into the brand new show that i've been working super hard all month to bring you i'm your host abby martin and this is breaking the set for i may be smashing through the left right paradigm set in the media and political establishment to find a middle ground of truth well today marks the first day of the democratic national convention and the corporate press will undoubtedly be running campaign footage nonstop the entire week covering back and forth bipartisan bickering will probably won't be mentioned much of the massive protests expected to take place around the convention and the subsequent police state that's been forced to prepare for the swell of dissent just like they are and see some monstrous issues will likely be ignored like how the u.s. economy needs to run on perpetual warfare for the fact that most political representatives work to do just the bidding of their corporate masters no no no you won't be hearing about any of these things at the d.n.c. why because both parties are indistinguishable when it comes to these core issues they're both part of the problem and that is why

everyone i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set well it's been eleven long years since the nine eleven attacks indeed it was a tragic day in history and which three thousand world citizens died not to mention the countless that have died as a result of retaliatory u.s. policies abroad now more than a decade later one under reported tragedy is still unfolding the toxic dust from the towers were full of a special and other poisons that the e.p.a. said the air was safe to breathe and because of the fearless efforts of those workers who gave up everything to help hundreds of already died from cancer and hundreds more are dying now finally obama signed the zadroga act but it's been over a year and a half of waiting for those benefits to go into effect in the first responders are still waiting even though thousands are finally eligible to receive money there's been a delay over whether or not their cancers would be covered. yesterday i was determined that fifty eight types of cancer would now be accepted and while i'm relieved that the heroes of nine eleven will finally receive health

everyone i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so did you guys hear about the breaking news no i'm not referring to the protests spreading across the middle east started in egypt and libya and now in yemen i'm talking about the other big breaking news the new york city board of health just banned the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks the mayor michael bloomberg is having a field day with it on twitter he said here to cities new sugary drink policy is the single biggest step that any government has taken to curb obesity he wrote it will help save lives but is it really something to celebrate when sixty percent of new yorkers don't even support the ban perhaps it's because they know that it's absolutely useless when you saw the first free will to buy two smaller soon as instead of one large one or perhaps it's because they know just like we do. the government is not concerned with obesity at all i mean come on when they decide to pick on seven elevens big gulp instead of attacking the fast food establishments that have completely plagued consumption habits in america bl

show that i've been working super hard all month to bring you breaking a set and i'm your host abby martin i mean he smashing through the left right paradigm set in a media and political establishment this country to find a middle ground truth but so far the d.n.c. has been quite a love fest now instead of some loony over michelle obama were sitting back jaw dropping the charismatic speech from former president bill clinton but when much of the pundits were fixated on clinton i was too busy pay attention to the fact that the d.n.c. issued a vote yesterday to amend their party platform to include statutes both for god and jerusalem take a look. all those delegates in favor say in. all those delegates opposed say no. in the opinion of the chair two thirds of voted in the affirmative the motion is adopted and the platform has been amended as shown on the screen. thank you very much. does that sound like two thirds majority to you i'm not so sure but what's even more shallow than this corrupt vote is how former house speaker nancy pelosi responded check it out. this is so mild in terms of want

about guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set well today a federal judge sentence of iraq and born virginia based a man named al coffee to thirty years in prison for his involvement in an f.b.i. terrorism operation now after pleading guilty he now faces twenty five to thirty years in prison now the f.b.i. provided el khalifi with demi explosives and observe his every move for months what's most interesting to me that ever since nine eleven every terrorist plot that's been for oil by the f.b.i. is well it's almost always completely orchestrated by the f.b.i. all these cases of entrapment begs the question why did this man or any of these people for that matter be capable of facilitating terrorism without being led by the f.b.i. without being given the means and makes me wonder in the face of knowing how little the threat of terrorism actually is in this country what lengths will the f.b.i. go to to make their case for combating terrorism on u.s. soil also they didn't seize methods of entrapment early mirrors those of the same suicide rick arms are the recruiters of the very sui

everyone and abby martin and this is breaking the set so last night tragedy struck in libya the protesters attacked the u.s. consulate in benghazi killing four people including u.s. ambassador chris stevens there was also an attack on the u.s. embassy in cairo egypt they were in retaliation over an anti islam film that's sparking retaliatory attacks against the west look i'm certainly not here to say that freedom of speech should be inhibited but what is most disturbing however isn't the fact that in the immediate aftermath of such a tragedy certain politicians seized on it to make a politically polarizing issue for one mitt romney immediately came out to slam embassy officials in cairo and president obama for their response he said quote when our grounds are being attacked and being breached that the first response of the united states must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our nation and apology for america's values is never the right course or the u.s. embassy in cairo responded through twitter with of course we condemn breaches on our countdown we're the ones actually livi

what's going on guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so i want to bring up an interesting story that i heard today a group of activists funded by billionaire sibling duo the koch brothers is planning a rally in new york to stand up against the occupy wall street extremists this group is americans for prosperity and steve lonegan a state director for the organization had this to say he said the occupy wall street crowd is nothing but a fringe element of malcontents bent on the mayhem and destruction they're not attacking wall street they're attacking the very freedoms that everyday americans cherish to pursue their own dreams and succeed it's time that someone stood up to the occupy wall street mob. that's right steve it is about time someone stood up to these thugs with all their bitching and whining about wealth inequality and government corruption it's about time that someone explained to them that freedom isn't about having the opportunity to pursue dreams it's about having the choice to make sure no one else gets the same opportunities that rich people get but hey i am

brand new show i've been preparing all month for you called breaking the set and i'm your host abby martin i may be smashing through the left right paradigm set in the pit a logical and media establishment this country to find the middle ground the truth so yeah so yesterday supporters of army private bradley manning protested in thirty five cities across the u.s. to demand that president obama release him from military detention look the legal maximum to hold someone in the u.s. without charges is one hundred twenty days but so far private bradley manning has been locked up for two years three months and twelve days without charges today marks day number eight hundred thirty five you know with all the rhetoric coming from the political status about human rights abuses and spreading freedom abroad you would think the rule of law would actually apply to american citizens at home it's truly a sad state of affairs when the perpetrators of war crimes are calling the shots and those who blow the whistle on war crimes are the ones being treated like the criminals and that is why breaking the set

what's going on you guys i'm your host abby martin and this is breaking the set well today thousands of teachers in chicago walked off the job in the city's first strike in twenty five years but don't worry and network of privatized charter schools in chicago assured people not to worry because they will remain open and no one's champion charter schools more than the obama administration and secretary of education arnie duncan even though obama slammed bush's no child left behind legislation he's implemented the same broken concept of a standards based education into his race to the top policy look learning is different for every human being and it can't all be about the numbers by basing complete faith in standardized testing to determine the competence of teachers and abilities of children there's a human element there that's completely eliminated from the equation also privatizing public education will just resort and more private corporations diluting the system resulting in corruption and lucian to the most basic service that should be provided to the citizens of this country a

everyone i'm abby martin so joining us songs took center stage last night addressing a meeting of the u.n. general assembly and his speech a song challenge obama to live up to the same words that he had just delivered the night before in front of the entire world when he said those in power have the resist the temptation to crackdown on dissent check it out. that's why i'm so words and there are times when action. the time for words has run out. it is time for the u.s. to cease its persecution over he waits to see if the persecution i will help people and to cease its persecution over all lives sources it is time for. to do the right thing julie the forces. we keep i wonder if president obama's ever heard of the old idiom actions speak louder than words you know it's a good one to live by because a leader is not measured for his rhetoric but rather for his deeds so that's your challenge president obama stop your crusade against julia song it's time to lead by example lead by action. i know europe seems to be in shambles these days in spain thousands of protesters took to madrid's plaz

uprise i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set we've got a packed show for you all today the united nations general assembly underway in new york city we'll talk to phyllis bennis of the institute for policy studies on the escalating tensions between israel and iran and also take a look at what is going on with this global gathering what actual solutions are coming out of it to the current global conflicts so join me on the break a sweat. i want to talk to you now about an american soldier a thirty year old mother who in two thousand and seven moved to canada to avoid being sent back to iraq this woman is kimberly rivera she served three months in iraq and became a conscientious objector to the war after living in canada for years facing deportation back to the united states there were serious lobbying efforts in canada to help her state take a look at this video posted by activist group war resisters canada pleading to the ontario legislature to not deport kimberly. the government of canada is trying to deport kimberly and her family and if they succeed kimberly faces possible impr

everyone i'm abby martin so last night obama came out with a really important message you guys check it out. the message we have to send i think to the muslim world is that. we expect you to work with us to keep our people safe. so what on obama's telling the muslim world that he expects them to start working with the united states to keep our people safe pretty grandiose expectation mr obama it's hard to expect the culture of people that have been brutalized with the military for the past couple of decades to ask hospitable toward colonizing forces and to the muslim world expect anything less than your continuation of robot warfare two weeks ago a u.s. drone strike killed thirteen civilians in yemen but don't worry one of the defense officials said that was one of the very few times when our target was completely missed even though we already know that every military age male that dies in the vicinity of a drone strike just isn't accounted for and just last sunday i u.s. drone strike in afghanistan killed eight women and wounded seven more while they were out collecting firewood but

for tuning in to the brand new show i've been preparing for you guys all month long i'm your host abby martin and this is breaking the set to be smashing through the left right paradigm set in the media and political status in this country to find the middle ground the truth so over the weekend an unmanned u.s. drone in yemen missed a target and killed eighteen i'm sorry thirteen innocent civilians and the yemeni government said it was a mistake but this is one of the very few times the target was completely missed and that they hope it will not disrupt any terror efforts in the region well i think that the dozens of family members' lives destroyed by the bombing of innocent civilians would disagree in fact many in the region have said that while the u.s. considers alleged al qaeda members to be terrorists they consider us drone bombings to be terrorism but hey maybe it's just me but i think that using terror tactics to fight a war on terror will negatively cause more terrorism but maybe that's what the establishment wants since this government needs an enemy to keep this country in perpetual

guys i'm abby martin so last friday a libertarian presidential candidate gary johnson filed an entry trust lawsuit that says that democrat and republican parties are conspiring to keep third party candidates out of the presidential debates they say johnson doesn't have enough influence based on numbers but a recent c.n.n. poll johnson garnered four percent nationally point particularly well and he swing states the same swing states that could determine the election in fact the poll also found that his third party bid combined green party candidate jill stein they're actually gaining major traction with voters so let's just call a spade a spade what our government is doing and has been doing for way too long is holding the people hostage into a rigid two party system that doesn't represent the voice of america a system that marginalizes the voices that we need to hear the most the voices of those that are struggling not the voices that echo the one percent minority and that's why i'm breaking the set. since the recent anti west protests have sparked up across the muslim world the corp

much megan and breaking the set is coming up in thirty minutes on our team let's check in with abby martin to see what's on today's agenda abby meghan what's going on hey not much one of you got cooking for us so we got a lot of stuff today we're going to totally crush the two party dictatorship we've got someone coming on talking about how they can bridge progressivism with libertarianism and totally just go outside of the box of the pre-determined narrative about what we should be doing and what we should be voting for in this political system that we have today also we are completely destroying the narrative of the drug war we have exclusive interview the former president of columbia.

i'm abbie martin and we're going to break the step. to the counseling i'm lauren lyster. while today in new york city ten subway stations will begin running quote anti jihad savage ads these are billboards paid for by a conservative blogger and they say quote in any war between the civilized man and the savage support the civilized man support israel defeat jihad now as you can imagine some strong opinions about this but a federal judge says this is perfectly legal free speech or is one honest aasia church going to take a deeper look at the ads and the controversy they're causing. these ads calling for the defeat of jihad are being put up in tents some way stations in new york miss just cost over more than six thousand dollars that come from a group that's accused of sparking hate by critics but has been given the green light by new york authorities only going up this monday the ads are already causing much debate are they too offensive to the muslim community or does freedom of speech conquer all let's find out what new yorkers have to say about this i'm shocked that tha

you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on or follow me on twitter at abby martin luther breaks my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear how your every move is being data mined. mr. history was made today at the u.n. general assembly when mohamed morsi the first democratically elected egyptian president took the international stage in his forty minute speech he said what will be the foundation for us egypt relations but how complex is that relationship and how contingent is it upon the status of its neighboring arab countries here talk to us about egypt's coming out the question of palestine the prospects for actual peace in syria and joined by clovis maksoud former arab league ambassador to the u.s. and professor at american university thank you so much for coming on here who share your time so the entire world watched as egypt you know how it's revolution came into a democracy we saw mohamed morsi give his first speech as a democratically elected leader of egypt what was your reaction to the speech but i think this is a speech which restores the historic of th

you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin they take a break from my preaching for now it's a turn to hear about obama's war on whistleblowers next. download the official application to himself and choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's now t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device watch r t any time and. won't come to the should really be sure swimming bird you can catch both of the premier maritime aviation show of the summer check out a whole family of russian engineering feats that have let ships truly fly or just go with the flow and take in the view of the bay below but hold on there could be turbulence on board the plane it's only jet powered in p.b.'s plane and the marcellus really pair them up with the world's most colorful jumper and you've got a team bring to douse the flames technology i'm doing here on a launch we've done the future of covering. thank you. well the corporate press didn't make a sound over wiki leaks founder julian assange does a

you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin luther break my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear how your every move is being gay to mind. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images provocative and seeing from the streets of canada after. china operations are offered a. courageous and creative. elegance and filmed both public speaking. facts regarding. a few european bodybuilders against millions we teach immigrants. this may not seem so serious now. but this could be a real threat to more. european extremists. on targeted. consumers of the. history was made today at the u.n. general assembly when mohamed morsi the first democratically elected egyptian president took the international stage in his forty minute speech he said what will be the foundation for us egypt relations but how complex is that relationship and how contingent is it upon the status of its neighboring arab countries here talk to us about egypt's coming now the question of palestine the prospects for actual peace in syria and j

you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin and they take a break from my preaching for now it's a turn to hear about obama's war on whistleblowers next. thank. goodness for. some of the people. while the corporate press didn't make a sound over wiki leaks founder joined us sonders address to the united nations via video link we're still waiting for answers on his case here's a clip from his address to world leaders. in the times the words and there are times for action the time for words has run out it is time for the u.s. to cease its persecution of wiki leaks to see if persecution of our people and to cease its persecution of alledged sources it is time for president obama to do the right thing and join the forces of change not in fine words but in find the. thank you. the song remains in the i could or an embassy in london continues to play for the war on wiki leaks to talk more about his case in julian's address the u.n. i'm joined now by a slight icelandic investigative journalist and spokesperson for the wiki leaks organ

you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin l.a. took a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear about the school of america's next. wealthy british style some expert on the sometimes go. to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports on our. to any ill. or any of. the. let me tell you about a place you may not have heard of if you ever heard of the school of americas or maybe by its more recent name when sec western hemisphere institute for security cooperation if you haven't that's ok it's not exactly the most well known organization but maybe it should be school of america is a us defense this is your shen in fort benning georgia that trains military personnel from across latin america the school's curriculum for its thousands of international graduates allegedly promotes democratic values and respect for human rights graduates that ironically include some of latin america's mos

you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin let's take a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear why you might have buyer's remorse for that brand new i phone five in our brain washed up day. mr. after almost a year of mass protests from students in quebec a new government has decided to cancel a proposed to ration hike quebec cabinet wanted to raise tuition by eighty two over a five year period the student decided that they just wouldn't allow it the first strike was initiated by one student group in february of two thousand and twelve and within just the rio months crowds as large as five hundred thousand are marching and downtown montreal and in response the government decided to invoke emergency legislation which was used to criminalize protesters and quell the scent but regardless of the harsh attempt to stifle the movement the movement prove persevered and join me now to break down their success along with what lessons americans can learn this code spokes person of class a jeremy i'm so sorry i'm going to b

they're a profit driven industry that sells a sensationalistic garbage he calls it breaking news i'm abbie martin and we're going to break the set. six. the early. you earn you a. nuke the a. koan . you. welcome back i don't want to waste any time i want to go straight back to our guest who is talking to us today about libertarianism and austrian economics he is a representative of both he's walter block chair of economics at loyalty university knew or a lens also an author and i want to get straight back to this because you mentioned too big to fail you mentioned bailouts let's talk about g.m. because today there's a story out that just reminded me of how screwed up things are you have g.m. bailed out fifty billion dollars by taxpayers now they're getting sick of being called government motors they're being sick of dealing with not being able to fly in their corporate jets or having behaviorist direction so they want to buy back some of those shares from the government but in doing so it would amount to if they bought back all the shares at this price a fifteen billion dollar loss for taxpayers

you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter and abby martin well you take a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear the good and the bad and we highlight our hero and villain of the day next. like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not just about them it's about me to. me ma'am. do you. need it. now. since this is my film i get the last word this financial crisis will not be turned off like a light sleep. marks the one year anniversary of the occupy wall street movement in new york all day long hundreds of protesters have been taking to the streets of lower manhattan to continue the message of the ninety nine percent. now looking back over the last year one of the most striking aspects of the movement was how little coverage the demonstrations got from the corporate press because of this lack of coverage from the news outlets citizen journalism coverage of the movement flourished thousands of people took to the streets of lower manhattan and countless ci

you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin late take a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear about how to break the set of the two party ideology next. wealthy british sign on the sun. it's not time to. go. to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports on our. they such. the political establishment this country is very unique in the world american democracy has through the years been dominated by a two party system republicans and democrats and winner take all approach of governance now is they have november elections draw near and many americans once again have to be faced with picking a candidate from the same two party establishment but i didn't have to be that way but if americans really had a fair choice the ability to pick a presidential candidate that spoke specifically to their principles and beliefs well it's exactly what i want to talk to you about today the choice

you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on or follow me on twitter at abby martin luther breaks my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear how our candidates for us president might not be so different after all. mr. with world leaders gathering in new york city at the united nations general assembly the question remains how much of this ruling will have an actual impact on the problems facing our planet to talk a little more about what's happened so far and what we might expect in the coming days i'm joined now by our correspondent on associate churkin up and. having so you've been watching the u.n. meeting since the beginning what what kind of things are they talking about so far well you know al be the most important thing about the u.n. is really the amid the thousands of well hundreds of photo ops and dozens of meetings and over one hundred ninety speeches given what's important is to really kind of see through what's important and what's really done for decorations and really being put on by world leaders for the media to see and so far today is only just day

you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin l.a. take a break my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear about the school of america's next. thanks. let me tell you about a place you may not have heard of if you ever heard of the school of americas or maybe by its more recent name when sec western hemisphere institute for security cooperation if you haven't that's ok it's not exactly the most well known organization but maybe it should be school of america is a u.s. defense this is your show and fort benning georgia that trains military personnel from across latin america the school's curriculum for its thousands of international graduates allegedly promotes democratic values and respect for human rights graduates that ironically include some of latin america's most notorious human rights violators well since one thousand nine hundred nonprofit organization called school of america's watch has been working to monitor and maintain a database of graduates who have been responsible for human rights violations last april a group o

well breaking the sat is coming up in thirty minutes here on our tail let's check in with abby martin to see what is on today's agenda abbi well we look forward to what's going on loosely you were just talking about the occupy wall street protests that pepper spray cop is finally getting you know a friendly getting some compensation for that but you're the mainstream media was painting the occupy wall street protests here not very good no not at all exactly they were saying you know they were animals smashing stuff breaking stuff dirty hippies what's going on in spain in greece right now is totally insane the way the me is painting them come to the difference so we're going to talk about that we're talking about the ever expanding surveillance state facial recognition data mining tracking trap wire how it all affects you and i and everyone else that just uses social media online and most importantly was this week marks the eleventh anniversary of the anthrax attacks and we are billowing this case wide open i mean it's the most botched case in recent history. totally blowing it open st

wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on the air follow me on twitter at abby martin and i take a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear the recently uncovered forensic evidence suggesting something much darker happened at kent state back in one thousand seventy. wealthy british scientists it's time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports . download the official publication so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch on t.v. any time. well i'm going to her science technology innovation all the rest of elements from around russia we've got the huge earth covered. me eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat food. little eat. six. pub. let me turn your attention to a dark spot and u.s. history books on may fourth one thousand nine hundred seventy ohio natural national guardsman shot and murdered four college stud

you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on air follow me on twitter at abby martin late take a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear about how to break the set of the two party ideology next. here's mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call i don't know. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about what you sir are you know what that is my other terror cells that i don't want to listen to feature is on the on the liberal democrats. can secure the support of the good of the supercommittee distracts us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells a sensationalistic garbage he calls it breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break this that. some of the people. the political establishment this country is very unique in the world american democracy has through the years been dominated by a two party system republicans and democrats and winner take all approach of governance and as the of november elections draw near many americans once again have to be fa