RT America is the American arm of the state owned Russia Today news outlet. It operates just like the BBC (a state run news outlet), Germany’s Deutsche Welle (stated goal to convey Germany as a liberal state, as part of the government’s foreign affairs function), and many others.
A strong argument can be made that as important as it is for countries to share what they think is important about them, it’s even more important for America to learn what foreign countries to think is important. Heck America must have thought it was important seeing as the CIA has been funding and operating 20 monitoring stations around the world to monitor, translate and disseminate openly available news and information from media sources outside the United States. It used to be called the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) and now it’s called the Open Source Center.
Now our government has decided that this information is only for them and not for us. Our government has decided that RT needs to register as a foreign agent that is disseminating propaganda in the United States/ I’m sure this will end well. The repercussions from Russia will surely include similar sanctions against American news outlets like Fox, CNN, ABC, etc.
Does anyone really think this is good for Americans? It certainly is good for the Neos and the deep state. Knowledge is good. Restricting knowledge is never a good thing.
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I’ve been one of the few bloggers out there that has been covering the Catalonia issues. As is usually the case, this is much bigger than merely Spain and its citizens. This has the potential to destroy the EU, and the deep state is scared to its core.…
The move by many in the world to get away from the US Dollar standard continues. Unlike the US and it’s financing arm, the IMF, the Chinese usually demand extra collateral from loans and investments.
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International relations and geo political crisis usually have ramifications that go well beyond what we’re shown or lead to believe. The “crisis” with North Korea has preoccupied the media for years now. In the past few months, it’s threatened relations between the US, China, Russia and South Korea. And it’s distracted South Korea from its internal economic problems. Problems that got their President impeached and jailed. Who wins when South Korea’s economy flounders?…
Most folks don’t really think about the state of our military as being the result of decades of bureaucratic inertia. Unlike the private sector which can be much more agile in identifying and embracing change, our military sees change as bad. Protecting the bureaucracy is the most important. Problems in our military of today are based on changes made 20 years ago. The scary thing is that we won’t see the impact of the Obama years for many years.…
Ostensibly a strong, non-warring Middle East would be in our best interests. Picking “winners” and “losers” is at best a short term gain. We went through eight years of Neo disasters in the region. Perhaps this is a sign of goodness for the US and the region.
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The Catalan “crisis” is something to watch closely. This isn’t an “immigrant” problem, like it is in other Western European countries. This is a developed civil society that somehow has turned to despotic actions against its own citizenry. It’s scary to watch and visualize other civil societies using government force to stop those who are perceived to threaten the status quo. The deep state is paying attention.…
I never understood why Jeff Sessions’ handpicked deputy appointed Mueller as a special prosecutor. It made no political sense. Either he supported Sessions or he didn’t, and if he didn’t, why would Sessions keep him? This answers the question and if it’s true, it might be good for America.…
This is another case of a headline wanting you to believe something that isn’t true. Brooks is no fan of Trump or the American people. His argument isn’t that McConnell is a terrible majority leader. His argument is that we need a new speaker to convince us that all is well and that we are stupid and just need to follow the deep state’s plan.
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This is an ultimate deep state issue. I’ve contended for a long time that the Neo Cons and the Neo Libs are peas from the same pod. The deep state wanted Hillary to win because she was one of them and could be counted on to protect and grow the deep state. And they have infiltrated the Trump White House.…
