Lee camp redacted tonight6/26/2023 And the US government, I think it's pretty clear, wants this war to go on as long as possible. It's not a mature and intelligent standpoint on our view of reality. It really is a silly way to view reality. So the American people right now are being led to believe that there is no context and that nothing happened before this, and that Putin just woke up one morning and said I'm going to bomb people. And again, those are things you're not allowed to say. I'm anti-war in general and anti-imperialist. I think a lot of innocent people are being harmed in one way or another. Nazis with swastikas on their helmets that have been waging war in various regions of Ukraine for eight years now. Another reason is the 2014 US-backed coup in Ukraine that put people in power that were aligned with Nazis.Īnd there are real Nazis in Ukraine. The context, to keep it very short, is the expansion of NATO, which is a military alliance encircling Russia that is mainly led by the United States and Britain and pointing missiles at Russia and on the border of Russia. I am opposed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but I also am very clear on saying that we should understand the context that has led to this war in Ukraine. How will such one-sided negative information mislead the American public?Ĭamp: I think right now it is misleading the American public. Russian media are banned, many social media have left Russia, and some even allow hate speech against Russia. GT: Now the US can hardly hear any news from Russia. There is really no large channel that allows such a thing. I assume people like Chris Hedges will continue writing excellent books and people like former governor Jesse Ventura will continue making videos.Ī lot of people don't realize RT America was essentially the only television in America where you could be clearly anti-war, anti-imperialist and question capitalism. So, due to this McCarthyism plague, I think many people will have trouble getting jobs.įor the people that are a little bit famous, I think they will continue trying to do what they do. And if you just knew someone, then you would get fired from your job and blacklisted. Some of them that are not kind of well-known will have a very tough time getting a job because of what in the US we call McCarthyism based on the 1950s when a senator named McCarthy called everyone communist and got everyone fired from their jobs. I have not heard much about the plans of my colleagues. It'll never be quite like Redacted Tonight, but hopefully it will have the same feel and passion and the same harsh truths about our reality. I hope if I find enough members that are willing to join my Patreon, maybe I can recreate something. Now I'm on Patreon, which is for creators to create any kind of work. It won't stop with me and RT America, it will keep going. Again, this is a wave of censorship that is sweeping across America that is just very dangerous. This is very bad for listenership and for the number of people that may want to access it. And yet here I am being deleted and banned from so many platforms.Īlso simultaneously, my Podcast, which is called Moment of Clarity, was deleted from Spotify, which is one of the largest Podcast carriers. That is what led me to write and create my show. So the old episodes can no longer be seen on YouTube, which is kind of incredible for a comedy show that has spent eight years and 375 episodes, trying to just be anti-war and anti-imperialist and promoting peace, sustainability, environmental health and caring for our fellow human beings. Apparently they're banned in almost all countries. Do you face any safety threats? What are the plans of your colleagues?Ĭamp: I haven't faced any threats that I know of, but simultaneously, not only did my show get ended because RT America was shut down, but also all of the old Redacted Tonight videos - over 1,000 videos - were all banned on YouTube. GT: You and the other colleagues were laid off after RT America was shut down on March 1. Global Times (GT) reporter Wang Wenwen talked to Camp about how he views the shutdown of the Russian TV channel, the one-sided negative information about Russia in the US, and his future plans. Lee Camp (Camp), who had hosted a satire comedy show Redacted Tonight for eight years, was one of them. Against the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict, RT America, the US branch of the Russian national media outlet, has been permanently shut down, with more than 100 staffers laid off.
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