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
Media Roots Radio – Obama Immunizes Torturers, Murderers, War Criminals by Media Roots Roots MEDIA ROOTS – Abby and Robbie Martin talk about how the Obama administration promised to prosecute and investigate all illegal acts that happened during the Bush administration then reversed that promise after they cut a deal. The irony of how Nixon’s pardon was less offensive than Obama’s … 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 – Last Thursday co-host of the Media Roots Radio podcast, Robbie Martin was interviewed by Jack Blood on his show, Deadline Live. Everytime the anniversary for 9/11 comes around the media coverage surrounding it completely overshadows another important event, arguably equally as impacting as 9/11 that planted the seeds for the propagandistic false war on terror that continues … 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
