Paris & San Bernadino Attacks ISIS Mythopoeia

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2015

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the political and media ISIS mythopoeia in the wake of the Paris and #SanBernadino attacks, the anti-Muslim bigotry mirroring 9/11 and the nonsensicalness of the Syria war. DONATE // www.mediaroots.org // put 'media roots radio' in the description of your donation twitter.com/AbbyMartin & twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The
0:23.6	The Welcome to Media Roots Radio. I'm your host Abby Martin.
0:51.8	And I'm your host, Robbie Martin.
0:53.8	So a lot has happened since I feel like I start off every time saying this.
0:57.5	So a lot has happened since we last talked and we're not able to do a podcast because we both are doing a lot of other stuff.
1:03.5	My brother is working on a ridiculously long epic documentary series.
1:08.3	And I am too, pretty much, called The Empire Files.
1:10.6	Every Week is a new chapter.
1:12.6	So it's totally insane and yeah I sincerely apologize for not getting these out more frequently.
1:19.6	I know that everyone really likes them and thank you for all of your patience and we're really, really going to try after there's crazy events.
1:29.5	Like, I mean, God, there's been so many.
1:33.6	Like, we said that we wanted to do one right after the Paris attacks, but then the San Bernardino thing happened.
1:36.1	And it was just like, damn.
1:38.0	There's just like one after the other, you know?
1:42.0	Yeah, so we finally got hit by ISIS.
1:44.7	Yeah, so, so we did. ISIS is ISIS. Yeah, so we did.
1:47.2	Civilization got hit by barbarism.
1:49.4	I love how everyone in the aftermath is just like, well, biggest terrorist attack since 9-11 in America.
1:55.5	You're like, what?
1:56.4	This is, first of all, we have no idea.
1:59.6	Wait, they talking about the San Bernardino shooting this meeting?
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