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While Abby is off touring the country to screen her new film 'Gaza Fights for Freedom' Robbie holds down the fort and brings on special guest Leslie Lee III from the Struggle Session podcast to have a wide ranging discussion on Disney's 'woke points', the sagging Marvel Cinematic Universe and their betrayal of Star Wars creator George Lucas (who called Disney 'white slavers'). The last third of the discussion turns to the idea of public domain fiction that can't be 'bought' by a corporation and why Leslie thinks horror writer H.P. Lovecraft still has so much staying power today. Leslie also addresses Lovecraft's 'virulent' racist views but explains how those are not necessarily central to his actual horror writings. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey // twitter.com/leslieleeiii

Robbie Martin brings Pearse Redmond onto the show to discuss the shocking announcement from house speaker Nancy Pelosi that they are officially opening an impeachment inquiry into President Trump over a situation involving allegations of a quid pro quo phone-call exchange between him and the Ukrainian president. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

*This episode was recorded shortly before Trump announced troop deployments to Saudi Arabia and before the Pelosi impeachment announcement. Abby and Robbie discuss her film ‘Gaza Fights For Freedom’ and what Israeli elections mean for the average Palestinian, the unanswered questions that remain about 9/11 on the 18th anniversary of the attacks, the alleged Houthi attack on Saudi oil fields and what it means now that John Bolton is out of the White House on Media Roots Radio. Abby goes to Gitmo - http://bit.ly/2nkN2ml Watchdogs didn’t bark - http://bit.ly/2nyKHEb Gaza Fights For Freedom tour - http://bit.ly/2mEasm8 Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Robbie and Abby Martin bring on Whitney Webb from Mint Press News to discuss her 4-part bombshell investigative series about Epstein's powerful network that has its tentacles into almost every form of Deep State shenanigans imaginable. Whitney goes over the first iterations of sexual blackmail operations by the mafia in the 1920s and then later by figures like Roy Cohn, eventually the larger bipartisan network surrounding Epstein, the Clintons, the Trumps and the Maxwells, as well as their connections to intelligence and the Deep State. Whitney Webb's Epstein series: https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/epstein-investigation/ Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Robbie Martin interviews Peter Andrey Smith about his trip to Tasmania investigating opium poppy farmers who supply the licit aka legal pharmaceutical opioid market in the United States. This DEA sanctioned legal opium market is largely dominated by Johnson & Johnson, using a subsidiary company Tasmanian Alkaloids, that produces large quantities of opium poppies (over 80% of the market) potent in thebane, an important ingredient for the manufacturing of Oxycontin. Johnson & Johnson was recently ordered to pay over $500,000,000 in fines by a judge in an unprecedented ruling for its role in contributing to the opioid epidemic. Peter Andrey Smith's article 'How an Island of the Antipodes Became the World's Largest Supplier of Licit Opioids' can be read here: http://bit.ly/2lv0G53 Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio @ www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the death of billionaire child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, and unravel all the bizarre threads in the sex trafficking scandal that implicates everyone from US presidents to media moguls to British princes. NY Mag article: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html Correction: Robbie said Adan Khashoggi had no relation to Jamal Khashoggi, this is incorrect, Adan was Jamal's uncle. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the 74th anniversary of the US atrocity of dropping nuclear bombs on civilian cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the mainstreaming of the QAnon conspiracy theory by the president and his fanatical legion, and the roots of the uniquely American phenomenon of mass shootings. Note: This was recorded before Jeffrey Epstein's death. Abby & Robbie Visit Hiroshima: http://bit.ly/2YWpq9j How to Hide an Empire: http://bit.ly/2z2nQmA Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Abby and Robbie discuss Trump's racist attacks on women of color in Congress and Omar's brave introduction of a pro-BDS measure in the wake of a House resolution condemning BDS. In the second half of the episode, Abby goes in depth about every major Democratic contender's true policy position on Palestine and Israel. Abby's thread on 2020 candidates' policy on Palestine: http://bit.ly/2ygKojo Marianne Williamson on Dave Rubin: http://bit.ly/2Onaqw5 Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Abby and Robbie discuss the month's headlines, including the antifa "concrete milkshake" disinformation campaign, the earthquakes in Southern California, Trump's unsettling fascist air show on the fourth of July and the bizarre media summit he hosted about media censorship for a cadre of Islamophobic, racist conspiracists and conservative clickbait grifters at the White House. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Abby and Robbie Martin go over the headlines from the last month, including the FBI infiltrating 8Chan to promote Russia Gate, Oakland decriminalizing psychedelics, the draconian border policies escalating migrant deaths, the narratives surrounding the Trump administration's increasingly precarious Iran war build-up. Abby's new film: http://GazaFightsForFreedom.com Abby and Robbie on Michael Jackson: http://bit.ly/2XgbqpM Sessions laid out the child separation policy: http://bit.ly/2xqmfXc Federal courts block Trump asylum ban: http://bit.ly/2FNu1yL Exposing VZ coup leader Carlos Vecchio: http://bit.ly/2XCgNiD Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey