MEDIA ROOTS – On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin highlights Matt Heineman as a hero for removing partisanship from the healthcare debate in America with his documentary Escape Fire. Abby then calls out Michigan Congressman Mike Rogers for attempting to bring back a CISPA-esque cyber-legislation. RT’s Capital Account, Lauren Lyster, discusses the austerity protests across Europe, and Alexa … Read More
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Street Artists Continue to Chronicle Struggles in Egypt
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MEDIA ROOTS – In Egypt, street art is quickly painted over and removed from public view. To combat this, photographers have recently teamed up with artists to compile collections for print publication. Since the resignation of President Mubarak last year, artists’ dissent appears to have grown even more angry and primarily focuses frustrations toward newly elected President Morsi. “You are … Read More
Obama Drone King, Dictators Sponsor CNN, Venezuela
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MEDIA ROOTS – On this episode of Breaking the Set: Abby Martin talks about Obama’s kill list, which one official has called a macabre “baseball card” set of alleged “terrorists”; Andy Roth, Associate Director of Project Censored, talks about the danger of Obama’s drone wars on the year anniversary of the drone assassination that killed Anwar al-Aulaqi and his teenage … Read More
BTS Wrap Up: MEK, Obama = Romney, ALEC Exposed
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MEDIA ROOTS – Now that I switched over to working full time on my TV show, Breaking the Set, I will be featuring the best week’s episode in addition to a weekly wrap up of individual segments from other shows that week. This summary is about the US government sponsoring the MEK terrorist group, the similarities between Obama and Romney, … Read More
Obama’s Normalization of Neo-Conservativism
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MEDIA ROOTS – While it may be popular to blame George W. Bush for the terror war, it is actually President Obama who has escalated drone warfare from 45 strikes when he assumed office to an additional 292 strikes as of last month. This is in large part due to the relaxed standards this president has set with strikes occurring not … Read More