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A Very Heavy Agenda Pt 2 Media Appearances [Compilation]

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6827 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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