Hot Type: How The US-Israel War in Iran Is Also Targeting European Democracy
In @BylineTimes I investigate a key target in the US-Israel war in Iran: European democratic leaders who are damned if they do support the war and damned if they don't
I didn’t set out to become a Russia watcher, but when I witnessed Russian military intelligence under the direction of Vladimir Putin attacking my country with active measures in 2016, I had no choice but to turn my investigative skills toward information warfare.
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I had spent my career working in print journalism and broadcast news and watching the media’s abject failure to report on the rise of Donald Trump within the context of his ties to the Russian mob was like watching the same horror film over and over again, with truth as the perpetual victim.
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“The indirect targets of US bombs are leaders of democratic nations — they are forced to make sense of the senseless, and the aim is to degrade their power. Putin understands this strategy.”—me on Twitter, March 2, 2026
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On Putin’s birthday in 2023, Joe Biden was put in a situation he could not win. Back an allied country that was run by a corrupt leader, who after losing the Israeli election two years earlier, called Putin and promised him: “I will be back soon.”
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'Clickbait Fascism: When War Becomes a Show' -- My Interview on Radio Free America
An interview I did with Radio Free America, Prague, on the day the Trump regime invaded Venezuela just dropped yesterday, the day the Trump regime invaded Iran
From Rybolovlev with Love: How Trump's DHS Funnels Cash to Russian Oligarchs
As DHS overpays for concentration camp shells, it's worth revisiting the failures of US intelligence agencies who were supposed to protect us from organized crime, and why we need to push on
As the world falls under the spell of sleazy glitz delirium — the Russian-backed boogeyman Jeffrey Epstein smirking at you from every news kiosk — the theft of a nation continues.
Lurking under the headlines of horror-sleaze is the fact that the US Department of Homeland Security just overpaid by a hundred million dollars for a concentration camp shell to a Russian-based group, in the City of Social Circle, Georgia, about 45 miles from Atlanta.
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It's tempting to go down the rabbit hole of scandal and stay mired there, but we know enough about the organized crime ring of deviant freaks to know our main focus should be getting them out of power
There is a reason our next two Bette Dangerous guests have experience documenting trials of war criminals at The Hague. We need to learn how criminal leaders were brought to justice in the past to determine a prosecution strategy for the present.
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On Sunday, we will be joined by Croation author Slavenka Druković, whose book They Would Not Hurt a Fly depicts firsthand reporting on the trials of Yugoslavian war criminals.
GHOSTING IN, AND GHOSTING OUT: We can’t just move on from foreign influence campaigns
Democratic nations being ripped apart by foreign influence operations in lockstep with domestic traitors need to acknowledge they are at war and then fight back ffs
“We’ve just used a different organization to run a very, very successful project in an Eastern European country. No one even knew they were there. They were just ghosted in, did the work, and ghosted out.”—Cambridge Analytica’s executive Mark Turnbull, on the use of subcontractors in a 2018 Channel 4 undercover report
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