While many in power recklessly escalate tensions with Russia, there’s very little discussion of the geopolitical significance of this aggression and the dangerous consequences people could suffer as a result. The establishment’s anti-Russian sentiment goes beyond allegations of election hacking, with leading US intelligence officials labeling Russia as the number-one existential threat to the United States. One of the foremost … Read More
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Chris Hedges’ On Contact: What the DNI Report About Russia Really Reveals
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The release of the report, submitted by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, that offered details to support U.S. officials’ claims that Russian interference had tainted the recent American presidential election was treated by many news sources as a major development and further justification for treating the Kremlin, not to mention the incoming Donald Trump administration, with suspicion.Several … Read More
Abby Martin Attacks DNI Report, Defends RT
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The long awaited intelligence report on Russian ‘interference’ in the 2016 presidential election contains a lengthy and detailed attack on RT’s programming as evidence of a Kremlin plot to subvert U.S. democracy. The DNI report specifically cited Breaking the Set, a popular RT America show hosted by Abby Martin, as promoting “radical discontent.” Martin gives an impassioned response to former BTS producer, … Read More
US Government Blames Russia Today for Trump’s Win
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After finding out the news that Breaking the Set, Abby’s former RT show, was named in the DNI intelligence report for fomenting ‘radical discontent’ as part of the Kremlin’s plot to subvert US democracy, Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the insanity of the report and the desperate measures on behalf of the establishment to build its case against Russia on Media … Read More
Abby Martin Responds to Exploitation by NY Times
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Abby Martin issued the following response to the Jan. 7 New York Times article falsely representing her work at RT America. The long-awaited report by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), allegedly proving Russian “interference” in the US election, includes a section solely dedicated to bashing RT, and specifically calls out my former show Breaking the Set, which ended two years … Read More