Abigail Suzanne Martin (born September 6, 1984) is an American journalist, television presenter, and activist. She helped found the citizen journalism website Media Roots and serves on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored. Martin appeared in the documentary film Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News (2013), and co-directed 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013).
She hosted Breaking the Set on the Russian state-funded network RT America from 2012 to 2015 and gained attention for condemning the Russian annexation of Crimea on-air, and then launched The Empire Files in that same year as an investigative documentary and interview series on Telesur, later released as a web series. In 2019, she released the film documentary The Empire Files: Gaza Fights for Freedom.
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Date: 06 September 1984
AP
The sale of U.S. News & World Report was postponed for several days because of a ''minor glitch,'' a company spokesman said. Lawyers for the magazine and its prospective buyer, Boston real estate developer Mortimer Zuckerman, discovered that additional papers needed to be filed in certain states, the spokesman said.
Date: 06 September 1984
By Michael Oreskes
Michael Oreskes
Governor Cuomo's counselor and chief spokesman, Timothy J. Russert, resigned yesterday to become a vice president and assistant to the president of NBC News. Mr. Cuomo announced that he was naming Martin J. Steadman, a former reporter and Albany lobbyist, to succed him. At a news conference in Albany, Mr. Cuomo noted a difference between Mr. Russert's background and Mr. Steadman's. When Mr. Russert went to Albany in January 1983, the Governor said, he had strong contacts with the national press corps and politicians in Washington, having worked there six years for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York. ''Tim came in with a national base,'' Mr. Cuomo said. ''He has helped me reach people and places I could not have reached on my own.''
Date: 07 September 1984
Texaco Refinery Plans 1,400 Layoffs PORT ARTHUR, Tex., Sept. 6 (AP) - Texaco U.S.A. said today that falling demand for gasoline had prompted 1,400 layoffs at its oil refinery here, but a union official said workers might offer to take wage cuts to keep some colleagues on the job. Texaco officials said that 1,400 of the 3,000 jobs at the company's Port Arthur plant would be eliminated by January and that two of the plant's four crude-oil distillation units would be shut. Texaco U.S.A. is a subsidiary of Texaco Inc., which is based in White Plains.
Date: 07 September 1984
AP
A Federal judge declined a request by retired employees to block the $176.3 million sale of U.S. News & World Report to Mortimer B. Zuckerman, a Boston real estate developer.
Date: 06 September 1984
Martin Brian Mulroney, who emerged Tuesday as this country's next Prime Minister, has been called ''the Canadian version of Ronald Reagan.'' The characterization came from Sinclair Stevens, the foreign affairs spokesman for Mr. Mulroney's Progressive Conservative Party, whose right-wing elements helped elect Mr. Mulroney party leader in June 1983. But Mr. Mulroney won the election on a promise to maintain or strengthen Canada's extensive web of popular social services, which are considerably more extensive than those in the United States. Yet despite Mr. Mulroney's margin of victory over John N. Turner - the second shortest-serving Prime Minister - Canadians remain uncertain where their new leader wants to lead them.
Date: 06 September 1984
By John Noble Wilford, Special To the New York Times
John Wilford
The space shuttle Discovery returned from its successful six-day maiden flight today, swooping out of the clear blue desert sky, turning before the hills as the sun was rising, and gliding to a smooth landing here on a dry lakebed runway. Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration used words like ''pleased'' and ''proud,'' ''delighted'' and ''ecstatic'' in describing the performance of the six-member crew and their spaceship. All the mission's objectives, they said, were accomplished. Indeed, the successful flight came at a key time for NASA, a time when the space agency is planning to accelerate the shuttle program. One mission a month is to be undertaken in the next 15 months. And the flight followed a series of recent disruptive malfunctions and delays in the program.
Date: 06 September 1984
By Serge Schmemann
Serge Schmemann
Konstantin U. Chernenko appeared on television today for the first time in more than seven weeks to hand awards to three astronauts, calming a spate of rumors that he has been ailing. The Soviet leader, who is 72, looked tanned and somewhat thinner than in his last television appearancebefore he left on vacation July 15. In today's televised Kremlin ceremony, he read a four-minute speech with no more difficulty than he has demonstrated in the past, and he seemed to give the astronauts, including Svetlana Savitskaya, the first woman to walk in space, a hearty handshake. Mr. Chernenko's appearance was scrutinized closely by foreigners and Russians because of rumors that he had returned to Moscow prematurely from vacation in early August for medical treatment.
Date: 06 September 1984
Secretary of State George P. Shultz told an aide to King Hassan II of Morocco today that the United States was concerned about the treaty of union between Morocco and Libya and wanted assurances that American goods and military supplies would not find their way to Libya, State Department officials said. John Hughes, the department spokesman, said that Mr. Shultz and the Moroccan, Reda Guedira, had ''a good exchange of views.'' He said that the United States was analyzing the ''implications of what has been done.''
Date: 06 September 1984
By Bernard Gwertzman , Special To the New York Times
Bernard Gwertzman
The Reagan Administration said today that it had decided to back ratification of a 36- year-old United Nations convention against genocide. With the Senate in session for only three more weeks, officials acknowledged that the chances for early approval were slim, making the announcement largely symbolic. The officials said that, if President Reagan were re-elected in November, he would press for approval in the next Congress. The convention was adopted in 1948 in response to the killing of six million Jews by the German Nazis. It defines genocide as the commission of certain acts ''with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group'' and obliges countries that are parties to it to prevent and punish genocide.
Date: 06 September 1984
Iraq has informed the West German Government that it is considering a request that Bonn be allowed to inspect the site of a chemical laboratory being built near Baghdad, a a Government official said today. But Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz of Iraq, who ended a two-day visit to Bonn today, said details and the date of such a visit had not yet been agreed upon, according to the German official.