Dark Winter Descends with Robbie Martin
Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb
Whitney Webb
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Robbie Martin of Media Roots joins Whitney to discuss the 2001 anthrax attacks and their relevance to the current coronavirus crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, you're listening to Unlimited Hangout, a podcast hosted by Whitney Webb. |
| 0:04.9 | This is my first episode, which will be focused on my new investigative series, co-authored with Raul Diego, |
| 0:10.4 | Engineering Contagent, Ameritrax Coronavirus, and the Rise of the Biotech Industrial Complex. |
| 0:16.3 | And today we'll be specifically focusing on part one of that series, which is entitled All Roads Lead to Dark Winter. |
| 0:22.1 | To discuss this and more, I'm joined by Robbie Martin of the Media Roots podcast, Mean Politics, |
| 0:27.0 | and the creator of the documentary film series, A Very Heavy Agenda. |
| 0:30.6 | But before we get into the topic at hand, Robbie just put out an amazing two-part podcast mini-series |
| 0:36.4 | on the newest neoconservative apparatus |
| 0:38.7 | that is now dominating major parts of the media sphere with regards to coronavirus. |
| 0:43.4 | And there are a lot of disturbing links between these new groups and the dark winter |
| 0:47.2 | crowd we'll be getting to here in a moment. |
| 0:49.5 | So, Robbie, can you give us a quick summary about your new mini-series? |
| 0:52.5 | Hey, Whitney. |
| 0:53.1 | Thanks for having me on the first episode of your new podcast. |
| 0:57.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.3 | So my new series is tracking the activities of this think tank called the Committee on the |
| 1:06.1 | present danger. |
| 1:07.8 | It's a think tank that has existed several times before in recent history. It first |
| 1:14.8 | existed in the 1950s. It was seemingly most influential during the Reagan administration when 33 |
| 1:22.1 | of its members went inside the Reagan administration, including Richard Pearl, CIA director William Casey, |
| 1:30.2 | and a bunch of other very household names from the Reagan administration. |
| 1:34.6 | But right now, this same committee has reopened specifically this time |
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