(Newswire.net — July 26, 2015) — Hypothetically, if the US attacks Russia, its first and primary target would be the Russia Today news agency, as an extremely powerful weapon that challenges US propaganda, well known award winning filmmaker and musician told Serbian daily Politika, Russia Today reported.
The ex-president of the jury at Canes film festival, Kusturica believes that RT was recognized by the US military as the same target as the Russian nuclear ballistic missile NATO call “Satan”.
According to Kusturica, the RT is destroying the “Hollywood-CNN stereotype of the good and bad guys, where blacks, Hispanics, Russians, Serbs are the villains, and white Americans, wherever you look, are OK!”
“[US Secretary of State] Kerry and the congressmen are bothered by the fact that RT sends signals that the world is not determined by the inevitability of liberal capitalism, that the US is leading the world into chaos, that Monsanto is not producing healthy food, that Coca-Cola is ideal for cleaning automobile alloys and [is] not for the human stomach, that in Serbia the percentage of people who die from cancer has risen sharply due to the 1999 NATO bombings … that the fingerprints of the CIA are on the Ukrainian crisis, and that Blackwater fired at the Ukrainian police, and not Maidan activists,” the filmmaker wrote.
The allegations that the US military could target RT News comes a month after the Pentagon released a new warfare manual describing journalists and media as legitimate targets. “In general, journalists are civilians. However, journalists may be members of the armed forces, persons authorized to accompany the armed forces, or unprivileged belligerents,” the manual states.
According to professor of Journalism at Georgetown University Chris Chambers, “It gives them [the US military] a license to attack or even murder journalists that they don’t particularly like,” or that are just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Russia Today is a real threat to US state propaganda as it reaches Americans “in their own homes, in perfect English, better than they use on CNN,” according to the filmmaker. In turn, Kusturica predicts, Moscow would destroy CNN, which he considers the flag-bearer of pro-American propaganda: “CNN in direct transmissions assures that since the 1990s America has been leading humanitarian actions, and not wars, and that its military planes rain angels, not bombs!”
Emir Kusturica, the 60-year-old Serbian filmmaker has been recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films. He has twice won the Palme d’Or at Cannes as well as being named Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
In the mid-2000s, Kusturica built Drvengrad (Woodentown), a whole town located in Serbia, for purpose of shooting his film. It is where he lives today, hosting the international film festival Kurstendorf.