The Guardian’s former Moscow correspondent and co-author of the book “Wikileaks: Inside Julian’s Assange’s War on Secrecy,” Luke Harding, has a withering take on the hacktivist’s new talk show on RT, which debuts tonight.  Whilst he might have scored a media coup with his choice of guest – Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Harding argues that any point Assange wants to make about defying power structures is hopelessly limited when his platform is a Kremlin-funded operation:

The mystery is why Assange should agree to become a pawn in the Kremlin’s global information war. Perhaps he needs the money. Assange’s anti-American agenda, of course, fits neatly with the Kremlin’s own. Russia prides itself on having undesirable allies; expect Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez or Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko on future shows. In Tuesday’s interview Nasrallah expressed support for the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad. By happy coincidence this is Moscow’s position.