After the major Ben & Jerry's divestment victory Abby Martin interviews leaders of Arab Resource & Organizing Center, who organized the successful Block The Boat action which prevented an Israeli ship from docking in the Port of Oakland.

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BDS Victories On The Rise | feat. leaders of Block The Boat

Cuba faces a new surge of attacks that can only be understood through the history of US regime change operations and the forces behind the "SOS Cuba" protests.  Abby Martin is joined by Gloria La Riva to discuss.

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SOS Cuba: An Extensive Web of CIA Plots & Propaganda

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the unhealthy paranoia and obsession people have towards China and how the propaganda is piped down through"populist" DC think-tanks. Later they discuss the erasure of Big Pharma's role in the opioid epidemic and Apple's announcement to digitally scan your iCloud for potential child pornography.

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China Derangement Syndrome, Big Pharma Opioid Erasure & Apple Fed Pedo Hunters

Abby and Robbie Martin talk to journalists John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski, creators of "Who Is Rich Blee?" and "Watchdogs Didn't Bark" about their new podcast documentary series "After The Uprising," investigating the death of Danyé Dion Jones in St. Louis County in the wake of the Black Lives Matter uprising.

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After the Uprising: The Death of Danyé Dion Jones  w/ John Duffy & Ray Nowosielski

Scott Horton is the editor of Antiwar.com and the author of Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, and Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism. Scott speaks to Abby and Robbie Martin about the missing context behind the end to the US occupation of Afghanistan as well as the larger War on Terror, including Yemen, China and more.

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Time to End the War on Terrorism & Panic Over a Multipolar World  w/ Scott Horton

“The eviction moratorium is killing small landlords” CNBC cautions. "Some small landlords struggle under eviction moratoriums,” declares The Washington Post. “Economic Pressures Are Rising On Mom And Pop Rental Owners,” laments NPR. ”[Landlords] can’t hold on much longer,” cries an LA Times headline.

Throughout the course of the pandemic, we’ve seen a spate of media coverage highlighting the plight of the small or so-called “mom-and-pop landlord” struggling to make ends meet. The story usually goes something like this: A modest, down-on-their-luck owner of two or three properties — say, a elderly grandmother or hardworking medical professional — hopes to keep them long enough to hand them down to their kids, but fears financial ruin in the face of radical tenant-protection laws.

But this doesn’t reflect the reality of rental housing ownership in the United States. Over the last couple decades, corporate entities, from Wall Street firms to an opaque network of LLCs, have increasingly seized ownership of the rental housing stock, intensifying the asymmetry of landlord-tenant power relations and rendering housing ever more precarious for renters. In the meantime, the character of the “mom-and-pop landlord” has been evoked nonstop — much like that of the romantic “small business owner” — in order to sanitize the image of property ownership and gin up opposition to legislation that would protect tenants from eviction moratoria to rent control.

On this episode, we explore the overrepresentation of the “mom-and-pop landlord” in media, contrasting it with the actual makeup of rental housing ownership. We’ll also examine how the media-burnished image of the beleaguered, barely-scraping-by landlord puts a human face on policies that further enrich a property-owning class while justifying the forceful removal of renters from their homes.

Our guest is Alexander Ferrer of Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE).

Ep 145: How Real Estate-Curated 'Mom & Pop Landlord' Sob Stories Are Used to Gut Tenant Protections

China, Wall Street and the New Global Economy with James Corbett

Robbie Martin discusses the long memory-holed 2001 anthrax attacks on the 20th anniversary of the first murder, the death of American Media Inc employee Robert Stevens in Boca Raton, Florida (which took place on October 5th, 2001). 4 more would eventually die from inhalation anthrax after envelopes were sent through the US postal service containing  terroristic letters attempting to appear Islamic ( 'ALLAH IS GREAT' ) & high-grade weaponized anthrax spores. But what happened with all of those 'hoax' letters that contained fake anthrax? Who were those sent to? Were all these hoax attacks unrelated to the actual murders? Maybe not, as  'hoax' letters were sent from St. Petersburg Florida with eerie and confusing similarities to the real anthrax letters sent by the named anthrax killer. Listen closely as Robbie breaks down the timeline of why these 'hoax' letters and their implications could potentially turn the entire FBI Amerithrax case against Bruce Ivins upside-down.

Note: The original description & content for this podcast incorrectly referred to 3* hoax anthrax letters sent from St Petersburg. There were actually 4* known hoax letters sent from St Petersburg, Florida: 2 postmarked September 20th 2001 delivered to Tom Brokaw of NBC News & the NY Post then 2 postmarked October 5th 2001 delivered to Judith Miller of the NY Times & Howard Troxler of the St Petersburg Times.  Audio content on this episode has been revised to correct any previous inaccuracies as of 10/24/21. 

Additional Research: Gumby4Christ

References & Files: 

ABC News Article abt St Petersburg Letters: 
https://abcn.ws/3mkwWn4

St Petersburg Times Archive Article abt Troxler Hoax Letter:
https://bit.ly/3uUrviN

Howard Troxler Editorial abt Letter: 
https://bit.ly/3FtAw7l

Raw Photo of Howard Troxler Hoax Anthrax Envelope: 
https://imgur.com/ktTJO7c

Real VS Hoax Handwriting Comparison by Robbie Martin: 
https://imgur.com/a/Y2pjhCz

Anthrax Timeline Including St Petersburg Letters:
https://anthraxmuseum.tripod.com/theanthraxmysterymuseumtm/id47.html

the Anthrax Cache [main] compiled by Gumby4Christ & Robbie Martin
https://t.co/8qfVxu1JB0?amp=1

the Anthrax Cache addition 1  
https://t.co/tM9PIEhBBl?amp=1

the Anthrax Cache addition 2
https://t.co/1iJwv4SUuu?amp=1

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Amerithrax 20th Anniversary: St Petersburg Letters, Bruce Ivins' Bilocation & the Anthrax Timeline

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Robbie Martin returns for another Amerithrax deep dive episode while the 20th Anniversary of the attacks continues. This time the focus is on which parts of the anthrax murders that were omitted from the FBI investigation in order to create the appearance that Bruce Ivins was guilty (who committed suicide in 2008 before the FBI could bring charges to him). Most of the epiode focuses on key omisssions from the DOJ executive Amerithrax summary from 2010 like the AMI building crime scene in Florida, the murder of photo-editor Robert Stevens and the still completely mysterious case of the only NY anthrax fatality, Manhattan hospital worker Kathy Nguyen. These omisssions along with the St Petersburg 'hoax' letters' give the false appearance that a single person using only anthrax laced letters as a murder weapon comitted the crime when the evidence (and FBI statements from 2003 and before) actually shows that the attacks were likely conducted by at least two people, using more than just letters to infect and kill their victims.  

Note: Please make sure to look at the newly provided Media Roots Radio 'Anthrax Cache' compiled by gumby4christ & Robbie Martin, a Google Drive link containing over 1 Gigabytes of raw files from the Anthrax and 9/11 investigations as well as 50+ original txt searchable newspaper and tabloid scans to help add context as you listen to this episode, 

the 'Anthrax Cache':
https://bit.ly/3x3lUaR

Kathy Nguyen Clinical Details & Story Archive:
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/detect/antdetect_case22.html

Censored Vanity Fair Article by Don Foster
https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/messageanthrax.html

Kathy Nguyen's Last Words
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/kathynguyensmystery.html

FBI Smears of Kathy Nguyen as Bioterrorist
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/newyorkanthraxvictim.html

UCLA Dept of Epidemiologoy Anthrax Detectives Resource: 
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/detect/antdetect_intro.html

Raw Photo of Howard Troxler Hoax Anthrax Envelope: 
https://imgur.com/ktTJO7c

Real VS Hoax Handwriting Comparison by Robbie Martin: 
https://imgur.com/a/Y2pjhCz

Anthrax Timeline Including St Petersburg Letters:
https://anthraxmuseum.tripod.com/theanthraxmysterymuseumtm/id47.html

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Kathy Nguyen the Anthrax Victim FBI Called a Terrorist & Swabbing Hijacker Remains in Shanksville

Abby Martin talks to Alan MacLeod of MintPress News about how the Pentagon has written and edited scripts for hundreds of movies and TV shows over the last 20 years.

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How The Pentagon Runs Hollywood

Since 2010, siblings and journalists Abby Martin and Robbie Martin have been doing Media Roots Radio, a political podcast with a critical eye on US foreign policy, political partisanship and what people can do to fight back. Conversational, controversial, passionate and explicit, Media Roots stands apart from the majority of podcasts coming from a similar point of view.

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