Underreported stories of 2016 — RT News
Stories that don’t match into the MSM narrative or are deemed damaging to the picture of western governments and their allies typically garner little to no media protection. Here are some vital tales extensively lined by RT however ignored by the MSM in 2016.
How civilians suffered in western Aleppo
Aleppo in Syria was break up between the federal government and the militants after the occupation of japanese elements of town by armed insurgent teams in July 2012. While there was each day shelling in western Aleppo killing civilians and several other radical Islamist teams blocking and brutally coping with folks within the east, the mainstream media selected to concentrate on what they mentioned have been atrocities by Syrian and Russian forces in japanese Aleppo each time air raids have been reported there.
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Based on unverified accounts of spurious teams and anti-government activists, the MSM reporting drew a grim image of the regime killing its personal folks, and the Stalingrad-like photos of devastation from militant-held neighborhoods turned the face of the biggest Syrian metropolis. Meanwhile, the western a part of town was by no means proven.
RT turned one of many few international broadcasters that really had correspondents risking their lives on the bottom in Aleppo, who introduced underreported militant shelling of populated areas, the struggling of the folks and tales of their each day lives to the world’s consideration.
RT’s Lizzie Phelan and Murad Gazdiev visited hospitals that obtained civilians injured in quite a few shelling assaults carried out by the militants from east Aleppo that have been insistently referred to as “reasonable” by the Western media. They additionally spoke to the Aleppo residents and medical doctors sharing the actual tales about what occurred on the bottom within the war-torn metropolis. RT Arabic’s Somar Abudiyab was amongst these injured within the shelling of a Russian navy cellular hospital on December 5, which killed two Russian medics and severely injured a pediatrician. The assault on medical doctors prompted no condemnation within the West.
RT additionally reported on the proof of chemical weapons utilized by some extremist teams entrenched in Aleppo – the problem that the MSM painstakingly averted.
What Podesta emails on WikiLeaks really contained
A month earlier than the November US presidential election, the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks started publishing emails from the account of Hillary Clinton’s marketing campaign chair, John Podesta.
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The information obtained large protection, however shortly targeted on claims that Russia was behind the alleged hacking of the e-mail server to propel Clinton’s Republican rival, Donald Trump, into the White House.
RT opted to truly flick through the 55,000 emails, which revealed the internal workings of the Clinton marketing campaign, the Democratic candidate’s cozy relationship with members of the American political press and the notorious Wall Street speech transcripts.
The emails additionally make clear some soiled tips, together with the “Russian card” Clinton deliberate to make use of to beat her rival within the presidential race, Donald Trump, in addition to to deflect public consideration from her personal errors.
What Bernie Sanders rallies actually regarded like
Bernie Sanders gave the Democratic favourite Hillary Clinton an actual battle for the presidential nomination. It is, nonetheless, speculated that the Vermont senator might have achieved even higher if his marketing campaign occasions obtained extra consideration within the American media.
In January, Sanders’s supporters launched “a nationwide rally” for his or her candidate as 1000’s of individuals took to the streets throughout 35 cities within the US. The large occasion was ignored by the mainstream media, which determined to concentrate on the East Coast blizzard as a substitute, making social media and RT the prime sources of details about Sanders’s marketing campaign on the time.
But by April, after a sequence of giant Sanders rallies, the MSM grudgingly began to cowl them – a minimum of to some extent. A rally held by Sanders’s supporters in New York City was referred to as “one of many largest” within the presidential marketing campaign by the Washington Post.
How Yemen was devastated by Saudi coalition strikes
With consideration of the world firmly glued to the Syrian battle, the navy marketing campaign carried out by Saudi Arabia and its allies towards the Houthi rebels in Yemen was largely not noted of the highlight.
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RT extensively reported on the lethal Saudi airstrikes towards civilian targets within the nation, carried out with ammunition offered to Riyadh by the US and UK. In March, an attack on Mastaba market killed 97 folks, whereas the bombing of a funeral corridor in capital Sanaa left a minimum of 100 civilians lifeless and greater than 500 wounded in October.
RT was one of many first media retailers to study that Britain was arming Saudi Arabia within the Yemen battle, offering assist for a struggle that high Yemeni teachers based mostly within the West have condemned as “unlawful.”
RT additionally managed to get the attitude of the Yemeni ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, on the battle that broke out in his nation. Saleh mentioned he believes there isn’t any distinction between the “Saudi regime” and terror teams like Islamic State or Al-Qaeda.
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What triggered US nationwide jail strike
RT was additionally among the many few media retailers that covered what was described as one of many largest jail strikes in US historical past, which was nonetheless hardly reported within the mainstream media.
More than 24,000 inmates in a minimum of 40 prisons from over two dozen states, together with California, Florida, Alabama, Michigan and South Carolina, refused to observe orders in September, failing to report for work and inflicting prisons to go on lockdown.
The strike was held with the most important objective of reforming jail circumstances and forming a prisoners’ union, as some correctional amenities within the US witnessed “suicides each 60 to 90 days,” in keeping with activists from many grassroots organizations working inside and outdoors these amenities.
Why Snowden referred to as new UK snooping legislation ‘scary’
While the MSM eagerly demonized Russia for passing an anti-terrorism legislation in June, which significantly handled the problem of accumulating information on folks’s on-line actions, the West stayed nearly silent concerning the new spying legislation in the UK, which was denounced by its critics as the best invasion of privateness recognized to the British folks and referred to as “scary” by Edward Snowden.
RT didn’t solely get the gist of the brand new legislation but in addition discussed its potential results on the privateness rights with specialists within the subject.
The laws, dubbed the “snooper’s constitution,” was passed by the British parliament in November. It authorizes the federal government to hack into units, networks and companies in bulk, and permits for giant databases of private info on UK residents to be maintained.
It requires web, cellphone and communication app firms to retailer prospects’ data for 12 months and permit authorities to entry them on demand.
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That information might be something from web search historical past, calls made or messages despatched, and might be out there to a variety of companies, together with the Department for Work and Pensions in addition to the Food Standards Agency.
Security companies can even be able to power firms to decrypt information, successfully putting limits on using end-to-end encryption.
#Flydubaigate: Why airline pilots might go to sleep mid-flight
After a FlyDubai flight carrying Russian vacationers from the UAE to Rostov-on-Don crashed in March whereas attempting to land in tough climate circumstances, killing 62 folks, RT supplied a platform for whistleblowers from a number of Gulf States-owned airways to talk out concerning the abuses they suffered on the job for reporting fatigue.
After the primary Flydubai whistleblower contacted RT, some 60 folks claiming to work or have labored for that airline and Emirates contacted us with allegations of pilot fatigue and airline intimidation.
Crucially, lots of the pilots described being discouraged to file studies, as there was often no official response, besides for infrequent threatening “warnings.” One of the pilots, who spoke with RT on situation of anonymity, mentioned that complaints of fatigue “find yourself” on the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), however generate no end result.
The absence of correct oversight has left pilots with no larger authority to complain to, and any studies that do get out are often shortly “lined up,” in keeping with the previous pilot, who careworn that such misconduct can be unimaginable at European or US airways, the place impartial aviation watchdogs monitor procedures. Despite that, a few of their western colleagues mentioned the issue of fatigue does exist in airways around the globe.
However, whereas RT extensively covered the problem that ought to have sparked concern over the protection of 1000’s of passengers around the globe, the MSM paid no consideration in any respect.
