March 5
GUEST: Abby Martin, well known journalist, former commentator on RT, and founder of the Empire Files, talks about her documentary Gaza Fights For Freedom and how the Israel lobby threatens freedom of speech in the US.The Empire Files with Abby Martin
We were very appreciative of Abby's guest interview on Activist Radio. She represents what non-corporate media would look like. Her opinions probe the open wounds of the US Empire: racism at home, war crimes overseas, and the gradual disintegration of our democratic process.
So is she a Russian agent? A vector of "fake news" meant to make America less great again? I think she is a very capable journalist who knows that she wouldn't last for a week on mainstream media. Not because her writing and interviews are substandard, but because she has taken her propaganda blinders off. Where local NPR has its "Round Table" of conventional wisdom, Abby's reporting can show how narrow that Public Radio view really is. She reports the facts about Palestine, Venezuela, and US wars abroad, while the Round Table swoons over Biden's latest victory in the primaries.
Abby is good at being provocative. Some of it is just anger at the injustice she sees around her. Part of it is her niche. She is not on the corporate payroll, so she has to scramble to survive. Here latest movie, Gaza Fights for Freedom pushes the envelope in a similar way. It is a brutal and heartrending view of the Empire's ethnic cleansing in the Holy Land. Not something that mainstream media would dare touch.
Abby Martin shows us what media could be in America. Turn off NPR and find out a little more about the world we live in.
