(KPFK Radio) Host: We examine the role of fake news manufactured by Russian Intelligence that was inserted into the U.S. media during the election campaign to undermine Hillary Clinton and stoke fears among the American left that the two nuclear-armed rivals were heading towards a nuclear confrontation. A former Russian journalist Sufian Zhemukhov, a visiting scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University, joins us to discuss Putin’s announced desire in a pep-talk to the employees of RT, Russian Today, to “break the Anglo-Saxon monopoly on the global information streams.”
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