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Endless wars, abuse of powers, declining living standards.
Now a profound economic crises has ripped asunder the
American dream itself.
Millions of people losing jobs and homes.
They lack proper health care, and any
real sense of security.
As unemployment rises, we need to know why this crisis is
happening, and what we can do to defend ourselves.
Why are wages so low?
Why is the society so laden with debt?
Is it in ordinary American's interest to have a trillion
dollar military budget to project
power across the globe?
Big oil and arms companies shape American economic and
foreign policy with far reaching effects on the lives
of ordinary people.
With allies in government, trade unions, the media, and
in think tanks, they're a hidden hand that controls the
commanding heights of American politics.
Corporate television news won't ask these questions, let
alone try to find answers.
Only a truly independent news network can tackle these
questions with courage, with ordinary people's
interests in mind.
What makes the Real News different
is our funding model.
We don't have to worry about quick rating results.
We don't have to worry about companies getting peeved and
withdrawing their advertising.
We don't have to worry about losing government subsidy.
It means we can think and act independently and
courageously.
The Real News is a nonprofit, video news, and documentary
service that provides independent, uncompromising
video journalism.
The Real News will be financed through the economic power of
thousands of people around the world.
We won't accept advertising, or government
or corporate funding.
Our goal is to compete for a daily news
audience in the millions.
We plan to break stories throughout the day on our 24/7
website, and our daily world news show for television will
be available in over 50 million homes
across North America.
The Real News will feature entertaining and hard hitting
programming, including Global Warning, reporting on problems
and solutions in the environmental and climate
change crisis.
Welcome to the Global Underground.
We'll be looking at our planet through the eyes of young
artists from around the world.
Skewer, the best of the world's political satire.
I agree with you totally there, Tony.
Face Off, lively, witty, and fair debate.
How did television news shows cover this week's big story?
Did they get the facts right?
Did they get the context?
Join us for the real story.
The United States has played a major role in fueling the
civil war, something that the American media is not telling
the American people.
Other programming will include the Politics of Faith, about
politics and the prophets.
International Justice, the law and human rights.
Follow The Money, the global fight against corruption.
Organize This, working people and unions.
Think, featuring leading minds from around the world.
And Rear View Mirror, the history behind the news.
The heart of our service will be our daily news, where we
change the definition of what's news, and
who's a news maker.
Are Canadian mining companies violating the rights of
indigenous people in Canada and around the world?
We report from Guatemala.
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We've got a satellite up on the roof, and it runs
throughout the day, multiple feeds, different parts of the
world, the top stories of the day.
That's a start.
We are already working with journalists from different
parts of the world who are well established, and highly
respected in their regions.
More than 7,000 people have been captured in
America's War on Terror.
Some have been released.
700 were sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
But where are all the rest?
Africa supplies a third of China's imported oil.
President General Pervez Musharraf's army has deep
historical ties to Islamic forces.
Do we owe something to the Iraqi people other than just
getting out?
Do we owe them reparations for having brought about this war?
I don't believe that.
The Iraqi people are paying the highest price for the
failure of American policy.
Daily news is critical, because that's where people
form their first opinion about a breaking story.
And that's where they form their world view, because of
the repetition of daily news.
We have to break the monopoly on video based daily news.
Now we hear that new wars, even endless wars, may be on
the horizon.
Isn't it time we debated whether a foreign policy that
weakens our economy, and costs the lives of hundreds of
thousands of people, is in the interests of most Americans?
Here are the stories.
Here a guy living in a trailer in his backyard, who's paying
a mortgage on a house that was destroyed two years ago.
And he can't even find a job, and nobody's helping him.
But there's 362 tons of US cash,
somewhere missing in Baghdad.
Coming up on Global Warning.
avaaz.org, in an online campaign, says, climate change
is the greatest threat facing our world today.
And we're almost out of time to stop it.
One of the most important stories the Real News will be
covering is the global warming climate change crisis.
All the issues of our time converge here, from the
disproportionate effects on the poor, to the very way we
do business.
Well, scientists are telling us we can't keep doing
business as usual.
And that's why we need television news that doesn't
do business as usual.
There are solutions for the urgent problems of our times.
At the Real News, people working for a change to find
solutions will be the most important stories we cover.
This is Gavin MacFayden, with the Center for Investigative
Journalism.
And I'll be reporting from London for the Real News.
I'm Oksana Chelysheva, in Moscow.
This is Davey D from Oakland, California.
I'm Pepe Escobar, from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
This is where information really could be powered.
I'm Willy, I'm in Hong Kong.
I'm Babak Yektafar, reporting from Washington DC.
I'm Siddharth Varadarajan, of The Hindu in New Delhi.
In India, there would be enough numbers, huge numbers,
who would be subscribers to such a channel, to see
something rational.
I'm Jodi Rave, reporting for the Real News
from Western Montana.
Large chunks of the world are very ready for a network of
news that's not CNN, that's not the BBC.
I am Taghreed El-Khodary in Gaza City.
This is David Newman, of Ben Gurion University.
Here and everywhere, people want the Real News
alternative.
I'm Leila Hatoum, reporting from Beirut for the Real News.
This is the sort of thing we can build right now without
anyone else's permission, from the government or
the business community.
The power's in our hands.
If we're not going to sleepwalk into more wars, and
into environmental disaster, we think we need to start with
a television news network that won't bow to pressure, and has
the courage to seek facts.
And that means independent economics.
And that's why we need you.
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Send email blasts and spread the word.
Distribute this video to everyone you know.
Pick up the phone and call a few friends and suggest they
visit therealnews.com.
Invest just 10 minutes a day to ask friends and colleagues
to join the campaign to create a truly independent source of
internet and television news.
Together we can build this network.
Just 50,000 people at $10 a month gets us to our first
level of sustainability.
You can help us reach this goal.
And when we do, we'll move to television in millions of
homes across North America.
Help us reach an audience in the millions.
Please contribute generously.
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Let's make the Real News television network a reality.
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