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Abby Martin: Telling Our Own Stories, Cultivating Our Own Narratives

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For the latest in Agency’s Interviews with Radical Journalists, we spoke with Abby Martin, seasoned journalist and radically unconventional TV presenter. She hosted Breaking the Set on the Russian network RT America from 2012 to 2015. Abby supported Agency’s work on the show back in 2015 through a feature on CrimethInc. and the anarchist public education project, To Change Everything. In 2015, Martin launched the investigative documentary and interview series The Empire Files, originally hosted by Telesur. She continues to produce the docuseries independently with her partner Mike Prysner. She also produces and hosts Media Roots Radio where she reports on and discusses current events through a radical-left lens.

Read the full interview here.

United States Of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion (2020)

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Student shot and produced, United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion chronicles critical media literacy and faculty experts, students, and media makers whom provide contextual analysis for understanding the current rise of the so-called “fake news” phenomenon. In addition to deconstructing fake news, the film reminds us that this is not a new development, but rather, a form of propaganda. The interviews provided in the film offer solutions for mitigating the pernicious influence of false content on America’s democratic institutions. Edited narrated by Abby Martin.

Media Roots Radio: Black Lives Don’t Matter to Corporations, ‘Cancellations’ & the History of Policing with Eugene Puryear

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While Abby is still on break, Robbie Martin brings onto the podcast activist and journalist Eugene Puryear to discuss the many contradictions intertwined in the ongoing debate about race solidarity and the Black Lives Matter movement. Eugene separates the cynical corporate ‘solidarity’ from its revolutionary core and examines how elites have seized on the concept of ‘cancel culture’ to play victim. In the second half of the episode, Eugene breaks down the history of white supremacy in American policing.

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Media Roots Radio: The Origins of QAnon, Follow the White Rabbit Into a Deeper Layer of the MAGA Cult

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Robbie Martin’s long-awaited QAnon episode of Media Roots Radio is finally here! This episode is in 2-parts, the 2nd part titled ‘WWG1WGA Along with a Psyop, QAnon’s Grasp on the ‘Woke’ Empire Baby Mind & Weaponizing Satanic Panic’ is available only to our Patreon subscribers.

Preview of Part 2

Part 1: The Origins of #QAnon, Follow the White Rabbit Into a Deeper Layer of the #MAGA cult delves into the chronology of how the Podesta e-mail leaks eventually led to what we now as the anonymous self labeled ‘patriot’ Qanon. Robbie also delves extensively into what QAnon is and what purpose it might serve and also speculates about who or what groups may be behind it. Figures like Alex Jones, Jerome Corsi, Roger Stone, Erik Prince & Steve Pieczenik are examined as potential participants in the QAnon psyop and the idea of it being connected to Trump’s administration is taken seriously as a possibility.

Intro Song: Fluorescent Grey ‘Making the Sand Glow’

Empire Files: Afghanistan War Exposed––An Imperial Conspiracy

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Abby Martin covers the whole truth about the Afghanistan War, from the CIA construct of the 80’s through today’s senseless stalemate. Two decades, three administrations, tens of thousands of lives; it’s time to #EndTheForeverWar.

Watch Abby’s interview with Afghanistan combat veteran for more information about the senseless Forever War.

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