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Media Roots Radio - DC Think Tanks Create New Cold War Tipping Point by Abby & Robbie Martin

Here's the short version on Breaking the Set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGObsyDziBc Abby & Robbie Martin do the first Media Roots Podcast since Abby made international headlines for her off-script remarks opposing the Russian / US involvement in Crimea. They discuss the corporate media hijacking the message to further demonize Russia and outline how an influential DC think-tank called the Foreign Policy Initiative (or FPI) was directly involved in smearing her and RT as a tool to "rally" the people into the brink of a new Cold War. All roads lead to a tightly knit 'hip' and 'young' group of hardcore neoconservative DC players who place themselves in 'millennial' publications like the Daily Beast, Daily Banter and Buzzfeed to push insidious neoconservative propaganda that derives from William Kristol's Foreign Policy Initiative. James Kirchick is not only a senior fellow for (and the sole prominent journalist of) the FPI, but he also used to be an employee of a US funded 'white propaganda' radio network that spreads Pro US military and policy views to adversarial nations in regional languages (i.e.: they broadcasted pro US military propaganda in arabic in Iraq during the Iraq war). As Abby and Robbie were figuring out what was going on as her 'stand' was being hijacked and subsequently smeared by war mongering neocons, the television show 'House of Cards' started to seem like total non-fiction. Find out more at www.mediaroots.org

Robbie and Abby talk about Ukraine's uprising: the hubris of America to advocate regime change in sovereign countries it knows little about, the history of the US preaching morality to nations the US has a strategic interest in, and the need for Occupy Wall Street part two to prepare itself with proper resistance gear. They also discuss the MSM's attack on the Sochi Olympics and the Obama administration's ramping up of the Cold War 2.0. www.mediaroots.org

On this edition of Media Roots Radio, Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the myth of the 'liberal media,' corporatism's perpetuation of structural violence and the pipe dream of the 'free market' when it comes to the notion that deregulation results in corporate accountability. They also outline the latest developments in 3-D printing, and talk about how the technology could be as revolutionary as the Internet by democratizing production and manufacturing, leveling the playing field for creators and innovators all over the world. www.mediaroots.org

On this edition of Media Roots Radio, Abby and Robbie Martin catch up on current events and dissect the corporatocracy, its control over information and policy, espionage and infiltration of global activism, private mercenaries and corporations’ role in war profiteering over the decades and the historical revisionism being done by the political and media establishment. They also discuss the bombshell revelations of the CIA cover-up regarding Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the 9/11 attacks. http://www.mediaroots.org/

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the LAX shooting that happened last month and the implications it could have for others peacefully protesting TSA policies. They talk about willful blindness preventing people from accepting reality when it comes the extent of government criminality. Since the phrase ‘conspiracy theory’ has become weaponized against those questioning government propaganda, the term ‘State Crimes Against Democracy’ should be used when describing secret acts committed by government elements, such as financial looting with the banking industry. For more information go to www.mediaroots.org

On this edition of Media Roots Radio, Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the US government shut down’s partisan dog and pony show as a result of hypocritical ‘Obamacare’ woes. They talk about Obama’s use of extraordinary rendition to kidnap people who pose no threat to the US, self-immolations on the rise, negative reactions to talking about the clitoris and Noam Chomsky vs. neo-con mastermind Richard Pearle in a 1988 debate. For more information go to www.mediaroots.org

Abby Martin talks to John B. Wells on the widely syndicated radio show Coast to Coast AM about the rise of alternative media, her citizen journalism with Media Roots, her activism with Occupy Oakland and how her TV show "Breaking the Set" has managed to piss off Rand Paul, Nestle and the Israeli lobby. For more information go to www.AbbyMartin.org, www.MediaRoots.org, & www.youtube.com/BreakingTheSet

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the news of the day including a District Court judge forcing torture victims to pay their torturers' legal fees; Latin American leaders standing up to US imperialism in light of the NSA leaks; the establishment's use of agitation propaganda to manufacture outrage at other nations while still believing in the undercurrent of American exceptionalism. For more information visit www.MediaRoots.org

On the latest edition of Media Roots Radio, Abby and Robbie Martin discuss how a new war against Syria seems all but inevitable. They talk about the eerily similar establishment rhetoric between the Iraq war buildup and today’s Syria war mongering – specifically the potential unilateral US military action in defiance of the UN, the ‘humanitarian’ justification and the scare tactics of ‘chemical weapons’. A recent speech by Secretary of State, John Kerry, marked a distinct turning point in the ferocity of the Syria rhetoric, which is dissected by Robbie and Abby in its entirety. For more information please go to http://www.mediaroots.org