On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin remarks on the news that two US fighter pilots dropped inert bombs over a nationally protected area of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Abby then reports on the news of Detroit filing for bankruptcy, citing the city's nearly $20 Billion of debt, and talks to Professor Emeritus of Economics, at University of Massachusetts Richard Wolff, and co-host of RT's Prime Interest, Bob English, about what recourse is left for Detroit to rise above its latest fiscal quandary. Abby then talks to Matt Southworth, legislative associate with the Friends Committee on National Legislation about heightened tensions between the US and Afghanistan, and how what special interests are at play that will keep US forces in Afghanistan past the established deadline of withdrawal in 2014. BTS wraps up the show with a tribute to the late Helen Thomas, looking back at some of the highpoints of her career and her important role as a female journalist who was never shy to hold powerful people accountable.
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