“Just some good ole boys” news.yahoo.com/cia-trained-uk…
"a partnership between Ukraine’s intel service and Lancaster 6 to build a “state-of-the-art training center” and a “specialized services enterprise”providing “strategic planning, logistics, risk management, security forces training and consulting” time.com/6076035/erik-p…
"The fighter said he was planning to join up with fellow mercenaries. The Kremlin says it has nothing to do with private Russian military contractors whose operatives it describes as volunteers with no connection to the state."reuters.com/world/europe/r…
The Double Dipping business must be good. Putin denies this. Prince denies this.#SeychellesOrBust theintercept.com/2020/04/13/eri…
I was invited to hang out and film the "Wagner" folks in Donbass. Its' a long drive from Moscow and a lot of things flying through the air when you get there. Let's see if it heats up enough. meduza.io/en/feature/202…
When I was in Chechnya with the rebels I thought covering a war in Europe might get some reaction. Nah. Donbass is kind of the same thing...without the bearded jihadis of course. dw.com/en/life-on-the…
The only good news is the coming avalanche of hopeless dystopian reporting. Preferably shot in contrasty but grim black and white. nytimes.com/2022/01/16/mag…

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Jan 16,
We live in media silos. Choosing what we ingest, who we share it with and monitoring our comments. It is worth taking the time to bathe yourself in the narrative, verbiage, troll age and dog whistling of what was once the Alt Right but now FuckYouTainment. thebulwark.com/i-spent-insurr…
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Followed by "Your Job in Germany"
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Back it the day I was called by ABC and asked to urgently rescue Ted Koppel from Cambodia. I did it quietly and smoothly but it opened my eyes to the reporting Thayer had done and how ABC exploited it. khmerpostusa.com/nate-thayer-br…
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bit by bit....freedoms are disappearing. nytimes.com/2022/01/15/bus…
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