Silicon Curtain
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A podcast about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponised conspiracy theories, social echo chambers and digital dystopias.
1984, Authoritarian, Autocracy, Autocrat, Big Brother, Brainwashing, Cold war, Cold war propaganda, Communism, Conflict, Conspiracy theories, Control, Cults, Cyber warfare, Deception, Dictator, Dictatorship, Digital dystopia, Digital media, Disinformation, Echo chambers, Economic sanctions, Fascist, Fake news, Foreign correspondents, Foreign policy, Fossil fuel sanctions, George Orwell, History, Hybrid warfare, Industrial disinfo
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 1047
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
556. Terrell Jermaine Starr - Russia Treated as 1st Tier Adversary but Ukraine Often as a 2nd Tier Ally
African American journalist Terrell Jermain Starr sees the Story of Ukrainian resilience as a Black experience. Russia is not only a colonial state, but it’s also a supremacist state, he says. Terr…
557. Mark Toth and Jon Sweet - Ukraine Given Enough Weapons to Survive and not Lose War on Biden’s Watch.
Too little too late. Slow walking munitions for Ukraine over three years has ensured the war becomes a long, attritional grind. In that time Ukraine has lost some of its bravest and brightest warri…
555. Kira Rudik - 1000 Days of Struggle Against Invasion - Recorded at the National Liberal Club London
This video and the audio recording were made at an event at the Liberal Club in London on 20th November 2024. The event was kindly organised by the Liberal Democrat Friends of Ukraine. ---------- …
Silicon Bites #64 - Russia's Geopolitical Strategy of Terror and Trauma Learned from Golden Horde
Edition No64 | 24-11-2024 - Russia stands accused of firing the first intercontinental ballistic missile to be used against an adversary at war. The horror is even starker, as the missile was not u…
Silicon Bites #63 - Putin’s Plan was to Erase Ukraine in 2022 and Likely has not Changed in 3 years.
Edition No63 | 23-11-2024 - Documents from the first weeks of Putin’s invasion have been obtained by Russian investigative unit Systema. They reveal aspects of the plan to render post-war Ukraine p…
553. Konstantin Samoilov - Why There is no Effective Opposition to Putin's Regime, the 'Liberal' Opposition are Divided and Discordant.
Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose cha…
554. Operator Starsky - ATACMS Approved by US- Are Days of Putin's Pride Project Kerch Bridge Numbered?
Today I’m speaking with Operator Starsky, a former Ukrainian National Guardian, blogger, and inspiration for everyone who is following the war, and supporting a Ukrainian victory. He has created on…
552. Konstantin Samoilov - Russian Infrastructure, Industry & Economy "On the Precipice of Total Collape"
Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose cha…
Silicon Bites #62 - It's ATACMS O'Clock in Kursk Region as War Reaches Another Terrible Anniversary.
Edition No62 | 19-11-2024 - Scholz's call with Putin risks opening a 'Pandora's Box,' warns Zelensky. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's has been calling Putin again, and it risks opening a "Pandora's…
551. Stephen Douglas - Trump Destined to be Manipulated and Abused by Putin and to Betray his Interests
Stephen Douglas is a self-described expert in combat propaganda (is a former diplomat), and creator of Decoding Trolls and Disinfolklore. The latter has been described in a Byline Times review as a…
550. Ian Williams - Xi Jinping and CCP's Surveillance State is Destroying Growth in the Chinese Economy
Ian Williams is an author and award-winning journalist - a long-time foreign correspondent in Russia, China and the Far East, where he worked for Channel 4 News and NBC. He is the author of Fire of…
Silicon Bites - #61 - If he Chooses to There are More than 10 Ways Trump can Completely Screw Russia
Edition No61 | 15-11-2024 - This episode focuses on opportunities for the Trump administration to win in Ukraine. It does not mean he will adopt them or be minded to embrace similar measures. Only …
548. Joseph Lindsley - Ukraine Doesn't Fear Return of Trump Due to Weakness of Biden Support
Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger…
549. David DeBatto - Slide into Chaotic American Autocracy may be Unavoidable - The Time to Resist is Now
David DeBatto is host of the ‘No Delusion Zone’ podcast . He is a retired U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, a geopolitical analyst, writer, and podcaster. David is an Iraq war veteran w…
547. Anna Danylchuk - Ukraine Hits Russia Where it Hurts Targeting Ethanol Factories
GUEST: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims …
545. John Lough - The Four Possible Outcomes to the Ukraine War and Russia's Ambitions to Target Europe
The international response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine remains inadequate to the task of achieving a full victory and often lags dangerously behind requirements. There is now a fear …
490. Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi - Global Risk from Disinformation and Innovating Resilient Scalable Solutions
Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi is CEO at OpenMinds and of the Kyiv-based Open Minds Institute. He is an expert at countering influence operations and disinformation. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/s_hni…
542. Stephanie Baker - Punishing Putin's Regime Financially may be Most Effective Route to Ending the War
Stephanie Baker is a Senior Writer at Bloomberg, covering the intersection of business and politics. She has also written for The Moscow Times and Radio Free Europe. Stephanie is author of a fantas…
544. Benjamin Tallis - Lack of Leadership and Will in Europe Risks Another Munich and Defeat of Ukraine
For nearly a thousand days, Ukraine has resisted full-scale Russian aggression: the heroism of its armed forces and its people stand as an example to all free nations. But as the US has delivered T…
Silicon Bites - #60 - The 10% Ally. Will Trump be Any Better? Is Stark Reality Better than Delusion?
Edition No60 | 07-11-2024 - This is a piece I had planned on writing as a rebuke to Biden administration, in the event of a Kamala Harris victory. Perhaps the topic becomes even more urgent now, as…