On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin remarks on voting day in Virginia and New Jersey, highlighting important ballot initiatives such as a marijuana legalization and GMO labeling, and calls out the corporate influence of elections that undermines the democratic process. Abby then comments on the LAX shooting that claimed the life of one TSA officer, and calls attention to the agency's request for more armed guards at airport checkpoints. Abby then speaks with James Corbett, independent journalist and host of The Corbett Report, about the decades long clandestine NATO operation called 'Gladio', that fostered terror in the post-Cold War era, discussing evidence that suggests the program continues to this day. Abby then speaks with Deepa Kumar about the halting of the overhaul of the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk program by a District Court and the continuing surveillance by New York police on Muslim communities well outside New York City's jurisdiction. BTS wraps up the show with coverage of the Million Mask March and a discussion about what Guy Fawkes Day signifies for the modern world.
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