{"id":294868,"date":"2024-09-15T07:19:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T07:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=294868"},"modified":"2024-09-17T06:56:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T06:56:09","slug":"us-declared-information-war-on-russian-media-zakharova-to-rt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=294868","title":{"rendered":"US declared information war on Russian media \u2013 Zakharova to RT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Sept 14, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The U.S. State Department has accused RT of \u201crunning fundraising campaigns to pay for sniper rifles, body armor and other equipment for soldiers fighting in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Secretary of State Blinken, RT is also a \u201ckey part of Russia\u2019s war machine\u201d that is engaged in covertly spreading \u201cdisinformation\u201d and \u201cpropaganda\u201d.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Jamie Rubin, who heads the U.S. State Department\u2019s Global Engagement Center, says RT is \u201ca fully-fledged member of the intelligence apparatus and operation of the Russian government\u201d.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that these accusations reported by AP <\/a>have yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, as a result the U.S. has imposed a variety of new sanctions on the Russian media outlet.<\/p>\n

The charges levelled against RT suggest that the U.S. establishment is now seriously worried about any dissenting views. Hence U.S. has taken action to restrict access not only to Russia\u2019s RT but also to Iran\u2019s Press TV.<\/p>\n

The trouble is, while censors can restrict broad public access to the aforementioned websites in the west they cannot prevent individuals from copying the articles and posting from these sites elsewhere on the net.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t even have to be \u201cRussian agents\u201d to do so. They may simply be individuals who are keen to present a broader view of currant affairs than that found in the Western mainstream media. Ed.<\/p>\n

US declared information war on Russian media \u2013 Zakharova to RT<\/strong><\/h1>\n

RT.com \u2013 Sept 14, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Maria Zakharova. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The new round of US sanctions against Russian media outlets amounts to a declaration of an \u201cinformation war,\u201d<\/em> Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RT.<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled new restrictions on Friday targeting RT parent companies Rossiya Segodnya and TV-Novosti. He accused the network of being \u201cengaged in covert influence activities\u2026 and functioning as a de facto arm of [Russian] intelligence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe degree of aggression with which all of this was expressed is off the scale. I think this is definitely a declaration of information war. It went on behind the scenes through the sanctions policy, but there was no declaration that the Russian media would now be openly attacked,\u201d<\/em> Zakharova stated.<\/p>\n

The renewed attack on Russian media was prompted solely by \u201cjealousy\u201d<\/em> in the West \u201cbecause they could not compete\u201d<\/em> with it fairly, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said. Washington has provided no actual evidence to back up its allegations against the outlets, she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they say that\u2019s because RT is doing something wrong in the US, if it violated at least one American law, if at least one fake was a sign of some kind of global information campaign that RT is conducting on the territory of the US, if even one RT correspondent had engaged in illegal activities, and an American court of some state or maybe even a Pan-American court would have conducted some kind of investigation long ago, a verdict would have been carried out. But there\u2019s nothing to show.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This new development should be a wake-up call for media outlets worldwide, Zakharova said, warning that any broadcaster could become the next target.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis suggests that journalists all over the world should now understand that tomorrow this will be done to them. Therefore, if the media community does not unite now, if every media corporation head does not understand this, tomorrow\u2026 it will be too late,\u201d<\/em> the spokeswoman warned.<\/p>\n