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Venezuelan Opposition Threatens To Lynch American Journalist Abby Martin

Journalist Abby Martin interviews Venezuelan opposition protesters. (Photo: Facebook)
CHILE — The U.S.-backed right-wing opposition in Venezuela is consistently described as “peaceful,” protesting non-violently against the leftist regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who mainstream media throughout the Americas and the world consider an autocrat, or dictator who is hell-bent on accumulating more power.

Oregon Student Group Defies Pressure To Cancel Event With Arab Journalists

Mnar Muhawesh (left), Rania Khalek (center), Abby Martin (right)
Published in partnership with Shadowproof.
A student group hosting an event at Oregon State University on Palestine, Syria, and Yemen, has received requests to disinvite two Arab journalists scheduled to speak. However, the student group immediately took a stand and refuses to cancel the event scheduled for April 11.

Veteran Of The Israeli Army Gives Explosive Tell-All: “I Was The Terrorist”

Eran Efrati spent years as a sergeant and combat soldier in the Israeli military, but has since become an outspoken critic of the occupation of Palestine and Israeli apartheid.
Efrati gives explosive testimony on the reality of his service and explains how war crimes are institutionalized, as well as how systematic the oppression against Palestinians really is in a war of conquest that will no-doubt be accelerated under the Trump Administration.

Chris Hedges On Trump, Fascism And The Christian Right

Abby Martin, host of teleSUR’s “The Empire Files,” sat down with Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist and author Chris Hedges to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump and how his presidency fuels and is fueled by Christian fascism.
“The Christian right will fill Trump’s ideological vacuum, because he doesn’t really have an ideology, and that will be handled through (Vice President Mike) Pence.”

The Real Threat Is ‘Telling The Truth’: Abby Martin Responds To Accusations Of Influencing Election 2016

Journalist Abby Martin is the latest to fall victim to accusations of Russian collusion to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
AUSTIN, Texas — On Monday, journalist Abby Martin dismissed accusations that she colluded with the Russian government to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Martin is the latest independent journalist to fall victim to a new “Red Scare” that seeks to shift the blame for the Democratic Party’s political problems onto Russia.

New York Times busted making up “fake news” about journalist and one time RT host Abby Martin [Video]

By now it should come as no surprise to anyone that the real purveyors of “fake news” are the corporate run main stream media outlets that are deeply invested in the globalist neo-liberal world order.
The two most prominent “fake news” outlets are The Washington Post and The New York Times.
The main stream “paper of records” have been busted numerous times promoting “fake news” stories meant to sour US relations with Russia, hamper a Trump presidency, or in the case of the NYT, push the US into an illegal invasion of Iraq.

Abby Martin Responds To False Claims By The New York Times

Outspoken journalist and activist Abbey Martin was targeted by the New York Times for her work as an anchor for RT.
(REPORT) — The long-awaited report by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), allegedly proving Russian “interference” in the US election, includes a section solely dedicated to bashing RT, and specifically calls out my former show Breaking the Set, which ended two years ago, as a propaganda vector marking the beginning of the Kremlin attempt to subvert American democracy.

The War In Afghanistan is a Good Thing – If You’re A Heroin Dealer

(MINTPRESSThe “War on Drugs” and the “War on Terror” are more intertwined than that media and our elected officials would like us to think.
And this became full front and center when the U.S.-led global crusades overlapped in Afghanistan, leaving in their wake a legacy of death, addiction and government corruption tainting Afghan and American soil.

Porkins Policy Radio ep. 45 Robbie Martin on The New Neocons

We are joined once again by our friend Robbie Martin to discuss the latest installment of his documentary series A Very Heavy Agenda.  In part two, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Neocons, Robbie picks up where he left off by exploring the rise of a new breed of neocons.  Robbie and I discuss how deeply entrenched with in the media this new brand of neocon has become.  Going beyond the likes of Bill Kristol and think tanks, the neocons have now infiltrated organizations such as The Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, Vice, and other media outlets.