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, and the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) lobbying influence over creating government legislation.

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Abby Martin exposes the hypocrisy of the State Department lobbying for a known terrorist group, MEK, to fight the “War on Terror.”

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Abby exposes the similarities between the US Democratic and Republican candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

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Abby Martin talks about Trayvon Martin, gun laws and the influence of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

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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 attacks 11 years later, and analyzes the government narrative with Robbie Martin of Media Roots. 

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Anthrax Attacks: Inside Job

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 Obama chair lynching. Mickey Huff, Director of Project Censored, and Abby discuss the Kent State massacre and subsequent cover-up. Finally, BTS wraps up with Abby dissecting the US government’s love affair with Israel.

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Abby Martin breaks the set about American racism, the Kent State cover-up and the US government’s lovefest with Israel.

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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 DHS spying, the erosion of civil liberties, US capital punishment and why the Muslim world “hates the US.”

Abby Martin

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Abby Martin dissects the political and media establishment narrative about why anti-American Gulf protests are happening.

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Abby Martin interviews former NY Times journalist, Daniel Simpson, who quit the publication in disgust over peddling war propaganda.

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Abby interviews tech journalist and Congressional candidate, David Seaman, about the slow erosion of US civil liberties.

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Abby Martin exposes how the police and DHS are monitoring your social media.

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Abby Martin talks about the case of Troy Davis and analyzes capital punishment in the US.

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MEDIA ROOTS – In recent years, the New York Police Department has not only developed into an international police division, its officers regularly flaunt constitutionally-protected civil liberties and single-out minorities. As the “war on terror” enters its eleventh year next week, the question now is who are the actual terrorists?

Currently targeting activists with facial recognition technology, the force also uses drones in the skies and in the harbor with no sight of a horizon in this sea of surveillance. Additionally, several units regularly brutalize offenders of minor laws because of a widespread mentality that the legal code is not applicable to them.

While possibly some of America’s finest officers work on this force, it is the current state of this police culture that is of dire issue. After all, it is not only a direct threat to a peaceful and prosperous future, it is indeed the exact mindset that America has spent over a decade fighting by sacrificing well over a million human lives and having spent approximately $11,000 for every man, woman, and child in America.

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AlterNet – [New York City]’s population is a little over 8 million. That means that there are 4.18 police officers per 1,000 people. By comparison, Los Angeles, the second largest city in the U.S. with 3.8 million people, has only 9,895 officers — a ratio of 2.6 police per 1,000 people.

What has the New York Police Department been doing with all that … manpower? In addition to ticketing minorities for standing outside of their homes, spying on Muslims who live in New Jersey, busing protesters, and gunning down black teens over weed, the NYPD has expanded into a massive global anti-terror operation with surveillance and military capabilities unparalleled in the history of US law enforcement.

In an email published by WikiLeaks, an FBI official joked about how shocked Americans would be if they knew how egregiously the NYPD is stomping all over their civil liberties. But what we already know is bad enough.

Read the full article on AlterNet “9 Frightening Things About America’s Biggest Police Force.”

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