Tag: Media Disinformation

Categories Russia

‘Smeared, shut out & shadow-banned’: the inside story of how RT was branded a ‘foreign agent’ by free press-loving US officials

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When RT was forced to register as a ‘foreign agent’ by American authorities four years ago, it sparked a chain of events that saw the network banned from press events, cut off from potential partners and delisted on social media. … Read More >‘Smeared, shut out & shadow-banned’: the inside story of how RT was branded a ‘foreign agent’ by free press-loving US officials

Categories World

Roman Protasevich’s dramatic arrest by Belarus has caused outrage. But why is Western media failing to report his neo-Nazi links?

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Should the murky past of an activist standing up against a dictatorial government be ignored for the sake of winning a PR war? Some believe so, but the case of Roman Protasevich shows the risky consequences of ignoring the truth. … Read More >Roman Protasevich’s dramatic arrest by Belarus has caused outrage. But why is Western media failing to report his neo-Nazi links?

Categories Shows

Lab leak: can intelligence be trusted?

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Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos reveal the intelligence community’s latest claims about the origins of Covid-19, and question whether the masses can trust the intelligence, following decades of lies. They also discuss the US Justice Department’s surveillance of journalists. Plus, science writer Nicholas Wade breaks down the lab-leak theory. … Read More >Lab leak: can intelligence be trusted?

Categories World

Academic exposes how right-wing institutions use Facebook & Twitter to emulate Nazi propaganda machinery and sell war to the West

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Fake news is facilitating the destructive power of Western imperialism, according to a new book, ‘What Is Iran?’ In an exclusive interview with RT, author Arshin Adib-Moghaddam explains how the process works in practice. … Read More >Academic exposes how right-wing institutions use Facebook & Twitter to emulate Nazi propaganda machinery and sell war to the West

Categories Journalism & Mass media

US-funded Belarusian regime-change activist arrested on plane joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine

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Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, fought in Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the US government’s media apparatus. … Read More >US-funded Belarusian regime-change activist arrested on plane joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine

Categories Russia

By trying to link Russia & Nord Stream 2 to Belarus’ grounding of plane, Western talking heads have failed to understand crisis

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If something bad happens in Europe, there’s usually only one culprit – so goes the logic of Western hacks and pundits, at least. But in Belarus, which sparked recent outrage, Moscow may end up being the solution, not the problem. … Read More >By trying to link Russia & Nord Stream 2 to Belarus’ grounding of plane, Western talking heads have failed to understand crisis

Categories World

Belarus’ grounding of a passenger jet is shocking – but it’s not unprecedented, and the West should remember it has done the same

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Belarus has caused alarm and outrage across Europe this week by forcing a jet to land and detaining two of its passengers. What the West does next will matter but, at the moment, it looks likely its response will be the wrong one. … Read More >Belarus’ grounding of a passenger jet is shocking – but it’s not unprecedented, and the West should remember it has done the same

Categories Asia & Pacific

China furious as new report suggests Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care weeks before Covid-19 outbreak was disclosed

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Researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became so ill in November 2019 that they required hospital treatment, the Wall Street Journal has reported as the international community continues to probe Covid-19’s origins. … Read More >China furious as new report suggests Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care weeks before Covid-19 outbreak was disclosed