Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Russia

Jim Stewartson — MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

The Enemies He Created: Trump’s Paranoia Spiral

Paranoia metabolizes humiliation into persecution—and shame into grandiosity.

Culture • Disinformation • Exile • Human Rights • Russia • Surveillance

Amelia Gentleman — The Guardian

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Russia

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

The Manchurian Billionaire: How Trump’s Rise Mirrors Every Classic Intelligence Takeover

Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years…

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Russia • Violence

Julian Borger — The Guardian

The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela

Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas.

Canada • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Global • Human Rights • Russia

Olga Lautman

America’s Foreign Policy Now Aligns With Russia

The United States is no longer acting as an independent power. It is behaving like a Kremlin satellite executing the foreign policy goals of a regime that has spent decades trying to dismantle the West...

Environment • Global • Health • Russia • Safety • Threat Management

Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman — Counterpunch

Putin’s UnPeaceful Atom

The Ukraine war has underscored yet another “Peaceful Atom” pitfall known for decades—the threat of a rogue nation turning atomic reactors into weapons of apocalyptic mass terror...

Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Russia • Social Media • Technology

Riley Stuart and Anna-Maria Tesfaye — The New York Times (Gift)

Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance

The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online.

Artificial Intelligence • Cryptocurrency • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Europe • Executive Power • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Resistance • Russia • Safety • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management • Violence

Ron Williams

The Resistance Will Be Reported (Updated November 12, 2025)

The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

Democratic Party • Disinformation • Elections • Fascism • Legal • Russia

Olga Lautman — Olga Lautman Substack

From Campaign Rhetoric to Fascist Threats: Trump Targets Obama

And YES, Russia attacked the 2016 election to install Trump

Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom • Russia • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson — The New York Times

A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy

Content generated by AI has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.

Exile • Press Freedom • Russia • Safety

RSF — Reporters Without Borders

A Russian journalist’s escape from Moscow to Paris

Exhausted but free, Ekaterina Barabash recounted her escape from the Russian authorities, who put her on their wanted list as she faced up to ten years in prison.

Legal • Press Freedom • Russia

Meduza

'I have always acted within the law'

Who are the four Russian journalists jailed for their alleged work with Navalny's organization?

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Russia

Thom Hartmann — Hartmannreport.com

The Putinization of America

What happens when a country stops pretending to care about democracy and just lets the billionaires run wild? Look no further than Putin’s Russia — a place where wealth buys protection, loyalty buys power, and corruption isn’t hidden, it’s institutionalized.

Democracy • Digital Rights • Press Freedom • Russia

JIM HEINTZ AND DASHA LITVINOVA — AP News

Russia outlaws top independent news site in latest crackdown

Meduza, an independent news website that has been critical of Russia’s military action in Ukraine was declared “undesirable” by the government Thursday, effectively outlawing its operation within the country as part of the Kremlin’s latest crackdown on dissent.

Digital Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Russia • Technology

Reporters Without Borders

RSF creates “mirror” of leading Russian exile news site blocked by Kremlin

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has used the mirror site technology of its Collateral Freedom operation to unblock access to Meduza, the most popular Russian independent news website.

Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Global • Human Rights • Press Freedom • Resistance • Russia • Safety • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Rowan Philp — Global Investigative Journalism Network

Lessons from Investigative Journalists in Exile

“A decade ago, there were international programs for exiled media, ...there has been nothing since, and there is no association of exiled media.”

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