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Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the insane, cringeworthy pageantry of the RNC and DNC, Abby's story about being unlawfully arrested and manhandled by Philly PD, and the absurd idea that Trump is somehow behind the hack on the DNC. Please donate to see our podcast continue! www.mediaroots.org

After wrapping up 'A Very Heavy Agenda', Robbie Martin attended a Hillary Clinton fundraiser hosted by neocon thought leader Robert Kagan in D.C., and got an exclusive scoop about Obama's policy on Ukraine. Robbie and Abby talk about the surreal experience and the story he got from Kagan. Also attending the event with Robbie was Rania Khalek. www.averyheavyagenda.com www.mediaroots.org

Robbie Martin and researcher Jon Gold talk about the long awaited release of the 28 pages that expose foreign government involvement in 9/11 attacks. www.mediaroots.org

Abby and Robbie Martin talk about Puerto Rico's manufactured debt crisis and history of colonial subjugation, the Orlando massacre and America's mass shooting epidemic, James Risen's book 'Pay Any Price' documenting the criminal looting and corruption in our post-9/11 dystopia. www.mediaroots.org www.theempirefiles.tv

'A Very Heavy Agenda' is a three part documentary compilation of footage exposing DC's war architects and media surrogates. To watch or buy the series visit: www.averyheavyagenda.com

FYI this podcast was recorded before Tuesday (before Cruz dropped out and Trump won Indiana) please donate by sending a paypal donation via the donate button on our website MediaRoots.org if you would like to make a donation specifically to our podcast, please put 'Media Roots Radio' in the donation notes

GOP Chaos, Interview w/ Daniel Wright by Abby & Robbie Martin

Please donate to MediaRoots.org You can Rent or Buy A Very Heavy Agenda Part 2: How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the New Neocons by Robbie Martin at AVERYHEAVYAGENDA.COM

Robbie follows up with a solo Media Roots Radio podcast about Super Tuesday: neocon panic and desperate GOP hysterics over Trump. Please donate to Media Roots Radio by sending a paypal payment to info@mediaroots,org, make sure to put 'podcast' or 'radio' in the info box of the payment. www.mediaroots.org

Robbie and Abby Martin talk about the Syria ceasefire, Black Lives Matter and the 2016 presidential election insanity: GOP unraveling over Trump, the Clinton campaign's dirty tricks, Hillary's endorsement by neocon warmongers and the reality of Bernie Sanders' domestic/foreign policy on the latest Media Roots Radio. www.mediaroots.org

Abby & Robbie Martin talk about his documentary 'A Very Heavy Agenda', lead poisoning in Flint, Syria war confusion and the new X-Files on the latest Media Roots​ Radio. http://www.mediaroots.org twitter.com/abbymartin twitter.com/fluorescentgrey

Interview with Pearse Redmond of Porkins Policy Radio, Newsbud & BFP by Abby & Robbie Martin

"Bobcat Goldthwait directed this moving documentary about comedian and peace activist Barry Crimmins. The film is masterfully structured in such a way that it starts as a typical film about an artist, who a group of people believe more people should know. Comics who were given opportunities thanks to him or have memories of his early work appear on screen. Goldthwait then hits the audience with information about a horrific experience from Crimmins’ childhood, and the film is instantly transformed into something incredible...His brash wit and knowledge of current events produce material that still is edgy today. His material is inspired by a motivation for peace and justice...It is refreshing to know there are people in the world of comedy like Barry." - Kevin Gosztola on Shadowproof.com Instead of making Barry go through the plot of 'Call Me Lucky', we spend most of the time talking about the state of the modern comedy scene & how the Reagan-era never ended. This podcast is entirely funded by listener donations. Please donate to MediaRoots.org & put 'podcast' in your donation description. Thanks for your support!

Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the political and media ISIS mythopoeia in the wake of the Paris and #SanBernadino attacks, the anti-Muslim bigotry mirroring 9/11 and the nonsensicalness of the Syria war. DONATE // www.mediaroots.org // put 'media roots radio' in the description of your donation twitter.com/AbbyMartin & twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Donald Trump's comments about arabs in New Jersey cheering from rooftops on 9/11 have sparked controversy and outrage, but what if Trump is confusing 2 different real events together and inaccurately repeating them as a memory? Is it possible that even someone as ridiculous as Trump could be a 'victim' of the intentionally racist script we were indoctrinated with on the day of 9/11 itself? Why were there 3 separate mainstream media stories between 9:40am and 1:30pm on the day of 9/11 itself that placed blame on Palestinian terrorist groups for the attacks? Robbie tries to answer all these questions and more in this solo episode of Media Roots Radio. Please donate at MediaRoots.org

This episode of Media Roots Radio was recorded 1 day before the Paris terrorist attacks. Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the US regime change plan in Syria and hypocrisy of arming rebels to 'fight ISIS', "new atheism's" bigotry under the guise of intellectualism & people who are plagued with Empire delusional disorder in serial killer America. www.mediaroots.org twitter.com/FluorescentGrey twitter.com/AbbyMartin

This interview was conducted via a collect call from Warren County Regional Jail and originally appeared at http://amerithrax.blogspot.com/ and was also published here : http://mediaroots.org/alleged-cia-involvement-in-2001-anthrax-attacks/ Jail Support Info: Matt Dehart #164682 Warren County Regional Jail 920 Kentucky Street Bowling Green, Ky 42101 https://twitter.com/FreeMattDehart https://twitter.com/FluorescentGrey More information on the story of Matt Dehart http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidkushner/matt-dehart#.caokW8n43

Media Roots speaks to author and porn star Conner Habib about sex work, left bigotry, the establishment co-optation of the LGBTQ movement, PEN awarding Charlie Hebdo with a freedom award and the new atheism movement's colonial attitude toward Islam. twitter.com/connerhabib twitter.com/abbymartin www.mediaroots.org

Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the Charleston massacre, the political debate about the semantics of terrorism and legacy of the Confederate flag. They also discuss the measures the Empire has taken since 9/11 to codify illegal, murderous activity practiced by the government for decades. www.mediaroots.org twitter.com/abbymartin twitter.com/fluorescentgrey

US sponsored violence on the ground in Colombia has been constant for five decades, killing more than 220,000 people and displacing millions. Colombia is removed from most US foreign policy discussions, yet the American military has been more involved there than any other country in the world – including Afghanistan. From immunized war crimes to rampant rape, human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik talks about the disastrous effects of five decades of US militarism in the region and the crushing of resistance movements under the auspices of fighting the Drug War. Please donate to Media Roots Radio by typing in 'radio' into the comments field of your donation on www.mediaroots.org http://twitter.com/abbymartin http://twitter.com/danielmkovalik

Media Roots Radio is joined by Kambale Musavuli, Spokesperson for Friends of the Congo, to talk about how Congo's resource curse feeds the military industrial complex and why anti-drone activists need to organize with the Congolese to disrupt cobalt extraction. Donate to Media Roots by going to the Mediaroots.org homepage and clicking the donate link on the top right. Please put 'podcast' or 'media roots radio' in the comment section/body of the donation if you would like to allocate the donation specifically to that. Follow Abby @abbymartin & @kambale. http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/

Abby and Robbie Martin are joined by journalist Rania Khalek about how Abby got doxxed and bombarded with rape and death threats for wearing a "F*ck Chris Kyle" shirt, and why so called "freedom" lovers express American Exceptionalism through sexual violence. www.mediaroots.org twitter.com/abbymartin twitter.com/raniakhalek twitter.com/fluorescentgrey

On this edition of Media Roots Radio, Abby and Robbie Martin speak to investigative journalist Alexa O'Brien about Manning’s exposures, the ongoing erosion of civil liberties and her research into the conjoining of entertainment, tech and military industries. www.alexaobrien.com www.mediaroots.org Follow Alexa @carwinb

Journalist Mark Ames is the founder of The Exile, Exiled Online, senior editor for Not Safe for Work and regular contributor to Pando Daily Mark lived in Russia and eventually started working on the satirical and hard hitting paper The Exile from the late 90s until it was effectively shut down by Moscow's media censorship arm in 2008 Robbie Martin of Media Roots has a discussion with Mark about his experience in Russia, the completely ignored corrupt Boris Yeltsin years after the fall of the USSR and the complexities of the current information war. www.mediaroots.org www.exiledonline.com www.pando.com www.twitter.com/fluorescentgrey www.twitter.com/markamesexiled

Robbie and Abby Martin discuss the Baltimore Uprising and murder of Freddie Gray on Media Roots Radio, institutionalized racism abetting pockets of mutiny, rampant police unaccountability, the convoluted narrative of the war in Syria and huckster Liz Wahl's insane testimony to Congress about Russia "weaponizing" information. www.mediaroots.org twitter.com/abbymartin twitter.com/fluorescentgrey

Journalist Ken Silverstein takes on the DC establishment by exposing the shady inner workings of the system and calling out the lackeys behind the scenes. www.mediaroots.org

Ata Ebtekar also known as Sote has been carving his own path in the lexicon of electronic music for the better part of 2 decades. Ata attended school in Germany and later audio engineering school in the San Francisco bay area. It happened to be the same school Robbie Martin (co-host of Media Roots Radio and aka Fluorescent Grey) attended, Expression Center for New Media. Expression was home to not just audio students but also cgi and visual students many of whom later ended up working for Hollywood fx companies. Ata was a few classes ahead of Robbie and through a random series of circumstances they became friends and later Ata became an artist who would release multiple works on Robbie's long running music imprint 'Record Label Records'. For a while Ata would travel to and from Tehran to the united states regularly, staying for months and years at a time in each location but now Ata is in Tehran to stay, further exploring the unexplored outer edges of electronic and experimental music. Ata aka Sote will release a brand new full length called Arrhythmia digitally on Record Label Records May 25th

As Obama issues an executive order granting him authority to sanction people engaged in civil society online and with the renewal of the Patriot Act on the horizon, the conversation about mass surveillance and privacy rights couldn’t be more vital. Co-founder of the news co-op the District Sentinel Sam Sacks joins Media Roots Radio to discuss all things spying. www.mediaroots.org twitter.com/samsacks twitter.com/abbymartin

Director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, Ali Al-Ahmed, talks about the oppressive monarchy of Saudi Arabia: the American backed war in Yemen and unyielding partnership between the two countries; the export of terrorism and spread of ultra orthodox Wahhabism, the political bribery on behalf of Gulf States to maintain a culture of silence. twitter.com/AliAlAhmed_en twitter.com/AbbyMartin www.mediaroots.org

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the case of hacker Matt DeHart, the bizarre circumstances surrounding the Bin Laden raid, the Tom Cotton letter to Iran attempting to undermine the diplomatic negotiations, Vice's interview with Obama and House of Cards Season Three's anti-Russian propaganda. www.mediaroots.org www.twitter.com/Abbymartin www.twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Eugene Puryear, organizer with the ANSWER coalition and author of Shackled and Chained connects the war at home and abroad on a systems level while deconstructing the toxic neoliberal ideology that dominates global policy in the 21st century. www.mediaroots.org twitter.com/EugenePuryear

Abby Martin speaks to Rania Khalek of the Electronic Intifada about what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection victory means for occupied Palestine and the US political establishment. www.mediaroots.org www.twitter.com/raniakhalek

Mark Weisbrot of Just Foreign Policy and the Center for Economic Policy Research talks to Abby Martin about the bigger picture behind the US' absurd declaration that Venezuela is an "extraordinary threat" to national security. http://www.mediaroots.org/why-the-us-wont-give-up-on-regime-change-in-venezuela/

Abby and Robbie Martin talk BTS RIP, the Cold War resurrection & how reactionaries have splintered the left on Media Roots Radio: http://bit.ly/1GtVYTW

Charlie Hebdo & 9/11 Islamophobia Flashbacks by Abby & Robbie Martin

North Korea Hype, War on Terror Psy-Op, 'Liberal' Warmongers by Abby & Robbie Martin

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'The 2001 Anthrax Deception': Interview with Graeme MacQueen by Abby & Robbie Martin

Clinton's "War on Terror" Part 2 of 2 by Abby & Robbie Martin

Recently I traveled to one of the most nefarious prisons in the world: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Despite repeated government pledges to close the infamous detention facility down, 149 men remained indefinitely imprisoned there. According to a Bush administration official, the vast majority of prisoners are innocent, and were either swept up in a dragnet or handed over in exchange for US bounties. It's already hard enough to travel to Gitmo as a journalist, but upon arrival I realized the experience was going to be totally controlled, with 24/7 military official escorts preventing us from going near the detainees I had come to report on. However, I was able to speak with several top brass who serve as defense attorneys for the military commissions, a corrupted system that grants alleged terrorists less rights than in civilian courts. The fact that six men are facing formal charges at the prison in relation to 9/11 & the USS Cole bombing gives the world the false impression that even alleged terrorists get their day in court. In reality, the remaining 143 men never charged with a crime may never get that luxury. My brother Robbie interviewed me about the trip, which is a more personal account than presented on Breaking the Set. Watch my exclusive on-the-ground special about Guantanamo Bay here: http://www.mediaroots.org/guantanamo-bay-an-untold-history-of-occupation-torture-media-brainwashing-sham-trials-resistance/ Follow me @AbbyMartin, and my brother Robbie @fluorescentgrey

Most people who became politically aware, or 'woke up' after 9/11 might wrongly assume that warrantless wiretapping, rendition of terror suspects, the formation of the homeland security agency and predator drones were spearheaded by the Bush administration. Yet the framework for the 'War on Terror' was actually put into place by President Clinton. Not only did Clinton have several opportunities to either capture or kill Bin Laden, but in the year prior to leaving office, he was warned with eerily similar Presidential Daily Briefs (PDBs) to Bush about imminent US plane hijackings. Throughout out the 90s, the Taliban also rose to power with the help of the Pakistani ISI, Unocal, the CIA and Enron. Join Robbie Martin, co-host of Media Roots Radio, for this in-depth edition of his 9/11 Bulletin series. Follow @fluorescentgrey

On this episode of Media Roots Radio, Robbie Martin has a discussion with Cullen Hoback, a digital privacy rights advocate and filmmaker about his newest documentary film 'Terms and conditions May Apply' and much more. 'Terms and Conditions May Apply' is a full length documentary film specifically honing in on the issue of digital privacy rights and the data mining economy of corporate surveillance. If you checked out our 2nd to last episode 'Occupy Silicon Valley', think of this particular episode as it's spiritual sequel. If you would like to directly download the podcast click the down arrow icon on the right of the Soundcloud display. To hide the comments to enable easier rewind and fast forward, click on the icon on the very bottom right. This Media Roots podcast is the product of many long hours of hard work and love. If you want to encourage our voice, please consider supporting us as we continue to speak from outside party lines. Even the smallest donations help us with operating costs. www.mediaroots.org

Media Roots Radio presents a new exclusive series of 9/11 specific broadcasts hosted by Robbie Martin called 'The 9/11 Bulletin'. Please enjoy part 1 of our series featuring an in depth discussion with 9/11 truth and justice seeker Jon Gold. disclaimer: Jon says he made a few mistakes during this interview when citing things from memory. One of them was that Richard Clarke was given a flight manifest at 9:59 with the name of the hijackers on it. Instead… http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-the-fbi-protected-al-qaeda-s-9-11-hijacking-trainer/3422 "Richard Clarke heard that the FBI had the names at 9:59 AM, the time of the collapse of WTC Tower 2. See Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terrorism (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 13-14" Another is the date of the multiple hijackings incident that took place in the 1970's referred to as the "Dawson's Field Hijackings." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%27s_Field_hijackings The last mistake, so far as he knows, is that Dick Cheney did not testify under oath during his questioning for the Valerie Plame Affair. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/us/cheney-reportedly-interviewed-in-leak-of-cia-officer-s-name.html www.mediaroots.org

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the potentiality of an ‘Occupy Silicon Valley’ protest movement in a similar mold to ‘Occupy Oakland’ taking place in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. They address the ethical issues revolving around tech-companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Soundcloud and debunk the notion that private corporations will install privacy safeguards on their own without the pressure of public consumer outrage. Robbie goes into the history of Silicon Valley’s roots, which tie directly to the Pentagon’s post-WWII defense industry private sector push. For more information visit http://www.mediaroots.org/media-roots-radio-occupy-silicon-valley-the-missing-outrage-over-private-sector-spying/

Abby and Robbie Martin interview former AT&T technician and whistleblower Mark Klein about his experience exposing AT&T's cataloging and duplication of private user data for the NSA, and why every American should be concerned about private sector surveillance. Mark goes into his personal history of being an anti-war activist during the Vietnam War and how it led to his distrust of the two party system. He also discusses NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's leaks and the journalists distributing them.

In this episode of Media Roots Radio, Robbie and Abby Martin detail the history of the NSA’s ‘Program’ as told in PBS’ State of Secrets and the whistleblowing by Thomas Drake, Bill Binney and eventually Edward Snowden. They also examine several of the criticisms coming towards Greenwald and Snowden from the left leaning alternative-media and more ‘fringe’ circles of the Internet, such as ‘there’s nothing new in the documents’and that ‘they aren’t releasing them fast enough’. They also discuss the near death of Net Neutrality, Uruguay’s badass president and the dark underbelly of corporate surveillance. For more information visit: www.mediaroots.org

Media Roots Radio - DC Think Tanks Create New Cold War Tipping Point by Abby & Robbie Martin

Here's the short version on Breaking the Set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGObsyDziBc Abby & Robbie Martin do the first Media Roots Podcast since Abby made international headlines for her off-script remarks opposing the Russian / US involvement in Crimea. They discuss the corporate media hijacking the message to further demonize Russia and outline how an influential DC think-tank called the Foreign Policy Initiative (or FPI) was directly involved in smearing her and RT as a tool to "rally" the people into the brink of a new Cold War. All roads lead to a tightly knit 'hip' and 'young' group of hardcore neoconservative DC players who place themselves in 'millennial' publications like the Daily Beast, Daily Banter and Buzzfeed to push insidious neoconservative propaganda that derives from William Kristol's Foreign Policy Initiative. James Kirchick is not only a senior fellow for (and the sole prominent journalist of) the FPI, but he also used to be an employee of a US funded 'white propaganda' radio network that spreads Pro US military and policy views to adversarial nations in regional languages (i.e.: they broadcasted pro US military propaganda in arabic in Iraq during the Iraq war). As Abby and Robbie were figuring out what was going on as her 'stand' was being hijacked and subsequently smeared by war mongering neocons, the television show 'House of Cards' started to seem like total non-fiction. Find out more at www.mediaroots.org