REGISTRATION: Founder's Day with Joni Askola
Founding members and veteran members: Please register for our Founder’s Day event on Sunday, April 27, 10 am Pacific with geopolitical analyst Joni Askola
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Author’s note: When I learned a Wisconsin judge was arrested today, I literally could not breathe. It does not matter that I wrote how all this would play out in my investigative series on Nazi Germany, it still leveled me. As America is in what Ruth Ben-Ghiat calls ‘authoritarian territory’, I keep turning my lens to Europe to see where we can get help.—hsc
Founding members, longtime members, and donors are invited to Bette’s Founder’s Day with geopolitical analyst Joni Askola, Sunday, 4/27, 10 am Pacific:
I invited geopolitical analyst Joni Askola to join us on Sunday to discuss his recent op-ed: Europe Is Already at War.
Among the important pieces of his op-ed is how democratic nations are handiapped when the reality of Russia’s attacks are ignored:
Russia is also waging a very successful hybrid war on other European countries through sabotage, cyberattacks, assassinations, economic warfare, intimidation, and disinformation campaigns. This war started long before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
I’m increasingly convinced that our failure to help Ukraine sufficiently is mostly due to most Europeans not admitting to themselves that we are at war with Russia.
By ignoring this reality, we handicap ourselves.
By ignoring the reality of Russia’s attacks on the US, judges are now getting arrested in America.
Just like we helped save Europe from the Nazis, we now need Europe’s help to save us from US and Russia state terrorism by first helping save Ukraine and their own democracies.
Please keep scrolling for registration. In addition, all paid members are invited to our Tuesday Happy Hour April 29, with Monique Camarra at noon Pacific. Registration for that event will be sent out on Sunday.
More about Joni Askola:
Joni Askola is a Finnish PhD candidate, geopolitical analyst, and activist who has lived in various locations, including Russia. He works to combat Russian disinformation, fight against authoritarianism, and defend democracies, both online and through fundraising efforts for Ukraine with an organization called Help99. To support Joni's fundraising for the war effort in Ukraine, go here. You will find his YouTube show here.
You can find his threads on the following socials:
Look forward to seeing many of you on Sunday. And please recall, Founding memberships default to $210, but I have it set so you can create your own price at any rate above a full annual membership, so for some of you that will only be a few bucks. I do not paywall my work here, so your memberships are everything to me. Thank you as always for supporting my work.
In solidarity, reality, truth, and unity,
Heidi xo
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