MEDIA ROOTS — Earlier this week, Pacifica Radio’s Flashpoints spoke with long-time activist Kathy Kelly about U.S./NATO Imperialism and Afghanistan: “But what the United States wants is an agreement that U.S. troops can remain in Afghanistan until 2024 and beyond. So, the idea of the troops being withdrawn in 2013 and 2014 is good for electoral strategies on the part … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Recently, Max Keiser discussed, on RT, the MF Global pillaging scandal, the USA’s eighth largest bankruptcy, and how the Occupy Movement has remained largely silent on the potential rallying-call issue due to a lack of financial literacy. Fortunately, Max Keiser, Dr. Michael Hudson, Dr. Richard Wolff, and others have been speaking at Occupy Movement convergences. Perhaps, in … Read More
March 15, 2012 MEDIA ROOTS — With the reverberating excitement around the recent Italian Modern Monetary Theory Summit 2012, which is shattering orthodox and right-wing economic dogma in the Eurozone with common sense and offering the post-Shock Doctrine Occupy Movement intellectual tools to strengthen its activism, Media Roots takes a look at the work of one of the grassroots Summit’s … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Abby and Robbie Martin grew up in Pleasanton, CA, a city located ten miles from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a secret nuclear weapons production facility. They initially set out to explore the psychological impacts of taking nuclear testing into virtual space. But as their investigation unfolded, they found that the LLNL—in conjunction with Site 300—has … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party, is back in the S.F. Bay Area and will deliver an address to UC Berkeley this evening entitled “Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide.” The last time Mr. Dix visited northern California, Media Roots featured his KPFA radio broadcast and UC Berkeley event with Dr. Cornel West. Today, we present a new interview … Read More
