US Aiding Yemen Massacres, Venezuela Regime Change Plot, Sanctions Shut Down Abby's "Empire Files"

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Abby and Robbie talk about the implications of Michael Cohen's guilty plea, the school bus bombing in Yemen, history of Saudi internal repression and oil relationship with the US Empire, updates on the ongoing Israeli massacre of unarmed protesters in the Great March of Return, the evidence pointing to US/Colombian involvement of the assassination attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. 37:46 // Ronnie Barkan on Israeli nation state law: https://bit.ly/2uQbP1j 49:15 // The bomb was actually Lockheed Martin Mark 82 54:41 // CNN list of US bomb massacres in Yemen: https://bit.ly/2P8xMRB 1:03:05 // Empire Files documentary on Saudi Arabia: https://bit.ly/1Pbr9Kp 1:06:09 // Saudi to behead woman for protesting: https://nbcnews.to/2NdiryQ 1:09:00 // World Cup migrant deaths in Qatar: https://bit.ly/2hydFgF 1:16:53 // Seymour Hersh on CIA economic war in Chile: https://nyti.ms/2LSePpd 1:21:00 // US sanctions shut down Empire Files: https://bit.ly/2LiEOku Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

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0:00.0	Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin.
0:20.5	This is Robbie Martin. Thanks for joining us again, everybody.
0:24.0	Thanks so much, guys. We're giving a bunch of updates today on U.S. foreign policy.
0:28.6	Be sure to check out our last two episodes. One of them is all about the Q&ON insanity going mainstream.
0:35.8	Trump dog whistling to the conspiracy theorists and the whole free speech issue.
0:39.3	The last episode that we did was a really comprehensive breakdown on the whole kind of mass censorship debate going on on social media.
0:47.3	So be sure to check those out.
0:49.3	Yeah, a lot of stuff and also appearances Abby and I have done on other podcasts. And if you want to check out what those are, so I don't repeat myself, listen to the very beginning of our last episode to find out all the different appearances we've been doing. I saw comedian David Cross last night for people who don't know who he is. He was the other half of Mr. Show. He was in Arrested Development, the
1:11.6	Bob Blah, blah, blah. Bob Odenkirk opened for him, which was really hilarious and awesome.
1:16.6	Doing stand-up? No, he just did like a really small skit, kind of pretending that he was
1:21.5	sponsoring David. It was hilarious. Yeah. But I was worried about seeing David Cross because
1:26.8	I know how strong of a presence
1:29.7	Amber Tamlin his wife has on Twitter in terms of kind of demonizing the left and the green party
1:35.9	and DSA and stuff like that. So I just, I was worried that he would kind of go off on this big rant
1:41.2	about Jill Stein or something like that. But I'm really happy
1:44.5	that I ended up seeing him. He was fucking hilarious. And he actually opposed his wife, like,
1:51.0	tons of times during the set. He said that he was a member of the DSA. He even said the Democrats
1:57.8	are horrible, although he did end up saying that we should vote for them in the midterms.
2:02.6	But two hilarious jokes that I wanted to just repeat. I mean, he was talking about Trump voters.
2:07.7	And people actually would like get up and leave. A couple people got up and left because they were so offended.
2:12.8	Yeah. And people in front of us, you could tell they didn't really understand who he was or whatever.
2:16.6	And they were just like moaning and groaning the entire time. It was great. So he was talking all about Trump voters and stuff. And he was like, no, no, no. He's like, I'm not comparing Trump voters to Nazis. He was like, that would be insane. He's like, I'm not doing that at all. He's like, I'm just get rid of the Statue of Liberty at this point.
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