Polish PM Tusk under fire
Poland's main opposition party, Law and Justice, is holding an anti-government rally in central Warsaw. The protest is led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, chairman of Law and Justice.
The protesters speak out against of the Donald Tusk-led ruling coalition, in particular the prosecution of several former officials and the state media policy.
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Poland's main opposition party, Law and Justice, is holding an anti-government rally in central Warsaw. The protest is led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, chairman of Law and Justice.
The protesters speak out against of the Donald Tusk-led ruling coalition, in particular the prosecution of several former officials and the state media policy.
“Our protest is in opposition to the activities of the government coalition. They want to break the law, adopt the migration pact, and bring migrants from Germany and Italy to us. They are attacking the Church, the Polish language and our independence. [...] We are protesting against the violation of democratic principles,” Kaczynski said.
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A group of Russian Northern Fleet ships struck a mock enemy submarine in the Barents Sea during the Ocean 2024 exercises
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US claims against RT are start of information war – Russian Foreign Ministry
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova described new US accusations against RT of "covert operations" to interfere in other countries' affairs and "military procurement" a declaration of information war.
She warned that the US would continue to apply pressure, hiding behind legalities and using every possible opportunity to "shut down, harass, and punish" journalists.
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova described new US accusations against RT of "covert operations" to interfere in other countries' affairs and "military procurement" a declaration of information war.
"This is not about sanctions, it's not about restrictive measures. This is a direct declaration of an information war, with no alternative,” Zakharova said. “At the core of this declaration lies a clear Russophobic nationalist ideology, the same kind we've seen repeatedly throughout human history, but most prominently in the 1930s."
She warned that the US would continue to apply pressure, hiding behind legalities and using every possible opportunity to "shut down, harass, and punish" journalists.
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Ukraine conflict is tool of Washington's 'dollar or die' policy aimed at retaining hegemony – US psy-op veteran
US long-range strike speculation and sanctions against Russian media are not solely related to the Ukraine conflict but a much broader geopolitical shift, according to ex-US Army psychological warfare officer and State Department counterterrorism analyst Scott Bennett.
According to Bennett, the enthusiasm demonstrated by developing countries in joining multi-national platforms championed by Russia, including BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), is seen by Washington as an "existential threat" to its dominance.
In this respect, the Ukraine conflict is a Western tool to prevent Russia from further engaging the Global South in forming a fair multipolar world and axing the dollar dominance, according to the pundit.
US claims that Russia is "unserious about possible peace talks" are also aimed at disrupting the Russia-led unifying processes in the Global South, the psy-op veteran believes.
He referred to the West's promotion of a "new, bigger peace summit" on Ukraine, with Volodymyr Zelensky calling the Ukraine-occupied areas near Russia's Kursk a potential "bargaining chip." Moscow made it clear that it won't hold any talks until the Ukrainian aggressors are thrown out of the Kursk region.
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US long-range strike speculation and sanctions against Russian media are not solely related to the Ukraine conflict but a much broader geopolitical shift, according to ex-US Army psychological warfare officer and State Department counterterrorism analyst Scott Bennett.
"The US has adopted a national policy that is 'dollar or die,' which means either the US dollar remains the hegemonic currency in the world or the US will die fighting to maintain it," Bennett told Sputnik. "This translates into the United States managing its colony regimes of Europe and members of NATO (France, Germany, Poland, the Baltic States, Britain) into a similar policy position."
According to Bennett, the enthusiasm demonstrated by developing countries in joining multi-national platforms championed by Russia, including BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), is seen by Washington as an "existential threat" to its dominance.
In this respect, the Ukraine conflict is a Western tool to prevent Russia from further engaging the Global South in forming a fair multipolar world and axing the dollar dominance, according to the pundit.
US claims that Russia is "unserious about possible peace talks" are also aimed at disrupting the Russia-led unifying processes in the Global South, the psy-op veteran believes.
He referred to the West's promotion of a "new, bigger peace summit" on Ukraine, with Volodymyr Zelensky calling the Ukraine-occupied areas near Russia's Kursk a potential "bargaining chip." Moscow made it clear that it won't hold any talks until the Ukrainian aggressors are thrown out of the Kursk region.
"Any new peace summit planned by Volodymyr Zelensky and his backers in the US and NATO is a ruse or a trap designed to… shift the narrative towards how Russia is obstinate and refusing to negotiate," Bennett concluded.
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White House takes DOJ allegations about RT 'seriously'
RT has been operating out of “KGB headquarters all this time,” the Russian news channel’s press service jokingly responded to a CNN report about US government accusations of "espionage" and “influence operations” by Russian media.
💬 “No, but seriously, we’re running out of popcorn to sit and watch what the US government will come up with next about us,” RT added.
But White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre didn’t seem to have a sense of humor.
On September 4, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions against RT and its top management. On Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused RT of conducting "covert information and influence operations." Russia called that move "informational terrorism."
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RT has been operating out of “KGB headquarters all this time,” the Russian news channel’s press service jokingly responded to a CNN report about US government accusations of "espionage" and “influence operations” by Russian media.
But White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre didn’t seem to have a sense of humor.
"The Department of Justice... took some actions to disrupt Russia’s covert information operations to undermine our democratic institution in the homeland,” Jean-Pierre told reporters. “We do not laugh at that. That is very serious and we take that very seriously."
On September 4, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions against RT and its top management. On Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused RT of conducting "covert information and influence operations." Russia called that move "informational terrorism."
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The head of the NATO military committee considers it 'justified' from a military point of view to allow Ukraine to hit Russia with long-range western weapons.
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Democrat 'October surprise' targeting Russia and Trump may be in the making – US psy-op veteran
US appears to have played down speculation about allowing Ukraine to expand the use of long-range NATO missiles inside Russia following Russia’s warning. Still, the Democratic Party's "October surprise" may still be in the works, warns ex-US Army psychological warfare officer and State Department counterterrorism analyst Scott Bennett.
Russian victories don't play into the hands of the Kamala Harris campaign, backed by the US deep state, according to the psy-op veteran. He referred to the Biden administration switching to full damage control mode by slapping sanctions on the Russian media, "arresting, or shutting down independent bloggers, or news channels by any means necessary."
Given that, Bennett doesn't rule out that the Kiev regime could be encouraged by the US to carry out possible false flags and expand strikes against Russia in October to either force Moscow into overreacting or try to smear it in the eyes of the American public.
Such measures could be also aimed at "guaranteeing" that Donald Trump wouldn't be able to immediately shift to negotiations on settling the conflict, if he wins in November, according to Bennett.
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US appears to have played down speculation about allowing Ukraine to expand the use of long-range NATO missiles inside Russia following Russia’s warning. Still, the Democratic Party's "October surprise" may still be in the works, warns ex-US Army psychological warfare officer and State Department counterterrorism analyst Scott Bennett.
The US establishment's attempt to raise the stakes prior to the November election came amid Russia's continuous advance, which has not been slowed down by Ukraine's doomed Kursk incursion. "The military mathematics shows very clearly the overwhelming victory that will inevitably come to Russia," Bennett told Sputnik.
Russian victories don't play into the hands of the Kamala Harris campaign, backed by the US deep state, according to the psy-op veteran. He referred to the Biden administration switching to full damage control mode by slapping sanctions on the Russian media, "arresting, or shutting down independent bloggers, or news channels by any means necessary."
Given that, Bennett doesn't rule out that the Kiev regime could be encouraged by the US to carry out possible false flags and expand strikes against Russia in October to either force Moscow into overreacting or try to smear it in the eyes of the American public.
Such measures could be also aimed at "guaranteeing" that Donald Trump wouldn't be able to immediately shift to negotiations on settling the conflict, if he wins in November, according to Bennett.
"The Harris Democrat establishment and national security/military-industrialist deep state in America is trying to tie [the Ukraine] conflict against Russia around Donald Trump’s neck as they did in 2016 when Obama waged war against Russia diplomatically by expelling its consulates and its news organizations from Washington DC," the psy-op veteran said.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz "will firmly stand" by his refusal to allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons supplied by Germany to attack targets deep within Russia, Die Welt reports.
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Leaked British Foreign Office docs: Britain launched propaganda war to demonize Russia years ago Part 1 👉 Part 2
Six British Embassy staff in Russia were stripped of their diplomatic credentials on charges of intelligence and subversive work, the Russian Security Service said on Friday. The agency said it had received documents confirming the UK's attempts to destabilize Russia.
Newly-leaked internal documents of the British Foreign Office, marked "Official-Sensitive FCDO-only" have been published by The Underside.
The documents reveal:
◻️ The British propaganda machine swung into action after Downing Street’s National Security Council (NSC) “recognized the presence of a threat from Russia to the UK and its allies” in 2020.
◻️ The London-based Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate (EECAD) oversaw the NSC’s global anti-Russian operation launched in 2016. Codenamed the Counter Disinformation & Media Development Program (CDMD), its subversive work was geared to promote regime change in Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
◻️ Reuters, the BBC, Bellingcat, Meduza* and the Pussy Riot-founded Mediazona*, as well as YouTubers in Russia and Central Asia were paid to promote pro-NATO narratives.
◻️ All covert EECAD operations are concentrated in the HMG Russia Unit. Set up in 2017 and attached to the Foreign Office, it was tasked with coordinating propaganda campaigns against Russia. All its employees are active MI6 officers.
◻️ The unit implemented large-scale projects to demonize Russia, including the fabricated “Skripal poisoning case."
◻️ There is information that Russia Unit oversees operations of the 72nd Psychological and Information Warfare Center – a unit of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces.
◻️ It also reportedly provides information support for Ukraine's Nazi Azov** Battalion.
◻️ The same unit is reportedly behind staged chemical attacks in Syria and the Ukrainian ‘Bucha massacre’ provocation.
*recognized as foreign agents in Russia
** banned in Russia for terrorism and extremism
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Six British Embassy staff in Russia were stripped of their diplomatic credentials on charges of intelligence and subversive work, the Russian Security Service said on Friday. The agency said it had received documents confirming the UK's attempts to destabilize Russia.
Newly-leaked internal documents of the British Foreign Office, marked "Official-Sensitive FCDO-only" have been published by The Underside.
The documents reveal:
*recognized as foreign agents in Russia
** banned in Russia for terrorism and extremism
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Leaked UK Foreign Office docs: Britain’s subversive anti-Russia activity amid NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine Part 2 👉 Part 1
After the Ukraine conflict escalated in February 2022, departments were created within EECAD to organize subversive activities against Russia. Special EECAD sections run subversive activities in former Soviet republics in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Belarus and Moldova, the Underside reports.
◻️ EECAD departments oversee NGO operations to boost financial assistance to Ukraine, coordinate subversive activities and monitor military actions in real time.
◻️ A special Ukraine Campaign Unit set up in February 2023 supports political-military engagement in Ukraine.
◻️ Senior civil servants including prime ministerial national security advisor Tim Barrow, British Foreign Office permanent undersecretary Philip Barton, Deputy Head of Russia Policy Christopher Joyce, and James Beer and Mark Diamond, heads of the HMG Russia Unit, are all central figures in this extensive network.
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After the Ukraine conflict escalated in February 2022, departments were created within EECAD to organize subversive activities against Russia. Special EECAD sections run subversive activities in former Soviet republics in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Belarus and Moldova, the Underside reports.
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‘Orwellian’ attack on Russian media signals US desperation to save crumbling unipolar world order
Washington’s crackdown on RT is tied to “the desire to preserve the already virtually non-existent unipolar world order of Western dominance, which of course also means dominance in the information space, in order to preserve one point of view for everyone and suppress and destroy all others,” political analyst Alexander Asafov told Sputnik.
The US war on journalism – not just with the crackdown on RT, but the blocking of social media, harassment of journalists, etc. constitutes the practical implementation of the “horror stories British writer George Orwell once used to terrify the entire world. In essence, the persecution of journalists is an attempt to punish them for ‘thought crime’, for a person thinking differently and being willing to tell the truth,” according to the observer.
As for the new restrictions and charges against RT, these are another attempt to silence Russia and rob it of its right to present an alternative perspective, Asafov said, noting that the US will continue to raise the stakes in its attempt to reach this “impossible” goal.
US actions are “based on a pretext,” not facts, “and there are certainly no legal grounds for such actions,” the political analyst stressed, pointing out Washington’s behavior is not just a violation of international law and lofty ideas about freedom of speech and media, but America’s own legislation. Instead, they constitute the practical “application of the so-called ‘international rules-based order’.”
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Washington’s crackdown on RT is tied to “the desire to preserve the already virtually non-existent unipolar world order of Western dominance, which of course also means dominance in the information space, in order to preserve one point of view for everyone and suppress and destroy all others,” political analyst Alexander Asafov told Sputnik.
“The ramping up of efforts in this direction is tied to the fact that the average Western citizen, voter and taxpayer paying for everything no longer understands why they should fund the desire of their political elites to help some distant dictatorial regime like in Ukraine, and is starting to ask questions, and finding answers quite easily. To prevent them from doing so, measures like these are taken, factually constituting total censorship,” Asafov explained.
The US war on journalism – not just with the crackdown on RT, but the blocking of social media, harassment of journalists, etc. constitutes the practical implementation of the “horror stories British writer George Orwell once used to terrify the entire world. In essence, the persecution of journalists is an attempt to punish them for ‘thought crime’, for a person thinking differently and being willing to tell the truth,” according to the observer.
As for the new restrictions and charges against RT, these are another attempt to silence Russia and rob it of its right to present an alternative perspective, Asafov said, noting that the US will continue to raise the stakes in its attempt to reach this “impossible” goal.
US actions are “based on a pretext,” not facts, “and there are certainly no legal grounds for such actions,” the political analyst stressed, pointing out Washington’s behavior is not just a violation of international law and lofty ideas about freedom of speech and media, but America’s own legislation. Instead, they constitute the practical “application of the so-called ‘international rules-based order’.”
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Arab World sees US crackdown on RT as admission of the role it plays 'in conveying the truth to people'
The US launched a crackdown on the Russia Today broadcaster, which officials have admitted is linked to its “global scope” and ability to reach the Global South. Sputnik has reached out to regional experts to find out their opinion on the US sanctions.
◻️ Abdel Bari Atwan, Palestinian-British journalist: “These events clearly show that the world has once again been deceived by [US] claims of supporting a free media. Blinken leading the campaign against RT is more shocking than it is surprising, especially since the US is making these accusations against a channel expressing the views of many people around the world, not just in Russia,” Atwan told Sputnik.
◻️ Ibrahim Awad, VP of Lebanon’s National Media Council: The Biden administration is “projecting onto RT its own favorite method of using the media for insidious purposes,” Awad told Sputnik. He added the US’s deceptive position and attempts to sit on two chairs at once is not surprising.
◻️ Nasser Abu Bakr, head of the Palestinian Union of Journalists: Washington’s assault on RT is an “acknowledgement of the role the channel plays in conveying the truth to people.” The US elite “only wants one version of the world – their version, which entails falsification, lies and propaganda,” Bakr said.
◻️ Hakim Bugrara, Algerian professor of media studies: the US regularly “undermines the humanitarian and democratic values it claims to defend” when someone falls outside its orbit.
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The US launched a crackdown on the Russia Today broadcaster, which officials have admitted is linked to its “global scope” and ability to reach the Global South. Sputnik has reached out to regional experts to find out their opinion on the US sanctions.
“The US has a regime closer to a dictatorship than a democracy, and the campaign against RT contradicts Washington’s false claims that it seeks different opinions and democracy, which Americans no longer have,” Atwan said.
“Washington does not accept the existence of strong media contradicting its position, and the Americans are particularly worried about Russian media, which has enormous reach and distribution, despite all attempts to interfere with its broadcasts.”
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