A Very Heavy Agenda Pt 2 Media Appearances [Compilation]
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Abby & Robbie Martin
4.6 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2016
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The foreign policy of the United States over the last 36 years has been a train wreck, |
| 0:05.4 | and the same people responsible for bringing us unwinnable wars and constant conflict, |
| 0:11.0 | they're actually trying to weasel their way back into power. |
| 0:14.3 | So who are these people and what are they hoping to accomplish? |
| 0:18.0 | I recently spoke with documentary film director Robbie Martin, where he helped |
| 0:22.1 | to answer those questions. Let's take a look. Robbie, your new film series, a very heavy |
| 0:28.8 | agenda. It kind of tells the story of what's happened with our hawkish foreign policy over these |
| 0:35.0 | last, you know, 16 years or so, even a little before that. |
| 0:38.9 | Give us a quick primer on the overall take of the film. |
| 0:43.2 | Well, it's a three-part documentary series that pretty much chronologically goes over what kind of damage. |
| 0:52.8 | Mostly the neo-conservatives were doing, starting with the Bush |
| 0:56.3 | administration and then going all the way until the present. |
| 1:00.5 | So most of the movie covers sort of the eight years of Obama and how the neocons crept in during |
| 1:08.0 | his administration and influenced it in terms of the Ukraine policy, the Syrian |
| 1:15.7 | policy, our intervention in Libya, and pretty much every military intervention that happened |
| 1:21.7 | while Obama was in office was in some way either agged on or influenced by the neocons, some of them actually |
| 1:30.0 | inside of his own administration. |
| 1:31.9 | Well, you know, one of the things that you discuss in the film is the Project for a New |
| 1:36.7 | American Century, PNAC. You know, that is a story that a lot of Americans either didn't |
| 1:42.3 | pay attention to, you know, during the, you know, Clinton |
| 1:45.3 | administration and the Bush administration, or they simply didn't hear about it. So tell us a little |
| 1:50.4 | bit about PNAC and how they helped to influence, you know, how basically our horrible foreign policy |
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