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From inside history's biggest empire, host Abby Martin records a world shaped by war & inequality, and explores the U.S. Empire, its rise to world hegemony and its impact on people and the planet.

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    The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 2 - 9/11 and the Belligerent Empire
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    #1 - 9/11 and the Belligerent Empire

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    Abby Martin examines the two major wars launched under the "Global War on Terror"--their historical development and their aftermath. Featuring former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, this episode digs into the tragedy of a region shaped by Empire.

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  2. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 1 - The Rise of History's Biggest Empire
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    #2 - The Rise of History's Biggest Empire

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    Abby Martin debuts The Empire Files, exploring the U.S. Empire, its rise to world hegemony and its impact on people and the planet.

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  3. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 3 - Tortured & Enslaved: Enter the World's Biggest Prison
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    #3 - Tortured & Enslaved: Enter the World's Biggest Prison

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    The Empire holds by far the most prisoners than any other country on earth, in both absolute numbers and per capita. Abby Martin explores the dark reality of America's prisons: their conditions, who is warehoused in them, and the roots of mass incarceration.

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  4. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 4 - War, Propaganda & the Enemy Within
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    #4 - War, Propaganda & the Enemy Within

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    Abby Martin interviews Chris Hedges on American myths, war and revolt. Hedges explains the 'folly of Empire,' the dangers posed by right-wing extremism and the urgent need for a new system.

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  5. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 5 - Butchery, Slavery & History of Revolt
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    #5 - Butchery, Slavery & History of Revolt

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    Meet the new head of the United Nations panel on Human Rights: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Abby Martin takes us inside the brutal reality of this police-state monarchy, and tells the untold people's history of resistance to it. With a major, catastrophic war in Yemen and looming high-profile executions of activists, The Empire Files exposes true nature of the U.S.-Saudi love affair.

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  6. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 6 - America's Unofficial Religion: The War on an Idea
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    #6 - America's Unofficial Religion: The War on an Idea

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    The Empire has a range of weapons to maintain its power: from its courts to its military. But it also has effective ideological weapons.

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  7. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 7 - The Empire's Election Extravaganza
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    #7 - The Empire's Election Extravaganza

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    Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky. Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary "extravaganza," the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, modern-day libertarianism and the reality of "democracy" under capitalism.

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  8. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 8 - The Censored Reality of the Refugee Crisis
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    #8 - The Censored Reality of the Refugee Crisis

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    Today 60 million human beings are displaced from war and extreme poverty. Many European countries are responding to the crisis with racist hysteria, polices and police state measures.

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  9. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 9 - The Distortion & Death Behind Israel/Palestine Coverage
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    #9 - The Distortion & Death Behind Israel/Palestine Coverage

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    A crisis in Palestine is again all over the headlines. From stabbings and molotov cocktails, to killing of protesters and anti-Arab lynch mobs--how much of the mass media coverage can we really trust? Abby Martin takes a look at how the so-called "Israel-Palestine conflict" has been covered by the mainstream press during the last crisis in the region, and the variety of tactics employed by the state of Israel to control the narrative: from its Hasbara propaganda machine, to outright killing of journalists.

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  10. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 10 - Palestine's Rebellion, Israel's Fascism
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    #10 - Palestine's Rebellion, Israel's Fascism

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    Abby Martin interviews journalist and author Max Blumenthal on the current situation in Palestine and the Israeli occupation. This episode covers what is behind today's rebellion, the rising dominance of far-right, ultra-racist ideology in Israel, eye-witness accounts of the aftermath of the Gaza war, and the Israeli government's fear of Palestinian resistance.

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  11. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 11 - Thanksgiving to 'Redskins' - Dispelling American Myths That Hide Native Genocide
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    #11 - Thanksgiving to 'Redskins' - Dispelling American Myths That Hide Native Genocide

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    Each November, Americans celebrate a mythical version of U.S. history. Thanksgiving Day's portrayal of the experience of Native Americans under the boot of settler-colonialism is one of the Empire's most cherished falsehoods.

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  12. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 12 - The US School That Trains Dictators & Death Squads
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    #12 - The US School That Trains Dictators & Death Squads

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    On November 22, thousands gathered at the gates of Fort Benning, GA at the 25th annual protest of the School of the Americas to memorialize the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives at the hands of the U.S. Empire’s brutally repressive juntas it used to rule Latin America by force. The dictators and death squad leaders, who committed acts of genocide, were trained within the gates of Fort Benning, at the School of the Americas – otherwise known as the “School of Assassins.”

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  13. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 13 - Bush Military Official: The Empire's Ship is Sinking
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    #13 - Bush Military Official: The Empire's Ship is Sinking

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    Abby Martin interviews retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations. Today, he is honest about the unfixable corruption inside the establishment and the corporate interests driving foreign policy.

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  14. The Empire Files Season 1 Episode 14 - Rigged Corporate Elections and Clinton Criminals
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    #14 - Rigged Corporate Elections and Clinton Criminals

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    Abby Martin interviews American political figure Ralph Nader about the 2016 presidential race—from the “Brown Shirt” Trump movement to “corporate criminal” Hillary Clinton—and the reality of who has power in America.

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  15. The Empire Files Season 2 Episode 1 - The Most Dangerous Year for Muslims in America
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    #15 - The Most Dangerous Year for Muslims in America

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    2015 wrapped up as the most dangerous year for Muslims in America, setting records for hate crimes against them. There have been dozens of attacks on mosques, including firebombings, and physical assaults like stabbings, shootings and beatings against Muslims--and perceived Muslims--grew to the highest numbers ever recorded.

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  16. The Empire Files Season 2 Episode 2 - The Tyranny of Big Oil
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    #16 - The Tyranny of Big Oil

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    All life on Earth is threatened by catastrophic climate change--the main culprit is so powerful that the U.S. government is setup to serve it, rather than regulate it. The oil industry is a powerhouse with control over land, resources, politics and more. In this episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin uncovers big oil's strong-arm reach--its growth, its crimes, its power and its impunity.

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  17. The Empire Files Season 2 Episode 3 - Unraveling the Syria War Chessboard
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    #17 - Unraveling the Syria War Chessboard

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    The war in Syria is an unparalleled crisis. Having gone far beyond an internal political struggle, the war is marked by a complex array of forces that the U.S. Empire hopes to command: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kurdistan, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and more.

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  18. The Empire Files Season 2 Episode 4 - The Empire's Border Part I: A Policy of Death
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    #18 - The Empire's Border Part I: A Policy of Death

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    Along the southern border of the United States is a graveyard, where hundreds upon hundreds of human remains are waiting to be found in the sand. They are teenagers, mothers and spouses walking the only path available to them—away from poverty and violence: towards their families, the only place safer and easier to eat. In Part 1 of this two-part series, Abby Martin reveals a catastrophe at the Empire's gates; not only a shockingly high body count, but a humanitarian crisis manufactured by the U.S. government. Sinister tactics, a for-profit prison pipeline, and a court system that looks more like a slave auction than a trial await those who survive. Join The Empire Files on-location to learn how Border Patrol has turned land into a weapon, to take the lives of our most vulnerable neighbors.

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  19. The Empire Files Season 2 Episode 5 - The Empire's Border Part II: A Hidden War
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    #19 - The Empire's Border Part II: A Hidden War

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    In the second installment of this two-part episode, Abby Martin continues her investigation of the hidden war on the U.S.-Mexico border, looking at the root causes of the epidemic of migrant deaths. The Empire Files documents an inflated, paramilitary Border Patrol, the devastating impacts of NAFTA, how the U.S. Empire benefits from immigrant labor and what can change the equation.

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  20. The Empire Files Season 2 Episode 6 - The Black Radical Tradition
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    #20 - The Black Radical Tradition

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    During Black History Month, as the U.S. pays homage to African Americans who have changed the course of history, the establishment shows us a revised version that omits a critical piece: the Black radical political tradition.

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  21. The Empire Files Season 2 Episode 7 - The MOVE Bombing: When Police Plotted to Exterminate a Family
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    #21 - The MOVE Bombing: When Police Plotted to Exterminate a Family

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    On May 13, 1985, one of the most shameful, horrific attacks by U.S. police ever took place in West Philadelphia. 11 people—including five children—were killed in a deliberate massacre. A racist and political attack on a radical community group known as the MOVE Organization, city and police officials were revealed to have intentionally set their home ablaze, let the fire rage, and violently kept escaping men, women and children trapped inside.

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  22. The Empire Files Season 2 Episode 8 - How Capitalism is Killing Itself
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    #22 - How Capitalism is Killing Itself

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    Despite a concerted effort by the U.S. Empire to snuff out the ideology, a 2016 poll found young Americans have a much more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. Though he died 133 years ago, the analysis put forward by one of the world’s most influential thinkers, Karl Marx, remains extremely relevant today. The Empire’s recent rigged presidential election has been disrupted by the support of an avowed socialist, Bernie Sanders, by millions of voters.

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  23. The Empire Files Season 2 Episode 9 - Symptoms of a Sick Society
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    #23 - Symptoms of a Sick Society

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    The Green Party, running Dr. Jill Stein for President—on a platform more progressive than Bernie Sanders—has been totally ignored by the establishment. Abby Martin sits down with Dr. Stein to look at how her career in medicine helped her diagnose America's "multi-organ failure," and why her ideas pose such a threat to Empire.

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  24. The Empire Files Season 2 Episode 10 - Empires Feed on Congo's Treasure
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    #24 - Empires Feed on Congo's Treasure

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    For five centuries, the continent of Africa has been ravaged by the world's Empires for its vast untapped treasure. Today, the U.S. Empire is increasing its military role through their massive command network, AFRICOM, carrying out several missions a day. Abby Martin is joined by Kambale Musavuli, spokesperson for Friends of the Congo, to look at Empire's role in their history and current catastrophe.

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  25. The Empire Files Season 2 Episode 11 - What Hillary Clinton Really Represents
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    #25 - What Hillary Clinton Really Represents

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    Digging deep into Hillary's connections to Wall Street, Abby Martin reveals how the Clinton's multi-million-dollar political machine operates. This episode chronicles the Clinton's rise to power in the 90s on a right-wing agenda, the Clinton Foundation's revolving door with Gulf state monarchies, corporations and the world's biggest financial institutions, and the establishment of the hyper-aggressive "Hillary Doctrine" while Secretary of State. Learn the essential facts about the great danger she poses, and why she's the US Empire's choice for its next CEO.

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Best Episodes Summary

"9/11 and the Belligerent Empire" is the best rated episode of "The Empire Files". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/11/2015. This episode scored 10.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Rise of History's Biggest Empire".