in the Spanish Civil War - Democracy Now
Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
The Last Lincoln Veteran By David Rovics
With the Lincoln Brigade in Spain

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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, July 16, 2025.

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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, July 15, 2025.

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For generations, the Statue of Liberty has stood as a beacon representing the promise of America as a land of freedom and opportunity for immigrants from all over the world. But in 2025, as immigrant communities are being vilified and terrorized across the US, as people of color are being kidnapped off the street by armed, masked agents of the state, as immigrants are kidnapped and disappeared to prisons in foreign countries like El Salvador, as billions of taxpayer dollars are allocated to erect migrant concentration camps and a giant wall on the US-Mexico border, it should be horrifyingly clear that the promised America embodied in the Statue of Liberty is not the America we live in today. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen about the reality immigrant families face in the US today and about the critical relationship between the rise of authoritarianism at home and the violent expansion of American imperialism abroad. 

Guest: 

• Viet Thanh Nguyen is a professor of English, American studies and ethnicity, and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. His novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His latest feature piece for The Nation Magazine is titled “Greater America has been exporting disunion for decades”

Additional resources: 

• Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Nation, “Greater America has been exporting disunion for decades”
• Michael Fox, The Real News Network, “Families of the detained see echoes of dictatorial past in El Salvador's gang crackdown”
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “A dangerous myth: The US has never been 'a nation of immigrants'”

Credits: 

• Studio Production: David Hebden
• Post-Production: Cameron Granadino 

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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, July 14, 2025.

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