Episode #689
Abby Martin
Books mentioned
Brave New World
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Journalist and former RT America host Abby Martin discusses how media outrage, propaganda, surveillance, and edited reality television shape public narratives. The conversation examines American military mythology, the Iraq and Syria wars, civilian casualties, nuclear weapons, and U.S. intervention abroad, before turning to social issues in the United States and Cuba’s healthcare and economic systems.
What they talked about
- Cecil the lion outrage as manufactured hysteria
- Online death and rape threats against Abby Martin
- Critique of the movie American Sniper and Chris Kyle myth
- ISIS destruction of ancient monuments in Syria
- US foreign policy and destabilization of the Middle East
- Nuclear weapons testing and antimatter weapons research
- Mormonism and Joseph Smith's golden tablets
- Planned Parenthood controversy and birth control access
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