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***QUICK NOTE: OUR HAPPY HOUR THIS WEEK IS ON WEDNESDAY WITH ZARINA ZABRISKY. DETAILS BELOW.***
Hello to all new and returning members. Thank you for making this work possible.
I had a recent realization that pro-democracy writers are competing for headline attention against very well-financed and coordinated ‘clickbait fascism’ and to write one-off reports on a subject that deserves multi-part exploration is to surrender in advance.
When initially interviewing Ukrainian historian Tetiana Boriak, it became quite obvious to me that there was more and more to mine from the richness of her work. The only sensible solution was invite her back and develop a four-part lecture and interview series. Our month-long event culminated with an audience participation Q&A.
While being interviewed by Adrian Goldberg for Byline Podcast on a Trump-Russia starter kit, I realized that it is going to be quite necessary in coming weeks for all of us to have a ready arsenal of good, concise information for those in our lives who are just now willing to accept that Russian has interrupted America’s self-determination through US proxies. Turning away from our beloved allies in Europe is no one’s American dream.
I realized that a multi-part series with New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger discussing the findings in his books on Trump-Russia would be incredibly beneficial to our community. Luckily, he agreed, and will be doing deep dives with us on his findings in House of Trump/House of Putin and American Kompromat.
So please calendar these upcoming events. And if you are not yet a paid member, please consider upgrading. The following events are open to all levels of paid membership. You will find each event’s registration below the paywall at the very bottom of this post:
Wednesday, December 10: Happy Hour with Zarina Zabrisky
War correspondent and filmmaker Zarina Zabrisky will be bringing us updates on her film Kherson: Human Safari, which I co-executive produced. She will also be informing our community about the global rallies that are set to take place next week in support of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine where people are under siege as Russian are hunting, terrorizing, and murdering civilians with drones. More information about the rallies here.
Sunday, December 14: Bette’s Speakeasy Series with Craig Unger, Part 1 — House of Trump, House of Putin
11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern
Sunday, December 21: Bette’s Speakeasy Series with Craig Unger, Part 2 — American Kompromat
11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern
Sunday, December 28: Bette’s Speakeasy Series with Craig Unger, Part 3 — A Q&A session
11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern
Registration for all events can be found by scrolling all the way to the end of this post.
More details about the Kherson global rallies:
WORLDWIDE RALLY
SAVE KHERSON - STOP HUMAN SAFARI
December 11–16
40 cities
4 continents
Bettendorf 🇺🇸 | London 🇬🇧 | Ottawa 🇨🇦 | Alicante 🇪🇸 | Birmingham 🇬🇧 | Dallas 🇺🇸 | Edinburgh 🇬🇧 | Kamloops 🇨🇦 | Leipzig 🇩🇪 | Málaga 🇪🇸 | Östersund 🇸🇪 | Paris 🇫🇷 | Prague 🇨🇿 | Rosendal 🇿🇦 | Schwerin 🇩🇪 | Sydney 🇦🇺 | Tallinn 🇪🇪 | Tranås 🇸🇪 | Barcelona 🇪🇸 | Berlin 🇩🇪 | Bonn 🇩🇪 | Bremen 🇩🇪 | Chicago 🇺🇸 | Copenhagen 🇩🇰 | Denver 🇺🇸 | Fort Worth 🇺🇸 | Munich 🇩🇪 | New York 🇺🇸 | Plovdiv 🇧🇬 | San Francisco 🇺🇸 | Tarragona 🇪🇸 | The Hague 🇳🇱 | Vienna 🇦🇹 | Helsinki 🇫🇮
https://humansafari.org/
#StopHumanSafari #SaveKherson
#HumansAreNotTargets
More about Zarina Zabrisky:
An award-winning author of five books, Zarina Zabrisky is a U.S. journalist reporting from the frontlines in Ukraine as a war correspondent for Byline Times (UK). She has contributed to BBC News, CBC Radio, Voice of America, TVP World, The Sunday Post, Times of India, and more. In 2023, she co-produced and starred in the award-winning documentary Under the Deadly Skies, exposing Russian war crimes. Her literary work has appeared in The Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Longreads, Guernica, Rumpus, and other publications, earning honors such as the 2013 Acker Award. She is a member of Pen America. Born in the USSR and having spent most of her life in San Francisco, she moved to Ukraine following the full-scale Russian invasion. Her latest film, Kherson: Human Safari, is screening globally and can viewed here.
More about Craig Unger’s work here:
Craig Unger is the New York Times bestselling author of six books on the Republican Party’s assault on democracy, including House of Bush, House of Saud; House of Trump, House of Putin, and now Den of Spies, a real life political thriller about how master spy William Casey put together a treasonous covert operation in 1980 that hijacked American foreign policy and stole the election for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
A graduate of Harvard University, Craig began his career in journalism as an undergraduate editor of The Harvard Crimson. In 1976, he moved to France as co-owner/editor of The Paris Metro, a celebrated biweekly English-language city magazine in the French capital. In the Eighties, as senior editor at New York Magazine, Craig wrote and edited major features on subjects ranging from medicine to pop culture, architecture, and politics. Over the years, his work has appeared in The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, The Independent, and many other publications. He also served as a contributing editor for Vanity Fair where he covered national security and foreign affairs for more than 15 years.
You can check out his collection of investigative reporting on Trump-Russia and the Republican party’s war on democracy here by ordering his books here:
Read more about the Trump-Russia Timeline and Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian ties on Craig Unger’s substack here:
And please read and share this Q&A from my last interview with him:
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