Congo's Resource Curse & US Backed Atrocities

Media Roots Radio is joined by Kambale Musavuli, Spokesperson for Friends of the Congo, to talk about how Congo's resource curse feeds the military industrial complex and why anti-drone activists need to organize with the Congolese to disrupt cobalt extraction. Donate to Media Roots by going to the Mediaroots.org homepage and clicking the donate link on the top right. Please put 'podcast' or 'media roots radio' in the comment section/body of the donation if you would like to allocate the donation specifically to that. Follow Abby @abbymartin & @kambale. http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/

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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. Listen to all previous episodes on soundcloud, itunes, spotify and stitcher. All $5 and up patrons get an exclusive bonus episode every month!