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.

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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.

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Abby Martin appeared on the Jimmy Dore Show to discuss what the American public is not being told about the ongoing Venezuela crisis due to bias in American media tied directly to American financial interests.

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the Ukraine ‘crisis actor’ staging his own death, the Skripal victims’ resurrection, the Alt Right rage and grift train of media personalities under Trump, the abandonment of Julian Assange, Roseanne’s show getting canceled for a racist tweet, and the abysmal failure of the California primary election with the victory of Dianne Feinstein.

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