Russia / Strategy Media Update – 10 June 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russia again dominating MSM and many of the reports are yet again truly bizarre – Federation Council President Valentina...
View ArticleWill Roper & Nicholas Thompson: The Future of Warfare – SXSW 2017
I HATE to watch videos (but not as much as I hate audio recordings) because they normally drone on or are consumed with something, but this was quite interesting. Will Roper, the director of the...
View ArticleForget Comey. The Real Story Is Russia’s War on America
Why are we focusing on who leaked what to whom, when our democracy is under siege? By MOLLY K. MCKEW June 11, 2017 It was a breezy, surprisingly pleasant summer week in Washington as the frenzy around...
View ArticleTHE RUSSIANS ARE HERE
JUNE 11, 2017 PAULR Good thing I checked. Reading the New York Times this morning I almost coughed out my breakfast cereal on the sight of the following full page ad on page 7: What was the...
View Article‘Putin Interviews’ as much about Oliver Stone as Russian leader
Oliver Stone is a nonapologetic Russian promoter, for the most part. This interview is no different. Putin is not confronted about his illegal annexation of Crimea, about why he believes it is...
View ArticleRussia / Strategy Media Update – 11 June 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russia’s internal meltdown continues, with expectations that next week’s planned protests will be larger than earlier ones....
View ArticleCountering terrorist propaganda online
GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star) | Updated June 12, 2017 – 12:00am Expelling the remnant Mautes from Marawi City by Independence Day today would make for fine PR, but pyrrhic if to cost...
View ArticleNavalny Video Accusing Medvedev Of Corruption Posted On Government Websites
June 11, 2017 16:21 GMT RFE/RL A video accusing Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of corruption was published on two government websites on June 11, one day ahead of planned nationwide...
View ArticleNavalny Set To Lead Nationwide Rallies On June 12 To Protest Russian Corruption
It appears the posting of the Medvedev corruption videos may be part of the preparations for tomorrow’s anti-corruption marches. Russia will most likely arrest Navalny again. But the world is watching...
View ArticleRussia / Strategy Media Update – 12 June 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russia’s internal crackdown / meltdown continues, with Navalniy’s protests across 200 cities and towns producing big...
View ArticleHow Russia Targets the U.S. Military
Full disclosure, I am quoted in this article. The subject was Veterans Today, a site I began listing as a Russian Proxy propaganda website back in 2015 on Russian News, Russian Proxy News Sites And...
View ArticleRussia: mass protest arrests show authorities’‘stranglehold’ on free expression
Amnesty International UK 12 Jun 2017, 06:25pm ‘The right to peaceful assembly is guaranteed by the Russian Constitution, though you wouldn’t know it from the alarming scenes today’ – Denis Krivosheev A...
View Article‘Spoiling the holiday’ How Moscow riot police handled Alexey Navalny’s...
See also: Moscow court sentences Alexey Navalny to 30 days in jail Meduza 17:24 Mon, 12 Jun Russia coverage is minimal, stating that Navalny was arrested for holding an unsanctioned rally. Navalny...
View ArticleRussian Warlike Words Versus Reality, But Wait, Bad Machine Translation!
I read the following alarming headline in RIA.ru, part of the official Russian propaganda outlet, RIA Novosti. Moscow is the enemy of Washington, said the head of the US Joint Staff This I found fairly...
View ArticleRussia is targeting the US military with fake Facebook profiles of gorgeous...
Daniel Brown 12 June 2017 When Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the studios of state-owned media outlet Russia Today in 2013, he reportedly instructed them to break “the Anglo-Saxon monopoly on...
View ArticleThe Kremlin’s Newest Hybrid Warfare Asset: Gangsters
Russia and other states have taken to hiring street gangs and thugs to do the sort of dirty work that even spies don’t want to touch. 12 June 2017 Mark Galeotti Following the WannaCry ransomware...
View ArticleRussia / Strategy Media Update – 13 June 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russia has produced a minor tsunami of MSM traffic, of which only about a quarter deals specifically with yesterday’s...
View ArticleAmbassador Alberto M. Fernandez joins BBG as president of the Middle East...
BBG Public Affairs June 13, 2017 WASHINGTON – The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) today announced that Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez will join the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. (MBN)...
View ArticleThe United States Is Struggling In The Information Environment
Anytime I have a conversation with anyone who is not conversant in Inform and Influence Operations, Information Operations, Public Diplomacy, Strategic Communications, International Broadcasting, or...
View ArticleFacing limits of remote hacking, Army cybers up the battlefield
Army prepares for a less friendly electronic battlespace, embeds cyber in units. SEAN GALLAGHER – 6/13/2017, 6:45 AM The US military and intelligence communities have spent much of the last two decades...
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