Russia Today reported Thursday, June 7, that an as yet unidentified driver drove a car into the gates of the US Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, screaming “help me!”, in an action that may have been an attempt to gain asylum in the US.
In the age of globalization during the last quarter of the 20thcentury, the English language achieved global hegemony as the “lingua franca” for international communication. It is no small coincidence that during this same time, after the end of the Cold War, the US rose as the sole and dominant superpower with stated aims to achieve global hegemony. Just as English was the language of the British Empire, so English retained its imperial role when the US Empire succeeded that of the British.
BSN co-editor Mike Raddie discusses funding of the White Helmets and how British citizens could be on the wrong side of anti terrorism legislation by paying taxes which the UK government is providing to this terrorist group in Syria.
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The FBI just released the incredible results of its investigation into the death of the founder of Russia Today, a US-based media service that has a reputation of ignoring political corruption in Russia but accurately reporting political corruption in the US. The FBI says that Mikhail Lesin killed himself by repeatedly smashing his head and upper body onto the floor while he was alone and intoxicated in his Washington DC hotel room. [...]
In what critics called a “dangerous precedent” and identified as an obvious move to deflect the still serious concerns about allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to influence the 2016 U.S.
All but admitting that Google is engaged in censorship, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced that Google will create algorithms designed to “de-rank” web sites such as RT and Sputnik on its news delivery services. In a question and answer session at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada over the weekend, Schmidt laid out Google’s[Read More...]
Opinion — Since the year 2000, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the US Congress has produced reports on the nature of China-US relations, including on matters related to trade and security.
This year, the Commission has named Chinese news agency and broadcaster Xinhua as an “intelligence gathering organization” in spite of producing no evidence to suggest that Xinhua is anything other than a news media outlet.
Max Blumenthal, is a frequent guest on RT, says there is a double standard being applied: the Israel lobby, and organizations like AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee), promote war in Gaza, war in Lebanon and war in Iran, but are not required to register as a foreign agent. He says RT was targeted as it delivers news and views that are contrary to those aligned with the Pentagon and mainstream media. [...]
Russia’s lower house of parliament is advancing a measure which will allow the government to take moves to label certain US media outlets as “foreign agents” under law, forcing them to disclose substantial information about their operation within the country.
Details are still scant, but the move is described as being meant to take similar measures as those by the US Justice Department, who has ordered Russia’s RT to register as a foreign agent. Russia has threatened retaliation before over the move against RT.
