MEDIA ROOTS — Abby Martin of Media Roots and RT extends meaningful and challenging questions to the iconic hip hop artist and activist Immortal Technique, who notes what “seems to be a meticulous strategy to keep anything that is thought-provoking out of the mainstream.” Like other renegades, such as artists like Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Morrissey and Paul … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Daniel Klaidman, former editor for Newsweek magazine, recently produced a slick and pandering ‘anti-war’, pro-drone, pro-Obama video on the ‘liberal’ website The Daily Beast. The segment insinuated that Muslims in Pakistan are grateful for US drone strikes, even when they kill innocent people. A portion of the clip humanizes drone operators, saying that sometimes they linger for hours, even … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – I was recently interviewed by Aaron Dykes on the Info Wars Nightly News to discuss several issues: the Bilderberg Group and the evolution of the global protest movement; Stuxnet and the CIA’s covert warfare in Iran; the US government’s fearmongering about cyberterrorism; the increasing irrelevancy of the corporate media and the rise of citizen journalism; the alternative … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — The drums of war can be heard in the distance as the mainstream media begins to grease the wheels of the war machine. This time Iran finds itself in the crosshairs of Western aggression as Israel is perched ready to strike. The United States military, now firmly in the grasp of the United Nations, will undoubtedly support Israel’s efforts … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — During an episode of Media Roots Radio last year, Abby and I speculated on who might be behind the infamous ‘stuxnet’ virus, a sophisticated piece of computer malware designed to interfere with Iran’s uranium enrichment process. We guessed that it was perhaps the United States and Israel working in concert on a covert warfare effort with the shared goal of … Read More
