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 – 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
MEDIA ROOTS – On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin interviews former governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, about the two party “dictatorship” and corporate censorship. She highlights the live-streamers of Occupy Wall Street as the heroes and calls out Marianne Ny as the villain for her flimsy attempt to extradite Julian Assange with no evidence. Abby wraps up the … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – For the third straight election, an international convenience store chain is now offering coffee cups featuring President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. The unscientific poll currently claims to hold Obama over Romney, 58 to 42 percent respectively.The marketing ploy has been labeled “7-Election” and offers cups featuring only the two establishment candidates running for office. However, several … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Released nationwide on Friday, the documentary film Barack Obama: 2016 is not only highly critical of President Obama’s job performance, it again raises the question of who he is and what his view of America is in the world. While the film does not offer many certainties about the president’s potential second term in office, it does use his … Read More
