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We are losing the information war — an undeclared war that is actual war, a fact still lost on the global majority. When I say “we” I am referring to anyone who is pro-democracy. Transnational organized crime has infected the information space, and it affects all of us.
So the best we can do is launch counteroffensives. I consider the series I am writing about the work of Ukrainian historian Tetiana Boriak a counteroffensive.
Please share the first report in the series with your networks, as she explains how Russia uses everything as a weapon — history, religion, words, art, music, films, books — and I am watching Trump’s criminal cell do the same. Up becomes down, good becomes bad, and we’re just supposed to take it.
When I first decided to publicly fight this war on September 17, 2016, I always believed my pen would be enough. I never doubted that truth would win out over lies. I still believe that. I see Trump’s Achilles heel — his ties to pedo-wrangler Jeffrey Epstein — getting more infected each day, now infecting his entire regime. But they are very practiced at the art of information warfare. They have the Kremlin on their team, and as Tetiana Boriak taught us, reading from a report by one of the Kremlin’s chief architects, the goal is the “elimination of self consciousness,” to change the “mental civilizational foundation of the enemy’s society.” The task of the “cognitive warfare is to deprive the object of influence of sovereignty” and how “one can destroy the state and liquidate the country by having changed self consciousness, outlook, values and priorities of the society.”
Daunting, I know. But we are dealing with criminals, and many parts of the world — namely Europe — still have countries that believe in the rule of law. We must lean on them.
So it is my honor to announce that Tetiana Boriak is returning for two more Bette’s Speakeasy events:
Sunday, November 23: A Holodomor Remembrance.
3 am Pacific, 6 am Eastern
Sunday, November 30: Lessons from the Executed Renaissance
11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern
Registration for both events can be found by scrolling all the way to the end of this post, below the paywall.
I am also grateful that cultural anthropologist Stephen Douglas of Decoding Trolls and Disinfolklore, who initially led me to Boriak’s work, will be co-hosting both events. For a briefing on the Holodomor — Stalin’s man-made famine — read my first report with Boriak (above), and for a briefing on the Executed Renaissance, check out this report.
More about Tetiana Boriak’s work here:
Tetiana Boriak – refugee from the Russian war, Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences (Dr. habil.) (2024), PhD in History (2008), Associate Professor, Researcher at History Faculty, Vilnius University (Lithuania). Received her MA in History from Kansas University (Lawrence, KS, 2004–2006). She specializes in Holodomor, Soviet totalitarianism, memory studies and social history. Author of three books, two awards: “Oral History as a Source for Holodomor Studies: Formation of Eyewitness Testimony Collections and their Informative Value” (2024; Research Prize of the Rector of Vilnius University 2024 for “significant research work”); “1933: “Why Are You Still Alive?” (2016; the all-Ukrainian award “the Book of the Year” (2016, nomination “History”, category “Research/Documents”). MSCA4Ukraine (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for Ukraine) Fellow (2025–2027). In 2013–2014 Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University (Ukrainian Research Institute, Boston, MA). Author of 90 articles of them about 40 articles on Holodomor. In 2010–2017 was an assistant of the journalist, researcher, columnist of the Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum in the project of preparation of an English-language book about the Holodomor in Ukraine for a Western audience: “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine” (2017; two awards). Host of the historical educational program “History with meat” (2017– February 2022) – about 70 episodes, available on YouTube. Editorial board member of several journals and a member of several historical professional associations. Participated in more than 70 conferences.
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