What's up with this: Russia gives WikiLeaks' Julian Assange a TV platform

[sad sally]

Has the first evil empire gone soft?
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WikiLeaks founder and controversy magnet Julian Assange has been driven off the Internet, deprived of funding and placed under house arrest. Now he will get his chance to strike back, courtesy of the Kremlin.

Starting in March, Mr. Assange will host a 10-part series of interview programs with "key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries" on Russia Today (RT), a state-funded English-language satellite news network which claims to reach more than 85 million viewers in the US alone.

According to a statement on his website, the new Assange series will explore the "upheavals and revolutions" that are shaking the Middle East and expose how "the deterioration of the rule of law has demonstrated the bankruptcy of once leading political institutions and ideologies" in the West.

Entitled "The World Tomorrow," the show will be filmed by an RT satellite crew at Ellingham Hall, the remote manor house 130 miles north of London. It's the same place Assange has been under house arrest since December 2010 awaiting a Supreme Court decision on his extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0125/Russia-gives-WikiLeaks-Julian-Assange-a-TV-platform?utm_source=feedburn?du

[MADem]

1. Soft? Hell no. They're jerking our chain.

They'd better watch out, though--some disgruntled Russkie with a flash drive might send ole Julian a packet.

Assange may bite them, too!

[sad sally]

3. A way around the financial blockade the government and the banks have placed on WikiLeaks?

[dipsydoodle]

5. Oddly enough - yes

RT bought the series after it was announced a fews days ago. Russia has no fear of retalation on the subject.

[TheWraith]

2. Nah. Just their continuous policy of publishing anything that makes the US look bad.

Or which they think makes the US look bad. Including birtherism, 9/11 truthers, people claiming Bin Laden isn't really dead, etcetera, etcetera.

[Fool Count]

7. If they published "anything that makes US look bad", they would run out of newsprint

and electrons in, like, 25 minutes. One has to be highly selective with such champion
repository of crap like the US.

[xchrom]

4. Can't wait. Ought to be good. Nt

[sabrina 1]

6. Great, I hope there is no 'accident' before he gets a chance to start.

Good for RT, one of the best news channels we get here. About time someone had the guts not to be intimidated by the Corporate Elites who have tried to suppress every dissident voice that is raised against them and their unjust wars.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

8. Glad someone is giving him a platform to provide uncomfortable news and alternative view-points. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Bravo to RT and Julian Assange.