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Putin ‘Couldn’t Care Less’ If Russians Meddled In U.S. Election

Once again, Putin denies any culpability for what Russians have done. Not Russia, not Putin, nobody is responsible for creating, directing, and using the Russian “Troll Factory” as a weapon against the...

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NATO Grants Ukraine Status Of ‘Aspirant Country’

This is a gold star day for Ukraine in seeking closer ties with the West and for defending itself against Russia.  Russia, of course, will claim this as a provocation, an ever-increasing Eastern creep...

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Russian State TV Host Warns ‘Traitors’ After Skripal Poisoning

Russia has changed its tactic from a denial of responsibility to using the Skripal poisonings as a warning to future traitors.  Russia has not accepted or claimed responsibility, but this is a de facto...

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Pentagon Ju-Jitsu – reshaping the field of propaganda

Dr. Briant, in my opinion, is one of the foremost experts on propaganda in the world.  She is the author “Propaganda and Counter-terrorism: Strategies for Global Change“, which is well worth a detailed...

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Most major outlets have used Russian tweets as sources for partisan opinion:...

By Josephine Lukito and Chris Wells MARCH 8, 20181419 WORDS THE NEW YORK TIMES’S BARI WEISS was in the news again yesterday, this time for citing a hoax Twitter account as an example of liberal...

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Another Former Russian Intelligence Officer Poisoned in the UK (5) /...

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Eli Lake, amongst others previously, is making the unavoidable observation – Russia is conducting traditional state...

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Putin on US Election Meddling: “Maybe they are not even Russians but...

“Putin on US Election Meddling: “Maybe they are not even Russians but Ukrainians, Tatars or Jews …”” Oh my gosh.  He stuck his foot in his mouth and then started gnawing on his leg.  Hopefully, more of...

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Another Former Russian Intelligence Officer Poisoned in the UK (6)

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> No major developments overnight. Some very interesting editorials, commentaries and backfill reports. Karpichkov report is...

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I need your help to watch the preparation for the 2018 Russian presidential...

Friends, the 2018 Russian presidential election dates are from Mar 18, 2018 – Apr 8, 2018.  They start one week from today. I’m seeing preparations to silence any and all criticisms of Vladimir Putin,...

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Obama, Russia, and Rice

I do not want this blog to get political. But… Why did Rice tell US intel to stand down when the Russians began interfering with the US election? Why did Obama do nothing about Russian interference?...

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If War Comes, Russia Could Disconnect from the Internet. Yes, the Entire Country

BY PATRICK TUCKER TECHNOLOGY EDITOR 9 MARCH 2018 Robust internal networks will keep the military and government operating, says Putin’s top IT advisor. A two-year-old effort to allow the Russian...

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Putin says his spokesman ‘sometimes talks nonsense’

I guess it’s official, Dmitry Peskov is no longer the official spokesperson, because he ‘sometimes talks nonsense’.  Or not.  Tomorrow they may redefine what Putin meant by denying everything. If you...

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Another Former Russian Intelligence Officer Poisoned in the UK (7)

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> PM May stated today that the attack was conducted using a military grade agent of Russian origin, and that  “Either this...

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Another Former Russian Intelligence Officer Poisoned in the UK (8)

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> The Russian propaganda machine and political elites are very actively trying to shift the blame for the attack, including a...

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Gerasimov Threatens Action Against the US in Syria / SECSTATE and DCI Changes...

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russian bluster over the last three weeks may be directly related to the low polling scores for Putin in the pretend...

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Information operations officers get their own school

By: Stephen Losey for the Air Force Times Air Force officers in the newly formed 14Finformation operations career field will get their own technical training school in late fiscal 2019. In a March 5...

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Is propaganda Russia’s great export?

Dr. Azeem Ibrahim Russia fancies itself a great global power. Yet the country’s GDP in 2017 was smaller than that of Italy, Canada, even South Korea. To say nothing of how that GDP is generated: Russia...

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Russia threatens to ban British press if UK shuts down RT

BY LUIS SANCHEZ – 03/13/18 02:20 PM EDT Russia on Tuesday threatened to kick British media outlets out of the country after the U.K. threatened to do the same to Moscow-backed TV network RT in response...

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How Russia uses propaganda to discredit opponents

Video at http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-43389032/how-russia-uses-propaganda-to-discredit-opponents A BBC Panorama investigation has revealed how the Russian state uses surveillance and...

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Another Former Russian Intelligence Officer Poisoned in the UK (9)

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> PM May delivered her statement to the House. The measures are very reasonable, but do not go as far as advocated by some,...

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