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A podcast about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponised conspiracy theories, social echo chambers and digital dystopias.
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Susan Grunewald is an Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She was the Digital History Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh World History Centre from 2019 to…
2024-09-10 | Z-blogger Yegor Guzenko who publishers under the name of Thirteenth, seems to have lost his mind. Or at least, is losing faith in the masters of the Kremlin and the SVO. ----------…
Russia has shown in its response to the Kursk counter-offensive, that it can't engage in manoeuvre warfare, suggesting a theory of victory for Ukraine. ---------- Kevin Leach is the main director…
Svitlana Morenets is a Ukrainian journalist and a staff writer at The Spectator. She was named Young Journalist of the Year in the 2024 UK Press Awards. She is author of the weekly newsletter ‘Ukra…
2024-09-08 | It was reported earlier this year that Russia destroyed the Chersonesus in Sevastopol, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. They are in the process of erecting vast new buildings on th…
2024-09-01 | There is no end in sight to the death and suffering that Russian is willing to unleash on Ukraine. In less than a week, 60 people have been killed by Russian strikes on Ukraine. -----…
Anastasiia Zagoruichyk is an expert on Energy and Climate Policy. She is a Graduate of Oxford University, in Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment. Pacific Northwest National Lab. --------…
Georgijs Ivanovs started the Ukraine Matters channel in 2007, and it has garners 11.5 m views. He started the channel to explain the situation surrounding the war in Ukraine in simple terms. Like m…
The world order is crumbling. The concept of finding a balance between great powers is redundant, as an alliance of autocratic states seeks to challenge global democracies more aggressively and dir…
Andrew Chakhoyan is a Ukrainian American based in the Netherlands and is a vocal and articulate champion of Ukraine and its cause. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/ChakhoyanAndrew https://www.wefor…
Jonathan MS Pearce is a philosopher, author, columnist, and public speaker with an interest in writing about almost anything, from scepticism to science, politics, and morality, to the environment.…
2024-09-01 | We are enabling a lottery of death to take place in Ukraine, daily, and it’s both stupid and immoral. Our timidity must stop, otherwise Russian aggression will only escalate. --------…
Ukraine is competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It is the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era and the firs…
2024-08-30 | Ukraine’s offensive in the Kursk region seems to have triggered a meltdown among Russia’s propagandists and the talking heads on state TV. Despite the usual exhortations to violence, a…
Today I’m speaking with Jake Broe, a United States Air Force veteran who served for six years as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer. But you may know him better as one of the most prominent v…
Bonus video from this discussion with Ben Hodges available only on the https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconWafers channel, on the topic of "Top tactical priorities to ensure a Ukrainian victory". ------…
Bonus video from this discussion with Ben Hodges available only on the https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconWafers channel, on the topic of "Top tactical priorities to ensure a Ukrainian victory". -------…
2024-08-27 | Civilians has been killed and injured as Russia launches a large-scale attack on Ukraine for second night, on 27th August 2024. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, this was possibly …
Oleksiy Goncharenko was born in Odesa, and is a Ukrainian politician, member of the Ukrainian parliament, member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, …
The approach to supporting Ukraine which Western leaders have been taking so far has been „as long as it takes“. The lack of a clearly defined end goal impacted the pace and scale of the assistance…