Cure For Havana Syndrome & Info War Against Cuba w/ Alan MacLeod

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Abby and Robbie Martin speak to media critic Alan MacLeod, staff writer at FAIR and Mint Press News, about the outlandishly distorted corporate media coverage of the protests in Cuba across the news and social media. Alan talks at length about what is being manipulated, omitted, and what the political purpose behind the propaganda is. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to an exclusive bonus episode per month. FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey // twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello, welcome to Media Roots Radio.
0:33.6	This is Robbie Martin.
0:36.7	This is just going to be a really short intro.
0:39.5	We're just going to go straight into our interview with Alan McLeod that Abby and I did a few days ago.
0:47.5	About the situation that's currently happening in Cuba.
0:55.6	I've been wanting to get you on media roots for so long because you're just so
0:59.5	awesome at what you do.
1:01.1	All of your media critique, your skills dissecting the media, it's just such a crucial thing.
1:06.7	And I've been, you know, inspired a lot by your work for quite some time now.
1:11.1	Wow. Thank you for saying that. Yeah, I've actually been listening to Media Roots for a long,
1:15.2	long time. Yeah, I got interested in Occupy Wall Street. And then there was that all that
1:21.3	crazy stuff going on in Oakland. I was trying to find out about what was going there. And then I,
1:26.2	yeah, I found you and I found your podcast. So I've been listening to it for like 10 years or something. What? That's crazy.
1:32.3	Oh, man. You've been there from the beginning. That's awesome. I don't know when you started.
1:36.2	I think you might have already started it, but I must have been one of the first people.
1:40.7	Yeah, we've been around for about 10 years. Because the reason that we're called Media Roots Radio, which is weird for like a podcast,
1:47.3	is because we were actually on shortwave radio back then.
1:51.6	Trying to tap into people's radio networks.
1:54.6	But no, it's really great to hear, Alan, and you've been in the game for a long time.
1:58.2	That's very cool.
1:59.8	Yeah, you're a prolific writer over at
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