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
- 1048
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
441. Konstantin Samoilov - US Secondary Sanctions Hit Russian Economy Hard and May Affect Military Production
Monthly conversation with Konstantin Samoilov of the @INSIDERUSSIA channel. US expands Russia secondary sanctions, prohibits supply of IT services, extends export controls, and designates over 30…
439. Aliide Naylor - The Baltics are Vital Democracies that Border a Revanchist Russia Ruled by a Tyrant.
Aliide Naylor is a British journalist, author, and editor who has specialised in Russia and frontline European nations since 2011. Her freelance reportage has been published by a variety of outlets…
440. Dimko Zhluktenko - Tech Entrepreneurs are Helping Accelerate the Military Tech Revolution in Ukraine
An ordinary Ukrainian trying to help his country. He runs Dzyga's Paw to purchase tech equipment for 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Defenders. He is a former software engineer, in civilian life. ---------- LINKS: …
2024-06-08 | Vassal State: What China Gives Russia - Original video by Vladimir Milov | Translation
2024-06-08 | What China Gives Russia by Vladimir Milov | Translated from the original Russian by Jonathan Fink ---------- What did Putin agree with Xi Jinping during his visit to China, and what i…
434. Maksym Kononenko - Ukraine Pushes for a Just, Sustainable and Equitable Peace to End Russia's War.
Today I’m speaking with the Ambassador of Ukraine to Estonia, His Excellency Maksym Kononenko. The Ambassador is preparing for the upcoming Global Peace Summit in Switzerland on June 15-16. And thi…
438. Taras Zhovtenko - Unpacking the Authoritarian Toolkit of Propaganda that Russia Exports to the World
Disinformation continues to be a threat to Ukrainian sovereignty and is also targeted at Western democracies and allies of Ukraine. Around the world aggressive information warfare threatens informa…
437. Ecocide Campaign - On this day in 2023 Russia Committed Ecocide when it Destroyed the Kakhovka Dam
IN MEMORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF KAKHOVKA DAM Friends and fellow activists, This is vitally important, and unfortunately has not received nearly enough media attention, either at the time the crime…
Silicon Bites #48 - Pressure Building to Prosecute Putin's Genocidal Propagandists from Russian TV.
Edition No48 | 09-06-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependen…
2025-05-29 | How Putin Destroyed Luhansk - Original video by Michael Naki | Translation from Russian
2025-05-29 | Michael Naki | How Putin Destroyed Luhansk ---------- Russian propaganda has been trying for 10 years to pretend that there was no Russian invasion of Donbass. That in fact, a civil …
436. Olena Tregub - Are Allies Finally Starting to Back Ukraine to Win not Merely to Survive the Invasion
Olena Tregub is a Ukrainian expert in policy analysis, policy design and reform implementation, with a special focus on corruption prevention in economic and security sectors. Since 2017 Olena has …
435. Michael Andersen & Brian Bonner - Two Grumpy Old Men Fighting the Disinformation War for Ukraine.
Today I am speaking with "Two Grumpy Old Men”, Michael Andersen and Brian Bonner who seasoned Ukraine watchers and have teamed up to create a video and Substack blog "Two Grumpy Old Men On Ukraine.…
433. Joseph Lindsley - Ukraine is Showing NATO how to do NATO, in Defending the Bleeding Edge of Freedom.
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…
432. Kevin Leach - Canadian Instructor Training Ukraine's Assault Troops How to Come Back from War Alive.
Kevin Leach is the main director for Sabre Training Advisory Group, a professional military training non-profit. Their aim is to give Ukrainian defenders the skills to come home alive. Kevin is a C…
431. Anna Danylchuk - US Does not Want Ukraine to Lose, but Absurdly, Neither Does it Want Russia to Lose
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 …
Silicon Bites #47 - Tax Hikes are Now Being Used to Scrape Together Cash to Fund Putin's Idiotic War
Edition No47 | 03-06-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependen…
419. Alexander Etkind - Curse of the Petrostate - What is Connection Between Oil, War, and Climate Crisis
What is the connection between oil, war, and climate crisis? In a long article “Oil, climate and war: The curse of the petrostate”, Alexander Etkind explores the tendency of authoritarian petrostat…
430. Garry Kasparov - US and German Micromanaging of How Ukraine Conducts the War Risks Failure & Defeat.
The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. In the intervenin…
429. Galina Ackerman - Putin Appears to be a Badly Programmed Set of Autocratic Responses and Aggressions
Galina Ackerman is Editor in Chief at Desk Russia, and is a French writer, historian, journalist, translator, and researcher at the University of Caen, specializing in Ukraine and Post-Soviet state…
426. Lubomyr Luciuk - Secrets from the Archives of Stalin's Soviet Counter-Insurgency Ukraine Operations.
Perhaps the most perverse Russian invasion narrative, is that Ukraine is not old, and is not distinct from Russia in any case. But Ukraine is not just a footnote to Russian imperial history. As a n…
428. Robin Horsfall - Putin Won't Stop Attacking Ukraine and Testing Europe Until he's Stopped by Force.
GUEST: Robin Horsfall, soldier, writer, campaigner and keynote speaker. ---------- The war in Ukraine continues despite a lack of media interest. Russian forces have made repeated assaults along th…