Deception: A New Weapon in Russia’s Arsenal, and It’s Inflatable
By ANDREW E. KRAMER OCT. 12, 2016 In a field outside Moscow, workers armed with little more than green fabric and air compressors are creating an imposing weapon. A sleek, slate-gray MIG-31 fighter jet...
View ArticleCIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia
I’d be interested in the Russian reaction to this article. Every cyber attack from now on will be attributed to the CIA targeting Russia. Get a virus? Blame the CIA. What is best about this article...
View ArticleDoD Is Losing the Online Fight to Win Hearts and Minds
By: Robert T. Hastings Jr., October 17, 2016 “ISIS gets the Internet and its audience in a way the U.S. government does not,” tech reporter Eric Geller wrote for The Daily Dot in March. What’s worse,...
View ArticleThe battle for Mosul is being streamed live on Facebook
Published: Oct 17, 2016 5:02 p.m. ET A battle that could stretch on for weeks By BARBARA KOLLMEYER MARKETS REPORTER Since being launched this summer, Facebook Live has been used to put up a variety of...
View ArticleMedia Bias And Fact Checking
In the midst of the US Presidential election of 2016, it is almost impossible to read real, fair, objective, and unbiased facts. Today, some of us were discussing the $6 Billion that was reportedly...
View ArticleMirai botnets linked to massive DDoS attacks on Dyn DNS, Flashpoint says
Teri Robinson, Executive Editor October 21, 2016 Mirai botnets like the ones recently used in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a French internet service provider and a well-known...
View ArticleGPS Devices Quit Working Near Kremlin
It’s also probably frustrating military targeting, too. Ya think? Can anyone spell Russian paranoia? </end editorial> Problem has frustrated those requesting taxis via services such as Uber...
View ArticlePoroshenko names conditions for Donbas elections Read more on UNIAN:...
REUTERS President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channels Sunday called the conditions required to hold local elections in Donbas region, among them the...
View ArticleMilitary Strategic Communication in Coalition Operations – A Practitioners...
Military Strategic Communication in Coalition Operations – A Practitioners Handbook This document was developed and written by the contributing nations and international organizations of the...
View ArticleINSIDE THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT: WAR, PROPAGANDA, CLINTON & TRUMP
Update: A comment prompted me to add this introduction. This article is decidedly pro-Kremlin, complete with claims opposing us here in the West. Unsubstantiated but, in this context, adding to the...
View ArticleI don’t have a clue about the 2016 election
An esteemed friend and colleague just said, and I quote, “it’s an onslaught”. I, quite frankly, am so overwhelmed by the biased press; by false, deceiving, and fabricated reports; with...
View ArticleRussia prepares for deep budget cuts that hit defence
Scale of cuts — to health, education and defence — shows how oil price slide has hit Russia is preparing to slash government spending across the board over the next three years as it struggles to...
View ArticleSurkovLeaks: 1GB mail cache retrieved by Ukrainian hacktivists
Media outlets like BBC, Guardian and the NYT should no longer call Russian military and mercenaries ‘rebels’ and ‘separatists’ after #SurkovLeaks. Don’t you all think it’s time to wake up to the fact...
View ArticleSurkovLeaks (part 2): hacktivists publish new email dump
More incriminating evidence against Russia. Surkov not only coordinated all Russian activities in Ukraine but also doubled as the Russian propaganda chief. Busy boy. </end editorial> ht to...
View ArticleShekhovtsov: This is not a new Cold War
I agree with many of the facts cited by the author, I even agree with many of his conclusions. I have problems with his overall conclusion, however. Russia is talking and acting like they’re in a...
View ArticleThe Daily Vertical: Decoding Lavrov
The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL. It’s a good idea to listen to what Sergei Lavrov has to say. The Russian foreign minister is, after all, the...
View ArticleWikiLeaks’ Assange denies Russia behind Podesta hack
“The Clinton camp has been able to project a neo-McCarthyist hysteria that Russia is responsible for everything,” Assange says. | Getty By POLITICO STAFF 11/03/16 08:56 AM EDT Updated 11/03/16 10:48...
View ArticleSonja Gloeckle: Measuring BBG’s impact around the world
Sonja Gloeckle is the IBB Director of Research. Working in close collaboration with the BBG network research directors, Sonja plans BBG research studies, sets research standards for vendors, reviews...
View ArticleRussia ‘not so strong’ inside EU as feared
Russian media denigrated the findings of an international probe into the MH17 disaster The possibility that the West, indeed the world, is aware that the Russian propaganda machine is churning out tons...
View ArticleThe media didn’t want to believe Trump could win. So they looked the other way.
Supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump cheer during an election-night event Nov. 8, 2016, in New York City, New York. (Ricky Carioti /The Washington Post) By Margaret Sullivan...
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