Finian Cunningham
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Google is the latest US internet company to claim it found “Russia-linked” advertisements on its network – allegedly posted to influence the US presidential election last year.
The New York Times recently released a heavily promoted (by the New York Times itself) piece which amounts to an emotional attack on the news outlets RT and Sputnik.
Russia Feed recently explained that on pure journalistic terms, the New York Times (NYT) piece amount to little more than a very long winded way of the the NYT saying ‘RT and Sputnik have a different editorial line to us and a more successful, more modern business model and therefore, they are wicked, rather than just a different kind of news source with a different editorial line’.
As the ‘Russiagate’ narrative continues to flounder and consequently fall off the radar of American mainstream media, the FBI recently announced a probe into the multi-lingual Russian news organizations RT and Sputnik.
Sputnik and RT are just some of the many foreign-owned media networks which operate offices in the United States, but unlike the BBC (UK state-owned), Al Jazeera (Qatari state-owned), Al Arabiya (Saudi state-owned) or the CBC (Canada state-owned), only RT and Sputnik have been threatened by the FBI.
As the ‘Russiagate’ narrative continues to flounder and consequently fall off the radar of American mainstream media, the FBI recently announced a probe into the multi-lingual Russian news organisations RT and Sputnik.
Sputnik and RT are just some of the many foreign owned media networks which operate offices in the United States, but unlike the BBC(UK state-owned), Al Jazeera (Qatari state-owned), Al Arabiya (Saudi state-owned) or the CBC (Canada state owned), only RT and Sputnik have been threatened by the FBI.
Dear friends, Here below is the original Q&A of the interview I had with Sputnik on Monday. To read the full Sputnik articles please see here: https://sputniknews.com/politics/201708021056124153-syria-us-kurds-inde… https://sputniknews.com/politics/201708031056154407-us-syria-government/ Sputnik: What
The Russian government has according to Sputnik issued a public warning against any thought by the Western powers – notably the US – sending weapons to Ukraine.
The suggestion that weapons might be sent to Ukraine has been repeatedly floated in the US, where it was part of the Republican Party platform in last year’s election until Donald Trump famously removed it.
In a tirade against Russia based news outlets RT and Sputnik, Donald Trump’s CIA Director Mike Pompeo blasted Russia for interfering not only in the 2016 US Presidential election but “the one before that and the one before that”. This would imply that Russia helped install Barack Obama in the White House even after his severely anti-Russian foreign policy became well known.
These statements are blasted by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the following way,
Child of extremist fighters in Al Waer, Homs being evacuated peacefully under Syrian government Amnesty & Reconciliation agreement. Many of these families have since returned to Homs from Jarablus because they couldnt live under extremist rule in Idlib/Turkey. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley)
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