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Xi and Putin are entering a dangerous time in the life cycle of dictators.

The most exciting explanations for Niger’s upheaval are globe-sweeping and probably wrong....

On this special sneak peak of the Russia Contingency, Mike sat down with Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, to discuss the findings from their recent research trip to Ukraine. The conversation covered Russian defensive lines, the role that mines have played in stymying Ukraine's counteroffensive,...

Geopolitics Decanted by Silveradoby podcast@silverado.org (Patrick Gray, Michael Kofman, Rob Lee, Dmitri Alperovitch), Friday, July 14, 2023 6:11 AM

South Africa’s deputy president says Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to attend an economic summit in South Africa next month but the country is trying to persuade him to stay away to avoid the legal and diplomatic fallout over his international arrest warrant

By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan...

Information is easy to find — but trust is harder.

I like using RSS. I experimented with trying to get threads accounts into my RSS reader using the Mastodon method but just added .rss to the user's page. Unfortunately doesn't work....

Consumers are winning from the streaming revolution but across most of Hollywood, the businesses churning out TV and movies are losing. From a report: Services such as Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+ and Max have become the default entertainment options for homes across America rather than cable, savin...

"India, a critical security partner of the United States, now buys huge amounts of Russian oil, purchasing one of every two barrels shipped at sea."...

The Reddit Protest Is a Battle for the Soul of the Human Internet...

Kateryna Stepanenko, Riley Bailey, Nicole Wolkov, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 13, 2023, 8:35pm ET....

Frances Elizabeth Hayward was the first woman to unofficially complete the Comrades Marathon in 1923, during a time when the race was only open to white men....

Apollo has become the center of a platform-wide fight between Reddit and its users.

The ministry said Russian individuals and companies were tied to the creation in late May of a fake version of the ministry website to publish a false announcement of a “security tax” to support the Ukraine war.

Millions of people are contributing billions of views to chopped up movies and films, parcelled up and delivered to TikTok users’ homepages in random order. It's turning the platform into an ad hoc streaming service — and leading to the meme-ification of narrative.

France says it has uncovered a major disinformation campaign waged by Russia, involving the posting of false news items hostile to Ukraine made to look like they had been published by prominent French news organizations.

Kateryna Stepanenko, Karolina Hird, Grace Mappes, Nicole Wolkov, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 12, 2023, 5:20pm ET Click here to se...

National broadcaster says thousands of articles will be reviewed after pro-Kremlin phrasing added to at least 16 Ukraine war reports

Come and see why the former president is nailed dead to rights.

Ukraine is using its new arsenal of Western tanks and armored vehicles in what is expected to be one of the largest military operations in Europe since World War II.

"Battle plans for an attack on another country or Defense Department documents about our capabilities are in no universe Donald J. Trump's personal documents," he said.

Grace Mappes, Nicole Wolkov, Kateryna Stepanenko, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 11, 2023, 6:40pm ET Click here to see ISW’s inte...

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