The Road to Re-Freedom: RadPod Interviews from Ukraine, UK, Canada, Lithuania, and the US
Catching up on recent interviews from my podcast team with experts who understand how to bring back freedom — it starts with not capitulating
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As the world darkens, retracts, and revolts against authoritarian capture, my podcast team RADICALIZED Truth Survives never stops producing valuable content.
We have the unluxury of being wildly independent, unfunded by billionaire oligarchs with black hearts, but free to speak truth to power. Mike Flynn and Kash Patel tried to silence my cohost Jim Stewartson with lawfare, but they don’t know Jim.
My other cohost High Fidelity was stalked at work by anonymous threats referencing ‘journalist Tim Pool’ — now known to be paid huge amounts of cash from Russian military intelligence cutouts. The threats resulted in HiFi losing a high-level technology job. Simultaneously, he got banned from Twitter after a complaint by Russian oligarch Sergey Grishin, who didn’t like HiFi exposing his network ties to Silicon Valley.
And me? I endured a Project Veritas hit job designed to destroy me both online and in real life, while targeting my credibility as a reporter. I endured death threats, tortious interference, and character assassinations by a cabal of internet terrorists, among them, childhood acquaintances from Catholic school.
This work we do is not for the weak of heart.
Praying for Empathy
As luck should have it, I walked into Notre Dame cathedral at the same moment the new Pope was announced, and I took a few moments to pray for a global infusion of empathy.
What the world needs now.
In this war on empathy, I thought it might be useful to Bette members to catch up on recent RadPod interviews. I am proud of our legacy and continued excellence. We are lo-fi, but the content is valuable.
We have always done this work as civic duty. We have always boxed above our weight, and recent interviews with intellectual historian Marci Shore, author Brooke Harrington, former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, investigative reporter Craig Unger, author/filmmaker/war correspondent Zarina Zabrisky, author Katherine Stewart, Russian propaganda whistleblower Steven Lacey, and Byline Times columnist and NHS activist Russell Jones are worthy of your time.
Please see the links below, and please share our work with your networks. I am continually shocked by what people do not know about the reality of our time.
I’ve been an investigative reporter since my first internship with the Point Reyes Light while a J-School student at UC Berkeley. Asking questions and then spending a half day trying to come up with solutions has been my MO for four decades. My training in both broadcast news and print journalism prepared me well for this work as an independent investigative reporter in a time of grave deception.
RadPod is unfunded, and in a way, that’s been a badge of honor, too.
A big objective of harassment teams working for Russia’s interests are to make truthtellers so radioactive they can’t find employment.
That makes being our own bosses particularly valuable.
So if you find the work meaningful, please consider supporting our patreon.
In addition, if you can contribute to Jim Stewartson’s legal fund, he can continue to pay his very brave lawyers. We need to raise another $30,000 for the latest round of legal fees. Mike Flynn did not show up for his recent deposition, citing advice of superiors. Recall, that he initiated the lawsuit against Jim for defamation, and 10 of 14 charges have already been thrown out.
Here is the link where you can donate.
Lastly, the Bette Dangerous and RadPod communities have financed Zarina Zabrisky’s film on Russia’s hunting of civilians in Kherson, Ukraine, with drones. She needs a final grand to get across the finish line. You can support her directly by reaching out to zarinazabrisky/gmail (paypal etc). More details here:
Thank you as always for being a part of this community during rough seas.
Here are links to recent RadPod interviews:
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More info about Bette Dangerous - This magazine is written by Heidi Siegmund Cuda, an Emmy-award winning investigative reporter/producer, author, and veteran music and nightlife columnist. She is the cohost of RADICALIZED Truth Survives, an investigative show about disinformation and is part of the Byline Media team. Thank you for your support of independent investigative journalism.
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Begin each day with a grateful heart.
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Best wishes to you, Heidi, this Mothers' Day weekend. Thank you for creating a valuable digest for us to review and to share. Deep thanks to the podcast team and your guests for all of the material you have contributed to the public over the years.