MEDIA ROOTS — Breaking the Set takes an in-depth look at the little-known landmark lawsuit against the National Defense Authorization Act’s (NDAA) indefinite detention clause. While in New York City covering the latest hearing of plaintiffs’ statements, Abby Martin and Manuel Rapalo take a look at how many people actually know about the NDAA. The episode features interviews with the … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Amateur writer Rutger B. Devon offers these two original, uplifting, lyrical and political poems for activists and lovers of freedom and independence from his forthcoming, debut book of both verse and prose. *** Cut the Apron Strings is a strong, no-holds-barred manifesto. It is a call-to-arms for people to do just what the title implies, to remove one’s … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Obama’s Chief Counterterrorism Advisor, or, as Jeremy Scahill puts it, “for all practical purposes, President Obama’s hit man or assassination czar,” John Brennan has been exposed by the declassification of a 30-page document, wherein he’s asked about drone strikes and targeted killings in the US. Brennan did not rule out the possibility, and began to lay the … Read More
Media Roots Radio – Corporatocracy by Media Roots MEDIA ROOTS – Robbie & Abby Martin discuss the unnecessary rhetoric of words like ‘communist’ or ‘free market’ which create two inaccurate sides of a debate. False hopes for Obama’s second ‘liberal’ term are discussed as well as America’s elusive and mostly obscured foreign policy motivations. The above timeline is interactive. Scroll through … Read More
MediaRoots2013JanPt1 by Media Roots MEDIA ROOTS – Following a critical broadcast on ‘Breaking the Set’ that examined the need for ‘conspiracy theory’ culture to claim everything is an inside job, Abby and Robbie discuss in much more detail the psychological phenomenon of diluting and poisoning the well of legitimate anti US government theory. The above timeline is interactive. Scroll through it … Read More
