(ANTIWAR.COM) — The latest in a series of moves which seems destined to worsen US-Russian relations, the Justice Department has ordered Russia’s RT television news network to register itself as a “foreign agent,” forcing it to make broad disclosures on contacts within the United States.
China’s CGTV has hosted a media forum to coincide with the BRICS summit which formally opens on the 3rd of September.
As part of the forum, CGTV invited leading broadcasters from fellow BRICS nations including Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa.
The Duran’s Peter Lavelle represented RT where he offered insights on global developments in politics, the economy and media from a Russian perspective.
Now watch the full discussion below.
A row has erupted between the French based group Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières–RSF) and RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.
The incident began when RSF referred to individuals at RT as “enemies of journalism”. Simonyan fired back saying that the group should ‘self-dissolve’.
READ MORE: RT Chief slams Reporters Without Borders–says organisation should “self-dissolve”
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is discrediting the work of advocacy groups by calling the RT broadcaster “an enemy of journalism,” RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said Monday calling on the organization to “quietly self-dissolve.”
RT has interviewed families who have escaped the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria where civilians stated that the US and its allies directly and seemingly deliberately targeted known civilian areas.
According to a former resident of Raqqa,
The New York Times unveiled a new slogan earlier this year titled, “The truth is more important now than ever.” It has acquired a seemingly noble motto but a perhaps contentious one if we examine the Times’ recent history. Two international law specialists, Howard Friel and Richard Falk, published a book after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq called The Record of the Paper, which naturally has scarcely been reviewed.
RT America has conducted an exclusive interview with Roger Waters, the veteran anti-war musician and poet who is best known for writing the majority of music and lyrics of his band Pink Floyd.
While albums like Dark Side of The Moon and The Wall sold millions around the world, thus spreading Roger Waters’ message of peace and humanity, today’s western mainstream media have censored Waters, much like how Apartheid South Africa censored the hit-song Another Brick In The Wall Part II in the 1980s.
Originally appeared at RussiaFeed.com
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov released a video about Russian children whose parents smuggled them from the country, joined the Islamic State (IS, outlawed in Russia) terrorist group and then gave them up after the liberation of the IS-occupied Mosul.
Originally appeared at RussiaFeed.com
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A video of a Russian military Tu-154 jet carrying out an authorized observation flight over Washington, DC, was released by the RT broadcaster on Thursday.
