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Posted by Joshua Scheer
We did an amazing podcast with the incomparable journalist Abby Martin, but this clip started playing through my phone speakers and it was pretty brilliant and on point, as to be expected. It’s from the Turbulence Podcast, where Abby is the guest, and she lays out the crisis of the U.S. left with her usual clarity and force.
Martin dismantles one of the most enduring illusions in U.S. politics: that the Democratic Party represents a meaningful left opposition. She argues that the party has mastered the art of absorbing, neutralizing, and commodifying social movements—turning genuine grassroots energy into marketable identity politics while leaving the machinery of empire untouched.
Martin draws a sharp line between the rhetoric of progressive leaders and the reality of their foreign‑policy positions, noting how even figures celebrated as “the left of the left” refuse to break with Washington’s bipartisan consensus on Venezuela, Cuba, Ukraine, and U.S. militarism more broadly. While anti‑imperialism is a foundational pillar of left movements across much of the world, she says, the American political class remains decades behind—and young people are the ones forcing that shift.
What emerges is a call to abandon hero worship and electoral saviors altogether. Real power, Martin insists, lies in organizing where we live: confronting the corporations, weapons manufacturers, data centers, and local nodes of empire embedded in our own communities. If the U.S. left is ever going to catch up to its global counterparts, it will be because ordinary people reclaimed their agency from a political system designed to keep them passive.
I wanted to share this here, and as a reminder: we’ll have Abby Martin on Scheer Intelligence tomorrow with Bob to discuss her latest film, The Earth’s Greatest Enemy — a documentary exposé on the world’s largest and least accountable polluter: the U.S. military.
The film confronts the staggering environmental cost of maintaining a global military empire and asks what it means when the most powerful institution on Earth is also the most destructive. Abby breaks down the scale of the damage, the secrecy surrounding it, and why confronting militarism is essential to any honest climate movement.
For those who haven’t seen it yet, here’s the official site and trailer.
Earths Greatest Enemy
They are going around showing it across the country right now on the DIRECTORS TOUR — 2026. Were you can experience the screening, meet the team, and help build momentum for a global Earth Day release.
You can find the ticket info on their page here are the remaining dates so far
Austin — Night 1, Feb 24; Austin — Night 2, Feb 25; New Orleans, Feb 26; Hilo, Feb 27; Atlanta, Feb 28; Honolulu, Feb 28; Melbourne, FL, Mar 8; Richmond, Mar 10; Norfolk, Mar 11; London, Mar 17; Paris, Mar 20; Brussels, Mar 22; Glasgow, Mar 24; Belfast, Mar 25; Long Beach, Apr 15; Portland, Apr 18; Chicago, Apr 22; San Francisco, Apr 23.
You can help them get the film screened in your city for Earth Day and beyond — Click Here.
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