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Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the Las Vegas shooting, Trump's bizarre military threats against North Korea, the hurricanes in Texas and Puerto Rico, and the Israeli government's campaign against Abby on the latest Media Roots Radio. www.mediaroots.org

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the post-9/11 world, in which the flat earth and pizzagate theories are more mainstream than questioning the event that was used to justify a police state and endless war. They discuss the implications of the US government's registry of Russia Today and its employees as "foreign agents," the censorship of independent media by Facebook, Google and others under the guise of "fake news," and Hillary Clinton’s new book in which she lashes out at Women’s March participants and Bernie Sanders for her abysmal loss. Donate to Media Roots Radio on Patreon. http://www.mediaroots.org http://www.twitter.com/AbbyMartin http://www.twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

A History of the Afghanistan War, Fool's Errand: Interview w/ Scott Horton by Abby & Robbie Martin

Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the Unite the Right white nationalist rally and murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, the argument over confederate monuments, Trump's brownshirt army and conservative apologists for neo-Nazis, the invention and weaponization of the term "alt left" on Media Roots Radio. Donate to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Follow twitter.com/abbymartin & twitter.com/FluorescentGrey www.MediaRoots.org

Abby Martin and Robbie Martin talk about the latest news in America's dystopia: the Democratic Party backing anti-choice and GOP candidates, the Trump administration's genocidal threats and warmongering against North Korea, fierce media propaganda and threats of regime change against Venezuela and the 72nd anniversary of Hiroshima on Media Roots Radio. Donate to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Follow twitter.com/abbymartin & twitter.com/FluorescentGrey www.MediaRoots.org

Donate to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Follow twitter.com/abbymartin & twitter.com/FluorescentGrey www.MediaRoots.org

Abby Martin and Robbie Martin discuss the latest headlines, including Trump ramping up the bombing of civilians, Donald Jr.'s "Russian collusion", the murder of Philando Castile, the outing of Reality Winner, the corporate media and democratic party's shift to the right and alt right grifters co-optation of the left on Media Roots Radio. Donate to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Follow twitter.com/abbymartin & twitter.com/FluorescentGrey www.MediaRoots.org

Buy Paperback of National Security Cinema: https://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Cinema-Government-Hollywood/dp/1548084980/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500352078&sr=8-1&keywords=national+security+cinema Please Donate to Media Roots Radio using Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio National Security Cinema: This is a book about secrecy, militarism, manipulation, and censorship at the heart of the world’s leading democracy—and about those who try to fight them. Using thousands of pages of documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act National Security Cinema exclusively reveals that the national security state—led by the CIA and Pentagon—has worked on more than eight-hundred Hollywood films and over a thousand network television shows. The latest scholarship has underestimated the size of this operation, in part because the government has gone to considerable lengths to prevent data emerging, especially in the 21st Century, as the practice of government-Hollywood cooperation has escalated and become more aggressive. National Security Cinema reveals for the first time specific script changes made by the government for political reasons on dozens of blockbusting films and franchises like Transformers, Avatar, Meet the Parents, and The Terminator. These forces have suppressed important narratives about: CIA drug trafficking; illegal arms sales; military creation of bio-weapons; the interaction of private armies and oil companies; government treatment of minorities; torture; coups; assassinations, and the failure to prevent 9/11. Dr. Matthew is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath in England. His doctoral thesis applied Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky’s Propaganda Model to the contemporary Hollywood film industry. His first book, Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy, was published by Pluto Press in 2010 and has since been translated into Chinese. In 2014, Dr. Alford produced a documentary film of his research, The Writer with No Hands, which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto and won the Tablet of Honor at the Ammar Popular Film Festival in Tehran. Tom Secker is a private researcher who runs spyculture.com— the world’s premier online archive about government involvement in the entertainment industry. He has used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain unique government documents since 2010, which has been reported on by Russia Today, Salon, Techdirt, The Mirror, The Express and other outlets. He has authored and co-authored articles for Critical Sociology and the American Journal of Economics and Sociology and hosts the popular ClandesTime podcast.

Robbie Martin interviews Abby Martin about her recent trip to Venezuela, where she explains the reality on-the-ground, dissects the corporate media's propaganda campaign against the government and describes firsthand the fascistic, violent nature of opposition protesters carrying out daily barricades, known as "guarimbas". They also discuss the legacy of Hugo Chavez and why his brand of socialism poses such an enormous threat to the US Empire. Please donate to Media Roots Radio on Patreon, we wouldn't be able to do this show without your support! www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW: twitter.com/AbbyMartin & twitter.com/FluorescentGrey www.MediaRoots.org

Robbie and Abby Martin discuss Trump's recent trip to Saudi Arabia to counter "extremism" and sell weapons, the Russia Gate scandal reaching an impeachment fever pitch, the alt-right's "free speech" trolling, Julian Assange and Wikileaks' role in the information war and breaking down the Seth Rich conspiracy theories on the latest Media Roots Radio. Please donate to Media Roots Radio on Patreon, we wouldn't be able to do this show without your support! www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Follow twitter.com/abbymartin & twitter.com/FluorescentGrey www.MediaRoots.org