I was leaning Hawkins until he started spouting off about Russia propaganda. Directly attacking RT America. Yet he appeared on On Contact a while back with Chris Hedges and never mentioned a word about this. It would have been interesting to see the response from Hedges had Hawkins done so.

I watch RT quite often and never get a sense of propaganda leaning towards any favor ability to be directed into a perception of Russia over America in any means of right or wrong. What I do get though is a diverse set of programs of American journalist and reporters who provide a staunchly more factual report and coverage of events. The Rick Sanchez Show actually has investigative journalist who travel the world to provide information for his nightly reports. Covering different issues you don't see on MSM. Unlike all other MSM outlets who's desk reporters typically rely on the work of other journalist who all use repetitive narrative each night covering the same crap each night for days to weeks. You can spend 4 to 5 hours a night on MSNBC, for example, and all 4 to 5 hourly shows are repeating the same perception management with the same agenda narrative management. The difference between Sanchez and MSNBC is like night and day. Sanchez providing the light within the rabbit hole MSNBC pulls its watchers into. RT's daily news covers events around the world to the likes of which you'll never get from our MSM without a mention of American news. They also have a weekend news that repeats every few hours and special documentary type like hours of quite import going on's of various people world wide that I've never seen our news programs do in my life time. It's essentially like the history channel without the narrative and perception management. Raw footage without an agenda.

The only sense of propaganda one could come out with from the shows from RT are from the actual people doing the shows that admittedly describe to the viewers their content isn't like the other news you get from MSM. Rick Sanchez's moto is actually, "lets do news again". They've all gotten together and did a small advertising skit to that narrative denouncing the fake news we get from MSM that plays between shows. It has nothing to do with Russia.

In the video when talking about elections he doesn't bring up purging!?! Which Greg Palast has exposed by the republicans. Or what happened in 2016 by the DNC and Clinton's campaign!?! Or how the NSA has the ability to catch all this other interference of the countries he mentioned, but don't. Or provide the proof when they claim they do. This is scary to me and gives me great pause. I have to give him a lot more thought now!

I think they mean the DSA is an organization that promotes the illusion of change in the Democratic Party.

@Piece2YourPuzzle You may be right, but I need more exposition of what they Do mean.

@SiouxcitySue it depends on what exactly you're willing to except as change. For 5 decades now we have heard about change in the democrat party. It's changed! Moving to the right so much now it is the right. Blue Dog democrats have turned everyone and anyone in that party into republicans. Least a handful of self described progressives who I personally find to be a facade. Half of them aligned with the DSA. Another facade. What isn't going on in that party today, making news daily like it was. For weeks and weeks they were daily propped up and stood forth like the good puppets they are. The Squad! Crickets! They don't measure up to a peep today. Now and then AOC gets a tough question acknowledges in the media in hearings. Another facade that's going to go nowhere.

If you're a republican supporter, just be happy! You've won! You now own both parties!

Maybe this will help

The Democratic Socialists of America Convention: A marketing gimmick for the Democratic Party

[wsws.org]