Here’s a recent interview I did for RT UK’s flagship news programme, Going Underground with Afshin Rattansi, about the whole fake news, fake intelligence allegations swirling around President Trump’ administration at the moment:
RT Going Underground – the Issue of US Fake Intelligence from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
I’ve done a few more interviews this month for RT, on a variety of issues:
US boots on the ground in Iraq
USA Boots on the Ground in Iraq – again. from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
The extradition case against Megaupload’s founder, Kim Dotcom
Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom faces extradition from NZ to USA from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
And the launch of the UK’s new Cyber Security Centre, soon after the new Investigatory Powers Act (aka the “snoopers’ charter”) became law
The launch of the UK’s new National Cyber Security Centre from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
Yet again Wikileaks has come good by exposing just how much we are being spied upon in this brave new digital world – the Vault 7 release has provided the proof for what many of us already knew/suspected – that our smart gadgets are little spy devices.
Here are a couple of interviews I did for the BBC and RT on the subject:
BBC – CIA and MI5 Hack our TVs from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
And:
Wikileaks release info re CIA/MI5 hacks from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
My RT interview today about the statement made by the Chair of the US Congressional Chair of the Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, about the lack of any evidence of collusion between the Trump administration and Russia:
US Congressman – No Evidence of Russia-Trump Collusion from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
My recent RT interview about the French intelligence report that exonerated Russia of trying to hack the recent presidential election, despite the claims of new President, Emmanual Macron. The same thing has happened in Germany too, much to Merkel’s displeasure..
And so the tapestry of lies begins to fray:
No Evidence of Russian Hacking of French Election from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
Yet another trans-Atlantic think tank has cranked out a report attacking Russia, and yet again the focus of their ire is RT.com.
Of course, all media outlets get attacked for “propaganda” (you should see the Daily Mail BTL comments about the BBC!), but this particular play book is getting old.
Here’s my take on the subject on, you’ve guessed it, RT:
New “Putin’s Useful Idiots” Report from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
Last week, while I was doing a number of talks for Funzing.com in London, I was invited into RT to discuss a new report about the US military advertising for programmers who could develop software that targeted Iranian, Chinese and Russian audiences via social media.
The timing proved interesting. Only days before, it was revealed by @musalbas at the CCC and then via Wikileaks that the UK government listening post, GCHQ, had apparently been doing the same thing since 2009.
And then, coincidentally, only a couple of days after the US disclosure, it was reported that Russia was now trolling Wikipedia.
A war of words ensued — and let’s hope that is all it remains. However, this report in the NYT today fills me with dread.
Here is my contribution from last week:
Pentagon developing automated social media troll farms from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
An RT interview about the over-reaction around the head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, meeting his Russian counter-part:
More Russiagate Rubbish from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
Ever since the story broke on 5th March about the strange case of the poisoning the former MI6 agent and Russian military intelligence officer, Sergei Skripal, I have been asked to do interview after interview, commenting on this hideous case.
Of course, as the case developed the points I made also evolved, but my general theme has remained consistent: that, despite the immediate UK media hysteria that “it must be the Russians”, we needed to let the police and intelligence agencies the space and time to get on and build up an evidential chain before the UK government took action.
Unfortunately, this has not come to pass, with the UK encouraging its allies in an unprecedented wave of mass diplomatic expulsions around the world. One might say that perhaps Theresa May has some shit-hot secret intelligence with which to convince these allies. But intelligence is not evidence and, as we all too painfully remember from the Iraq War debacle in 2003, any intelligence can be spun to fit the facts around a pre-determined policy, as was revealed in the leaked Downing Street Memo.
Anyway, from the bottom up in terms of chronology, here are a few of the interviews I have managed to harvest from the last few, crazy weeks. More will be added as they come in. And here are a couple of extras: a BBC Breakfast News item and a Talk Radio interview.
A longer and more detailed article will follow shortly.
CGTN “Dialogue” discussion about the Skripal case 26 03 2018 from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
RT International News Interview 10 03 2018 from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
CrossTalk on Sergei Skripal ‘Publicity Murder’ from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story” 08 03 2018 from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
Good Morning Britain Interview 06 03 2018 from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
BBC Newsnight 05 03 2018 from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
RT Interview about the Skripal case 05 03 2018 from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
In the wake of another apparently victimised whistleblower emerging from the US intelligence community, here is an interview on the subject on RT:
My interview on RT.com about yet another attack against Julian Assange, editor in chief of Wikileaks, that threatens press freedom everywhere:
A couple of recent interviews about the themes of UK and EU security, going forward.
Europe_and_the_current_security_situation from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
And:
Post_Brexit_UK_EU_Security from Annie Machon on Vimeo.
A few minutes after Julian Assange was scandalously arrested and dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London last week, I was contacted by RT.com to do an interview. While further comments will follow, here are my initial thoughts:
