Robbie Martin and Abby Martin break down the media hysteria over the Trump wiretapping claim and discuss the implications of Wikileaks’ Vault 7 data dump about CIA targeted hacking and spying. They also talk about the media’s Russophobia campaign and Robbie extensively dissects the actual facts and analysis behind the so-called “Russian hacking” allegations on Media Roots Radio.
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After 10 years and three terms, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa’s time in office has ended. Under his administration Ecuador made far-reaching economic and social gains, despite having inherited a country on the brink of collapse.
In one of his last interviews before leaving office, Abby Martin talks to him about his legacy, his critics, and the struggle ahead for Ecuador and beyond.
From commenting on Trump and the global crisis of inequality, to addressing CIA plots and opposition in his own country, hear Correa’s last words as President to the people of Latin America and the United States.
The release of the report, submitted by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, that offered details to support U.S. officials’ claims that Russian interference had tainted the recent American presidential election was treated by many news sources as a major development and further justification for treating the Kremlin, not to mention the incoming Donald Trump administration, with suspicion.
Several alternative media sources, including this one, have also wound up on the receiving end of censure and what Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges considers a kind of McCarthyism for questioning prevailing media and government narratives and for continuing to demand concrete proof of Russian intervention.
On this week’s episode of “On Contact With Chris Hedges,” journalistsAbby Martin and Ben Nortonjoin Hedges for a wide-ranging discussion about troubling shifts away from fact-based reporting and governance—as well as the potential costs of insisting that, as Norton put it, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
The long awaited intelligence report on Russian ‘interference’ in the 2016 presidential election contains a lengthy and detailed attack on RT’s programming as evidence of a Kremlin plot to subvert U.S. democracy.
The DNI report specifically cited Breaking the Set, a popular RT America show hosted by Abby Martin, as promoting “radical discontent.” Martin gives an impassioned response to former BTS producer, Anya Parampil, about the DNI accusing their two year old show as somehow having an influence on the election.
Abby Martin Blasts DNI Report, New Cold War
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– The US intelligence agencies’ unclassified report on Russia’s involvement in the election didn’t provide any evidence of hacking, instead choosing to focus on media such as RT. Brian Becker speaks withAbby Martin about why her show was included and the way the mainstream media has slandered her.
– Almost half of the US intelligence report is dedicated to describing RT’s alleged efforts to “fuel discontent in the US.” It goes on to accuse some former programs of being overwhelmingly critical of American and Western governments for years. RT Internationaltalks withAbby Martin, who was the host of one of the shows cited in the report, Breaking the Set.
– Abby and Robbie Martin immediately respond to the news of the intelligence report blaming Russia Today, and specifically Breaking the Set, for Trump’s win after it broke in aspecial editionof Media Roots Radio.
– Journalists Abby Martin and Ben Norton join Chris Hedges for a wide-ranging discussion about troubling shifts away from fact-based reporting and governance—as well as the potential costs of insisting that, as Norton put it, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
– Abby Martin joins journalists Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola on their podcast Unauthorized Disclosure to discuss the DNI report, the deep state attempting to undermine POTUS Trump and the rotting Empire.
After finding out the news that Breaking the Set, Abby’s former RT show, was named in the DNI intelligence report for fomenting ‘radical discontent’ as part of the Kremlin’s plot to subvert US democracy, Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the insanity of the report and the desperate measures on behalf of the establishment to build its case against Russia on Media Roots Radio.
This podcast is the product of many long hours of hard work and love. If you want to encourage our voice, please consider supporting us onPatreon. Listen to all previous episodes of Media Roots Radio onsoundcloudor subscribe onitunes.
