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US Special Operations Forces Making Paper That Talks

BY PATRICK TUCKERTECHNOLOGY EDITOR READ BIO JUNE 27, 2018 Future psychological operations will airdrop the sheets to persuade targets to buck up or defect. Special operators have been looking for a way...

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Russia / Strategy Ad Hoc Media Update (37)

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Some quite remarkable reports emerging on Russia’s internal decay. Momentum gathering on Transnistria. Ukraine reports...

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Salisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (94)

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Possibly the most interesting Russia reports are the Muscovian reaction to a Ukrainian proposal to rename Russia to...

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Edward Snowden describes Russian government as corrupt

Wait.  What?  Edward, you’ve proven once that you are not trustworthy.  Then you ran and found someone to coddle you.  Do you know the old expression about not biting the hand that feeds you?  Oh, and...

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Panarin Claims Putin-Trump Summit Purpose Is To Jointly Fight The UK

An illustrative article, preceding the Putin-Trump summit, shows a rather bizarre actual purpose.   What is important in this article, is the Alt-Reality used to justify Russia absolutely hating the UK...

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The Great Russian Disinformation Campaign

One of the most unique and interesting concepts introduced here is “schizo-fascism”.  “Actual fascists calling their opponents ‘fascists,’ blaming the Holocaust on the Jews, treating the Second World...

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China Spends Big to Win Friends and Influence Across East Asia

 By Jason Koutsoukis, www.bloomberg.com June 27th, 2018 Beijing invested billions on financial diplomacy since 2000 More than 500 Confucius Institutes in Asia Pacific since 2004 China spent more than...

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China Will Lose The South China Sea Game

JUL 1, 2018 Panos Mourdoukoutas China wants to control the entire South China Sea. Every inch of it. That’s why will lose all of it, one day. In the South China Sea game, China is one player playing...

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Australia Strikes Back Against Beijing’s Influence Campaign (and America...

I am curious how “Jailer” can either quantify or qualify his statement that the Russian information warfare effort against the United States was, by any standard, a little league effort. Even a cursory...

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Americans may appreciate knowing when a news story is suspect, but more than...

What I find most disturbing about this story is the not-so-professional attitude of a CNN reporter, Hadas Gold, at the very end of the article.  In her tweet she says: What I find fascinating about the...

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Media Bias Chart version 3.1

I specifically do not agree with the placement of the Wall Street Journal, Time, and especially The Hill. CNN’s placement is curious, especially shading into the Incomplete story and Unfair Persuasion....

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Russian Journalists Fight Back Against Disinformation

2 July 2018 | News and analysis, Top Story Factory of Lies is the name of a new television documentary introducing a number of journalists who have uncovered the hidden processes of the disinformation...

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Securing Democracy Dispatch

July 2, 2018 News and Commentary Facebook and Twitter attempt to improve political advertising on their platforms:Facebook announced steps to further increase the transparency of ads and Pages on its...

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Russia Losing Religious War Against Ukraine

Yet another instrument of Russian Information Warfare and larger political warfare against Ukraine is religious warfare. In this case, using the Eastern Orthodox Churches, Russia tried to “unify”...

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Hosting World Cup helps lift ‘iron curtain of Russian sexuality’

Perhaps hosting the World Cup will not have the effect on the Russian citizenry as Putin intended.  Russian women may be learning that their men do not have to act hyper-macho, they can actually bathe,...

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To Report Or Not To Report, A Case Of Selective Coverage

Rand Paul is a Republican Senator, the Junior Senator from Kentucky, and was threatened in the vilest possible manner. The threats included: “gut you like a hog” and leave “your kids bowels splayed out...

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Salisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (95)

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russia’s alternate reality campaign continues, while another poisoning by an unknown substance in the Salisbury area...

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Europe dumps 300,000 UK-owned .EU domains into the Brexit bin

I don’t know if this is an immature move, a rash decision, or pissy on the part of the EC against the UK.  I often see .su domains, but the Soviet Union has been gone for 27 years.  Please excuse the...

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EW: Russia Establishes New Counter-UAV Unit

Jul 4, 2018 This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) Russia has been accelerating its counter-uav efforts. Its Ministry of Defense announced the creation of a new unit designed to counter...

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Army Electronic Warfare Prototypes Reach First CONUS Brigade

The Infantryman in me is groaning at the picture of the soldier wearing an EW rig, complete with a deployed H-Adcock antenna.  Can’t the system be put on a robot mule?   I’m curious how he is going to...

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