12 Reports to Defend Minds from the Collective Attack on Reality
A collection of key investigations that expose Russia’s ongoing active measures
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“‘Russia Russia Russia’ was excellent propaganda. But sadly, Russian interference in the West is ongoing. We’ve been under sustained attack from hybrid warfare in the US for a decade, and we are perilously close to losing not only our democracy, but our minds.”—Heidi Siegmund Cuda for Bette Dangerous
First, I want to offer my condolences. Many of you found your way here because you lost people in your lives. I’m sorry. It hurts.
It’s real grief, and it’s real loss.
To see minds altered from the collective attack on reality, the rage farming, the Fox outrage factory, the Kremlin lie factories, the Christian nationalist lie factories, the online portals that lure decent people down rabbit holes, strip them of their empathy, and send them back into society more racist, more extremist, talking about ‘demoncrats’ and ‘conspiracies’, attacking anyone who challenges their new world views — views that are hateful and that point away from Putin being the problem.
‘Johnny get your gun! The baby murderin’ demoncrats are coming for ‘em!’
They didn’t come to that lie on their own — to have millions conclude a lie, there has to be active measures.
“The thing that is important to point out in the United States is the collective attack on reality.”—Paul Niland, founder Lifeline Ukraine
I just learned from our new friend in Georgia that pro-Russian propagandists like Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, are invaluable to the Kremlin — having Americans do their work for them is more useful than Russian-speaking propagandists.
“It’s difficult sometimes to detect Russia’s footprint when they are using Tucker Carlson’s video. It’s more convincing when you have an English speaker delivering the same messages rather than listening to RT or Sputnik.”
—Tamar Kintsurashvili, Ep97 RadPod
Tamar helps educate young people on media literacy and how to identify harmful content, which is why her organization is being targeted with the new “Russian law” in Georgia.
In the US, it appears that no one is coming to save us from harmful content and active measures. The best we can do is help others to help others, in an attempt to hold the line on minds we have not yet lost.
I stay sane in the work, interviewing the best minds in clarifying and understanding information warfare, and thankfully, these global experts are giving of their time and expertise. They, too, need allies to stay sane.
There are no rear areas in an information war, and even very brilliant people are not immune to the manipulations of psychological warfare.
Below is a collection of some of my more important and comprehensive investigations on this topic. Please read and share with loved ones. Some may already be resistant to facts but early intervention is key.
1. Unmusked: How Elon Musk is Using Twitter to Destroy the Concept of Objective Truth
2. The Rolling Insurrection: How Putin is Waging a Covert War Against the West
3. Suspended from X.Com: The Cult of the Genius Tech Bro
4. Agitation and Propaganda: Russian Indicted for Using US Political Groups as Foreign Agents
5. A ‘Brainwashed Death Cult’: The Gamification of Conspiracy
6. 2016 ELECTION ATTACK SERIES: The Greatest Crime In American History — Parts 1 - 5
7. THE PROPAGANDISTS: American Monsters
8. The Invisible War
9. Russian Spies vs Pro-Kremlin Influencers
(This report is paywalled. If you are not yet a member of Byline Supplement, please reach out to bettedangerous/gmail, and I can send upon request)
10. ‘Reds Under the Bed’ — Russia’s War On Everybody
11. Into the Mists of Time
12. An Urgent PowerPoint
I am haunted by the words of my Russian-born friend, who tells me people in Russia no longer recognize reality.
While we are still able to think for ourselves and to speak truth to power, I believe it is civic duty to do so.
‘Russia Russia Russia’ was excellent propaganda. But sadly, Russian interference in the West is ongoing. We’ve been under sustained attack from hybrid warfare in the US for a decade, and we are perilously close to losing not only our democracy, but our minds.
And to that point, here is a bonus report, and really, this should have been the first investigation on the list, because it details where Kremlin and US extremists originally connected and how those ties led to the attempted overthrow of democracy:
The Network: The American and Russian ‘Moralists’ Behind the January 6 Insurrection
Attempts are ongoing.
Thank you as always for your support of this work. When we defeat the latest wave of global fascism, it will be because of what people like us do.
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