EPISODE 12: Freedom Convoy Funding, Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism with Brad Galloway @radicalizedpod

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast How do members of extremist hate groups assimilate back into society? A conversation with Brad Galloway, former member of a Canadian right-wing extremist group and now the Coordinator at the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism. Brad brings a wealth of experience from his work in the countering and preventing violent extremism and terrorism space, and his more recent work in intervention and case management with NGO's such as Life After Hate.

His primary research interests include right-wing extremism and terrorism, preventing and countering violent extremism, and the roles of former extremists in combating violent extremism.

Hating on Social Media Symposium - February 7- 10, 2022

0:00 - Intro
3:50 - Word/Phrase of the Week: "Both Sides Op"
12:48 - Mary Trump Fist Bump
18:58 - Why it Matters by High Fidelity
33:13 - Interview with Brad Galloway
1:14:50 - Sean’s Legal Briefs
1:16:53 - Jim Stewartson’s Hellscape
1:30:49 - Digital Dissent “Dedicated Server”
1:39:01 - Credits

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Guest Information:

socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/centre-on-hate-bias-and-extremism/index.php

Twitter personal: @bjgalloway1717

Twitter for Centre: @CHBEOntarioTech

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RADICALIZED: Truth Survives is a weekly investigative podcast exposing the strategies and techniques used in disinformation and the rise of far-right extremism with Heidi Cuda, Jim Stewartson, High Fidelity, and Sean Conner.

New episode every Monday morning at 8:00am CST.

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EPISODE 12: Freedom Convoy Funding, Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism with Brad Galloway

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2022-02-07 | How do members of extremist hate groups assimilate back into society? A conversation with Brad Galloway, former member of a Canadian right-wing extremist group and now the Coordinator at the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism. Brad brings a wealth of experience from his work in the countering and preventing violent extremism and terrorism space, and his more recent work in intervention and case management with NGO's such as Life After Hate.

His primary research interests include right-wing extremism and terrorism, preventing and countering violent extremism, and the roles of former extremists in combating violent extremism.

Hating on Social Media Symposium - February 7- 10, 2022

0:00 - Intro
3:50 - Word/Phrase of the Week: "Both Sides Op"
12:48 - Mary Trump Fist Bump
18:58 - Why it Matters by High Fidelity
33:13 - Interview with Brad Galloway
1:14:50 - Sean’s Legal Briefs
1:16:53 - Jim Stewartson’s Hellscape
1:30:49 - Digital Dissent “Dedicated Server”
1:39:01 - Credits

******

Guest Information:

socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/centre-on-hate-bias-and-extremism/index.php

Twitter personal: @bjgalloway1717

Twitter for Centre: @CHBEOntarioTech

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RADICALIZED: Truth Survives is a weekly investigative podcast exposing the strategies and techniques used in disinformation and the rise of far-right extremism with Heidi Cuda, Jim Stewartson, High Fidelity, and Sean Conner.

New episode every Monday morning at 8:00am CST.

Twitter: @radicalizedpod.com
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Defying Tyrants Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2026-04-18 | Dr. Taylor drops a new book
about Christian antichrists
and the things they took
power money and sexual abuse
we just say it straight out
no being obtuse
you'll have to deal with
how that makes you feel
and the biggest antichrist of all
is one Peter Fucking Thiel

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Epsiode 166: Defying Tyrants with Dr. Matthew D. Taylor

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Matthew D. Taylor is a visiting scholar at the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Violent Take It by Force and, forthcoming, Defying Tyrants. A public-facing theologian and religious studies scholar who specializes in American Islam, Christian nationalism, and Christian extremism, he is also the creator of two limited podcast series–American Unexceptionalism and Charismatic Revival Fury. Taylor holds a PhD from Georgetown University and an MA from Fuller Theological Seminary.

His new book, Defying Tyrants: Following Jesus in a World of Christian Antichrists can be found here:
broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798341900370/Defying-Tyrants

Exposing the MAGA Catholic DC Web Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2026-04-04 | Tom returns
to help us understand
how 6 of 9 justices
are owned by one man
Leonard Leo of Opus Dei
The MAGA Catholics are going crazy
and while they plot
to make the world kneel
You'd better not forget
that bastard Peter Thiel

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Episode 165: Exposing the MAGA Catholic DC Web with Tom Carter

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Tom Carter spent 25 years as a print reporter at the Washington Times, the last 16 on the foreign desk covering Latin America, Global Health (HIV, malaria, TB, etc.) and human rights. He was hired for the media/PR flack position at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in 2008. He spent three years as communications director at the US Commission for Religious Liberty (2009-2012). He has been retired since 2012.

He has been married 42 years. He has two adult children and three small grandchildren. When not blowing bubbles or playing horsey for the grandchildren, in his spare time, he likes to surf, go for runs, garden and play guitar.

Medium: medium.com/@thcarter123
Instagram - @thcarter123
Twitter - thcarter5
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bluesky - @thcarter123

No Kings: Unto the Breach Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2026-03-28 | Julie with the megaphone
The point of protest is to bring it home
Our country
It's been taken by fascists
So into the streets
All of us unwashed masses

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Episode 164: NO KINGS: Unto the Breach with Julie DeLaurier

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Julie DeLaurier is a member of https://RiseAndResist.org; founder of Truth Tuesdays at Fox and co-founder of https://FoxTakedown.com, working with https://NoKingsNYC.com

Will France Fall To Fascism Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2026-03-21 | Joni brings the news
France's left and right are run by fools
If indeed the center breaks
Throughout the EU they'll feel earthquakes
and while the thought of France falling
makes us all sad
we should remember
death has no mercy
in this land.

Now, #ArrestMikeFlynn

and Elon Musk is REALLY REALLY REALLY a f*cking problem

Episode 163: Will France Fall To Fascism? with Joni Askola

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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.

Joni's fundraising: help99.co/our-initiatives
Youtube: youtube.com/@askolageopolitics
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joniaskola.bsky.social
X: https://x.com/joni_askola

Debunking Russias Myths Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2026-03-14 | Dietmar agrees
It's WWIII
And the cognitive warfare is ongoing
But the good news at last
is Bibi, Trump and Putin's ass
Is in the wind and to the whole world they're showing

Now, #ArrestMikeFlynn

and Elon Musk is REALLY REALLY REALLY a f*cking problem

Episode 162: Debunking Russias Myths with Dietmar Pichler

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Dietmar Pichler is a disinformation analyst, media literacy trainer, and founder of the initiative "Disinfo Resilience Network". This initiative aims to connect experts from various fields, such as historians, political scientists, security experts, IT professionals, and journalists, to exchange information, network, and develop common strategies to counter foreign influence by hostile authoritarian countries. He was also part of the Federal Chancellery's task force against antisemitism.

He is an alumnus of the State Department Leadership program on Disinformation 2024. In February 2024, he was one of the panelists at the disinformation conference co-organized by the US State Department in Pristina. In 2023, he spoke at a panel discussion at the Austrian embassy in Kyiv, and in December 2022, he hosted the seminar "Impact of Russian Disinformation in the West" in Uzhorod, Ukraine.

His main fields of interest include:
Agents of Influence, "useful idiots," pro-Russian organizations (NGOs), and their narratives
"Subtle" propaganda
"Information world war" (the authoritarian bloc, BRICS+ against the West)
KGB active measures and their impact in the present - Russia is not only using old techniques but also benefiting from people influenced by Soviet propaganda before the Cold War ended (Western peace movement, "tankies," etc.)

No One is Sleepwalking in Ukraine Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2026-03-07 | Marci Shore explains
WWIII is about the brains
Social Engineering on a global scale
But they understand it in Ukraine
Now drones are falling everywhere
NATO's unprepared, their strategies down the drain
while Russia and Iran shaheed us to hell
but they understand it in Ukraine
Trump is a Russian asset
Installed to cause the US pain
And some Americans still support him
but they understand it in Ukraine
So welcome to WWII
The stupidest internet war we've proclaimed
The billionaires want to see you dead
and they understand that in Ukraine

Now, #ArrestMikeFlynn

and Elon Musk is REALLY REALLY REALLY a f*cking problem

Episode 161: No One is Sleepwalking in Ukraine with Dr. Marci Shore

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Dr. Shore's book:
The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300276831/the-ukrainian-night

Guest Bio:

Dr. Marci Shore teaches modern European intellectual history. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her Ph.D from Stanford University in 2001; she taught at Indiana University before coming to Yale. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński’s The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution (paperback edition, 2024). In 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current book project, a history of phenomenology in East-Central Europe, tentatively titled “Eyeglasses Floating in Space: Central European Encounters That Came about While Searching for Truth.” She is a regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. Presently she is co-curating a Public Seminar/Eurozine forum “On the Uses and Disadvantages of Historical Comparisons for Life” (title stolen from Nietzsche): publicseminar.org/essays/the-last-time-i-saw-them-new-democracy-seminar-forum

Her articles and essays include “Philosophy in the Time of Revolution” (The Interlocutor: Journal of the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas); “Can We See Ideas? On Evocation, Experience, and Empathy” (Modern European Intellectual History); “Entscheidung am Majdan: Eine Phänomenologie der Ukrainischen Revolution” (Lettre International); “Jews and Cosmopolitanism: An Arc of European Thought” (Historická Sociologie), “(The End of) Communism as a Generational History” (Contemporary European History); “‘If we’re proud of Freud…: The Family Romance of Judeo-Communism” (East European Politics and Societies); “Rescuing the Yiddish Ukraine (New York Review of Books) “Die Zerbrechlichkeit des Liberalismus oder Das Ende vom ‘Ende der Geschichte’” (Transit: Europäische Revue); “Conversing with Ghosts: Jedwabne, Żydokomuna, and Totalitarianism” (Kritika: Explorations of Russian and Eurasian History); “Children of the Revolution: Communism, Zionism, and the Berman Brothers” (Jewish Social Studies); “Czysto Babski: A Women’s Friendship in a Man’s Revolution” (East European Politics and Societies); “Engineering in the Age of Innocence: A Genealogy of Discourse Inside the Czechoslovak Writers’ Union, 1949-1967” (East European Politics and Societies); “In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed” (Warsaw: The History of a Jewish Metropolis); “Dissidents, Intellectuals, and a New Generation” (The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History); (Modernism in) “Eastern Europe” (The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism); “On Cosmopolitanism and the Avant-Garde, and a Lost Innocence of Mitteleuropa” (Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility); and “Wspomnienie o Krzysztofie Michalskim (1948-2013)” (Zeszyty Literackie).

Dr. Marci Shore articles/essays:
https://history.yale.edu/people/marci-shore

Link to the YouTube version of HIST 271: European Intellectual History since Nietzsche:
https://online.yale.edu/courses/european-intellectual-history-nietzsche

Audio-only podcast version:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/european-intellectual-history-since-nietzsche/id1729418165

For a curated selection of material in various languages about the war in Ukraine: facebook.com/marci.shore.9

Socials:

Bluesky: @marci.shore.bsky.social
Twitter: @marci_shore

Russia Must Be Stopped Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2026-02-28 | Dr. Boriak lays out the history
Russia's murdered millions, you see
And they lie about all the things they've done
So they can continue to kill as they please
Maybe we shouldn't allow that
After all of the Russian horrors we've learned
Maybe Russia should no longer exist
just a little kingdom of Moscow and St. Petersburg

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and Elon Musk is REALLY REALLY REALLY a f*cking problem

Episode 160: Russia Must Be Stopped with Dr. Tetiana Boriak

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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.

IMPORTANT READING:
drive.google.com/file/d/1ac8BQP9jS6K-O3HbpPg8w_VQ3rXDWhuY/view?usp=drive_link

Accelerating the End of Russia Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2026-02-21 | Maksym is an important Ukrainian voice
and proper voices should be amplified
The End of Russia is approaching
That inevitability will not be denied

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and Elon Musk is REALLY REALLY REALLY a f*cking problem

Episode 159: Accelerating the End of Russia with Maksym Eristavi

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Maksym Eristavi is a Ukraine-born journalist, writer, and author of “Russian Colonialism 101,” an illustrated guide to Russian colonial crimes. A self-described 'Russian colonialism storyteller in chief,' he champions global awareness about the Russian colonial legacy and fosters a daily digital audience of hundreds of thousands. This mission is personal: a mixed Ukrainian with Asian, Roma, and Georgian roots, several generations of his family suffered from genocides, assimilation, and identity erasure throughout centuries of Russian colonial rule.

Eristavi has a two-decade journalism career behind him that included championing mainstream English-language coverage of Eastern Europe by indigenous voices. He went from covering both Ukrainian pro-democratic revolutions, being the country’s youngest news anchor and newsroom manager to founding international operations at the leading news startup covering Eastern Europe, and becoming a contributor to leading global outlets, such as RFERL, BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Politico, Monocle and the Washington Post. At the same time, Bild and The New York Times called his social media reporting an essential source on the region. He led pioneering English-language coverage of Russian disinformation warfare, Russian colonialism, and the fight for human rights equality in Eastern Europe.

He is the founder of Volya Hub, the first storytelling hub expanding public awareness about Russian colonialism, and a co-founder of #UkrainianSpaces, a multimedia hub that amplifies Ukrainian perspectives and decolonizes global Ukraine conversations.

Eristavi also pioneered queer representation in Eastern European media and remains one of the few openly queer journalists in the region. In 2021 he co-authored ‘Untapped Power,’ a book promoting the idea of inclusive foreign policy rooted within human rights equality and a decolonized view of Eastern European queerness. He was a 2015 Poynter fellow at Yale University with a focus on informational wars and pan-regional LGBTI civil rights movements. Eristavi was also a 2016-2017 fellow at the Millennium Leadership Program and a former Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council. He was also a 2020-2022 Transatlantic Leadership fellow with a DC-based Center for European Policy Analysis.

In October 2015 Eristavi was featured among the 10 most prominent LGBTI people in Ukraine during the first-ever queer project at the country’s biggest modern art center. In 2022, he was also listed by Queerty as one of the global 50 queer changemakers.

His work and anti-colonial bridge-building made Eristavi a featured speaker at leading universities, many parliaments, and foreign ministries, including hearings at the US Congress and the European Parliament.

Book link:

russiancolonialism.net

More about Maksym Eristavi:
http://maksymeristavi.com

Russias Kholodomor Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2026-02-14 | Zarina brings more details
Russia is a sadist
Torturing every city in a different way
It's a miracle Ukraine hasn't faded
Perhaps the EU will do the right thing
and help shove the rabid bear down
But until they do, we'll be here informing you
And bringing reports when Zarina's around

Now, #ArrestMikeFlynn

and Elon Musk is REALLY REALLY REALLY a f*cking problem

Episode 158: Russias Kholodomor with Zarina Zabrisky

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UN Report on Russia's Crimes Against Humanity:
news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166189

Kherson: Human Safari
khersonhumansafari.com

Kherson: Human Safari (72 min) is a frontline documentary by US war correspondent Zarina Zabrisky, filmed in Kherson, Ukraine. The film documents the city’s full story since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022: the occupation, resistance, liberation, flood, and continued destruction under daily attacks. The “human safari” — Russia’s use of drones to hunt civilians — is one part of this broader narrative of survival, resilience, and defiance.
The filmmakers opted for free online streaming and global screenings to raise awareness rather than waiting for distributor agreements or festival premieres, in view of the critical situation in Kherson.

Contacts & Social Media
• Facebook: KhersonHumanSafari facebook.com/KhersonHumanSafari
• X/Twitter: @KhersonHumanSafari
twitter.com/ZarinaZabrisky
• Instagram: KhersonHumanSafari instagram.com/KhersonHumanSafari
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/khersonhumansafari.bsky.social

• Press & Inquiries:
khersonhumansafari@gmail.com

Epsteins Billions Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2026-02-07 | Craig Unger once again brings the documents
But he didn't party in Ibiza
Epstein's billions came from the TARP program
and now those capitalists are tryna squeeze ya
Yes Jeff was a Russian agent
who met with Christopher Poole
and weev worked for Thiel on pol and Daily Stormer
turns out 4chan was their big psyop tool

Now, #ArrestMikeFlynn

and Elon Musk is REALLY REALLY REALLY a f*cking problem

Episode 157: Epsteins Billions with Author Craig Unger

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Subscribe to Craig Unger on substack:
craigunger.substack.com

Find Craig's work at his website:
craigunger.com

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.

Russias Atrocities in Africa Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2026-01-24 | Join us for some laughs and analysis
While the world falls to pieces
Africa is but one front in the war
In which Russia and fascism needs be defeated

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Episode 156: Russias Atrocities in Africa with Philip Obaji Jr.

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Philip Obaji Jr. is a 2025 ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award winner.

Obaji Jr. is the foremost journalist reporting for international audiences on massacres, rape, torture and other abuses at the hands of Russian paramilitaries in Central and West Africa. The government-contracted forces are fighting rebels in exchange for access to minerals and other commodities – in part to help fund Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Since 2018, the Nigerian journalist has documented as many as 100 instances of abuse by the Wagner Group and its successor, Africa Corps, primarily in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Mali. Obaji has interviewed dozens of survivors on the ground in refugee camps, mining villages and elsewhere – reporting that requires great care and that has led to him being abducted and assaulted.

If you can, please consider contributing to Obaji’s GoFundMe:

gofundme.com/f/philip-obaji-uncover-russian-atrocities-africa

Daily Beast links: thedailybeast.com/author/philip-obaji-jr

A Year in Review Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2025-12-13 | It's been a year
Time to wrap
Maybe one or two more interviews
but for now let's look back

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Russia is at War with the West Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2025-12-06 | Dr. MacKay says what everyone knows.
Russia is at War with the West.
But no one else will say it.
Wake up, ya friggin slackers.
Now, did somebody say pipebomb?

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Episode 155: Russia is at War with the West with Dr. Michael MacKay

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Michael Mackay has a doctorate in political philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been engaged with Ukraine’s civil society since the renewal of independence, working as a university lecturer, the director of an Internet access project and an election observer. Since the Revolution of Dignity and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014 Michael has been chronicling the war on Twitter at @mhmck and now on Bluesky at michaelmackay.

Russian Lies Russian Theft Russian War Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2025-11-22 | Know the past to understand the present
Dr. Tetiana Boriak makes that clear
We are in a World War, and no one bothered to make the announcement

Epstein to Bannon to Russia to Trump
Gill got 10.5 years
Bannon Farage Russia Trump Banks Mercer Musk Thiel, the list goes on.
Release the Epstein Files

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Episode 154: Russian Lies, Russian Theft, Russian War with Dr. Tetiana Boriak

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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.

IMPORTANT READING:
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NAFO: Information Warfare for Good Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2025-11-08 | Matt Pearce and those bonky dogs, boyyyyyyyy
The CIA never looked so good,
being from the UK and all.
Shout out to the Old Guard.

Farage Russia Trump Banks Mercer Musk Thiel, the list goes on.
Release the Epstein Files

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Episode 153: NAFO: Information Warfare for Good with Matthew Pearce

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Matthew Pearce is a founding member of NAFO, a pro-Ukrainian decentralized fund-raising group of volunteers who accidentally reinvented information warfare. His Mattppea’s The Angry Dogs Substack is powered by ‘righteous anger, ADHD, and Coffee.’ Pearce, a UK-based economist and technologist, reports on the cost of disinformation, the pipeline from Moscow to the West Wing, and how the world set itself on fire. Among his newest series is When the Fields Fought Back. Read him here: open.substack.com/pub/mattppea51?r=1tfo38&utm_medium=ios

More on NAFO from Wikipedia:
The North Atlantic Fella Organization (NAFO, a play on NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an Internet meme and social media movement dedicated to countering Russian propaganda and disinformation about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. It has been categorised as a form of information warfare.

#nafo #nafofellas

UN Report: Drone Murders Forced Deportations Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2025-11-01 | Grandma Lora is just one of tens of thousands of Russian murders
When will it end? After Trump destroys America?
You've been bamboozled, folks.
No treats, just tricks.
Russian War Crimes continue
and their network is still not being held accountable
Release the Epstein Files

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Episode 152: UN Report: Drone Murders and Forced Deportations with Zarina Zabrisky

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UN Report on Russia's Crimes Against Humanity:
news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166189

Kherson: Human Safari
khersonhumansafari.com

Kherson: Human Safari (72 min) is a frontline documentary by US war correspondent Zarina Zabrisky, filmed in Kherson, Ukraine. The film documents the city’s full story since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022: the occupation, resistance, liberation, flood, and continued destruction under daily attacks. The “human safari” — Russia’s use of drones to hunt civilians — is one part of this broader narrative of survival, resilience, and defiance.
The filmmakers opted for free online streaming and global screenings to raise awareness rather than waiting for distributor agreements or festival premieres, in view of the critical situation in Kherson.

Contacts & Social Media
• Facebook: KhersonHumanSafari facebook.com/KhersonHumanSafari
• X/Twitter: @KhersonHumanSafari
twitter.com/ZarinaZabrisky
• Instagram: KhersonHumanSafari instagram.com/KhersonHumanSafari
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/khersonhumansafari.bsky.social

• Press & Inquiries:
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The Failures of the Powers That Be Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2025-10-25 | Sergei brings news from across the pond
Russian Reform lost in Wales
Russian War Crimes continue
and their network is still not being held accountable

#ArrestMikeFlynn

and Elon Musk is REALLY REALLY REALLY a f*cking problem
it's still the oligarchs, folks.

Episode 151: The Failures of the Powers That Be with Sergei Cristo

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Sergei Cristo is a former BBC journalist, asset management specialist, and Conservative Party fundraiser turned whistle-blower against the Russian interference in British politics.

Byline Times: bylinetimes.com/author/sergeicristo

Support Sergei's work tracking Western finance investing in dictators:
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Listen to Sergei & The Westminster Spy Ring featuring Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes:
the-citizens.com/2025/02/sergei-and-the-westminster-spy-ring

Read about the ECHR case against the British government for failure to investigate:
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/22/uk-governments-failure-to-investigate-foreign-interference-challenged-in-europes-highest-court

It Could Be Us Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2025-10-18 | Document Russia's War Against Ukraine
That's what Jen Stout does/did
Optimist that one day, there'll be accountability
Russia will be held to account
If they don't take over the world
Already captured the US with Trump, who's next?
It could be us.

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Episode 150: It Could Be Us. with Jen Stout

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Jen Stout is an award-winning journalist and author from Scotland. Her first book Night Train to Odesa - an account of covering the war in Ukraine as an independent reporter - was published in 2024 and was a BBC radio Book of the Week; it won the Saltire Society First Book award and the Highland Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje prize. Most recently she's written for Prospect magazine about the role of symbolic architecture in wartime Kharkiv, and demining in southern Ukraine.

Jen was previously a BBC radio and TV journalist, and a local newspaper reporter. She lives in Edinburgh.

Night Train to Odesa available here: amazon.com/Night-Train-Odesa-Covering-Russias/dp/1846976472

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Learn more about Jen: jenstout.net

The Antifa Larp Livestream

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2025-10-11 | It's a weird world
Created for an audience
Lies presented as truths
Answers not given for valid questions
And some states are invading others
When's the last time that happened?

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it's still the oligarchs, folks.

Shutdown Livestream

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What comes next?
Things we need to talk about.

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it's the oligarchs, folks.

Thirty Two Years at War Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2025-09-27 | Mamuka is a verified badass.
Seven attempts by Russia to assassinate him in the last year, and he's still going.
Strange how haters bring up Russian lies about him, every. single. time.

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Episode 149: Thirty Two Years at War with Mamuka Mamulashvili

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Mamuka Mamulashvili

Place of birth: Tbilisi, Georgia, former USSR

Position: Commander of the Georgian National Legion (Ukraine)

Father: Zurab Mamulashvili, Lieutenant General of the Georgian Army

Early Years and the War in Abkhazia (1992–1993)
Mamuka Mamulashvili was born into a military family. His father, Lieutenant General Zurab Mamulashvili, commanded one of the brigades of the Georgian army, which included his son as a young volunteer.

At the age of 14, Mamuka took part in the Georgian-Russian war in Abkhazia. Towards the end of the conflict, he and his father were taken prisoner. Mamuka spent three months in captivity and was later released through a prisoner exchange program. His father was released at a later stage.

Chechen Campaigns
After the war in Abkhazia, Mamuka Mamulashvili joined both Chechen campaigns, fighting on the side of the Chechen independence forces against Russian troops. This experience further shaped him as a fighter and solidified his strong anti-Russian stance.

Service in Georgia
Between 2009 and 2012, Mamulashvili served as a political advisor to the Minister of Defense of Georgia. He contributed to developing policies on international military cooperation and strategic defense planning.

Ukraine and the Formation of the Georgian Legion
In 2013, Mamulashvili publicly expressed support for the Ukrainian Euromaidan movement. At his initiative, the Georgian national mixed martial arts team demonstrated solidarity with the Ukrainian people during the World Championship.
On April 22, 2014, Mamulashvili founded the Georgian National Legion. Just two days later, on April 24, the Legion arrived in Ukraine and began training Ukrainian volunteer formations preparing for war in Donbas.

Mamuka Mamulashvili frequently appears in the media, giving interviews to Ukrainian and international outlets, and participating in conferences and public forums.

The Russian authorities placed him on a wanted list and sentenced him seven times in absentia, issuing a wide range of politically motivated charges.

2024:
He reported a second poisoning attempt with heavy metals, confirmed both through laboratory analysis and officially by the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine.
Russia officially designated the Georgian National Legion a “terrorist organization.”

Russian intelligence launched a large-scale disinformation campaign targeting the Legion, focusing primarily on the social network Twitter (X). The operation involved 32 individuals — citizens of the United States, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Estonia, and other countries. All of them were identified and are currently under investigation by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and the Prosecutor General’s Office.

2025:
Several assassination attempts against Mamulashvili were foiled by the SBU. Ukraine’s Security Service released video evidence confirming the threats.

In January, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico declared him persona non grata, accusing him of interfering in Slovakia’s internal affairs. Mamulashvili denied the accusations.

Awards and Recognition
Order of Vakhtang Gorgasali, 3rd Class (Georgia)
People’s Hero of Ukraine (2015, non-governmental award)
Order “For Courage” (Ukraine)
Medal “For Sacrifice and Love of Ukraine”
More than 12 awards from the Patriarchate of Ukraine
17 awards from Ukrainian government agencies, the Ministry of Defense, and other security structures

In September 2025, the President of Ukraine decorated Mamuka Mamulashvili and the fighters of the Georgian Legion with high state honors for their contribution to the defense of the country.

In Kyiv, the city officially opened the “Georgian National Legion” Square — the first square in the capital named after a military formation, awarded to a volunteer unit.

Artist and Civic Activity

In addition to his military role, Mamuka Mamulashvili is also a painter. His works have been exhibited in Kyiv, Odesa, and other cities of Ukraine. He regards his art both as a form of personal therapy and as a public message about war and the struggle for freedom.

Episode 148: Nothing is True and Everything is Possible with Peter Pomerantsev

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Guest bio + book links:

Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University where he co-directs the Arena Initiative.

Between 2017-2020, he was a Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he was the director of the Arena Initiative, a research project dedicated to overcoming the challenges of digital era disinformation and polarisation. His book on Russian propaganda, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and was nominated for the Samuel Johnson, Guardian First Book, Pushkin House and Gordon Burns Prizes. It is translated into over a dozen languages and was dramatized on BBC Radio 4. His new book, This is Not Propaganda, was released in August 2019 and has been shortlisted for the Gordon Burns Prize and was a Times Book of the Year.

Peter has testified on the challenges of information war and media development to the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the UK Parliament Defense Select Committee. He was a specialist advisor on the ‘UK Parliamentary Committee on Fake News’, and was a member of USC Annenberg’s ‘Transatlantic Working Group on Internet Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression. He is a columnist at the American Interest, and writes for publications including the NY Times, Granta and The Atlantic. Between 2002 and 2014 he was a television producer on documentaries and factual entertainment programs for major networks including the Discovery Channel and the BBC. He continues to present and write radio documentaries for the BBC Radio 4, most recently on disinformation about climate change.

Peter is frequently asked to host policy seminars at NATO, the EU, the UK FCO, German Foreign Office, U.S. State Department, as well as numerous public events. He has helped write in-depth policy recommendations on counter-propaganda and media diversity for both national governments and NGOs, including the UK Foreign Office’s Strategic Communication policies for Russia and the Western Balkans.’ He has given seminars and talks on the subject of propaganda and media at universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia and Princeton. He has been a fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna.

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible:
amazon.com/Nothing-True-Everything-Possible-Surreal/dp/1610394550

This is Not Propaganda:
amazon.com/This-Not-Propaganda-Adventures-Against/dp/1541762118

How to Win an Information War:
amazon.com/How-Win-Information-War-Propagandist/dp/1541774728

Episode 147: Change My Mind with Adam Sybera

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Adam Sybera is a analyst and journalist with the Kyiv Independent, based in Ukraine since the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion, where he also volunteers with both military and humanitarian aid along the frontline. His work focuses on the war, Russian disinformation networks, and the fight against oligarchic influence and corruption. He contributed to the creation of documentary Change My Mind and continues to develop film and documentary projects that capture the human and political dimensions of Russian aggression.

To support the Peaky Blinders Ukrainian drone unit, paypal to fysun.artem@gmail.com

Episode 146: The Human Trafficking of Opus Dei with Gareth Gore

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Gareth Gore is the author of OPUS. Based in London, he is an investigative reporter with close to two decades of experience, who had reported from over twenty-five countries and covered some of the biggest financial stories. His writing has been published by Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, and IFR. He is the host of The Syndicate, which tells the behind-the-scenes stories of the biggest financial deals in history.

Twitter: @gareth_gore

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/garethgore

Substack: substack.com/@garethgore

US & Canada: simonandschuster.com/books/Opus/Gareth-Gore/9781668016145

UK, Australia and Commonwealth: scribepublications.co.uk/books-authors/books/opus-9781915590060

En español: https://amzn.eu/d/hdU5Exo

Episode 145: Russian Spies in the UK with Sergei Cristo

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Sergei Cristo is a former BBC journalist, asset management specialist, and Conservative Party fundraiser turned whistle-blower against the Russian interference in British politics.

Byline Times: bylinetimes.com/author/sergeicristo

Support Sergei's work tracking Western finance investing in dictators:
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Listen to Sergei & The Westminster Spy Ring featuring Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes:
the-citizens.com/2025/02/sergei-and-the-westminster-spy-ring

Episode 144: How To Live Under Fascism with Andrei Codrescu

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ANDREI CODRESCU, born in Romania, an immigrant to the U.S, is an American novelist, essayist, poet and film maker. Honored by the Carnegie Foundation with The Heritage Award, he has won a Peabody Award for his film "Road Scholar," is the winner of three Pushcart Prizes (including the 50th anniversary), was recipient of the Ovid Prize, was long-listed for the National Book Award in poetry, and has received praise for his poetry and fiction from Kay Boyle, Alicia Ostriker, Anselm Hollo, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, E.M. Cioran, Mary Carr, Jim Harrison, Tom Robbins, Ariel Dorfman, William Burroughs, Mircea Cartarescu, Elizabeth McCracken, Spalding Grey and Jonathan Raban. The New York Times Book Review called Codrescu "One of our most talented and magical writers," who "manages to be brilliant and insightful, tough and seductive about American culture." He founded "Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books & Ideas" (1983-2016), has been a senior commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered" (1983-2016) and is MacCurdy Distinguished Professor Emeritus at LSU, Baton Rouge. Among many other books, Codrescu has published four novels, three of them with Simon & Schuster, and one with Algonquin. His most recent publications are three book-length philosophical essays published by Princeton University Press. He lives in Brooklyn.

His latest book, How To Live Under Fascism, is available for purchase here:
tinyurl.com/e49vtn4b

Ukraine Shows Democracy Works Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2025-07-26 | Dietmar drops a dime on ops
Zelensky let them hang themselves
MTG done showed her whole ass

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Episode 143: Ukraine Shows Democracy Works with Dietmar Pichler

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Dietmar Pichler is a disinformation analyst, media literacy trainer, and founder of the initiative "Disinfo Resilience Network". This initiative aims to connect experts from various fields, such as historians, political scientists, security experts, IT professionals, and journalists, to exchange information, network, and develop common strategies to counter foreign influence by hostile authoritarian countries. He was also part of the Federal Chancellery's task force against antisemitism.

He is an alumnus of the State Department Leadership program on Disinformation 2024. In February 2024, he was one of the panelists at the disinformation conference co-organized by the US State Department in Pristina. In 2023, he spoke at a panel discussion at the Austrian embassy in Kyiv, and in December 2022, he hosted the seminar "Impact of Russian Disinformation in the West" in Uzhorod, Ukraine.

His main fields of interest include:

Agents of Influence, "useful idiots," pro-Russian organizations (NGOs), and their narratives
"Subtle" propaganda
"Information world war" (the authoritarian bloc, BRICS+ against the West)
KGB active measures and their impact in the present - Russia is not only using old techniques but also benefiting from people influenced by Soviet propaganda before the Cold War ended (Western peace movement, "tankies," etc.)

Earths Existential Crisis Livestream Recap

RADICALIZED: Truth Survives Podcast 2025-07-18 | Dr. Lockwood explains it straight-
capitalism will kill us all for a dollar.
Collective action is needed.

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Episode 142: Earths Existential Crisis with Dr. Ben Lockwood

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Dr. Ben Lockwood is an ecologist, geographer, and postdoctoral scholar at Penn State University. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from Indiana University, and his M.S. and B.S. degrees from Ball State University. He's an active, publishing researcher, and also has bylines in Clarkesworld Magazine and Seize the Press Magazine. You can find more of his writing at BriefEcology.com

A World at War Livestream Recap

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Episode 141: A World At War with Joni Askola

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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.

Joni's fundraising: help99.co/our-initiatives
Youtube: youtube.com/@askolageopolitics
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joniaskola.bsky.social
X: https://x.com/joni_askola