

Silicon Curtain
Jonathan Fink
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A podcast about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponised conspiracy theories, social echo chambers and digital dystopias.
1984, Authoritarian, Autocracy, Autocrat, Big Brother, Brainwashing, Cold war, Cold war propaganda, Communism, Conflict, Conspiracy theories, Control, Cults, Cyber warfare, Deception, Dictator, Dictatorship, Digital dystopia, Digital media, Disinformation, Echo chambers, Economic sanctions, Fascist, Fake news, Foreign correspondents, Foreign policy, Fossil fuel sanctions, George Orwell, History, Hybrid warfare, Industrial disinfo
A podcast about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponised conspiracy theories, social echo chambers and digital dystopias.
1984, Authoritarian, Autocracy, Autocrat, Big Brother, Brainwashing, Cold war, Cold war propaganda, Communism, Conflict, Conspiracy theories, Control, Cults, Cyber warfare, Deception, Dictator, Dictatorship, Digital dystopia, Digital media, Disinformation, Echo chambers, Economic sanctions, Fascist, Fake news, Foreign correspondents, Foreign policy, Fossil fuel sanctions, George Orwell, History, Hybrid warfare, Industrial disinfo
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Sep 17, 2024 • 17min
2024-09-16 | Real Escalation as Iran & China Give Military Support to Ally Russia Including Missiles
2024-09-16 | Russia has received new ballistic projectiles from Iran, prompting the US and Europe to impose new sanctions. The supply of weapons by Iran to its ally Russia has major implications and ought to place a greater burden on allies to protect Ukraine, but are they doing anything meaningful, apart from the usual condemnations and reiterations of ‘unenforced’ red lines.
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Russia has received new and highly deadly ballistic weapons from Iran and is likely to use them in Ukraine said the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken. This statement was made during his trip to London last Tuesday, as he prepared to travel with UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, to Kyiv. An announcement on long range weapons for Ukraine to counter this threat was expected, but never came.
Iran’s supply of weapons is a genuine escalation of the conflict. Ukraine’s defense of its sovereign territory usually gets accused of escalation, but what Iran and China are doing is the real escalation of the conflict, and the West’s reaction is dithering and timidity once again.
It’s thought that these new munitions may have huge significance to the battlefield balance ahead of the winter, which of course is intense in this part of the world. The US and Europe have imposed new sanctions on Iran, but these have not had any deterrent impact either on Russia’s aggression of Iran’s close support of its ally.
Pressure is building on the US to end its restrictions on Ukraine using British-supplied Storm Shadows to strike targets deep inside Russia and not just in occupied parts of Ukraine. But so far, the Biden administration has stubbornly refused to relent, showing them in the same light as Scholz’s dogmatic intransigence around the Taurus system. When asked about a decision, Blinken defers and obfuscates, citing Ukraine’s ability to maintain the systems, training and their strategic purpose. He also questions the fallacy of seeing them as a ‘silver bullet’.
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Sources and recommended reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/antony-blinken-russia-ballistic-missiles-iran-ukraine
https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-denies-delivering-ballistic-missiles-aid-to-moscow-s-ukraine-war-effort/7783007.html
https://kyivindependent.com/what-irans-ballistic-missiles-in-russian-hands-could-mean-for-ukraine/
https://www.politico.eu/article/united-states-accuse-china-help-russia-war-kurt-campbell/
https://www.ft.com/content/44ad9fc5-6ccf-47f0-b075-8bef0a9a1cd9
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-putin-iran-nuclear-kharkiv-latest-news-b2613402.html
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-dozens-injured-in-strike-on-apartment-block-zelenskyy-attacks-russian-terror-as-he-pleads-for-help-12541713
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/
kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/
NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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Sep 16, 2024 • 1h 2min
502. Cormac Smith & Philip Ingram - Dithering and Delay by Allies is Causing Ukraine to Slowly Bleed Out
Cormac Smith has worked in Public Relations and Corporate Communications
for over three decades. In 2016 he travelled to Ukraine to take up a
special appointment as the ‘Strategic Communication Advisor’ to Pavlo
Klimkin, then the Foreign Minister of Ukraine. He was attached to the
British Embassy in Kyiv but was embedded in Ukraine’s Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, the first foreigner to hold such a position. While in
Kyiv, he also advised and provided training for five other government
ministries and worked directly with three other cabinet ministers:
Health, Education and the Deputy Prime Minister.
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Philip Ingram is a journalist and consultant who has built on a long and
senior military career as an intelligence, counterintelligence,
security officer, and planner. Philip has extensive business experience,
especially in steel manufacturing. He also has extensive media
experience, appearing on the BBC, Sky News and Radio networks,
international networks including Al Jazeera, TRT World, CNN, ABC, CBC,
Japanese NTV and many others.
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LINKS:
https://defencebrink.uk/
https://x.com/philipingmbe
https://x.com/CormacS63
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/
kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/
NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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Sep 16, 2024 • 30min
Orest Zub & Marta Trotsiuk - Given the Right Tools to Fight Back Ukraine Can Triumph over Russia
Marta Trotsiuk – Ukrainian art ambassador. Gallery 101 founder. Expert
in international art projects and cultural diplomacy. She is also a
leading expert on art consulting and curating and has been highly active
in the effort to promote Ukrainian identity and art as part of the
fight back against Russian aggression and cultural imperialism.
LINKS:
https://www.instagram.com/marta_trotsiuk
https://www.f6s.com/member/marta-trotsiuk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marta-trotsiuk-569497254/
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Orest Zub – traveller, blogger, and online entrepreneur from Lviv. He
has been reporting on the war in Ukraine from the start via his YouTube
channels in Ukrainian and English. Before the war, Orest visited over
120 countries including many regions experiencing conflict. But as he
says, he could never imagine that the full-scale war would come to his
own country. Orest’s aim is to inform the global community on what is
really happening in Ukraine, and to provide informational resistance to
the occupier.
LINKS:
https://x.com/orestzub
https://www.youtube.com/user/orestzub
https://www.instagram.com/orestzub
https://orestzub.com/
https://nomadmania.com/orest-zub/
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/
kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/
NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
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Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
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Sep 14, 2024 • 45min
503. David DeBatto - No More Delusions and Gaslighting Trump Fully Intends to Throw Ukraine Under the Bus
What a week – Russian media manipulation networks uncovered in the US –
conservative influencers seem to be more influence by hard Russian cash
than principles, however. Vance leaks the Trump plan to ‘stop Ukraine
war in 24 hours’, and it turns out to be an appalling plan to appease
Putin. Putin threatens WWIII, but with what army does he plan to fight
it. And the big focus for this episode, despite overwhelming evidence of
guilt for multiple felonies – here we are again with Trump the GOP
candidate for president of the United States is engaged in a fractious
and at times farcical election process. But will his criminal guilt,
outlandish lies and conspiracy theories, incoherence, toxicity and
clownishness have any influence on adherents to the MAGA cult or GOP
officials? Might he be replaced after a disastrous electoral debate? And
will those who support Ukraine, yet still canvas for his victory now
wise up to his disastrous and craven plan to throw Ukraine under the
bus? Buckle up. Not all of you will enjoy this one, some will love it,
but here we go anyway.
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David DeBatto is host of the ‘No Delusion Zone’ podcast.
He is a retired U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, a
geopolitical analyst, writer, and podcaster. David is an Iraq war
veteran who served as Team Leader of a Tactical Human Intelligence Team
(THT) in operations within Iraq and is also a former police officer.
David is considered too conservative for the progressive left and too
independent minded for the radical right and seeks to challenge
political dogma and the naked self-interest of politicians.
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LINKS:
https://www.youtube.com/@NoDelusionZone
https://www.protectingtherepublic.com/podcast
https://x.com/ddebatto
https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/743
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/
kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/
NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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PLATFORMS:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
----------
Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
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Sep 13, 2024 • 1h 4min
497. Ian Garner - Russia has Constructed a 'Self-selecting' Digital Gulag to Stifle Opposition to Putin
With the blocking of YouTube in Russia, and pressure on other platforms,
are we seeing the emergence of a Digital Gulag? The more efficient way
to entrap and control a population than the real-world Gulag of watch
towers and razor wire?
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Ian Garner is an historian and analyst of Russian culture and war
propaganda. He is motivated by two questions: what drives Russia’s
obsession with war, and why have so many Russians in the past and
present fallen for militarism. Ian Garner is also a world leading
authority on the myths and propaganda surrounding the second world war
battle of Stalingrad in Soviet & Russian Literature. Ian has been
interviewed for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, New York Times, BBC,
VICE News, Mashable, and many other media channels.
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BOOKS:
Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth (2023)
Stalingrad Lives: Stories of Combat and Survival (2022)
Read more at: https://www.igarner.net/
Follow Ian at: https://twitter.com/irgarner
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/
kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/
NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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PLATFORMS:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
----------
Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now
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Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Sep 13, 2024 • 17min
2024-09-13 | Is NATO Really "at War" with Russia as Ukraine Blitz Grows in Scale
2024-09-13 | According to Putin and his minions, NATO countries are on
the brink of war with Russia. Is this more hollow bluffing and bluster
from the diminutive tyrant in the Kremlin, or are we about to cross the
first genuine Russian red line of this war? Evidence points to it being
another empty threat, if we ignore the threatening words and look at
Russia’s actions and capabilities.
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The first action based was for Russia’s FSB security service to revoke
the accreditation of six British diplomats in reaction to a widely held
belief that use of British Storm Shadows will be authorised for use on
the territory of Russia. These Moscow based personnel have been accused
of spying and sabotage work. Six diplomats were named on Russian state
TV, and photographs of them shown. As we already know, Russian
propagandists love to position the British as their core enemy, the
“main bastards”, and see British plotting as instrumental in pulling
Washington away from its cautious ‘escalation management’ policies
towards taking a harder line against Russia, and in support of a
Ukrainian victory. Delusional, paranoid maybe, but this seems to be the
thinking of the war-addicted elite in Russian media and policy making
circles.
Vladimir Putin said that a western move to let Kyiv use longer-range
weapons against targets inside Russia would effectively mean NATO is “at
war” with Moscow. It is known that US and UK diplomats are discussing
easing rules on firing western weapons into Russia.
Kyiv has been pressing for this change in policy for many months now,
and indeed it makes no military sense at all to restrict Ukraine for
firing back on the airfields and launch sites that deliver death and
trauma to Ukrainian civilians daily. It’s purely a political
restriction, one borne of fear of Red Lines Moscow has threatened and
others that we have imagined.
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Sources and recommended reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/13/russia-ukraine-moscow-kyiv-long-range-weapons-nato-keir-starmer-joe-biden-latest-news-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-66e3e3e58f082dce7ae32965#block-66e3e3e58f082dce7ae32965
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/russia-revokes-accreditation-british-diplomats-spying
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/ukraine-daily-briefing-russia-accused-of-unprecedented-missile-attack-on-grain-ship-in-black-sea
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-cities-left-defenseless-as-ukraine-ramps-up-drone-attacks/
https://kyivindependent.com/the-long-range-missiles-ukraine-could-soon-be-firing-deep-into-russia/
https://kyivindependent.com/irans-fath-360-ballistic-missile-what-we-know-about-the-weapon-now-in-russias-hands/
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/
kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/
NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
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Sep 12, 2024 • 1h 12min
500. Operator Starsky - Episode 500 - Kursk is a Multi-Layered Campaign Utilising Secrecy and Surprise
Today I’m speaking with Operator Starsky, a Ukrainian National Guardian,
blogger, and inspiration for everyone who is following the war, and
supporting a Ukrainian victory. He has created one of the most popular
and original YouTube channels dedicated to the international community.
I’m not sure you need an introduction – I’m sure most people watching
this channel will have seen your videos!
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LINKS:
https://www.youtube.com/@PropagandaStudyInstitute
http://psi-eu.org/
https://www.youtube.com/@StarskyUA
https://twitter.com/starskyua?lang=en
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SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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PLATFORMS:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
----------
Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now
being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as
Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Sep 11, 2024 • 55min
496. Michael Sheridan - Documents Suggest that Xi Jinping Secretly Distrusts and Hates Russia
Michael Sheridan is the Author of a new history of Hong Kong and China,
and has a new book out called “The Red Emperor – Xi Jinping and his
China”. He is a long-time foreign correspondent in Asia, Middle East,
and Europe. He was the Far East Correspondent for the Sunday Times for
20 years, based in Hong Kong, and later Bangkok. He covered the rise of
China and the handover of Hong Kong, upheaval in Burma and the fall of
Suharto in Indonesia.
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LINKS:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-sheridan-4a7499109/
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BOOKS:
The Gate to China – A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong
Kong (2021)
by Michael Sheridan, Daniel York, et al.
The Red Emperor – Xi Jinping and his China
by Michael Sheridan (2024)
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/
kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/
NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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PLATFORMS:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
----------
Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now
being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as
Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Sep 11, 2024 • 27min
2024-09-11 | Russian Propaganda Film Pulled from Canadian Film Festival Program
2024-09-11 | Outrage has erupted over a film created by Russian Director
and propagandist Anastasia Trofimova, called ‘Russians at War’. Calls
for its screening to be pulled from the Toronto International Film
Festival have intensified; surely festival organizers should have
reacted when the film was showcased at the Venice International Film
Festival, despite the public uproar it caused.
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Breaking news, as this episode was being recorded, the Canadian
broadcaster TVO made a statement that it had withdrawn support from the
documentary "Russians at War" following protests from the Ukrainian
community, and in fact far more widely than that.
But this controversy pales beside news that the film was part-financed
by the Canadian government to the tune of $312,000 US dollars. This
despite the fact Canada is an ally of Ukraine in its existential fight
against the Russian army. A rabble army of murderers, looters and
rapists that the Canadian-Russian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova seeks to
absolve and whitewash of their documented war crimes. This is the
accusation, but does it stand up to scrutiny? This video examines the
controversy and the film itself to understand if the propaganda motive
outweighs any artistic merits.
If a malign actor, or an openly aggressive revanchist state like Russia,
invests money in an information project, with the aim of manipulating
the media space and public discourse, to alter both perceptions and
policies in that country to favour its own strategic interests, then
that is paid for speech, not free speech. And if the parties creating
and disseminating those media products don’t declare their financial
interests, that is disclosure in transparent fashion of who is funding
the project, so we can better understand their motives and objectives,
then really, this is not free speech, but an informational weapon, an
assault on public discourse.
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https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine-are-ordinary-guys-who-commit-horrific-war-crimes/
https://kyivindependent.com/outrage-erupts-over-canadian-tax-dollars-funding-russians-at-war-documentary/
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Come Back Alive
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https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
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https://heroiamslava.org/
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Sep 10, 2024 • 1h 2min
499. Susan Grunewald - Treatment and Repatriation of German POWs by the USSR at the End of World War Two
Susan Grunewald is an Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana State
University. She was the Digital History Postdoctoral Fellow at the
University of Pittsburgh World History Centre from 2019 to 2022. Susan
earned her Ph.D. in History at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh,
US). She specializes in Soviet and German WWII and post-war history,
digital humanities, and GIS. We’ll discuss her engaging book “From
Incarceration to Repatriation. German Prisoners of War in the Soviet
Union.”
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LINKS:
https://susangrunewald.com/
https://x.com/susangrunewald
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susangrunewald/
https://www.worldhistory.pitt.edu/people/ant-24
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776021/from-incarceration-to-repatriation/
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Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/
kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/
NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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