Media Roots Radio
422 episodes - English - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★★ - 747 ratingsSince 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.
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Media Roots Radio - AT&T / NSA Whistleblower Mark Klein
June 18, 2014 02:15 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBAbby and Robbie Martin interview former AT&T technician and whistleblower Mark Klein about his experience exposing AT&T's cataloging and duplication of private user data for the NSA, and why every American should be concerned about private sector surveillance. Mark goes into his personal history of being an anti-war activist during the Vietnam War and how it led to his distrust of the two party system. He also discusses NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's leaks and the journalists distributing...
Media Roots Radio - Snowden, Greenwald, Wikileaks & the NSA
May 28, 2014 00:54 - 1 hour - 93.3 MBIn this episode of Media Roots Radio, Robbie and Abby Martin detail the history of the NSA’s ‘Program’ as told in PBS’ State of Secrets and the whistleblowing by Thomas Drake, Bill Binney and eventually Edward Snowden. They also examine several of the criticisms coming towards Greenwald and Snowden from the left leaning alternative-media and more ‘fringe’ circles of the Internet, such as ‘there’s nothing new in the documents’and that ‘they aren’t releasing them fast enough’. They also discuss...
Media Roots Radio - DC Think Tanks Create New Cold War Tipping Point
May 02, 2014 00:48 - 2 hours - 137 MBMedia Roots Radio - DC Think Tanks Create New Cold War Tipping Point by Abby & Robbie Martin
Media Roots Radio- Abby Martin's Stand, The Neo-Cons Attack, 'PNAC 2.0'
March 20, 2014 18:25 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBHere'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 "rall...
Media Roots Radio - Ukraine Meddling, Obama Reignites Cold War
February 26, 2014 00:50 - 2 hours - 109 MBRobbie 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
Media Roots Radio - Corporatism's 'Free Market' and the 3-D Printing Revolution
January 02, 2014 11:36 - 1 hour - 49.7 MBOn 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 ...
Media Roots Radio - Historical Revisionism & Corporate Mercenaries
December 24, 2013 08:38 - 1 hour - 73.6 MBOn 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. ht...
Media Roots Radio - LAX Shooting, State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs)
November 10, 2013 02:58 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBAbby 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 governmen...
Media Roots Radio - Government Shutdown Partisan Hackery
October 09, 2013 09:59 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBOn 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 on Coast to Coast AM
September 28, 2013 21:56 - 45 minutes - 36.4 MBAbby 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
Media Roots Radio - Manufactured Agitprop on the World's Stage
September 27, 2013 01:31 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBAbby 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
Media Roots Radio – Obama's Syrian War
August 30, 2013 03:39 - 1 hour - 71 MBOn 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 th...
Media Roots Radio- American Bisque & Conspiracy to tell the Truth
August 15, 2013 23:17 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MBAbby and Robbie Martin talk about current events, US foreign policy, the establishment's use of the term 'conspiracy theory' as a pejorative and Robbie's new film 'American Bisque', a three part series outlining every presidential administration's corruption and war mongering from Nixon to Obama. Check out more at http://www.mediaroots.org
Media Roots Radio Boston Marathon Bombings
April 20, 2013 02:10 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBMedia Roots Radio Boston Marathon Bombings by Abby & Robbie Martin
Media Roots Radio - Post 9/11, How We All Became Boiled Frogs
April 15, 2013 20:48 - 2 hours - 162 MBIn this episode of Media Roots Radio, Abby and Robbie Martin go over a comprehensive timeline of political events in the decade following the 9/11 attacks by covering the establishment's use of agitation propaganda and psychological warfare to condition the public into accepting a new era of endless war and civil liberties erosions. For more information visit http://mediaroots.org/post-911-how-we-all-became-boiled-frogs.php
Media Roots Radio - Police Thuggery, Divide & Conquer, Libertarians & Leftists Unite!
March 11, 2013 02:31 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBOn this episode of Media Roots Radio, Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the LAPD's manhunt against Chris Dorner and the subsequent cover-up of his death, how 9/11 and Ron Paul coalesced the divide between libertarians and leftists and caused people to rally behind core unifying issues, the corporate co-option and transmogrification of the Ron Paul movement and the current divide growing between the two factions of anti-establishment political ideologies. For more information visit www.mediar...
Media Roots Radio - Corporatocracy
February 18, 2013 03:52 - 46 minutes - 37 MBRobbie & Abby Martin discuss the unecessary rhetoric of words like 'communist' or 'free market' which create two inaccurate sides of a debate. False hopes for Obama's second 'liberal' term are discussed as well as America's elusive and mostly obscured foriegn policy motivations. http://mediaroots.org/mr-radio-corporatocracy.php
Media Roots Radio - The Boys Who Cried Wolf
January 28, 2013 22:26 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBMedia Roots Radio - The Boys Who Cried Wolf by Abby & Robbie Martin
Media Roots Radio - Election Special 2012
November 05, 2012 02:44 - 1 hour - 80.7 MBMedia Roots Radio - Election Special 2012 by Abby & Robbie Martin
Interview with Rocky Anderson RNC2012
October 22, 2012 16:56 - 24 minutes - 33 MBIn this exclusive interview with presidential candidate Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party, he provides three items the American federal government must do right now to get back on track. He also talks about voter suppression, the American political duopoly, the “mallification” of America, and the differences between him and Dr. Ron Paul. Emphatically, Mr. Anderson feels that America needs an era of people driven by “broad-based democracy” in order for America to return to its former glory. ...
ATOP Media Roots Music #20
October 19, 2012 16:58 - 1 hour - 147 MBTrack listing found here: http://mediaroots.org/media-roots-music-atop-mix-20.php
Media Roots Radio - Obama Immunizes Torturers, Murderers, War Criminals
October 02, 2012 09:20 - 1 hour - 109 MBMedia Roots Radio - Obama Immunizes Torturers, Murderers, War Criminals by Abby & Robbie Martin
Media Roots Radio - Assange, TrapWire, Brandon Raub
August 27, 2012 22:10 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBAbby and Robbie Martin talk about Julian Assange's asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK and how this has nothing do with the rape accusations but is a larger game of intimidation against whistleblowers internationally. They also get into discussing Trapwire, Marine veteran Brandon Raub and Abby's new show 'Breaking the Set' due to air on Russia Today the 4th of September 2012.
Media Roots Music – ATOP Set #18
July 07, 2012 21:05 - 1 hour - 141 MBThis set is dedicated to humanity: the establishment of peace and the eradication of intolerance. I believe this can be achieved once we have taken away the power from elite politicians, lobbyists, CEO's and others that have most of the say in the current operational state of the world. Once we reclaim our power as human beings, we can make this world as amazing and as hospitable as it should be toward every living creature and thing. With the right amount of positive social change, this w...
Media Roots Radio – Rand Paul the Politician, Libertarianism, Entertainment Dumb Down, Stuxnet
June 19, 2012 20:51 - 44 minutes - 35.9 MBAbby and Robbie Martin talk about Rand Paul: catering to the GOP establishment and revealing that he's a politician above all else; Libertarianism: what aspects are good and which are bad; entertainment: the current industry dumbing down culture with movies and television; stuxnet: US covert war against Iran; drones and big brother. http://www.mediaroots.org
Media Roots Music - DJ John Yoo - Into the Green
May 26, 2012 08:34 - 1 hour - 175 MBWhen I'm not busy writing legislation that allows the POTUS to smash children's testicles, i read comic books. This is my imaginary soundtrack for an imaginary movie adapted from the Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) run of the comic book Swamp Thing.
Media Roots Music – ATOP Set #17
May 15, 2012 03:40 - 58 minutes - 133 MBMedia Roots Music – ATOP Set #17 by Abby & Robbie Martin
Media Roots Music - DJ Paul Wolfowitz 'Did You See The Pictures?'
April 30, 2012 02:37 - 59 minutes - 109 MBMedia Roots Music - DJ Paul Wolfowitz 'Did You See The Pictures?' by Abby & Robbie Martin
Media Roots Music - ATOP set #16
April 17, 2012 23:18 - 55 minutes - 127 MBFor a complete track listing and more information go to: http://www.mediaroots.org/media-roots-music-atop-mix-16.php http://www.mediaroots.org
Media Roots Music - ATOP set #15
March 21, 2012 08:04 - 59 minutes - 136 MBMedia Roots Music - ATOP set #15 by Abby & Robbie Martin
Media Roots Radio - Nuclear Weapons & Fear, Iran War Propaganda, Drones & Party Loyalists
February 24, 2012 13:04 - 1 hour - 69 MBAbby and Robbie Martin discuss nuclear weapons: living in a perpetual Cold War mentality, MAD, stockpiling, labs and mismanagement, how nuclear fear and control underpin US imperialism; the manufactured GOP debate on contraception as a distraction from real issues; Obama's drone warfare and domestic drone surveillance; the complacency of party loyalists and their approval of Obama's continuation of Bush policies; Iran war propaganda: the political establishment and corporate press trumping up...
Media Roots Music – ATOP Set #14
February 14, 2012 17:26 - 1 hour - 137 MBMedia Roots Music – ATOP Set #14 by Abby & Robbie Martin
Media Roots Radio - Video Game Warfare, Iran Covert War, SOPA & Fair Use
January 26, 2012 23:24 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBAbby and Robbie discuss the reality of war: the pre-propaganda that has manufactured consent for the illegal occupations, video game warfare and cognitive dissonance in combat, the Marine urination scandal; Martin Luther King Jr. and historical revisionism minimizing how anti-imperialism was the main pillar of his philosophical platform; the CIA and the US covert war in Iran; SOPA, PIPA breakdown, the difference between copyright and fair use, the threat to net neutrality and websites like Me...
Media Roots Music - ATOP set #13
January 23, 2012 04:55 - 1 hour - 185 MBFor artist listing and more information go to http://www.mediaroots.org/media-roots-music-atop-mix-13.php http://www.mediaroots.org
Media Roots Radio - Iowa Caucus, Ron Paul & GOP, Election Fraud, NDAA Update
January 10, 2012 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBMEDIA ROOTS – Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the Iowa Caucus: the GOP candidates, the corporate media's coverage of the events, cherrypicking racist attributes among the contenders, the phasing out of Ron Paul as a "front runner"; election fraud: the fact that there is voting software designed to flip the vote; NDAA: an update of how the legislation was passed and breakdown of what it actually means for citizens living in the US. The above timeline is interactive. Scroll through it to find o...
Media Roots Radio - Facebook, Information Age, Technology, NDAA, GOP Race
December 15, 2011 01:07 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBAbby & Robbie Martin discuss the age of information in the 21st century and philosophize what the ability to instantaneously connect with people worldwide has done to modern society; the subjectivity of "truth" as history becomes re-written with every passing generation; Alan Moore v. Frank Miller on Occupy Wall Street; The passing of the new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that allows the indefinite detention of American citizens; the GOP race as a parody of itself with the candida...
Media Roots Radio - OWS: Police State Repression, Unification; Media Censorship, Citizen Journalism
November 24, 2011 03:23 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBMEDIA ROOTS – Abby & Robbie Martin cover Occupy Wall Street: the police state repression against the First Amendment, the Democratic Party's attempt to co-opt the movement, the Obama administration's hypocrisy to praise revolution abroad and censor it at home, the "Black Bloc" provocateurs and their attempt to discredit peaceful movements; media censorship and the fact that news anchors are repeaters, not reporters; injustice for some and the two-tiered justice system catered toward the elite...
Media Roots Radio - Live From Occupy Oakland General Strike 11-2-11
November 03, 2011 17:36 - 1 hour - 92.3 MBMEDIA ROOTS- Abby and Robbie Martin broadcast a live episode of Media Roots Radio at the center of Occupy Oakland's historic general strike from Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland on November 2, 2011. They discuss the police brutality that occurred last week during the initial raid of Occupy Oakland, the police assault on the crowd during the protests that followed and the Occupy Wall Street movement in general. The broadcast features interviews with strike participants and gives real tim...
Media Roots Radio – Occupy Wall Street, Divide & Conquer, Medical Marijuana
October 18, 2011 00:24 - 1 hour - 51.2 MBAbby & Robbie Martin cover the Occupy Wall Street movement: Bay Area activism compared to other cities nationwide, the divide and conquer tactics being used to discredit OWS, the different schools of thought and ideology within the movement and the original demands made by the US Day of Rage; the Obama administration's shocking crackdown on medical marijuana and new federal law banning medical marijuana card holders from owning firearms; Blackwater and the privatization of the armed forces: i...
Media Roots Music - Atop Set #10
October 13, 2011 03:52 - 1 hour - 190 MBFor full track listing go to www.mediaroots.org/media-roots-music-atop-mix-10.php
Media Roots Radio – Interview with Former Senator Mike Gravel
September 12, 2011 19:30 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBMEDIA ROOTS- Mike Gravel is a former US Senator and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election. As Senator, Gravel became nationally known for his attempts to end the draft during the Vietnam War and for putting the Pentagon Papers into the public record in 1971. He is an advocate of direct democracy and the National Initiative. Gravel endorses the 9/11 Ballot Initiative movement across the country, saying the measure would create a "citizens commission rather than a government com...
Media Roots Radio - Interview with Trevor Paglen, Experimental Geographer, Artist & Author
September 06, 2011 09:22 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBMEDIA ROOTS- Trevor Paglen's work deliberately blurs the lines between science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. Paglen’s visual work has been exhibited at several art museums worldwide and his writing and art have been published in major publications including The New York Times, Wired, Vanity Fair and Newsweek. Paglen holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an M.F.A. from the Schoo...
Media Roots Music- Atop Set #9
September 05, 2011 00:10 - 1 hour - 221 MBAtop's ninth set is inspired by music where sounds and vocals work together in beautiful harmony. He dedicates the mix to Orpheus, the Greek God of music and poetry– may we all fully experience life with the creative energy that he did. For full artist listing go to http://www.mediaroots.org/media-roots-music-atop-mix-9.php http://www.MediaRoots.org
Media Roots Music - Goldsmithing For Electro Orchestrations by Fluorescent Grey
August 22, 2011 11:28 - 48 minutes - 112 MBAll of Jerry Goldsmith's electronic music / synthesizer heavy compositions turned into a 45 long seamless mix 1- The Explorers 2- Gremlins 3- Alien - Intro 4- Gremlins - Gizmo's Theme / Rules / Chinatown 5- Logan's Run 6- Poltergiest 7- Legend 8- Psycho 2 9 -Alien 10- Supergirl 11- Legend 12- Gremlins - Mrs Deedle / the Pool 13- Logan's Run - Carosuel 14 - the Omen 15 - Innerspace 16 - 17 - 18 - Total Reccall - The Dream 19 - Psycho 2 - End Credits 20 - Total Recall - Open Your Mind
Media Roots Interview with Filmmaker, Journalist Josh Wolf
August 16, 2011 01:23 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBMedia Roots Interview with Filmmaker, Journalist Josh Wolf by Abby & Robbie Martin
Media Roots Music - Atop Set #8
August 10, 2011 22:15 - 1 hour - 202 MBFor more info and artist tracks go to: http://www.mediaroots.org/media-roots-music-atop-mix-8.php www.MediaRoots.org
Media Roots Radio- US Imperialism, Spying, Self-Censorship, Building Communities
July 28, 2011 11:34 - 1 hour - 71 MBFor more information about this episode- http://mediaroots.org/media-roots-radio-imperialism-spying-censorship-building-communities.php www.MediaRoots.org
Media Roots Radio- Able Danger, Blowback, Iran
July 25, 2011 11:20 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBOn this week's episode of Media Roots radio we question why Fox news has been spearheading the Able Danger investigation and why the 'intellectual left' reinforces the myth of the War on Terror and Al Qaeda. We also discuss Jan Brewer's shocking public appearances and dispel popular talking points and myths about Iran by scrutinizing things like the mistranslated mantra 'Israel should be wiped off the map'. http://www.mediaroots.org/media-roots-radio-able-danger-blowback-iran.php More info...
Media Roots Music- Atop Set #7
July 11, 2011 23:25 - 1 hour - 180 MBFor full track listing go to http://www.mediaroots.org/media-roots-music-atop-mix-7.php www.MediaRoots.org
Media Roots Radio - Weinergate, Election Kick-off, Net Neutrality, Police's "War on Fun"
June 17, 2011 00:19 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBThis episode covers Anthony Weiner and how political sex scandals dominate over real issues, the 2012 campaign kick-off: the RNC debates and media propaganda surrounding the candidate pool and Obama's marketing campaign, Net Neutrality and the lobbying system, and the bay area police's "War on Fun" of shutting down underground parties and stealing electronic equipment from djs. http://www.mediaroots.org/weinergate-election-kick-off-net-neutrality-war-on-fun.php www.MediaRoots.org