REMINDER: Bette’s Happy Hour with Monique Camarra — ‘War Comes to the Campus’ + Practicing Better ‘News Hygiene’

Bette members — please register for Tuesday’s Happy Hour at noon PT, May 7, with geopolitical analyst Monique Camarra, as she updates us on unfolding events in Europe and helps guide us on news intake

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Thank you so much to all the new members and those upgrading their memberships! We’ve got six hard months ahead of us, and your support is everything to me.

Looking so forward to the return of Monique Camarra today, Tuesday, May 7, noon, PT.

Monique suggests we review this polling report from Axios in advance of our meeting. The poll reveals that most US college students “shrug at nationwide campus protests,” and the survey reveals they don’t blame Biden for the current situation in Gaza. Below is a screenshot she sent me on college students priorities.

The geopolitical analyst will be walking us through the findings of her latest investigation — War Comes to the Campus — where she reports from Italy on campus protests and some of the nefarious pro-Kremlin characters involved, and some of the ties she found to the 2022 trucker protests and historic operations from 1968.

Camarra’s EuroFile is a vital aggregator of important reporting on Russia’s war in Ukraine, and I am looking forward to an update from her on the countries now committed to arming Ukraine. In addition, I asked her to help our community with what I call “news hygiene” — how we can best consume news in a time of accelerating propaganda.

Byline Supplement — News Hygiene: Protecting Yourself from Media Slime

Camarra will help us “focus on the macro and not the micro, cut out the noise, learn to put things in their right perspective, weigh information, read things that are upsetting but with a detached eye of investigation and annotation (set emotions aside), understand that we are the first and last line of defence in democracy.”

For those new to Bette:

Based in Italy, geopolitical analyst Monique Camarra produces the EuroFile news roundup on the war in Ukraine and key stories from Europe, as well as cohosts Kremlin File with Olga Lautman.

Looking forward to seeing many of you on in just less than two hours, and excited and grateful to welcome new members to our community events!

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We will be meeting at the same time next Tuesday to introduce our community to Kyiv-based reporter and founder of Lifeline Ukraine, Paul Niland.

If you haven’t yet viewed RadPod’s latest interview with Camarra, please do so here:

RadPod Ep95: Widening the Lens with Monique Camarra

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‘Hold Your Nerve’ — A Q & A with War Photojournalist Paul Conroy

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