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
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
MEDIA ROOTS – On this episode of Breaking the Set: Abby Martin talks about the corporate media’s unfair coverage of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in comparison to the protests in Spain and Greece; EPIC’s Director of the Open Government Program, Ginger McCall, talks about government surveillance and the systematic erosion of American civil liberties; BTS looks back at the US anthrax … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin calls out the corporate media for blaming everything that happens in the Middle East on Al-Qaeda and explains the case of Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr. Ben Jealous, Director of the NAACP explores underlying racism in the US by talking to Abby about Troy Davis, Trayvon Martin and the … Read More
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 DHS spying, the erosion of civil liberties, US capital punishment and why the Muslim … Read More
