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Abby and Robbie discuss the recent slew of far-right attacks in the US, Trump's rhetoric feeding white nationalists, how neoliberalism paved the road to fascism, and the total failure in coverage of today's complex reality. Donate to William Blum: https://bit.ly/2RNTZWz New Empire Files on Roots of Gun Violence: https://bit.ly/2z1BuH6 Dan Cohen in Israel: https://bit.ly/2ROLomA Abby in Israel: https://bit.ly/2BedU8I Trump & Rise of 21st Century Fascism: https://bit.ly/2ogrjIW Rise of 'Anti-Establishment' Fascists: https://bit.ly/2g72ezk Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Please consider supporting Media Roots Radio on Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio 17 years ago, less than one month after the horrific attacks on September 11, 2001, weaponized anthrax was sent through the mail in a biological attack that stunned an already traumatized nation. The first American died from anthrax infection on October 5th. During the weeks that followed, letters sent through the US postal system containing anthrax were targeted at US media organizations and sitting US senators. In the end, five people were left dead--two US postal workers, a Florida photojournalist, a New York city hospital worker and a 95 year old widow in Connecticut. Over 22 people were hospitalized from exposure. Many dozens more tested positive for anthrax in the months that followed. It was a one-two punch of guttural horror. Americans were already glued to their television sets, watching 24/7 coverage of planes exploding and iconic skyscrapers crumbling. Over and over, we watched thousands perish. But

Robbie and Abby Martin chat about Michael Moore's new movie "Fahrenheit 11/9" and his film trajectory tip toeing around hard critique of Democrats. They also discuss Israeli social media psyops, the upcoming midterm elections in California on November 6, including proposition 10 for affordable housing, and give an empire update on the 17-year-long Afghanistan War, US special ops in Tunisia and a new anti-US governor in Okinawa, Japan. CA Peace & Freedom Party Voter Guide: https://bit.ly/2ythKvI Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Abby Martin discusses what the media missed during the spectacle of the disgraced Kavanaugh hearings, belligerent neocon Nikki Haley's sudden departure, 800 Facebook pages banned in the latest tech purge of dissident voices, police efforts to dox activists and treat nonviolent protests as "terrorism" on a solo Media Roots Radio. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio INTRO // Trnqilo & Anahedron - Wisp: https://bit.ly/2OmTUf8 OUTRO // Anahedron - Inevitable Collapse: https://bit.ly/2NDNqDu FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin

Abby Martin interviews Max Blumenthal and Camilo Mejia about the history of CIA interference in Nicaragua and the role of US civil society groups to meddle in the country's democratic processes. They go into detail about the latest insurrection, allegedly over pension hikes, that resulted in 300 people being killed and a call for Ortega to hold early elections. They also discuss the opposition violence against Sandinistas, and why it is ignored by the corporate media. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal / twitter.com/cmejia0875

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the Likudnik tendencies of the Trump administration and how he's actually accelerating neoconservatism and Zionism in ways that even George W. Bush wasn't willing to do. They go into the bizarre cover story by Dallas police to excuse the 'accidental' murder by one of their officers of Black immigrant, Botham Jean, in his own apartment. The beginning of the podcast focuses on the 17th anniversary of 9/11 and the shocking amount of inconsistencies in regards to the official story. Skip ahead to 1.5 hours in for the Palestine discussion. Hi-rest episode artwork: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnQI9lFVYAAI3gn.jpg Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Abby and Robbie talk about John McCain's legacy waging wars of aggression that cost millions of lives, the DC blob mourning him as a symbol of US empire, how Sarah Palin was groomed by neoconservatives and Steve Bannon as the proto-Trump, the claim Iranian 'bots' are 'sowing discord' online to influence US elections and the new black list that names Abby and others as 'Assadists'. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Robbie Martin interviews John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski, authors of "The Watchdogs Didn't Bark", a new book revealing the massive national security failures allowing the 9/11 attacks, and the national security state fire sale that followed. Building off their previous works "9/11: Press for Truth" and "Who is Rich Blee", John and Ray tackle 9/11 and its aftermath in exquisite detail, providing a riveting narrative of the events. Show Notes: "Who Is Rich Blee?" Podcast http://secrecy-kills.s3.amazonaws.com/BleePodcast1.mp3 The Podcast Transcript http://www.scribd.com/doc/66014142/Who-is-Rich-Blee Investigative Piece for Salon http://www.salon.com/2011/10/14/insiders_voice_doubts_cia_911/ The Gawker Article by John Cook https://web.archive.org/web/20110924011347/http://gawker.com/5842912/chief-of-cias-global-jihad-unit-revealed-online Our Richard Clarke Interview Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl6w1YaZdf8 --END Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Med

Abby and Robbie Martin interview Iraq War veteran Mike Prysner and Afghanistan War veteran Spenser Rapone about their experiences that turned them from patriotic soldiers into anti-imperialist socialists. They also talk about their new project @EyesLeft, a podcast encouraging rebellion within the ranks of the war machine. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Mike Prynser amazing anti-war speech: https://bit.ly/2N8zGnO FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Abby and Robbie talk about the implications of Michael Cohen's guilty plea, the school bus bombing in Yemen, history of Saudi internal repression and oil relationship with the US Empire, updates on the ongoing Israeli massacre of unarmed protesters in the Great March of Return, the evidence pointing to US/Colombian involvement of the assassination attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. 37:46 // Ronnie Barkan on Israeli nation state law: https://bit.ly/2uQbP1j 49:15 // The bomb was actually Lockheed Martin Mark 82 54:41 // CNN list of US bomb massacres in Yemen: https://bit.ly/2P8xMRB 1:03:05 // Empire Files documentary on Saudi Arabia: https://bit.ly/1Pbr9Kp 1:06:09 // Saudi to behead woman for protesting: https://nbcnews.to/2NdiryQ 1:09:00 // World Cup migrant deaths in Qatar: https://bit.ly/2hydFgF 1:16:53 // Seymour Hersh on CIA economic war in Chile: https://nyti.ms/2LSePpd 1:21:00 // US sanctions shut down Empire Files: https://bit.ly/2LiEOku Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podc

During the first hour of the show, Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the Omarosa secret tape scandal, Trevor Noah the corporate shill, how CIA spooks and FBI cops are being heralded as "Resistance" leaders and showered with cash by liberal elites. In the last thirty minutes, Abby and Robbie cover the lead-up to censorship of left dissidents and alternative media, the coordinated ban of Alex Jones, tech companies working with think tanks stacked with CIA officials and defense contractors to curate our reality, while stressing the larger operation at play and broader implications of this systematic purge of "fake news". Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Robbie and Abby talk about hospital attacks in Yemen, the assassination attempt against Venezuelan President Maduro, the Patriot Prayer rally and conservative hijacking of "free speech" as a political issue, Facebook shutting down 32 Facebook pages it deems part of a Russian meddling operation, QAnon going critical mass and the Trump administration dogwhistling to his conspiracy base. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Abby and Robbie talk about the latest regime-change plot against Venezuela, the significance of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's victory in the Mexican election, Israel funding neo-nazis in Ukraine, Justice Kennedy's departure from the Supreme Court and Kavanaugh's nomination, the dangers facing Roe v. Wade, Eugene Debs and the dictatorship of courts that have always existed to serve corporations. 25:00 // Supreme Court discussion begins Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey Note: this episode of Media Roots Radio was recorded on July 11th 2018

Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the latest Mueller indictment of 12 alleged Russian intelligence (GRU) agents in relation to the alleged Russian state-sponsored hacking of the DNC and 'meddling' in the 2016 US presidential election. Robbie breaks down the charges and why the indictments aren't meant to actually bring anybody to justice but are instead meant to paint a 'visual narrative' for public consumption (a phrase used by Yasha Levine). They also discuss headlines like Elon Musk donating to the GOP and Ocasio-Cortez’s Palestine controversy. Later Trump's performance at the Helsinki summit and the hysterical media reaction is discussed in detail. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Abby and Robbie Martin talk about Ed Shultz's legacy, Bay Area attacks against homeless people, Elon Musk's PR stunts, Trump's bizarre stand-up comedy at campaign rallies, the pardoning of the Bundy militia, the devastating refugee crisis where 1,000 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean so far in 2018, DSA's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shock win against establishment Democrats, and the secret economic war being waged on Iran from the Trump administration. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Robbie and Abby Martin interview investigative journalist Barrett Brown about his body of work fighting the cyber-industrial complex and promoting the idea of open source collaboration. They discuss how his reporting on the Stratfor leak made him a target of the US empire and sent him to prison for five years, the trajectory of Wikileaks and Julian Assange, Reality Winner and the Pursuance Project, his new initiative to unite the efforts of activists, researchers and journalists. Donate to the Pursuance Project: https://kck.st/2KWZ6Rb Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Abby and Robbie discuss Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policy and dehumanizing anti-immigrant rhetoric, the lawlessness of gestapo police force ICE, the corporate media's manufactured outrage about the family separation crisis, how we got here: from NAFTA to the DHS to 'Deporter-In-Chief' Obama, the cognitive dissonance from Americans to not connect how US foreign policy bred the refugee and immigration crisis in the first place. They also go over all the latest updates in Gaza and the West Bank in Palestine. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss Charles Krauthammer's legacy as an Iraq War architect and propagandist, broken windows policing and the murder of Antwon Rose, Jordan Peterson's defamation lawsuit, Dave Rubin's bizarre argument to deregulate building safety codes, Alex Jones' (beard) and unhinged threats to Joe Rogan, Trump's plan to militarize space in violation of international law and an update on the Afghanistan war, where the US has ramped up its bombing campaign to the highest levels since the invasion. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Robbie Martin interviews activist/journalist/researcher Jon Gold about his new (free) book 'We Were Lied to About 9/11', a compilation of interviews with various experts, researchers as well as figures who played a role in the 9/11 story itself. Robbie and Jon reflect on Jon's discussions with Bob Mcilvaine whose son died in the world trade center, Paul Thompson the creator of the Complete 9/11 Timeline and Coleen Rowley FBI whistleblower who alleges elements inside the FBI covered up evidence that potentially could have stopped the 9/11 attacks. They also discuss the current states of the 9/11 truth movement and the pitfalls of focusing on this area of research. Check out Jon Gold's free book We Were Lied to About 9/11 here: http://wewereliedtoabout911.com/ Jon Gold on Twitter: https://twitter.com/911JusticeNow Robbie Martin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FluorescentGrey Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediar

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss Trump's legal strategy having Giuliani make him look bad, the media lambasting the Korea summit and lobbying against peace with Kim Jong-un, the terrible tragedy of 5,000 deaths in the aftermath of Puerto Rico hurricane (more than Katrina and 9/11 combined), Cambridge Analytica working in Yemen and Saudi Arabia to condition the masses and an update on the continued bloodletting in Palestine––from the execution of another Tamimi in the West Bank to the fact that 500 Palestinians were shot in the head by Israeli snipers over the course of the Great March of Return. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey