The US push to silence alternative voices “seems like desperation,” the former aide to Joe Biden has said
Washington is targeting RT because the news network has presented the facts that the conflict in Ukraine is a resource-motivated proxy war being fought by the US and NATO against Russia, said RT contributor Tara Reade, a former aide to Joe Biden.
On Thursday, the US announced a new round of sanctions against RT, with James Rubin, head of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), accusing the news organization of undermining support for Ukraine globally.
”One of the reasons… why so much of the world has not been as fully supportive of Ukraine as one might expect… is because of the broad scope and reach of RT,” Rubin claimed.
Ironically, the accusations only enhance RT’s reputation as a “really good journalistic media corporation” that effectively reaches its audience, Reade noted in an interview on Thursday. “I…