Media Roots Radio
Abby & Robbie Martin
Since 2010, siblings and journalists Abby Martin and Robbie Martin have been doing Media Roots Radio, a political podcast with a critical eye on US foreign policy, political partisanship and what people can do to fight back. Conversational, controversial, passionate and explicit, Media Roots stands apart from the majority of podcasts coming from a similar point of view.
Listen to all previous episodes on soundcloud, itunes, spotify and stitcher.
All $5 and up patrons get an exclusive bonus episode every month!
Listen to all previous episodes on soundcloud, itunes, spotify and stitcher.
All $5 and up patrons get an exclusive bonus episode every month!
Episodes
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May 5, 2015 • 1h 18min
Chelsea Manning & the Military Entertainment Complex with Alexa O'Brien
On this edition of Media Roots Radio, Abby and Robbie Martin speak to investigative journalist Alexa O'Brien about Manning’s exposures, the ongoing erosion of civil liberties and her research into the conjoining of entertainment, tech and military industries.
www.alexaobrien.com
www.mediaroots.org
Follow Alexa @carwinb
May 1, 2015 • 1h 10min
Adversarial Journalism in Russia & Dissecting the Propaganda Wars with Mark Ames
Journalist Mark Ames is the founder of The Exile, Exiled Online, senior editor for Not Safe for Work and regular contributor to Pando Daily
Mark lived in Russia and eventually started working on the satirical and hard hitting paper The Exile from the late 90s until it was effectively shut down by Moscow's media censorship arm in 2008
Robbie Martin of Media Roots has a discussion with Mark about his experience in Russia, the completely ignored corrupt Boris Yeltsin years after the fall of the USSR and the complexities of the current information war.
www.mediaroots.org
www.exiledonline.com
www.pando.com
www.twitter.com/fluorescentgrey
www.twitter.com/markamesexiled
Apr 30, 2015 • 1h 10min
Baltimore Police State & Justice for Freddie Gray
Robbie and Abby Martin discuss the Baltimore Uprising and murder of Freddie Gray on Media Roots Radio, institutionalized racism abetting pockets of mutiny, rampant police unaccountability, the convoluted narrative of the war in Syria and huckster Liz Wahl's insane testimony to Congress about Russia "weaponizing" information.
www.mediaroots.org
twitter.com/abbymartin
twitter.com/fluorescentgrey
Apr 25, 2015 • 42min
DC: The Emperor Wears No Clothes with Ken Silverstein
Journalist Ken Silverstein takes on the DC establishment by exposing the shady inner workings of the system and calling out the lackeys behind the scenes.
www.mediaroots.org
Apr 22, 2015 • 53min
Persian and Experimental Electronic Music with Ata Ebtekar aka Sote
Ata Ebtekar also known as Sote has been carving his own path in the lexicon of electronic music for the better part of 2 decades. Ata attended school in Germany and later audio engineering school in the San Francisco bay area. It happened to be the same school Robbie Martin (co-host of Media Roots Radio and aka Fluorescent Grey) attended, Expression Center for New Media. Expression was home to not just audio students but also cgi and visual students many of whom later ended up working for Hollywood fx companies. Ata was a few classes ahead of Robbie and through a random series of circumstances they became friends and later Ata became an artist who would release multiple works on Robbie's long running music imprint 'Record Label Records'. For a while Ata would travel to and from Tehran to the united states regularly, staying for months and years at a time in each location but now Ata is in Tehran to stay, further exploring the unexplored outer edges of electronic and experimental music.
Ata aka Sote will release a brand new full length called Arrhythmia digitally on Record Label Records May 25th
Apr 19, 2015 • 46min
Cyber Warfare, Spying & US Govt's Collection of Dick Pics with Sam Sacks
As Obama issues an executive order granting him authority to sanction people engaged in civil society online and with the renewal of the Patriot Act on the horizon, the conversation about mass surveillance and privacy rights couldn’t be more vital. Co-founder of the news co-op the District Sentinel Sam Sacks joins Media Roots Radio to discuss all things spying.
www.mediaroots.org
twitter.com/samsacks
twitter.com/abbymartin
Apr 12, 2015 • 51min
Saudi Arabia's Yemen War, Terror Factory & US Bribery with Ali Al-Ahmed
Director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, Ali Al-Ahmed, talks about the oppressive monarchy of Saudi Arabia: the American backed war in Yemen and unyielding partnership between the two countries; the export of terrorism and spread of ultra orthodox Wahhabism, the political bribery on behalf of Gulf States to maintain a culture of silence.
twitter.com/AliAlAhmed_en
twitter.com/AbbyMartin
www.mediaroots.org
Apr 2, 2015 • 1h 27min
Gov't Agents Gone Rogue, Iran Letter & House of Cards Propaganda
Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the case of hacker Matt DeHart, the bizarre circumstances surrounding the Bin Laden raid, the Tom Cotton letter to Iran attempting to undermine the diplomatic negotiations, Vice's interview with Obama and House of Cards Season Three's anti-Russian propaganda.
www.mediaroots.org
www.twitter.com/Abbymartin
www.twitter.com/FluorescentGrey
Mar 31, 2015 • 27min
Connecting the War at Home and Abroad with Eugene Puryear
Eugene Puryear, organizer with the ANSWER coalition and author of Shackled and Chained connects the war at home and abroad on a systems level while deconstructing the toxic neoliberal ideology that dominates global policy in the 21st century.
www.mediaroots.org
twitter.com/EugenePuryear
Mar 22, 2015 • 36min
Netanyahu's Victory & Zionism Unmasked with Rania Khalek
Abby Martin speaks to Rania Khalek of the Electronic Intifada about what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection victory means for occupied Palestine and the US political establishment.
www.mediaroots.org
www.twitter.com/raniakhalek
