Attacks on RT reveal the sad truth about the West
Amar, Tarik Cyril
http://www.rt.com/news/604051-rt-sanctions-propaganda-west/
Date Written: 2024-09-15
Publisher: RT
Year Published: 2024
Resource Type: Article
With their crusade against their own dissidents, the US and its allies betray the desperation of their collective propaganda machine.
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The US and its ever-loyal followers Canada and Great Britain have launched a fresh information war offensive. If 'fresh' is the word: In a new season of the long-running, apparently never-ever ending Russia Rage show (aka 'Russiagate') that at least the American 'elites' simply cannot get enough of, it is again -- drum roll -- RT that is the target.
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once again, these self-appointed guardians of the 'rules-based order' and its 'values' have dialed the hypocrisy up to eleven. Seriously? You want to talk about 'disinformation'? While Western media, from American CNN, via British BBC, to German ZDF, have become complicit through silence, bias, and even the spreading of outright Israeli propaganda in the by now almost year-long genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and increasingly the West Bank, too?
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any divergence from its perverse bipartisan war party line can only be due to wicked Russian 'outside agitators.'
That is, of course, the patronizing 'logic' of a deeply colonialist mindset steeped in narcissism and unquestioned assumptions of supremacy. What is interesting '' though not really surprising '' is that the Washington blob, for instance, applies the same arrogance to the 'ordinary people' of the West. They as well, under the stern gaze of their 'betters' at the top, must not be left alone to decide what they want to watch, read, and listen to. Because if they did, they might get ideas, or to be precise, ideas of their own. In that perspective, going after RT is only one part of a desperate, futile effort to shut down any platform for alternative, including very much alternative Western, voices. Think, if you will, of RT as the samizdat of the West, to recall the terms of Soviet dissidence.
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Ultimately, that is the West's real problem. From the proxy war devastating Ukraine to the genocide in Gaza, the West has nothing to stand on in terms of both morality and reason. That is why it will lose.
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