Media Roots Radio - Nuclear Weapons & Fear, Iran War Propaganda, Drones & Party Loyalists

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2012

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Abby and Robbie Martin discuss nuclear weapons: living in a perpetual Cold War mentality, MAD, stockpiling, labs and mismanagement, how nuclear fear and control underpin US imperialism; the manufactured GOP debate on contraception as a distraction from real issues; Obama's drone warfare and domestic drone surveillance; the complacency of party loyalists and their approval of Obama's continuation of Bush policies; Iran war propaganda: the political establishment and corporate press trumping up the war drum to instill fear and justify pre-emptive warfare against Iran and Syria. http://www.mediaroots.org/nuclear-weapons-fear-iran-war-propaganda-party-loyalists.php For more information go to http://www.mediaroots.org

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Media Roots Radio, Home Edition.
0:37.9	Home-based edition.
0:39.6	This is your host, Abigail Martin.
0:43.9	And this is your co-host, Rob Abigail Martin.
0:47.0	We're doing a live show from my house because there's just so much going on.
0:52.5	We know that we have the World War II episode coming out too, but there's so much going on that we should talk about right now. So we just wanted to release a short episode going over the recent news and headlines.
1:03.0	The Ron Paul military support, um, Santorum's rise through the ranks. Somehow he's still on the spotlight is on him.
1:12.4	There's a contraception debate taking place right now
1:15.8	because supposedly of the Catholic Church's complaints
1:18.3	about insurance mandates.
1:20.9	It seems very curious to me that this contraception debate
1:23.9	is taking place on a mainstream level right now
1:26.9	because it magically puts Obama to the left again.
1:32.0	It just magically places him back there.
1:34.3	It's that false argument now of like it's just propping up these issues that are distractions.
1:40.3	Like contraception, really?
1:41.8	I mean, this is seriously the main pillar of what we're talking about right now in the media
1:45.8	when we're engaged in all these like multi-level combats overseas and the country's going bankrupt.
1:52.8	I mean, so it's just, it is interesting that they prop up the contraception issue.
1:57.7	And yeah, like you said, painting Obama as, you know, the left candidate who's going to protect our rights, you know, women's rights and all that.
2:07.3	And we have all this run up right now for a possible Iran war.
2:13.2	It's really ramping up.
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