Author: Abby Martin

Empire Files: Human Rights Hypocrisy – Colombia vs. Venezuela

Empire Files: Human Rights Hypocrisy – Colombia vs. Venezuela

Posted by | Aug 21, 2017 | , , , , , , , , |

Colombia and Venezuela: two neighboring countries that receive extremely different treatment by the US Empire and the mass media. While Colombia is known for one of the worst human rights records in the world, it remains a top recipient of US military aid and enjoys uncritical press coverage in Western media–all while Trump threatens military intervention against Venezuela over unsubstantiated allegations. To contrast the human rights realities, Abby Martin interviews human rights attorney Dan Kovalik, who has recently returned from both countries. Kovalik has done extensive work in Latin America and was an observer to the recent Constituent Assembly...

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Peter Joseph & Abby Martin on Abolishing Capitalism – The Empire Files

Peter Joseph & Abby Martin on Abolishing Capitalism – The Empire Files

Posted by | Aug 15, 2017 | , , , , |

Peter Joseph is the founder of the Zeitgeist Movement, a grassroots, worldwide organization that advocates an alternative economic system based on sustainability, cooperation and human need. His most recent book, ‘The New Human Rights Movement,’ delivers a startling exposé about the violent oppression that defines our economic order, while issuing an urgent call for global activism to unite to replace it. Abby Martin sits down with Joseph to talk about the contradictions and crises of capitalism and what he advocates to save the future of the planet from...

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Abby Martin Meets The Venezuelan Opposition – The Empire Files

Abby Martin Meets The Venezuelan Opposition – The Empire Files

Posted by | Aug 2, 2017 | , , , , , |

Abby Martin goes on the deadly front lines of the anti government protests in Venezuela and follows the evolution of a typical guarimba—or opposition barricade. She explains what the targets from the opposition reveal about the nature of the movement and breaks down the reality of the death toll that has rocked the nation since the unrest began, and how a lynch mob campaign came after her and the Empire Files team for reporting these facts. Hearing from peaceful opposition marchers, to Chavistas to violent protesters at the guarimbas, this must-watch episode exposes the dark reality on-the-ground that is...

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Empire Files: Abby Martin & Venezuela’s Minister Of Economic Planning

Empire Files: Abby Martin & Venezuela’s Minister Of Economic Planning

Posted by | Jul 31, 2017 | , , |

Today in the corporate media, Venezuela’s economic problems are used to paint the country as a failed state, in need of foreign-backed regime change. To get the Bolivarian government’s side of the crisis, Abby Martin interviews Venezuela’s Minister of Economic Planning, Ricardo Menéndez. They discuss shortages, oil dependency, the role of the US-backed opposition movement and more. The Empire Files joined him in Cojedes, Venezuela, where he was speaking to mass community meetings, organizing the population to fight against what he calls an economic...

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