Cyber Warfare, Surveillance & US Government’s Dick Pic Collection

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According to CIA Director John Brennan, the War on Terror is now being waged online. In a recent speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, Brennan warned about the threat of cyber terrorism and said the government needs to secure the internet. Recent high profile hacks reinforce how important the safety of our personal data online is. Yet the government is … Read More

Persian and Experimental Electronic Music with Ata Ebtekar aka Sote

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Ata Ebtekar also known as Sote has been carving his own path in the lexicon of electronic music for the better part of two decades. Ata attended school in Germany and later audio engineering school in the San Francisco Bay Area, the same school Robbie Martin (co-host of Media Roots Radio and aka Fluorescent Grey) attended, Expression Center for New … Read More

Abby Martin on The Joe Rogan Experience

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Comedian Joe Rogan’s unfiltered podcast The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) features a variety of awesome guests whose topics range from ancient civilizations to the police state. I always love joining Joe while in LA, and recently got to discuss with him everything from Islam to the need for a new economic model. Many fucks are said, so if you’re offended … Read More

Panopticon Fatigue – Life, Sex and Death under the East German Stasi

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[This article originally appears in issue #14 of White Fungus magazine, reprinted with publisher’s permission. Subscribe to White Fungus here] For five decades, the Stasi managed to painstakingly craft what was at the time the world’s most sophisticated surveillance state. The secret police of the German Democratic Republic’s Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (shorthand: Stasi) induced an era of fear among the East … Read More

Connecting the War at Home and Abroad with Eugene Puryear

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Lawmakers pushing through the next bloated war budget have received millions in campaign contributions from defense contractors, according to Open Secrets. While the military industrial complex churns unabated and bombs drop across the Middle East in our names, citizens in America continue to be victimized by economic warfare and terrorized by militarized police forces. On this episode of Media Roots Radio, … Read More