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No, RT Won’t Tell the Truth Either
So why bother censoring them?
I began watching Russia Today during my long convalescence from the autoimmune disorder that put me in the hospital for two memorable weeks in 2004. The thing that struck me about this cable “news” channel was how few stories were about Russia and how many were about U.S. overreach around the world (plus the fact that the well-groomed young ladies presenting these stories all had posh upper-class English accents).
To be honest, it was refreshing.
There I was, stuck on the futon 23 hours a day, barely able to hobble to the bathroom and back so I was held hostage by the whiz-bang wall-to-wall warmongering of our mainstream media. I knew Colin Powell was lying. All the people I knew — and I don’t run in circles of international geopolitical experts — understood that everyone from the President to the, ahem, Paper of Record was lying.
People were marching and canvassing and calling and writing to their so-called representatives to stop the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, Iraq, all the while knowing full well it was useless.
The money in this country had already determined what it wanted and the will of We The People was completely irrelevant.
